Monday, January 31, 2022

CNY eve \\ Reunion dinner at Taman Serasi

Reunion dinner is always at my mum's place. And this year, she made 6 dishes!!!

 

have you seen UNO cards this big? These are giant sized!





family photo! With our lou-hei. Everyone loves a good lou-hei and shouting out good sayings while tossing the salad.






Instead of steamboat, my mum will make a soup with all the steamboat ingredients - fishballs, fuzhou fishballs, cuttlefish, quail eggs, squid, abalone, sliced fish, prawns etc. This bowl is full of rich goodness!
Broccoli with sliced abalone.
Tomato sauce tiger prawns
Fa Chai
Prawn rolls, totally handmade from scratch.
chinese leek, another CNY dish that my mother will cook every single year.

原来守夜是那么辛苦!
[Backpost photos from hubs mobile phone]



CNY eve \\ Reunion at Skies Miltonia

 





hubs looks hilarious in this photo.







everyone is decked in the auspicious lunar new year colour - red. The boys are playing with their new singing cactus toy, not only does it sings, it wiggles to his own music and even mimics whatever you say!


Me and Jade \\ Twinning in CNY outfits

 


Sunday, January 30, 2022

Velle Cooks \\ BKT dinner

 

Dinner: Bah Kut Teh, Xiao Bai Cai, Air Fry Fish tofu and Tau Kee

Lunch: Hot rice with broccoli scallops, leftover braised beef stew and chye poh omelette!

Saturday, January 29, 2022

Jade \\ Nails all Done, Ready for Chinese New Year!

 

Just did Jade's nails in red, matching with me! So both of us are ready for the Chinese New Year tomorrow!

Velle Cooks \\ Baked Sea Bass Chinese Style

 

I don't have a wok that is big enough to steam a sea bass, so I have to bake it on an oven tray. And to keep the fish moist, you will need to foil it up so that it will trap all the nutrients into the sauce.

I found several recipes online, however do tweak the sauce a little to suit oven , your tastebuds and fish type/fish weight. One of the recipe onlines calls it Sea Bass in a Bag or, as the French call it, "en Papillote.
 
Ingredients
1 whole sea bass, cleaned.
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 bunch of green onions, white and pale green parts cut into 2 inch stripes and greens reserved separately.
1 inch of fresh ginger, peeled, julienne. ( 3 tablespoons of ginger)
3 cloves of garlic, sliced.
3 tablespoons light soy sauce
1/4 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon sesame oil
75ml of water

Instructions:
1. Put oven in middle position ad preheat oven to 220 deg Celsius. 
2. Line enough aluminium foil to wrap fish on baking dish. Remember to leave enough on the sides to fold them in.
2. Rinse fish and pat dry, rub inside and out with salt. Transfer fish to aluminium foil, sprinkle wiht scallion stripes (white and pale green) and ginger.
3. I like to cut strips on the fish belly and stuff it with green onions and ginger, I do it the same for the insides of the fish.
4. Stir together soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil until sugar dissolved, and pour over fish.
5. Wrap fish with aluminium foil tight.
6. Bake for 8 to 10mins.

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