Velle Cooks | Dinner at Home

1. Bak Kut Teh (Long gu) with meatballs!
2. Small Taiwanese sausages
3. Xiao Bai Cai

Dinner at Home

 

I'm cooking today! - Lotus root soup, spinach with abalone (trying to finish up my can food at home).

What we did today

 

My little Jade uses her food to make a panda.

Dinner: Egg tofu with mince pork, steam cod fish and stir fry spinach.

Afternoon, I started shifting some of my things over to my mum's place.

Lunch at home - chicken curry noodles.

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Breakfast Lunch Dinner | All at Home

Dinner: Egg tofu with grey prawns, mince meat patties, mid chicken wings and xiao bai cai.

Lunch: Lazy cook of instant noodles, mince meat and spinach leaves.

Breakfast: Pandan Waffles with  bacon and scramble eggs.

Velle Cooks | Mala Xiang Guo

 

Velle Cooks | Dinner

 

Tonight's Dinner - ABC Soup, Asparagus with prawns, Yau Mai Cai.

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Today's dinner

1. Chye Poh Omelette

2. Cold Tofu with century egg and pork floss

3. MIL gifted Chap Chye

4. Pickled vegetables with mince pork (tried to copy my MIL)

Tamarind Prawns!

 

Trying out a new dish which I saw online! So inspired and plus I have all the ingredients at home! The result of Tamarind prawns is an awesome burst of flavours - sour and sweet and a little spicy. And the colours are amazing! So it is a definitely a dish which I will want to cook again. I always love dishes that has vibrant colours and textures.

The difficult part to this dish is soaking the tamarind with water and getting the seeds out, other than that, the rest is easy peasy!

Saturday Lunch at Home

 

When you have many family members, it makes it more worth the money to stay home to eat. Personally, it is not difficult to whip up a quick meal, but it takes some planning and preparation if you are planning to do soups for lunch or dinner.

My quick go to soups are usually miso soup. However for ABC soup, lotus root, watercress soup (like what we are having today), I will need to put the frozen pork ribs into the fridge the night before such that it will thaw evenly by noon the next day.

So, today we are having watercress soup, sardines with tomatoes and fried egg! Super fast for the sardines and fried egg, the only dish that took 2 hours was the watercress soup.

Bon appetit!

Peach Gum Dessert

 

Peach gum dessert - Peach gum, dried longan, barley, red dates and goji berries. Always soak your peach gum the night before!

Velle Cooks | Dinner

 Easy Mapo Tofu with Yau Mai Chye

Velle Cooks | Bah Kut Teh

 

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 For lunch today we are having

1. ABC soup
2. Teriyaki salmon
3. Egg tofu with minced pork
4. French beans
5. Stir fry broccoli
6. Char Siew

Velle Cooks | Dinner

 

After Jade's graduation concert, we all went back for a hearty home cooked meal.

Velle Cooks | Dinner

Tonight we are having egg tofu, xiao bai cai and melon pork rib soup.

Happy Birthday Lynna | Japanese Curry

Preparing Japanese cuisine from scratch and cooking for 10 pax was like super busy for me!!! First thing first, I made a big batch of dashi stock using bonito flakes and kombu, so this will be used for my miso soup and chawanmushi. Next, fortunately i have my helper to smash the pork loins, but after baking them, it was abit too tough, guess my pork loin is too lean. Not enough fats.

For the Japanese curry, I bought cube roux so that's one step less and faster to prepare lunch. Cut potatoes and carrots, onions, grated an apple and we set off to cook the curry.

Once the curry is cooking, we started to prepare the salad, shred the cabbage, japanese cucumbers and cherry tomatoes, drizzle sesame seed sauce and set aside in the fridge. One side is done!

Next, slice the fishcake, shrimp and gingko nuts for the chawanmushi.

After the pork loin were hit by the back of the knife, pushed back to its original shape, we had to dress it with flour, egg and breadcrumbs and into the oven to bake them instead of frying - it's a healthier choice!

For the miso soup, I used my dashi stock, soaked seaweed, cut silk tofu cubes, mushrooms and sliced salmon.

 

above: cling wrapped for a smooth chawan mushi!

above: baked tonkatsu!

my home made dashi stock with bonito flakes and kombu

above: my japanese curry on its way!

Above: James reading while waiting for lunch.

Velle Cooks | Dinner

 

Tomato Prawns!

Tonight's dinner: Kangkong, tomato prawns, stir fry beansprout and mexican wings!

Velle Cooks | Wombok with shimeji mushrooms and carrots

 

Super simple dish cooked in a shallow casserole. Wombok (long cabbage), sliced carrots, dried shrimp and shimeji mushrooms. It can be flavoured in different ways using different amounts of oyster sauce, light soy sauce, sugar, pinch of salt and sugar. And if you don't have oyster sauce, you can interchange with fish sauce and it works just as well! Reason being, there's already the unami flavour from the dried shrimp!

Another super easy dish with premix mapo tofu sauce (i use Lee Kum Kee), I only have to prep the mince pork and cut the silk tofu into cubes. The rest is just to simply following the instructions on the premix packet.

Dinner tonight: Wombok carrots and shimeji mushrooms, mapo tofu and ABC soup.