These were a few of my dinners cooked last week.

Green Curry Chicken with soba noodles. Instead of eating with rice, I cooked some soba noodles and poured the curry over it.

Fried mixed veg with hoisin sauce


Fish cooked with tamarind
This is one of the childhood dishes that my mum used to make


Otak


Babi Pongteh


Ingredients:

(A)
100 gm shallots or 1 big onion ) Ground together
4 pcs garlic )

2 tbsp preserved soya beans (tau cheo) – pounded
1 tbp sugar
1tbsp dark soya sauce

500 gm – mix shoulder and belly pork – cubed
7 pcs Chinese mushroom – soak in hot water and cut into slices when soft

Method:
1.Heat oil in wok and fry A till brown. Add preserved soy beans, sugar and soya sauce and stir fry for 1 minute.
2. Add meat, sliced mushrooms and the water used to soak mushrooms and cook over high heat for 10 mins. Turn down heat to low and simmer for 1 – 1 ½ hours till meat is tender. Add water occasionally if gravy gets too dry.

Sat lunch & dinner

Okonomiyaki



Nonya Popiah

Was in the mood for popiah. Nowadays when I make popiah, instead of using bangkwang, I use celeriac. It's because bangkwang over here costs so much (in SG, it costs around $1, here it costs around £3 - £4)so I buy celeriac which would cost somewhere between £1.50 - £2!

Spag Bol

We haven't had Spag Bol in a very long time, so decided to have it for dinner last night.

Decided in the afternoon that I was going to have Asparagus and Crab rissotto for dinner, so here it is.



Ingredients: - to feed 2 people
(Preparation time: 10 mins, cooking time 25-30 mins)
1 cup arborio rice
25 gms butter
1 tbsp olive oil
1 onion - chopped finely
1 clove garlic - minced
1 bundle asparagus
crab meat
1 cup white wine
1 litre stock - vegetable or chicken (I used chicken)
Parmesan cheese

Method:
1. Break the ends off the asparagus and add it to the stock. Then cut the asparagus on the diagonal and blanch it for about 2 mins in the stock. Remove and refresh in ice-cold water to retain the green colour. In the meantime, keep the stock on low heat in the saucepan.
2. Heat pan and melt butter and add oil. When butter has melted, add minced onion and garlic and fry till translucent - about 5 mins.
3. Add rice till well coated with butter/oil.
4. Fry for about 3 mins, then add in the wine and cook till it is absorbed by the rice.
5. Slowly add in the stock a ladleful at a time and stir constantly. Add in the next ladleful only after all the stock has been absorbed by the rice.
6. Cook until rice has plumped out and cooked.
7. Add in the grated parmesan cheese and stir.
8. Lastly, add in the asparagus and crab meet and fold in gently to heat up.
9. Serve!

Dinner

Last night's dinner.
Asparagus with enoki mushrooms

Fish in Batter

Dinner - 2 nights ago - Fried Spaghetti

This is the western version of our fried noodle. I fry spaghetti with tomato ketchup, seafood and anything else I can find in the freezer. This is good when I come back late from work and need to whip up something in a hurry

Dinner - Last week

This was our dinner last Sunday.
Satay Babi

Another of dd's favourite - Sambal Okra