Bakers Street Premium Chicken Pie

We tried out a frozen chicken pie, a product from Bakers Street that day.  There are 4 pieces of premium chicken pie in a packet.  The pie was put straight into oven from the freezer for 15 minutes and they are done.  Surprisingly Crystal likes it, and I find the quality is better than I expected.  Crystal like it probably because it is cheesy and creamy in texture; but I can not find the peas and carrots as shown in the packet. though.  A pie good for afternoon tea and breakfast.  Recommended. 

 

  

 

Chocolate Chips Almond Cake

 

 

A finely baked chocolate chips almond cake by Chef Kim, a former chef at Edgar's Pub & Bar Lodge Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

She has vast experience in fine dining. She bakes varieties of cakes, muffins, pizzas, cookies, you name it.  Open for ordering and delivery is available.  Tel:0168482825.

Recipe : Cucumber with Salted Soya Bean sauce

This home cooked cucumber with salted soya bean sauce is super easy to prepare. I usually eat raw cucumber. Yesterday, I prepared this dish for my age-old parents who no longer have strong teeth to chew the crunchy raw cucumber.

Ingredients:

• 1-2 cucumber (chopped)
  
• 1 tablespoon salted soya bean
• 1 tablespoon cooking oil
  
• 1 tablespoon chopped garlic
• 1 teaspoon black soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon corn starch
• 4 tablespoons water

Method:

• Heat the oil in a wok and fry the chopped garlic till fragrant;
• Put in the salted soya bean, fry for 30 seconds;
• Pour in the water and cooked till the mixture is boiled;
• Put in the cucumber, cook for 1 minute, add in the black soy sauce;
• Cover the wok and cook for another 2 minutes till the cucumber is soften (cook for another 1 minute only if you prefer the cucumber to remain crunchy);
• Pour in the corn starch with water mixture and cook till it boiled.
• Dish out and serve with rice.
  

Recipe - Minced Beef with Potatoes

Potato is one of my dad's favourite vegetable. Crystal loves it too...

Potato has got the sweetness on it own so I did not put any seasoning or salt in cooking it. It will taste nice when eat together with the minced beef. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients

• 500 gm minced beef
• 5 large potatoes (peeled and diced)
  
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil
  
• 1 big red onion
• seasoning - 1 teaspoon black soy sauce
• seasoning - 1 teaspoon all natural bragg liquid aminos (or 1 teaspoon light soy sauce)
• seasoning - a pinch of salt
• 2 tablespoons water

Method

• Preheat the oven at 200C.
• Heat the cooking oil in a wok, cook the potatoes for 2 minutes; take out and spread out on the oven pan, bake for 10 minutes till thorough cooked.
• Reheat the wok. Cook the minced beef for 1 minutes and put in the onion.
• Put in all the seasonings and water. Keep stirring until the beef is thoroughly cooked.
• Dish out and mix together with the baked potatoes. Serve.
  

Steamed White Stuffed Taufu or Tofu

Another method of cooking white stuffed taufu/tofu is to steam it. The white taufu/tofu is more delicate than the fried one so it has to be handled with care during the stuffing and cooking process.

The taufu/tofu were stuffed with seasoned minced pork and corn starch dissolved in water was poured onto the taufu/tofu half way through the steaming.

This dish was prepared by my mum to serve her in laws who came to visit from Lahad Datu on Saturday.

Meals on Dragon Boat Festival

We had a simple meals prepared just for the Duan Wu or Dragon Boat Festival on 28th May, also the 5th day in the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calendar.  The dishes were prepared by my brother's maid under the supervision of my mum.  I have had only a zongzi for lunch so I was pretty hungry and all ready for the dinner. 

Fish with sweet and sour sauce but it was a bit overcooked on the black part.

boiled chicken (from the soup)

Bitter gourd with eggs.  Good for lowering blood sugar and with cooling properties.  I love bitter gourd, the bitter the better.

Mixed vegetable (green pepper, button mushroom, brocolli, and baby corns).  My mum forgot to sprinkle the cashew nuts on top to add flavour to this dish.  We had the cashew nut as dessert instead.

Fried chopped garlic in soy suace for dipping of boiled chicken.