Braise Pork

I love, love this dish but I would only eat the lean pork. Unfortunately, the best type of meat for this dish will be the fatty part of the pork.

Whenever my mom cooked this, she would put in a few pieces of lean meat in there for her and me :p. While my dad would get all the fatty part, apparently after the long braise, the fatty part would actually melt in the mouth, I haven't tried that yet and I am not looking forward to it.

Went to CC's place for dinner one night and I suggested to bring a dish. It's been a long time since I ate pork, so I thought I would cook something with pork in it. And.... decided to try my parents' recipe for the first time.

The end result was ..... VERY YUMMY! Oh well, I am not sure what did my friends think but I thought the pork was very close to my parents' braise pork, just mine was a bit more salty, I knew I put a lil too much oyster sauce.

Recipe:

600g of pork (the portion with a bit of fatty part attached)

6-8 medium sized mushroom

3-4 eggs

1 medium garlic (sliced)

1 tbspn oyster sauce

2 tbspn soy sauce

1/2 of water

Method:

Soak and rinse mushroom, cut mushroom into halves. Boil the eggs to prepare hard boiled eggs

Slice pork into thick slices or cubes. Brown garlic with 1 tbspn of oil. Put in pork and mushroom, then all the seasoning and water. Braise everything till pork becomes tender.

When the eggs are ready, shelled then put them into the braised pork. Simmer it for aother 15-20 minutes, keep stiring so that the eggs are well coated by the gravy.

Note: Make sure you taste the sauce before putting it into the pot, as you braise the meat, the sauce evapourate and thicken thus the sauce will become more salty. Keep that in mind.

Banana Orange Cake

This wasn't the first time I baked a banana cake, but I would say this was by far the most successful banana orange cake I ever baked.



I chose to use a round baking tray this time thus the baking time was over 1 hour compare to the normal 45 minutes. The cake turned out to be very fluffy, moist and the fragrant was fantastic. Matt gave it 2 thumbs up, so did my colleagues at work :)

This ia called a Banana Orange Cake because I used a banana cake recipe then added some grated orange zest and fresh orange juice.

Banana Orange Cake
250gm SR flour
220gm sugar (I used only 180gm and it was sweet enough)
240gm butter
5 eggs
1 tbsp condensed milk (I used skim milk and it was fine)
2 tbspn fresh orange juice
3 bananas
Orange zest (you have to determine the amount, I used 80% of one medium orange)

Beat butter and sugar together till it is white and creamy, mix in eggs, blend flour in slowly.

Add in milk and juice, then banana. You have to mash the banana, but I never over mash them as I like the banana cake with chunks of banana in them :p.

Grate orange zest into mix.

Coat the baking tray with some oil or butter and pour the mixture in. Bake for 45 mins - 1 hour at 180 degrees, depending what type of baking tray you want to use.

You may want to start checking if the cake is ready once it reaches 45 mins by poking the centre with a fork, if the fork comes out clean, it means the cake is ready. :)

P.S. Of course, you can simply void the orange bits to bake just a banana cake, replace the orange juice by another 1 tbspn of skim milk.

Fish Cake

Made this yesterday, made these fish cakes for the first time. Simple and delish when eat it with sweet chilli sauce.

I was looking through the stuff in the pantry and happened to find all these ingredients, so tada!

Took them to a friend's house, everyone said they were delicious, or maybe they were just too hungry. :)

Tuna Fish Cake

2 tins (small) tuna
3 medium potato (mash the potato)
1/2 medium onion (diced)
1 tspoon parsley
pinch of mix herb
2 eggs
salt and pepper
fresh bread crumb

Mix mash potato, onion, parsley, herb and 1 egg together. Put in salt and pepper to taste, you may put in some chilli powder for the 'kick'.

Shape the mix into small shapes (round or rectangular), glaze with egg (the other egg) then coat it with bread crumb.

Pan fry in shallow oil till they turn golden brown.

Serve with Thai sweet chilli or spicy mayonese :)

P.S. Taste good either hot/cold

Lunch at Zushi Bento

This was my lunch on Friday at Zushi Bento, Centro Galleria.

I was craving for something soupy because it was only 23 degrees that day with cold breeze.

I abandoned my homemade packed lunch, Ham & Cheese Sandwish and opted for this Spicy Coco Udon.

The soup was yummy but the udon was overcooked, the udon was so soft. The pan fried chicken fillet was alright, just the taste was pretty plain.

While I was eating, a lady sat at the next table kepy asking what I was eating ad how did it taste. The lady was eating terriyaki chicken bento, with her HANDS. Yes, she used her hand to pick up the food and put in her mouth, totally ignored the cutlery that was given to her. ><

Overall rating for this udon, 3/5. Pretty disappointed, but I got my warm soup fix for the day. :)