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and Unagi Don night.

So, I’ve been coughing my lungs out. I can feel that I’m coming down with something. The cough is dry, and slight acidic. Erm, some sort of reflux, eh? Few doses of PPI are doing me good for now, but not my motivation.

A colleage from my workplace organised a fairwell dinner at one of restaurant close to one of my workplaces. I told her I wasn’t able to make it. The cough, cold, motivation blah blah blah. Meantime, Kian puts my name down to have fancy dinner at The Left Bank. I was first very excited. But I realised I don’t get excited enough to go. I rang him from work, while still coughing my lungs out… he was slightly disappointed but understood.

I came home. I was thinking of heating up my let over fried rice..probably boil some soup to go. And..and… and.. I had all things planned and organised. And all I wanted is a quite night. No mobile, no messages. No phone. No TV.

As soon as I walked into the house, the light was on. Erm.. what’s going on? I saw a pack of take-away on my desk.
I saw the Unagi Don. It was Kian who bought it from the local Japanese eating place. He drove all the way back for me, and before he went back up to Freo again.
I was washing my face with my tears. Oh! He is such a sweetheart!

I had one of those days — anti-socialism. All I wanted is no (extra) questions asked, no (extra) task *.* so I can have some room to cough my lungs out
Thank you very much.

yeah, I know.. one of those days.

So, I cooked up a storm on my day off.

For no reason, I felt there was a sense of pressure, stress and emptiness. Out of control. I felt guilty too, for not cooking over the weekend. Kian and I ended up have to get some take-away at work.

I drove down to the local shop. I bought some grocery without a proper shopping list. I picked as I walked down the shoping aisles. Couple of items. I was trying to be sensible at that time too.

I cooked one kilo of keow teow.

Before that, I boiled some eggs, diced some mushrooms. I made a small pot of five-spice chicken.

On the stove, I cooked almost 1.5kilos of curry chicken. I had 4 roti canai/plata to go with it.

I haven’t mentioned there was a bunch of chinese kai-lan (vegetable), and brocoli in the fridge.
I cleaned up the entire kitchen after that, leaving the whole area spotlessly clean.

I starred at the food, and I had no idea where to start. And guess what, I wasn’t even feeling hungry. Not a tiny bit.

We had Nyonya Ponteh the other night. I got this receipe from Hijackqueen awhile ago.

Fact, This is my second attempt. My first attempt wasn’t that good. The photos also didn’t turn out very clear. So, I decided to make another one, since I still have the bloody big jar of salted bean in my pantry. Great!

This is more like an aussie version due to the different ingredients used.

I’ve spoken to Jessie, I told her Yeo’s Salted Bean is super mega salty! You have no idea — try this: shuffle 10 pints of crystal sea salt into your mouth

This is Jessie’s orginal receipe:
Ingredients:

2 big and 20 small onions
6 cloves of garlic
2 whole chicken thigh - cut into pieces
1 whole strip of belly pork - cut into 2cm slices
2 tablespoon bean paste
Chinese mushrooms
Potatoes
Gula Melaka to taste 

I did slight modifications. Those raw ingredients available from the local just don’t smell/taste the same.

1. 1 big onion (white), finely chopped. Don’t blend it.
2. 6 cloves of garlic or more depending how garlicky you like
3. 4 pieces of chicken thighs from Coles. Skin off.
4. 1 tablespoon bean paste, rinse the salty sauce off with water. AND 1 tablespoon of bean paste. p/s: don’t use the sauce from the jar. very very salty.
5. Chinese mushroom
6. Potatoes
7. Brown sugar if desireable

This is my end product: Ta dah~!!!

Take Jessie’s advice too..cook it in the morning. This allows the aroma and taste soaked into the ingredients. Fact, I actually cooked it the night before. Niiice

Enjoy cooking!

p/s: I made a dessert from Jessie’s receipe as well. Again, with some modifcation to taylor the local supply. See you soon! Cheers!
 

Saturday/Sunday dinner: Penang Curry Mee (noodle) !!! 111

*slurp* 

Dinner for Two.
I cooked a pot of curry chicken (6 pieces of chicken thigh. skin off).

The first night dinner, we have white rice and some chicken.

The nexy day dinner — Curry Mee!!

Main Ingredients: left over curry brooth, chicken (de-boned), egg/rice noodle.
Vegetable: bean sprout, mushroom, boiled choy sum. Anything! Really!
Other ingredients: eggs (I have boiled egg, whereas Kian has fried eggs).
Erm.. I normally use whatever I have in the fridge.

The curry is sooo yum. I have been doing this every fortnight since long time ago

Back to class for 2 weeks. I am so excited! But I start missing my friends already, knowing farewell is not far ahead. I am sure I will be fine. We swap addresses. I make sure I have all of them in my speacial note book. And I shall get some Christmas cards ready to go too! Ops! Did I mention Christmas? Wow!

Tonight special feature: Fried Rice — my all time favourite

Ingredient: white rice, mixed vegetable, bacon, chicken breat meat, fried shallot to sprinkle.

Have a nice week ahead, folks! Cheerio~!
 

A quick reply from previous post:
Wuching: I surely can cook. Now I have another cooking post
Day dreamer: I always make you hungry. *paiseh*
Kak Flower: Selamat Belated Raya Aidilfitri! Mana moi punya ketupat?  It has been awhile since my last cooking post. I am still doing alot of cooking.Fact, I have heaps of cooking posts, but I haveb’t got much time to ‘dig’ all of them out.
Lyn: Great! now you REALLY coming! I am STILL excited!! Date?? 

I love healthy and hearty lunch. I like Subway’ “Eat Fresh” idea. But, I am not a big fan of Subway. See, when I buy the 6 inch Sub, it is TOO small (and expensive). After 2 hours later, my stomach got angry again. If I buy 12 inch Sub, it is way TOO huge (and way too expensive), I am not able to finish it. Either way, sucks.

I make my own sub.
The first one is for Kian:
-raw salmon, lightly cut (if I am in good mood)
-salad (lettice and tomato)
-spread the bread one side with butter, another side onion flavored cheese spread.
-some cheese

If you making this Sub, you can heat it up at work by toasting it. When the cheese melts..oh! so heaven!!!

Now, this is MY version of Omega lunch.
-the spreads are still the same.
-instead of fresh tomato, I have semi-sundried tomato
-minus cheese for people who struggle to watch their weight like me.
-and, and..I have OLIVE!!! 

How super duper OMEGA is that???

I hope this give you an idea to make some light lunch. Yes? No?

p/s: The OMEGA-est news of this week is I’ve completed my placement! Woohoo! No more free labour job! Eva! As I walked out of my last placement yesterday. I cried in the car for no reasons. I was excited because I am sooo done! Another part of moi is so freak out — the future. 
I have come such a looooong way. *deep breath* 

I usually organise everything at home. I plan to buy meat, fruit and vege etc etc.  I write everything down on note a pad– what to cook, what we are having for lunch, dinner. But sometimes thing go wrong. I would have left over from here and there. And most of the time, it is not easy to cook them because they weren’t in the ‘plan’

So, tonight dinner was abit tricky.
I had some king prawns, peeled.

1/4 of chicken breast, cubed. 

I had no idea where I could go from there. So, I added some mushrooms.  

I deep fried the chicken and prawn in plain flour.

I had 2/3 of choy sum (Chinese vegetable) left from yesterday. I cooked the vege, muchroom..and quater way thru’, I stirred in some carrots. For Vitamin A and some colour sake.  

I thought I would eat the deep fried bits seperately from the stir fry vege. Then, I decided to ‘decorate’ the deep fried on a bed of stir fry. 

There was some sauce left, I decided to pour over the prawns and chicken pieces. 
Kian came home just on the right time. I quickily got him to hold the frying pan for me, so I could manage to take this shot

Oh yeah, when I decided to add an egg, and lightly stirred thru. I had craving for egg sauce for all the sudden.

It was one of those night.. I had no idea what I was going to cook. We both ended up finish the dish with white rice. It tasted soooo good.