Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Easy Creamed Spinach (Spinach Gratin)

I found this Quick Creamed Spinach with Cream Cheese Recipe recipe on Masala Herb.  It is an interesting way to serve Spinach.  


I made some modifications to the recipe as I do not cook with olive oil.  I also do not keep stock of herbs usually used in Western dishes.


Here is another variation of it which you can cook with just onion and cream cheese.  It can be served: 

-spread over pancake and rolled up to be eaten.
-with the rolled up pancakes topped with cheese and baked in creamy sauce. 

You can watch this video for instructions.

Sunday, July 22, 2018

TENDER LEAFY GREENS BROTH

You can use vegetables to make soup.  You can decide what you would like to add to the soup by looking at the optional ingredients listed.


This is how the cooking process looks like.



Here is a unique way to cook soup with Spinach, century egg and salted egg.

BLANCHING VEGETABLES TO COOK WITH OYSTER SAUCE

This is a 3-ingredient dish.  You will need:

1) Vegetables with heartier stem
2) 2-3 Tbs of oyster sauce
3) Fried garlic with oil


Watch this video to have a look at how the blanched vegetable is cut and served.

 







SPICY RED SPINACH OR BAYAM

Here is how you can fry red spinach or bayam with spices or without.

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Jemput Jemput Pisang

We ate Jemput Jemput Pisang for breakfast this morning.

These are the ingredients in it:

500g of ripe banana
3 Tbsp of sugar
3 Tbsp of grated coconut
1/4 tsp of salt
120g plain flour

Here is how it is made.

Leftover rice? Boil porridge with it.

If you cooked your rice with too much water, you can solve the problem by making porridge with the leftover.

Put rice in a pot.



You can add leftover dish like steamed minced pork or oyster sauce chicken to the rice to add flavour to it.  Bones, if any, should be removed from the leftover dish.

If you do not have any leftover dish to add, you can use marinated sliced or minced pork, chicken or fish.  Add fresh ingredients to the pot of rice once the water is boiling.

Ingredients for marinating sliced or minced pork, chicken or fish:

1) Soya sauce
2) Sugar
3) Garlic Oil
4) Corn flour

Add ginger slices or ginger juice to fish.

This is the bowl of leftover steamed minced pork which will be used to make the porridge.



Fill the bowl of leftover dish with boiled water.  That will make it easier to pour dish into the pot of rice and make cleaning up the bowl easier.



Pour the ingredients into the pot of rice.  Add more hot water to cover over the rice.  Turn on heat.  Reduce the heat once the water starts boiling.

Watch the fire, as you do not want the water to boil over and mess up the stove.  Lifting the lid off the pot a bit will prevent that from happening.

Add salt or soya sauce to taste.  This is how the porridge should look like once it is cooked.



You can add pepper to the porridge if you want to.

If you do not add any ingredient to the porridge, you can eat the white porridge with salted egg, salted fish and preserved vegetable.