Crispy Arrowheads

With Chinese New Year just weeks away, I’m having a rather late start this year in preparing stuff to celebrate the Year of the Rat. There’s plan to bake cookies rather than purchase it, there’s also the house to clean, decorations to be put up, groceries to be bought, etc..

Tried my hand at frying arrowheads as I spotted really big ones in Tesco. The method is simple but rather tedious as you need to scrape the skins, then thinly sliced it and fry it over slow fire. No wonder it’s selling so expensive!! However I’m pleased with the result *0*

arrowheads ~ scraped and thinly sliced

arrowheads sizzling away in the hot oil

** the end product **
about 29 arrowheads that only cost me RM11 produces 5 bottles ready to be eaten

Usually salt is sprinkled on it but I prefer mine plain.

On a cold Thursday night….

Too lazy to go out for dinner since it’s started raining late afternoon and since we were at Tesco, decided to cook dinner. Lazy as well to use the “wok“, actually dread those washing and wiping after frying hehehe…. thus decided to cook “3 eggs congee” as it’s easy and it has been a long time since I had home cook congee!!

We even grabbed a packet of frog legs (aka padi chicken) to add flavor to the congee Now, don’t go eekkkk just yet. The frog legs’s meat is tender and sweet. Yummy!! hehehe…

ready to be eaten “3 eggs congee” with frog legs topped with garlic oil

The ingredients & method:

Eggs – hard boil chicken and salted eggs, mash together with century egg (use the duck century egg as it taste better than chicken century egg)
Frog legs – marinate earlier with a dash of pepper and salt
Garlic oil – minced garlic and fry over slow fire till it’s crunchy/golden brown

Once the congee is almost ready, add in frog legs and mashed eggs. Salt and pepper to taste. Add in garlic oil before serving to give it a wonderful aroma!

You can always substitute frog legs with minced pork or sliced pork meat or just leave it as it is ie. only the 3 eggs! Also, instead of garlic oil, you can add a dash of sesame oil to enhance the aroma.

Try it out!

Chicken Wings!!

In my excitement to post about the Chocolate Almond Biscotti, I almost forgot about my chicken wings!! Made it over the weekend and is my all time favourite snack!!

Tastes just like those at the ‘tai pai tong’ (hawker), better actually :p

Weekend Cooking

We are rather bored with eating out lately thus decided to do some home cooking. Started last Sunday but too bad, my guests were all very hungry when they arrived and attacked the food before I managed to snap some pics!!

For this Sunday, we dish up stir fried vegetable, sambal ikan bilis, steam fish with minced ginger topping and soup.

steam fish with minced ginger topping

table all set and ready

Bon appétit!!

Green Bean Durian Sweet Soup

This is a rather late post. Been pro-castinating a bit the last two weeks :p

Hubby bought some durian (what is durian? check it out here) and decided to make green bean sweet soup adding some durian flesh in it. It has been a long long time since we had this as dessert.

green bean & screwpine boiling
to add rock sugar & durian flesh before turning off the fire

ready to be eaten
can you see the yummy durian flesh?

Mm…hmmm….yummi-li-cious!!

Minced Meat Potato Nugget

Nothing much to do on a Sunday afternoon with the baby fast asleep. Having minced meat and potatoes left, I made some nuggets out of them.

Dip them in your favourite sauce and you have a fast and delicious afternoon snack!