About Me

I love to cook and more importantly, I like to improve the way I cook certain dishes. As such, this blog is borne out of a desire for a simple and organized way to manage the different variations of the dish that I tried. I will be posting recipes, pictures and comments on what works for me and what don’t. Hopefully, you will enjoy your time here, and do remember to give your feedback! Cooking is a constant evolution, a process and definitely not an end result!

Stir-fry Rendang Chicken with Onions

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Stir-fry Rendang Chicken with Onions

Rendang Chicken is no longer hard to achieve at home as ready-made Rendang Paste can be easily purchase in the supermarket.

This recipe is great for spice lovers. Do give it a try!

Ingredients
  1. 1/4 Medium Chicken (Cut into small pieces)
  2. 1/3 Tablespoon of Minced Garlic
  3. 1 Big Red Onions (Sliced)
  4. Rendang Paste (Ready-made, follow the instruction on the package for the quantity of the paste)
  5. 1 tablespoon of Cooking Oil
Steps
  1. Add Cooking Oil into hotpan
  2. Add Onions and stir-fry until fragrant (turn translucent)
  3. Add Garlic and stir-fry until fragrant (before it turns brown)
  4. Add Chicken and stir-fry until 80% cooked
  5. Add Rendang Paste and stir-fry to mix well and until chicken is cooked
Serve while Hot!

Good to go with Rice, 2 to 3 more Chinese Dishes.

[Guest Post] Spinach Stuffed Breakfast Tomatoes by Jedha D

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Many people stick to the breads and cereals for breakfast but not me. I LOVE getting creative in the kitchen and making breakfast recipes that are a bit out of the ordinary is one of my specialties. Of course, the one requirement is that they have to be yummy!

So today I’m going to share the recipe to my delicious stuffed breakfast tomatoes. Although they take a while in the oven, you can prepare them very quickly. So what I do is whip them up, throw them in the oven, then finish doing all my morning things. By the time they are ready, I’m ready. So they’re actually an easy treat!

I hope you enjoy them.

Spinach Stuffed Tomatoes

Serves 2
Approx. 40 minutes prep/cook time
Ingredients
  • 6 tomatoes
  • 6 eggs
  • Approx. 2 cups baby spinach
  • Sea salt
Cooking Method
1. Preheat oven to 390°F (200°C)
2. Cut the tops off the tomatoes and using a dessert spoon scoop out the insides into a bowl. Don’t throw this way but use it in another recipe, soup or stir-fry
3. Place the tomatoes in a greased ceramic baking dish
4. Fill the tomatoes about 3/4 full of baby spinach. Don’t pack it down too much or the egg will spill over the edges. Instead you want it to seep in and through
5. Sprinkle some sea salt over the spinach
6. Crack one egg into each tomato
7. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until eggs are set
8. Serve and enjoy!
Note: Sprinkle with pepper if you choose

This article/recipe was written byJedha D. Jedha is a weight loss and wellness coach who is passionate about helping people get off the merry go round and change their life from the inside out. If you need help with achieving better weight loss results and a lifestyle you love, please visit her website.

Chicken Hot Pot with Celery and Green Pepper

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I am sure many of you will know the famous Chicken Hot Pot Restaurant in Singapore. Everytime when I dine there, I have to queue for at least 15 minutes.

Chicken Hot Pot is like a steamboat, except that it is not using clear soup. Chicken is marinated intensively and the soup base is dark in color. It looked like the commonly known stir-fry chicken with oyster sauce, except that it comes with a lot of gravy.

In the recipe below, it is my 1st try to experience to cook Chicken Hot Pot and it tastes pretty good, though not 100% similar.


Marinating:

Ingredients
  1. 1/2 Chicken (Cut into small pieces)
  2. 4 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
  3. 3 tablespoon of Dark Soya Sauce
  4. 3 Cinnamon
  5. 4 Anise
  6. 1 tablespoon of 5 Spices Powder
  7. 8 Cloves of Garlic (Peeled and Lightly Smashed)
Steps
  1. Mix all ingredients and marinate overnight
Soup Based:

Ingredients
  1. Chicken Bone
  2. 4 Cup of Water
  3. Salts
Steps
  1. Boil Chicken for 15 minutes. Turn to low heat and boil for at least 30 minutes
  2. Add Salts to taste
Cooking:

Ingredients
  1. 3 Stalks of Celery (Cut into 1.5cm length)
  2. 1 Green Pepper (Cut into 1.5cm length, or into cube-like)
  3. 1 big Yellow Onion (Cut into cube)
  4. 2 Stalks of Chinese Parsley (Cut into small stalks)
Steps
  1. Add Oil in hot pan
  2. Add Onions and stir-fry until fragrant
  3. Add Garlic (from marinate) and stir-fry until fragrant
  4. Add Cinnamon and Anise (from marinate) and stir-fry for 1 minutes
  5. Add Chicken and stir-fry for approx 3 to 4 minutes
  6. Add Green Pepper and Celery and stir-fry for approx 2 minutes
  7. Add Marinating sauce (from marinate) and stir-fry for 1 minutes
  8.  Add 1 cup of Chicken Soup Base and simmer until chicken is cooked
  9. Transfer to steamboat pot
  10. Add Chinese Parsley
You can dine it like how you enjoy your steamboat.
Prepare some raw ingredients, eg. vegetables, noodles, mushroom and cook it in the steamboat.
Refill soup with Chicken soup when necessary.

Good to with Rice.

Comments and Tips:
  • If the taste is too bland, you can add more oyster sauce and five spices powder at steps 8. And if it is too salty, you can add more Chicken Soup.

    Stir-fry Eggs with Tomatoes (Scrambled Egg)

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    Stir-fry Eggs with Tomatoes (Scrambled Egg)
    
    Sharing another simple eggs recipe. Great for professionals with busy schedule.
    This recipe can be serve as another dish on the dining table, or simply as a delicious breakfast.

    Ingredients
    1. 3 Eggs
    2. 2 Tomatoes (Cut into cubes)
    3. 1 1/2 tablespoon of cooking oil
    4. 1/3 teaspoon of Salts
    5. Fine Pepper/ Coarse Black Pepper
    Steps
    1. Add Cooking Oil on hot pan
    2. Crack and add eggs. Stir-fry eggs on pan for approx 2 minutes (before eggs fully cooked)
    3. Add Tomatoes and stir-fry to mix well with eggs
    4. Sprinkle Salts and Pepper and stir to mix well until eggs are full cooked
    Serve with Rice with a few more Chinese Dishes or Serve by itself as a breakfast.