Sweet & Sour stuffed tofu

This is a simple and easy to prepare dish.

1) stuff minced meat into tofu ( Tau Gua) and deep fry



















2) mix shredded cucumber, carrot & onion with Thai Chilli sauce, place on top of fried tofu and served.

Get yourself win a Prize in " Emily's Busy World"

Hi… get yourself tagged and win yourself a prize from Emily’s Busy World. Emily encourage me to join this contest as for me to have a chance to win a complete bento set for my daughter, Check out the bento box HERE.
Dont wait, quickly drop by her blog and leave a comment and remember to link back her blog into your tag, contest ends on 14/Feb midnight.
The idea here is to go to your 6th picture file and choose the 6th picture, and then tag 6 blogging friends.
After Emily explained about how to get 6th picture, I think the 6th picture must be very special, something you hardly get, here is what i found in my picture folders:















This picture was taken last year when I fetched my kids back from school, we saw a big lizard ( I think the correct name should be chameleon) crossing the road which is in front of my house.

And finally, to tag 6 friends:
http://felvinc.blogspot.com/
http://bakeling.blogspot.com/
http://xingfutaitai.blogspot.com/
http://nancymummy.blogspot.com/
http://twister733.blogspot.com/
http://www.cookingmomster.com/

Pau

My mother must prepared this "Ang Ei" (Hokkian) when pray "Tin Kong", actually it is just a normal plain pau. But this pau is best to accompany with Hokkian style of braised pork (Sam Cam Bak). This pau dip into the pork gravy, the taste is really yummy, my kids love it so much.

Nasi Lemak Lover header

My daughter design for me this new header . You can see a plate of nasi lemak "face".
Thanks to my daughter.

Lunar New Year, day 9

Every CNY day 9, I will go back to my mum's place to celebrate "Tin Kong" day. My mum said pray "Tin Kong" is the most important day for Hokkian peoples.

1) Must have item- Sugarcane
















2) Other items pray for "Tin Kong"















3) Usually I will contribute a cake to "Tin Kong"

Lunar New Year, day 1

Two things I will do on CNY day 1:-

1) practise full day of vegetarian

- "Loh Han Cai"

2) Pray at "Tian Hor" temple

-decorated with hundres of lanterns, very nice view

Lunar New Year eve, CNY dishes

"Hoi Kong" lor... after 10 days of busy CNY...
Just like to share with you the dishes that I prepared on the CNY eve day.


1) Five Hot Season Combination. This idea was copy from the Chinese restaurant and my first time prepare this kind five dishes (use candy box to serve).

It consists of:-
- fried meat ball
- fried chicken drumstick
- fried prawn with "siew kou" skin
- fried ham roll
- sweet pea with fresh scallop
* decorate with "red dragon fruit" at the center































2) Braised Sea cucumber & Pork Knuckles
















3) Fish, deep fried and sprinkle with spring onion and red chili, tasted with soya sauce and garlic oil.
















4) Steamed Chicken
















5) Hokkien style of noodle
















6) "Ho Si Fat Choy" combination
















7) "Lin Ko" sweet cake from my mum

** All these dishes are prepared just for for 3 adults (Hubby, me and my maid ) and 3 kids only, at the end, most of it were packed and stored in the fridge, " Nie Nie Yo Yi"...

Happy 牛 Year

My friend forward this to me, I would like to forward it to you.
May the “moo moo” year shower you with abundant wealth, prosperity and happiness! Have a blessed Lunar New Year.

How to clean sea cucumber

When I was young, I dont like to eat sea cucumber, because the shape look very disgusting. But now is my favorite dish especially during CNY, my monther cook a very yummy Pork Knuckle with sea cucumber. Last Year I learned from her on how to prepare this dish, this year I learned from her on how to clean the sea cucumber (Last year my mum clean for me because I'm busy in work, this year no reason not to learn since I had retired from work.
From my mother several trial and error, she has came out with a simple way to clean the sea cucumber.
I would happy to share with you this simple steps rather you go through the hard way to learn it:-

Day 1:-

a. In the moning, wash the dried sea cucumber and soak in clean water till night.

















b. At night, bring to boil for several minutes, turn off the heat, cover the pot and allow to soak for overnight.

















Day 2:-

a. In the morning, the sea cucumber has turn soft.
















b. Start to clean it, use scissor to cut and wash inside well.






























c. Clean sea cucumbers (it took me 2 hours to clean it, not an easy job !!!)

d. Cut few slides of ginger, add into sea cucumber and bring to boil again ( to get rid of the smell). Once done, you can start to use this clean sea cucumber to cook or you may want to pack into container and keep in the frozen area in the fridge for future use.

p/s If you noticed some of the sea cucumber hard to clean, bring to boil and soak it again. And these steps are applicable to small size of sea cucumbers, it may not work well for those big size of sea cucumber.

Pineapple Tarts

I use the ready made pineapple jam to prepare pineapple tarts, which I bought it from nearby bakery shop. This way really cut short the time to prepare pineapple tarts.

Half kg of ready made pineapple jam can get about 200pcs of pineapple tarts.

1) Ready made pineapple jam

2) In the process of preparing pineapple tarts

3) Fresh pineapple tarts out from oven

4) Packing into container