Food experiments from my little kitchen

I wanted to make a simple yet different sauce from our usual ginger spring onion combination. This sauce is really easy and you can always adjust the sweetness/saltiness to your liking. A dash of black pepper makes it extra yummy. I have steamed some broccoli to garnish the plate. A healthy combination of vegetables and meat for weekday dinner. :) Ingredients Pork tenderloin Minced garlic  Sesame seeds   Black pepper Marinate Soy sauce  Sesame oil  Cornstarch  Sauce 1 Tbsp honey  2 Tbsp Soy sauce  2 Tbsp Chinese cooking wine  Recipe 1. Cut the pork tenderloin into thin slices and marinate using the seasonings stated. 2.  Heat oil in the wok and add in minced garlic.  3. Stir fry till fragrant then add in the pork slices.  4. Cook till the meat is no longer pink then add in the sauce.  5. Stir fry for a while, add a dash of black pepper and it is done.  N...

My usual cooking routine at home consists of a soup and two dishes and I will make sure that we will have one vegetable dish. This is very important as I always feel that when we eat out, we do not take in enough vegetables. But I don't really like to eat fibrous vegetable or vegetable stems. Yup I am a picky eater when it comes to vegetables. So my usual vegetable choices are broccoli, baby spinach (hoi chai), shanghai green or japanese green. Recently I discovered spinach is not bad too! When I am feeling lazy, I would just blanch it. But on other days, doing stir fry is great. :)  Ingredients Spinach Bunashimeiji mushrooms Garlic slices Chicken stock powder Sugar Soy sauce Sesame oil  Recipe 1. Heat the oil in the wok and add the garlic slices. 2. Stir fry till fragrant, then add in the spinach. 3. Stir fry at high heat till the spinach has wilted. Add in some water, chicken stock powder, sugar. 4. Let it cook for a while before seasoning with soy sauce a...

One of my usual dishes is steamed minced meat on egg tofu . Yesterday I tried to steam silken tofu instead of egg tofu and make a minced meat sauce to go with it. My son loves it a lot. I guess for children, you can never go wrong with minced meat and tofu. :) For below recipe, you need to do steaming and stir fry separately. If you prefer just stir fry alone, you can try this minced meat tofu with sauce . Ingredients Minced meat (approx 100~120g) 1 box of silken tofu 1 stalk of spring onion 1 clove garlic Cornstarch solution  Marinate sesame oil white pepper soy sauce  Sauce 1 tbsp oyster sauce 1 tsp dark soy sauce 1 tsp soy sauce water (approx 1 small bowl)  sugar Recipe 1. Marinate the minced meat with the seasonings stated in marinate. Minced the garlic and set aside. Cut the spring onion and separate the white part from the green part. Chop the white parts finely and set aside. Chop the green parts finely and set aside for garnish later. 2. C...

I bought a bottle of garlic black bean sauce thinking how convenient it is to just put the sauce as it is without adding other seasoning. But it did not taste like how I would like it to be (just tasted very salty.. >_<) and so the bottle of garlic black bean sauce was quietly put aside in my fridge until I saw it again during my recent fridge clean-up. Decided to try and use the sauce again and this time it tasted so much better. Ingredient Cod fish (or other white fish) Ginger slices Chopped spring onions Chopped garlic Cornstarch solution  Marinate White pepper Soy sauce Chinese cooking wine Sauce 1 tsp garlic black bean sauce 1 tsp oyster sauce 1 tsp soy sauce Some water (approx half a small bowl) Sugar (approx 1/2 tsp) Recipe 1. Marinate the fish with the seasonings stated in marinate and let it sit for 5 minutes. 2. Put ginger slices on the fish and steam it together with the marinate until cooked. Mine took about 12 minutes on electrical steame...