Food experiments from my little kitchen

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...

I asked my son what he wanted to have for dinner that day when his daddy is not around and he replied "fish porridge". Then I was thinking what kind of porridge should I make? Usually I would cook the porridge till it is congee-like and put in the fish slices to cook. Teochew style fish porridge came to my mind. For the fish slices, I chose to use 红斑鱼. Not sure what should be the correct English name for this fish. Red grouper or red snapper or something else? If you know, pls drop me a comment to tell me, thanks! To make it more nutritious, I added in some spinach and wolfberries too. Ingredients Fish slices Cooked rice Spinach Wolfberries Fried shallots Soy beans Fish bones Ginger slices Chinese cooking wine White pepper Soy sauce  Salt Recipe 1. Wash the soy beans and place them in a stock bag. Heat a pot of boiling water and add the beans to let it boil for 20-30 minutes. 2. Add in some fish bones and ginger slices to let it further cook for another 15...