Food experiments from my little kitchen

It has been a while since I last blogged my recipes. My laptop was down (I probably need a new laptop), my son has been down with fever and cough and Singapore was also down with very bad haze weather. I have taken a stretch of leave to care for my son at home and it was really exhausting compared to going to work. He requested for me to cook his favourite egg tofu again and I decided to make the easy dish that I often cooked when I have no idea what to prepare - steamed minced meat on egg tofu! Ingredients 1 tube egg tofu Minced meat Coriander Wolfberries Soy sauce Pepper  Sesame oil Water/stock  Recipe 1. Marinate the minced meat with some soy sauce, pepper and sesame oil. I added some chopped coriander for some additional flavour as I happened to have it in my fridge. 2. Soak the wolfberries in a bowl of water to soften. Cut the egg tofu into small circles and place them on the steaming plate. 3. Using a small spoon, scoop some marinated meat and use your ...

I like to steam dishes when the weather gets hazy. It makes things a lot easier in the kitchen. I remembered my mum passed me some dried stuffs last month and I have not started using black fungus. When I was searching "steamed chicken with black fungus" in Google, I found this recipe by My Kitchen Snippets - Steamed chicken with mushrooms and black fungus . Got really tempted to try out the recipe as it did not seemed too difficult.  Ingredients 1 chicken leg (deboned) Dried black fungus Dried wolfberries Spring onions Cornstarch Soy sauce Rice wine Oyster sauce Pepper Salt  Recipe 1. Soak the black fungus and wolfberries in separate bowls. After the black fungus expanded, remove the centre which is hard and cut them into thin slices. 2. Cut the chicken leg into bite size pieces. Marinate in soy sauce, pepper and cornstarch and place them on the steaming dish. 3. Add the black fungus to the chicken and distribute evenly by mixing. 4. In a bowl, add oyster...

This morning I woke up realising I forgot to buy bread for breakfast and wondered what should I do? Because I have five types of medicine to take every morning, I try to take them before going to work. It is such a hassle every morning but I have no choice. (>_<) Suddenly saw an old post-it note on my fridge with the steamed cake recipe and so I made it for breakfast! Ingredients 1/2 cup flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 egg 2 Tbsp milk 2 Tbsp honey 1 Tbsp oil Recipe 1. Measure flour and baking powder and put them in a mixing bowl. 2. In another bowl, put in the egg, milk honey and oil. Use a fork or whisk to mix well. 3. Pour the wet ingredients into the bowl containing the dry ingredients. 4. Use a spatula to mix well. Do not overmix. Just ensure it is well combined. 5. Steam for about 10 minutes or until toothpick comes clean when poked. I used sugar last time when I first try steaming cake but I find that it is dry. Honey gives the cake a very nice moist texture....

My son loves to eat cod fish and we steam cod very often. When I first started steaming fish, I usually stick to using just soy sauce and sesame oil. Lucky my son was still quite young then, so he did not complain about eating the same thing. I spend a lot of time reading recipes and hoping to find easy yet tasty recipes for steaming fish and steaming with garlic is one I strongly recommend! Hong Kong Style steamed cod fish by Annielicious is one such recipe that inspires me. Ingredients 1 slice of Cod Ginger slices  Minced garlic Chopped spring onions (garnish) Oyster sauce Soy sauce Water Sugar Recipe 1. Steam the cod fish with some ginger slices for 7 minutes or until it is cooked. (I used an electric steamer and it also depends on the thickness of the fish) 2. In a pan, heat up some oil and put in the minced garlic. Keep the heat at medium and cook till the garlic turns brown. 3. Put in some oyster sauce, soy sauce and water to mix in a bowl and pour it in the...

I am always very interested in trying out steamed dishes because they are usually easy to prepare and require less monitoring - meaning I can steal some time to wash the dishes and take a peek to see what my son was doing. One recipe I often cooked is Steam minced meat on egg tofu as it is easy and my son loves it. I was googling "steamed minced meat" and one of the blog posts that caught my eye from GoodyFoodies! - Steamed minced pork with tung choy It is a common home cooked dish but my mum has never really cook this for me. I read that this is more of a Cantonese dish and I am Hainanese/Teochew. That explains why! haha I bought a pack of tung choy from the wet market and quickly got down to making my own version below. Ingredients 250g Minced meat  2 Tbsp Tung choy 1/2 tsp Minced garlic 1 dried shiitake mushroom Cornstarch Soy sauce Pepper Sesame oil Coriander  Recipe 1. Soak the dried shiitake mushroom and cut it into slices when it has softened. 2. ...