Food experiments from my little kitchen

I always have the impression that char siew is difficult to make at home until I see many mummies actually make them at home. My recipe below is adapted from My Mind Patch - Rice Cooker Char Siew . I did not use the rice cooker as my rice cooker is used to cook rice. Also, omitted the wine part for my toddler son.   Ingredients About 450g Pork Shoulder 2 Tbsp Hoisin sauce (Lee Kum Kee) 2 Tbsp Oyster sauce 2 tsp Sesame oil 1/4 tsp Dark Soya sauce  1 Tbsp white sugar 1 Tbsp brown sugar 1 Tbsp honey 1 clove chopped garlic 100ml water Recipe 1. Put all the marinade ingredients together and mix well. 2. Cut the pork shoulder into thick long slices and place them in a ziplock bag or container. 3. Add in the marinade and leave it in the fridge for at least 4 hours or even overnight. 4. After marinating, pour everything into a wok and slowly cook the meat for 20 minutes till the sauce starts to dry up. Stir the meat and sauce from time to time during the...

My son loves to eat mushrooms particularly bunashimeiji mushrooms. You can get it from the supermarket either the white ones or the brown ones. Usually I would add them to the vegetables and stir fry or sometimes chop them up and add into the omelette. One day I chanced upon this blog entry from Just one cook book - seared scallops and decided to try making a similar sauce and cooking just the mushrooms itself. While cooking, I was wondering how would the taste turn out to be but luckily it is approved by both husband and son. Hence, decided to share this recipe on my blog. ^^ Ingredients Bunashimeiji mushrooms Shallots Garlic  Butter Soy sauce Some stock or water Cornstarch solution  Recipe 1. Cut off the bottom part of the mushrooms and discard. Chop some garlic and shallot to set aside. Reason why I had shallots is because I happened to have some chopped ones in my fridge. It can be replaced by onion. 2. Add some butter to the pan and heat till it melt....

Recently I went out for dinner and ordered silver fish fried rice but it was served a tiny portion on the fried rice. I wished I could refill the silver fish. Haha So I bought a packet of dried silver fish from the supermarket under dried goods section and decided to try making it! I am so glad my first attempt worked out well. Ingredient Dried silver fish Recipe 1. Soak the dried silver fish in water for a few minutes and drain the water. Repeat this step again if you wish to reduce the saltiness. 2. Transfer to a dry dish and pat off the moisture using kitchen towel. Don't have to dry thoroughly just remove most of the moisture. 3. Heat up oil in the pot using medium flame. I used just enough oil to cover a layer of silver fish. Check if the oil is hot enough. I test the temperature by dropping one small fish in. If it is sizzling, then the oil is ready. 4. Put all the silver fish into the pot to fry. The fry process is about 5 minutes or so. You will see the oil si...