And My Journey Thru' Breast Cancer
Saturday nite.. i steamed egg tofu.. for chloe & I. I haven’t had egg tofu..for 6 yrs now..! or more i think.. because as per usual. .we can’t get it here. I had wanted to steamed it with minced pork and chinese mushroom.. but guess what no minced pork to be found for 2 days.. bummer..! so i made it plained.. with loads of shallot in it..!
Chloe loves it…. and i finished most of it. And yes.. the egg tofu was brought back by Gerald from the city.
Sorry… i took so long to post up the picture .. of what i cooked .. at 5am in the morning the other day. Was waiting for PB to upload the pictures from digi-cam to computer for me. So i’m pretty much at his mercy… kekkekee!!
Anyways.. this is it.. i boiled lotus root soup in the slow cooker.. and it only started at 1am.. in the morning.. because brat wouldn’t go to bed.. till about 12.30am. And Gerald had brought back lotus roots for me.. a few days ago.. and if i donch cooked it.. it might not last for any longer.. so “bo pian” gotta cook so late.. and then of course.. the brat woke up at 3 am .. and didn’t wanna go back to sleep.. so i let the soup boiled till.. she slept.
So yes.. i’m not crazy.. just fully utilizing my time.. while attending to the brat.. my miracle.. 😉
PS : I donch get to drink these good chinese soup alot.. coz’ you can’t buy lotus root or watercress here in “ulu” town. The last time i had lotus root soup was a long time ago.. at least 6 months ago.
Guess what is cooking in my slow cooker.. ?? Guess what i can’t resist at 5am.. in the morning.. and had to have some..???
Yup..! i didn’t tell you i was greedy eh..?? Yup..!! only for local food from home.
Guess what i have cooking..??
Yup.. Gerald brought back Hainanese chicken rice mix in a bottle for me.. so today.. i made some chicken rice.. with baked chicken.. for dinner.. 😉 It was pretty good.. and the chilli sauce was from a long time ago.. and it was still good.. so priceless.. 😉 doesn’t taste exactly like chicken rice from home.. but close enough. Yummmmmyy..!!
I am one happy woman… kekekkekee!!
Can you guess what i am eating..?? Sometimes i get lucky/blessed.. and ppl/friends from Y-town will go up to the city.. and offer to get me my chinese food. And nope.. I can’t get fish cake or fish balls here in Y-town, they are gotten frozen up in the city about 4hrs drive away.
I think i perfected cooking red bean soup in a slow cooker .. by accident.. kekkeke!!
I wanted to boil red bean soup a few days ago.. and had soaked the red beans .. only to realised.. that i didn’t have any orange peel… and dried ones.. for that matter. And since .. only PB can go shopping .. while i man the store.. i told him what to get.. but of course.. he being so “actsy borak” .. got annoyed when i asked him if he knew what kind of orange to buy..?? So in the end.. he bought me the wrong kinda orange. I needed “kum” .. not “orange” and i had tried to tell him the difference.. but you know lah.. “chao ang moh” donch know the difference.. and sounded like i think he was stupid or something.. so i didn’t pursue it lor.. and let him be. So of course the orange was wrong lah.. so cannot use that nite.
So had to wait for another day.. to buy the orange. So after soaking the beans for more than a day.. i threw them into the slow cooker. When the dessert was boiling.. i put in some longan .. because i didn’t have any gingko nuts.. nor white nuts. After which i put in some “rock sugar” .. and not to much. And it turned out perfect..!
I had half a pot of red bean soup between yesterday and today.. all on my own. Bummer..! both Chloe and PB .. didn’t wanna have anything to do with the dessert. But i have to honestly say.. it’s one of the best tasted red bean/longan soup i’ve cooked myself.