Dragonfruit Jelly

There are some dragonfruit left over from yesterday so Snow White used it to make Jelly for dessert.

Of course, the purple colour is dragonfruit jelly, can anyone guess what the white jelly make of?

Dry Mee Siam

Mee Siam is popular in Malaysia and Singapore. It is normally serve with tamarind gravy, which give a combination of spicy, sweet and sour tastes. Rapunzel do the dry version of Mee Siam which is not common in Singapore.

Babe tried the dry version once in Malaysia and been craving for it. Rapunzel's dry Mee Siam a bit different as it is less salty and more spicy.

Dragonfruit Smoothie

Got some dragonfruit today, complementary from Lady C. Snow White blended the dragonfruit with yogurt to make this smoothie. A creamy and healthy drink!

Hot Dog Prata Wrap

This is Snow White's new creation, using the balance of instant pratas and cabbage from last week.

Toss the shredded cabbage, carrot after boiled and minced onion together with mayonnaise sauce. The mayonnaise sauce is mixed according to Snow White taste; 2 teaspoon of mayonnaise, sprinkle bits of dry basil, parsley and add in lime juice, pepper and salt.

Lay out 2 to 3 leaf of lettuce on top of the prata, spread some mayonnaise on it, add in the salad, few pieces of apple enzyme residue, hard boiled egg and hot dog then sealed the prata with toothpick.

Curry Chicken With Prata

This is for today's lunch as planned, Curry chicken with Prata. Now this time Snow White cooked chicken curry with her own secret recipe ...phewww..you can't imagine how delicious it was although it taste a little hot and spicy. It was rich and creamy curry added with cabbage and tomato. We used mid joint chicken wing which we don't usually do as we couldn't get the drumstick at the supermarket but, ok also good Rapunzel really wipe clean the bowl of curry chicken dip with Prata (instant Prata). Yeap, Babe is on leave again!

Durian CheeseCake

This is not our first try to make a cheese cake, but the whole experience has just inspired us on making a no bake durian cheesecake. ...mm.. just look at the pic. the taste really good..


Ingredients for Durian Fillings:
250g Cream Cheese
50g Caster Sugar
250g Durian Flesh
1 tablsp Gelatine Powder
50ml Warm Water
125g Plain Yogurt
200g Whipping Cream

Methods:
1. Beat cream cheese, caster sugar until creamy and light, then add the durian flesh and continue to beat until well combined.
2. Next pour in the melted gelatine mixture and yogurt then stir till combined.
3. Lastly pour in the whipping cream and well mixed.
4. Pour the mixture into the prepared biscuit base tray and chill for at least 3 hours or overnight.

Ingredients For Crust:
200g Digestive biscuits, finely crust
70g Butter - at room temperature

1. Use a 7" X 7" square cake aluminium tray.
2. Combined the biscuits crumbs and butter then mixed well and press into cake tray and bake under 170c for 5mins. Let it cool and chill in the fridge.(about 20mins - 30mins).

Pan Fried Salmon with Mash Potatoes

Today our menu is more scrumptuos Pan Fried Salmon with Mash potatoes goes with fried Asparagus hhmmmm...delicious. Juz in time babe is back again and she is so delighted with such a lavish meal today.

Local Laksa

As planned for our weekly menu and today Babe is on sick leave again, and again left the Rapunzel and Snow White to cook for the lunch. For that Rapunzel cook Local Laksa with prawn,fishcake and quail egg,this time we tried instant Laksa paste. Snow white suggest to boil the prawn shell and use the broth for the soup and it is true, the taste is right.

Fried rice with salted fish

On 22 June Rapunzel and Snow White have Fried Rice with Salted Fish for lunch. Babe is on sick leave so both of us have our big plate as babe share taken most by Rapunzel..looks who's talkin...Its seems that the fried rice cooked by Snow white make Rapunzel appetite hhmmm.... Rapunzel compliment for this lunch.

Strawberry Mousse

Rapunzel found this Strawberry Mousse recipe from one of the blogger. Snow White is craze over strawberry so she is overwhelm in trying out this Strawberry Mousse.

A very simple recipe but the waiting time for the mousse to chill is rather long.........

Assam Fish

Rapunzel is cooking Assam Fish which is one of her specialty. She blend the chili assam paste at home and fried the paste together with lemon grass, tamarind sauce mixed with water and add in the Batang fish. When the fish almost cooked add in the steamed lady finger and tomato. Add in the salt, sugar and fish sauce according to taste. Simmered for 10minutes and Assam Fish is ready to serve.

It is very appetizing to eat with rice. Babe is having sore throat but die die also must eat the Assam Fish. Rapunzel is kind enough to reduce the chili paste for me.

Dry Yong Tau Foo Mee Tai Mak

Yong Tau Foo is fermented bean curd stuffed with fish paste. No, we did not make the Yong Tau Foo, Rapunzel get them fresh from the market this morning.

This is an Hakka dish usually drenched in clear and soupy broth and dipped with chili or sweet sauce but Snow White cooked it in a different style with Mee Tai Mak.

The Yong Tau Foo is pan fried till golden brown, boiled over the vegetables and Mee Tai Mak till soft, drained and set aside for later used. Heat the oil, saute the garlic, ginger then add in 2 cup of water mixed with dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce & sesame oil. Thicken the sauce with starch and the sauce is ready to pour over the Mee Tai Mak. Toss the sauce with the Mee Tai Mak then add in the Yong Tau Foo and garnished with coriander, spring onion and fried shallot. Tah Dah! Dry Yong Tau Foo Mee Tai Mak is ready to serve.

Love the sauce and it is yummy to go with the crispy fried Yong Tau Foo. I cleared my plate within 15 minutes.

Kway Teow Goreng

Today we had another asian cuisine - Fried Kway Teow, cooked by Rapunzel, well it's little spicy, yet Babe can take it so do Rapunzel but for Snow White it has no problem coz she love spicy food. Kway Teow is a common food served in almost all Malay and Chinese stalls. The ingredients and cooking method varies according to available ingredients and preference. The one Rapunzel cooked today is a simple version using only basic ingredients...

INGREDIENTS:

1 kg Kway Teow
6 Shallots
3 cloves Garlic
15 dried chillies
shelled Shrimps
1 tbls Sweet Soya Sauce
3 tbls Tomato Sauce
Bean Sprout
Chye Sim
Square Beancurd
3 eggs
Salt to taste
1 stalk Spring Onion + Chinese celery - chopped

METHOD:

1. Blend shallots, garlic and dried chillies.
2. Fry beancurd put aside and do the same for the fishcake.
3. Beaten & fry eggs till soft but not dry and put aside.
4. Fry the blend item until fragrant then add in shrimps.
5. Add in tomato sauce, soya sauce, salt & continue stirring. (If you want moist fried noodle, add in 1/2 cup water)
6. Add in bean sprout, Chye Sim & stir well.
7. Add in beancurd & fishcakes then followed by the kway teow.
8. Stir until noodles are evenly coated with sauce.
9. Serve with Spring Onion + Chinese celery.

Chicken Bak Kut Teh

Bak Kut Teh is an herbal with peppery taste soup. It is usually used pork rib but since one of us does not take pork we use chicken instead. We used the A1 Bak Kut Teh spices left over from Rapunzel's home. The recipe is simple and easy to follow.

Rinsed and cleaned the chicken. When the water is boiled put in the meat, button mushroom and Bak Kut Teh Spices and cooked for 30minutes or more. We also added garlic, red dates and wolf berries to sweeten the soup. Add in soya sauce, oyster sauce, salt and pepper according to your taste.

Boiled the mee suan (flour vermicelli) in another pot of water and dished out in separate bowl. Place the cooked Xiao Bai Cai on the mee suan and pour the boiling soup over. Garnished with coriander and Bak Kut Teh is ready to serve.

This is Snow White first attempt cooking the mee suan. The soup is nice but the mee suan a bit soggy. Anyone have tips on handling the mee suan?

Chicken Porridge

Another sumptuous meal for our lunch today, it is a lavish Porridge with century eggs,minced chicken sprinkled with roasted peanut,fried white baits and with the spring onion from our own garden bring the aroma of our appetizing lunch.

A great cook from Snow White and Rapunzel enjoy the lunch so much as Babe is not present today so both of us have a great lunch.

Tom Yam Yee Mee

Snow White was craving for Tom Yam so we cooked the Tom Yam Yee Mee today with slightly different from the other day.

The soup base is still the same. Snow White boiled the prawn head to make the stock. The ingredients below is then added to the stock.

Meanwhile boiled the Yee Mee till soft and put aside.
Put in the prawn to the stock and scope in a plate when cooked.
When the stock is boiled add in the chicken.

The straw mushroom and the cauliflower is then added. Add in the fish sauce and lime juice according to your taste.

Divide the Yee Mee into the bowl and pour the Tom Yam soup over the bowl and garnished with coriander.

Aglio Olio

This is not the Italians' classic Aglio Olio. Snow White created her own style which is more suitable for Asians taste buds.

1. 3 portion of spaghetti (cook according to instruction)
2. Pan fried the prawn (marinated with salt&pepper) with butter
3. Pan fried king oyster mushroom and shitake mushroom with oyster sauce.
4. Saute garlic, onion, capsicum, chili fakes, dry basil & parsley, then add in salt and black pepper to your taste.
5. Toss the spaghetti with the mixtures well.
6. Aglio Olio spaghetti ready to serve with the prawn and mushroom.

A very oriented taste with a bit of spicy hot. I added some bacon bits to my plate, this is a versatile dish which you can stuffs anything to bulk it up.

Fish Soup Bee Hoon

After the soup week, Babe did not see any drop in the weight. Luckily there is also no rising in weight. This week, we started off light with Fish soup bee hoon. Fish Soup is Snow White specialty but she have to rush back to attend her little "boss" so Rapunzel and Babe have to do the cooking. We did not put much ingredient this time but it tastes just as good.

Ingredients:
Toman Fish fillet (sliced, seasoned with salt and ginger)
Spinach
Egg Tofu
Bee Hoon
Garlic
Ginger
Onion
Fried silver fish

Method:
1) Boiled water with garlic, ginger and ikan bili stock cube.
2) Pan fried the fish fillet.
3) Add in the stalk of spinach, fish fillet and tofu to the soup.
4) Add in the spinach and seasoned to your taste with fish sauce, salt and evaporated milk.
5) Boiled the Bee Hoon till soft in separate pot.
6) Scope the fish soup into the cooked bee hoon and garnished with coriander, fried onion and silver fish.

A yummy fish soup bee hoon accomplished!

No dessert today since Snow White is away.....

Potato Salad

To be complete as diet week, we have salad today. Potato salad is another Rapunzel's favourite dish. Very refreshing salads, Babe have two bowls today, hee!

The ingredients other then the potato include celery, capsicum, hard boiled egg and apple.

Toss together with mayo, mince onion, lime juice, pepper and sugar.

Clear Vegetable Soup

Yeah! Today is the last day of soup diet. More vegetables.....

Babe chance upon this spicy hot vegetable soup recipe from the fatfree.com but as usual we did not follow the recipe exactly.

Ingredients:
3 chillies padi (minced)
5 garlics (minced)
1 onion (minced)
Broccoli
carrot
celery
mushroom
Lentils (1/4 cup)
Barley (1/4 cup)

1) Boiled the chicken stock with barley and lentils.
2) Saute the chili, garlic and onion then add in to the stock.
3) Add in all vegetables and season with salt to your taste.
4) Simmer till vegetables soft.

Garnished the soup with coriander, fried onion and tau pok, the soup is ready to be served.

The soup look bland but actually is quite spicy hot. At least something different from the soup we cook the other days.

Chinese Mushroom Soup

Another soup day! Chinese Mushroom Soup, Rapunzel's favorite soup. Babe love mushroom so no complaint for the soup but the lunch is real light, my stomach sure growl again in less then an hour.....

The main ingredients of the Chinese Mushroom Soup include; Shiitake Mushroom, Enoki, tomato, black eye bean, black fungus and carrot. Rapunzel added some cabbage left over from yesterday.

Guess this soup is much healthier then yesterday as I accidentally threw away the onion oil.

Look, how clear the soup is!

Cabbage & Tofu Soup

Since we started cooking and lunch in almost everyday, our tummy also started to emerge into a ball. This is bad!! Snow White and Rapunzel declared this week will be diet week and we are
going to have soup for lunch for the next 3 days. Poor Babe, wish I can survive after the 3 days.

Here, this the Cabbage & Tofu Soup for the day. Not very bland, Snow White added fried fish cake.

Oh, Rapunzel told me don't expect any dessert for the week too. ....Babe's stomach already start growling now.