Yes. It has finally come to an end, a certain chapter of my life will be closed from this day on. It was certainly a strange feeling. How is it possible that a person can feel un-burdened and free, but also at the same time, a little sad and lost?
I've decided to be brave one evening and try my hand at making steamed egg. It may sound like a simple enough dish, but I had seen the few times that even my mum couldn't really get it right. But then again, it may be due to the size of the dish used as well... my mum had to cook for 6, and I had only to cook for 2, and I already spent about 20 minutes steaming it. It was a dish that tested a little of my patience.
Steamed eggs
Ingredients :
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- 300 ml of water
- spring onions, chopped
- soy sauce for taste
additional topping :
- cooking oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- pickled radish (chai poh), minced
Directions :
1) Bring water to boil in a steamer and turn down the heat to a low simmer.
2) Mix the beaten eggs and water in a dish and place into the steamer. While waiting for the eggs to cook, heat up some cooking oil in a frying pan and add in the garlic. Stir-fry it til fragrant and add in the pickled radish. Continue frying til they browned.
3) After 15 minutes or so, insert a knife in the centre to ensure that the egg is not too runny. The final result should be slightly soft but firm and still a bit wobbly when you shake the dish. (This is the part where you have to be patient. I read somewhere that the time to cook actually depends on the heat of water. DO NOT try to turn up the heat or the eggs will be overcooked)
4) Remove from the steamer and sprinkle with the spring onions, the fried garlic and pickled radish mixture, as well as some light soy sauce for taste.
After a failed attempt at baked pasta quite some time back (coz everything became too dry), I decided to give it a try again after reading through some recipes. I also realised that it's important to have a mixture of cheeses when it comes to baked pasta. And I was so glad that everything turned out good this time, though the amount was a bit too much for the 2 of us. So, here is my own (successful) baked pasta recipe.
Ingredients :
- 250g of fusilli pasta
- 1 onion, cut into strips
- 4 shittake mushrooms
- 2 sausages (I used garlic pork sausages)
- about 370g of pasta sauce
- 1/4 cup of water
- shredded mozzarella and parmesan cheese, amount depends on how cheesy you like your pasta to be
Directions :
1) Preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius.
2) Bring a pot of slightly salted water to boil and cook the fusilli according to instructions on the box. It is good to overcook the pasta a little, maybe about 2-3 minutes so it will not be too tough after baking.
3) Add a bit of oil into the frying pan and cook the sausages for about 4 minutes. Remove from pan and set aside.
4) In the same pan, add in the onion and cook till it starts to soften and add in the mushrooms (I did it this way coz the mushrooms will get cooked faster than the onion). Return the sausage to the pan and stir to combine. Add in the fusilli, pasta sauce and water. Mix well. Remove from heat.
5) Using a glass baking dish, I spread out half of the pasta, followed by a mixture of the two cheeses, then cover it with the remaining pasta, and some more cheese on top.
6) Put into the oven and baked till the cheese on top turns slightly brown and bubbly.
As you can see, I've been bitten by the lazy bug and haven't been blogging for quite some time. So, it's not surprising that it has been a few weeks since I made this dish and only decided to post it now.
This is quite a simple dish and I made some changes from the original recipe coz I didn't want to buy a whole pack of peppercorns just for this. And also, you can use red, yellow or green capsicum for this, it's totally up to individual.
Chicken stir-fry with red capsicum
Ingredients :
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 pack of chicken breast fillets, cut into strips (the pack I bought had 4 fillets in it)
- 1 onion, cut into wedges
- 1 red capsicum, cut into strips
- 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
Directions :
1) Heat the frying pan over high heat and add the oil. Add the chicken strips and stir-fry for about 3 minutes, or until browned.
2) Add the onion and capsicum and stir-fry for about 2 minutes, until the vegetables have softened slightly.
3) Reduce the heat and stir in the oyster sauce.
In a pretty pink outfit bought by the her Papa 
A few unexpected times when her eyes were opened this big
Relaxing on Mama's thighs... is the hairstyle stylo or what...
with great-grandmother
with grandpa
with grandma
and the first boy (the husband's nephew) to ever hug herPeople often said childhood is the one of the best time in a lifetime, and I have to agree. Ok, maybe minus the studying, homework and exams, other than that, there is nothing much to worry about as kids. And I have to admit that my sisters and I were very lucky and blessed to have a fun and memorable childhood...
- When we were very young, my sister who was 3 years younger than I am, was still learning to walk, I would, once in a while, felt impulsive and just snatched her hand over and bit her fingers. Then, I would warn her not to tell anybody.
- As both my parents were working, I spent most of my times with my grandparents. My grandfather would play masak-masak with me all the time, and brought me to drink Milo at a coffeeshop, where he would poured it onto the plastic saucer to cool, while we waited for my grandma to do marketing.
- When I was in Primary 1, my form teacher made us line up according to our register numbers and I was paired up with this very fat and disgustingly dirty boy with sweaty palms. To further scar my young innocent life, the teacher made it compulsory that we had to hold hands whenever we lined up to go out as a class.
- My sister and I would try to finish up our Chinese writing homework as fast as possible because our father, being a Chinese teacher, is very strict when it comes to our Chinese character writing. More often than not, he would find our writings not to his liking, took up an eraser and clear the whole page that we had spent the past 30 minutes writing, and made us re-write all over again.
- One day, I forgot to bring my English writing book and the teacher made me call home to get my Grandma to bring it to school. I tried my very best to describe the cover of the book to her, and in then end, she arrived in school with my Math workbook.
- My mother used to cut our hair, up till our secondary school days. There was once (when I was about 7 or 8) when my mother accidentally cut my ear. I didn't feel anything until drops of blood dripped onto a magazine I was reading.
- I was one of the last few to finish a Math test. My classmates were all handing up the papers and leaving the classroom. In the end, I managed to finish the story sums while trying to prevent my tears and snot from dripping onto the test paper.
- My father used to pick me up from school after lessons everyday and most of the times, I was the last to leave (right before the school attendant) because he was always late. So, one day, I felt rebellious (I was having a cough then) enough to buy an ice-cream and was confident that I would finish it before he arrived. He was unexpectedly early on that day.
- We used to stay in Bedok North, right opposite a stadium. One day, I followed my older cousins to the stadium and while they were playing on the tracks, I found myself wondering if my tiny head could fit through the gaps between the railings. And the next thing I knew, I was crying while my father and cousins tried to pull out my head which was stuck between the railings.
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