(2007/03) March 2007 MTBs

pax
its my own agaration. i like the sauce to be sweeter, so add mirin and honey.

for lor ba sauce, there's the watery vs thick type. if u prefer watery type, slow cooker better cos water wont be evaporated off. i refer the thick gravy type.
 


yvonne crushing the cracker is easy! i just put the biscuits in a zip lock bag and rolled with a rolling pin, no mess! if u dun hv a rolling pin, just use a glass or any bottle
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this recipe is easy as it doesnt really need any baking tools, no oven also can make! heehee...
 
oh ya, i saw a weighing scale , 5bucks+, cheap? Normal scale to weight the flour can already right? And scale sure accurate one hah? Or same like weighing machine, will not be accurate one.
 
yvonne weighing scale at $5+ is cheap wor! those plastic one rite? i am using those type too..

ya, just pour in.. use any container can liao coz steam only.. but make sure it not too broad (else not enuf to make a few layers) and not too short (in case cake overflowed aft raising).. i used a glass dish (abt 30X15X10cm) but ended up the cake nearly overflowed coz i forgot that the cake will raise slightly :p
 
Yvonne,
for me, I have a quite a bit sauces. but still, not that many bah. I have dark/light/oyster, tau-cheo, black pepper sauce, chilli/tomato, hua-tiao-jiu, sesame oil, rice wine.. kekekke.. sounds like a lot hor? but each time cook different things, put a bit of different things. ok la, not that much.
 
edde,
ok. Tml i go ntuc find the scale, today i see, left 1, somemore green colour, i hate it.
Wah, mine veri broad. I go dig my kitchen. Hmm, den just turn upside down, the cake will drop out huh? I go surf the blog, i see the ji dan gao, seems easy. Shit la! Now i wish i have more time, so many things i wish to do! Lol!

*psst, i still got 2 cake sitting in my fridge waiting for mi to eat them up! Lol! This sara lee cake really dissapoint mi. Their cake getting from bad to worst! Bought ichiban cheese cake, superb! gonna finish the whole cheese cake tonight, tml go prepare the barang and make myself. Lol!
 
autum,
wah, i Geh kiang. Tot i veri good lat will cook, i bought all diff kind of sauce! Still haven open somemore! Wahhahaha. I wish ntuc got return policy, den i can refund. Now i don noe wad to do with those sauce.
 
yvonne, the cake will "stick" to the steaming dish.. hm.. the texture is something like huat kuay but denser.. ya man, i am now addicting to those recipe/food blogs! then whenever i see something interesting i feel like trying immediately!

sara lee cake is my student time fav! now not nice liao eh? so sad.. i used to like their strawberry cheesecake a lot too! i like the ichiban cheese cake too! last time when i stayed at woodlands i always buy home from causeway pt :p tell me abt food man... wahhahahha!
 
yvonne,
what kind of sauce u have that u haven't open? tell me, then i think of a dish for u to cook. :p

AAA, paid for ON

Star, paid for ABC book (paiseh)
 
yvonne,
black pepper sauce is easy to use. i normally use it to marinate my pork chops, then fry. I have also fry prawns, add one scoop of the paste. or u can fry chicken and add one scoop. easy.

Black Pepper Pork Chop
1. Buy pork loin (rou4 tou2). Need about 4-6 slices is enough (for you and Nick). If the meat slices is thick, you can slice in-between but not all the way then open it up like butterfly. If the meat is thin, then no need to slice in-between.

2. Use the back of the chopper to tok tok the meat a bit (just hammer a few times) this is to make it more tender.

3. Marinate the meat with tapioca flour or cornflour. one big teaspoon enough. Just rub the flour into the meat. About 1-2 mins.

4. Then put 1-2 tablespoon of the black pepper sauce to marinate the meat. Put some minced garlic too if you like garlic. Marinate about 30mins or more.

5. Then pan fry using a bit of oil. No need to add salt cos the black pepper sauce is salty. Note: if you added garlic in marinate, then after pan-fry, the garlic will turn black. It's normal. Then when eating time, if you find it too bitter, don't eat the garlic. Just sweep aside.

As for sweet and sour sauce, I don't like. But I guess you can use it to fry some veg to put on top of fried fish. Fry cucumber, bell pepper, big onion, add some of the sweet-sour sauce. Then put over already-fried fish.

Ok, go try. My black pepper pork chop is quite well-recieved! Kaexin loves it! :p
 
autum
sounds yummy thou i'm no fan of black pepper. :p but hor... i watched the tv show 3 cai4 1 tang1.. the chef taught them to add sauces first b4 cornflour when marinating... add sauce... mix mix.. then add flour, mix mix... cos he says the flour will hinder the absorption of sauces.
 
joelle,
i see.. hmm, but then again, maybe my method works (anyhow hantum method), cos the black pepper sauce is very salty.. so when i put the flour first, it doesn't make the meat become too salty?? whahahaha.. i anyhow say de la.
 
autum,
wah. Ur method veri easy. Will try someday.

Many many thing can cook. Must really take yrs to learn and practice. Lol! Not one day can make it.
 
feel so sad, quarrel with tt man. have a heart to heart talk, now i left with few hrs to slp! Haiz, i really feel so difficult being a wife, mother! Nothing is perfect in this world. How i wish i can split into 2, one 24/7 take care of kids, another can accompany hb . Both i also wan to do it myself, and i end up no time to rest and do things i wan. Haiz, just hope we can go thru all this till we age la. Nothing can solve the prob , it is just part of the journey we need to go thru.
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autum
mirin is jap sweet rice wine.
i wana try cooking pork chop this weekend! yeh.

edde
your steamed layered cake sound easy..shall give it a try too..
i bought a pack of muffin premix, just add water, put in oven few mins can liao :p

by the way, for mixing egg, must buy egg mixer? or manual also can?
 
morning, wha cooking topic today.

yvonne: the black pepper sauce, easy, just stir fry chicken strips, fish or pork, then add 1 tablespoon in the pan while cooking and u will get black pepper pork, fish, chicken liao.
for Sweet and sour, use as a sauce and pour over ur plain meat like what autum suggested.
And u can do sweet and sour pork, my simple version is:
u can cut pork loin into strips, marinate with soy sauce, pepper corn flour, then dip in egg and corn flour and shallow fry. After that heat up the sweet and sour sauce and pour on top of the meat.

Joelle: really ah, the flour will hinder the adbsorption> i also anyhow hantum one, will pour sauces and flour into the meat at the same time! now i must learn to pour sauces first then add the flour later.

kaexin: how come K kena CP? from school?

dreamgal: so who else is in Aust now? ur MIL? my condolences to you and your family.
 
Hi CK and Autum: thanks for the payment, will check and confirm later cos no accesss to IB now.

Autum: u can pay me when i pass u the book lah, no hurry.
 
Yvonne,
When kids are young, don't really have couple time. Maybe see try to put your kids with in-laws during weekend for a few hours then you and Nick go out.
 
star,
how to make tempura sauce? and i m desperately finding this softshell crab....

hg,
i don wan to put at inlaw house, tts y... nvm la, he can understand can liao la, don understand also must understand.. lol...
 
dreamgal
u take care
i can oni imagine the pain the family is going through
when someone passes on, i always tell myself that as long as they dun suffer, i can psycho myself that they will leave us one day
haiz

kaexin
k got chix pox from where?

joelle/yvonne/edde
my mum used to enjoy washing the 3 cai4 1 tang1 show. guess pple who can cook can appreciate it bah
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yvonne
life as husband and wife is a very long journey. you both have to be able to see the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. then can bai2 tou2 xie2 lao3
that's what i always tell myself when i get fed up with hb, and i can say really unkind words
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edde
that layer cake sounds interesting. steaming reminds me of malay cake, ma3 lai2 gao1 that i see in the cake shops

astro
do you have an expected date for getting a car? if not, wait first. there's no pleasing everybody usually, so if you are particular, tell hb you are gonna be the one deciding the model. else you will always be cursing and swearing everytime you are in it
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yvonne
can put at your mum's/dad's for an hour or two while you and nick go out and have a meal/drink?

i also dun ask ILs to jagar when i go out. at most ask mum. but my gals bully her like crazy, even my meimei does that! so i try to be around as much as i can
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hg,
ya, he asked y don put in full day. I told him don wan. Nvm la, don wan to talk about this liao. Made mi cry till eye swollen! :s
how is ur kids?

Kaexin,
keira have cp? Sry i think i missed ur post, wad happen?
 
Yvonne,
If full day wait till 4 years old then consider full day cc bah. Also cos you not working so will not want to put them in full day. Unless you working then have to put in full day.
Men are like this, they don't understand.
So far i also don't put my kids at any grandparents house and go out during weekend. Weekend is family time for us, not pat tor time.
I only go out to eat dinner with hb sometimes or take leave to go pat tor.

Esther still got sore throat, think it's throat inflammation. Dr Ong said 75% is not hfmd. Dylan is ok to go school today. But he don't want to go nanny house today. Think cos too many days didn't go bah.
 
sq,
wahahha! Ur post to astro veri funny. Quite true also. Lol! Nick keep nagging when there is sound from the car, now tire got prob, he nagging non stop while driving.

Cannot put at my mom place, she told mi long time ago, she don wan to take care of kids for mi. Ai ya, nvm la. I give in to fate.

The 3 cai 1 tang show hor, i like to watch, but cannot catch up, cos they cut cut cut the show squeeze to so short, everything so fast. I can onli enjoy the ending when the food look so nice after cooking. Other den tt, i just keep laughing at their conversation, nv look how they cook.
 
morning,
not sure where she got the chix pox from? aft we left the doc's, i called up the school to let them know. and ask at the same time whether the last 2 weeks got any case of chic pox. no such case. might have been exposed anywhere i guess.

we saw Astro's miser, ellie and Yh when we reached the clinic, they just left the clinic.
 
sent tian to school today, she din cry.
such a good gal.
i told teacher that she has a fren (K) developed CP yesterday and we met up on sunday for dancing class, ask her if tian should stop school now? or what to do? What is the normal procedure.
Teacher was surprised that i asked. cause she said now no symptoms right? I scare when got symptoms then too late liao mah. (ignorant!)
teacher said it is not contagious during incubation, but once she is unwell we got to pick her up immediately (or dun send to school if its at night). all of us agreed and now monitoring.
she said, cannot be don't go school everyday until 2-3 weeks, never develop CP, then go back school, if develop CP, then stop another 2-3 weeks. like that 2months no need to go liao.
I am thinking if I should skip LNT this saturday woh, but then how about next sat? next next?
headache. Hope if she really got it, then today or tomorrow show me the symptoms. if not, then she has escaped. we have a nanny to standby, luckily.
then i better send her for CP vaccination soon woh.
*why suddenly so busy ah?*

yvonne, u are 10 years y0ounger than me, so u have to walk 10 years more with nick as compared to me,, in general. It is not easy, it is a journey. we learn and give throughout the journey. Do you get enough rest actually? what is nick's complaints?
actually we should spend more time with hb also (but i am not doing a good job myself), cause they are the one who will walk together with us thoughout. as for our kids, they will leave us when they grow up de.
 
hg,
this throat inflammation veri irritating. So i make a habit to make honey 220ml for sam to drink on alternate days. So far so good, she always like to eat biscuit, easily get sorethroat. And always fever when she get sorethroat.

Dr ong also recommend honey lemon for children, natural remedy. No need med.
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if fever den just give paracetamol.
 
Yvonne, u need to go for attachment at joelle's place. or edde's cause they cook everyday right?

my hb also watch 3 cai 1 soup la. haha!!
 
by the way, i told jay that i should call dr and ask about the CP. but then jay said i wu liao, ask so much also not conclusive one. everyone has different thoughts on it, and there is no standard rule.
ok lor, i just rest my mind for 2-3 days, will see how 2-3 days later.

brought tian to do the glue art last night, cause she kept perstering me. i gave up. then she really really really really enjoyed it, she even pasted it on the wall in her room. my god! and i dare not ask her to buy books (matt's method) now cause if i ask, i think she will prefer this glue art than buying books at the moment.
 
Kaexin,
so like that after this CP outbreak for K, she doesn't need to take any vaccination already right? since she already got it.
hope it is not v serious for her. 4 dots only, ok la... don't sound like serious outbreak.
 
qq,
ya, veri long journey. Not tt i sick of the life now, just tt i suddenly feel tt i don have time to accompany him. And when he bring up the topic, i will flare lor. Lol! Yesterday is the worst la, cos i pratically screaming when we talked, so he feel machiam something not right. He silly one leh, think i don love him liao. Wahahahahaha! And i keep repeating i no time. This just don get into his mind. Talking to him can make my lung burst!
 
qq,
wahahahha! Attachment! No need la. I can understand how busy they are when at home. If got ppl come, i guess i will double up their job. Hahahahha!
 
Yvonne,
aiya. just a small quarrel.
小吵怡情!just treat it as a story for both of u.
when my hb also kacau me to watch movies with him, go out with him, i also got fed up if i am really busy and no time. when i feel happy or a bit free, he come kacau me then i will take leave and go out with him.
very long journey la. now i cannot see the end of my GOLD POT with my hb yet. too long.

Nana, so victoria now? confirm?

Pax, it is very luan4 when many ppl stay together, when one is sick, then it will be like a contagious thing to pass on to another one, never ending. i can forsee that when my boy come out, we will have this pattern running in the house. no choice, u need to eat more vit yourself. and give this mr pax more vit also.
 
Yvonne,
the 3 cai 1 soup winning team recipes will be feature in the following week's I-weekly. I'll cut out and keep most of them.
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Re: Black Pepper sauce
I'm not a black pepper fan too but I'll use it on salmon or fish that I kept too/not too fresh. Pan fry the salmon/fish and add some of the sauce over it then it'll be v nice le.
 
hi mummies good morning, took leave tdy just tired of wking.. mgmt siao again. Seriously considering to take my ML 1-2 wks earlier ..alot of changes at work after my ML.. i m goin to go back as a NEWBIE arrgh! stupid system make us all headache.

Kaexin
Poor K, pls get well soon.. later 1-2 days will hv more spots.. sayang her alot..haiz reminds me of the days chloe is in hosp with CP.

Reading with interest on the cooking method...pink maybe i try your lor bak tonite :p
 
QQ/yvonne
easier for me to see the gold pot cos i'm older?
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QQ
think can still go as long as tian is feeling good. else how to siam for so long everytime her frens get chix pox?
 
QQ,
ya, still not too serious. anyway, she happily went to my il's house this morning. no crying whatsoever. can even smiled to me cheekily when i look at her while i was driving.

astro,
you so tall and miser too, think u need at least a MPV. and u dont really need boot space coz when u need, u just need to collapse the last row seats. most MPV doesnt have much boot space.

huingee,
so esther doesnt have HFMD, just sore throat ?? did u go to dorothy's yetserday too ?
 


RR, i wan the recipe, haha!!
got online version boh? then i can paste at my fridge for jay.

last night i brot hb to dian xiao-er for dinner, then told him to learn from the dishes. got variety mah. otherwise evryday also same pattern, same taste. haha!
 

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