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I work half the time from home and I mostly cook my own lunch...scared of outside food...sometimes my hubby will also work from home too...save petrol la hehee..
My lunch dishes are mostly steamed stuff..trick is to buy good quality soya sauce, like Guang Xiang Thai ones...like their light soya sauce for $4 ++....jus pour over anything steamed is good...
Steam any fish for 10 mins and I add in veges like beans/sweet peas/leafy ones on top of fish after 5 mins and steam for another 5 mins...so far, good results...i normally will boil porridge or rice....if not at times, i'll cook japanese soba noodles, then put it in the fridge while i'm steaming fish....tear some fresh lettuce to go with noodles....
U have oven, can bake beef steaks/fish steaks or chicken thighs....oh ya, i bake my chicken thighs together with pumpkin chunks for 45mins at 180 degrees.....very very good...you can drizzle sea salt and olive oil and some chopped garlic on the pumpkin.....oh ya if lazy to cook rice, can bake french fries..frozen ones for 30 mins.....
Today i marinated some chick wings for steaming...i put some fresh shitake mushrooms on top and steam for 15 mins...then followed by another plate of fresh shitake and sweet peas for 5 mins.....ate with porridge and preserved black olive leaves...very good...comfort food...
if not cook cantonese porridge (chok)...personally i like cabbage carrot porridge..once left to simmer, the porridge turns so sweet...for stock use dried scallops with ikan bilis.....add in rice to boil, then later with chunks of cabbage and carrots...an hr later, throw in minced pork or diced chicken thigh meat....then flavour according to taste...i buy this fresh handmade fishballs with tiny minced pork added in from the mkt...boil yr porridge with them and it really flavours the porrdige so well until dun need to add salt or soya...
i wan minimal fuss when cooking on a weekday cos i dun wan clean up big time....plus maid at pil place, so i have to do everything myself..