Mum's secret

2 beautiful dishes were created some time back. So let's begin to track back !

Stir-fry pork in Spring onion.

The most original dish that my mum has ever prepare. A simple marinating and a short cooking time are all this dish need.

Preparation
Slice the onion
Cut the the spring onion to about 4-5 cm, chop some of the spring onion finely.
Cut the 'yao' pork aka ("waist meat") thin slices (depend on your liking).
Marinate the pork with cornflour, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce and white pepper.

*by putting in cornflour, it will bring up the texture of the pork itself, adding it the "Q" texture.

Method
Put the hot pan on medium heat, add in olive oil and onion for about 2-3 min. add in the marinated pork and cook for 2-3 min, adding in a tablespoon of oyster sauce and a pinch of sugar. cover with lid for about 2 min. lift up the lid you should be able to see your pork has a little starchy sauce at the bottom (if there isn't, you can add a tablespoon of water). Add in the spring onion. cover up the lid again for 2 min. Serve hot with white rice.

Shrimp Mix with sweet potato leaves.

A dish that you commonly see people ordering when they are eating cze char.

Preparation
Wash and check the leaves of the sweet potato. look out for black spot and any bite hole done by the worm. Tear the center portion of the leave, keep it. Break the "head" of the leave and tear the vibe around the stem, throw it away. Do so for all the stem, Chopped the rest of the stem into 4-5 cm.
Using a pestle and mortar, place in the shrimp, garlic and shallot, pound it to form a paste.

Method
Put the hot pan on medium heat, add in olive oil and shrimp mix until you smell that sweet pungent smell. Add in the potato leaves cover with lid until the leaves are soft. Add chilli as desired and a pinch of sugar to lift up the taste and bring it to another level. Serve hot.

Making the prefect omelette

So here are the tip for making omelette, people always think that it is kinda of hard. it is not.

• Alway season at the end. Never put the salt early becuase what it does to the egg is that it turn it too watery, we don't want that.
• Never whisk it in the bowl, whisk it in the pan, on low heat. The trick here is to take it off the heat, take on the heat, take it off the heat and place it back. when the egg star to kinda of take into shape, you don't have to place it back on the pan.
• Once you are happy with the state of the egg, stop the cooking by putting in a tablespoon of creme frachie.
• place in some chives or spring onion to bring the omelette to a new level.
• Season and taste.
• Serve it hot.

*Going for UO training. 3 days 2 Nights, just want to let you know. I miss you.

A new beginning.

I was unsure of what i want. Today, dear jewelry give me a whole list of her problem. How can i, as a boyfriend, help her. Ideas starts to form in my mind. Make a wild guess what came to my mind.

I learn that if i want to be a chef, i have to start from somewhere I'm familiar. i forget the most important person that has been there all this time, preparing my meal. Dear Mum. So that's where i'll start. Learning from my mum, every single thing.

Good Lucks.

Lesson 1

My girlfriend suggest that i can start a blog by writing down what i learn from my mum everyday.

So here we are.

What is on today menu is from the book, "the pasta book" by Williams Sonoma. We are making chinese "Siaw Mai".

So here are the tips i gather from that dear old lady in my family.

• Use water chestnut(just a few will do), they will bring the freshness and sweetness of seafood to a whole new height.
• For the skin for Chinese "Siaw Mai", it has to be homemade, the one that is from the supermarket are way too thick for steaming.
• I know my mum a little better. she can't really eat bamboo shoot because of her gastric problem.

So beside that, i also try to make a sweet potato rosti. (i don't know why but the rosti taste horrible.)

• Once the sweet potato is bring cut/grate, it turn dark really quickly, so what you need to do i put pinch of salt into it.

I went to this place known as Sia Huat, where all kinda of kitchenware can be found. I wanted to look for some ramekins and as well as mandolin. the price for a mandolin can be up to $200. i think i need to ask someone to get it for me.

People who loved to cook will sure like this place.