Day 61 ... Assam Prawns with Petai

ASSAM PRAWNS WITH PETAI

I was in the middle of writing an article.

A beautiful excuse.

So, Bryan cooked dinner tonight. He loves cooking for the family, by the way. We never have to fight over the spatula or frying pan. He was in the kitchen and I ah, supervised from my lap top.

De-vein the prawns ... stir fry the petai first ... assam is in the fridge ...

1. Stir-fry the petai with some oil until crispy-like.

Remove from the pan.

2. Saute garlic till fragrant.

Add the tamarind paste and chilly flakes.

Add water and a pinch of brown sugar.

Add prawns (de-veined).

Stir-fry a bit. Add the petai. 

Done.

3. Garnish with spring onions

and small cherry tomatoes.

Bryan's Plate ...

The prawns were heavenly, and the petai was crunchy. 

We had it with brown rice. Absolutely delicious.

I ate with my fingers. Hmmm ... Yum!

TEA TIME

This evening, Justine baked a cake. Since there was only one egg left, she checked the internet and got a recipe for "Moist Choc Cake Without Egg."

Half-way preparing, she found out that even flour, sugar and butter were not enough. She was using the left over ingredients from her baking session with Jamie and Jessie on Saturday. So, there was not enough flour, sugar, butter and eggs. Being a public holiday, the mini-store at our condo was closed.

We told her to just put in whatever she had ...

The not-enough ingredients ...

The frosting ... not enough sugar, not enough butter.
Only cocoa powder was sufficient. Used vegetable oil to replace the butter.

The Not-Enough Frosted Moist Choc Cake ...

Healthy cake if You ask me since "ingredients all not enough."

Not enough flour, not enough sugar, not enough eggs, not enough butter.

Turned out PERFECT for some reason. :D
The cake looked so pretty and eye-catching;
tasted just right with all the not-enough ingredients.

Bryan says, Daniel would show his rock-on sign ...

Justine's frosted moist choc cake ROCKS!

I had my morning shake of The Green Drink,

bread with leftover curry, assam prawns with petai for dinner

and Justine's awesome cake for dessert.

To Sum Up

1 shake, 2 meals & Cake

Juice. Fruit. Hemoberry. Water.

Time of Posting : 8:55am (Wed)

Day 60 ... Assam Fish

 ASSAM FISH

Saute onions, garlic and ginger.

Add mustard seeds, cardamon, clove, 

coriandar seeds and curry leaves.

Add Allagappa's fish curry powder and seasalt.

Fry till fragrant. 

Add water mixed with tamarind.

Bring to a boil. 

 Add garoupa steaks.

Add ladies fingers, tomatoes and onions (chunks).

Simmer until the ingredients are cooked.

Bryan also added tofu since we had some in the fridge. 

 My Dinner - our family likes the rice 

banjir (flooded) with the curry.

This morning I had my shake of The Green Drink,

homemade noodles for lunch and the above for dinner.

To Sum Up

1 shake & 2 meals

Juice. Fruit. Hemoberry. Water.

Time of Posting : 8:13 am (Wed)

Day 59 ... Ipoh Hor Fun

SG took care of the chicken. 

Trimmed the fat with surgical precision.

The prawns were at my mercy. 

De-veined them with the ability of an amateur.

Preparing the soup base was simple. We boiled 3 thigh-drumsticks with filtered water. Added a whole onion and some garlic cloves. And Seasalt. In the pressure cooker. Was ready in about half an hour.

Meanwhile, SG "loosens" the hor fun by running through the rice noodles,

shaking and tossing them with her fingers. 

The soup is read when the red button on the pressure cooker drops.

Remove the chicken. Ooh, so very tender.

Shredding the chicken is easy because the flesh just falls off the bones.

Time to dip the prawns in the hot boiling soup to cook just lightly.

Ingredients are all ready.

Rinse the hor fun in boiling water, before transferring to individual bowls.

Pour the soup over the hor fun.

IPOH HOR FUN

My oh my, we couldn't believe the hor fun soup could taste so delicious.

Bryan says you could taste the flavour of EACH ingredient.

Justine says she and the girls liked the chicken - TeeTeeS - tender, tasty and soft.

SG liked the chilly flakes. I loved the prawns - cooked just under tender by SG.

That's my bowl by the way. My first one. :D

Thumbs-up ...

Daniel would be putting his thumbs-up too. That's him watching over his sister.

Carol came a bit later, when we were all having our second bowls. 

She had to prepare dinner for Kish before she came.

After dinner, we had the delightful moist chocolate cake for dessert, with coffee.

Prepared a jug of chilled Hemoberry & BioFruity after that - 

a refreshing drink to ZEST up the evening further. :D

Time of Posting : 10:38am (Monday)

Day 59 ... Moist Chocolate Cake

These are the ingredients. The exact measurement remains a secret only known to the girls. 

Flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, 

buttermilk, eggs, vegetable oil, warm water, brown sugar and seasalt.

Then, the girls took turns to mix the ingredients at "medium" speed.

Jamie (left) and Justine (middle) broke 2 eggs in it, 

while Jessie (right) supervised.

Jessie instructed : One teaspoon of seasalt. 

Justine added the salt. 

Then Jamie commented that the teaspoon was too big.

The cake was baking in the oven at 200 degrees celcius for about 30 minutes.

While waiting for dinner, the girls watched SpongeBob.

The smell of the cake in the oven was heavenly.

MOIST CHOCOLATE CAKE

The cake turned out just PERFECT. 

Crispy on the outside, moist on the inside, 

with a spongy texture that is is just under sweet.

SG (the twins' mum) sprinkled some rainbow rice 

over the before the photo was taken. :D

We finished one and a half (8 X 8) baking tray
of the yummy cake.

Day 58 ... Pan Grilled Lamb Chops with Brown Sauce

LAMB CHOPS WITH BROWN SAUCE

Bryan seasoned the lamb chops two days ago following Grace's marinate recipe

of vinegar, light shoyu, dark shoyu, seasalt, pepper and seasalt.

Mix bistro brown sauce gravy with some water.

Saute onions (chunks).

Pour mixture in the pot.

This is the brown sauce to pour over the lamb chops. :D

We had our chops with potato salad.

Finger lickin' delicious!

Day 57 ... Fried Rice with Petai

FRIED RICE WITH PETAI

Bryan made some fried rice tonight, whilst I went to pick Justine up from her class.

Stir-fry the petai and carrots in sesame seed oil. 

Transfer to a bowl.

Beat an egg. Fry it.

Add over night rice.

Pepper, seasalt, shoyu and dark soya sauce.

When almost ready, toss in the petai and carrots.

Enjoyed our dinner with the chilly sauce!

LUNCH

Bryan was meeting with some friends for tea, so lunch was light. 

He prepared a simple meal of Kuan Loh Mee. I was in school at the time.

He used the remainder of chicken rice gravy 

from the night before as the sauce for the noodles.

Chilly sambal courtesy of JoJo restaurant.

Yummy!

Day 56 ... Pressure Cooker Chicken Rice With Fillet

PRESSURE COOKER CHICKEN RICE 

WITH FILLET

I was out with a girl-friend today.

By the time I got home with Justine, there was a wonderful chicken rice aroma that filled the home. Bryan had prepared chicken rice in the pressure cooker before he went for an appointment. :D Ooh, dinner tonight would be fantastic. Here's how Bryan made his famous chicken rice. This time, using chicken fillet.

1. Chicken Rice

Saute shallots, garlic and ginger 

in sesame seed oil in the pressure cooker. 

Add half a cube of no-msg chicken stock.

Add the rice grains. Fry till fragrant.

Add filtered water for cooking rice.

2. Chicken Fillet

Slice the chicken fillet into bite sizes.

Season with seasalt, pepper and sesame seed oil.

Add shoyu, organic oyster sauce and arrowroot powder. 

Mix to marinate.

Transfer to a flat dish. 

Place dish on a metal stand over the rice.

Cover the lid. 

Turn on flame till sizzling sound is heard.

Turn off. Allow to cook on its own.

3. Sauce and Gravy

i. Chilly Sauce 

Blend chillies (deseeded), onions, garlic, ginger together. 

Add seasalt, sugar and lime juice.

ii. Chicken Gravy 

Saute shallots and garlic in a small pot. 

Mix oyster sauce, arrowroot powder, seasalt, sugar (a pinch) with water.

Pour mixture into the pot. 

Bring to boil.

Dinner was yummy delicious. Pour the gravy over the chicken. The rice was so tasty, we could just eat it on its own. Justine commented the rice alone was "full of flavour." It really was. :D

I had a shake of The Green Drink in the morning, 

nasi lemak for lunch and chicken rice for dinner.

To Sum Up

1 shake & 2 meals

Juice. Fruit. Carrot Cake. 

Cappuccino. Hemoberry. Water.

Time of Posting : 10:15am (Thursday)

Day 55 ... Sweet and Sour Garoupa Steak

SWEET AND SOUR GAROUPA STEAK

WITH BROWN RICE

Bryan cooked dinner tonight.

He wanted to eat fish. So decided to fry a fish steak and made sweet and sour sauce for it. Since it involved frying, I stayed clear of the kitchen. :D

Thumbs-up! 

Yet another masterpiece from Chef Bryan. :D

The sizzling sauce ...

1. The Fish

Season the fish with seasalt and pepper,

and a light coat of arrowroot powder

to ensure that the fish is dry.

Heat up oil in frying pan. Fry the fish steak.

When crispy and done, remove and place on serving dish.

2. The Sauce

Sauce garlic, ginger and onions (chunks) in the remaining oil.

Add carrots, bell peppers, tomatoes, enoki mushrooms and fresh chilly (strips).

He wanted to add pineapples and cucumbers 

but we did not have them at the time of cooking.

Mix a bowl of water with arrowroot powder, 

shoyu, ketchup, lime juice, sugar and brown rice vinegar.

Pour mixture in the pan. Stir contents to mix.

Add strips of spring onions. Pour gravy over the fish.

3. Tempeh

Stir-fry tempeh in sesame seed oil.

Add water. Add dark soya sauce.

A simple side dish high in protein.

The sweet and sour sauce was perfect, 

and the fish was delicious and crunchy on the sides. :D

I had a shake of The Green Drink in the morning,

a club of sandwich for lunch 

and the above for dinner.

To Sum Up

1 shake & 2 meals

Juice. Fruit. Hemoberry. Water.

Time of Posting : 9:08 am (Wed)

Day 54 ... Spicy Egg Noodles With Wakame

SPICY EGG NOODLES WITH WAKAME

This evening, Justine and I had egg noodles for dinner. 

We were both still quite full with the leftover dinner that we had for lunch - yam rice with creamy peanut chicken. Bryan would only be back by 10pm tonight. So made a light meal, instant noodles style.

Ingredients that I had in my kitchen cabinet and fridge include a portion of noodle, carrots, enoki mushrooms, cabbage, wakame seaweed and egg. Made a simple soup base with a quarter of a cube of no-msg chicken stock, dried chilly oil and green chilly sambal (that I bought from our favourite pan mee shop), pepper, a dash of organic shoyu and sesame seed oil. 

Served with a sprig of coriander leaves and beancurd sticks.

Was extremely spicy. Over-did it a little with the chilly sauce. Justine was literally panting away. :D 

Today, I had The Green Drink for breakfast, yam rice with peanut chicken for lunch and egg noodles for dinner. Oh by the way, I'm not sure if I've mentioned that I've added one scoop of BIOSOY into my shake. I think it's been 2 weeks now.

To Sum Up

1 shake & 2 meals

Juice. Fruit. Hemoberry. Water.

Time of Posting : 7:45 am (Wed)

Day 53 ... Chicken in Creamy Peanut Sauce

CHICKEN IN CREAMY PEANUT SAUCE

This evening, I decided to make a chicken dish.

I was at Starbucks with Justine in the afternoon. Sms-ed Carol and she said she had no dinner plans. So she would drop by and we'll cook dinner again tonight. This is a very simple dish. We had it with yam rice, courtesy of our mother.

1. Chicken Dish

Saute onions and garlic in sesame seed oil.

Add chicken fillet (cut into bite size). Stir fry.

Add shitake mushrooms (without the stems) and carrots.

Add fresh milk, peanut butter, non-msg chicken stock.

Simmer until chicken pieces are cooked.

Add bell peppers, spring onion (strips) and chilly (strips).

Toss well and transfer to serving dish.

2. Yam Rice

Carol says, fry onions, yam (cut into bite size), 

strips of carrots and rice grains. 

Add shoyu and seasalt. 

Steam to cook.

3. Garnish & Serve

Whatever we cook is going to be just great, says Dr Carol.

Justine was lured into the kitchen by the aroma.

Add in the bell peppers, chilly strips and spring onions 

just before transfering the contents to a serving dish.

The healthy peanut butter that we used, without the peanuts, 

but no compromise on the taste.

Sprinkle a pinch of black sesame seeds for contrast.

My Dinner this evening. 

The yam rice tasted great and the chicken was tasty 

with the creamy peanut sauce and crunchy vegetables.

LUNCH

We had lunch at Chatterbox, Bangsar Village 2. 

Justine had the cheese baked rice with pork chop in Italian red sauce.
What a mouthful ... the name.

I had the Chatterbox Soup Noodles.

In short, instant noddles.