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.

Day 52 ... Tamarind Prawns

TAMARIND PRAWNS (ASSAM PRAWNS)

Carol and I attended the Sunset Mass this evening at 5pm. 

We stayed back for the Novena. Left church at 6:30pm. During Mass, Carol had whispered, let's cook dinner tonight. I had told her that Bryan and Justine were not around, so we could eat out after church. To be honest, I kinda lost my momentum to cook at home since the Penang trip, and also, the night before (Friday), I had broken the chain of cooking dinner at home since Day 1 of blogging about dinner. So when she suggested cooking at home, I somehow did not "drift further away" but instead felt like being pulled back to shore. 

The cook-dinner-at-home shore. :D

Told her okay, we'll do something easy, since it's just the both of us. How about assam prawns? I have some tamarind paste (assam jawa) in the fridge. We only need to get some prawns. She said, yeah okay. So came back to Taman Desa, dropped by Sri Kota, to get some prawns. They looked pretty fresh, to my inexperienced eyes. Picked up 20 tiger prawns, will tapau some for our mother too.

Am glad we decided to prepare assam prawns. 

It's really easy although the dish did not quite turned out the way we expected it too. Our mother used to prepare the nyonya kind one, where the prawn is coated with the assam, and fried, with no gravy. I wanted to do that, but the prawns started sticking to the saucepan, and I had no choice but to throw in water. Which resulted in an assam-gravy kind of prawn dish, which surprisingly went very well with the rice, along with the vegetables that Carol cooked. We both ate with our fingers, while watching DVD Two And A Half Men. Food somehow tastes better when we eat with our hands.

1. Tamarind Prawns

Clean the prawns and de-vein them. Leave shell on.

Saute a generous amount of garlic and onions.

Add some tamarind paste straight from the packet. 

Add the prawns. Sprinkle brown sugar over.

Stir-fry. Add water.

Was ready in less than 10 minutes.

2. Stir-fried Cabbage with Tempeh

Carol cooked this dish. 

Saute garlic and onions.

Add the cabbage and carrots.

Add shoyu. Add water.

Transfer to serving bowl.

Stir-fry tempeh in the same pan.

Add dark soya sauce. A bit of water.

Toss to coat.

Transfer to the vegetable bowl 

and toss to mix.

3. Garnish & Serve

We sprinkled some chopped spring onions  over the assam prawns

and pulled a sprig of coriander leaves to decorate the vegetables.

And now we add the cabbage and the carrots ...

Kish was in the kitchen when we first started, and I almost stepped on her. Then, she went to lay by the fridge. I had to kacau her to get the cabbage out. So finally she went outside to the dining area and relaxed there while Carol and I were in the kitchen. She had already taken her dinner. Carol boiled some fish for her just before they came over. Yeah, Kish loves fish. Sometimes, she thinks she's a cat. :D She's a pretty girl but highly sensitive. She has feelings like a real gurl, believe it or not. A neighbour had commented that she looks like she has eye liner on.

Stir-fried cabbage with tempeh

Carol's plate. We had our dinner with white rice today.

This is my plate. Looks like we were competing to see who can pile up more.

Absolutely tantalising and finger lickin' delicious.

Remarked to Carol, "Look at the two of us, eat until like this - donno celebrating what ..."

Then a good reason sprang to mind, 

"Ahh, we're celeberating Daniel's 7th month with God." :D

She was like, "Yeah, yeah, we're celebrating that."

We had mangoes for dessert.

LUNCH

 

Justine with her pan mee and honey lemon iced drink 

at a newly opened makan shop in our area.

Our verdict after lunch : 

The sambal sauces cannot beat JoJo's @ Kuchai Entrepreneur's Park.

Day 51 ...

Day 50 ... Oven-Baked Chicken Casserole with Pasta

OVEN-BAKED CHICKEN CASSEROLE WITH PASTA

I prepared a casserole for dinner tonight.

Could have had that with rice except that I know Justine prefers pasta to rice. Normally, our daughter doesn't like to take her carrots, but cooked this way, she sapu everything. Finished up everything that was on her plate. This is a simple one meal dish prepared in the oven. Serve with a side salad, if desired.

1. Half-boil the pasta noodles

Found some spaghetti pasta in the food cabinet, so I used that. 

Could have used those spiral pasta for this dish, 

easier to scoop out when ready, but forgot to replenish.

2. Prepare in Saucepan

Saute onions and garlic in olive oil. 

Add and sear the chicken thighs. 

Add potatoes, carrots and tomatoes. 

Basil herbs, seasalt and pepper. 

I have a Bisto gravy mix in the fridge. So I used that for the gravy. 

Mixed 2 tablespoons with a coffee mug of water and poured over the ingredients in the pan. 

The consistency will quickly thicken.

3. In the Oven

Transfer the pasta into oven dish. Pour the contents of the saucepan over. 

Place the cover on to retain moisture or use tin foil. 

Bake at 180 degrees Celcius for about 45 minutes. Check the dish.

Add some cheese on top and pop back into the oven, 

without the cover, to brown the contents a little more.

Garnish with coriander leaves and lemon slices. 

We didn't bother with the side salad.

That's Dinner! :D

LUNCH IN AMPANG

Eric took us to this famous chicken rice restaurant in Ampang for lunch.

We ordered half a chicken, tofu and tauge. Told him if he likes chicken rice, 

have to try Bryan's Hainanese chicken rice. 

 

It wouldn't be chicken rice without the chilly sauce ...

Close up ...

PRE-LUNCH SNACK

Before we went for lunch, Cathy served us with these MUST-TRY mini tarts. She had just bought them from a nearby pastry shop and they were still warm. Just melted in the mouth, literally. The top left is egg tart, beside it on the right, kaya puff. Can't remember the bottom ones. They come in mini sizes. Very tasty. Wonder if they do curry puffs too. She had a guest in her home, so she didn't join us for lunch. Invited her for a cooking session. We'll be making assam laksa at my place very soon. Stay tuned for that. :D

Meet Shaggy, the friendly and highly energetic "shih-tzu and poodle" mixed breed.

Bryan snapped 4 photos, and all 4 were kinda blur, 

because Shaggy was just so exciteable and couldn't sit still.

I had one shake of The Green Drink this morning, 

kueh for brunch, Ampang's chicken rice for lunch

and the casserole pasta for dinner.

To Sum Up

1 shake, 1 snack & 2 meals

Juice. Fruit. Water

Time of Posting : 10:28am (Friday)

Day 49 ... Pan Fried Garoupa with Tumeric

PAN FRIED GAROUPA WITH TUMERIC

Tonight, Bryan fried some fish with tumeric.

We both had that with crock pot porridge and beancurd sticks (courtesy of Grace from Penang). Justine and Carol had the briyani lamb and tandoori chicken that we tapau-ed for home the day before. There's just something about fish being fried with tumeric. The aroma in the kitchen was just heavenly. Bryan also fried some onions and ginger sticks at the same time. The fish was marinated with seasalt and pepper. That's all. Was very tasty and went well with our porridge.

My dinner. See the long strips - those are the bean curd sticks that Grace's mum fried. We have a large nescafe bottle of those crunchy strips. Had my porridge with a dollop of marmite and a drizzle of flax seed oil. Sprinkled some sunflower seeds and spring onions on top as well. Bryan says, why do You have to make a simple porridge so complicated? Grin. 

Justine with her briyani. Second round. 

Lunch and dinner was Kapitan's Briyani from Penang.

Carol came over after work, after shower, 

all relaxed in her home outfit to enjoy her briyani.

Tandoori chicken and lamb on yellow briyani rice.

Finger lickin' good. :D

Kish was waiting for her bone ... which never came. I didn't want her to mess the carpet.

Forgot to save some for her to take in her bowl, threw into the garbage food bin.

She went home with Carol, quite mad with me.

Had pomeloes from Tapah rest area for dessert.

Had my one shaker of The Green Drink for breakfast, 

naan bread with some potato curry for lunch 

and fish porridge for dinner.

To Sum Up

1 shake & 2 meals

Juice. Fruit. Water.

Time of Posting : 9:21am (Friday)