DiSH 194 : FISH PAELLA

 FISH PAELLA

ASH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9


Bryan prepared dinner this evening.


Justine was knocked out after a whole day at the driving test camp (she passed, by the way!) and I was with Hayley at Starbucks, Bangsar till late in the evening. :D

 Ingredients for Stock.

onion, garlic, ginger, tomatoes, dried chillies, 
cinnamon stick and herbs (rosemary and thyme).

 1. Prepare Stock.

Saute onion, garlic and ginger in olive oil.

Add herbs, dried bay leaves and cinnamon stick.

Add tomatoes and dried chillies.
Add a table spoon (heaped) of tomato paste.

Add seasalt to taste.

Add 3 small cups of filtered water.

(for 3 cups of rice grains)

Half - close lid and boil at medium flame.

 When the broth is done, strain and leave aside for the rice.

 Ozonize the Fish Fillet to remove chemicals and bacteria.

 See the yucky rubbery substance that emerges ...

 Ozonize the Vegetables to remove pesticides ...

I was surprised to notice that the bell peppers were still fresh and crisp. I had bought them more than a week ago, and had ozonized them before using a portion, and keeping the other portion. 

The vegetables do last longer after ozonizing.
 

 The ingredients for the rice.

2. Prepare the Fish.

Season fish pieces with dark shoyu, seasalt, 

pepper and arrowroot powder.

To Fry : Saute onions and garlic. 

Add shitake mushroom stalks (sliced).

Add a bit of water of dry. 

Add fish pieces.  Add seasalt. Add shoyu.

Fry till done. Leave aside.

3. Prepare the Rice.

Using the same frying pan, add the 1st cup of the stock. 

Flame is on medium heat.

Add the rice grains. Add tomatoes. 

Keep turning the spatula around so the rice won't stick. 

Add the 2nd cup of stock. Arrange mushroom slices.

Allow to cook for a few minutes.

Scatter the fried fish over the top. 

Decorate with bell peppers and lemon slices.

Add the 3rd cup of stock to nicely cover the contents.

Close lid and allow the rice to slowly cook 

for about 15 minutes or so. 

Remove lid and continue to cook until

liquid evaporates and rice is done.

Garnish as desired. 

Serve straight from the pan. :D

Oooohhh ... Yummy - delicious!

The rice is extremely flavorful and 

the fish is fresh and tasty to the bite.

BON APPETITE!!!

My morning shake ...

Keeping the insides green ...

DiSH 193 : MUSHROOM RICE with DORY FISH

MUSHROOM RICE with DORY FISH

PRESSURE COOKER

Tuesday, March 8

Justine is helping me in the kitchen this evening. It's been a while since we last photographed our cooking session. My camera was on a vacation. :D

We are gonna use the pressure cooker to prepare a simple dinner with mushrooms and fish... and stir-fry a vegetable dish. Let me check what vegetables we have in the fridge. 


(allow some time for checking)


Ahh ... what have we here???

Cabbage. :D

 1a. Ozonize the Fish.

Dump in the other accompanying ingredients as well:

onion, garlic, ginger, dried cillies.

 See the eeeeecky stuff that emerge?

That's not foam, mind you.

It's a rubber-y subtance that was about to be 

deposited in our bodies.Yikes!

Ib. Ozonize the Vegetables.

Cabbage, carrot, tomato, shitake mushrooms, 

coriander leaves.

 Oooh, the fish smells clean and fresh after 

a uhh, bubble bath ... :D

 2. Saute Ingredients.

Saute onions, garlic and ginger in dark sesame seed oil.

Add cumin. Add dried chilles.

Fry Fry Fry.

By the way, Justine is frying while I toss the ingredients in. :D

 Add pre-washed rice grains. 

Add half a cube of NO-MSG mushroom stock.

Add a circle-dash shoyu. Add a shake of pepper.

Fry Fry Fry ... on low flame.

 Add mushroom. Add water.

Close lid of Pressure Cooker. Turn the flame up.

  Let it hissssss for a minute, before turning off the flame 

and allowing it to transform the contents in the pot.

The Pressure Cooker is a magic pot, you know ...

 3. Prepare the Fish.

Season with lemon juice.

I didn't add salt here. Trying to cut down ... you know, 

be healthy and all ... I think just for today ... :D

 Saute onions, garlic and ginger with dark sesame seed oil.

Add the fish pieces in. Add chopped coriander leaves.

Fry fry Fry.

 Add dark shoyu. Add light shoyu. Add a bit of water.

I ran out of brown rice vinegar so, I added some 

Lingam's Chilly Sauce for a bit of kick.

 Fry Fry Fry ... until done.

Transfer to a bowl and leave aside.

 I didn't wash the pan after frying the fish. 

Heat up sesame seed oil.

Saute onions and garlic. 

Add a pinch of tumeric powder. 

Add cabbage and carrots.

Add seasalt. Add a small cup of water.

Simmer until done.

 Yayyy ... The rice is ready!

Sorry about the photo. The flash wasn't on.

Bryan said he could smell the fragrant 

rice all the way from the lift of our condo.

That's about 20 steps away. 

Told You the PC is magical ... :D

Add the fish in and fluff up the contents. 

Hmmm - Mmmm ...

 The rice is absolutely delicious and tasty. :D

Bon Appetite !!!

The mushrooms tasted a bit bland. Next time, I would stir-fry the mushrooms 
with the fish, and add them on when the rice is ready. :D

  

This morning, as always, I had my Green Drink ...

A LITTLE SHARING - MARCH 2011

DiSH 192 : SAMBAL PETAI with IKAN BILIS

Sambal Petai with Ikan Bilis

1. Ozonize the vegetables

to get rid of any contamination by bacteria, fungus, mold and  the artificial stuff like pesticides. Just 10 minutes with the Ozonizer and you get pesticide-free vegetables! 

The "bubbling" by the machine also helps to dislodge dirt as you will see at the bottom of the bowl after the treatment. :D

2. Prepare the Ingredients.

Petai, of course! All nicely split into two to ensure there are no "extra" proteins - worms! Yikes!

Lots of chillis, shallots, garlic, ginger and lime.

2a. Blend ...

Blend the chillis, ginger, shallots (leave half of the shallots for sauteing) together and squeeze in the lime juice.

2b. Fry Petai & Ikan Bilis. 

Lightly fry the petai in sesame seed oil. Add a pinch of salt to sear in the natural flavors. When you think it's ready, fry just a little bit more. :D (An alternative is to dry-fry without oil and without salt)

Transfer to a plate and leave aside. 

Next, fry the ikan bilis in the same oil. Season with thick soy sauce and a little brown sugar to make the ikan bilis "crunchy." Leave aside.

3. Saute the blended ingredients.

Saute shallots and add the blended ingredients to a sizzle. Simmer on low fire until the oil surfaces and is reduced to a light paste consistency, occasionally stirring the contents in the pan. 

Add in the petai and ikan bilis ... and it's done! 

Crunchy, hot, sweet, sour ... and yummy-nice! 

An explosion of flavours in your mouth!

Garnish with a slice of lime and 

a sprig of coriander leaves. 

Serve immediately with steamed rice. 

Bon Appetite! :D

DiSH 191 : CURRY CHICKEN

 CURRY CHICKEN 

with POTATOES and YOGURT

Saturday, January 1, 2011


We made this curry chicken dish and lotus root soup, along with sambal petai (DiSH 192) on New Year's Day. :D 

Our apologies for the delay in posting the entries. 

1. Ozonize the chicken to make it squeaky clean.

We are using Brand A-1 curry paste (cheating, we know...) 

So, spices are not required as they are already in the paste.

2. Fry the shallots.  

Fry the A-1 paste. Add some water, if too dry. 

3. Add On.

Add chicken. Add potatoes and everything else. 

Add half a carton of fresh milk. Close lid.

Allow the Pressure Cooker to do the magic. 

In about 20 minutes, the chicken would be juicy 

and tender and the potatoes, perfectly cooked.

Add a small tub of yogurt for that irresistable sour-y taste.

Simmer for a minute or two. Serve immediately!

Garnish with whatever you have in the fridge. 

BoN aPPeTiTe! :D

Cut the lotus roots thinly. Ozonize them to get rid 

of pesticides and other nasty stuff. 

An ozonated lotus is a healthier lotus! 

That's for sure! :D

Lotus Root Soup

Fill the Pressure Cooker with filtered water. 

Add the lotus roots, goji seeds, sweet plums, dry cuttle fish, 

dry dates. Add a dash of organic soy sauce and salt to taste.

By the way, we have two Pressure Cookers. :D

DiSH 190 : HAiNANESE CHiCKEN RiCE

HAiNANESE CHiCKEN RiCE

Wednesday, February 2, 2011


Today is Chinese New Year Eve. 

Bryan's mother and Aunty Hayley are coming over for lunch. 

Bryan made his famous chicken rice upon my insistence. He's following his mother's recipe ... as much as he can remember. 

The amount of ingredients is pretty much agak-agak (approximate). 

Follow the recipe in DiSH 188.  

Pretty much the same except that we added pandan leaves for the rice here.

First, ozonize the chicken ... very important!

Fry the rice grains in chicken stock till fragrant. 

Add ginger and pandan leaves.

Place the chicken on a rack in the Pressure Cooker 

over the rice. Easy peasy. Killing two birds with one stone!

Special oyster sauce, ginger paste, thick soya sauce 

and special chilly sauce ... Hmm, heaven on earth!

Perfectly cooked chicken ...

Moist, smooth and succulent ...

The Pressure Cooker never fails to amaze us!

All the delicious and natural chicken juice is now 

flavoured in the rice. The rice is extra fragrant 

because of the pandan leaf. Hmmmmmmm ...

The rice is fluffy and super delicious! 

So good you can even eat it on its own! :D

For the mushroom dish, ozonize the mushrooms first ... 

Very important to remove hidden toxins and pesticides

Braised Shitake Mushrooms

Short-cut way using Pressure Cooker. Only 20 mins ...

Ingredients include shitake mushrooms, fish maw, star anise, cinnamon stick, oyster sauce, shoyu and seasalt. When the mushrooms are ready (the red button on the Pressure Cooker will indicate that the contents are cooked), add the carrots, green beans and broccoli. 

Close lid and allow the vegetables to cook naturally 
(without flame).

A Perfect Combination! :D

This is my plate, by the way. :D

Hayley, Justine and Diana.

See the happy faces? :D

Bon Appetite!