chinese chive and shrimps fritters 香脆韭菜炸虾饼

This is an old time snack, sell by an old lady when I was young. Love it, never thought I will make this. I brought back some chinese chive from my mom house. She grew it in a big square pot, grew very well & big.

pasta - tubetti lisci with broccoli & brie 西兰花法国布里白乳酪意大利面

This pasta dish will become our family favourites, it was delicious, fragrant and creamy! I still play in my mind while I writing this post. Hahaha...

beef sausage pizza 牛肉香肠比萨

 

We always make pizza as our dinner. Because it is so easy and can decorate as our wish. Also I still have a pack of mozzarella in my fridge, so it is time to make pizza again!

easy roasted chicken 烤鸡

One pot dish, I throw all the ingredients in a roasting pan and wait for 45 minutes to get this yummy dinner prepared. I only use half of the chicken and a few potatoes and an onion for this simple and easy dinner. Economical and minimal cleaning! Haha... love it!

sausage, mushroom & ham pizza 披萨

Rustic pizza for this time, I use the same pizza dough which I throw in the freezer last week.  Today is mother's day! Wish every mothers HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!

steamed giant bao/buns 大肉包

I seldom buy giant bao in my life, the main reason was I don't have a big stomach for it. My choice was always choose for char siew bao or vegetables baos. This is just my first attempt to make this giant bao, really hope that it will be success.

homemade sushi 自制寿司

This is the first time I try to make sushi from scratch, not easy yet not difficult. I cooked the sushi rice then add in the vinegar mixture, stirring, rolling, cutting & having fun!

yuen bao dumplings 元宝饺子

Today is rainy day, I make some pot sticker for our lunch to warm up our stomach. The filling is pork and cabbage, with anchovies - "ikan bilis" broth as soup.

homemade double cheese beef burger 双芝士牛肉汉堡

Yummy burger made from scratch! Filled with beef patties, fried egg, lettuce and mayo!

stir-fried bitter gourd with black beans 豆鼓炒苦瓜

Another bitter gourd dish in our list - stir-fried bitter gourd with black bean paste. It is a vegetarian dish, very simple and nice to eat. I also use our organic home grown bitter gourd to cook this dish.

stuffed bitter gourd 釀苦瓜

This is another way to cook bitter gourd - stuffed bitter gourd with pork & fish paste, serve with fermented soy bean paste as dipping sauce. Eat more bitter gourd is good for our body as bitter gourd can cool down our body especially when we ate a lot of fried food.

pickled olive with vegetables 橄榄菜炒蔬菜

This is a colourful dish also very delicious to serve with rice. Chinese describe it as 下饭菜 means you can eat few bowls of rice with this single dish. It was easy, just chop all the ingredients and stir-fry with this "pickle olive".

bitter gourd fried egg 苦瓜炒蛋

My bitter gourd fried egg is golden and yellow, looks yummy and also not bitter as usual. Just because I use our own grown bitter gourd at the backyard garden. When I cook bitter gourd, I will plant the seeds in our back yard. 

stir-fried Di Huang Miao / Emperor Vegetables 清炒帝王苗

This is a super simple stir-fried vegetables, simply fried with garlic. It is one of our home grow vegetables in our small backyard garden. This plant call Basella alba or Malabar Spinach.

Water spinach a.k.a. kangkung 蕹菜

Home grown water spinach.
Picked of the day... June 2016. Going to make garlic shallot stir-fried water spinach

Guess what I'm cooking... very delicious 猜猜看是什么？ 非常开胃的一道菜。。。

Look delicious, is sweet and sour chicken cubes???!!! Very colourful dishes, my family love it.

bitter gourd 苦瓜1

Another plant which grows on the seeds that we throw away and gives us few bitter gourd (10+) with no pesticides.

stir-fried holland pea with garlic & love 爱心荷兰豌豆炒蒜蓉

This is a very simple stir-fry vegetables, main ingredients vegetables, garlic, salt and oyster sauce. Specially cut this heart shape carrot for my love. I told him that who ever eat this heart shape carrot will get all my love to him!! Haha... that's my little boy! He really eat all the carrot & he loves it!

vegetables chicken soup 蔬菜鸡汤

This vegetables soup was the easiest soup ever. "Recycle" the water that I use to soaked the chicken at Hainan chicken rice 海南鸡饭.

white radish meat balls 白萝卜小丸子

I never knew that white radish can be make into delicious and crispy white radish meat balls, thanks to the internet. I visited a chinese webpage, forgot which one, but I try out the combination of white radish, meat & others ingredients and created this yummy fried meat balls.

I make this thai style sweet & sour chili sauce for the dipping! The combination was so match and tasty! I think this dish can be our favourites house dish in the future. Simple ingredients, just combine all ingredients and fry!