Category: My Kitchen

This might come in handy since CNY is coming soon. You can try it at your own risk, I was experimenting with this last week. There’s no egg needed for this recipe.

A
150gm castor sugar (Reduce the sugar to 80-100gm if you don’t want it to be too sweet)
250gm butter

B
300gm plain flour
1 cup cornflakes finely grounded
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
1/2 teaspoon black pepper/white pepper (optional, if you like stronger pepper taste, increase it to 1 teaspoon or replace with curry powder or chili powder)

C
5 slices cheddar cheese tear into small pieces or 1/2 cup finely grated cheddar cheese. Better to use grated cheddar cheese.

1. Cream ingredients A.
2. Mix ingredients B.
3. Fold in mixture B into A and add in ingredient C until become soft dough.
4. Shape it with cookie cutter or based on your creativity.
5. Preheat oven.
6. Bake at 160 Degree Celsius for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Due to lighting, it looks quite pale in the photo.

Those who know me know that I have difficulty following a recipe, I tend to modify it. This recipe is actually inspired by Cheddar Cheese Cookies and Cornflakes Cookies.

The end result, I should reduce the sugar or totally discard the sugar and make Cheddar Cheese Cookies without the milk. I would prefer to have stronger cheese, salt, and pepper taste but the sugar overpowered everything. It tasted more like butter biscuits.

Few weeks back, my parents made a last minute trip to Singapore leaving my bro and I at home. Happened that during the weekend, they bought many types of mushroom, a cabbage(don’t like it), and had some leftovers. We two had to finish up the food of 4 persons before all gone bad. Worst, most of the time, I ate alone because my bro didn’t come home for lunch.

Didn’t plan to go out to buy other vegetables because I had to clear the stock in the fridge and we had mushrooms for few days -.-” Cooked all the simple meals only.

Left: Abalone mushroom with garlic.

Right: Fried rice with 5-spice minced meat(the one in the tin, leftover also…) and cabbage.

Left: Tom Yam mushroom soup. There’s 2 types of mushroom in there. So much that we couldn’t finish.

Right: Leftover soup, added with broccoli the next day.

Left: Stir fried cabbage. I tried to look for some interesting cabbage recipe with the ingredients available at home to cook but guess what?!? Cabbage is such a boring vegetables! All the recipes I found were similar, nothing much. In fact, I don’t like cabbage too. Now I understand why I don’t like cabbage ;p they are boring!!

Right: Egg tofu.

On the last day, almost cleared everything, we went out to eat! ;p

So… This post about me cooking will temporary end here for the time being until… Hmm… We’ll see…

Left: French beans stir fried with garlic.

Right: Honey chicken, the honey sauce is actually from packet, premix sauce ;p. I also included deep fried wanton in it since the wonton was tasteless, I didn’t season the meat in there hahaha… Failure ;p Not exactly what I expected the taste should be.

Left: Pizza, lots of cheese and other toppings(mushrooms, beef, pineapple cubes, and yellow capsicum).

right: Chicken and egg corn soup. Just dumped everything in, soup base was just chicken stock.

Left: Siao bai chai with oyster sauce, my bro cooked this, I just supervised. Was overcooked.

Right: Beef balls with pineapple stir fried with Korean honey ginger tea(it’s actually jam like texture, available in a jar which can be used for marinating and also just mixing it with water to drink).

Left: Baked Spaghetti.

Right: My brother experimenting with this, I’m not sure of the name of the vegetable. He cooked it with curry ;p Was tasteless, too little curry powder.

Left: Trying to get rid of the wonton skin. I pan fried the wonton. The filling was chicken meat and then poured Prego Marinara Sauce and sprinkled with cheese ;p Weird combination hahaha…

Right: The leftover wonton skin, this time it’s just wonton skin. Made tomyam wonton soup, threw in various types of balls(don’t remember the other 2 types, only remember there’s beef balls) we bought and plain wonton skin.

Basically that’s my culinary adventure for the passed 16 or 17 days, sometimes we went out to eat, too lazy to cook and clean ;p

Quite a number of the dishes were experiments(obviously). Most of the time, we’re trying to get rid of whatever left in the fridge before stocking up new batch of ingredients, there were only two of us some more. So just made do with whatever we found.

People that know me knows that I don’t really cook, especially for one complete meal. These days, I have to cook, what to do? I have to clear the fridge and also eating out or tapao everyday is not something that I fancy doing.

Since last Thursday, I’ve been stir frying some vegetables that were left in the fridge, I didn’t take those photos. Just simple stir fried of various green leafy vegetables with garlic and seasoned with some salt and Ajinamoto. As for meat, I just microwaved the pre-marinated chicken that we bought. That one packet of chicken lasted us 3 days.

These were our dinner last Sunday night. Fruits and vegetables salad and spaghetti bolognaise. My bro cooked it actually, I supervised ;p

Left: Monday night, we had tomyam beef wanton soup. I wrapped the wonton with minced beef. Very simple and easy, boil the pot of water, put in tomyam cube, then put in the wanton and mushroom. Lastly, the tomato slices. We experimented this dish, first time had beef wonton, it tasted a bit odd with tomyam soup *LOL*

Right: Tuesday night, stir fried vegetables again. Basically all my garlic stir fried vegetables all look similar to this ;p

Left: Tuesday night, black pepper spaghetti. I tried this dish before somewhere few years back but wasn’t very nice. So I decided to cook my own to see whether I could beat that or not. It was not bad, albeit a bit dry because I didn’t have enough cooking oil. It was quite spicy but tasted so much better than the one I had last time. This is very easy and simple to cook too.

Prepare your spaghetti, heat a little bit of oil in the frying pan, then fried the spaghetti just like you fried noodle. Pour black pepper sauce(up to you on how much you want, the more the spicier) and stir fried it for awhile. Season with a bit of salt and Ajinamoto. As simple as that.

Right: Tuesday night also, microwaved some chicken wings, marinated it with premix sauce. It looked nice don’t you think? However, it was tasteless and overcooked ;p I set the timer a bit too long. Actually the premix sauce was not supposed to be used as marinate, again… Experimenting hehehe…

Left: Today’s lunch, white rice and stir fried sweet peas and yellow capsicum with Chinese sausage in black pepper sauce. Only a bit of black pepper sauce to taste, that explains the slight brownish colour of the dish and I was surprised with how good it tasted 😉

Right: Today’s dinner, light soy sauce fried rice with Chinese sausage, french beans, pineapple, and mushroom. I got no skill hehehe… It’s kind of tasteless, luckily the Chinese sausage gave the rice the taste when you chew them together. Did season with salt, pepper, and Ajinamoto but not enough ;p

That’s all for now. Oneweek plus to go…

P/S: Don’t ask me for measurement, I just followed my instincts.

We don’t really collect or purposely collect cookbooks. Just happened that we have a collection of them by getting them as free gifts and old subscription of monthly cookbooks that my mom used to subscribe more than 20 years ago but we seldom try out the recipes ;p. Usually just see, see, look, look, and drool over it.

This is the latest collection to our collection, Oo… Ha! Favourites of Sarawak by Vincs Huang (bilingual edition).

I got this from joining a contest conducted by Borneoboy by submitting my experience queuing for donuts ;p

You can find many Sarawak signature food in there from some communities in Sarawak but it’s a bit disappointing that there’s no Sarawak Laksa or Kueh Chap or Cha Kueh recipe in there. The recipes featured in there are all from popular eateries in Kuching. Just to name a few, Lok Thian, Chia Heng, and It-Hng.

Besides recipes, there are also articles in there introducing food and places of interest of Sarawak.

My mum does cook most of the recipes in there and those that she doesn’t know how or require a lot of preparations, we would just buy. Makes life easier hahaha…

Nevertheless, it’s one interesting cookbook for our collection as we don’t have any that is dedicated to Sarawak.

Thanks Borneoboy for organizing the contest. 🙂