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Baked Tomyam Pomfret with Okra (Lady’s Fingers)

03 Aug 2010 No Comments

by wenain fish, seafood, tomyam, vegetable

Granny gave me her pomfret to baked and I thought I might as well try to finish up all the organic okra (lady’s fingers) that I bought last week. If I didn’t, the okra would have started turning black and in fact, it was starting to have a lot of black spots.

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Unintentional Beef Stew (sort of)

31 Jul 2010 No Comments

by wenain beef, stew, vegetable

Trust me when I say that I didn’t intentionally started out to make beef stew thingimajig but it literally ended up tasting like beef stew because of the carrots and the corn. In fact, it turned out better after it had cooled down a bit and the miso seasoning had tapered off a bit. Well, it was attractive enough for one of my uncles to be tempted into eating it. If he had tasted it, he may have had second thoughts because even though it looked like beef stew, there was an interesting asian taste from it from the miso paste. But! With the carrots and sweet corn, it helped to sweeten the entire meal that one doesn’t need to add sugar in.

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Teasing the Reading Monk with Seafood Marinara

28 Jul 2010 2 Comments

by wenain Italian, Seafood, health, vegetable

I have a friend that is salivating with the pictures that I put up here. The Reading Monk seems to love the food pictures that I put up so here’s another 2 pictures to add to the pool.

Because I haven’t had seafood marinara in a long time and there were some leftover squid from the last dish I did, I thought I might as well make it. The last few days were spicy or oriental flavoured so why not a bit of Italian? Although I sort of regretted not taking the trouble to go out into Granny’s garden at night to grab some fresh basil. It would have made a difference so instead, I piled up the dish with McComick’s Salt Free All-Purpose Seasoning. I also found that butter goes wonderfully when cooking with prawns and squid. The aroma of the stir fry is so delicious that you could taste the grilled buttered prawns i.e. I browned some of the prawns a bit.

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Quickie Korean Pork with Gochujang

27 Jul 2010 No Comments

by wenain Korean, pork, vegetable

Because I’ve been hackering for some Korean food lately, I went to the nearby Korean grocery shop to buy the Gochujang chilli paste. I didn’t add in all the typical ingredients other than adding in a tablespoon of the chilli paste, some strips of ginger and garlic into some slices of pork. Wanted a quick and easy stir fry that didn’t take too long to do.

It’s a pretty simple dish and I had accompanied it with stir-fry spinach. I’m not sure how to call this spinach since it’s one of those that are long and thin but supposedly good for people with high blood pressure, according to Granny.

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Novelty Flower Salad

02 Aug 2009 No Comments

by wenain Uncategorized, bento, bento box, health, heart, low salt, low sodium, lunchbox, nutritional medicine, salad, vegetable Tags: bento, health, low sodium, salad

I saw some edible flowers in a pack at Cold Storage, Green Heights Mall, Kuching, Sarawak. So bought a pack and made a salad. This is what’s inside that salad. Certainly tasted better than what I had expected although hopefully the flowers are ok to be eaten. These flowers are grown in Genting and surprisingly, came out tasting really well. The only flowers that I recognized were pansies and chrysanthemums. The problem with flowers in salad is that they should be added in last as the petals started peeling off after mixing. Found that out the hard way.

-celery
-carrot
-tomato
-pickled pear/mango? Not sure. Stole it from my Uncle’s stash in the fridge
-edible flowers that included pansies, posies and chrysanthemum
-Dill
-Lemon juice
-Pepper
-Nutmeg powder (seems to make a lot of difference)
-Raisins

: : Bento ~ Playing around with new toys : :

26 Jun 2009 No Comments

by wenain bento, bento box, decoration, food, health, japanese, low sodium, vegetable Tags: bento, health, japanese, low sodium

I had new cutters.

The faces were cut using the red cutter in the picture above (left). Bought them from Bentomarket.com. And yes, it’s just as expensive in Japan or US as the pricetag you see there.

One thing I realised about using those cutters is that sometimes the vegetables will crack a bit. The cooked carrots actually did crack a bit although I think it was probably due to it being too thick a slice. Need to cut it smaller. Those smilie faces will go a long way in decorating salads though. Hee hee hee!