Posts Tagged Chinese
Cold Noodles with Tuna
Posted by blurcheryl in 30 minute Quickmeal, Asian, Healthy, Noodle, Pasta, Vegetable on July 7, 2011
Hubby ask me what’s for dinner a million time on the way back from work and I replied him bluntly that he should just have cornflakes with cold milk. He of course not happy with my reply but sometimes I prefer to skip cooking dinner so I have to pretend I am in bad mood to get my ways. When we got home and as I reach for the fridge for milk, * SCREAMS* No cold MILK!! Damn Damn Damn.
Hubby of course didn’t know what’s going on so I told him I am such a good wife, eventhough I am moody I will still cook him a nice meal. I have to think of something to cook randomly.
Aiyooooh.. Weather is so hot! What to eat? Porridge make me sweat more. Soup make me sweat too. Spagetti ah? Everyday also spagetti. Have to weigh my options based on weather this time. Hubby said I always on the aircond in the living room and the electricity bill skyrocketed. Cannot blame me what? Its the weather! I am forbidden to open wide the sliding door at the balcony or else all the freaking hateful bloodsucking mosquito would come in and attack the mosquito magnet. (mosquito magnet here refers to my hubby).
Check my fridge and here’s what I have
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A pack of zuchinni bought from Cold Storage for RM5.99
Check the can food section
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Still got Tuna in chilli oil
I still have lots of varieties of noodle left. I always stock up on noodles and if something happen during the Bersih 2.0 I think my supplies can last me for 2 weeks at least. heheheheh
I have to reduce my noodles stock anyway, I decided to make cold noodles. I am not a fan of cold noodles and I hardly order any cold soba when I dine at any Japanese restaurant as I prefer piping hot noodles to burn my tongue so that I dont eat too quickly.
I think cold noodles is a perfect dish for ridicously hot weather, its light and healthy too.
Here’s how I make them.
First, boil a a large pot of water with a couple of salt added. When the water is at boiling point, add the noodles and cook until al dente. Once the noodle is ready, remove it immediately from the salt water and give it a cold ice water bath, ideally. Or you can just leave it aside and add a couple of ice cubes on the noodle and leave it alone to cool at room temperature so that the ice melt or chuck it into the fridge.
Get your can of tuna ready, discard the chilli oil you dont need it. Leave aside
Blanch the sliced carrot and zucchinni with another pot of hot water until slightly soft. Do not overcook it or the texture of the vegetables will turn mushy. Leave the vegetable to cool, or again add ice cubes. Meanwhile, thinly slice onion and you dont need to cook it at all. set aside.
Mix the vegetables and slice onion together, add some olive if you have. Throw in the cold noodles and toss (discard the ice water please).
Then you may add the tuna in chilli, a couple teaspoon of olive oil, a pinch of salt and toss/mix again.
Tadaa!! Cold Noodles with Tuna
To add a bit of zing to your palate on this dish, eat this cold noodle together with the garlic tomato puree!!
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Posted by blurcheryl in Chicken, My Cook Book, Soup on May 31, 2011
This is an old traditional chinese soup, ideal for hot and stuffy days because this soup is suppose to be cooling for our body. Its very common soup in chinese households, however you may see different versions of the same kind of soup because you can add other chinese herbs in it, or other ingredients to enhance the taste of the soup to your liking.
Ingredients needed for the Old Cucumber Soup: Serves 4
- 1 medium/ large size old cucumber – seeds removed, you may leave the skin on or peeled, cut in big chunks
- 1/2 chicken, chopped
- 1 litre chicken stock
- 1 litre boiling water to add to the stock
- handful of wolfberries
- handful of red dates-stones removed
- 1 abalone slice
First, scald the chicken meat in another pot of boiling water for 2-3 minutes to remove impurities. Set aside.
Use a stock pot combine 1 litre of water and the chicken stock ,bring to boil. Add in the abalone slice. I prefer to use the abalone slice instead of the sundried cuttlefish because I think the cuttlefish taste is too overpowering for this soup. Add in the old cucumber, red dates and wolfberries bring to boil for 30 minutes. Then lower the heat to just simmering point and continue boiling for 1.5 hours.
After about 2 hours of boiling, all the ingredients in the soup has already soften, add in the chicken meat and continue to boil for another 30 minutes. You may add salt and pepper to taste and its done!
Maybe you are wondering why I add the chicken last. This is because I doesn’t want the chicken to be tasteless when I eat it and I have added chicken stock for the soup earlier so the soup is very tasty on its own.
Enjoy!
TweetChinese pancake and Kimchi pancake
Posted by blurcheryl in Egg, My Cook Book, Vegetable on April 7, 2011
Monday go to work. Tuesday go to work. Wednesday go to work. Thursday go to work. Friday go to work. Boring!
Saturday do what? Lazy around
Sunday do what? Still try to lazy around.
But still have to clean the house, mop the floor, clean the kitchen and once a while inspect how are my plants getting on with life .. life or death or suffering or just enjoying sunlight.
Sunday is also a time to play masak masak for me.
Hubby has been hinting about having chinese pancake the way MIL cook it, but I ignored it a couple of times until well, when the Kampung Koh Garlic Chilli is available at home. Hubby loves eating pancake W I T H that chilli, and the main ingredient to set him a happy face for having pancake is also because of that chilli sauce. Nothing to do with the pancake nor my cooking skills.
So I just use simply whatever there is at home.
Chinese tea mushroom- julliene
The remaining of the wheat flour I got from the Korean market
Add water and eggs
Pan fry the flour mixture. This photo does look ugly.
Kimchi Pancake. Add Kimchi and Gochujang pepper paste
Simple Snack for a Sunday afternoon.
Chinese All Souls Day ‘Qing Ming’
Posted by blurcheryl in Family & Friends on April 1, 2011
Click here Qingming_Festival Wikipedia if you’d like to know more about this chinese traditions.
Nowadays the younger generation doesn’t know much about the praying. Younger generation here refers to people like me. Instead what we understand is its a day where we burn paper house, paper servant, paper car, paper iPhone, paper iPad, hell million dollar notes, paper passport, paper designer bags, paper clothes, paper shoes, paper gold, paper jewel boxes with gold in it.
According to Jess Lynn, its also a day for family get together and unite!
Look!
Jess Shynn is so cute wearing the sunglasses.
Okay I admit, I am super ugly & fat in this photo, not that I didn’t know. I’m just happy my Yeobo holding the umbrella for me and Jess Lynn captured that.
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