Happy Chap Goh Mei and Happy Valentine's Day 2014!

I was busy before CNY. Thought I would have some free time during the CNY break to update some blog posts. But I was wrong. Anyway, I decided to spare sometime today to update my blog. Since tomorrow is CHAP GOH MEI and VALENTINE'S DAY, I would like to wish all my reader, friends and families

"HAPPY CHAP GOH MEI & HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY"

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For past two years, we had our CNY reunion dinner in restaurants. This year, we decided to have home cooked meal at home. 

Following were our CNY reunion dinner 2014:

七彩鱼生

Home Made YEE SANG

花胶炖汤

Fish Maw Soup

年年有余

Claypot Pomfret

金鸡报喜

Spicy Pan Fried Chicken

金玉满堂

Spare Ribs and Pumpkin Stew

大笑哈哈

Pan Fried Prawn

富贵花开

Asorted Vegetables

 旺到发紫

Pineapple Fried Rice

 苹果川贝

Apple with Fritillaria

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Snow Pear with Dried Fritillaria (川贝雪梨)

Few months ago, my sister in law bought some Dried Fritillaria from overseas. We were told that Fritillaria  (川贝) are efficacy on moistening lung and ease cough. My sister in law told us to cook it with snow pear. Since my daughter and I were down with cough, we decided to give this a try! 

Basically it was very easy to prepared. If you got all the ingredients in hand, you can savour this desserts in less than an hour.

Ingredients:

2 large snow pears (I cut it into pieces)

4 Red Dates

Some Rock Sugar

Some Dried Fritillaria (Not too many)

Water (Suitable amount that cover all the ingredients)

Method:

1. Wash the snow pears and peel off the pears and cut into pieces. In my case I cut into 8 pieces.

2. Then wash the red dates and dried Fritillaria.

3.Put all the ingredients into a pot filled with water. Don't forget the rock sugar as well.

4. Boiled for 30 minutes in medium heat. Served Hot.

Note: It is actually best if you cook it in double boiler way.

Put all ingredients into a pot filled with water.

Snow Pear with Dried Fritillaria (川贝雪梨)

Actually Fritillaria is also good in nourishing lung and moistening lung. So if you are not down with coughing, you still can have this dessert. You can cook this to all your family members.

Merry X'mas and Happy New Year!

Time flies! And it's the end of the year in few days time! I would like wish all my friends, readers and family members, " Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!"

Today, I am just going blog some home cook dinner for X'mas celebration. Cheers!

Orange Juice

Pumpkin Soup

Finger Chicken Strips with Nestum Coating

Roast Chicken with herbs and spices with potatoes and carrots.

Dessert: Baked Banana with ice - cream and chocolate toppings.

Happy Holiday and enjoy yourself!

Ginger Potatoes (姜薯)

I have been wanted to share the “Ginger Potatoes” (姜薯) in my blog for many years already but I always forgot to blog about this. Have you ever try Ginger Potatoes before? Or did you know about ginger potatoes? Well, probably if you are from China or you are Teochew, perhaps you would know about ginger potatoes even more detail than me.

I only know about ginger potatoes when I visited my hubby hometown during our courtship. That day was the day that they were preparing for the “tang yuen” for the winter solstice festival. And I found out the ginger potatoes are used by them to cook it with the tang yuen.

I try to peel it for the first time many years back. And when I peeled it was sticky and slippery and I had to hold it tightl Furthermore, it is small in size as well. The textures are similar to Wild Yam/Huai Shan(淮山/山藥) . In fact they belong to the same family.

Step by step of peeling ginger potatoes:

1. Wash off the dirt that attached with the ginger potatoes.

2. Start peeling off the skin of ginger potatoes. Immediately after you peeled, you have to immerse the ginger potatoes into a bowl of water.

3. After finished peeling all the ginger potatoes, then you shredded it.

4. After shredded the ginger potatoes, immerse back into bowl of water again.

5. Wash it before you cooked. Once you see the ginger potatoes curled slightly, removed from heat. Usually my MIL loves to cook it with big pearl sago and mix together.

Big Pearl Sago with red colouring

I love to mix it with ginkgo sometimes and sometimes I will mix the all three together (ginger potatoes, big pearl sago and ginkgo). When the weather is hot, I will fridge it and served it cold after few hours.

I just realized that the ginger potatoes have so many advantages in term of health aspects. It helps to promote blood circulation, anti – aging, good for kidney, stomach, liver, spleen, intestines and etc…….

So have you tried this before? There are many others way to prepare ginger potatoes and I am looking forward to visit China and try their preparation of using ginger potatoes in their local delicacies.

"Happy Mother's Day 2011"

This year Mother's day fall on today ~ 08.05.2011 (Sunday). The weather is extremely hot at my place. All I wish to do is stay at home with the air condition on. ^-^

This post is to dedicate to all the mothers, mother to be, mother in law, god mother, grand mother, great grand mother and......... We would like to wish all of you "Happy Mother's Day!" and enjoy yourself and get pampered. ^-^

My little gal was having exam this week and she asked me just now, "Mum, today is Mother's Day, so I suppose not to do any revision for my exam." Hahhahaa.... she is just using this excuse to skip her revision. How cheeky of her, right?

Following were the home cooked meal prepared by hubby during Christmas 2009:

Tropical Fruits Salad

We love mangoes very much. And since during Christmas there were lots of mangoes in the market, hubby decided to get some and prepared us some desserts using mangoes and also on fruits salad as well. Apart from mangoes, we also had the tomatoes (red and yellow) - which my gal loves it very much, oranges and lettuce from Jusco.

Special Spare Ribs

We do enjoy spare ribs very much. Especially when it's grill. My gal loves spare ribs that are tender. (Easy for her to chew! Lol) We gave some of this for my neighbors and the family loves it very much. And the credit goes to hubby. ^-^

Marinate Chicken with herbs

Apart from spare ribs, hubby also baked marinate chicken with herbs just in case my gal wants something else.

Mangoes Choco Ice-Cream desserts

When comes to desserts, my gal and I was always the two who enjoys it very much. ^-^

Once again, "Happy Mother's Day" and enjoy your day! ^-^

Best Regards from FoOd PaRaDiSe

"Happy Mother's Day"

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all the mothers,

"Happy Mother's day"

I think by now, most of you have already booked the venue for your mother/wife to celebrate mother's day tomorrow. So have fun and extra pamper your mum on mother's day. ^-^

Today, I am going to blog about the Valentine's dinner that hubby prepared for me and my gal this year.

Following are the foods that prepared by hubby:

Heart Shape Carrots

Tomato Rose with broccoli and grilled chicken

Grilled Chicken

Pan Fry Prawns

Heart Shape Desserts without Ice-Cream

Close up version of cut fruits

Chocolate Ice- Cream

Our Valentine's Dessert

Happy New Year 2009

Since it is the last day of 2008, we would like to take this opportunity to thanks our readers, friends and families for their supports for the past year.

And also wish every one............

"Happy New Year 2009"

So what's your plan for tonight? any party? any celebration? any count down? lol

For us...... we decided to stay @ home and do the countdown. lol But we would like to wish everyone enjoy the last day of the year 2008. :D

Since it's the last day of the year....... I decided to blog some home cook foods rather than doing any review. lol Some rest for me. ^o^

Following are the dishes prepared by hubby for our Christmas dinner @ home:

Salads

Grilled Ribs

Grilled Pork with hubby special sauce

Mint Paste

Fruit Dessert with Ice-Cream

Fried Rice

Gal is hungry in one mid-afternoon. And unfortunately we ran out of bread. So I went to see what can I cook for her in my fridge. And I found that I only got some rices, pineapples, cabbages, chicken sausages and eggs.

Then I decided to cook her fried rice. lol

Simple fried rice

hahahahha....... my gal appreciates it and she gobbles everything and told me it tastes nice.

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One day I was trying to clear my fridge. I found out that I still have one piece of black beans fried mackerel in my tupperware. And some pineapple left. So since I want to get rid both of them, I decide to cook fried rice.

It turn out to be like this:

Black Beans fried mackerel with pineapple fried rice

Well..... I find it tastes good. If you like black beans fried mackerel then you will definitely love it. This is the first time I cook this kind of fried rice. lol

Simple Home Cook Meal

Occasionally..... my gal will demand me to cook @ home as sometimes she says that home cook tastes better. lol And this is one of the simple home cook meals.

After searching from my pantry and fridge. I came out with the following menu:

(Which is ready in just 25minutes. lol)

Creamy Corn Soup

Which is my gal favourite. lol

Stir fry cabbage with garlic

Sardine with onions and pineapples

My gal loves this. Since I saw some canned pineapples in my pantry, I decided to add it into the sardines. lol