Mum's 'Brown Brown Meat'

Another childhood favorite. In fact, almost all of these recipes will be childhood favorites.
Enjoy!

You'll need:
1 tbsp of cooking oil
3-4 large potatoes- Peeled and chopped into bitesized cubes
3/4 strips of pork belly, sliced into bitesized pieces.
1 1/2 tbsps of crushed yellow bean paste
1 1/2 tablespoons of sugar
2 tbsps soy sauce
1 tbsps of minced garlic


Fry the garlic in the heated oil til browned


Add the yellow bean paste then fry it, stirring it around til it starts smelling awesome.


Add the potatoes and water til it reaches 3/4's of the way above the potatoes. Add the soy sauce and the sugar.


Add the meat and make sure it's simmering gently before you leave it for half an hour. Leave it for longer if it's not cooked, obviously:)


Serve with rice:)

Christine's Mum's Reknowned Fried Rice

A few of you who were in my class at KJS might have tried this fried rice which i've now cooked successfully after lots of trial and error. Enjoy!



Serves 4
2-3 rice cups worth of cooked rice(I need to find the proper measurement soon!)
3 cloves of garlic- finely minced
4 eggs- beaten
3 stalks of spring onion, chopped up however fine you like
500 grams of pork mince (Or any meat of your choice.)
half a lettuce head- I usually slice it up into bitesize bits
2 carrots- finely chopped (If you want the carrots really soft, boil beforehand then drain)
salt
pepper
1tbsp of oil
3-4 tbsps of soy sauce
5-10 drops of maggi seasoning
*I wouldn't recommend a metal spatula for this. A wooden would be ideal.

Process

Heat the oil in a large wok/pan and make sure it's just starting to smoke before you add the garlic. Stir occasionally.


Once the garlic is browned, add the meat and break it up evenly. Season lightly with salt and pepper and keep stirring til browned.

*At this stage you can pour out the fat and juice that comes out of the meat. Personally, i'd keep it in because most of the flavour is lost if you pour it out.


Once the meat is browned, push to the sides to clear a circle of the pan in the middle. (Try to get the juice out of the way by tipping the pan at an angle if you've decided to leave it in) Then add the eggs and the spring onion. Leave it for a couple of seconds to let it cook then start scrambling it up in the middle then mix it with the rest of the meat. keep stirring for a while to make sure all of the egg is cooked.
*Make sure you scrape the bottom of the pan whilst scrambling so the egg doesn't stick so much.



Add the carrots and the lettuce and mix in well.


Turn the heat down a bit and then add the rice. Take your time mixing it in and make sure you break up the chunks.


Add the soy sauce and maggi seasoning, mix it in well and you're done!:)

My first recipe!

Just to start things off smooth... and I hope you like the blog look! Spent quite a while on the graphics:)

Christine's Fantastic Easy Soup

I tried out some Japanese style omelette and lettuce as well as some steamed chicken in this! As you can see I used Mai Fun(Vermicelli).

50ml water
1-2 tablespoons of Chicken Powder(I use Knorr)
1-2 inches of ginger sliced thinly or in chunks
1 small chili- sliced, diced or however you like!
1 spring onion stalk, chopped up.
1 clove of garlic, peeled and chopped however you like. (I prefer larger chunks)
I also like a bit of Maggi seasoning... depending on how strong you like your soup! A couple of drops.
*You can also add some noodles to make it more of a meal!
Oh and some cooked meat. Chicken's good. Lettuce or cabbage is nice too unless you can get your hands on some chinese veg. Just wash them and boil for half a minute in the soup when its nearly done.

Make sure the water is boiling before you add the powder then everything else.
It doesn't need long.. say 2 mins and a bit longer with noodles.