Salted fish fried rice

I always love salted fish, I mean everything with it. Salted fish gave this fragrance of saltiness that you can't get with anything else that similar to it, like dried cuttle fish. Fried rice is such an easy food to cook and it's very suitable for a small portion cooking. Mix a few ingredients into rice and just stir like mad! I purposely cooked extra rice and kept inside the fridge yesterday so I can fry rice today. The picture of my fried rice today looks not much different from other fried rice I made but the picture does not make justice to my lovely salted fish. It is not fair, because the hint of saltiness in every bite, and the tiny pieces of gem fills the air with excitement and joy. Remember no one (me) likes soggy fried rice, so make sure you don't add water/too much liquid when you are frying. Soggy rice is not chinese, it's italian (risotto) !

I used all my usual ingredients for fried rice and with the extra salted fish.

Salted fish fried rice (serve one)
1 small baby carrot, chopped into tiny cubes
2 cloves garlic (chopped)
1 chinese sausage (sliced into small pieces)
1 egg (beat)
1 small bowl overnight rice
1 small piece of salted fish. (I always see people use those long tail of tiny fishes. I don't. I hate those because they are hard and crunchy. I normally buy those in jar filled with salt mixture)


Steps
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Fry salted fish in 2-3 tablespoon in heated oil until both sides are cooked in wok
Saute garlic in the oil ( 6 seconds)
Add chinese sausage and carrot and stir (10 seconds)
Put the rice in and stir
Put 3-4 tablespoon soy sauce and stir (30 seconds)
Open up a small area in the middle of your work and heat a little oil
Pour the egg in and let it there for a few seconds
Stir everything for 40 seconds
Serve hot and smile big

Popsicles

There is this RM5 shop opened in Queensbay owned by Jusco. They sell all sort of Japan made stuff and most of the time, the stuff there are so cute and hard to find at somewhere else. But they are mostly useless. You can pick a few things and they totalled up to RM30 which is kind of nuisance because you spent RM30 over things that will add to your house of rubbish collection, went straight to the cabinet and you will not see it again. So we choose the item that we want to buy carefully. This is one of them, the popsicle mould!

I used to have this back at home where my mom got it free from buying Ribena. FOC. But I am so tempted to have my own popsicle at home because I'm sick of eating fattening cream ice cream by now.

I had used this mould 2 times so far, first when I made orange flavour popsicles and second, I squeezed lime juice out from real limes! and mix it to syrup made of screwpine leaves and sugar water ;) They are such a relief during hot day but anyway, I ate the lime popsicles during stormy weather yesterday.

Soy sauce pork belly stew

My sister stayed with us for the past few days. I actually wanted to cook this while she was here but we never get the chance, there are so many other food in list.

My ingredients are all by estimation.. Pardon me if they are not up to your expectation from the taste wise. But, Weeliem loved it. He said this is the most successfully try out. He has been saying this for so many times that I don't know if he really meant it.

1 stripe pork belly. Cut half so it's easier to sear in wok
2 star anise
1 cinnamon stick. I used powder
1 teaspoon five spice powder
3 rock sugar
5 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon dark soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
1 bowl water
1 garlic, washed, unpeeled
5 chinese mushrooms, soften,halved
2 boiled eggs, peeled
pepper to taste


1. Sprinkle some salt and rub dark soy sauce on both side of pork belly.
2. Sear pork belly in work until lightly browned on both sides
3. Add oil in wok, put garlic, cinnamon, star anise and mushroom and saute.
4. Add the rest of ingredients in except eggs and bring to boil for 5 minutes
5. Add eggs in and simmer for another 50 minutes.
6. Serve hot with rice

Chocolate chip muffin

Today is a perfect day because I saw my husband in the morning when I woke up from sleep and it's not the other way round. I know it's kind of confusing for me to say this but what explain my words is that normally I am the one who gets up earlier and he will catch up afterward so he's the one that laying on bed and sees me when he force opened his eyes. See? To celebrate the perfect day, I made chocolate chip muffins. I am not an avid baker. I am mostly the dinner maker but I love using the oven. I love my small and not "costly" oven because it is the maker of many yummy food. There are so much things I can do with oven. I use my oven like at least once a fortnight. I bake chicken wings, BBQ chickens, my many own recipes chicken, shrimps, salmon and they are for our usual dinner. But this is the first time I use my lovely oven to bake muffin and I love it although my oven has a little flaw. The "flaw" is that it's over heated easily where the skin is always cooked and become dark before the inner side/dough lose it's damp texture.

I had an early swim with my sister in the morning despite the rumour my another sister(yes, I have many sisters) sent me about the radiation that might travel from Japan nuclear leakage. I googled in the morning and read about the past history of Chernobyl case where the radiation travel for 500km but Malaysia is so much further than 500km I guess it's fine. After having cheddar cheese breakfast, went out to run some errands and back baking muffins. It's such a relaxing day. And yeah, later it's mini bacon pizza with it's friends time ;)

On yeah, before I forgot, I used the chocolate chip muffins recipe from here

The recipe is a bit too sweet , which I think can reduce the chocolate chips by half the portion. The reason is the chocolate chips already over sweeten the whole mixture, and I can't blame the chocolate chips because I bought the less sweet Hershey chips.. They are so not guilty!

Belacan fried rice

I was so tempted to try on making my own belacan fried rice therefore I purchased a whole piece of belacan (shrimp paste) yesterday during weekly groceries shopping. I feel lazy to pound belacan in my newly bought mortar in jusco and I didn't do most of steps I supposed to. Actually, my recipe is own-made, so if you are really looking for a good one, just google it, plenty of fine looking recipes out there.

Ingredients:
2 bowls of overnight rice - serves 2
1 crab stick -cubes
1/2 fish cake - tiny cubes
1 chinese sausage -slices
large shrimps -6? or more.. depending on your need
1/2 baby australian carrot -tiny cubes
1 egg
2cm x2cm belacan
1 tablespoon cili boh
black soy sauce
soy sauce
pepper


There is no need to use salt because belacan usually is very salty. Just use your common sense and mix the above stuff in a work. lol

Red and green bean dessert

It is Saturnight. I cooked red and grean bean dessert for tonight's game. There is football at 11pm and I guess it will be nice to have dessert while watching. During our wedding day, my girl friends had a game where they had this mixture of red and green beans. I brought the food back because I do not want to throw edible stuff. Normally I only cook red bean, never a mixture. 2 hours ago, I scooped some into a pot, washed them throughly many times and boiled them in water until the beans are soften. I added sugar for sweetness and coconut milk for the frangrance. I like it except for the coconut milk because it wasn't as fragrant as what I thought it is due to the prepack sterilized coconut milk I purchased from supermarket. I wanted to buy fresh coconut milk but I wasn't going to market. I remember I bought a box packet before and it taste better as well. Anyway, I guess next time I will stick to fresh one.