Fried Rice for Kids

Fried rice is the easiest thing to cook and it is good for working moms. You may cook this ahead earlier the night before or even in the morning itself. The ingredients are easy to prepare and it doesn't take a very long time to cook.

Ingredients:

• Leftover cooked rice
• 1 medium onion (chopped)
• 2 stalks celery (chopped)
• 2 carrots (diced)
• 1 cup frozen peas
• 3 eggs (beaten)
• 1/4-1/2 cup soy sauce (to taste)
• pepper

Steps:

1. Heat up oil in a wok and add onion, celery, and carrots.
2. Saute for about 5 minutes.
3. Add peas and cook one minute more until peas are thawed.
4. Push the veggies to one side of the wok and scramble eggs in empty side of skillet.
5. Mix eggs into veggies and season with pepper. Then add soy sauce.
6. Then slowly mix in rice by the spoonful until all rice is added and all ingredients are well blended.
7. Fry until steamy hot stirring often.

Fruit Desserts Recipe

Fruit are essential in our daily diet. It is one of the easiest to do desserts as there are no cooking involved in preparing it. There are however, lots of cutting and arranging involved. Here is a fruit dessert recipe which is high in Vitamin C and other good nutrients.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups cubed fresh pineapple
• 1 cup diced peeled ripe mango
• 1 cup sliced banana
• 1 cup orange section
• 1 tablespoon dark brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon fresh lime, juice and zest
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1/8 teaspoon ginger

Method of Preparation

1. Combine salad ingredients in a medium bowl, tossing gently to combine. Cover and chill 1 hour.
2. Sprinkle with toasted coconut.

Thai Fried Rice

On a busy working day, it is difficult to find time to cook a meal for your school-going kids. There are many shops cropping up everyday and eating out is preferred by most kids. But eating everyday is expensive. So I tend to cook for myself as well as my love ones. It is much healthier as I am able to monitor the kind of food they put into their stomach. The only tricky part here is to find time to cook as well as to make it delicious. Here is one recipe I would like to share with all the working moms out there. I hope you will enjoy this recipe as I do. Please feel free to drop in some comments on what you think about this recipe. Every opinion counts!

Ingredients:

• Cooked rice
• Minced chicken
• Tuna
• Pineapple
• Garlic
• Oil
• Tomato
• Onion
• Carrot
• Spring Onion
• Sugar
• Ground Pepper
• Light Soy Sauce

Steps:

1. Break the cooked rice and place them in a bowl. Add the sugar, light soy sauce and ground pepper and mix it with the rice.
2. Heat up the oil in a wok and add the garlic, minced chicken and tuna.
3. Then add the tomato, onion, carrot, spring onion and pineapple. Continue mixing.
4. Add in the rice for another 2 minutes. Serve warm.

Bak Kut Teh Recipe (Soup Version)

Bak Kut Teh is my all time favourite dish. Whenever I am feeling sick, I would head towards a bak kut teh restaurant for a nice pot of herbal pork soup. Bak Kut Teh is not easy to do, but is still possible to cook it in your very own kitchen. If you do not like the long process of cooking it, you may purchase the pre-packed herbs in any chinese sundry shop and follow the instructions on the pack. If you are interested in cooking everything on your own, try the following steps.

Pork Chop Recipe

Pork chops are easy to do for those who are feeling romantic this weekend. Okay, it is easy, but pork takes a long time to cook - especially if you want it to be perfect. Prepare your ingredients are shown below and impress your date. Try to find out whether your partner is a fan of pork first before embarking on too prepare this meal. Let me know what you think. Good luck.

• 6 -8 lean pork chops, 1 inch thick
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons dry mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1 can chicken rice soup, undiluted

Steps to prepare the pork chop

1. Dredge pork chops in mixture of flour, salt, dry mustard and garlic powder.
2. Brown in oil in a large skillet.
3. Place browned pork chops in a crock pot.
4. Add the can of soup, undiluted.
5. Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours (or high for 3 1/2 hours).

Roast Duck Recipe

If you do not know what to roast on Sunday for a Sunday roast, try roasting a duck. Roasted duck is a favourite of mine. However, roast duck doesn't comes cheap. A whole bird could cost about RM42 per bird in Kepong area. If you are on a budget, try this recipe. I'm sure that you will love it. Leave a comment if you like it.

Kam Heong Style Lala - Clams

The best kam heong style clams which I had is at Ah Go Go restaurant in Kepong. I may be wrong, but after going around Kepong, I find that this restaurant can cook this style the best. Another best alternative would be B Lui at the Kepong wai sek kai, a hawker stall located in Kepong Baru. Anyway, here is the closest recipe I find which is good enough but definitely not the same with those you will get at the above mentioned restaurants. But it is good enough if you prefer to cook it yourself.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg clams such as lala clams
• 2 tbsp dried shrimps
• 1/4 cup hot water
• 1 tbsp curry powder
• 2 tbsp cooking oil
• 3 shallots finely chopped
• 3 garlic cloves minced
• 2 ginger slices minced
• 2 chilli padi
• 1/2 tbsp soy bean paste
• 4 sprigs curry leaves
• cornstarch

Steps:

1. Clean the clams thoroughly by soaking with salt water and scrubbing them.
2. Chop the dried shrimps, shallots, garlic, ginger chilli padi together.
3. Heat up the oil and pour in the ingredients including the soy bean paste, hot water and curry powder.
4. Pour in the clams and cook until the clams are all open.
5. Mix in the curry leaves and cornstarch.
6. Serve warm.

Ceasar Salad Recipe

I went to a nice western restaurant the other day. I am sure that many of you notice that the price for a plate of ceasar salad could cost almost the same with a plate of chicken chop. I was wondering about the margin of profit that the restaurant could make if everyone that comes in opts for ceasar salad instead of chicken chop. Most people will definitely go for chicken chop, given the fact that it is worth the money spent on. So if you are like one of them and would also love to have ceasar salad one day, why not make your own? Here's a recipe which I found. Enjoy.

Egg Sandwich Recipe

Making your very own breakfast is one way to keep yourself healthy. By preparing everything on your own, you'll know what to put into your sandwich and what not is not suppose to be there. Egg sandwich is one of the easiest sandwich to do and here's how I do mine. Feel free to skip any of the ingredients set out below and customise your very own sandwich. Enjoy and good luck!

Steamed Eggs Recipe

My mom taught me how to cook this recipe, steamed eggs and I would like to share this recipe to all egg lovers out there. We are very familiar with fried eggs and boiled eggs. But have you steamed eggs before? The way to do this is quite similar to the Japanese Chawanmushi which is normally steamed individually on cups. Here's how my steamed eggs are done. I do not have any pictures to show you, but I assure you that it is quite simple to do.

Ingredients:

• 2 chicken eggs and 1 duck eggs
• A glass of water
• Salt and pepper
• Sesame oil

Cooking Method:

1. Break all the eggs on a plate and stir it. Make sure that plate is able to with stand heat.
2. Add equal parts of water to the eggs. The more you add the softer the texture of the eggs will be.
3. Add salt and pepper for taste.
4. Place the plate into a kuali with boiling water and make sure to cover the plate.
5. Turn the heat down and slowly cook the eggs until it is cook. Don't cook for too long as the eggs will be harden.

Delicious Fried Spaghetti Recipe

You may get spaghetti recipe anywhere, from the internet, from recipe books and even from the spaghetti packaging itself. There may not be a lot of difference from the recipe I am about to share here. But, this recipe is a good and simple fried spaghetti for those who do not know how to cook the fried version of spaghetti. Good luck and be careful so as not to eat too much cheese!

How do your cook your Steaks?

Recently I went to TGI Fridays for a nice meal with my mom. TGI Friday prides itself by serving real good steaks. I ordered TGI Fridays' Rib Eye Steak for only RM52.00. If you are on a budget and would like to cook your very own steak in your very own house, how do you do it? I am not saying that this is TGI Fridays' recipe (although I would really love to find out how they did their steak), here is how I cook mine. Enjoy and good luck.

Steamed Fish with Ginger sauce

The best way to enjoy fresh fish is by steaming them. The freshness of the fish can be tasted by steaming and you do not need to go through the trouble on how to marinate your fish to become tastier. The freshness of the fish will do the job. However, fresh fish do sometimes taste fishy. In order to get rid of the smell, the Chinese uses ginger whenever they cook their fish. I am going to show you the way how to prepare the ginger sauce for steaming fish. You may use any fish here.

Ingredients:

• lots of fresh ginger
• Fish
• Light soya sauce
• Parsley

Steps:

1. Clean the fish and place it on a plate. Slice the fish a little bit on the middle on both sides.
2. Remove the ginger skin and cut them into pieces.
3. Blend the ginger in a blender and add some water until it become a ginger puree.
4. Spread the ginger puree on the fish until the whole fish is fully covered. Place some ginger puree in the stomach to get rid of the smell.
5. Pour some light soya sauce over the fish.
6. Steam the fish in high heat for about 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the size of the fish.
7. Garnish with parsley and serve warm.

Chinese Steamed Fish

The steam method is the best way to cook a fish. However, if the fish is not fresh, it is better to shallow fry it or cook it with sauces in order to eliminate the fishy smell of the fish. I prefer to steam rather than to fry my fishes as it is easier to prepare and to cook. Here are the ingredients and methods to cook a steamed fish.

Chinese Stir Fry Vegetables

If you are having friends over to your place for lunch or dinner, you wouldn't want to do something simple, do we. In order to get it right, it is necessary to practise. Here are the steps and ingredients for cooking the perfect chinese stir fry vegetables.