Baby Carrots Design with Cabbage

Carrots are full of vitamin A. Normal huge carrot seems big and juicy but I find it a little hard and old for me. It is personal preference. You may buy any kinds of carrots as you wish. So I decided to get a packet of baby carrot. For me, I prefer baby carrots because of 2 reasons. Firstly, I could just take a couple of them and chew them like bugs bunny when I feel bored, else I could cook them as and when I like with some other vegetables or meat as a dish. My multitasking carrots.

Prepare your tiny knife for the design cutting. This would be one of the kid’s favorite as it is small and cute with designs.

Ingredients

Baby carrot, ¼ cabbages

2 tablespoon dry shrimp

1 teaspoon sugar and salt

1 dash pepper

1 tablespoon oyster sauce

Prepare & Cook

Cut carrot to any design from triangle, square, hexagon. etc

Heat a tablespoon oil

Fry dry shrimp remove 1/2

Add baby carrots first for about 20 seconds

Add cabbage

1 teaspoon sugar and salt

1 dash pepper

1 tablespoon oyster sauce

Stir fry it

Remove to plate

Garnish with the fried dry shrimp that was remove earlier.

Ready to serve

Why do we fry the carrots first. This is because carrots need a longer time to get cooked compare to cabbages. If we put in the same time, the carrots will still be a little raw for me.

Mung Beans Dessert

Mung Beans Dessert.

Some call it Mung Beans, some Cantonese call it green beans, some call it green gram. What about you? It was said that it is full with vitamins and also for Chinese believe it could clean heat and toxins in the body as this bean is park under the cooling category. Mom only mentioned not to have this if I have diarrhea.  Well, I can’t really comment much as I am no doctor here. Eat at your own risk. Many many Chinese have this as a sweet dessert, so that is what I am going to make for now.

Before you start to make this dessert, you would have to soak mung bean for about 6 hours but NOT more than 8 hours. If do more than eight (8) hours, you don’t need to make mung bean dessert anymore, you can change to cooking vegetable bean sprout dish (Taugeh). If you soak them for too long, the roots start to grow, your green bean would look like infested with worms because you will see tiny little tails growing out on each bean or just like some tiny worm trying to squeeze out from the shell. So if you don’t feel like having this dessert, you may sprout them and get bean sprout meal.

How to determine the beans are cook. The beans will start to turn soft and the skin of the beans will start to peel off.

  

I bought the rock sugar in tiny cubes so I could just spoon it out instead of weigh it.

Wonder what is pandan leaves? It’s also known as screwpines.

Gula Melaka = palm sugar.

Ingredients

1 pack green beans

2 tablespoon of rock sugar , 3 pandan leaves

½ pack dry longan or 15 pieces

½ roll palm sugar

Prepare & cook

Boil beans 20-30minutes with 3 pandan leaves

Add 2 tablespoon of rock sugar

Add dry longan

½ roll palm sugar

Use low heat, boil another 15minutes

If it dries up, add ½ cup water

Taste the sweetness

If not sweet enough for you, add more sugar,

Boil another 20-30minutes

Check the beans texture, if it is still intact with the dark green skin, continue boil.

Hmm... the sweet aromatic smell of the palm sugar and longan, can't wait to eat them.

Sorry this look so messy in the pot, I should have taken it after i place it my bowl, but I forgot to snap it as i was to eager to eat them up.  Next time hopefully I would remember to snap one.

Wrap Bake Fish

Most of the food I made was fry fry fry. Today we are doing something different. I am going to bake a fish. It is my first time, I was so worried that it will burn and turn black as I have not much experience in using oven. But it is always worth a try. Cooking can’t be perfect for the first time. It takes numerous trials and error to be a good chef.

To avoid being burnt, I decided to use the aluminum foil to wrap up my fish. This was because I am not sure how long would it take this portion of fish to cook. Or would it turn to charcoal if I bake it too long.

  

Ingredients

1 piece fish, foil wrap (depends on size of fish)

2 shallots, 4 garlic, 1 tablespoon soy sauce

Some Enoki mushrooms

Prepare & Cook

Slice shallots and garlic

Mix it on fish front and back

Put cod fish on foil wrap

Pour olive oil all around on fish

Place Enoki mushroom around the fish

Wrap fish with foil, cover it

Poke some hole on the top of the foil

Bake 20 minutes 220-240Degrees

Ready to serve

Why do we need to poke some hole on the top of the foil, this is because there is heat while you bake the fish, heat need to circulate around in the fish to cook it. If you have wrap up the whole fish and did't make the holes, your foil would be bloated up like a huge balloon.

Sprinkle some salt if you still feel its too bland.