black pepper beef, kangkong in bean sauce 25 Jan 2010

something caught his eye while pushing the trolley. marbled packet of meat for $3 odd. really stood out from the rest of the packets, so there it went onto his trolley.


black pepper beef - sprinkled 2 teaspoons of soy sauce onto the beef, and heated some green bell peppers in the fry-pan until slightly browned. cooked each slice of beef on medium heat for around 30 seconds on each side. for the final step, got all of them into the pan and added 2 teaspoons of black pepper sauce and stirred until evenly coated before serving.


kangkong in broad bean sauce - heated some garlic in oil until fragrant, then added soaked dried shrimps and continued cooking until the flavour was released. threw in the kangkong and cooked on medium heat, adding 2 dollops of spicy broad bean sauce to taste.

multi-course dinner

yet another day of sleeping in. got up late noon to start preparing for dinner.

brought out the stuff from carrefour the day before, and realised that he had mistaken kangkong for spinach. how embarrassing.

had the wife's special fried rice again, this time with some "flowered" curry flavour chinese sausages.


two "flowers" - on her request


the kangkong that she made


radish soup with pork ribs (maybe a little too much green onions)


xue mei niang - anyone knows the english name for this? used cornstarch, glutinous rice flour, wheat flour, sugar, milk, whipping cream and cherries for this.


there's another dessert in the fridge, sweet potato mash cake, but let's not disturb it now.

[UPDATE]
here's the picture of the sweet potato mash cake

capsicum chicken and kangkong in oyster sauce

had a long day at work. she was waiting for him to be back before she started preparing freshly cooked dinner.

she soaked the kangkong and capsicum for a bit before slicing and chopping them. had the usual garlic and ginger combination too. as for meat, she cut small pieces out of a chunk of chicken breast. not telling him how she wanted to cook today, she ordered him to sit and wait while she started the wokking.

first dish, stir-fried chicken with capsicum strips. the thin and long slices of capsicum made eating them a whole new experience. as for the chicken, she blanched the marinated pieces to prepare them for the stir-fry. he thought this would take away the flavour and make the meat tough, but he was wrong again. tender and juicy, totally different from the kind of chicken breast he had ever made. nice color too, except that he bought yellow capsicum after mistaking it for red.


next dish, kangkong in oyster sauce. she boiled the vegetables, with no seasoning whatsoever. weird way of cooking, he thought. she sniggered and started frying the garlic till fragrant before adding the vegetables. drizzled some oyster sauce and stirred until even before serving. another novel way of eating for him, he had only known sambal kangkong. just look at the oh-so-slick vegetables......


total cost, $4.10. nice.