Black Pepper Chicken Chop

Ingredients
2 whole chicken legs, deboned

Seasoning ingredients
1 tbsp Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp premium oyster sauce
1 tbsp sugar
1/8 tsp pepper
4 shallots, blended and squeezed for juice
¼ tsp chicken stock granules

Sauce ingredients
2 tbsp black pepper sauce
2 tbsp Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp sugar
¼ tsp coarsely ground black pepper
4-5 tbsp water

Method:
Marinate chicken with seasoning ingredients for several hours, preferably overnight in the refrigerator. Heat up oil and place the chicken on the pan. When the chicken is cooked, remove and place on individual serving plates. Add the remaining seasoning ingredients and the sauce ingredients to the pan and cook briefly to a boil. Dish up or pour on the chicken.

Hokkien Mee

Ingredients:
600g mee
200g pork (sliced)
200g prawn
150g fish cake (sliced)
200g choy sum
5 cloves garlic (chopped)

Sauce:
3 tbsp light soya sauce
2 tbsp thick soya sauce
Dash of pepper
1 litre broth

Methods:
1. Stir-fry garlic until fragrant.
2. Add the pork, prawn and fish cake and stir-fry until cooked.
3. Add the sauce until let it boiled.
4. Add in the mee and choy sum and let it simmer until the mee is soft and the sauce is thick. Serve hot.

Roasted Chicken with Pasta

Prepared this meal using the Orange Roasted Chicken recipe. This time replaced orange with one whole lemon (preferred choice). For side dish, cut each potato (leave the skins on) into 4 or 6 even wedges, dependíng on their size. Mix the potatoes with butter and dried thyme leaves and baked it together with the chicken.

For the pasta, for ease, served it with Leggo's Napoletana Pasta Sauce and topped it with mixed vegetables.

Steamed Chicken Rice

Heard from many that chicken rice is easy to prepare so decided to try when I spotted the recipe. The method goes like this: Rub salt and sesame oil on the chicken and steam it for 30 minutes. Sound simple? After the chicken was cooked, realize there's a problem "I do not know how to cut a steamed chicken!" (eventhough it was only half a chicken). Asked help from my maid and she said "Maam, I don't know, maam". Oops! So I know that I have no choice but to just try. There I went "Yee Hah" a few times and the half chicken was finally chopped up. My hubby was surprise to see my new trial and took a picture of it. Presentation? Trying hard to make it looks appetizing :-).

The chicken tasted alright with the sauce. Ingredients for the sauce: Chicken stock (from the steamed chicken), sesame oil, soya sauce and dark soya sauce. For the rice, it doesn't turn out so good. Used butter and garlic. It tasted just like normal white rice. Skipped the chili preparation although knowing it will give a "kick" to the overall meal. Will try again .......

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Steamboat Dinner

Hubby's colleagues arranged for a steamboat dinner party at our place. His boss supplied most of the ingredients (very generous supply that can last for another meal!) and we prepare the soup and food arrangement. A satisfying meal complete with soft drinks topped with Baskin Robbins vanilla ice-cream - supplied by his colleagues too.

Honey Chicken Rice

My colleagues and I are regulars to a cafe called "Ice-Cream House" for lunch and we usually ordered the set lunch comprising rice with a dish of our choice, a bowl of soup, a drink and a scoop of ice-cream. The idea of placing a sunny side-up egg on the rice is interesting. This makes preparing a meal fast and easy as I only need to cook one dish :-)

Recipe for the honey chicken was adopted from Bay Books

Yee Mee

Decided to cook something light and fast for dinner and made simple variation to the cantonese yee mee recipe. Heat up the wok, stir fry garlic, sliced fish cake, and mushrooms. Pour in chicken stock. Add thick soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt and corn flour for thickening. Pour the gravy on top of the noodle. Serve it with shredded chicken and bean sprouts.

Tom Yam Mee Suah

The noodle used here is called Fried Mee Suah (fine wheat vermicelli). Used the Tom Yam paste bought from Thailand for the soup base, adding coconut milk for better taste. Tom Yam is a soup originating from Thailand and perhaps one of the most famous dishes in Thai cuisine.

The paste from Thailand.

3-side Fried Chicken

Started the first day of December with this easy and quick to prepare meal. The fried chicken was served with 3 side dishes i.e. baby potatoes, cherry tomatoes and broccoli (baked it with cheese) bought from Cameron Highlands, a place famous for their fresh vegetables besides strawberry farms, flower nurseries and tea plantations.

Sausage Pie

This dish is suppose to be called mexican sausage pie as it uses pork chipolata sausages (a type of small thin sausage originally from Mexico which I don't think are sold in Malaysia). Anyway went ahead to try it by replacing it with pork BBQ sausages. The sauce is good as it uses onion, baked bean and white button mushroom. The top was spread with mashed potatoes (which I would add more the next time I make this again).

Source: Baked

"Rice Cooker" Chicken Rice

This dish was originated by my grandma. A dish similar to claypot chicken rice. Instead of using claypot, rice cooker is used. It only takes about 1/2 an hour to prepare this simple and nice meal.

Ingredients:

350g of chicken
1 waxed sausage (sliced)
5 chinese mushrooms (sliced)
5 slices of ginger
4 cloves of garlic (chopped)
3 tbsp of soy sauce
2 tbsp of black sauce
1/2 cup of oyster sauce
2 cups of rice

Heat up the wok with oil. Stir fry garlic and ginger. Add in waxed sausage and mushroom and stir fry for a while. Add in the chicken. Add all sauces and stir fry until the chicken is half cooked. At the same time, cook the rice in the rice cooker (standard level of water for cooking rice). Pour in the stir-fried ingredient into the rice cooker before the rice is fully cooked. Sprinkle some spring onion and serve it with bird eye chilli.

Serving size: 3-4 person

Curry Chicken Rice

A simple dinner for the day.

Home Made Pasta (Mee Hoon Kueh)

This is all-time favourite of all family members. Eat it with bird eye chili for extra kick.

Fried rice with "ayam masak merah"

Need to prepare a quick dinner so used the ayam masak merah sauce for the chicken. It's good to have some instant sauces at home for quick and easy meal :-)

Cantonese Yee Mee

This is one of hubby’s favourite dish.