Naughty Crabby

This morning, went to Circuit Road market to have breakfast and after that, went into the market to see what I can get to cook for lunch or dinner. I saw crabs selling on one of the stall, feel like buying but on hesitations because normally if you buy crabs from neighbourhood market, seldomly you can get good ones, unless you are very lucky. I bought 3 crabs with a total weight of 1.3kg and decide to cook Rice Vernicilli Crabs (Tang Hoon Crab)

I went to the provision stall to buy garlic, ginger and tanghoon and was talking to her and she wanted to see whether my crabs are fresh. I open my plastic bags and she put in her hand and one of the crab suddenly pinch her with the pincer and she immediately withdrew her hand together with the crab out of the plastic bag. She shook her hand and the crab wasvflung to the other corner of the market and the people, who saw. found it amusing.... We had a good laugh but luckily it was a small cut and the crab broke one of it's pincer.

Once reached home, I immediately killed the crabs and use claypoot to cook the crabs with the tanghoon. Both of us loved it and what out of my expectation, it's true, the crabs are not really good. Nevermind, the most important is taste.

Chicken Curry Laksa

I went for Chef Keong's workshop on Fook Hai Chicken Curry Laksa, and I tried the recipe yesterday despite of hubby discouraging me because I wanted to try the full recipe instead of half... he was not happy... what the heck, I don't care, it's my choice.......

I started from boiling the whole chicken to the curry gravy, boy, it's a big pot and I have to find a rescuer so that I won't waste too much food. I was lucky, my rescuer is willing to try my food. and I should say that it's was a success and it's worth it to attend the workshop, even after so much grumping from hubby, he did say "thank you" and he said that it tasted better than the day I bought home for tasting. :)

Dumplings 2

Feel like eating Nonya Dumplongs, one of my favourite, can't request my mum to make, so I tried make myself.

This morning, went to market, went to the pork seller and asked him for nonya dumplings , do I use belly pork or lean meat (wu hua rou), he said belly pork is oily, the latter is better and he wanted to minced for me. I said no, I like diced.
Nonya dumplong using minced meat, first time I came across.

Today, just use 2kg of rice and I get about 37 pieces and by 6pm, my dumplings is ready for delivery.

Crabs

I wanted to cook chilli crabs for dinner, and after work today, I went to Tekka market to buy some crabs. Walk around and found only one store selling, I thought there is a few store there.

I point my fingers into a basket of crabs and asked the seller where is this crab from, she refused to answer me and asked my which type of crab I want. My hubby don't really like the seller attitude... well! I have no choice, have to buy, only store there.

Back home, I made some bread to go with the chilli crabs. Four of us loved it, it was just a little bit sweet. Must reduce sugar the next time.

Try again

The other time, when I did this glutionus rice kueh (Png Kueh), I add in too much water and it's just like eating very soft rice "chiak nuen png"... Ha! ha! my husband does not like this word.... very sensitive.....

Made and give some to my part time helper and send some to mom for her to try. Both of them like it. Worth the effort of making. Still, I must twitch the recipe especially the seasoning to made it perfect.

Family's favourite

This along has been my family's favourite, and this has been a long time, I have made this, gula melaka agar agar.

For this I was being taught to use strip agar agar, cut, soak and measure, If you get a bowl, measure 3 bowls of water or liquid to get the texture, for me I always use 2 1/2 bowl. I use estimation on the sugar, but this time round, it's was a little bit too sweet.

Chiu Zi....

This is also one kueh, Kueh Bingka Ubi that I did ages ago... reminising it. This morning went to market to buy some fresh grated tapicoa from the coconut seller.

I forgot what is needed, I went to buy grated coconut as well, but in the end, I did not use, was thinking of making kueh kosui, one of my favourites too.. but just too lazy ... I hought pandan leave also... juz sometimes cannot remember what is needed and impronto just want to made and am afraid that one item is short and have to go running.... One of those things.

Recipe from my old file

1 1/2 kg grated tapicoa
1 Coconut
1 1/2 cups of sugar
2 tbsp butter
2 eggs
1 tsp salt
some vanilla essence

Squeeze the grated tapioca and put inside the bowl, let the water settle and use the starch only.
Squeeze coonut milk and add water to get 3 cups.
Add sugar, salt into the coconut juice and stir till sugar dissolve.
Add in the eggs and stir.
Add in the squeezed tapicoa plus starch and vanilla essence and butter. Miz well.
Pour int the greased 8' square tin and bake at 180 degrees till top is brown (almost 2 hrs)