Chef At Home

New Blog

mommychef — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:51:10 +0000

Just wanted to start-up a blog to jot down the recipes that I’d tried and also to share with everyone on the food review! So, stay tune and happy reading!

Simple Lunch

mommychef — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:27:00 +0000

I cooked something different and wanted to tried new dishes on them the other day. We had plain porridge for lunch with stir fried french bean and fish fillet.

stir fried french bean with eggs.

stir fried fish fillet with fermented sweet bean paste and garlic. (I just put in a tiny bits of fermented bean paste as taste)

Verdict: Both of them like it so much. Sometimes it is good to serve plain porridge with other side dishes instead of put everything into the pot and cook together.

Quick Fixed Lunch

mommychef — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:17:00 +0000

Jia Jia has to attend ballet lessons today and she was really hungry when we reached home. So, in order to fill up her hungry tummy, I had to come out with this as quick fixed lunch.

Shell pasta cooked in Heinz white sauce and tuna, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. It is served with broccoli coated with butter .

These are the ingredients. Easy, right?

Simple Meals

mommychef — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:55:00 +0000

Read a few blogs the other day and was keen to try out some yummy recipe that shared by the mommy blogger. Here are what I had cooked for our dinner today.

fry prawns (dry-style) with soy sauce, Chinese cooking wine and brown sugar.

stir fried french bean with garlic and fermented bean paste.

marmite chicken served with stir fried broccoli and cauliflower. Thanks to HN for sharing this.

Not forgetting the fruits after dinner. Cherry tomatoes, grapes (red and green) for the kids.

Simple Lunch

mommychef — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:09:00 +0000

I lost of ideas for lunch the other day or maybe mommy is still yet recovered from the tiredness from traveling (excuses, excuses) and just prepare a very simple lunch for the 3 of us.

In fact, I have been taking long afternoon nap this few days ever since I am back from Brunei. Hubby said that it was due to lack of sleep during the weekend as I stayed up quite late till 2am+ chit-chatting with my brother.

Here’s what we had on Tuesday afternoon.

Toast brown bread with cheese and ham. Serve with strawberries and yakult.

Both yakult and strawberries were bought at Supa Save, Brunei. These two items are the “must-have” in my shopping list whenever I go Brunei.

Simple Lunch

mommychef — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:36:00 +0000

I had cooked a quick and easy dish for lunch the other day. As my little girl likes prawn so much, I tried to add in prawn into the stir fried broccoli. Both the kids like it so much that they had a big plate of rice that day. I just serve the dish with white rice, no soup etc.

Ingredients:-

Broccoli, Japanese tofu, prawns, tomato

1) Marinate prawns with corn starch, light soy sauce and sesame oil.

2) Put broccoli in boiling water and let it cooked for few minutes. Drain and keep it aside.

3) Heat up oil, put in chopped garlic, saute until fragrant. Add in marinated prawns and stir fried for a few minutes then add in tomato. Continue to stir fry.

4) put in the broccoli and stir fry for a while before adding the Japanese tofu. Put in water and let all ingredients simmers for a few minutes before add in some oyster sauce.

5) Dish up and serve. Easy, right?

Simple Meal

mommychef — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:33:00 +0000

We had chicken rice for dinner yesterday. Stir fried a green veggie dish and it is too bland just to eat chicken without any veggie.

stir fried veggie with garlic and oyster sauce

晒油蒜米白切鸡 (chicken in garlic and soy sauce) . This dish is very easy to prepare.

Ingredients:-

1/2 chicken ( I use 2 big chicken drumstick)

2 pips garlics(chopped)

Clean chicken well , boil a pot of water. Once water boils, put in the chicken and cook for about 10 minutes. do not remove the chicken from the pot. Let it soaks in the hot water for at least 25 minutes. Dish up and chop into pieces.

The most important part is the seasoning sauce. Ingredients are simple, some oyster sauce, sugar, chicken stock, water and wine. Heat up some oil in a pan, stir in garlic and fry until fragrant. Add in all seasoning ingredients. Keep stirring until gravy turns thicker. Pour on the chopped chicken pieces.

As for the chicken rice, I use pre-mixed Nyonya Rempah to mix into the rice, add in 2 tablespoon of margarine and put in a few screw pines leaves and cook.

Simple and yet easy to prepare! Kids and hubby loves it.

Kueh Chap

mommychef — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:30:00 +0000

I am not sure whether you can find this in West Malaysia but it is very common in Sarawak. Almost every stall in the food court sells kueh chap.

I did not fancy this bowl of big, thick noodle plus the “spare parts” and lean pork when a colleague of my hubby brought me to try it out.

But then ever since I have tried out a few times, I am just fall in love with kueh chap. On most Saturdays, hubby will bring me to the “best in town” kueh chap stall for breakfast after drop off Jia Jia for her ballet lesson.

我们简单的午餐

mommychef — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:04:00 +0000

昨晚临睡前，问我的小公主明天午餐想要吃什么，她说要吃麺条。我这个女儿在吃这方面，像极了我！偏爱麺条，面包这类食物。

她还特别要求我放鸡肉与鱼丸，于是我就炒了一盘麺当午餐，放些鸡肉，鱼丸与长白菜，即简单又有益。

连我的小佻皮皓皓也吃下一大碗！

Our Dinner

mommychef — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:37:00 +0000

These are the dishes I cooked for our dinner yesterday.

stir-fried green mustard with garlic in oyster sauce

steam garoupa fish with ginger and tomato

The curry dish looks complicated but it is easy to prepare with the ready mix spices and sauce.