41: Home Cooking

So last night I was tasked with whipping up some dishes for dinner. With some basic instructions from my mum, and a head blocked by a cold, I was thrown into the deep end. Lets hope it turns out good. Note: Photo quality may vary. I'm editing them on my new toy now.

First, the (blurry) picture of Pumpkins and Siew Yok. I hate taking photos from my dining room actually, since I have contrasting lights. One warm orange one and one flourescent white one.

Recipe... What recipie? There not much "cook for 5 minutes things here". I had to do all these by feeling. I was quite worried the whole time through that the things were not properly cooked.

Main ingredients were:-
Garlic
Dried Prawns
Pumpkins
Pork (Siew Yok)

Start of with half a bowl of garlic, cook until semi brown then chuck in the dried prawns and fry until fagrant. The pork goes in next. Followed by the pumpkin. Add about a bowl of water and close the lid of your wok and leave it to simmer and cook. Salt and pepper to taste.

Simple eh?

Next was the Sweet, Sour, and Spicy Nano Nano ♪ Siew Cheong.

Alright, the photo turned out better.

Main ingredients were:-
Garlic
Onions
Chilies (seeded)
Pineapples
Ginger (julienned)
Tumeric powder
and Siew Cheong ( cured?Pork Intestines)

Add half a bowl of garlic and fry until fagrant. Then add in about a bowl of onions. In goes the ginger and the chilies. Add the pineapple and a pinch of tumeric when the time is right (you see what I did there? Yes, I hope my parents are proud of me. Paying for my college education like that, so if I failed this simple dish, heads will roll). Finally add the siew cheong, since it doesn't require much cooking.

Stay tuned tonight. I'm cooking a tomato-based pasta. Wish me luck!

Seafood pasta in a tomato-based sauce. A little too watery. My bad, because I added a tad too much water when simmering the tomatoes.

Basically its just a variety of mushrooms with things like squid, prawns and (canned) tuna tossed in the tomato sauce.

Not bad. My first pasta dish after that cabonara sauce a few months back.

Here's for more to come! (And hopefully my mum doesn't take it as a ritual thing. I'm not gonna cook every weekend. Bah.)