First Attempt(s) in the Kitchen

After being housewife, there're many first attempts in the kitchen. Sometimes, housewife made the kitchen upside down for the first attempt of new recipe. LOL

Of course, housewife is blessed to have parents and mother-in-law who are good in cooking. Therefore, housewife has got many recipies from them and needless to say, there're "live" recipe which housewife can call for help anytime.. :P

There's many recipe housewife has missed taking photos but nevermind, share some easy-to-prepare dishes with you...

Let the pictures speaks....

a. Tumeric Fried Fish

It's an easy recipe. All it needs to do is to marinate fish with salt, lemon and tumeric. The normal recipe didn't season with lemon but it does the magic on its flavour.

b. "Bee Tai Bak" with fish

This is a recipe from dad.

It's a healthy yet simple meal. Both hubby and housewife love it so much. Did cook for mother-in-law and she also complimented on this dish. :P

Anyway, soup is the 'master' of the dish and it tells everything.

Soup base: Fish bone, dried scallop, ginger & anchovies

Ingredients: Vege, fresh fish seasoned with sesame oil & soy sauce, fried anchovies

c. Pumpkin Cake

This is a recipe from mother-in-law. Guess what? housewife could finish half of it because it's simply too yummy. On top of that, the preparation is simple.

For those who refrain from yam, you can replace it with pumpkin and housewife personally feel that it tastes better than yam. :) Oh ya, housewife want to remind everyone: Pumpkin invites 'farting'. Watch out!! :P



Preparation: 

a. 2 small bowl of Flour with 3 small bowl of water, 1 teaspoon of salt & 'ajinomoto"

b. Fried pumpkin (cut into cube),red onion, fried dried shrimp separately

c. Mixed flour and all ingredients in the pot and stir.

d. Steam & Serve

d. "Otak-Otak"

This is a signature dish of mother-in-law - mouth-watering otak otak. Housewife couldn't find any good otak-otak in hometown after trying it. hehe...

It needs good otak-otak paste, leave (forgot its name), egg, coconut milk and fresh fish/prawn.

e. Pumpkin Rice

This is a new recipe housewife has just learnt. Very simple to prepare so even when you're busy at work, you can still enjoy home-cooked dinner at home with these few steps...

a. Fried red onion and dried shrimp

b. Cook pumpkin (cut it into cube)

c.  Mixed all ingredients with rice and cook in the rice cooker

d. Serve with spring onion.

f. "Kerabu"

This is like an appertizer but it serves well with 'bee hoon' or porridge. It's very appetizing.

Ingredients: Lime, onion, dried shrimp and chillies.

Mixed all ingredients and does it!

Alright, that's all for today...

:)