Minestrone soup

Here’s my son’s fav minestrone soup. I made some earlier but since son did not have his seconds, and I have lots of celery in the fridge, I remade another big pot.

It’s a relatively clear soup and comfort food especially for a cold day - not the current weather. It’s scorching, with some heavy short-lived showers in the afternoon.

Really good with a good old sandwich for a easy meal.

Dry laksa

This is a simple but tasty laksa - dry version, with lots of daun kesom (laksa leaves), taugih, fishcake, tau pok and prawns, or you can add cockles like the soupy laksa version.

Yummy - I made some for lunch yesterday and since there was lots of leftover ingredients (I bought thick bee hoon for 2 but there is enough to feed 4!), I made it again today ! Remember to get lots of daun kesom - wonder if I can plant some - really love the smell and taste of those leaves.

More muffins

I baked 3 trays of muffins one afternoon - Carrots with cream cheese fillings (getting exotic right?), cranberry and banana walnut chocolate chips !!

And the next day I baked blueberry muffins with blueberry cereal, apricot, honey and oat muffins, and (normal haha) chocolate chips muffins.. I gave most away to neighbours, and the doc and nurses :)

Some desserts

My first attempt at making lek tau suan - oversteamed the mung beans but the overall taste is still fine. Son had to queue for the you tiao for 15 mins though ! I thought it would be more complicated but actually it's really simple. Will make it again as I like my tau suan less starchy and the ones sold outside can be really starchy.

Also made some chendol agar agar. Wanted to put in small moulds but son wanted to use his "Happy Birthday" mould .. funny right ?

One dish meal - Stewed pork ribs with kuay teow

Used the slow cooker to cook stewed pork for dinner. After 8 hours of stewing, the meat literally falls off the bones. And I chose lean parts :)

Then added some blanched veggies and kuay teow and voila .. dinner is ready :)

Cooking with zucchini

Zucchini - looks somewhat like a cucumber (my hubby for one bought a Japanese cucumber when I asked him to get a zucchini!) - is an interesting vegetable (a squash to be more exact). I have only used it a few times - in soup. Saw this zucchini fritter recipe and since there is one z in the fridge, decided to make some to go along with the lemongrass grilled chicken.

You need to squeeze dry the zucchini first else it will be too soggy. I added some flour, breadcrumbs, cheese, onions and eggs to it and pan-fry them. Goes nicely with the chicken :)

Hmm next to try zucchini quiche :)

Muffins day

My sis gave me a big pack of dried cranberries and I can’t really take this now. But this recipe seems tempting so why not .. Oooo the result is a really tasty cranberry muffin ! Used nutmeg, cinnamon, ground ginger as base spices and the overall effect is just nice - not too strong.

Also did a batch of orange muffins.