SALAD

SALADS

MODERN COOKING
JUST FOLLOW YOUR HEARTS AND STOMACHS

SIMPLE SALAD
COMMOM LETTUCE - THE ICEBERG LETTUCE
SOAK IN ICE COLD WATER TO HAVE A CRISPY LETTUCE NICE TO THE BITES
DO NOT CUT THE LETTUCE, BREAK IT WITH YOUR FINGER WHEN WASHING
DRAIN THE LEAVES AND STORE IN THE CHILLER

TOMATOES
CUT WEDGES , SLICES, OR STRIPS

ONIONS
CUT RINGS OR SLICE IN STRIPS

CAPSCIUM RED, YELLOW, GREEN
CUT RINGS OR SLICES
OR BURN THE CAPSCIUMS AND REMOVE THE BURNT OUTER AND CUT INTO STRIPS

BEAN SPROUTS
BRANCH OR RAW MARINATED WITH OLIVE OIL AND LEMON JUICE

AS A MATTER, LOTS OF VEG TASTE BETTER IF JUST MARINATE WITH OLIVE OIL AND LEMON JUICE

TO SERVE TOSS THE CUT VEGETABLES WITH THE LETTUCE AND SEASON WITH LEMON JUICE AND OLIVE OIL ( MUST AT THE MINUTE DURING SERVICE, THE LETTUCE WILL BE CRISPY)

SEAFOOD CHOWDER

AMERICAN

STOCK

THE SOLE BONES WERE THE ONLY BONE USE IN TRADITIONAL COOKING
BUT TIME CHANGES ,AND NOW EVERY SEAFOOD AND FISH BONES ACCEPTED
ADD
LEEK
CELERY
ONION
CARROTS
COOK THE VEGETABLES IN WATER UNTIL THE FAVOUR IS IN THE WATER
ADD
FISH AND SEAFOOD IN THE VEGETABLE STOCK TO COOK

CHOWDER

STRAIN THE STOCK
REHEAT THE STOCK
MIX WATER AND FLOUR AND STRAIN THE MIXTURE
WHISK TO STIR THE STOCK WHILE POURING THE FLOUR AND WATER MIXTURE INTO
THE STOCK, IT WILL THICKEN
ADD TOMATO SAUCE
ADD SEASONING, SALT , OR SEAFOOD SEASONING
TASTE IT

CUT COOKED FISH INTO PIECES
WHOLE PEELED COOKED PRAWN
COOKED SCALLOPS
MUSSELS
COOKED SQUIDS CUT LARGE PIECES
TOMATO CUT INTO QUATERS

BRING TO THE BOIL
CHECK SEASONING AND CONSISTENCY
READY TO SERVE

ASIAN DEMAND BEHIND SHARK DEPLETION

SYDNEY

ASIAN DEMAND FOR SHARK'S FIN SOUP IS PUSHING THE ANIMAL'S POPULATION IN THE WILD TO NEW LOWS, THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT AND WILDLIFE TRADE MONITORING GROUP SAID IN A REPORT RELEASED YESTERDAY.

THE REPORT FOUND THAT WHILE MORE THAN ONE-FIFTH OF SHARKS SPCIES WERE THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION, A LACK OF GOVERNMENT CONTROL ON OVERFISHING AND THE PROBLEM OF ILLEGAL FISHING WERE FURTHER DEPLETING THE ANIMALS NUMBER.

"THE STATUS OF SHARKS STOCKS CONTINUES TO DETERIOTE," IT SAID, ADDING THAT THE PREDATORS WERE PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE TO OVERFISHING BECAUSE THEY PRODUCED FEW YOUNG AND MATURE SLOWLY.

PRAWN NOODLE

WHITE THICK RICE VEMECELLI
COOKED PORK MEAT CUT IN STRIPS
WHOLE PRAWN WITH SHELLS
BEAN SPROUTS
VERY GOOD PORK STOCK

TO PREPARE THE PORK STOCK
COOK A KNUCKLE OF PORK IN WATER, ADD SALT, UNTIL TENDER
REMOVE FROM STOCK AND PLACE PORK IN CHILLER TO BECOME FIRM, IT EASY TO CUT
NICELY

FRY THE RICE VEMECELLI ( THICK BEE HOON)
IN PORK FAT OR COOKING OIL
ADD BEAN SPROUTS AND CARRY ON FRYING
AND PORK STOCK
COVER WITH LID UNTIL THE BEE HOON BECOME STICKY
ADD PRAWNS AND OTHER INGREDIENTS
COOK A LITTLE LONGER, CHECK SEASONING
READY TO SERVE

HOR FUN ( THE OLD FASHION WAY)

BUY THE HOR FUN FROM THE MARKET STALL

SLICE PORK LIVER, SLICE PORK, PRAWNS WITHOUT SHELLS, SOTONGS CUT LARGE PIECES, AND CHAI SIM CUT IN SERVING SIZE

HEAT A WOK IN VERY HIGH FLAME UNTIL YOU SEE SMOKE
PUT HALF LADDLE COOKING OIL TO COAT THE WOK WITH OIL
POUR THE OIL BACK TO THE OIL CONTAINER
PUT THE WOK BACK ON THE FLAME AGAIN IN HIGH FLAME
PUT THE HOR FUN INTO THE WOK AND COOK UNTIL IT'S BROWN
ADD A LITTLE DARK SOY SAUCE, AND LITTLE LIGHT SOY SAUCE
NOW IS EASY TO BROWN THE HOR FUN
WHEN IS NICE AND BROWN REMOVE HOR FUN FROM WOK

HEAT THE WOK AGAIN
ADD A LITTLE COOKING OIL
ADD CHOPPED SHALLOTS AND GARLIC
BEFORE THE GARLIC TURN BROWN
ADD OYSTERS SAUCE
ADD PORK AND ALL OTHER INGREDIENTS
ADD A LITTLE DARK SOY SAUCE, AND LIGHT SOY SAUCE
THEN ADD THE PORK STOCK( OR USE THE CHICKEN CUBE,MAYBE PLAIN WATER WILL DO)
THICKEN THE SAUCE WITH CORNFLOUR AND WATER
THEN PUT THE HOR FUN INTO THE SAUCE

(NON PORK EATER CAN COOK WITH BEEF, CHICKEN, OR SEAFOOD, COOKING IS UP
TO YOUR TASTE BUDS)

Cooking with wine

SEAFOOD STEW WITH WHITE WINE

IN A SAUTE' PAN
HEAT THE PAN AND ADD OLIVE OIL
ADD ONIONS CUT INTO LARGE CUBES, GLOVES GARLIC WHOLE
COOK UNTIL ONION TURN BROWN
ADD QUATER TOMATOES, LARGE PIECES OF CAPCIUM, RED, GREEN AND YELLOW
ADD WHITE WINE TO THE VEGETABLE ( CAN ALSO USE WATER INSTEAD)
SEASON WITH SALT AND HERBS (THYMES AND OREGANO)

IN THE MEANTIME PANFRIED SEAFOOD SEASON WITH THYMES, AND OREGANO
MARINATED WITH OLIVE OIL, AND SEASONED WITH SALT
SQUIDS WHOLE
WHOLE FISHS
LARGE PRAWNS
HALF CRABS
MUSSELS
SCALLOPS

POUR THE VEGETABLES ON THE SEAFOOD TO COMPLETE THE COOKING
A FEW MINUTES OF COOKING,
THE SEAFOOD STEW IS READY TO SERVE

Yoghurt to cook curried mutton

Cut muttons in large cube
Marinate with garram masala tomato diced and yoghurt,and diced onion, and season with salt
Sit over-night in a chiller
Remove from chiller and coat the meat with flour
Cook in a sauce pan until the meat turn brown
Cook all sides of the meat until all are brown
Cover with lid and in low flame cook until tender
Add yoghurt, cook in low heat, until it thicken
Care must be taken, the yoghurt can break if the heat is high
Ready to serve

ATE HUMAN FLESH TO SURVIVE

PORT-AU-PRINCE (HAITI)
FIVE MIGRANTS RESCUED AFTER 15 DAYS LOST AT SEA ATE THEIR DEAD COMRADES TO STAY ALIVE, A DOMINICIAN OFFICIAL HAS SAID.

DOMINICAN MINISTER OF TOURISM FRANCISCO IAVIAR GARCIA SAID THE REMAINING
FOUR, PART OF A TOTAL OF 33 DOMININICICAN MIGRANTS TRYING TO REACH PUERTO
RICO BY BOAT, TOLD HIM THEY ATE FROM THE CORPSE OF THE LAST MAN TO DIE, REPORTED THE DAILY MAIL.

AFTER 15 DAYS, WITH HIS BODY DEHYDRATED AND NEAR STARVING, MR GREGORIO MARIA MARIZAN FINALLY TOOK HIS FISHERMAN'S KNIFE.

"WE CUT FROM HIS LEG AND CHEST." MR MARIZAN, 31, TOLD AP FROM HOSPITAL ON MONDAY. "WE CUT LITTLE PIECES AND SWALLOWED THEM LIKE PILLS. IT'S LIKE BEEF, ALMOST THE SAME."

EATING THOSE WHO PERISHED WAS NOT AN IDEA THAT CAME EASILY, SAID THE RECOVERING FISHERMAN. "IMAGINE, 15 DAYS WITHOUT FOOD, WITHOUT WATER. WE HAD TO EAT HIM , TO SAVE OUR OWN LIVES," MR MARIZAN SAID

Fried rice ( in The good old days)

Ingedients
Crab meat ( Just the meat)
Char Siew meat( Cut into small Dived)
Chinese Sausage
Eggs
Peas
Shallots (chopped)
Garlic (chopped)


HEAT A WOK TO VERY HOT
POUR 1/2 LADDLE COOKING OIL INTO THE WOK
MOVE THE OIL TO COVER THE BASE WITH OIL
ON THE HEAT UNTIL YOU CAN SEE SMOKE IN THE OIL
POUR THE OIL BACK TO THE OIL CONTAINER
ADD A ENOUGH OIL YO THE WOK
PUT IN THE CHINESE COOK UNTIL COOKED
ADD CHOPPED GARLIC AND SHALLOT
BREAK IN THE EGG AND STIR
PUT THE BREAKUP COOKED RICE AND STIR-FRIED
ADD THE OTHER INGREDIENTS
THE WOK MUST BE VEERY HOT ALL THE TIME
TOSS, STIR-FRIED UNTIL THE WOK FAVOUR GET INTO THE RICE
ADD LIGHT SOY SAUCE
CONTINUE FURTHER
CHECK SEASONING
READY TO SERVE ( TO BE EATEN STRAIGHT AWAY)

WHOLE FISH IN OVEN GRILL

PREPARE FISH WHOLE
CLEAN AND REMOVE STOMACH
DRY, SEASON WITH HERBS OF YOUR CHOICE
OR JUST SALT AND PEPPER
POUR OLIVE OIL ON THE FISH
AND IN THE ROASTING PAN
DO NOT CUT THE FISH
OVEN TURN ON THE GRILL
TEMPERATURE 210C
DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE FISH
BIGGER FISH TAKES TIME TO COOK
POKE A KNIFE OR FOLK OR CHOPPED STICK
WHEN COOK IT IS SOFT AND EASY TO RUN IN.

SOY DUCK

ONE WHOLE DUCK
CLEAN INSIDE OF DUCK
IN A HOT WOK
THROW IN CININAMON STICK, FIVE SPICES
COOK UNTIL THE FAVOUR HEAT YOUR NOSE
POUR IN BLACK SOY SAUCE
REDUCE TO SAUCE THICKEN
PLACE WHOLE DUCK IN WOK
COVER WITH LID
REDUCE THE FRAME TO SIMMER
TURNING THE DUCK OVER
TO MAKE SURE THE DUCK COOK IN SAUCE
DO NOT ADD WATER,
IF YOU HAVE TO
ADD A LITTLE
COOK UNTIL WELL-DONE
MUST BE TENDER

SATAY CHICKEN, MUTTON, OR BEEF

CUT THE MEAT INTO LONG STRIPS
MARRINADE THE MEAT WITH GARRAM MASALA
USING THE SATAY STICK
MAKE THE MEAT INTO SATAY WITH THE STICK

GRILL THE SATAY

ROAST THE CHOPPED PEANUTS
CHOPPED SHALLOTS,PUT SOME OIL, SAUTE THE SHALLOT, ADD GARRAM MASALA
FLOUR AND IN LOW HEAT UNTIL THE FAVOUR HIT YOUR NOSE.
ADD STOCK, SEASON

CUT SOME ONION AND CUCUMBER AS SIDE DISH

BONELESS CHICKEN WITH MUSHROOM SAUCE

SEASCON CHICKEN WITH SALT AND PEPPER
COAT THE CHICKEN LEGS WITH FLOUR
SHAKE OFF EXCESS FLOUR
HEAT UP A SAUTE' PAN OR A CHINESE WOK
PUT IN SOME OIL
ARRANGE THE MEAT IN THE PAN TO COOK
SLICE SOME BUTTON MUSHROOMS
OR SHAKITE MUSHROOMS
ALSO SLICE LITTLE SHALLOTS
COOK TOGETHER WITH THE CHICKEN
LOWER THE HEAT
COVER WITH A LID
WHEN ONE SIDE IS COOK
TURN THE CHICKEN OVER TO COOK THE OTHER SIDE
WHEN THE CHICKEN IS COOK ADD COOKING CREAM
COOK UNTIL THE CREAM THICKEN
THE CHICKEN CAN BE SERVED

CURRIED CHICKEN (EASY METHOD)

CHICKEN LEGS WITH BONE
MARINATE CHICKEN WITH GARRAM MASALA AND ONION ROUGHLY CUT
COAT THE CHICKEN WITH FLOUR.
PAN FRIED THE CHICKEN
ADD A LITTLE STOCK
COVER WITH LID UNTIL CHICKEN IS COOKED
ADD TINNED COCONUT MILK AND SIMMER
THE CURRY IS READY TO SERVE

NASI LEMAK SIMPLE METHOD

WASH RICE AS USUAL, ADD COCONUT MILK, PANDAN ESSENCE, SALT AND COOK IN A RICE COOKER UNTIL COOKED.

IKAN BILLIS DEEP FRIED OR THROW IN THE OVEN TO TOAST.
PEANUT DEEPFRIED IN OIL OR THROW IN THE OVEN TO TOAST


AS OR THE CHILLIES , BLEND CHILLIES WITH SEEDS
CHOPPED SHALLOTS AND GARLIC
TOAST SOME BALACHAM

HOT WOK, ADD OIL, REDUCE THE HEAT, ADD CHOPPED SHALLOT, GARLIC AND CHILLIES
AND COOK UNTIL THE CHILLIES DON'T TASTE RAW. THE ADD THE BALACHAM, LITTLE SUGAR AND KAM QUAT JUICE. MIXED IN THE IKAN BILLIS.

YOU MAY SERVE WITH CHICKEN, FRIED EGGS, ETC.

MELAMINE INTO ANIMAL FEED IS AN "OPEN SECRET"

FRIDAY OCTOBER 31,2008
BEIJING
TODAY

THE PRACTICE OF MIXING MELAMINE INTO ANIMAL FEED IS AN "OPEN SECRET" IN THE INDUSTRY, THE NANFANG DAILY NEWSPAPER REPORTED.

THE DISCOVERY OF TAINTED EGGS FOLLOWED ON THE HEELS OF A SIMILAR CRISIS INVOLVED COMPROMISED DAIRY PRODUCTS THAT SENT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN TO THE HOSPITAL AND WAS LINKED TO THE DEATHS OF FOUR INFANTS.

DAIRY SUPPIERS ADDED MELAMINE, A CHEMICAL USED TO MAKE PLASTICS AND FERTILISER, TO WATERED-DOWN MILK IN ORDER TO DUPE QUALITY CONTROL TESTS AND MAKE THE PRODUCT APPEAR RICH IN PROTEIN.

MELAMINE IS HIGH IN NITROGEN, AND MOST PROTEIN CHECKS TEST FOR NITROGEN LEVELS. IT GIVE THE IMPRESSION OF HIGHER PROTEIN LEVELS IN AQUATIC FEED, THEN LATER IN FEED FOR LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY, THE REPORT SAID.

Family served faeces-laced gelato after making complaint

SYDNEY
29 OCTOBER 2008 WEDNESDAY
TODAY

A Sydney pub has been accused of serving chocolate gelato laced with frozen faeces to a family

Mr and Mrs Stephen Whyte,and their 3 young children were at the Coogee Bay Hotel on Oct 5 when they were given the free gelato, after complaining about the pub's loud music.

According to a report in The Sydney Morning Herald. Mrs said she became violently ill after eating a spoonfull of the ice-cream. The family sent a sample of the gelato tp the National Measurements Institute, which found that it had "properties similar to human excreta", The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

To cut cost when preparing food or cheating

Me-la-mine
There are so many ways to cut corners and of course do it legally.
Call it fine dinning.
usually a blender or electic chopper will do the job for you.
Instead of serving a piece of meat,
Chopped it up in the blender add cream, or water that will increase the volume of the meat. Pipe it or shape it, grill in the salamader and brush with egg wash to give a brown or usinging a blown touch. Decorate with some colourful sauce and colour veggies
Fine dinning is the presentation of the food, lots of bullshits, I prefer classical food. Don't have to add melamine, that is murder!!!

Make a quick Buck!!!

China is in the head line again.
Many people with money like to by food that is cheap!!!
Cheap food or Making the food cheap to sell,
Who is the winner or who is the losser.
The subject is Milk and milk products.

How the maggots got into mac maggots curry ?

The packing might be broken by packing and the flies just lay some eggs.Giving enough
maggots to feed one hungry guest, just one is too many. At least this is a dinning experience, a once in a life time dinning experience, the guest will remember forever.

Maggots in Curry Sauce - Mc Donald

It is frightening to find maggots in food.With so many things about food happening it is only wise that we must not trust the brand. Many many years as a consummer remind me
before putting any food into my mouth take a careful look before eating. it will be too
late to complain.

Seven lunar (spirits on vacation)

Now is lunar 7 month, most people fear spirits, do not fear them, just respect them, most spirits are kind souls. Don't worry they came to visit their loved ones and at the same time, the livings offer them food. Enjoy yourselves spirit Gods, have a nice vacation, cheers!!!

Are hawkers food clean

About the food sold,in restaurants, hotels, food courts,coffee shops are they clean. As all of us know, local don't want to cook. Most of the food preparations people are aliens. Are cooked food in S'pore clean, I say don't look at the cloths they wear,the gloves they wear, just eat the food!!!

Come lunar 7 month, we eat the food after the spirit god ate

Every year we pray to the spirit gods and after they have eaten we ate. But there people who have yin-yang visions. They saw the spirit god eating and they are turned off.

You can also buy ready made

There are many sauces, stocks, and seasoning on the supermarket shelves. You don't have to know to cook to serve tasty meals to your friends. All have something in common, artificial enhancement to make it taste very good!!!

Respecting ourselves in public

Many people want respect to an extend they make anybody who served them small, belittled the service people,demanding, rude for just one reason, just want to look better then others.Respect is something people gave to us,we don't respect others for nothing and other cannot respect us for no reason. Service people provide the service are professional they follow the rule of the trade,they make us "look like a king" does not mean they belittled themselves .Very simple no matter how wealthy a person is that is a personnel matter respect is given, by people who think you reserve it, not because you are rich or having a high paid job.

Food for your plant (fertizer)

If YOU HAVE DOG/S IN YOU HOUSE...AND YOU HAVE PLANTS WE TALK ABOUT FOOD FOR THE PLANTS. FOOD FOR THE PLANTS NEED A FEW MONTHS OF " COOKING" JUST KIDDING I MEAN PREPARATION. WHEN YOUR DOG/S POO POO COLLECT IT. USE A AIR TIGHT BIG CONTAINER,PUT IT AWAY FROM PEOPLE IN A CORNER SOMEWHERE IN OR OUT THE HOUSE. BOTTOM OF CONTAINER SPREAD A LAYER OF WOOD SHAVING. PICK THE DOG POO AND COLLECT THEM EVERYDAY, SPREAD WOOD SHAVING TO KEEP THE POO DRY. FILL THE CONTAINER TO HALF AND LET IT STAND FOR ABOUT SIX MONTH. USE A SAME TYPE OF CONTAINER AND BEGIN A NEW COLLECTION. CAN NOW USE THE AGED POO POO TO FERTIZER YOU PLANTS, FERTIZER YOUR PLANTS EVERY 3 MONTHS SOME PLANTS ONLY NEED VERY LITTLE FOOD.

Communication make the world goes round

Don't work too hard, if it is yours it is yours if not it never mend to be. Most people think that the boss can notice you when you work very hard. This is true everybody knows that you work hard. They know how you work.Are you organised, can you take and give instruction, do you know to organise the your staff, looking after their welfare, understand the company objectives.Company must make money . Your family is the most important, the job can be history, but family forever.

Food for your dogs, cats, fishes

If you keep dogs, cats, fishes and you can cook all their food together, In a microware container put a little water, put in the fish and cook. When the fish is cooked remove all the bones, don't add salt, give the fish to the fishes, your cats, and dogs. Do not throw away the water add it to the cats and dogs food.Big ocean fish!!1

To prepare a chinese stock for chinese kitchen

A standard receipe to prepare a stock in the chinese kitchen. Water, pork bones, rock sugar, soy beans. Cook until the stock is tasty.

Service staff can punish the Guest!!!

Some people like to make themselves notice, can even cook and serve better then the staff. Service staff after years of being talked down,abused by guest soon found a getback solution instead of get angry,upset. Some of the goodies are saliva, urine being the most satifyiing get back tools. Maids also apply the same seasoning.

Roast Chicken

Marinate the chicken with mixed herbs and light soy sauce overnight in the chiller. Roast in oven 210C until cooked.

French Onion Soup ( Just like the soup you get in family rest.

Onion Soup just like the soup you get in coffee houses.
Put enough water in a pot and add chicken booster, (maggi chicken seasoning), slice onion and cook in the microwave oven until soft, the saute'in a pan until brown, pour the stock into the slice onions.Cook until the onion thicken a little.Scoop the soup in a bowl. Put a piece of toast, grated cheese and grill in the oven, using top grill heat.Do not add any more seasoning.

Cream of chicken soup( taste like the canned soup)

To make a soup that taste like the canned soup. Enough water to make the soup, add chicken booster, bring to the boil, in a contain mix flour to water and whisk, pour into the boiling water whisking until the consistency reach a cream soup, add cooking cream and small dice chicken meat.Do not add any other seasoning.

Chinese opera and hawkers food in the 50s

In the 50s there was no such thing as hygiene, people don't know about hygiene. A push cart stall selling kuai tiew soup. There was no tap water in the stall. The hawker had to carry the water from a standing tap 5mins away. Stall was busy, the water used to wash the plate was pour into stock pot, thinking that no one was looking and he was right people were not worried about that.

How about Australian chef when they get upset

There were lots and lots of orders,a guest was very demanding, the chef was upset by the demand, annoyed the throw the fillet steak on the floor, step on it and threw it on the grill to cook, customers alway right? true, yes it is true but stupid it's the chef
decision whether the food taste extra good.

BBQ for the family and friends

Holiday time, invite your friends and family to a BBQ.
Meat suitable for BBQ:Weight about 50grms per piece. Tomato catchup,chillies sauce,bottle bbq sauce, lea and perrin, garram masala, curry powder, Tumeric powder,lemon sauce, oyster sauce, kickkoman sauce, terrikaki sauce. Sambal chillies sauce,Combine 2or3 type sauce for 1 type of meat. For fish use a banana leaf or foil and coated with sambal chillies,Kangkong with sambal you can also cook in banana leaf.
Bean sprouts with sambal chillies in banana leaf.You can also BBQ Sweet potato, Bananas
do not peel the bananas. Crab BBQ whole, insert a knife or chop stick to kill the crab, do not break open the crab, the juice will escape and the crabs will be dried. Flame must be red hot.

Pan-fried scotch fillet served with onion sauce.

Buy a scotch fillet ready cutted. One piece per person.Put some flour in a plate, seasoned the steak, place it on the plate and coat both sides of the steak with flour. Shake off access flour. In a sauce pan (I used sauce pan and not frying pan because the oil will not make your kitchen oily) heat up the pan, add a little olive oil,in medium low heat, place the steak in the pan, slice an onion and place the onion to pan fry with the steak. Turn the steak over when is half way during the cooking also stir the onion to stir fried the onion. Throw a little flour in the onion and stir. When the steak is cooked to your done liking remove it, add a white or red wine(enough to make the sauce) to the pan(can also use stock or water) the sauce will thickened by itself, add little cooking cream (if you have it) stir, season to taste. Put the steak back into the sauce cover the steak with sauce cook until the steak is hot. Beautiful mum or my cooking. Enjoy it.

Chee Chong Fun

In the 50s, the old cantonese lady sold chee chong fun.She carried the two basket like stall, put on the ground, and sat on a small stool,with a pair of scissors she cutted the chee chong fun. I saw her cutting her nails as i was about to buy from her, but made a u turn when I saw her cutting the nail with the scissors.

Chock,( Congree)

In the 50s,20cents or 10cents for a bowl of cuttle fish congee, came across a big piece
of cuttle, my teeth could not chew. I took it out from my mouth and it was a bandage.

Old Toa Payoh Hospital

In the 90s there was a Toa Payoh Hospital.Behind the hospital there was a forest. There
were plenty of mynals (birds). There were no wire mess to prevent the birds from flying
into the hospital kitchen. The ladies cooks prepared the bee hoon, the birds came in to
to take their breakfast, at the same time dropped some goodies into the bee hoon,a lady cook saw the dropping in the been hoon, used her hand, picked the dropping and the
the bee hoon, a handful and throw into the bin.

Good Morning .... Roti Prata..... For You

Talking about Prata for breakfast.
Prata cook from India, went to work, before working he visited the toilet, after that he
washed his bum bum came out and went to prepare his prata. He thinks it is clean since
he wash his hand with water when washing his bum.But what about soap?

Simple lunch take to office food

Most offices has a microwave oven.Put all food in small plastic bags.Cut veg,meat, noodle/cooked rice/been hoon/cooked spaghatti, in plastic bags do put in different bag.
Put all the bags in the microwave and cook. A container fill 1/2 with water bring to the boil. Remove the all the food and pour into the boiling water, bring to the boil again and add seasoning to taste. Not messy!!! no long Q...Cheers.

Hawker touching their foot and nose digging

In Singapore many hawker(food preparation people) don't wear proper foot wear and socks.
During the non peak period you may sometime see hawker touching, or rubbing their foot,digging their nose or wearing a dirty old glove on one hand not taking it out when going to the toilet.

How to prepare tasty food without MSG

Chef cooked food taste good, Mum food does not taste as good
The food must be prepared using tasty stock
You can prepare tasty stock if you have bones veg trimmings and cook until your stock is tasty, takes a long time, remove the bones and trimmings and reduce the stock, a concentrated stock is tasty!!!Cheers enjoy your meals.

Prepare tasty chinese food

There is a way to prepare tasty chinese food
Pour 1/2 laddler oil into a very hot wok
Coat the surface with oil and pour the oil back into the oil container
Put the wok back on the flame and add a little add chopped shallots,chopped garlic
when the galic turn a little brown add oyster sauce and put it your meat or veg and stir fried, season to taste!!! enjoy your cooking.
Use this method for all stir-fried food.

Finger foods

Finger food is food you pick up using your fingers to eat.
Should be bite sizes
Not messy, your fingers don't need cleaning after the first bite
Not too dry it will turn the guests off and not wet either
Arrange neatly so that when the food is picked up it will not fall apart
It must not be too spicy, and burn the tongue
The type of people, young or mixed old and young, chinese indian malay or aliens guests
Prepare the food that will suit their taste
Your guests will love you because of the food you prepared
Enjoy being a host!!! CHEERS!!!

Taste

Taste, most people expect the food they paid for to taste good.
The truth is what you paid is what you get.
You pay alot of money, the time and the food cost will be the product of the food.
But if the food is cheap most people will only sugar, or MSG or food booster to make the food taste good. But the food you get at a 5 stars eating place is prepared with no
booster to improve the favour, just bone, veggies, herbs. So what you pay is what you get, no such thing as expensive food, but good food is expensive to cook.

To Prepare food, your guest said was good.

You walked out after dinner, you can hear people saying the food were so, so. Why were
the food so, so only. Most people go for taste, and we call it the local taste buds. Those cooks that are not sensitive to the guests taste bud shouldn't cooked. Simple I know what the local liked and disliked, and I just do that, Good on me, I knew my job.

How much meat must we take a day?

We need food to live a normal life. 100grams of meat is enough. Eat more vegetables at least 2 types, bigger serving of vegetables, and small serve of starch ( rice, potatoes, pasta) And 2 types of fruits.

Meat and fish in the frezer ( organised you freezer)

Working woman may be happier if there is enough raw meat and fishes in the freezer. Cut
the meat to suit your method of cooking. Buy 5 kg for each meat item packed into individual portion and store neatly in tray or plastic container. Good to have a freezer, ice cream freezer at home. Have beef, pork, chicken, fish, seafood, packed and thaw in the micro wave oven when needed.

3 courses dinner

Seafood chowder
Prepare a fish stock, if you don't have bone use ikan bilis, or ikan bilis booster seasoning. Bring to the boil, cool the stock a little. Mix water with flour and pass through a sieve. Whisk the stock and pour the flour and water mixture until you get the consistency of the soup. Add tomato chunks and potatoes chunks. Before serve add cream and diced seafood;-cooked prawn, seafood stick, diced cooked fish.



Boneless chicken marinated with yoghurt and herbs

Marinate boneless chicken with yoghurt,olive oil,soy sauce, herbs, and allow it to sit in the chiller over night. Cook the chicken in the foil bag.


OR


Fish fillet seasoned with chinese wine, herbs

Olive oil,lemon juice, and spring onion. Cook the fish in a foil folded bag.


Fruits salad

Fresh fruits in season marinated in their own juice.


Tea or coffee.

And

A packet or glass of drink.

Use Natural seasoning

Meat favour can be enhanced by plants product, such as herbs, vegetables, roots vegetables and of course a very good stock. Meat taste better if for example you pan fry with onion, or mushroom, or chillies. Later add wine or stock and a thickening to form a sauce. Sometimes you create your own dish, sometime you don't. In fact all great dishes were created by someone.

Cooking home meal.

Home cooking is cooking international food.
Fish is best bake, stream, or grill. Remove the scales, wash the fish and marinate the fish with pan salt, or light soy sauce, lemon juice and olive oil. You will find that your fish will not be dry when cooked. For grilling, I love to grill my fish in low temp.160C. The meat become dry if the temperature is high. For streaming the flame must be high. If the fish is very fresh streaming is prefer. Pan frying,your kitchen will be oily, and not healthy to consume. No point poaching unless you want to serve it with a sauce.

Creating our dish.

No such thing as you cannot use chinese ingredients to cook western food, can cook fussion food. As long as you like it, just do it. example tofu cook with vegetables any vegetables cut into any size but
keep it to the same size add tomato sauce and tomato puree, a sauce for spaghetti is ok, provided you don't over seasoned.

What to cook today?

Everyday we asked the same questions.
Lets not be hard on ourself. Make it simple, different meat every time, every meal. Just rotate it or not the same for a few days. Not the same type of fish, different method of cooking it. Rotate the vegetables so you get all the nutrients your body need. Remember used only olive oil. Various method of cooking meat, roasting, grilling, pan frying, stewing or even streaming or boiling. Don't used too much msg or booster seasoning, just use herbs....... Cheers.

Vegetable cooking

Kindly use a microwave container for cooking. Pour little water in the container put the cut vegetable in the container to cook. For western food use olive oil, butter or margarine. In a hot pan add the microwave cooked vegetables, toss the vegetables. Serve the vegetables.

For local cooking, Used cooking oil.In a hot wok add cooking oil and oyster add the microwave cooked vegetable and stir fry the vegetables. Serve the vegetables.

Swiss Potatoes

Peeled potatoes cut in thin strips, onion cut thin strips.Fry onion until soft and brown, add potatoes and fry on one side until cooked, then turn over and fry until cooked, break in some eggs and sprinkle cheese cook until brown.

Left over.... Can be a rice salad

You have left over streamed white rice, vegetables, potatoes, meat, or fish. Cut into salad bite size.
Mixed them together add a little mayonnaise and yoghurt, keep them in the chiller and eat them as salad. The name of the dish:- Rice salad.

Garden salad

Soak lettuce in ice water. Break into larger then bite size. Drain the water. Carrots cut into thin strips (julienne) in fact cut all vegetables into julienne, Those vegetables that you cannot cut julienne cut into smaller then bite size. Vegetables, you can eat raw:- mushroom, bean spouts, brocolli, califlower, onion, leeks, celery, cabbage, tomato, spring onion, chives, spinach, garlic. etc. cut and toss them. Sprinkle lemon juice and olive oil with pan salt on the salad..

Fresh fruits salad

Any fruits can do. Cut to bite size. 3 or more types of fruits. Sweeten with sugar, then add orange
juice, lemon juice. Marinate for couple of hours.

Money well spend

We have to spend, spend, and spend. After all the money we spent were well spent. We all thought were spent well. Then again, it is easy to pay because we paid by credit cards, didn't we. Paying by installments, we are always poor, but not to worries, as long as we can manage it is fine.
Don't forget to save for retirement otherwise we have to work to a very old age..... Think about it....cheers.... don't worry be happy.... The republic need elderly man to work..... Be wise have some cash for reserve................. cheers.

My new year's eve menu ( Home cooking is great)

Hainanese chicken and rice. COST: chicken, garlic, ginger, pandan leaves $8/-(1 large chicken)
Scallops with saute spinach. COST: $10/_( 1 packet)
Mussel pan fried with garlic. COST: 1 box; $8/-
Saute' 3 types of mushroom $6/-
Kong pow frog legs $15/-(1 packet)
Mixed Vegetables $5/-
Thai chillies prawn $8/- ( 500g prawn brought 1 week before LNY)
Clear vegetables soup $3/-
total:$63/-
Portion: Enough for 12 persons
Cost: $5.25 per person
Time taken to prepare 3 hours.

With a little planing and 2 hours shopping time, all you have to know is the basic cooking method
and you and your family of 12 need not spend more then $200 in the coffee shop or more money then 200. The portion size we prepare ourselves is huge, and is a faction of the cost. Saving money is good, you don't have to work many hours O.T. to provide your family a decent meal.
Knowing cooking will help you, because you save money eating at home. Cheerios, Have a Great year new year......Make lots of progress, and money, all the best will come....Cheerios.

Let it be

To most, to be serious about, is not worth it. What is important is to be happy. No amount of money can change it, it only comes with it in the mind that I can do better than that. After all...all my life, trying to do better, and sure can do better, getting the kick in the bum sure is not anyone wrong doing, the reason is sure grow old, when you hit 50. Old shit, get the hell of here, we have a lot a alliens workers, no cpf payments. Look like we locals are good for nothins, Maybe, U yeah, U there can be a taxi driver, oh no you are not good enough, maybe to become a guard, yes perhaps, as a guard, you can close one eye and shut the other and you must learn to keep you big mouth sealed don't complain too much. Just need you to show up. A head count is all the bosses want. Silence is golden. Silence is olden you flicking old shit just keep your mouth zipped and remember don't shit all over the place. Joke is right, to those out there who do not know that every person will grow old, maybe they don't since these people may die soon, but please....... think about it, give the people who are lucky to grow old a better go, give them a sit in the bus, or mrt, or making a living. Be respectful, Any way enjoy cooking your own meals......... nothing better than a good tucker. Cheerios Happy New Year................

Stew ( easy n not messy)

Stew

Always marinate the meat ( I prefer overnight.)
Dust the meat and vegetables with enough flour (the flour will thicken the sauce. Heat a roasting tray add oil on base of the tray. Put the meat and vegetables in the oven to brown the meat. When the meat is brown add hot stock to cover the meat and vegetables, add herbs and enough salt stir the meat and into the oven until the meat is tender. If you love fine dinning remove the meat and vegetables and pass the sauce through a sieve. Garnish the stew with red and green vegetables.

Banana Leaf { cooking using banana leaf}

Cooking with banana leaf
select piece of banana leaf without holes or and not broken.
Burn the leaf on top the gas flames.
Brush the leaf with cooking oil.
Place whatever you want to cook in the central of the leaf,put not watery but thick sauce on the seasoned meat,or seasoned fish or vegetables( washed and dried) and fold two opposite sides in and then the other opposite sides. Place the folded side down,in a wok or BBQ when half cooked turn it over. To check whether it is cooked insert a knife or fork in. If you can truss in easily it is cooked.
Suit chillies dishes.

I do not like to have a oily kitchen, but I loved to cook.

Pan-fried food.
Heat the pan to hot, add olive oil, add seasoned meats and cover the saute' pan with a lid, and turn the heat to low. You want to turn the meat over, turn off the flames and wait for a while, the stream settled down, remove the lid and turn the meat over, cover the lid and turn the flame up, until the flames sealed the meat,the turn the flames to low and continue cooking until it is cooked.
Don't remove the lid wait until the stream settled down, then you open the lid.


Oven cooking
Seasoned the meat, take a foil make a boat shape cup the side of the meat, in this way there is no drippings from the meat.


Cooking vegetables.
Stream the vegetables, don't have to put water, cover the lid of micro-container, cook in a micro-wave oven, when cooked remove the vegetables and use the juice from the vegetables to make a sauce for the vegetables.
Heat up a sauce pan, (don't use a saute' pan) add oil add oysters sauce for chinese food, stir the oysters sauce in hot oil and add the stream vegetable stir and fried the vegetables only for a short time and remove from pan. Don' t use a wok because the kitchen get oily. Use the juice from the vegetables add a little water bring it to the boil, mixed cornflour and water stir, pour into vegetables stock to thicken the sauce. Pour the sauce over the vegetables during service.

Life is a bitch

Please remember that we will get our karma, good or bad karma. God is watching us.
Those who are cash rich, donate money and the sin will be erased, yes wishful thinking.
Don't worry if you make a confession, God will forgive your sin, sure, no worries, god is forgiving.
I am worried, if i did enough bad and if they send me 18 level down to hell and no way of leaving hell. Then, no worries, stay in hell, good for you mate.
Nowadays people complain about everything, the higher your education, the more dirts get into your brains...... before we do could do something nasty,please think about the karma, or think, maybe I allow others to think I am nothing but just a smart bum. Indeed I maybe stupid, just pretend to know everything. Complain, is one of the 5 Cs most locals are good in.

I prepared a very good chicken stock with plenty of chicken bones and vegetable, using the chicken stock I cooked a cream of chicken soup, the same standard I prepared in Hotel 5 stars dinning. A lady guest complained to the manager and said The worst chicken soup I take in my life. I told the manager I gave her another better cream of chicken soup. I took the maggi chicken seasoning put the season in water and made a cream of chicken soup. The lady guest asked the manager was the soup done by another cook, and he said yes. She said the other cook did not know how to cook. This soup is very good..... Life is a bitch ....anyway... don't try too hard.....let it be. Tomorrow will be another day.

Life is a bitch

They said there is no future working as a waiter.
Not really, they have their way. Yes indeed their method work each time and every time, by pushing their mistakes to some one who is not even aware of it. By providing no effects service to the guests, and before the guests complain they put in a story to convince the manager, who usually went in hiding if he knows someone is going to make a lot of noises. Well he is safe now.

Spinach and shitakes stirfried with oyster sauce

Spinach and shitake mushrooms stir fried with oyster sauce.
Wash and cut spinach, wash and slice mushroom.
Place mushroom in a bowl, do not add water and cook in the micro wave oven . Heat a wok add cooking oil and oyster sauce and stir the oyster sauce in hot oil. Throw in the spinach stir fried a few seconds and add the micro wave cooked mushroom plus the juice from the mushroom. Stir and mix the vegetables, removed and serve straight away.

Pumpkin soup

Pumpkin soup
Prepare a tasty stock.
Peel and cut the pumpkin into cubes.
Cook until the pumpkin cubes become small soft, take a whisk and break the cubes into puree.
Add cream and salt to taste. Cold weather soup ( winter soup).

So... no worries.... sure can

Planning
You know that if you don't get your mise en place done, you can be history.
A la carte menu, the mise en place is routine.
Set menu is there for a month or 2 months or more.
Just prepare the meats season them 1 day ahead.
The vegetables one or two days before hand, simple just make sure the staffs get into the routine.
Sauces, for a la carte make enough for 2 days, and put the rest in the freezer
Set menu just prepare on the same day. Doing so will cut down Aliens O. T. to zero.
Functions mise en place, you allow 3 days, ordering and you have 2 days to get the mise en place done. Write on the paper all the mise en place you have to do, tick it when is done and store the items according to your order of work. Doing so you cannot miss out certain job. Getting yourself organized, you will not panic , and the going is smooth............ Cheers.

Life is a bitch

Talk about working life, a chef's life, a cook's life.
Check it out....... they said the customer is the best chef..... you are not wrong....
Talk is cheap...... hay you there, you, smart Alex.... come and prove that you know more or just a big mouth......... Sorry life is a bitch....... you know a bitch gets .....we talk about life is a bitch later.... remember to check it out. Cheers... don't be offended. Talk is cheap. Stop complaining and learn to cook for your family and yourself, maybe your friends...

Chinese New Year

First course
Abalone with avocado and shrimps delights
Fill 1/2 avocado with shrimps and top with yoghurt on one side and chillies sauce on the other.
Sprinkle a few julience of abalone on the topping.

So...no worries... sure can.

So you find yourself in the shits what could you do, don't stay too long in the shit it's smells.
I mean in the kitchen, loads and loads of work all in a day. Aliens cooks are more interested in doing O.T. and that means they will have plenty of money to take home, don't be a victim to Aliens, you are the Chef if possible give them as little O.T. as possible. They came here to suck on us, work slowly, and when the job can not be completed they can work O.T. Don't allow these Aliens to suck Singapore. So... no worries... sure can..... I may show how to overcome these Alien suckers. Be sure to check it out... Cheers Singapore Chefs don't you allow aliens to suck on us.

Eating raw vegetables ( as salad)

Salad ( uncooked Vegetables)
Root vegetables cut julience ( thin strips).
Cabbage cut julience.
Mushroom cut slices marinated with lemon juice and olive oil.
Bean sprouts marinated with olive oil and lemon juice.
Broccoli cut into small flowers marinate with olive oil.
Califlower marinated in olive oil
The lists are endless, marinate overnight and you find is easily to swallow.

Cheap Talk

Man eating mee siam
Hey man, you don't have to eat every thing a food hawker gave you, don't trust the hawker too much because you will land yourself in hospital. Be careful, you will get hurt. Sorry, talk is cheap...yap...yap...yap. Guest what? Hougang man eats mee siam and ends up with a safety pin in his throat. Friday the new paper wrote(18-1-08)

Cheap Talk

A Master Chef is a chef holding a MASTER CHEF CERTIFICATE
A Chef is a certificate cook, a person who had completed an education in cooking, and holding a chef appointment, completed his commis cook training in a hotel.
A cook may attend a few months of cooking lessons.
Not every elderly chef is a master, don't believe it, when is in the advertisement.

Cheap Talk.

House-fly
Lunch at Law Par Sat in the 90's.
I loved to drink fruit juice during lunch.
I sucked the juice until no juice was in the glass.
But I felt a small soft piece in my mouth, I took it out take a looked, it was a housefly. I
showed it to the storelady and the lady just look at me, I said the fly was from your juice and she just kept quiet. That was my last fruit juice. Until today I will not drink any fruit from a hawker stall.

Cheap Talk.

Don't complain or upset Richard please don't.
At XXX's the "Man" will fix your food up.
If you happen to dine and a manager by the name Richard, if the food is not up to your expectation just pay and leave it is wise to do so. Richard is a fixer, he fixed those he don't like.
I saw it happened. The dish " oxtail". The place sells steaks plus other food.

Roast meat ( why roast meat is dry and not juicy

Roasting
Meat loss a lot of juice during defrosting .
Always defrost the meat in the chiller.
Season the meat a few hours before roasting, with olive oil, light soy sauce(Singapore style ok lah), don't need salt, and herbs will do.
Only season with light oil, it can penetrate in the meat and also the meat will be juicy when cooked, but please do not leave the meat to defrost in Singapore room temperature, your meat will be dry when cooked.

Breakfast

Poached eggs on toast
Fill a pot 10cm of water add 100g of vinegar and bring to the boil.
Use a spoon and make the the water turn in circle.
Break one egg at a time into the water and simmer until eggs are soft inside and hard outside'
Serve on a buttered toast.

Fried eggs
Use a small egg frying pan break 2 eggs, one at a time into the pan, cook until the white are firm.

Scrambled eggs
Heat a sauce pan,
Add butter into the pan, when the butter is hot break eggs in the pan and stir with a wooden spoon until the eggs are cooked add a little cooking cream( if you have the cooking cream otherwise don't worry about it) add salt to taste.

Served with bacon, ham or and sausages.

Tasty food.(can I cook food that's taste good?)

Marinating
Marinate makes the meat taste better if you used the right amount of herbs.
Apply too much seasons can take away the meat taste and you cannot tell what meat you are eating.

Cooking meat with stock
Meat must be cooked in a tasty stock otherwise the meat will be tasteless, because the taste gets into the stock.

Meat cooked with sauce (stew)
The stock you used to make the sauce must be tasty.
The meat (best marinated with wine and herbs) coated with flour and sealed before throwing into the sauce to cook. Bring the sauce to the boil and the sealed meat then simmer the meat with the sauce on stove or in the oven.

Panfried meat
Seasoned and marinate overnight in the chiller.
Dust the meat with flour, shake of the flour and seal the meat.
Finish cooking in the oven or low flame on the stove.
When cooked deglaze with wine and add cooking cream and reduce the cream, add the meat to allow the sauce to collaborate with the meat.

Stock
When cooking stock, bones and vegetables are put in the pot to cook.
Allow enough cooking so that the stock will taste good, throw away the bone and vegetables when the stock is ready, it is important that you remove all the oil flooding on the stock.

Need help email me.

Cheap Talk.

Food Poisoning with Our high standard of hygine

Do we know that most of the food we eat in hotels, food courts, eating shops, cake shops, as a matter of fact most were not prepared by locals. The cooks are from other country, Singaporeans don't like to work in the kitchen. The job is hot, the pay is low,you get scolded all the times, the customers complain, the waiters walking in circles, Very few people stand the working conditions in the kitchen. If you don't believe me, go get yourself a job in the kitchen as a cook, work for 1 month and you know it's very hard life as a cook, and you will tell yourself how dirty these alliens are, no wonder I sometimes fall ill after after meals. Singapore exchange rates is 5 times China and 2.4 times Malaysia. Taking our dollars to their exchange rate is lots of money. I work in Australia at that time the rate was S$2.26 to $Aust. 1, I was happy to work very hard hard no complains at all. The cooks that work here, lots of them do not know what is hygiene,or don't bother to observe basic hygiene, they smoke outside the building but they will not wash their hands after smoking, they don't wash their hands after toilets. When the hygiene officer visit the shop, the service staff will inform the kitchen and everyone will wear the gloves, cover the bins, and stop putting food in the mouth. The officer visits only last 10 minute, the chef or manager walk with him on his round, he see everything he likes to see and he give the shop a (A) when is time for grading,if the floor is not oily and dried, the the cooking areas dried and clean, the food in the chiller covered,bins cover the cook wear hats, wear gloves The toilets dry, there is soap and toilet paper and no smoking signs on the wall. He checks around and if he don't see any cockcoaches he is happy. Your stomach will let know if the food you eat is value for money, i know you eyes tell you the food looks good, you tongue tells you taste good, but you body tells you a different story........ Wise to cook meals for family and yourself .... take lesson from willy... don't cost you much..... it is easy to remember , step by step i show you how to be you own chef..... simple... nothing to loss, win,win and win........ Cheers!!!

Vegetable cooking ( the old method of cooking vegetable)

Vegetable cooking.

Fill a pot with water.
There must be plenty of boiling water to cook the vegetables, add salt.
Put the vegetables in the boiling water, cook until you can break the vegetables when you press the vegetable with a knife or finger. Remove the cooked vegetables, to prevent the vegetatable changing colour, by putting the vegetables in ice water( by putting in icy cold water the vegetables will not be over cooked and stay green).

Using baking powder
To cook vegetables in boiling using baking powder the vegetable will stay green.
When the vegetables are cooked, put the vegetables in icy water to prevent further cooking.

To serve the vegetables
Reheat the vegetables in boiling water, drain the water.
Using a saute' pan, heat the pan to hot, throw in the butter and vegetable and toss the pan until the favour of the butter gets into the vegetables, season with salt, and check your season, you get used to the amount of salt,using your finger or tea spoon to measure the amount.

Spaghetti bolognaise ( meat sauce always beef but if......)

Spaghetti bolognaise

Bolognaise sauce
1 no chopped onion, (1 no carrot peeled , 1 stock celery peel, 1 no leek,) cut all veggies small diced.
Sweat the onion, and add the other veggies and sweat, add 200g minced beef ( if you can not eat beef then cook with minced chicken, or minced mutton, but if you want a healthy meal, put soft tofu, Tofu taste good, fusion cooking, no worries, as long as you and the persons eating the food love it. Diced 4 large tomatoes into and chuck them in. Sprinke 2 or 3 pinch of oregano and 2 pinch of rosemary(dried herbs, if you can not get the fresh herbs.) Cook until the veggies are tender or soft. Season salt to taste

Spaghetti
Fill the pot with water bring to the boil, pour a little cooking oil in the water.
Put the spaghetti in the boiling, stir the spaghetti now and then to prevent sticking to the pot and spaghetti sticking together. Do not over cooked the pasta. The central of the spaghetti should have a pin size area not cooked. Just like the chinese cooking wanton noodle.
Serve with parmesan cheese. ( Put the parmesan on the sauce to gratinate (on the salamander, flame from the top of the oven to grill until it is golden brown, it taste better or if you don't want to do it, no worries then don't grill it.) Enjoy you pasta...,,,,Cheers!!!!

Mashed potatoes (western food)

Mashed potatoes
Wash potatoes (not U.S. potatoes )
Cover potatoes with water and bring to the boil.
Cook the potatoes until you can poke a knife through easily.
Using a knife remove the skins of the potatoes
Take a whisk pound the potato one at the time until the potatoes are all mashed.
Do it when is hot, add 1 egg to 1 kg, add butter 50g, cream, salt to taste.
Use a ice-cream scoop to dish the mashed potatoes.
Serve with fish dishes, or as you wish, roast items.

Sweet and Sour Garoupa ( Chinese Singapore style)

Sweet and sour garoupa
Season a garoupa with chinese wine, salt and coat the garoupa with egg and rice flour.
Deep fried the fish, to check if the fish is cooked poke a chop stick if the chop stick goes in easily it is cooked.

To make the sauce.
Empty tomato ketchup into the wok, add sugar, vine, ikan bilis booster seasoning, chinese hua tiao jiu add water and thicken with cornflour and water mixture to thicken the sauce. ( If you love chillies add chillies sauce)

Fried rice (Singapore style)

Fried rice( for 4 persons)
Cooked 4 cups of white rice.
Heat a wok and add cooking oil, add chopped garlic,break 4 eggs into the wok,and stir into scrambled eggs, add rice, chinese sausage cut cube, char siew, green peas, and fry in high flame until the favour of the wok gets into the rice. Serve with with julienne of lettuce and a fried egg for
each plate.

Garlic Prawn (western {not Singapore style})

Garlic Prawn (a handful for 1 person)
Heat a saute' pan to hot and throw in about 50g of butter, throw in the 50g of chopped garlic, shake the pan and add the peeled prawns into the pan. Cook the prawns in hot garlic butter, add brandy to flame the prawns then add cooking cream, reduced the cream, add salt to taste, add chopped parsley and serve straight away.

Lemon chicken {chinese food}

Lemon chicken
Leg of chicken, remove the bone and chopped with the back the knife to tender the meat.
Season the chicken with salt and lemon juice.
Cover the meat with flour and shake off the flour, then put in beaten eggs and the breadcrumb.
Deep fry the crumbed chicken.
Cut lemon in halves and in thin slices.
Add oil to the wok, throw in the lemon and fry until the lemon is soft and cooked, squeeze in some lemon juice and water, a little chicken booster seasoning and thicken with conflour mixed with water.
Chop the chicken so that you can pick up with chop sticks,
Arrange neatly in a plate and pour the lemon sauce on the chicken.
(You may buy ready made bottled lemon sauce)
Garnish your dish with chinese parley.

Chinese New Year Food {simple and fast }

Simple and fast
Cut the some meat into thin slices or strips.
Seasoned and store in the chiller in plastic bags, you don't have washing.
Cut the veggies and store in the chiller in plastic bags.
Seasoned portion sized meat to be cooked in the oven.
Avoid deep fried items because the kitchen floor become oily.
You can try mixing bottled sauces from the supermarket to form you own sauce.
Prepare cornstarch mixed with water to thickened the sauce.
Oven cooked food is tender to bite, and save time, put the food on tin foil into the tray, you don't have to wash the tray.
As for vegetables, stream the vegetables, make a sauce to pour over the vegetable, healthy.
Used bottled sauce, add water and thicken with (cornflour and water).
Plain rice with butter added becomes buttered rice.
Before cooking plain rice add 2 pieces of chicken cubes and some fried garlic and pandan leaves you have chicken rice(another method of preparing chicken rice, short cut method)
Enjoy your Chinese New year, All the good luck, good health, and plenty of wealth to all, the whole lifetime...........CHEERS...Try to cook with olive oil.

Cheap Talk.

The message is food poisoning can KILL.
To a housewife trying to make the dollar, food hygiene is washing the hands with soap before touching the food and wearing of gloves. In our home we all know we are very clean, we don't prepare the food on the floor, before selling the food to a friend we will eat some, and I will be the first to get food poisoning. Do you know that food must be stored in the right temperature. Singapore is humid, bacterias multiply fast. Do you know all foods have a shelf life, once it past a shelf life date the food is not fit for human to eat. The day after the new year holiday you will visit your favourite doctor or the polyclinic and you may think is like that, new year food. Not too bad dried food poisoning. But moist food poison is dangerous, don't take risk. Buy your food from the shop. All food in the shop has a shelf life, once the food past the shelf life date, they will throw the food away. Best cook your own food, get some ideas from Willy's Glorious food, it' free. Enjoy your New Year..... Cheers.

Chinese New Year Dishes ( let's make our dishes simple)

What to cook for the Lunar Year??? Prepare your food 1 or 2 days before Chinese New Year.
Easy... let your relatives and friends do the cooking.
Buy a Electric hot pan measuring about 45cm x 30cm costing about $100
Buy a Electric pot about 30 cm diameter for stream boat ( can be use every new year)
Buy packets frozen food made from seafood, fresh prawn (medium prawn will do). Fish, (salmon, kurau, batang. etc.) cut into slices, for pan fried or stream boat. Do the same with chickens, porks,squids, any food you can think of.Prepare a tasty stock, season the meats, do not season the seafood, salt will harden the seafood.
Veggies buy many difference types, don't buy too much, a few hundreds gm will do. Leaves veggies is easy to cook, and prepare. Store in plastic bags, seafoods, meats and veggies.
Wash, dry the veg and pack in 5 persons a packet. Do the same to the meat and seafood.
Don't buy too much, a person can only eat about 100 to 250g of meat and 100 to 200g of veggies.
Allow your guests to cook their own food.Take out enough food, and keep some frozen, you can thaw the standby meats and seafoods in the microwave oven in case you have more guests.
Buy ready made sauce , make some sauces as well. You need to spend time with your guests instead of hiding in the kitchen. Wishing all, always happy, wealthy, healthy.... every year, and every day of your life.

A la carte' at home

A la carte' (at home)
Fast and simple way to a meal.
To make cooking easy, you must get all ingredients ready (mise en place done)
Organized yourself , put the first ingredient first, and have short note written, step 1, step 2 and so on. Flame low, or medium, or high. Always seal the meal in high flame so that the juice is contained in the meat and cannot escape, the pan will not be wet by the juice. Then turn the flame to low if the meat is thick and take time to cook. Add the ingredients accept garlic because garlic burn easily, to cook with the meat. When the meat is cooked, remove the meat, add wine(if you want to cook the traditional way, reduce the wine) add cream and reduce the cream, add salt to taste, and put the meat back into the pan. You will have a the meat cooking with the sauce. Easy... u.. don't have a sauce yet, you can cook the meat with a sauce.... Done in west... family restaurant... Steak houses don't cook their steak this way. The food in steak house is fast food ... cook the steak and throw in the sauce.. just like you do your own B.B.Q. No effort is put into your meal................ Enjoy eating your home cooked food... it's the best food you ever eat.