Showing posts with label Cookies. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Cook with Ken: 西兰花蘑菇肥猪肉北海道干贝麻油饭 Broccoli + Mushroom+ Pork Belly + Hokkaido Scallop Sesame (Clay-pot) Rice

Date:  Oct 20, 2013

Once you learned the technique of cooking this so called clay-pot rice using a rice cooker, you can almost experiment with it using different ingredient.

Today, I cooked this for Jay & Kay.  And as always, my faithful supporter, they love it.

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Especially Kay Kay… One big plate and he finished it.

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Of course, Jay Jay likes it too.  He ate a big plate too.  Plus a special Ceasars Salad I did for him.

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OK.  To learn the basic principal of cooking this dish, please review the following pages.  HaHaHa… They have detailed ways of showing how to cook it simply using a rice cooker.  Every one has a rice cooker.  Not everyone has a clay pot.  But you can use rice cooker to cook like a clay pot rice.  :)  Tip:  Buy a clay pot just to put the rice on it.  :)  HaHaHa…  Nobody will every know you using rice cooker to cook those.  HaHaHaHa...

After you review the steps, scroll down to very bottom to see the ingredients used to cook this.

Even my domestic helper know how to cook it nice.  HaHaHaHa

Revision #1.  Lap Cheong Chicken Rice.

http://miniliew.blogspot.sg/2011/02/making-of-liew-kee-lap-cheong-chicken.html

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Revision #2.  Normal Chicken Rice.

http://miniliew.blogspot.sg/2012/02/cook-with-ken-chicken-rice.html

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Revision #3.  Scallop Chinese Sausages Rice.

http://miniliew.blogspot.sg/2013/10/cook-with-ken-simple-scallops-sausages.html

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Now, the main ingredients for cooking today's rice.

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1.  Mini Belly.  Get it from Cold Storage or NTUC.  $3.16 nia.  

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2.  Cut the mini belly into small cubes.  Uses the following 3 sauces to marinate.

(Japanese Seaweed Soya Sauce)

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(Black Sesami Oil)

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(Sea Salt - I used Okinawa Sea Salt from Medi-ya)

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3.  Let it marinate for 15 minutes.

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4.  Dice some Onion.  (Japanese Organic Onions from Medi-Ya)

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5.  Japanese Pearl Rice or Taiwanese Pearl Rice.  Soak in water for 20 minutes.

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6.  Japanese Mushroom.

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Wash and Slice it.

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7.  Hokkaido Grilled Scallops.

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Looks like this. 

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From Meidi-Ya.  S$3.90 nia.  Called Hotate Yaki Kaihimo.

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Soak in hot water for 10 min.

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8.  Cut a few Broccoli.  wash it.

Cooking Instruction.

a.  Heat wok.

b.  Wok hot, pour in Black Sesami Oil.  (enough to fry the onions) (not normal Oil).

c.  Oil hot.  Slow fry the onions.  until a bit brown.  about 2min.

d.  put in Pork Belly.  stir fry until meat turn white.  about 1min.

e.  put in mushroom & scallop.  Stir fry for 30 seconds.

f.  put in the rice (without water).  Stir fry for 1min.  

g.  Put some oyster sauce.  for darker color, can use dark soya sauce.

h.  turn off fire.  Put all content into the rice cooker pot.

i.  pur in water slowly.  Until water bearly cover your finger.  (just like normal cooking).

j.  then, put in the broccoli.  

k.  Cover it and press COOK RICE.

l.  Wait for rice cooked (the switch jumped).  Then, stir it with spatula.  And close the cover and let the rice cooker to further warm it for 5-10 minutes.

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m.  Then, it is done!  (The following picture is after we ate 4 plates and whatever left over).  hahaha

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Very nice oil rice.  sesame oil rice.  :)

Thursday, December 22, 2011

The Elves baking the Cookies

Date:  Dec 21, 2011

It is almost like a traditions for the Liew boys to bake cookies for their classmates during Christmas season.

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The boys of course enjoys it, as it is a time to understand "kitchen technology".

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Of course, mommy does all the hard work.  First, she got a recipe googled from the web.  Daddy to print out the recipe.

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Daddy to make sure all ingredients are there... Such as fine white sugar, etc.  It is very easy to make.

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Of course, let the busy body Kay also see what's mommy doing...

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Don't be afraid of making a mess.  No messy no biscuits!

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While waiting for the dough to be chilled.  It is time for us to prepare the containers.

Of course, we must have some personalized stickers to indicate who is the baker.

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And stick the stickers on to the small container.

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As for the grown up, Jay will write the gift cards.

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OK.  The dough is ready.  And here we make the biscuits!  First must demo to the kids.  Cut the star shape biscuits.

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Then, let Kay Kay decorate the biscuits.

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There you go....

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Jay is decorating his love shape biscuits too.

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Everybody have lots of fun baking the biscuits.

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See, what a nice star-shaped and love-shaped biscuits ....

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This is the first batch of biscuits.

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Looks really nice and promising!

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After swim, let's do another batch.  Wow.  It is animal shape this time.

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At this time, all the small containers has Kays name tag on it, and with small little flags and stickers...

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Jay Jay also finished all the gift cards...

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That's why we let him go back to his Lego Station after baking all the biscuits...

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Here is the finishing product.  A nice biscuit gift kept in small container with lost of stickers.  So, all Kay Kay's classmates will have one box so as the teachers.

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Jay Jay one is a bigger box, with bigger biscuits lying on the pop corn mommy just freshly pops.  So all Jay Jay's classmate will have one, so as the teachers.

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Merry Christmas!

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