ABC Soup

How to make ABC soup? Just follow the steps below to get a big bowl of delicious ABC soup.

Ingredients:

1 medium sized carrots, peeled and cubed

1 medium sized potato, peeled and cubed

1 medium sized tomato, washed and sliced

1 onion, quartered

200g of pork ribs

800ml of watersalt & pepper to taste

Methods:

1. Bring water to boil in a pot. Then pour it to the slow cooker.

2. Put in pork ribs, carrot, potato, tomato and onion. Cook it under automatic mode.

3. Let it simmer for 4 to 5 hours. Add salt and pepper to taste before serving.

Prawn Noodle

From the previous discovery on Meaty Fragrance Noodle, here's another try out using organic whole wheat noodle. I bought the prawns freshly from a fisherman. 12 medium size prawns just cost me for RM2.50. Damn cheap! Well, you can read from here on the whole story.

Prawn Noodle
serves 2

Ingredients:

2 pcs of organic noodle

12 medium size prawns

2 tomatoes, sliced and blended with 500ml of water into tomato puree

8 cloves of garlic, chopped

3 tbsp of Canola oil

Seasoning:

1 and a half tbsp of chili paste

4 tbsp of tomato sauce

light soy sauce and sugar to taste.

Garnishing:

5 leaves of lettuce, thinly sliced

2 Omega 3 eggs, hard boiled and sliced

Method:

1. To prepare the noodle, just add the organic noodle (x2 pcs) to salted boiling water and cook for around 5 minutes until soft. Then, rinse in fresh water and pour onto plates.

2. Add oil to the heated wok and stir fry the chopped garlic till fragrant. Pour in the prawns and stir fry for 2 minutes. Add some light soy sauce and tomato sauce continue to stir fry for another 1 minute.

3. Add the chilli paste and continue to stir fry for a while.

4. Pour in the tomato puree. Let it simmer for roughly 5 minutes. Add sugar and light soy sauce to taste.

5. Off the fire, and pour the sauce over the cooked noodle. Garnish with lettuce and hardboiled egg.

What do you think?

Update: This post has been submitted to Presto Pasta Nights#91 organised by Ruth from Once Upon a Feast and hosted by Daphne from More Than Words .

Prawn Crackers From Balik Pulau

Recently I bought a big packet of prawn crackers through a colleague who lives in Balik Pulau. Did I mention big? Yes, real Big packet of prawn crackers, unlike those sub-standard prawn crackers selling in hyperstore...

My hubby and I finished the whole packet within a few days! It was really tasty and once you tried it, you just can't stop eating it :P Before long, my hubby was yearning for more. So one sunny way, we hopped into our mini car and drove all the way to Balik Pulau to buy one. It was sold at the Balik Pulau new market, next to the rapid bus station.

Upon arrival at the market, we were greeted by lots of prawn crackers, hanging at the stalls. We noticed that there are many stalls selling prawn crackers...in fact, there are so many of them that you might think it is prawn cracker's market, lol :D

Generally there are two types of prawn cracker sold over there, one is with the smaller size crackers sold at RM6 per packet and the other one is RM8 per packet, which is of course bigger in size and taste better! Definitely recommend to buy the jumbo size RM8 packet, it is real yummy.

I'm getting my colleague to buy another packet for me again and will get it by tuesday.

Maxim Dim Sum Restaurant @ Taman Pekaka

Criz Bon Appetite is organizing a review and win contest, and this very first season is to review Fun Tea Garden in Penang. Anyway, I have not got a chance to pay a visit to Fun Tea Garden, but we just dined in the other dim sum house in Penang island, the Maxim.

Honestly said, this dim sum house is the one that we used to dine in. Their serve huge variety of dim sum. Furthermore, prawns are used as the main ingredient in their dim sum to replace pork. Hence, for a prawn lover like me, I really enjoy having their dim sum compared to Bali Hai and Foh San. Environmental wise, I'll choose Bali Hai instead.

If I remember correctly, Maxim started their business at the Bangunan Lip Sin, Taman Pekaka about 3 to 4 years ago. For Penang folks, Maxim is the one of the well known place for dim sum. You have to be early, otherwise you will need to spend some time just waiting for a seat. Luckily now they have expanded their business to add one more shop at the same row in order to allocate more seating.

To describe its location precisely, let's use Tesco Extra as the land mark. It is opposite to the site entrance of Tesco Extra. Maxim is the last shop at the ground floor of Bangunan Lip Sin, which is the same building as the Sea Palace Restaurant.

Let's see what we order yea... Among all the food, I just know the name of the minority of the food we order, like the century egg chicken porridge, siu long pao, white raddish cake, and har kao. Then the rest are various types of dim sum with different topping, like scallop, crab meat, pork, prawns, and still prawns. :P

You should give it a try.

Cheese Cakes From Secret Recipe

On my birthday night, after we went for dinner @ Japin, hubby bought me some cheese cakes from Secret Recipe. He bought 3 pieces of cheese cakes with different flavors.


First, we had this Cappuccino cheese cake. Layered with vanilla and topped with choc rice, it is a nice combination of creamy cheese and cappuccino. Among all the flavor, this is my favorite. I ate almost 80% of it. :P


Next will be the marble cheese cake. It is smooth creamy baked cheese on crunchy oat nut base. Nothing to shout about. Furthermore, I don't really like the nutty cake base. :(

Lastly will be the Oreo cheese cake. It is frozen cream cheese with loads of crushed oreo biscuits. It's just so so nia compared to my favorite Cappuccino's.

Of course, we didn't finish it one shot. I kept some in fridge, so that I can serve it chilled the next day. Hmm...just wonder how much weight we've gained?? Oh, no!