Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Home Made Makizushi 寿司巻


Hubby and I have been dining out for sushi quite frequent. We will have sushi for dinner almost every Saturday evening. We opt for something light when dining out, and eventually sushi become our favorite food. Also a packet of sushi making set was bought to DIY at home. 

After watching some video clips to pick up the basic skills, we hands on to make our own sushi. Hubby helped to cook sushi rice and mix it up with some vinegar. Also, he cling-wrapped the makisu (bamboo roll), as per my instruction, hehe... Then I prepared some other simple ingredients like Japanese cucumber, steamed crab stick filamen, fried egg and steamed sausage. I cut up all the ingredients into strips. Then, I followed the steps like what I learned from the video clips. See my first piece of work? Although it doesn't look perfect, but I'm satisfied with the first trial. That was our simple and yet fulfilling dinner.

To polish up my sushi making skill, I'll practice more to make different variety of sushi and to use other type of fillings. Stay tuned!

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Chili Sauce


My earlier dish - the steamed chicken was served with this home made chili sauce. It's the common dips that you'd find in local chicken rice. It's a great condiment to complement the steamed chicken, roasted chicken and roasted pork. Without it, my steamed chicken will not taste such good. Thanks to the powerful chili sauce! It's pungent, sweet, spicy, salty, garlicky, gingery and zesty. It's so flavorful and yet simple to make!

Chili Sauce
Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:
4 red chilis, seeded and cut into pieces
8 bird eye's chilis
1cm cube of ginger, peeled
3 cloves of garlic, peeled

Seasoning:
juice of 3 calamanci
1 tbsp of light soy sauce
salt to taste
brown sugar to taste

Steps:
Blend ingredients together. Add seasonings and mix well. Store in air tight container and keep in fridge. Try to finish it up in a week.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Steamed Cod Fish


Remember my previous experience on Pan-Fried Cod Fish? I bought the cod fish fillets from a supermarket. It wasn't frozened. The imported cod fish and salmon fish were sold just like local fish, on ice cubes. It looked fresh but tasted weird after cooked. That was a bad experience few months ago. Since then, I have no guts to buy cod fish. I'll dine out for cod fish instead. But, the price per piece of steamed fish fillet is more than MYR35. The price is doubled or tripled the price of a piece of frozen raw cod fish. 

One day, after getting my green light, hubby brought back few item of imported frozen seafood. That included a packet of frozen cod fish fillet, scallop and cat fish with a total price of MYR44. Reasonable price? I guess it is. In order to test whether the fish is fresh or not, steaming is the best method. I just proceed to steam the fish. With just the simple cooking method, the cod fish tastes fabulous! I gain confidence on frozen cod fish now. We can savor cod fish dish at home with lower cost from now on. :P

The cod fish is fresh, no fishy smell and velvety smooth.

Steamed Cod Fish
Ingredients:

1 piece of cod fish fillet, washed with salt and water
6 slices of ginger
3cm cube of ginger, peeled and cut into thin strips
cooking oil

Sauce:
1& 1/2 tspof light soy sauce
1/2 tsp of sesame seed oil
1 tsp of fried garlic

Steps:

1. Pat dry the fish fillet and put on a heat-proof plate. Arrange ginger slices on top on it. Steam over high heat for 12 minutes.
2. Heat some oil in a wok. Fry the ginger strips till crispy. Set aside.
3. Mix all the ingredient to form the sauce. Set aside.
4. When the fish is done, discard the excess liquid. Pour the sauce over the fish and garnish with fried ginger. Serve hot with rice.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Steamed Free Range Chicken


I like chicken cooked in this way. It's very simple to cook and the best part is the meat remains juicy and tender through out the steaming process. 

I don't usually cook a whole chicken, but this time, I did it. I got myself to learn something new today. Chopping up the chicken into pieces using clever knife is something that I haven't master and I have no confidence to do it at the moment.  Hence, I look for the alternate way which is to carve a chicken using a knife and a fork. I want to learn how to carve a chicken. I found this video, and I follow the steps.  I did it eventually! Just a few gentle cuts to the chicken and it's quatered nicely. Besides, I save the chicken carcass  for soup boiling next.

I'm glad to learn up a new skill today. A little accompliment can make me happy. That's the reason I like cooking.

Steamed  Free Range Chicken

Ingredients:
1 whole free range chicken

Seasoning:
1 tbsp of sesame oil
1/2 tsp of salt

Steps:
1. Clean the chicken. Leave the skin on.
2. Rub the chicken with salt, follow by sesame oil. Put it on a heat-proof plate
3. Steam the chicken for 20 minutes.
4. Chop or carve the chicken into pieces.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Hai Boey Seafood

Hai Boey Seafood 海尾海鲜
29, Mk-9, Pasir Belanda, Teluk Kumbar, 11920 Penang, Malaysia.
Phone: 013-4881114, 019-4791114
Open daily 5.30pm - 11pm

One evening after work, I thought of having some seafood. So, we drove all the way to Hai Boey Seafood again. We were their first customer of the day. Yes! Our food was served in few minutes time.
Spinach with Salted Duck Egg and Century Egg 上汤梘菜

Fried Flat Noodle with Gravy, portion for 1 cost MYR4

This is not as good as their fried emperor noodle. It's lack of fragrant smell from the frying process. The fried emperor noodle suits my taste better. 

Big Prawns Stir Fried With Dried Shrimp

This dish has nothing special, except the prawns are fleshy and succulent. Also, it is not as spicy as per the waiter's description. 

Mantis Prawn, 280gm cost MYR12

This is my favorite mantis prawn in Kam Heong sauce. It's crispy and fragrant. A very appealing dish to go with rice.

Meat Crabs Stir-Fried with Spices, 560gm cost MYR28

A dish that we wouldn't miss, the crabs. The crabs were steamed before stir-frying with spice. Love the fragrant smell from the curry leaves.

This is a nice place to dine in for seafood as you can enjoy the sea breeze and sea view. This round we just ordered a few simple dishes which we haven't tried before. If you want to know more about the Hai Boey's signature dishes, click here

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