Tomato Fried Rice with Scramble Eggs

IngredienSts	Amounts
Steam rice	1 bowl
Fresh prawns (Diced)	5 pieces
Oil	2 Tsp
Ketchup	2 Tbsp
Chicken Powder	2 Tsp
Salt	1 Tsp
Beaten eggs	2
Salt	1 Tsp

1. In a wok, heat up oil and stir in the diced prawns. When prawns turned red, add in the steamed rice.
   
   
2. Stir well to make sure that the rice does not stick together.
   
   
3. Add in Ketchup and blend well with the rice.
   
   
4. Add in chicken powder and salt for seasoning. Mix well and scoop onto a plate and set aside.
   
   
5. Heat up some oil in the wok and when oil is hot, pour in the beaten eggs.
   
   
6. Keep stirring to get the egg scrambled. Remember to cook on low heat prevent the eggs from over cooked.
   
   
7. Top the fried rice with the scrambled eggs.

This is a replica of the Japanese Omurice. It is done almost exactly as how omurice is done except that I've changed the omelette to scrambled egg. Well, this is actually my bento for lunch tomorrow so knowing that my omelette might get squashed while on the way to work, I decided to do it with scrambled eggs instead.

It's a very simple dish to do as it can be done within 10 mins. I'm sure kids will love this fried rice because it's cooked with ketchup! LOL

Hong Kong Style Radish Cake

Ingredients	Amounts
Rice flour	250g
Corn flour	30g
Chinese Sausages (Diced)	3
Minced Pork	300g
Dried Shrimps (Finely Chopped)	1 Handful
Minced Onions + Garlics	1 + 3
Water	250ml
White Radish	89g
Oil	6 Tsp

Seasonings:
- Salt 2 tsp
- Sugar 2 tsp
- Chicken Powder 2 tsp

1. Wash the radish, peeled and shred into fine thin slices. Drain away the fluid and set aside.
   DO NOT THROW THE FLUID AWAY! Keep the fluid for later use.
   
   
2. Sift the flour ingredients together. Add in the water and mixed well, followed by adding in the fluid from the Radish and blend well.
   
   
3. In a wok, heat up some oil and stir in the minced onions and garlics and fry till fragrant. Ad in the dried shrimps, Chinese sausages and minced pork. Stir well, scoop onto a plate and set aside for later use.
   
   
4. Heat up the work and add in some more oil and bring the shredded radish to cook. Once the radish is soft, add the batter to the radish mixture and stir well.
   
   
5. Add in the ingredients in step 3, stir in the seasonings and mix till all is incorporated well. The mixture should be thick and gluey.
   
   
6. Pour the mixture into an aluminum pan and bring to steam over high heat at 45 mins.
   
   
7. Allow the radish cake to cool before slicing it. Heat up some oil in a wok and pan fry the sliced radish cakes till golden brown.
   

This has been on my To-Do list for quite sometime. I was truly in love with Radish cake when I went Hong Kong in 2005. The radish cakes over there were so yummy delicious that I could eat them almost everyday for breakfast while on Holidays :P

In Singapore, it's not very hard to find pan fried Yam cake and local Carrot cake but to find Hong Kong style pan fried Radish cake (With Chinese sausages and minced pork), I guessed that's only available in Dim Sum outlets. It's not very cheap to dine in Dim sum outlet I can say. My mummy's friend spent a wholesome $100+ on dim sum! Worse of all, $100+ for only 2 person! That's seriously very very expensive.

Actually I always wanted to try out doing Yam cake. My mummy makes super whopper heavenly delicious Yam cake. Whether it's purely steam or pan fried, the yam cakes could just make my taste buds dance! How amazing isn't it? So, knowing that I am not possible able to do the perfect Yam cake like how my mummy does, I decided that if I have the crave for yam cake, I shall ask my mummy to make for me instead ;) Seriously, I love all the food my mum whips up. She can cook a dinner for 6 in less than 45 mins! It's really time to go on a cooking training with my mummy.

Anyway, my Royal Prince Charming love this radish cake! He commented that it taste exactly the same as the ones we had in Hong Kong except that mine has a slightly wetter texture. I guessed probably I shouldn't have add in that much water as requested in the recipe? Oh, this recipe was adapted from Leisure Cat. I modified the amount in the recipe as accordingly.

臘肉飯

Makes 2 person share
Ingredients	Amounts
Rice	2 cups
Chinese Sausages (Diced)	3
Choy Sin Vegetables (Cut into small wedges)	1 handful
Chicken stock	2 tbsp + Enough volume to cover the rice
Sesame oil & Dark sauce	2 tsp each
Diced onions	1

1. In a pot, heat up some oil and bring the diced onions to fry till fragrant.
   
   
2. Stir in the Chinese sausages and blend well.
   
   
3. Add in the washed rice and combine the mixture.
   
   
4. Allow the rice mixture to simmer for 5 mins. Be sure to stir it occasionally to prevent the rice from getting burnt at the bottom.
   
   
5. Stir in the chicken stock and simmer for another 7-10 mins.
   
   
6. Add in the vegetables and stir well.
   
   
7. Sprinkle the sesame oil and dark sauce. Mix well.
   
   
8. Scoop the mixture into the rice pot and cover the rice with Chicken stock. Bring to cook using a rice cooker.
   
   *Top the ready rice with Fried onions (optional)

This recipe originated from 小小米桶's 臘肉飯. I was browsing through 米桶's blog for some Chinese recipes and came across this. Was so tempted with it since both my Royal Prince Charming and I love Chinese sausages. I know its not healthy to take such stuff but we'll only eat once in awhile alright? :P

Anyway, tomorrow I will have to accompany my prince charming to collect his air ticket from China Airline ticketing office at Tong Building. Well, since my Royal Prince Charming is not working in orchard area, he has to forsake his lunch hour to rush down to collect his ticket. My office is quite near to Tong building thus, I decide to make our lunch so that I can accompany my prince charming and have lunch with him since I'm very sure he wouldn't have the time to source for food later on.

Btw, I modified some of the recipe. Did not add in any water to cook the rice as what 米桶 did because I wanted the kind of 粒粒分明 texture so I decided to let the rice cook with the chicken stock I added in. I changed the garlic to onions because I personally prefer onions to garlics. Due to the low amount of water added, you need a longer time for the rice mixture to be cook throughly. Mine took 1 hour and still tasted rather hard :( No choice, I had to stir in Chicken stock which must be sufficient enough to cover the rice so that the rice will be soft when cooked. Gosh, I should have added in water in the first place! I bet it will take much much lesser time. LOL!

Well, I'll treat this as a learning tactic for me ;)
Nevertheless, this is real good but slightly less healthy. Try it once in a blue moon only okie? :P

Sweet Picnic & Happy 6th Months Wedding Anniversary

It was thankfully quite a good weather today. I was still worried that it might rain heavily but luckily the drizzle only came when both me and my Royal Prince Charming were about to head home. Thank god! This picnic session has been in our plan since weeks ago but whenever we decides to head out for picnic on a particular day, it would rain cats and dogs :( I guessed it is not a very good idea to plan picnic sessions in 4th quarter of the year because its the monsoon season. LOL!

Anyway, both of us enjoyed our picnic session loads! It's been quite sometime since we had such meaningful outing just for the 2 of us. Most of the time, both Prince Charming and I would either drop by in town for some shoppings/window shoppings or we would stroll around our neighborhood malls or just stay home to watch DVDs. I always have a liking towards picnic sessions. It is always my dream to plan Picnic every week if possible but I think it's quite hard since my Royal Prince Charming is so obsessed with his online gaming as usual :P Maybe once a month should be fine!

The day ended with us fully bloated with the bentos I prepared and cycling around East Coast Park. The whole park was fully crowded with people because it's a globally international public holiday. I would much prefer if the park wasn't so crowded after all. It's like every step I take, there's someone in front! Imagine the crowd during CNY at Chinatown. It's something like that!

Anyway, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all fellow bloggers! May this new year be a blissful and fruitful one! :)

Some pics for sharing:


Lovely Dovey Slippers


A super whoper cute little girl we spotted at East Coast Park!~


The mysterious inside of my Chicken Pie! LOL


For those who are interested to take a look at the Bentos I've prepared, you may view here at my Flicker Album . Of course, my bento were not very professional as compared to Peony , Happy Home Baking and Aimei. I really need to learn from them :)

Chicken Pie

Makes 2 (9cm Mini Pie Pastry)
Ingredients	Amounts
Bread Flour	260g
Butter (Soften)	160g
Icing Sugar	20g
Water	50g
Salt	2g

Chicken Pie Filling
Ingredients	Amounts
Diced Chicken Breast	250g
Butter	50g
Diced Onion	1 Medium one
Ham (Diced)	4 Slices
Mixed vegetables	1 rice bowl
Salt	3 Tsp
Chicken stock	2 tbsp
Corn starch solution	40g + 2 tbsp water
Boiled diced Potatoes	2 small ones

Pie Pastry :

1. Combine all the ingredients for the pie pastry together.
   
   
2. Blend into a smooth and buttery mixture and ensure that all ingredients are combined nicely.
   
   
3. Bring to chill for at least 1 hr.
   
   
   

Chicken Pie Filling:

1. In a wok, melt the butter. Add in the diced onions and fry till fragrant.
   
   
2. Stir in the diced chicken and cook well. When chicken is cooked, stir in the ham and blend well.
   
   
3. Add in chicken stock and simmer for 2 mins. Stir in the mixed vegetables and potatoes.
   
   
4. Blend well and simmer for another 2 mins. Add in salt for seasoning.
   
   
5. Stir in the corn starch solution and blend well. Mixture should gets thicken. Set aside.

Sweet Pear Tart:

1. Roll out the chilled pastry dough.
   
   
2. Flatten into a thin round shape. Ensure that the dough shape is bigger than your pie pan.
   
   
3. Place the pastry over the pie pan and cut out the excess dough.
   
   
4. Poke holes onto the bottom of the pie pastry using fork.
   
   
5. Add the chicken pie filling into the pie pastry.
   
   
6. Cover the pie with another rolled pie pastry.
   
   
7. Bring to bake at 180 degree Celsius for 45 mins.

Baked these chicken pies for our Picnic session tomorrow. Opps, I mean today! Gosh, only to realised that it's already 2:00AM in the morning when these pies came out pipping hot.

Practically most employees are on half day work today and thus, after my work, I headed off to Takashimaya for lunch. My Royal Prince Charming had his company lunch thus, I was strolling alone in Takashimaya for almost 2 hrs before his arrival.

We shopped the whole day and only managed to reached home at 1030pm. Getting the stuffs prepared and ensuring that my pie pastry is chilled enough took me quite sometime. Nevertheles, I am satisfied with my Chicken Pies. They smell so nice and I'm hungry now :S