Stirfry

Quick and Easy Pork Strips with Fresh Shitake Mushrooms

There are some days when you just don’t feel like cooking anything that involves a lot of work, yet you want something quick and easy that is delicious and fills your tummy. I found some lean pork in my freezer and a packet of fresh shiitake mushrooms so rustled this up one evening to pair [...]

Touch of nostalgia: A simple homecooked meal

When I last cooked some Sweet Potato Rice Porridge (Congee) I made sure that I had the right nutrition balance for the rest of the dishes accompanying the meal, because a meal consisting of pure carbohydrates isn’t quite the healthy meal I strive for. Besides my sister was feeling under the weather and I was [...]

Stirfried French Beans with Dried Shrimp

One of my favourite vegetables is French Beans (Kacang Buncis). I like them cooked quickly as a stir fry so they are still crunchy. The conventional method is to stir fry them with garlic as a typical vegetable stir fry dish but I decided to up the ante and add dried shrimp for flavour.

Slicing the [...]

Stirfried Bittergourd Omelette

A bittergourd or bitter melon is a gourd with a bitter taste. The bitter taste varies with each gourd. I am told that the gourds that look less wrinkly are less bitter while those with more wrinkles on the surface are more bitter. The smaller dark green ones are very bitter while larger gourds [...]