Bubble Bobble Toil & Rumble

It’s so easy to forget the beauty of the simplest thing. Toasted Cheese Sandwich - such is the case. I’d give anything to have it again, like now!!!

Oh the thought of sliced cheddar cheese or cheese spread melted on 2 slices of crunchy bread is so killing me now.

For a richer taste, sandwich in a slice (or 5!) ham. Or a few strips of bacons.

X_X

There’s just so many things Jack doesn’t like eating. He calls himself low-maintenance, I call that fussy-pampy mommy’s boy. And he tends to get upset if I don’t remember what he doesn’t like eating and proceed SERVING them. So, yeah, low maintenance. Of course.

Here’s my list of Jack’s (growing) Yuck Food, you know, just to remind myself.

1.Tomatoes (!) - He hates it with a vengeance! What a pity, cos he’s missing out on Italian food!
2.Baked Beans - Possibly because it comes in tomatoe base.
3.Mushrooms - Especially chinese mushrooms
4.Spaghetti - Yes, because of the tomatoes again. I doubt he’s tried the cream based ones, cos I don’t like ‘em. Hehe.
5.(Slightly) burnt rice - You know, those brownish parts when you don’t use a non-stick rice cooker to cook.
6.Plain water
7.Fast foods - McD’s, KFC’s, A&W’s, pizza, anything fast-food. Actually, he does eat them, he’d sacrifice his "normal" dinner for my sake just cos I’m craving them. But he won’t feel as if he’s eaten.
8.Pork - He used to eat, and then he changed his mind about eating them. So he’d be upset if I offer it to him.
9.

to be continue…

Looks easy enough to prepare, maybe I’ll try making it during the weekends and if it turns out well, will keep this in mind for future parties.

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil
3 or 4 medium to large sweet potatoes/yams peeled and cut into 1 inch cubes
2 large chopped onions
2 crushed garlic cloves
1 tablespoon ground cumin
8 cups chicken stock
1 1/4 cups peanut butter
1 tablespoon chili sauce (optional)
1/4 cup dry roasted peanuts
1/4 cup chopped cilantro or chives

Cooking:
1. Heat oil and saute onions
2. Add cumin and garlic and stir-fry 30 seconds over medium heat
3. Add chopped sweet potatoes, cover and cook for 10 minutes over low heat, stir to prevent sticking
4. Add Chicken stock, bring to boil and simmer for 10 minutes
5. Add peanut butter and chili sauce, stir
6. Simmer uncovered for half an hour, stir occasionally
7. Puree with a hand held blender or regular blender
8. Add peanuts, cilantro or chives and serve hot

So I was in the mood. And I made "dinner". By digging every darn left over stuff from the fridge and the cabinet. 3 packets of maggi mee, 2 sticks of chilli sausages, and a can of button mushrooms were what I found.

So I proceeded to boil a pot of water to cook the noodles, drained, and set aside.

Sliced up the sausages, and cut the mushrooms into 4.

Added oil and a dash of sesame oil to wok and dumped in the noodle. Proceeded to stir fry a little, and sprinkled a packet of maggi mee seasoning (curry flavour). Added a little water, dumped in all the remaining ingredients and stir-fried!

Set on plate. 

Beat 2 eggs in a bowl with a pinch of salt and pepper, fried a la omelette. Set atop the noodles. Using the sliced sausages, arranged a smiley face (or whatever rocks your socks) on the omelette! And served!

Trailed this fragrantlicious recipe down and lifted it from 5xmom. Love the fact that the ingredient is simple and the cooking is E.A.S.Y

Sesame Oil & Ginger Chicken
>2 chicken thighs cut into bite sizes
>1 thumb size ginger, finely sliced
>2 tablespoon sesame oil
>Soya sauce, dark soya sauce, pepper and a pinch of sugar

"Heat sesame oil and stir fry the ginger till fragrant. You can smell the fragrance miles away. Many people are usually put off by this combination but others love it.

Put in chicken and stir fry a bit. Add some water, the seasoning and let the chicken simmer over low fire until the meat is tender and the gravy is rather thick. Taste and season according to your taste."

*drools* Can just cook this dish and it’ll go perfectly well solo with white rice! … OK lah, maybe fry an egg too loh…

I guess only when you’re feeling adventurous…

Indian Styled Fragrant Rice

To cook with:
>315g long grain rice, washed
>1 tbsp margarine
>2 tbsp oil
>3 cloves garlic, crushed
>3 shallots, coarsely chopped
>1 lemon grass, bruised
>2 ½ cups water
>3/4 tsp turmeric powder
>1 ½ tsp ground cumin
>5 cloves
>3 cardamoms
>2 sprigs curry leaves
>1 tsp salt or to taste

To Cook:
Heat margarine and oil in a saucepan, add in shallots, garlic, cloves, cardamoms, lemon grass and curry leaves. Fry until fragrant. Add turmeric powder and ground cumin to the mixture.

Pour in water and bring to boil. Stir in rice and salt. Cook over high heat for 4–5 minutes then lower the heat and cook covered slightly until rice is done and fluffy. Fluff the rice after it is cooked.

I adapted this from Samm’s. From the looks of it, the recipe is easy to prepare and fast to cook too!

- Cut up 1 chicken drumstick in small chunks, marinate with oyster sauce, sesame oil, sugar, pinch of salt and pepper, and dark soy sauce.
- Sliced up 2 chinese sausages
- Mushrooms of your liking
- Cut up long beans into small bits
- Rice
- Water

Wash the rice and add water into the rice cooker, dump in everything else and start cooking.

And we are done! 

…because I signed myself up as a wife. That’s why.

So this will be the place, what I like to call, a LIBRARY (heh sounds more intelligent) I’d run to everytime I need to carry out one of my wifey duties - cooking.

I hope this little space will help you out too as far as filling up your tummy is concerned (of course you have to cook it yourself! Reading alone can’t bring you too far dearie! hehe) if you happened to chance upon here.

So cook up a storm and don’t let aunties look down on you!:) Happy Wifing!