19 September 2010 homecooked fare

purple tint rice - looks pretty, doesn't it? caused by placing purple sweet potatoes in the top steamer compartment while cooking rice. the sweet potato sweat dripped down onto the pristine rice bits and colored them so.


corn and potato pork ribs soup, his perennial favourite. these vegetables and bone make really good soup.


the overcooked meat strips with garlic sprouts and carrot strips. she insisted on cooking over high heat for a prolonged period of time, rendering the meat tough as rubber.

ultra yummy pork ribs rice 11 Feb 2010

pork ribs rice - special braised pork ribs, egg halves and rice topped with japanese seasoning. work of the inspired wife demonstrating the skill of using available ingredients for a good meal.

curry dinner

came home to see that wife had already cooked the rice and was starting on the curry.

she enthusiastically showed him his special plate of rice, molded in a heart shape.


the rice topped with curry - had potatoes, carry, milk, coconut milk, broccoli, diced chicken, mushroom, definitely not the usual curry, but still enjoyable. great effort.


finally, they sat down to make dessert, "xue mei niang" again. the same processes, with slightly different fillings of kiwi fruit and mango. took them quite a bit of time, but it was quality time spent together.

last dinner of 2009

he took a shower and slept after reaching home from the office. suddenly, he was rudely awoken by a frantic sounding wife. got up and went with her to see what happened. turned out to be dinner time, and some of it were ready to eat. happiness.

egg wrap (omelette) rice - wife special fried rice with curry-flavor chinese-style sausage. she refused to disclose the recipe, but it contained some dried shrimps. very fragrantly done. the egg wrap? she made him help her with frying some egg, and he just went ahead with frying his regular eggs, that's why you see it's not really that wrapped. maybe it should be called "egg covered rice" instead.


close up of the content


"hi tiger bye ox soup" - 100 grams of beef brisket, chicken essence cube, some star anise, ginger chunks, rice vermicelli. not too bad, but maybe the star anise made it a little weird. name of the soup is such to welcome the year of the tiger while the ox takes its break. sounds a little malicious though, when there's beef in the soup and she and he are born in the years of tiger and ox respectively.