Fried udon & fuit salad!

It's been a long time since I've updated this space, so I thought I'd break it with a home-cooked lunch!

Pan-fried black pepper udon with luncheon meat, sausages and 小白菜, with an egg to be mixed in afterwards! It wasn't as fragrant as when Mom made it though, so next time, I'm going to try some variations :) Still good though! Oishi!








We made a fruit salad after that. OK, it's just a bunch of mixed fruits really. An orange, 2 mangosteens, 2 red bananas and a large mango :) I realise that most of the things we eat tend to be very yellow, I don't know why. Haha..but this looks like a very bright and sunshiney salad! I like!







Verdict: Another item to things that I'm learning to cook. Next time, it'll be better! :)

Inaugural lunchbox!

Oh dear, I've rather neglected this site.. Nothing very special today, I just wanted to share a lunchbox I made for school on the 27th of March

The lunchbox(es) - there were 2 identical ones, for Dearie and myself - are birthday presents from a mutual friend, Limin. Too bad we didn't manage to photograph the accompanying cutlery: a cute little spoon and pair of chopsticks!

Isn't it cute? This is Dearie's lunch. OK, mine's the same, but we photographed his lunchbox. Better angle hee~ It holds macaroni and hotdog bites in a tomato sauce in the bigger compartment. The smaller one holds an omelette and Japanese seaweed chicken.




Verdict: Not the most nutritious lunchbox in the world by any shot, but it certainly held enough food to keep the both of us happily fed :)

Japanese curry and pork cutlets

I made this lunch on our 17th month anniversary, something which I'd wanted to cook for quite some time now.

A birds-eye view of the entire lunch - hot rice mixed with the remaining egg wash from the pork cutlets, pork cutlets that I attempted to stuff with cheese (see picture below), a gravy boat filled with the curry, and a bottle of lime (because I ran out of lemon) barley to beat the heat.




As I mentioned, I attempted to stuff the pork chops with cheese. Quite obviously, I failed. With advise from April (over on the main blog's tag board) my next attempt will be better, I hope :)

But the pork cutlets were still pretty yummy, despite having their cheese innards spilling all over the paper towels placed to soak up the oil.





Verdict: I was happy with the curry, this being my first attempt at making it, but I found it a tad too salty, though Dear liked it a lot. And it's a good way to get veggies into Dear - carrots, potatoes and onions in the curry! Haha.. Sneaky me.. Lessen the amount of chicken stock and up the amount of water next time :)

Meaty Sandwich (muahahah)

Hooboy! Is this artery-clogging or what?? It's a sandwich I made for lunch containing: 3 rashers of bacon (fried/toasted to a crisp), a slice of fried turkey ham, half a slice of cheese (ran out of cheese..had to split a slice between 2 sandwiches), scrambled eggs with milk, and a pork bratwurst, sliced into quarters.

Quite a mouthful ain't it? Hehe..

Obviously it would have tasted better with perhaps a little mayo and lettuce and tomatoes in it, but we were out of it. So a side of cherry tomatoes it was. A slight concession to healthy eating (and because the sandwich was salty! :P - I think if some products weren't pork, Sya would have liked it, woman who needs her salt fixed hehe).

Verdict: Saltiness aside, it was rather filling, and I think it tasted rather good. I'll be tweaking it soon, hopefully with veggies this time, to make it better :D

Japanese lunch (made by kat hehe)

We made a whole array of Japanese food for lunch today!! So exciting!

Lunch from a birds' eye view (minus chawanmushi!)
From top to bottom, left to right: Soba dipping sauce, cold soba and cha soba mix, 2 bowls and 2 pairs of chopsticks, tempura dipping sauce, tempura and grilled unagi





Cold soba ( I think you still can see a few little cubes of ice nestled in the noodles if you look hard enough). A mix of zaru soba (normal soba??) and cha soba (green tea soba, much nicer in my opinion)





Grilled unagi bought from Cold Storage that I just heated up in the microwave. Don't knock it, k? It tastes great nonetheless!







Check out the little cups of chawanmushi steaming in the wok. Mix in egg and chicken stock, a dash of soy sauce and sugar, and then strain. Steam covered with clingwrap, and you have chawanmushi worthy of any Japanese restaurant. I should know. I made it :P




Assorted tempura: lotus root slices, okra, brinjal and prawns. Need to tweak the batter though. It tasted good but refused to fluff up like tempura was supposed to.






Verdict: A little points taken off for the refusal of the batter to fluff up, but all else tasted fantastic for a home effort. Next time, the toss up between going to a Japanese restaurant and slaving in the kitchen to create the same (but very very doable) results will have a close fight :P

Taco-making (made by kat hehe)

The day of homemade tacos. Very few pictures because we were too busy pigging out. Pictures, nevertheless, there are.

Bought a taco-making kit from the supermarket at Paragon and it contains the works: taco shells, taco sauce (tastes and looks like a small packet of salsa to me), and a packet of taco seasoning to cook the meat in. I accidentally put in too much water at first, but simmered it till the liquid reduced, and the results were satisfactory :) Pack the taco shell with meat, add nacho cheese, shreds of lettuce, and taco sauce/salsa, and you've got a fat taco waiting to be devoured..Mmm..


Dear's concoction: topping a nacho with taco sauce and cheese. We had one more, where we put scrambled eggs on nachos, but failed to take a picture of that.






This isn't really food-related. But this is how we look like when we've been fed: Happy :P








Verdict: Taco Bell still wins hands down, but for homemade, this is pretty darn good! (Am I very ego?? :P)