Simple Recipe - Honey Chicken Wing

Elder son has been complaining..."mom, why don't you come out with new recipe?".  Gosh, he is the most fuzzy one when comes to my cooking.

So today, I tried out a new way to cook chicken wings. Hubby and elder son commented it was tasty, well marinated. Is best if you marinate overnight or at least 2 hours. This recipe of Honey Chicken Wing is very easy, try it out.

Ingredients
6 chicken wings

To marinate:
6 tablespoon light soy sauce
2 tablespoon sweet dark soy sauce
Dash of coarse black pepper
Pounded 2" ginger & 3 cloves garlic
1/4 lemon juice and zest
2 tablespoon olive or any cooking oil
4 tablespoon honey
Pinch of salt


Method
Cut into two separating wing from the drummet
Blanch over boiling water, pat dry
Marinate overnight or minimum 2 hours
Then cook in oven 180°c for 45 mins or cook using stove till cooked.

Note: Since I am out of sweet dark soy sauce, I replaced with dark soy sauce and 1 tablespoon of brown sugar.

Simple Recipe - Carborana Pasta

Since I have some San Remo Bowties (Farfalle) and my elder son loves pasta at times instead of normal rice meal. So I have decided to try to cook for him my version of carborana pasta since he is the only one at home for dinner. The end result, not bad as my son said it was tasty.

Not pretty but tasty

2nd try with carrot

Ingredients
Sliced Garlic
Chopped small onion
Bowties
Smoked bacon, cut strip
Brocolli or Carrot
Fish Cake cube or chicken slice
Butter
Black Pepper
Parmesan Cheese
St Paul Thickened Cream
Salt

Method
In a pot of boiling water, add salt, cook the pasta
When the pasta almost done, throw in the brocolli, set aside.

In a pan, put in Olive Oil
Then brown the garlic and small onion
Add the strip bacon to crisp follow by fish cake
Melt in butter, put thickened cream, pasta water
Lastly pasta, black pepper, pinch of salt & parmesan cheese

The ingredients measurement is totally up to you depending on how much pasta you are cooking and your preference of thickness of your sauce.

Simple Recipe - Stewed Pig Trotter in black vinegar

Never like those version selling outside but at least my late mom in law's version, I will take a little. My husband and two boys love this Stewed Pig Trotter in Black Vinegar.

Is not difficult at all. It only takes longer time as you need to cook till meat is tender.

I will normally buy the 750ml Cheong Chan brand of black vinegar and gula melaka from Melaka itself.

Ingredients

6 tbls sesame oil

Mixture of a bowl of bruised old & young ginger
1 whole bruised garlic

1 whole pig trotter

Water

4" length of gula melaka or use brown sugar

1/2 - 3/4 bottle of 750ml black vinegar

1 tsp Salt or to taste

Method
Blanch the pieces of trotter in boiling water
Discard water

Heat up sesame oil in pot, stir fry garlic and ginger till fragrant
Add pork trotter
Then water to cover 3/4 of the trotter
Boil for 30 minutes
Add black vinegar, cook for 30 minutes
Then add salt and gula melaka
Cook till meat is tender

Adjust accordingly if water or black vinegar is required.

Hubby tasted and commented "this is so good that I could not get it from dining out!". My elder son said "Mom, very taste, not too sour not too sweet". My younger son "just nice". Wow, my skill cooking this dish has improved.. Too bad, my mom is away in Shanghai because this is her favorite dish.

Simple Recipe - Yong Tow Foo

My husband has been asking me to cook Yong Tow Foo. On the Mothers' Day weekend, we went to Pudu market as we wanted to get stuff for steamboat. We came across a fishmonger that selling fish paste freshly made at the stall, so we bought.

My late mom in law used to buy Wolf Herring Fish and scraped its flesh and made fish paste. You will need salt water and tapioca flour. Her Yong Tow Foo was really good.

For me is easier to just get the fish paste and stuff into vegetables of your choice. You can have brinjal, bittergourd, red chillies, long bean, beancurd sheet, towpok or okra/lady's finger.  Then cook sauce to put on top of the stuff vegetables.

After fried before sauce

Ingredients
500 gm fish paste
Vegetables of your choice

Method
Put 1/4 teaspoon salt into 1/4 small bowl water, stir it
Divide the paste
Add into the fish paste 1 teaspoon tapioca flour and salt water bit by bit onto the paste
Hit the paste onto big bowl to make it bouncy.
Stuff paste into vegetables
Heat up work, fry in cooking oil, set aside

Sauce
Pound:
1 tblsp taucheong (bean paste)
1 big onion
1 whole garlic

Heat up wok, put some oil, fry till aromatic the pounded ingredients.
Add some sugar and water
Put the sauce on top of the pre-fried vegetables

I am not an expert in cooking nor a good writer, just simple instruction that hope you can understand 😅. Happy cooking!

Simple Recipe - Stir fry Sweet & Sour Cucumber

This is a simple vegetable dish that goes well if you pair it with curry dish, what my late mother in law used to cook, Stir Fry Sweet & Sour Cucumber.

My husband loves cucumber cook this way, just balance up with vinegar, sugar and salt with fish cake.

Ingredients
1 Cucumber
1 or 2 Fish cake
Red chilli (optional)
Garlic
1 teasp Sugar
8 - 10 tblsp Rice Vinegar
Pinch of salt

Method
Cut cucumber, soak in hot water
Discard water when cold. This will make the cucumber crunchy
Cut fish cake and cut strip ted chilli
Heat up wok
Add cooking oil
Throw in garlic
Follow by fish cake, then cucumber
Put in rice vinegar, sugar and salt

The vinegar and sugar must be balance where the dish will not be too sour or too sweet.