12 Dishes

One of my 2011 year resolution is to cook a dish every month, which translates into 12 dished to complete this year. I didn’t aim to cook a perfect dish, nor to cook everything from the scratch, just to cook an simple, edible dish.


Moving into the last 2 months of 2011, I feel that I should review the list of items cooked so far


(1) Bak Kut Teh
This is the very first dish of the year. I am ashamed to say that most chopping , cleaning was done my other half, who is definitely better than me in the kitchen. This explains why I am getting fat.


The spice was bought off the shelf. Pork ribs were put in together in a slow cooker and left to cook for an hour.

(2) Pasta
Bought the pasta and pasta sauce off the shelf again, cook them separately and mix.
I seems to have lost the photo of it .... :(

(3) Chee Chong Fun

 I learnt this from my Mother in law. It is one of my favorite dish. It was after been shown many times to me before I finally could get it.

(4) Prawn Mee Soup – I got the recipe online here.
Getting all ingredients in place

Going to be ready soon

This is the final product!

(5) Gyoza

(6) Cheese Mushroom

One day I had a dinner at Plaza Sing with my friend and had this great tasting cheese mushroom for their finger food and taste heavenly. As I kept thinking about it , I decided that I must learn this

(7) Hawaiian Baked Rice
I used this Recipe
Before putting into the oven

Done !

(8) Watercress Pork Rib soup
Used this recipe

(9) Cereal Prawn
I just followed the instruction at the back of the packaging , but excluded curry leaves & chilli

(10) Old Yellow Cucumber Soup
This is my own recipe , throw all ingredients in and leave it to boil ....

(11) Niang Toufu ( MIL taught version )

(12) Pork Loin with aspargus - No recipe. I cook it just because I felt like eating pork & aspargus. And pork loin is one of my favourite parts 

Of course , there are always failed experiments mainly due to my lousy skills, listed some here

(1) Minced pork salted egg with Toufu

(2) FIL one day cook a dish with mushroom , dark beans , and tofu + i also duuno what else.

It was damn nice and I tried to replicate but failed big time.. sad man !! I am still trying to steal his recipe ....

(3) Chicken wings

Was experimenting with different ways to cook chicken wings .. None of it turn out nice :(

Top :Some Japanese recipe Wings

Second on the right : Soya sauce wings

Left bottom : Coca Cola Wings

Right Bottom : Salt Wings

(4) I also realised that I do not know how to make steamed eggs !!!! I am still trying !

No photos cos it damn lousy