Hello Gorgeous

{Photo taken from the internet}

Bought this gorgeous back last year. Just got it out from the box recently. I got it at around SGD200, cheaper than normal I think. It was a one time promotion in store. Mine is cherry, diameter 24 cm. It is the perfect size for 2 I think. The downsides are I need to oil it every time before I use it and washing it is such a chore. Well, I will continue to use, like I say, perfect size( and I already paid for it!). Anyway I bought baking soda to try to get rid of the grease, so let's see.

Japanese curry. The one reason why I opened this pot from wrapper. I know this photo doesn't look appetising but it was yum! Well, instant curry cube will never go wrong. 

My new kitchen helper

{Photo taken from the internet}

Bought this cutie few weeks back. Since young, frozen food section was out of reach for me. Guess who went crazy at the section! 

Frozen ready-to-eat fish. Not great though. 

Oven-baked Portobello with cheese and asparagus. This is fast becoming my top favourite snack. 

Apple Slicer

I used to bring an apple to work everyday. But lately, I got too lazy to slice my apple so I don't eat them anymore. Guess what, I saw this apple slicer in the supermarket and I bought it. 

Tadaaa. My apple is sliced. All you need to do is to push the slicer down the apple. This is truly for lazy people like me. Remember don't put your face too near the apple when slicing, unless you want some apple juice in your eyes (speaking from experience).

This look so pretty, like a flower.

Dips: Guacamole

J has been craving for guacamole every other day and they are really expensive, so I decided to make my own(truth is I have a lot of time on hand). It is really easy.

Ingredients: 

- 2 ripe avocados
- 1 lime, juiced
- pinch of sea salt
- 2 tbsp red onion, diced
- 1 clove of garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp spring onion, thinly sliced
- 2 tomato, diced

Steps:

1. Cut the avocado into half, remove the seed and scoop out the avocado from the peel(Save one seed)
2. Mashed the avocado in bowl. If you like it chunky, don't mashed too long. I used a fork to mash it.
3. Add this all the rest of the ingredient. Be careful you don't want to add in too much lime juice, remember to taste before adding. Adjust salt to own preference
4. Mix them
5. Put the avocado seed in the guacamole (The guacamole will not turn brown so quickly)
6. Put it in the fridge and serve when chilled

I used green tomato so you can't see any red here. The green tomato is yummy.

I am bored, so I took a few random similar photos and thought I will shared them here. 

Next, I want to try the spicy guacamole. Will update once I get it right.  

Soups: Chinese Vegetables Soup

One of the things I miss about home is homemade soup. My mum makes the most awesome soup, like the best. For the past few months, I eat out everyday (almost, unless you count instant noodle), I decide to at least try making soup once a week, best decision ever. I am going to save my ingredients and recipes here just in case I need to refer to it.

I have tried 3 different soups so far and one of them tasted wrong. I will try to get that right before saving the recipe here. Other than asking my mum, i will also refer these 2 sites for help (noobcook and joy she cook).

Just tried making this Chinese Vegetables soup yesterday.

Ingredients (Soup for two): 

- Halved Chicken, skin removed and cut into pieces

- 1 Tomato, diced

- 1 Yellow onion, diced

- 1 Carrot, diced

- 2 Potatoes,diced

- 3 stalks of celery, diced

- A Quarter of cabbage, cut into chunks 

- 5/6 dried scallops

Steps:

1. Parboiled the chicken for 3 minutes

2. Washed the chicken with cold water

3. Put the chicken and all the ingredients into the pot

4. Pour around 1.6 litres of water

5. Boiled for 10 minutes 

6. Simmer for 1 hours

7. Voila~, it is done

It looked nicer in real. 

p.s. I can't wait to go back Singapore and have mum-made soup. Cooking is really not my thing. Domesticated, not. 

Such an auntie

Can't believe I will say this but there you go, I am lusting for this Pot!

Photo from Le Creuset website

I can't believe I am talking about pots here but this little beauty here caught my heart while shopping in town. I don't really know how to cook but maybe I do with this in the kitchen. I went to check it out at the store weeks ago, it is freaking HKD 4528 which is about 700+ SGD. 

Right now, I am still wondering how can a pot cost so much. And by the way, this pot is now on sale in Hong Kong. It is HKD 2944, which is about 500 SGD. If you are in Hong Kong now, and you have been lusting for one this size (26cm), go get it. I still need to think.