What's for dinner? #9 A Hybrid Mochi

I mean, "What's for dessert?" ^^ I've always wanted to make taro mochis but just had not the tome for making it. A few days ago me and my mum finally had time. With a tip from a friend who is married to a Japanese and lives in Japan, we finally made the perfect mochi. 

Click here for the mochi recipe. We steamed it instead of using the microwave. The taro paste is a famous traditional Teochew dish (my roots). Click here for the paste recipe. As a finishing touch we've rolled the mochi into rasped coconut. I can tell you it's delicious!! I hope it got you inspired and got you cooking!

What's for dinner? #11 Teochew-style congee

Teochew-style congee also known as (潮州糜) Teochew mue is a type of rice porridge. It has a more soupy, watery texture compared to the Cantonese congee.

With my "mue" I ate:

- 咸蛋/kiam neng/boiled salted eggs. (Click here for the recipe.)

- 潮州橄榄菜/Teochew gamlamcai/It's a sort of pesto made out of olives, olive oil and Chinese mustard leafs.

- 菜脯/chai por/preserved radish

What's for dinner? #10 Pot-stewed Eggs 卤蛋

My mum made pot-stewed eggs today. This reminds me of a Chinese roommate who invited her friends over for dinner. At that time, my mum was visiting me and brought me some pot-stewed eggs and she gave also some to the other guests. One of the guys thanked my mum with all his heart because he didn't had homemade dishes like this for years. The poor thing!

Actually it's quite an easy dish. The cooking time however is really long, because you need to get all the herbs into the egg itself. My mum cooks it for 4 hours but she says that 5 or 6 hour is better. So what you need are:

24/7 without new yarn: week 2 + 1 week on hiatus

Hello everyone! How are you doing? I'm doing just fine but a little busy because it's hospital week this week. I have to do some check-ups before I land on the operation table. Eek!But think of it this way: they are just check-ups. That's why there will be just 1 post this week.

Anyway, I've playing with my Tunisian crochet hook the past days. I wanted to see what kind of effect it would give and if this was due able for a scarf. It also gives me a change to try other colour combinations. If it wasn't for the picture below, I never would have try it out.  So what do you think of the result? The advantage of using a Tunisian crochet hook is that the whole fabric is correct proportion. You don't have to worry about crooked lines.

What’s for dinner? #8 A Furikake Wannabe

Today I wanted to show you the result of a little experiment. Yesterday we had some salmon leftovers from the salmon soup my mum made. It wasn’t enough for another meal, so I thought maybe it can be turned it into something else?

My niece from Taiwan said something about using leftovers from fish and turn it into another dish. What a great idea! I had to try it out! My salmon furikake is similar to the one on JustBento.com but I used cooked salmon (from the salmon soup yesterday), salt, soy sauce and a little bit of garlic oil. I can tell you it wasn't bad at all. It’s definitely worth repeating!

24/7 without new yarn: week 1 "The One-day-syndrome"

A few days weeks ago I said to Kim that one day I'll make animals from her free tutorials but I've never had the chance to accomplish that! Too bad because they are lovely! She said that it was the One-day-syndrome that was causing this. 

Definition of the One-day-syndrome: too many projects and not enough time. There's not much known about this syndrome but every artisan will get in contact with it at least once in a lifetime.

Cure: This is a hard one, because every person recovers differently. 

Do you think you have this syndrome too? What do you think that will help you recover from this?

I think by participating the "24/7 without new yarn challenge" will help me to recover. I've made a list of projects I wanted to create in the past, but didn't had the time for it. We'll see what kind of effects this will give after a few weeks! I'll keep you posted! 

The list

Newly weds

2 of my friends is getting married tomorrow (the 27th of April. There's still 4 more weddings to go! Crazy huh? It must be a special year. *giggles* 

The happy couple are the owners of Sushi The Traveling Dragon. You can read about Sushi here and here. 

(Click here for more info.) 

And now this couple is added to their collection. I call them Mr. and Mrs Owl. I also want to wish the (almost) newly weds: "Wishing you all the health and happiness in this world on your wedding!"