Sorry for not updating regularly cuz i'm lazy. Okay, the recipe for today will be Chilli Paste Chicken.

It looks like a malay chilli chicken but it's not. My version taste a little bit sweeter and i'm not using sambal chilli.

Ingredients:

- 1 1/2 tbsp Korean Chilli paste

- 2 cloves of garlic ->fresh garlic preferred

- 1 yellow onion

- 1 tbsp light soy sauce

- 1/2 tspn corn syrup -> can be found in korean mart

- 1 wedge of fresh Lemon juice

- Chicken thigh/drumstick

Methods:

1) Cut the chicken into bite size

2) Cut the onion into strips and chop the garlic finely

3) Mix chilli paste, garlics, onions, soy sauce and corn syrup together and mix well.

4) Pour the mixture to the chicken and mix well so that every chicken is covered with the mixture.

5) Let the chicken sit for 20-30 mins to wait for the chicken to absorb the paste.

6) Cook the chicken in a wok or pan. Add some water if it's too dry.

7) Cover the chicken for abt 20 mins in medium low heat until it's fully cooked.

8) Lastly, add the lemon juice to the dish, stir the dish well and serve.

Why we add lemon last cuz lemon juice and enhance the flavor of the dish and there will be a hint of lemon taste in it so you will feel very appetizing.

And lemon does not compliments any dish. So dun add lemon to any dish you cook.

Next i will be updating on braised pork belly and how to cook a tangy squid using lemon.

New food recipe coming soon!!!!

Leek and mushroom soup. Very light soup and there's not much oil. The ingredients that are used for this soup is very simple.

Ingredients

- Shiitake/dried mushroom

- 1 stalk of leek

- 1 carrot

- Salt/soy sauce/ fish sauce

Method

1) Wash the mushrooms and put into a pot of water till boil. You can choose to slice it or just cook it as a whole mushroom.

2) Cut the carrot into bite size and put it to the pot and cook together with the mushrooms.

3) Chop the leek diagonally and wash it in tap water for a few secs.

4) Stir-fry the leek in pan until half-cooked to get rid of the garlicky smell and mix it in with the pot of soup.

5) Add the salt/soy sauce/ fish sauce to the soup to your liking and wait for it to boil.

6) Scoop the soup to a soupbowl and start your dinner.

Simple steps to delicious healthy soup. Enjoy.

Just got back from Batu Pahat for a short getaway. Even though i have not found a job doesn;t mean i can't go on a holiday. Bought nothing there except for some shorts and Maybelline Gel Eyeliner and FOOD!!

Been wanting to try the gel eyeliner from their brand but then it's a bit selling too ex here. So when i when in on saturday, my uncle stop us at Carrefour then we went to shop for our own stuffs. Went to search for this product. Cost 39.90RM, when convert it's ard S$16 or S$17. So it's like a few dollars cheaper there. Wanted to buy other stuffs like foundation and eyeshadow, but scared that we might not have enough $$ to buy food. So i have to curb myself of not buying.

I love the texture of the gel liner, very creamy and dark. Oh, i bought it in black, i din manage to find other colors. If i'm going in malaysia again i might buy brown and other cosmetics. I've tried the eyeliner and it's very easy to apply on. A few strokes and the black shows up really well. I love the brush that came with it also. So cute and easy to use.

If you have finished using the pot of eyeliner, dun throw away the brush. Just wash and clean it and you can use as a lipstick brush. The pot also can wash it and keep it, in case any mini things like earstuds you also can keep it inside for easy storage.

The gel liner can use for a very long time, i think i need not buy any eyeliner for a year or so. MIGHT be going in to JB soon. Hope there's more cheaper clothes and cosmetics for me to see see look look and buy!!!

Made this pumpkin and chicken soup. Good for healthy diet ppl. If you think there's too much oil, you can use a kind of absorbent paper which can be bought from daiso. Will upload the pics soon. This soup is very easy to cook.

If you are cooking for the whole family, use half a chicken and half pumpkin. Peel the pumpkin skin with a peeler, if you are a expert at peeling you can also use a knife but really careful cuz the skin is super hard. Normally i would cook the pumpkin first to let it soften and throw in the chicken. Add salt for seasoning. Cuz pumpkin is sweet so you might have to add quite an amount of salt. I dun recommend to use soy sauce cuz the soya bean taste would be very heavy and will taste weird with pumpkin. Let it boil in medium fire for around 2 hours and you're done.

Next is the rolled omelette, i intro-ed this in my previous post, and this is just to let you see how the omelette will look like inside if it's rolled up. You can find videos on how to make japanese rolled omelette on YouTube. They add mirin, dashi and soy sauce. This will make the egg taste sweeter cuz mirin is sweet sake.

Enjoy!!

Made salad again today, but replaced the chesdale cheese with fetta cheese.

This cheese can be bought in ntuc, cost abt 5 bucks. I bought the reduced fat version, there's also a original version of the cheese. Or if you want to use a better grade of fetta can go Carrefour. They have a station there that sells all kinds of cheeses, hams and olives. Diced the cheese and put into your salad. Dun add too much of this cheese cuz it has a heavy taste when added just a bit. if you are very lazy to do the seasoning yourself, they also sell ready-to-mix seasoning. They got 2 types, fetta cheese with olives oil & spices and fetta cheese with olive oil & herbs.

Cooked rolled cheese omelette yesterday for snack. Taste so nice, you can also see the spiral pattern of the egg, but i din take a pic of eat cuz i was hungry. LOL!! Look at the melted cheese, make me drool again.

If you dunno how to roll up the omelette, you can just cook a round shape.

Ingredients

-2 eggs

-Cheese (any type)

I used 2 eggs, beat them up, add a pinch of salt. Pour half of the beaten eggs into pan first. Let it stay there until halfcooked (still can see liquid on egg). Add cheese (kraft cheese/mozarella or whatever cheese you like). Take out from pan immediately. Pour the rest of the beaten eggs into the pan (leave abt 2 tbsp of egg mixture), let fry until halfcook again. Take the first omelette (with cheese) and put on top of the omelette, make sure that the cheese have to be in the middle of the egg. You will see that the sides of the omelette doesn't stick. This is where the 2 tbsp of egg comes in, use it like a glue, dap egg mixture along the sides of the eggs and press. This will let the 2 omelettes stick together. Cook until both sides are golden brown, this also makes sure that the middle of the eggs are hot enough to melt the cheese.

Eat it with ketchup or chilli or by itself.

Enjoy!!!!

Next up will be black pepper pork strips recipe.

Made this salad just now for my breakfast.

Used some butterhead lettuce that i've bought last week. You can also use romaine lettuce or normal 生菜. Add a bit of cherry tomatoes, chesdale cheese and ham. Cut the ham and cheese into strips and mix it with the veggies. For seasoning, add a tablespoon of olive oil and a teaspoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice. Add normal salt/garlic salt and black pepper for some peppery taste. Dun use powdered black pepper cuz the taste will be very heavy. I recommend using coarse ground black pepper.

Mixed it well and EAT!!! Taste damn good i promise.

Garlic salt can be bought at ntuc with the brand name Masterfood.

Next up is this. Bibimbap.

Learnt this online and recreate mine. Cut carrots and cucumbers into thin strips. Carrots you can either eat it raw or cook it it's up to you. Boil the meat in water till cook and cut in strips. You can buy some beansprouts to add (must be cooked). But i bought the soybean sprouts in ntuc and add inside. Fry a sunnysideup and place it on the top after you finish putting other veggies on the rice.

As for the chilli sauce. I use the korean chilli paste. It can be bought at either supermarts or korean supermarts. Add one teaspoon of sesame oil, 1/2 teaspoon of corn syrup or a pinch of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of light soy sauce to a tablespoon of chilli paste. Add more some each seasonings to match your tastebuds.

And you are done!! Mix well with the ingredients and rice and eat!!!

Enjoy and will be back for more!!!

I'm here to update again. Will be updating on some cosmetics review that i bought some time ago.

1) Gel Eyeliner in Warm Bronze and Navy Blue.

Bought this from a blogshop for 10 bucks w/o postage fee. I like that texture of the eyeliner, very soft. But the gel clumps up too easily and dries out very fast when you just apply. The warm bronze color doesn't really show up well on the lids unless you really apply lots of layer, but the shimmer does brings out your eyes. As for the navy blue, when you apply, the color just shows up immediately, what you see is what you get. The gel eyeliner came with a free eyeliner brush. But is those kind of sponge tip and it's kinda hard. When i apply the eyeliner using the brush, my lids are practically rubbing against it. So i normally only use my own brush. But overall the product is great.

2) In2it 2-way foundation extra cover

This product is great!! It's waterproof (i've tested it). But i'm sure is this product really oil control or not. The sad thing is this product no longer sell in Watsons i think. I bought this last year if i remember. And they have a free refill also. But i seldom use powder foundation cuz they dries up my face real fast. So i only use it when i need some fast action to make myself presentable.

3) Shills BB cream SPF 30

My friends bought this for me last year. They only have one color. And it's too light for me cuz i'm quite tanned. So i only used this as a concealer. The coverage is not that great, can't conceal my acne scars, but it does moisturize my face. It's also has some mild fragrance to it. Dun really recommend this product though.

4) THEFACESHOP Touch&Shine dual eye color in silver&navy

Totally in love with this. Creases a little but not much. The silver is eyeshadow and the navy is eyeliner, but you can also use it as eyeshadow. The navy color totally matches my gel eyeliner. The texture is very soft and can be drawn on lids very easily. The silver is very light, can't really see it unless there's light shining on it. It gives off shimmers. Totally great for nightclubbing. BUT!!!!! It smudges very very very easily. When your face oil starts to come out, the eyeliner smudges without hesitation. So have to touch up frequently.

5) Daiso's color makeup base in green and white

Though it's very cheap, but i regret wasting my $4 on these. They say green can help cover redness on faces, but i dun really see the results. And the texture of the base is not that good also. I squeezed out a little and spread, the whole base could not stay on the skin. I might try faceshop's base someday.

Update till here. Stay tune for my post on food!!!!!

Baked all these on sat. Very healthy. One table spoon of oil for all.

Potatoes are baked with white onions. Mixed it with some Italian herbs and garlic salt. Yums!!!

Minced meat patties. Added some sesame oil, water chestnut, fresh mushrooms, carrots, corn flour and soy sauce. Delicious!!!

And i love the prawns!! Put some garlic salt on the prawns and smells heavenly. Too bad i dun have any cheese. look at how fresh the prawns are!!! OMG!!! Makes me drool again.

Off to get my beauty sleep. Been feeling so tired even though i'm jobless. Someone introduce me some decent jobs!!!

Recommend me any fruits that have Vit C other than orange. I have fear of oranges now. *vomits*

What i bought yesterday from watsons.

They are having some sale right now for some cosmetics. Bought ZA true white lotion. Helps to diminish acne scar and blemishes. I din buy the whole range cuz i'm not into getting myself fair. I LOVE THE SUN!!! Just that i have serious acne scars on my cheeks. Been using this lotion for a year. Works well on me i must say. Previously i used Garnier Pure A facial wash to cleanse my face and use this as a toner. But because i very dry and sensitive skin, whenever i use products with scrubs, my face becomes red. Like patrick from spongebob. So now i'm using a mild cleanser, Cetaphil. Works pretty well with the lotion. Although you can't see fast results as compared to using Pure A + lotion. But after using the combination for a month now, my scars really lightens a bit. Not as red as before.

And my first ever lipstick from Maybelline. Water shine in B22. Nude color range, but can't see in picture and i haven really try the product yet. But i love the color, doesn't seems too dark or bright for me.

And i just how lip is impt to ladies. Chapped dry lips doesn't appeal to ppl be it male or female. Makes you look sick and i think your other half won't want to kiss you. And cuz i have dry lips, i use warm water to pat on my lips and use fourth finger or towel to slowly rub away the dead skin on the lips. After that i quickly use lip balm and done. But i got another method is after clearing dead skin and slap some balm on lips, some do use plastic wraps (保鲜膜), cut it to squares that can cover your lips and put it there for like a few minutes. After that remove the plastic and apply some balm. Tadah!!! your lip will be boing boing and soft. But i'm not sure whether this works or not though. But you can try.

What lip balms i use are these.

The one from bodyshop is a tad too flavoured and sticky for me. But i only use it when my lip are really calling for help.

I personally do recommend the balm from Vaseline. As you know they are famous for treating dry, chapped lips. And the flavour is really light and not sticky. My first choice. And can really makes your lips moisturize from day to night.

The lip balm from mentholatum, not bad i say. But when i use this, my lips gets drier even more easily and i must keep touching up on my lips. I bit too lazy. So ya.

Last one is a very long ago lip balm cum gloss. I dunno when i bought this. I think very long already, but i seldom use. Too sticky but glossy. I dun like too glossy lip and this too, makes your lips dry faster than normal. And i think you can't find it anywhere i suppose. I bought these when i was Sec 4 or 5. OMG!! 5 years since i left my school. Gonna throw it away soon.

OKay, update till here. More will come soon. Going to cook today, stay tune to this blog for new healthy recipes.

Made citrus, or rather orange drink for my parents. Not orange juice, but more towards tea that kind. Looks very atas hor???? LOL!! My mama also say not bad leh. LOL!!

These few days i love to try make drinks with fruits. Mostly using citrus fruits. Got a kind of smell i like :D I feel like buying the cocktail book leh. But then at home also not no liquer that are needed.

Quite a long post today cuz of some steps. Bear with it. LOL!

Simple steps to making this orange drink.
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1) Sliced some orange peels thinly, remove any white spongey parts from the skin cuz that one will make your drink taste bitter. Then cut the thinly peeled skin into fine slices.
You can choose to use a grater to make your life easier.

2) Cut a few slices of orange without those "membrane-look-alike" thing (if you get what i mean)

3) Pour in hot water and mix some honey (preferably manuka honey or those honey which is not transparent kind, which is a bit ex than those normal ones) to your liking.

4) Stir well.

You will smell some orange fragrance. Very refreshing drink. Can also clean your tongue palette at the same time. Can also try to pop-in a few ice cubes to make it a little cold. You can choose to/not to eat the orange peels or slices.

Enjoy the four simple steps to make atas drink. LOL!!


Will try to make more atas drink if i have the time and the inspiration. For now just try to make this drink for your friends or during taitai teabreak.

Note: If you dun have honey or no $$ to buy. Can try cooking your own caramel by melting the sugar. But you have to keep stirring non stop until light brown color.


::::Steps to caramel making::::

1) Pour desired amt of sugar to the cooking pan.

2) Keep stirring until the sugar becomes golden brown. (Usually takes ard 20 mins)

3) Let the melted sugar cool down for ard 5 to 10 mins first before putting it into the cup cuz the temperature is VERY VERY VERY HOT!! And you will spoil your precious cups. You can also try to pour the syrup onto metallic trays to let it cool faster.

4)Once cooled, the caramel will be a bit harden. TRY to break the caramel into small bits and mixed it with the drink. The small bits will melt slowly if you keep stirring.

5) Sit down, relax and enjoy your drink.


Next, pondering how to clean away the leftovers that harden which are stuck onto your pan??

Try pouring hot water to pan. Turn on to small fire and stir, the caramel will slowly melt away. Wash your pan and make sure that there's no hard caramel left if not the ants will be having "party" there.

As for the tray, try pouring the hot water over the harden caramel in the sink without using your hands unless you are mad. The caramel will slowly melt away. But then i dunno how much water you will waste. haha.

That's all folks!!! Enjoy~~~~

Steamed this cabbage wrap for dinner just now. First time try, not bad though. No oil, no pork smell, the taste very light also. The gravy i used here are the ones after steaming the wraps.

The fillings in the cabbage are minced pork, preferably lean minced meat if for healthier choice. I mixed some tofu (水豆腐) and finely chopped carrot and mushrooms in there for texture. So the pork wont taste so siap siap if you know what i mean. Adding the tofu changes the pork texture to a smoother 口感. Mushrooms and carrot are to own choice though. Can add chopped water chestnut in there for crunchy feel. But too bad i dun have chestnut today. Actually the filling is a bit like our house making hakka yong tau foo. Just that we add more things other than those mentioned.

OK, detailed ingredients down here.

What you need:

- Cabbage

Fillings:

- minced pork/ chicken (i always use aga-ration for ingredients. Go with your feel.)

- tofu (those in a box one with water inside)

- carrots, chop finely *to your choice*

- fresh mushrooms (not dried ones), chop finely *to your choice*

- water chestnuts, chop finely *to your choice*

Note: you can use onions, celery or whatever ingredients you can think of to put in there. You can also choose not to put anything, just plain minced meat and tofu. But if there's still leftover cabbage after tearing up to the amount you want, chopped it and mix with the fillings. Dun waste.

Method:

- 1:1 ratio of minced meat and tofu. mixed everything together well.

- Add those other veggies that are chopped in, mix well.

- Season it with some light soy sauce. Or you can choose to add these in the gravy after steaming.

- Tear some cabbage. Leave it in one full piece and not in small pieces.

- Get 2 to 3 spoonfuls of well mixed meat and put in the cabbage.

- Roll the cabbage like popiah and put in plate. Do so for all.

- Finish rolling, put the whole plate into steamer. Wait patiently for 20 mins or so to make sure that the meat are fully-cooked.

(you can also slice those extra fresh shrooms and put over the wraps and steam it together)

For nice presentation,

- Separate the gravy and mushrooms from the wraps

- Cook the gravy till boil, add some corn starch and just go over the wraps.

Or want watery watery gravy also can, after steaming just take out and it's edible. , i do recommend to mix some corn starch in, it's more appetizing

That's about how i made this dish. More to come i hope. Try it if you want some light dinner dish or trying out new recipes. Any questions, you can email me. My email address is at the sidebar.

Enjoy!!