Daddy, How was I born?

A little boy goes to his father and asks “Daddy, how was I born?”

The father answers, Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway!

Your Mum and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo.

Then I set up a date via email with your Mum and we met at a cyber-cafe.

We sneaked into a secluded room,

where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive.

As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall,

and since it was too late to hit the delete button,

nine months later a little ‘Pop-Up’ appeared that said:

'You have Male!'

Vegetable Wheat Wraps

Ingredients:

2-3 cloves of garlic, minced

Bean shoot

Cabbage, chopped finely

Carrot, julienne cut

1 maggie chicken block

1 handful of corn kernels

1 spring onion, chopped finely

Salt and pepper

Oil for frying

Direction for filling:

Heat oil in medium heat, sautee garlic until fragrant.

Add carrot and cabbage, sautee until almost translucent.

Add bean shoot, corn kernels, maggie block, salt and pepper.

Mix well then add spring onion. Sautee until cooked.

Direction for folding:

Scoop 1 tablespoon of the filling and fold it with wheat wraps.

The wheat wrap is not "strong" enough to fold the filling like spring roll.

Unless if you want to use 2 sheets of it for spring roll.

I prefer to fold in rectangular or square shape using only 1 sheet of wheat wrap. For me, using 2 sheets were too much and too dry.

Serving suggestion:

- Maggie Sweet Chilli

- Sambal ABC / ABC chilli sauce

- Tomato sauce

Vegetable Fritters

Vegetable Fritters


(Bakwan Sayur)

Ingredients:
2-3 cloves of garlic, minced
Bean shoot
Cabbage, chopped finely
Carrot, julienne cut
2 eggs
2 maggie chicken block
2 handful of corn kernels
1 spring onion, chopped finely
Salt and pepper
Tasty Fried Onion (link: http://missluckypiggy.blogspot.com/2009/01/tasty-fried-red-onion.html)
Oil for frying


Directions:
Combine all ingredients, except oil.
Heat oil in high heat, once hot turn it to medium heat.
Scoop with 1 tablespoon and fry until the finished.


Serving suggestion:
- Maggie Sweet Chilli
- Sambal ABC / ABC chilli sauce
- Tomato sauce

Butter Fried Chicken

(Ayam Goreng Mentega)


Ingredients:

1 skinless chicken breasts
2 tbsp butter
1 tbsp soya sauce
1 tbsp wochester sauce
1,5 tbsp sweet soya sauce
Oil
Salt
Lemon water, as needed


Blend/grind ingredients:

2 cm of ginger
3 cloves of garlic
Black pepper, as needed


Direction for chicken:

Mix chicken with blend/grind ingredients, keep it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
After that fried until cooked and set aside.



Direction for sauce:

Heat oil and butter in medium heat.
Add soya sauce, wochester sauce, sweet soya sauce, stir until thicken and boil.
Add chicken, mix well. Set aside.
Add lemon water on chicken. Mix well and ready to be served.

Wheat Wrap Fried Wonton

(Pangsit Goreng dengan kulit Wheat Wrap)

This is the first time I make fried wonton soup with wheat wrap as its skin. So I did not use much ingredients. But it turn out to be alright, delicious too (^_^)

Ingredients:

4 tbsp of Minced turkey

3 small garlic, minced

1 tsp sesame oil

Salt & pepper

1 spring onion, chopped finely

1 maggie chicken block

Wheat wraps
Oil for frying

Direction:

Combine minced turkey, garlic, sesame oil, maggie block, salt, pepper, spring onion.

Mix well.

Prepare wheat wraps, divide wheat wraps to 4 equal pieces.

Scoop some amount of minced on each wheat wrap.

Tip a bit of water on the edge.

You can fold it like triangle shape after tip a bit of water on the edge, or

You put the minced in the middle, tip a bit of water on the edge and fold 2 opposite sides into the middle. It will look a bit similar like spring roll. You can see the pictures of those 2 shapes below.

After folding them until minced finish, heat oil in medium heat.

You have to use medium heat, at first I used high heat and all become over-fried.

Fry them of each side one by one until golden brown.

Serving suggestion: with maggie sweet chilli.

Long Beans and Minced Turkey

Long Beans and Minced Turkey
(Buncis dan Cincang Ayam Kalkun)

Ingredients:
Long beans
Minced turkey
1 egg, beaten well
1 big red onion, chopped finely
4 small garlic, chopped finely
1 tsp raw sugar
2 tbsp sweet soya sauce
1 tbsp maggie fish sauce
salt & pepper, as desired


Directions:

Mix minced turkey and egg, then set aside.
Heat oil in medium heat, sautee garlic and red onion until translucent.
Add long beans and sugar, mix well until cooked.
Add minced turkey, sweet soya sauce, fish sauce, salt and pepper.
Mix well, sautee until cooked.

Chicken, Mushroom and Brocolli

Chicken, Mushroom and Brocolli


Ingredients:
1 Skinless chicken breast
1 Small can of mushroom
1 Brocolli, small size
100ml - 150 ml boiled water
1 big red onion, chopped finely
3 small garlic, chopped finely
5 fresh lime leaves, scratch leaves with knife
1,5 tbp of oyster sauce
1 tbsp of fish sauce
1 tbsp of sweet soya sauce
1 maggie chicken block
1,5 tsp salt
Pepper, as desired
1 tbsp of oil for sautee
1 tbsp of butter for sautee


Direction:
Heat oil in medium heat.
Add oil and butter, until butter melted.
Add garlic and red onion, sautee until fragrant.
Add chicken, sautee until half done.
Add fresh lime leave, oyster sauce, fish sauce, sweet soya sauce, maggie block, salt, pepper.
Mix well and pour boiled water, mix well.
Add mushroom, mix well until cooked.
Ready to serve.

Tuna in Spices

Tuna in Spices

(Tuna Berbumbu)

Ingredients:
370 gr can of tuna in spring water (I use 2 cans @ 185 gr each)
2 tbsp of fish sauce
Heaps of basil leave, chopped roughly
Oil, as needed
100 ml of coconut milk

Blend/grind ingredients:
2 cloves of large red onion
5 cloves of small garlic
7 fresh lime leaves, scratch the leaves with knife.
(I did not chopped it finely, instead I sliverred them, easy to see and throw them away after cooking)
1 lemongrass, bruised
1 tomato
5 candle nut (sangrai / sautee in medium heat without oil before grinded)
1 tsp shrimp paste
2 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp coriander powder
1/2 tsp ground white pepper

Direction:
Heat oil in medium heat.
Saute grinded/blended ingredients, lime leaves & lemongrass until fragrant and almost dry.
Add tuna and fish sauce, mix well.
Add basil leaves and coconut milk, stir/mix well until gravy dry.

If you like it at this stage, it is ready to serve.

If you like it drier, preheat oven 170 degree Celcius, bake each side in oven bake pan for 10-15 minutes.

You can add chillis, like big red chilli and/and chilli paddy, if you like it hot. I made it without chilli so my husband can enjoy it (^_^)

Serving suggestion: with white rice or bread.

Meat Balls Soup and Fried Meat Balls

Meat Balls Soup with Choy Sum

Fried Meat Balls

Ingredients:

500 gr of Minced turkey

Shiitake mushroom, chopped finely

Vermicelli, as needed, soak in hot water

Garlic, chopped finely

Choy sum, washed, chopped

1 tbsp oyster sauce

2 tbsp fish sauce

1 tbsp sesame oil

Ground white pepper

2 tbsp wheat fluor

1-2 maggie chicken block

Water, as needed

Oil for frying

Tasty Fried Red Onion, see link below on how to make it:

http://missluckypiggy.blogspot.com/search/label/Tasty%20Fried%20Red%20Onion

Direction for Meat Balls Soup:

Combine together in a bowl: minced turkey, black mushroom, garlic, vermicelli, oyster sauce, fish sauce sesame oil, ground white pepper, wheat fluor.

Form meat balls with 2 spoons, then set side.

Bring water to boil, boil meat balls, once they are floating it means they are cooked, take them out from the pan, set aside.

In separate pan, bring water to boil, add maggie chicken block, add choy sum, put in meat balls, bring to boil until cook.

Serving suggestion:

sprinkle of tasty red onion, sweet soya sauce, tomato sauce and chilli sauce.

Direction for Fried Meat Balls:
Combine together in a bowl: minced turkey, black mushroom, garlic, vermicelli, oyster sauce, fish sauce sesame oil, ground white pepper, wheat fluor.
Form meat balls with 2 spoons, then set side.
Bring water to boil, boil meat balls, once they are floating it means they are cooked, take them out from the pan, set aside.

Heat oil in medium heat, add meat balls, fried on each side until cooked.

Stir Fry Meat a la Susanna Olivier

Daging Goreng Berbumbu a la Susanna Olivier

Susanna is my long time friend...same like Paula Umbas,

we met through Facebook.com after such a looooonnngggg time.

I made it quite a lot with 0.458 grams of meat,

saved the rest for my husband's lunch box today,

he love it!

It is easy to prepare and taste great!!

Original Recipe:

Ingredients:

Beef fillet, sliced

Garlic

Red Onion

Ginger, minced

Oyster sauce

Soya sauce

Sweet soya sauce

Ground black pepper

Salt

Sugar

Water, or water mixed with corn flour

Direction:

Marinade meat with garlic, oyster sauce, soya sauce, sweet soya sauce, black pepper, salt. Marinade for 1 hour in the fridge.

Heat oil, sautee red onion and ginger until fragrant.

Add meat until cooked, add water and a little amount of sugar.

Mix Well and ready to serve if you like to have it with the sauce.

Or you can also add mixing of water and corn flour.

Mix it well and ready to serve.

Here is the link to Susanna's blog:

http://coolsue1812.multiply.com

What I made last night:

Ingredients:

0.458 grams of pork fillet

10 cloves of small garlic, bruised

1 large red onion, chopped finely

5 cm of ginger, peeled, cut cubed

3 tbsp oyster sauce

2 tbsp soya sauce

1 tbsp sweet soya sauce

Ground black pepper

1 tsp salt

100 ml of water

Direction:

Marinade pork fillet with garlic, oyster sayce, soya sauce, sweet soya sauce, black pepper and salt. Marinade for 1 hour in the fridge.

Heat oil in hot heat, sautee red onion and ginger until fragrant.

Add meat until cooked.

Add water, cooked to boiled.

Ready to serve with steam white rice.

Vegetable Fritters

Bakwan Sayuran a la Abang-abang Gorengan


Hari ini pagi-pagi udah kepengen makan bakwan sayur gorengan kayak yang dijual sama abang-abang tukang gorengan di Jakarta.

Bikin sendiri deh, lumayan enak juga... My husband like it, cuma dia bilang kebanyakan lada..hehehe...


Ingredients:
Cabbage (Kol), chopped finely. I use 1/2 from 1/4 cabbage.
Bean sprout (Toge), a handful
Carrot (Worter), 1/2, shredded finely
2 Spring onion (daun bawang), chopped finely
3 Eggs (Telur)
2 tsp Salt (Garam)
2 Maggie Block Chicken
White Pepper, as desired
2 tbsp Rice Fluor (Tepung Beras)
2 tbsp Plain Wheat Fluor (Atau Tepung Terigu)
Oil as needed

Directions:
Mix all vegetables.
Add eggs and mix well.
Add salt, pepper and maggie, and mix well.
Add fluor, and mix well.
Heat oil in high heat.
Take 1 spoon and fry it until it's finished.

Once all done, ready to serve with Maggie Sweet Chilli, and/or Heinz Big Red Tomato Sauce

Ayam Woku a la Paula Umbas

Ayam Woku a la Paula Umbas

Chicken in Spices Manadonese Style

I like this dish but didn't know how to cook it until one day I had a chat with my long time friend, Paula Umbas, she gave me this recipe and it was awesome!!

Ingredients:

1 skinless chicken breasts, cubed (you can use other parts of chicken, I use chicken breasts just because it is no fat and easy to eat)

Basil leaves, put more for better taste

1 lemongrass, bruised

2 Spring Onion

3 Lime leaves

Lemon juice from 1 lemon or as needed

1 tsp salt

1 tbsp oil

Blend/grind ingredients:

3 cloves of garlic

3 cloves of red onion

2 cm of ginger

1 big red chilli (I did not blend this, instead I chopped it finely just to have nice color and also because my husband doesn't like chilli)

Direction:

Marinate chicken in lemon juice, leave it in the fridge for 2 hours before cooking.

After 2 hours, drained, set aside.

Saute grinded ingredients with oil in medium heat until fragrant.

Add lime leaves and lemongrass. Mix well.

Add chicken. Close the pan lid for 2 minutes.

Add basil leaves, spring onion and salt.

Mix well and taste it.

Then ready to serve with steam white rice.

Tasty Crispy Fried Red Onion/Shallots

Tasty Fried Red Onion

Same as Fried Crispy Garlic, I also use this to sprinkle on top of fried rice, fried noodles, laksa, soto ayam (Indonesian yellow chicken soup), etc.


It is easy to make.
10 cloves of red onion.
Peel and chopped finely.
Mix and marinate with salt, leave it (when summer you can leave it under the sun) for about 10 - 15 minutes.
Heat oil in medium heat.
Add marinated chopped red onion.
Keep stirring until golden brown. 
Drained, leave it to dry and keep in a dry container.

Fried Crispy Garlic

Fried Crispy Garlic

(Bawang Putih Goreng Garing)

I used to make this quite a lot for stock. Use this to spinkle on top of soupie foods like chicken soup, vegetable soup, chicken noodle soup.

It is very easy to make.

10 cloves of garlic
peel and minced
Heat pan on medium heat.
Add minced garlic.
Mix and sautee well until golden brown.
Drained, leave it to dry and keep it in a dry container.

Spring Roll

My husband is off today. He is getting on to his e-bay after breakfast and start wrapping some items that already sold. I help, a little (^_^)

Almost 10:30am, I started to feel hungry. So I make Spring Roll. I can't really roll the spring roll, instead I fold it, so my spring roll are not in rolls but square shape.

I prepare:
3 cloves of garlic, minced
Minced turkey, mixed it with 1/2 tsp of ground corriander
Bean shoot
Celery stalk, chopped finely
Baby corn, chopped finely
1 maggie chicken block
Salt & pepper
1 egg - mix the yellow with minced turkey & white for egg wash.
Oil

Sautee garlice until fragrant, then add the rest of ingredients, sautee until cooked.
Take each spring roll skin, put the filling and start folding until filling is finished.
Then fried in medium heat until golden brown.

We had them with Maggie Sweet Chilli Sauce... Yummy... and my Husband liked it, too (^_^)

Prawns Tofu Eggplant in Salted Soya Bean

It was almost 6pm, opened my fridge and wondering what I should cook for dinner. My husband will be home at 7:15pm. So I just cooked what I have in my fridge. And it was yummy!!

For picture, please click on this link: http://missluckypiggy.multiply.com/photos/album/4/Cookings#1

Prawns Tofu Eggplant in Salted Soya Bean

Ingredients:
3/4 of hard tofu, cubed
2 eggplants
Prawns (I use a handful)
1 tomato, cut to 8 wedges
1 tbsp of blended chilli (I use "Gourmet Garden" brand)
4 garlic, chopped finely
1 big red onion, chopped finely
3 tbsp salted soya bean
1 tbsp raw sugar
1 tsp tamarind puree (I use "Jenny's" brand)
1 tbsp sweet soya sauce (I use "Kecap Manis ABC")
1 tbsp sunflower oil

Direction:
Heat oil, saute garlic and red onion until almost cooked.
Add raw sugar, mix well until sugar disolved.
Add soya bean and mix well.
Add eggplant, cook until half done.
Add tomato, tofu, prawns, tamarind puree, sweet soya sauce and blended chilli.
Mix well and keep mixing until tomato cooked well.

Fried Fish in Sweet and Sour Sauce

Ingredients:


Fish:
Fish fillet
1 clove of garlic, grind
1 tsp salt
1 lemon, take the water only
Mix well all and marinate the fish in the mixing for about 10 minutes, drained.

Sauce:
2 cloves of garlic, bruised
1 onion, long cut
1 red chilli, chopped finely
1 spring onion, chopped
2 cm ginger
1 carrot, jullienne cut
5 tbsp tomato sauce
150 cc water
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp vinegar
1/2 tsp ground pepper
2 tbsp oil

Direction:
Heat oil, sautee onion until cooked.
Add spring onion, red chilli, ginger, carrot, tomato sauce, salt, sugar, ground pepper and vinegar.
Mix them well, add water and bring to boil.
Pour sauce on top of the fried fish.
Ready to serve

Choc Fridge Cake

I made this quite some time ago, so no picture available. This is too sweet for me, perhaps you will like it if you like sweet dessert.


Ingredients:

125 gr dark cooking chocolate
60 gr butter
250 biscuits
60 gr mini marshmellow
30 gr nut (any kind, I use cashew & walnut)


Direction:

Melt dark cooking chocolate with butter by placing them together in a bowl, microwave for 1 minute 90 seconds, don't forget to mix in between. Leave it for 1 minute in the microwave before you pull it out.
Mix well melted chocolate and butter with the rest of ingredients.
Spray oven tray with cooking oil.
Placed the mixing in the oven tray.
Spread evenly, push lightly.
Put in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
Once done, cut them into desirable sizes.
Ready to eat.

Potato Schotel

Basically it is just the same like Macaroni Schoel, I only replaced Macaroni with Potatoes.

Ingredients:

250 gr potatoes, boiled/steamed until half cooked
2 large portion of Parmesan cheese (I like to put a lot of cheese)
Minced Turkey
250 ml skim milk
6 eggs, beaten well
1 onion, chopped finely
1/2 - 1 tsp of ground nutmeg
salt, pepper, sugar
oil


Direction:

Preheat Oven, forced fan, 170 Celcius degree.
Heat Oil and sautee onion until cooked.
Add minced turkey, ground nutmeg, sautee until minced turkey cooked.
Add the rest ingredients, except milk and egg, then mix well.
Pour into baking plate.
Pour milk and eggs.
Toping with decent amount of cheese.
Covered with aluminium foil.
Bake in 170 Celcius degree for 30 minutes.
Take it out from the oven, open aluminium foil cover.
Bake again for the next 10 minutes.
Ready to serve.

Fried / Steam Fish in Sweet Soya Sauce

(Ikan Goreng / Tim Ikan Saus Kecap Manis)


Ingredients:

FISH:
Fish fillet (I use Tasmanian Salmon)
1 tbsp lemon water
1/4 tsp salt
Marinate fish with salt and soak in lemon water for 10-15 minutes, drained.

SAUCE:
1/2 onion, chopped finely
2 large green/red chilli, chopped finely
2 cm ginger, bruised
2 clove garlic, chopped finely
2 tbsp sweet soya sauce
150 ml chicken stock
Salt, if needed


Direction:
- Drained fish, fried until cooked.
- Sautee onion, garlic, ginger, big green/red chilli until cooked.
- Add chicken stock, sweet soya sauce.
- Mix well, taste it, if it need salt.
- Cooked until thickens.
- Pour on top of the fish.


My husband does not really like fried fish, so instead after I add chicken stock and soya sauce, I add the fish until fish cooked and the sauce thickens.



Here is the picture, I managed to take it this time as my husband last night =Tuesday, 20th January 2009= asked for this dish, Steam Fish in Soya Sauce.

Steam Fish

(Tim Ikan)


Ingredients:
Fish fillet (I use Tasmanian Salmon )
2 tbsp Chinese rice wine
1,5 tsp minced ginger
2 cloves of garlic, minced
4 tsp soya sauce
1,5 tsp sesame oil
2 tbsp fresh coriander leaves
Salt & pepper


Directions:
- Put fish in the steam dish.
- Sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper.
- Add Chinese rice wine.
- Add soya sauce, sesame oil & 1 tbsp fresh coriander leaves.
- Steam for 10 minutes.
- Once cooked, serve with 1 tbspfresh coriander leaves.

Spicy Tuna Flakes

Baked Spicy Tuna Flakes

(Abon Tuna Pedas)

I got the recipe from 'Bianca and Jordan's Mom" Blog

Here is the link:

http://lidiasianturi.blogspot.com/2008/04/baked-spicy-flaked-tuna-abon-tuna-pedas.html

I use 465 gr of canned Tuna 'in Spring Water'

and

I don't like it too sweet, so I only use 2 tbsp of sugar and 1 tbsp of salt

Oven in 177 degree Celcius forced fan oven

Serving Suggestion:

with white rice or roll it in white bread or make it like sandwich style

Prawns Fried Rice a la Miss Lucky Piggy

(Nasi Goreng Udang a la Miss Lucky Piggy)

Ingredients:

8 garlic, chopped finely

5 large red onion, chopped finely

3 portions of white rice

3 eggs, beaten well*

Prawns, peeled

Cabbage, chopped finely

4 spring onion, chopped finely*

Soya sauce

Spicy Tuna Flake

Oil & butter

Pepper

2 maggie block chicken

*Mix 1/2 of chopped spring onions with beaten well eggs, add 1/2 tsp salt.

Method:

1. Heat oil & butter, add garlic & red onion, sautee until fragrant.

2. Add cabbage & maggie block, sautee until cabbage half cooked.

3. Add eggs & prawns, mix well.

4. Add Spicy Tuna Flake.

5. Once cooked and a bit dry,

6. Add rice & spring onion & soya sauce & pepper.

7. Mix well until dried.

Serving suggestions:

slices of tomatoes & cucumber, Or cucumbers & carrots pickle,

with prawn crackers, chilli sauce & tomato sauce.