Maggie curry noodle

Maggie curry noodle, loads of chinese cabbage, one beaten egg, two hams and sinsin garlic chilli sauce.

Roselle flower (洛神花), Hawthorn (山楂) and Chen Pi Mei (陳皮梅) Drink

Are you one of the fan of Gong Cha Purple Plum Tea? I am. So since I try not to take cold drinks I tried to make my own Roselle drink from dried Roselle flowers, hawthorn and plum drink. One big pack of dried Roselle flower and hawthorn is only S$2 each! What you need to do is to pour hot water over the dried flowers, fruits and plum in a mug and let it infused for a few hours. You can substitute the plum with your favorite dried plum and add rock sugar to it. It tastes great!

I did some cut and paste on the health benefits of Roselle flowers and hawthorn.

Roselle flowers from http://www.poundproductionsllc.com/2009/08/roselle-effective-lower-cholesterol-and-prevents-aging.html

Rosella Main Ingredients: Vitamin C, A, D, B1 and B2, Antioxidants, Anthocyanins iron, magnesium, and omega 3, beta-carotene.

Benefits for Health:

Rosella tea helps lower cholesterol, normalize blood pressure, overcome cough, sore throat and sores, weight loss, bowel launch, and prevent bone loss, enhancing stamina, endurance and body care.

Benefits for Beauty:

Maintain smooth skin and reduce wrinkles. Because of its vitamin C content is high, Roselle better than red wine in warding off free radicals in the skin. Roselle many conditions encountered in dried, and packaged, there is also Roselle had packed in teabag form for ease in serving customers.


Hawthorn berry from http://www.raysahelian.com/hawthorn.htm

This herb acts as a vasodilator, increasing blood supply to the heart and improving circulation to the extremities by decreasing arterial resistance. Hawthorn also has positive inotropic and beta-blocking effects, along with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits. One human study show hawthorn to be affective in lowering blood pressure in patients with diabetes.


Enjoy!

Beef Sukiyaki

Ingredients : Sukiyaki sauce, water, bean curd, tang hoon, cabbage (we run out of chinese cabbage), one white onion and one beaten egg. Put in a microwave pot and microwave for 5minutes.

Chinese soup

Ingredients : garlic, ginger, pork, chicken feet, peanuts, shitake mushrooms, red dates, goji berries

Fried Chicken Wings

Ingredients : oyster sauce, soya sauce, salt and pepper. Marinate for at least half an hour and fry

Singapore Macdonald garlic chilli sauce is actually SinSin garlic chilli sauce

I remembered fondly when I was young, my father will cook maggie noodle (chicken flavor) for us as supper for the day. He will cook according to the instruction given in the instant noodle packet, but he will drain the soup away and left the noodle in a plate. Then he will put some SinSin garlic chilli sauce and some tomato sauce and mix well with the noodles. As we grow older we will put vegetables and eggs to create a more complete meal.

For those who are aware, SinSin garlic chilli sauce is actually Singapore's Macdonald garlic chilli sauce. So when the garlic chilli sauce is back in Macdonald again, we are all very glad!

Japanese curry with chicken

If you like Japanese curry which is sweeter than normal curry, then this recipe is for you.

I bought this S&B japanese curry from cold storage. Each pack can make up to 8 servings. Per pack contains 2 block of curry (see picture 2). So if you have a smaller family, you will need just one block.

Ingredients : cabbage, carrots, potatoes and chicken.

I usually marinade the chicken with some salts and tumeric powder for at least half an hour and stir-fry them quickly to allow the flavor of the salt and tumeric powder to soak into the meat.

Scope out the chicken when it is 60% partially cooked.

Using a pot with half a litre of water (if you are using one block of curry), boil carrots, potatoes for about 15 minutes under medium fire until the potatoes are soft. 

Add in cabbage, Japanese curry cube and stir for another 5 minutes and add in the chicken,

Let it boil for another ten minutes and serve