Steamed tofu with minced pork

I wanted a simple dish for dinner tonight and here it is! :D Fuss-free and nutritious dish!

*Have to keep my post short due to time constraint*

Steamed tofu with minced pork

Ingredients:

• 1 pack of tofu (for steaming)
• 1 handful of minced pork
• 1 handful of mixed veggies
• 3 shallots (sliced thinly)
• oyster sauce

Marinate minced pork with:

• oyster sauce
• hua diao jiu
• ground white pepper
• cornflour

Method:

1. Remove tofu from packaging and steam it for 5minutes.
2. Fry the shallots till golden brown. Drain and set aside. Dish out some of the shallot oil, leaving some behind to fry the minced pork.
3. Add in the minced pork and keep frying to ensure that there are no big lumps of pork.
4. When minced pork is almost cooked, add the mixed veggies.
5. Add oyster sauce to taste (you can add a little more than usual because the minced pork will be eaten with the bland tofu).
6. Top tofu with fried minced pork.
7. Drizzle shallot oil on the dish then top with the crispy shallots.
8. Serve hot.

*You may add diced prawn and minced water chestnut to enhance the texture and taste of this dish but I didn't have those ingredients with me today.

Alicia still doesn't like tofu, but she loved the rest of the dish and she ate quite a bit of rice mixed with minced pork, the shallot oil, some of the mixed veggies and chopped french beans from the other dish. :D I think she just likes the shallot oil! lol.

Steamed sambal cod

Like Alicia, we love cod.

And we love sambal too.

Hence it's no surprise that we both love sambal cod. :D

Steamed sambal cod

Ingredients:

• 2 pieces cod
• 2 bunches of scallions (cut into 2" segments)
• 1 thumb-sized piece of ginger (sliced)
• 2 tablespoons homemade sambal (commercial will do too)

Marinate cod with:

• hua diao jiu
• ground white pepper

Method:

1. Place scallions (save some for garnishing), ginger and cod into a plate for steaming.
2. Steam cod for 5minutes.
3. Top the cod with the sambal and steam for another 2 minutes.
4. Garnish with scallions.
5. Serve hot.

Riding with little doggie

Alicia suddenly took a fancy to this old soft toy doggie of hers and she has been doing really cute things with it. For instance, I've heard her tell her doggie 'ma ma bao bao', then she'd hug her dog... lol. And the other day she tried to feed her doggie fruits too :D

Here she is, taking doggie for a ride on her car!:

Someone's luvin' chicken wings... yumz... :)

Alicia loves to eat chicken midwings so I usually bake or braise them for her then I'd tear out the meat for her. Recently, she wants to eat the wing on her own and she does it really quite well! Here she is, eating her baked chicken wing (this is her second chicken wing - she'd licked one clean already):