Eat from Wok

To save on washing too many items, just eat direct from the wok: instant noodles with napa cabbage and 2 pieces of roasted duck breast meat = tasty and quick!

Once in a blue moon

Put salmon into boiling water and bring to a simmer. I found myself poaching salmon today and the way I cook is I don't use any seasoning at all so this is just salmon and water. 

Did something today I would not usually do. I saw fresh salmon atlantic fillets selling for MYR5.99 per 100g and so I chose one and paid MYR26.24 for it. Then only it dawned on me that I have to cook it because my mother is not at home today and I want to eat it fresh so I use the more than lazy way to cook it, just put the salmon as it is into boiling water and leave it to simmer after running water over it to wash away any unwanted bits on it.

Took out a piece with skin (the grey patch at the side is the skin) to make sure that it is fully cooked.

Break up the salmon into pieces using a fork and a spoon so that the thicker parts will be cooked too. Removed the salmon when it is just fully cooked and eat it as it is with my spouse with no seasoning at all.

The water is so oily from the salmon oil and I am not going to cook any soup or sauces with it but it is a waste to pour it away so what do I do with it?

Put in 4 slices of wholemeal bread to soak up the water.

And eat them all up.

That is why I do not cook because when I do, I usually end up eating a lot and is so, so full after that.

CNY Day 2 Cooking

On CNY Day 2, my spouse cooked dinner for his parents and I was there to help him. The dishes were:

Mushrooms and pork slices stir fry (cost price around MYR16)

Blanched vegetable (choy sum)

Steamed fish (siakap - barramundi or Asian Seabass) with tofu and minced lemongrass and ginger. We bought the fish from Aeon Supermarket for about MYR10.90 ish (by weight). I only remember to take a photo of the fish dish after we have started eating.

Choy kon (dried pak choy) soup with pork, red dates, chicken feet and dried mini scallops.

Here are the chicken feet in the soup

Ingredients:

Lemon grass, spring onion, ginger, coriander, red chilies, lime, tofu, red dates

Bunashimeji Mushroom - MYR9.30 for a twin pack

Special offer - pork loin for MYR6.20 only (MYR16 per kg)

Cooking process:

slice the pork into strips, marinate them with soy sauce and coat them with corn flour

Stir fry some garlic, add the pork strips, then add the mushroom. There is no need to add any water for there will be water coming out from the mushrooms as one cooked them.

Chopped up the lemon grass and ginger (for the fish)

Arrange them onto the fish before steaming.

Soak the dried pak choy (choy kon)

Boil the soaked dried pak choy (choy kon) so that they are softer and easier to wash to remove the huge amount of salt and sand on them.

Clean the chicken feet by rubbing them with salt before rinsing them a few times.

So after going through this, it further enforced my thinking that it is not worth putting in the effort to cook food for myself. I would rather eat "chap fan" (mixed rice) than to cook like this for one pax.

What did I do to help? 

Prepare the vegetable (choy sum) for blanching only. LOL!! :D

Once upon a time...

My spouse and I cooked almost all of our meals when we were living in UK because eating out was very, very expensive.

I even skinned a whole chicken as my photos above. To make it interesting, I did my best to keep the whole skin and whole chicken intact. I did it by looking up instructions on how to skin a chicken online. I like my chicken soup to be not so oily therefore the skin and fat must go.

Now, I no longer cook as I do not like to cook. After 4 years of cooking, I have had enough so now I eat out for all my meals.