Description:
It's a very simple dish to make. The addition of shallot, bay leaf and sweet soy sauce gives the Indonesian flavour of stir fry.

Ingredients:
250 g snake beans, cut into 2.5 cm long
1 shallot, peeled and sliced
1 clove garlic, peeled and sliced
1 big red chilli, sliced diagonally about 0.5 cm long, optional
1 bay leaf
3 Tbsp water
1 Tbsp sweet soy sauce
1/2 Tbsp light soy sauce
white pepper
oil


Directions:
1. Heat a tablespoon of oil. Saute shallot and garlic (and chilli) over medium high heat
2. Add the snake beans and bay leaf. Cook for about 3 minutes
3. Add water until boils
4. Add sauces and cook until sauce thickens
5. Sprinkle some white pepper and mix through

I have been really lazy at the beginning of this week. I suppose it's because I had too much fun on the weekend. Thus, this laziness continues  Anyway, it does not mean that we have to eat out everyday. There are a lot of prepared meat at the butcher and those help a lot to shorten the preparation time in the kitchen. Nowadays, there are a lot of healthier added value items from the supermarkets and the butchers. Nowadays, they offer products with health claim such as low fat, low salt, gluten free and so on depending on your need.

My meal plan may not be the healtiest of the meal choices but once in a while is alright. Don't get too stress out about our diet. We need to enjoy our life too. Seriously!!!

For sure, there will be no picture taken this week. I still have a lot of photos waiting to be editted. Geez... need more spare hours in a day!!! I don't want added hours in a day tho...

Here are my week dinner meals...

Monday - McDonald’s Apple Pie and Soft Serve Cone

                Broken Rice with Pork Chop, Fried Egg and Vermicelli from Vietnamese Restaurant

Note: This dish is very nice eventhoug it might use cheap rice.  The packet was also very cheap as I had half portion for dinner and the other half was for lunch.

 

 

Tuesday - Assorted Chicken Sausages from Lenard’s and salad

 

Note: The sausages were very salty but may be alright with bread. The least salty sausage was the plain chicken sausage but it didn't have much flavour.

Beneran asin banget!!!

 

 

Wednesday- Chicken Breast Snitschel from Linden Butcher (modified to Parmigiana) and salad

 

Note: The snitschel was very nice. I had to cut them into two due to their size. I deep fried them in hot oil, no more oil spray.  It's apparently easier to cook and took shorter time. Then, I put some tomato sauce and a slice of tasty cheese. Grill them until the cheese melted.

 

 

Thursday - Chicken Enchilada from Lenard’s and Tomato Salad

 

Friday - Beef Patties with fresh salad

If you like bitter vegetables, you may like radiki. I didn't measure the quantity of oil and lemon juice. It's easy to prepare and here is the recipe. I got the recipe from one of my colleagues who is greek. Btw, the radiki was also from his garden.

Ingredients

 

Radiki/chicory, leaves and some parts of the stem near the leaves 

Olive oil, extra virgin

Lemon juice, freshly squeezed

Sea salt, optional

 

 

Cooking Methods

 

1. I only used the leaves and part of the stems at the leaves. I found that the main stem was very stringy.
2. Boil water and then add radiki. Boil until leaves are soft (about 2-3 minutes)
3. Drain the water
4. Add some olive oil and lemon juice to your taste
5. Add some sea salt if desired

I got the recipe from Hilaire Walden's Korean cooking book. I have cooked this once for the mother's day lunch last year. I will post the photo when I cook the dish again *  *

The dish is simple, light and delicious. It can be served as appertizer or as a main meal. I read in someone's website that the dish can be served cold as appetizer. Other version adds sliced beef in the dish. The quantity of the ingredients has been modified to suit my taste. I omit most of the mushrooms since my husband is not a big fan of it.

Here is the recipe. Make sure that the vegetables are cut thinly so they can blend well with the noodle.

 

Ingredients

 

100 g cellophane noodle, soaked for 30 minutes and drained

 

6 dried Chinese black mushroom, soaked in hot water for 30 minutes

150 g baby spinach, boil for 2 minutes, drain and squeeze water, separate

2 cabbage leaves, finely shredded

2 spring onion, sliced thinly diagonally

1 small courgette, fine strips

1 small carrot, fine strips

 

2 Tbsp vegetable oil

1 Tbsp black sesame oil

2 cloves garlic, crushed & chopped finely

 

1 Tbsp soy sauce, Yamasa

1 tsp sugar

Salt

White pepper

 

 

Cooking Methods

 

Saute garlic in oil

 

Stir fry vegetables for 3-4 minutes on high heat

 

Reduce heat, add noodle and seasoning, cook for 2 minutes