Lareina claims that she will follow suit if we manage to consistently cook 2-3 meals a week. Well, this posting is for her :)
In the past few weeks, we managed to cook the following meals without giving each other stomach problems the next morning. And you'll be suprised to learn that 75% of the cooking was undertaken by the more unlikely cook! Anyway, here goes:
1. Stir fried egg noodles with 'Yong Tau Foo' ingredients. Simple stuff. Good to start small before we venture to making our own Peking duck.
2. Toasted ham and cheese sandwich with mushroom soup. Not easy bringing ourselves to prepare something to eat especially when it's a 'fix-up house afternoon'. Nevertheless, rather than settling for a bun or two, we made a bus load full of toasted bread and mushroom soup.
3. Fried rice served with broccolli and Chinese mushrooms. Sounds simple, but made difficult because we were too idealistic to use ready-packed mix veg. Manually cutting beans and peeling carrots was therefore required.
4. Sliced beef stewed with carrots, onions and an overdose assortment of Chinese mushrooms, straw mushrooms and oyster mushrooms. The stew was served over egg noodles. Tasted good, but we'll be staying away from mushroom for a good number of weeks.5. Pan fried lamb shoulder served with mashed potatoes drowned in 1-month old mushroom soup (see item 2) and salad. Note: Six large chunks of RM11.99 Aussie lamb from Giant may be a bargain, but make sure you have loads of time to diligently remove all the fatty bits.
6. Angel hair seafood pasta ala carbonara served with bitter-sweet salad - tasted good! But it would have been better if we were not so stingy and bought a bottle of olive oil to toss the pasta.
7. Stir fried egg with crabstick and onions served with leftovers from items 3 and 4. Doesn't sound too great but the hungry Ethiopians would be proud of us. 8. Pork knuckle remains from Bavarian Bierhaus boiled together with old cucumber and red dates accompanied by herb-marinated minced pork poured over pan fried tofu. Sharing a pork knuckle at the restaurant will set you back by about RM50. Using the bone to cook two meals brings the cost down to RM16.67.
Yes, yes, eight cooking attempts in three months is not a lot to shout about. But hey, we only got our stove just before Chinese New Year la!
4 comments:
where's your kitchen stove? outside the house? or installed in the kitchen itself? -- hannah
it's one of those table top ones which we've placed at the wet kitchen area aka backyard of our house.
yunno, I don't visit blogs often and when I hear there's a challenge addressed to me, I'm thinking it better be something good...
then I come round here and find some arrogant boasting about a cooking achievement which works out to be less than once a week, sigh
let me clarify ya: my challenge was actually not about starting strong, it was about endurance. Text me again in a year's time with an update & I'll take my hat off (and put on my chef's hat, oh wait, I'll need to get one first)
It takes extra effort to cook at home, when food is cheap in KL!!! :D but nothing is better than home cooked food :P
Good to know that u guys are cooking and experimenting.. I had and still have alot of cooking and experimenting :s As u know.. eating out in Sydney is affordable but not on a too often basis..
Keep up the good work :D
Perhaps, someday when I'm more rajin, I'll start a blog and catalogue my cooking.. hahahah...
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