SerenityBakes&Cooks

Nasi Lemak is an aromatic rice dish usually accompanied with an array of side dishes such as deep fried chicken wings/fish, eggs, fried anchovies, peanuts and otah plus sambal chilli which is a sweet and spicy chilli paste. The rice, is cooked in coconut milk diluted with water and some pandan leaves to give it a most fragrant aroma. It seems like there is a lot of food preparation involved if you want to have home made nasi lemak, look at what I have prepared for our nasi lemak dinner. Fried chicken wings, hard boiled eggs, achar (pickled vegetables in spicy peanut sauce) and sliced cucumbers. Will you believe it when I tell you that I didn't do much for this dinner? :) Fried chicken wings were purchased from our favourite breakfast beehoon coffeeshop stall, the delicious achar was also bought. I simply cooked the rice, hard boiled the eggs and sliced a cucumber. Delicious dinner in a jiffy, with my cheat version! :p You can do it too, with your favourite side dishe...

I made Kinoko Gohan for dinner yesterday. This is cooked in a rice cooker, and so simple to make. Kinoko Gohan means Mushroom Rice in Japanese, and simple seasonings: light soya sauce, mirin and cooking sake, are added to the rice for flavor. About once or twice a week, I add a multi grain mix to white rice or substitute 1/4 cup of white rice with unpolished rice, since the Health Promotion Board has been encouraging Singaporeans to eat more unpolished or brown rice, to combat the rising numbers of Diabetes. If you are thinking of doing the same, this recipe is a great way to get started as you can hardly taste the nutty grains in it.  I served the Kinoko Gohan with oven baked salmon teriyaki and pan fried gyoza and it complimented the rice perfectly. :)  Kinoko Gohan (serves 4) Ingredients: 1 pack of Shimeiji mushrooms 1/2 carrot (peeled, and thinly sliced) 2 cups Japanese rice (washed and soaked in enough water to cover the rice for 1/2 hour) 2...

When I am pressed for time, making a one dish meal is the best option for me. This cabbage rice recipe requires frying of the ingredients, before putting everything into the rice cooker to cook. I then go off to do the chauffeuring duties while the rice cooks away. When we get back home, we are greeted with the delicious smell of cabbage rice the moment we open the door and step into the house. Mmmmmm! And voila, we have a savoury and piping hot dish of rice that is full of protein and vitamins, great for the old and young. Another plus point to this dish is that because the family dines at different times, with the Hubby coming back later, the rice can be kept warm in the rice cooker until he eats. I used the recipe from  Domestic Goddess Cabbage Rice  and adapted to what I had in the fridge, this time with leftover roast pork belly. Cabbage Rice in Rice Cooker (serves 5) Ingredients 300g roasted pork belly (sliced thinly) 1 small cabbage (round and cu...

What is there not to love about SPAM? You can have it straight from the can, or bake thin slices of it in the oven till it turns crisp, fry slices of it and then coat it with egg (which is what I grew up eating at my maternal grandma's place, and also a regular dish at my late MIL's table).  Or you can make SPAM fried rice! This is a easy one dish meal to prepare. If you are pressed for time, you can cook it and then keep it warm in the rice cooker till it's ready to be served.  SPAM fried rice (serves 6 or 4 large appetites) Ingredients: 3 cups(420g) of rice to be cooked with slightly less than 3 cups (400g) of water (cooled) 1 can of SPAM (cut into cubes) - I use 25% less sodium SPAM 4 eggs (beaten and seasoned with a little light soya sauce and white pepper) - 3 eggs to be scrambled  in step 2 below and 1 egg to be poured over 1 cup of frozen mix vegetables (defrosted) Note about rice: I find that it is not necessary to use overnight rice a...