Home cooked goodness..

Some home cooked food I made (those that I rememberd to take a photo!)..

1) Home made fluffy pancakes..almost can rival Macs Hotcakes!
2)Mini Chicken Pies ..using a muffin tray to bake! Ingenious idea huh..heh. This time round, the chicken pies are successful and tasted great. Feedback from "testers" were it tastes better than Jesters Pies (famous pie shop in Perth). "grin grin*

3) Chicken Pie Foldover (using the left over filo pastry from the above pies, I pieces them together and tried to form an acceptable shape)..not that bad an effort huh..tasted great too! 4) Laksa Delight! ..made this laksa using a pre-mix of course...a touch of local delight for my hubby..
5) Honey Snaps ... made these using a Donna Hay (famous Australian food stylist) recipe. Alas...tho it looked fantastic, I found it to be realli difficult to eat! meaning, once the honey hardens, its like biting a rock! not joking..onli way to eat it is to heat it up. Not too sure if I did it correctly but the cookies are turned out a lovely brown colour, smelled great but tasted BLAH....will not make these again!
6) Apple Ham Salad ...using crunchy Granny Smith apples, ham, lettuce, hard boiled eggs, I concocted my own dressing using vinaigrette, mayo and sour cream (all low fat of course!). Tasted delicious!

7) Garlic Bread ...buttery warm garlicky bread....yum!
8) Minestrone Soup .... wanted to make a healthy soup filled w Veg so decided to make this soup to complement the garlic bread.
9) Burritos.....discoverd tortillas was something both my hubby and I liked so I decided to see the different ways I can make diff dishes/fillings with it. Wen warmed in the oven, with melted cheese..the tortillas are fantastic!
10) Lamb Ragout - had lamb leftover from a BBQ so decided to make a ragout (similar to a stew)...yummilicious!

A CNY Break in Perth...home cooked food

As I mentioned, I came to Perth to cook for my hubby and I am not joking! hehe.. In between all the shopping and sight seeing, we managed to squeeze enough time for me to cook a meal or two. I am no Martha Stewart so all these stuff are realli easy to prepare. The only difficulty I faced was having the same ingredients but having to cook different meals so that it doesnt make us bored of the same food...so I tried to engage my creative juices.. If you look carefully u will see all the same ingredients appearing in dishes!

Here are some pics of some meals I prepared..

1. Lamb Chops w Carrots & Corn . I "anyhow" made the sauce using onions and lamb gravy..surprisingly it tasted good...no "lamby" taste at all..haha.. 2. Seafood in Chilli crab sauce (I bought the Prima brand) + Roti Prata( I also brought in frozen Roti Prata from Singapore). It was not a good idea..the prata was thoroughly flattened during my flight there..*yikes*..at least it still tasted great!

3. Grilled Chicken Breasts w Creamy Cabonara spaghetti..i added ham n mushrooms too! This was realli well done as the sauce was not too creamy or dried up. *applause applause* 4.Dory Fish w creamy mushroom sauce on a bed of mash potatoes..complete w my baked mushrooms + carrots + corn. This was pretty good and extremely easy to whip up. Only thing was marinating the fish to ensure that it doesnt smell fishy.. 5. Vegetable Curry a.k.a Lontong!! I brought a paste from Singapore - Asian Gourmet. It doesnt taste so great...a bit regretful. I tried to alter the taste by adding lots of stuff (errmm cant remember now!) and it tasted ok. My hubby says it was good but I was still not satisfied..will continue to learn how to perfect a Lontong. Also, as I did not have ketupat (steamed rice in banana leaf), we substituted w mung bean vermicelli(tung hoon).

6. Beef steak w Black Pepper Sauce with mashed sweet potatoes and butter carrots. I remembered eating mashed sweet potatoes in a restaurant and decided to try making it. It was fantastic! As this steak was rather small, I also made a small side dish of clam spaghetti w white wine sauce. Fantastico!:P 7. Laksa.. a favourite local hawker dish in Singapore. I brought the Prima paste from Singapore. This paste is the easiest to cook...no brainer. We also discovered seafood chunks which is similar but nicer than the crab sticks we are used to eating in Singapore. aaahh.. .yummy-licious!
8. Shepard's Pie - Oven baked minced beef stew with mashed sweet potatoes on the top. I had to finish my sweet potatoes! :) Unfortunately we ran out of the mozerralla so we tore Kraft Cheese singles to melt on top..u can see weird cheese streaks on the top..haizz..so ugly.. Luckily this dish is something I have cooked many times (using sweet potato was the first time!) so it was delicious!
9.Chocolate Fondue..As it was Valentine's, we purchased a small choc fondue set from a chocolatier at Westfield Carousel. We sliced up peach, green apple and bananas to dip into the choc. Eating these with a glass of cool white fruity wine ..hmmm... sinful....