Hello people.
Sorry for being away for so long, and Happy Valentine's Day to all you people out there! Single or not, that's it. Don't be too upset if you don't have a valentine today, because I totally feel you. I'm not upset though, since I do actually have a valentine, just that it's not a person.
It's my food.
Which directly lead us to what I'm going to write about today, since I have tons of ideas boiling up when I wasn't writing in here, I jotted them all down in my phone and now the ideas are over-flowing in the note and I figured since today is Saturday, and I'm so damn free on Valentine's, why not a new blog post?
I wasn't able to write in here before because I was quite busy with tests and homework. Also, slow internet. But now with Chinese New Year around the corner, and me being temporary free from tests, I'm aching to write another blog post so I can cure that itch of wanting to write.
Since I got here in college, I ate a lot of unhealthy outside food because I had no other choice. The food in the cafeteria and the hawker centers outside were oily and greasy. After eating, I always felt nauseated and I could literally feel the fats stuck on my arteries. Not that I'm very particular of being really healthy and only consumed healthy food, but constantly stuffing down outside food made me feel really unhealthy and disgusting.
I terribly missed home cooking but the main rule in here is that we can't cook. But my mom noticed that I was really unhappy constantly eating outside food, she bought a mini rice cooker (multipurpose) for me to bring it up here and cook. Secretly of course.
No worries, it's not fire hazard or something. So I'm not endangering anyone's life here. Also, plenty of people cook discreetly in here, not just me. Anyway, my roommate and I got really excited and went grocery shopping and bought home tons of food for cooking.
For the first day, it's pasta night.
I did pasta with salad as a side dish, and I feel so happy to finally not have to eat outside food. Or at least not as frequent as I used to be.
And yes, as you can see, I was pretty excited on the first day of cooking. That explained why there's so many photo of pasta and salad here. Huh.
It's quite easy to fix a bowl of pasta. Just bought some sauce (here we used some salad dressing as our pasta dressing, just because the sauce tasted really good) and boiled your pasta then ta-da, it's done. I bought some frozen seafood for extra ingredient. Also, I boiled some peas, corns and mushrooms to go with the pasta. As for salad, well, I just chopped up some raw vegetables (baby butterhead, red and green coral, purple cabbage and carrot) and put on my coleslaw sauce.
Second day was the chicken soup day.
I love chicken soup to death. It's really simple to cook a pot of delicious chicken soup. What you need is some chicken parts with bones and a few slices of ginger. Throw the combination into the pot and boil for 45 minutes (approximately) and placed in some flavors and it's done.
That's the easiest way to cook chicken soup. Of course if you want you can add other ingredients such as ginseng or just some vegetables. What I cooked was my mother's recipe passed down from my grandmother. The easiest kind but the kind that preserved most the flavor of the chicken.
That night we also cooked chicken filet rice according to my roommate's sister's recipe to go along with my chicken soup. So basically that night was the chicken night?
For the another night, I steamed salmon fish and stir-fried some vegetables with mushrooms. And for the other night, I steamed eggs accompanied with my mother's stewed pork which I brought back from Muar.
Well, that's all for food. I'm not a really good cook but man, those surely beat those oily food out there. At least it's a little bit healthier to cook at home than eating out.
Speaking of cooking, I'm going to cook for dinner now since I'm starving.
Till next time people.
xx
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