Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Hamburger steaks in creamy tomato stew

 
The other half of the hamburger steaks
 
 
 
* Hamburger steaks in creamy tomato stew
* Cherry tomatoes, okura, seaweekd salad
*Multi grain rice




I made a lot of hamburger steaks few days ago and turned half of them into Japanese style hamburger steaks and I cooked the rest in the creamy tomato stew.

 

Ingredients for the creamy tomato stew sauce


*Water
*Soup stock (I used 2 cubes of maggi buiyon)
*Tomato ketchup-half a cup
*Fresh cream-5 table spoons
*Cheese-some
*Herbs-some


Instructions


1.Place hamburger steaks in a pod, pour water till it just covers all the hamburger steaks. Heat up a pod and bring it to boil, then add the soup stock and the tomato ketchup. Place a lid and cook in low to medium fire for 10 mins or so. Stir sometimes so that you don't burn the hamburger steaks.

2. Put the rest of the ingredients in the pod and cook for another 5 mins or so with the lid on.





Sunday, 10 March 2013

Ginger & Plum Sweet Japanese Style Hamburger Steak

 
Tonight's dinner
 
 
 
* Multi-grain rice
*Ginger&Plum Sweet Japanese Style Hamburger Steaks
*Sliced cabbages with sesame dressing
 
 
 


 
 
Whenever I make a Japanese style hamburger steak,
I will make a shaved radish sauce.
 
But today, I didn't have a radish at home so thought of making a new sauce to try..
It turned out very delicious!
 
 
By the way, I made about 8 hamburger steaks and  turned 3 ouf of 8 into this Japanese style ones 
and made the rest into a tomato stewed hamburger steaks.
 
 
 

 

Ingredients for the basic hamburger steaks

 
Minced pork 600g
Onion 1/2
Egg 1
Bread crumbs 5 table spoons
Mixed Herbs 1 table spoons
Butter 1 tea spoon

 

Ingredients for the ginger & plum sauce

*Plum salad dressing 3 table spoons 
*Minced Ginger marinated in mirin and soya sauce
(whenever I buy gingers, I chop them into small pieces and put them in a small jar,
pour soya sauce and mirin and keep them in the fridge.)
 
 
Nice-to-have-add-ons
*Tarako mayonaise
*Pickled plum
 
 

Instructions

1. Mince onions. Heat up a pan with the 1 tea spoon of butter, stir fry the onions. Once the colour of the onions turned yellow, put off the fire.
2. Put rest of the hamburger steak ingredients into a bowl, mix well.
Once the onions are cooled down, add them in, mix well, and make the hamburger shapes.
3. Heat up the pan again with some oil, cook the hamburger steaks. Once they are well cooked, take them out of the pan, serve on a plate. Pour the sauce before you eat!
 
 


Girls Talk at Hard Rock Cafe

 
I had a hair cut in the morning, then went to Hard Rock Cafe with my friend!
 
 
Our farourite Nachos...
It is so huge that we can never finish it...


 
We also ordered some salad.
Chicken, avocados, onions, cabbages, tomatoes, herbs etc...
 
It was refreshing and went well with nachos.
 
 
There were a few rock bands rehearsing in the cafe for tonight's(?) show.
They were good but sometimes their music went too loud that we couldn't hear each other...
So we had to stop our conversation and wait till their music became softer...
 
My friend had some good news to share with me and we had a long fun girl's talk! :)
 
Happy Saturday!
 


Crispy Saba Fritter Sandwiches

 
Crispy Saba fritter with sweet tomato sauce on the next day...
 
 
 
Saba Fritter Sandwiches & Scrambled Eggs
 
 



Wednesday, 6 March 2013

My Favourite Crispy Saba Fish Fritter Cooked in 2 Different Yummy Sauce Dinner

 
Tonight's dinner
 
 
 
*Crispy Saba Fritters marinated in  2 different yummy sauces
*Yuzu pepper Okura
*White rice
 

 
 
The one on top is saba with sweet tomato sauce.
The one at the bottom is saba with ginger soya sauce.

 
 
The tomato sauce saba tastes like sweet sour pork
and the ginger soya sauce saba tastes like kabayaki.
Both were very delicious!
 
 
 
 
 
 
Few weeks back, my boyfriend went to a supermarket somewhere far,
somehwere so called "Singapore's countryside" with his friends.
 
He bought me some frozen saba from there. :)
 
 
So I decided to cook it today.
 
 
Whenever I cook saba, I make saba no miso ni.
It is a saba dish marinated and cooked in miso sauce.
 
 
Today I realized that I left my miso at my boyfriend's house.
So I decided to do something else.
 
 
 
I had 3 big pieces of saba fillets, so decided to cook in 2 different sauce.
In this way, I won't get sick of it! :)
 
 
 
 

Ingredients

 
*3 slices of saba fillets
(If using frozen saba fillets, please defrost them before you use)
*Some corn starch
 
Tomato sauce ingredients: 3 table spoons of tomato ketchup, 2 table spoons of mirin, 2 table spoons of sugar, 5 table spoons of water
 
Ginger soya sauce ingredients: Minced ginger 1 table spoon, 3 table spoons of soya sauce, 5 table spoons of mirin
 
 
 

Instructions 

 
1. Pour boiling water on saba (to get rid of the smell).
Slice saba into eatable pieces, take out bones as much as possible
 
2. Put corn starch around saba and pan fry them with roughly about 5 table spoons of oil.
Once you take out the cooked saba from the pan, wash the pan.
 
3. Pour all the tomato sauce ingredients in the clean pan and bring it to boil. Meanwhile, if you have another pan, heat it up and pour all the soya sauce ingredients in the pan and bring it to boil
 
4. Once the sauce starts to boil, place saba in the pans.
Flip the saba sometimes to let it absorb the sauce.


Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Sunday feast with friends

Lunch from last sunday

 
My boyfriend invited our friends over lunch last sunday.
They are Vegetarian.
 So we cooked vegetarian dishes - except for dumplings- for our vegetarian friends.
 
*Tempura  (pumpkins, eggplants, onions & carrots
*Agedashi tofu
*Chijimi
*miso soup with deep fried bean curd, carrots & onions
*Japanese sweet egg rolls
*pork dumplings (Sorry! for ourselves only)
 
My bf's mum made vegetarian beefun (very YUM!)
Our friend made an Indian dish called Aloo gobi masala (Cauliflower dish, very YUM!)
 
Yes it was a feast! I stuffed myself. So satisfying!


My boyfriend also baked a chocolate cheese cake for dessert...
it was thick and creamy and so so delicious...
 
I ate 3 pieces.
 
I couldn't resist!
 
 Now I'm thinking about it...I'm getting hungry again...
 
 
 
 
 
After the huge delicious meal, we played Monopoly deal card game!!
It was really fun!
 
We playd a few rounds and my boyfriend left for Australia afterwards.
We should organize another lunch party or picnic when he comes back! :)
 
 
 
 
 

Thursday, 14 February 2013

Happy Valentine's Day!



☆Valentine's day dinner menu☆
 
*Bibimpab
*Chijimi
*fried beancurd & lettuce ohitashi
*Tofu steak
*Corn soup
 
 


Bibimpab
*Ginger pork
*Sweet sour carrots
*Okura marinated with yuzu pepper, taraco mayonaise & summer orange soya sauce.
 
(Bibimpab is a Korean dish but this is a Japanese version...)
 
 


 
Tofu Steak
 
 

 
It was my first time making Ohitashi.
I liked it very much!
I will make it more often from now on!
 
 
 


Chijimi
 
 
 
 
 
 
I cooked dinner for my boyfriend today.
I haven't cooked him a complete set of dinner for a very long time because he is usually overseas.
It is always good to cook for someone who appreciates your cooking :)