Many things happen these few weeks. My daughter got sick few few weeks and was admitted to a hospital for few days. Alhamdulillah, she’s getting better and stronger now.

Then, I lost my camera which I used to take pictures for this blog. Actually, it’s my wife’s camera. Anyway, we thought someone stole it. My wife asked me to lodge a police report. Luckily I found it back under the sofa before make any unnecessary moves.

Lots of unlucky things happen but it turns out to be good right now. I hope you’ll stick with me as I’m about to begin posting new recipes and tips very soon.

The first one would be Mustard Fried Rice. Sound strange? Are you excited? Well, you should!

p/s: I’ve launched a website called Creative Iwi Design which is the home for my website design project. Do check it out guys!

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I always thought that I need to strictly follow the recipe in order to produce the similar sweet sour fish as my mother used to cook. Actually, it is more fun if we take it easy and enjoy while cooking in the kitchen. The important thing is, you have to love what you are doing.

So, let’s have a look at today’s recipe: Oriental Sweet Sour Fish. And as usual, my style!

Ingredients

• Seabass
• Turmeric powder
• Salt & Pepper
• Diced Garlic
• Diced Shallot
• Chili Paste
• Chili Sauce
• Tomato Sauce
• Plum Sauce
• Sugar
• 4-angle bean
• Onion
• Thyme
• Cucumber

Looks like we need lots of ingredients for today’s recipe aye? No worries. I promise this one will be easier than pulling this kind of stunt:

Let’s Start Cooking!

1. Season the seabass with turmeric powder, salt & pepper and fry it. Set aside.
2. In a medium hot pan, put in the garlic and shallot. Brown them a bit and quickly add in the chili paste. Stir until the paste turn a bit dry.
3. Add in the rest of the ingredients excluding cucumber. Stir to the preferred consistency.
4. In a serving plate, arrange the sliced cucumber around and place the fried seabass in the middle. Pour the sauce on top of the fish.

Did I tell you this one is easy?

Related posts:

1. Recipe: Sour Fish Soup
2. New Experimental Recipe: Smell Fishy?
3. Recipe: Sautéed Fish Fillet on Veges

This recipe is inspired by a few stir-fry beef recipes that I found on internet:

• Flank steak stir fry – useful tips on how to slice the meat correctly. Bell peppers and onions are omitted in my recipe.
• Stir-fried beef with oyster sauce – from lost5kilos.com, it shows that eating high calorie food moderately is still ok if you want to lose weight. Based on the recipe, I discard the wine and oyster sauce.
• Making Chinese stir fry beef – yet another recipe from a ‘diet blog’, just like the previous one above. This is a short video on how to cook Chinese stir-fry beef.

Based on these blogs/websites, I simplified the recipes and came out with my own recipe; Simple Black Pepper Beef.

Ingredients

• Beef
• Garlic
• Shallot
• Carrot
• Four-angle Bean
• Light Soy Sauce
• Salt & Pepper

Let’s Start Cooking!

1. Cut the beef across the grain into a small pieces. Season it with salt & pepper.
2. Heat up your wok on high heat before putting in the cooking oil. Use about 2 tbsp for now as the beef will release its fat.
3. Toss in the beef and cook it under high heat. Keep stirring to avoid burning.
4. Once the beef’s fat dries out, pour in another tbsp of oil. Throw in the garlic and shallot. Stir until fragrant.
5. Add the light soy sauce, carrot and four-angle bean. Keep stirring until the sauce reduced a bit.
6. Correct seasoning and serve.

You can substitute the carrot and four-angle bean with your favourite vegetable. I used them because it happens to be in my refrigerator.

Happy cooking my friends!

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As a positive and open-minded person, I said to myself:

Just give them another chance.

So, I ordered something Western; Rib-eye steak. My wife tried the Fish and Chips. My expectation is very low, and all I can say is the steak is still under my ‘low expectation’ level. It’s dry, overcooked, not tender as it should be and the sauce is so-so.

Guess what they serve with Fish and Chips? Black pepper sauce! I never tried this combination before, so I just give it a go. And it just don’t go together.

My review for fish and chips with black pepper sauce:

It’s a no-no.

At least for my wife and me.

Note: Image taken from http://foodforlaughter.blogspot.com. Credit to Astra Libris!

Related posts:

1. Recipe: Sautéed Fish Fillet on Veges
2. Recipe: Sour Fish Soup
3. Recipe: Oriental Sweet Sour Fish