Food For My Belly

sweet potato mash I would like to firstly apologize for the not-so-good quality photo of this dish as I hastily took this photo with my iPhone camera before my friends and I devoured it. My mum was the creator of this yummy recipe at home after having eaten it at a cafe which I have later tweaked it and made it my own :) INGREDIENTS Sweet potatoes Boiled/half-boiled eggs Mayonnaise Juice of 1 orange Cracked pepper Cut the potatoes into even size chunky bits so that it cooks evenly. Place them in a pot of boiling water and let them cook till they are soft. The way I use to check if they are cooked is to pierce them with a fork, if it goes through with ease, that means they are ready. While your potatoes are slowly cooking away, get your eggs on the boil too. Depending on preference, you can either have them fully cooked or half-boiled for the oozy yolk, yum! When the potatoes and eggs are done, place them in a large serving bowl and mash them all together with...

Ok, we went a bit overboard with the cooking that night but there was a reason for it! I was meant to deep fry the fish so that we could have it with the fresh sambal but we didn't have enough oil for deep frying so we had to bake one and somehow pan fry the other. Baked fish with kecap manis and some other sauces, not quite sure what was in it, Lynn did that dish but it turned out really nice. Pan fried fish, served with fresh sambal (you can find it under Balinese) Stir fried cabbage and carrot (this dish is always a winner for me, it would've been much better if I added dried shrimp to it) Steamed chicken with ginger, spring onion and coriander Tomato spare ribs (this was meant to be some other sauce which had tomato in it as well but I was too lazy to make the sauce so I just left it at tomato sauce which still turned out real yummy)

I was feeling a bit lazy that night and only cooked two dishes:- ninety-second greens (as per Adam Liaw's recipe) Pork belly curry with lychee  I know some of you might be thinking "what?? lychee with curry???" but seriously, its actually really yummy. My mum usually makes this curry dish with roast duck, pineapple and lychee but I've just made use of what was in the fridge :) This would've been the 2nd or 3rd time I have made this dish. Usually, I add potatoes to this dish too but I was too lazy to deep fry some so I opted to leave them out this time around :P

Yes, I am on a mission to cook all of Adam Liaw's recipe but on the side line, I also cook for the family/homestay students when mum needs me to or when she is overseas, these next few blogposts are of some of the dishes I have cooked for dinner while mum has been overseas :) The dishes that I cooked are:- Steamed Fish with my special sauce (it's not that special really, just a number of asian ingredients) Stir fried garlic and pepper beef with snow peas Stir fried beef and bittergourd with oysters sauce (I had way too much beef in the fridge so cooked two different beef dishes) Egg omelette with bittergourd Stir fried choy sum with oyster sauce and fried shallots

I have a been a bit slack with the steph/adam project coz I have been a bit sick but all recovered now so hopefully (after meeting Adam), I will be more determined to cook the remaining recipes from his cookbook :) *I would like to add that this dish was cooked entirely by my boyfriend a couple of weeks ago as I was quite ill. All I did was make the ninety-second greens and plated up the dish. black belly rice bowl (with lemon paste and pickled chilli) The one thing I wasn't sure about this dish was the lemon paste, it didn't really appeal to me. I can say I eat most things and am not fussy but when I tasted the lemon paste by itself, I was already not keen on the idea. When we sat down for dinner and ate, I was surprised at how well the pork belly tasted with the lemon paste...it was like a match made in heaven. The pork belly, lemon paste, and the pickled chilli was so yummy, its the kind of dish where you want to keep going back for more :) It's just like Al...

Steph & Adam Liaw <3 Yesterday, I went to the Good Food & Wine Show in Melbourne with a friend. I was lucky enough to get an online special deal where tickets were half price but only for the Friday :) I had previously gone to the SBS Food Journey Festival in March with a couple of girlfriends and absolutely loved it so I thought this would somewhat be the same. The Good Food & Wine Show was bigger but I preferred the SBS Food Journey Festival as it was much more intimate and cozier. Anyways, back to what the title of this post is....I got to meet Adam and even had the chance to take a photo with him! If only I looked up the show's information earlier...I would've known that he would be there and could've got him to sign my copy of his cookbook! >_< Oh wells, at least I got the chance to take a photo with him and also told him that I was on a mission to cook all the recipes in his cookbook. He even asked me what my blog was called but I doubt he...