Stuffed Cucumber Soup

1 large cucumber, remove both ends. Cut into 3 pieces and remove the core.

Add to Minced Pork for seasoning, light soya sauce, dash of pepper and sesame oil and mix well.

Stuff the cores of the cucumbers with minced meat.

Shitake mushrooms.

Red dates, wolfberries and dried scallops in a small pot and bring to boil. Add Mushrooms.

Add 1 tablespoon Chicken stock concentrate and put stuffed cucumbers into the soup. Leave the cucumbers in the in the soup long enough for all the meat to cook through and the cucumber has turned translucent.

Forgot to take a picture of the finished product!!!

Letitia's verdict: 7/10 (loves the filling not too crazy about the cucumber)

Mummy's Verdict: Easy to make. Something different for a change.

Fish Patty

Finely chop French Beans or Long Beans.

Fine chop Cilantro or Coriander.

Finely chop Spring Onions.

Finely chop 1 Red Capsicum.

Red Snapper fillet. Minced in processor or hand minced. Add Fish Sauce to season.

Minced Garlic.

Add all the above ingredients into a dish with 1 cup Plain flour and 2 eggs (beaten)

Mix well.

Shape into patties and pan fry.

Serve with Chilli sauce or ketchup.

Letitia's Verdict: 9/10 (she ate almost 3 patties)

Mummy's verdict: A lot of work involved, but adults love it too. So make more at a time to make the effort worth it. I ate 5 patties.

Hong Kong Style Steamed Pomfret

Cut score lines on both sides of the White Pomfret. This will help it cook quickly.

Cilantro, Spring Onion, Ginger, Garlic.

Place spring onions and ginger slices on pomfret and add chicken stock. Steam for 10 minutes. This really depends on the size of your fish.

We are using prepacked sauce. Just follow instructions.

Bring sauce to boil and pour over cooked promfret. Remember to garnish with cilantro (coriander), garlic, and ginger stripes before pouring the sauce over.

Yum!

Sweet and Sour Pork

1 green capsicum, 1 small carrot, 5 shallots (small onions)

Pork terderlion cut into bite size cubes.

To make the batter: 1 tablespoon corn flour, 1 cup plain flour, 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder, 1 tablespoon vegetable oil and water. Consistency should be thick and pasty.

Coat the pork with batter.

Deep fry pork till golden brown.

Drain away excess oil.

Fry carrots, shallots, capsicum will soft and remove from pan.

To make sweet and sour sauce: ketchup 4 tablespoons, crushed garlic, 4 tablespoon White vinegar, 1/2 cup brown sugar.

Put the deep fried pork into the wok with the sauce and toss evenly.

Add cooked vegetables into the wok and mix well.

When all the meat and vegetables are evenly coated with the sauce you are done.

Pancake Jacks

I didn't make lunch today. D made lunch for Letitia. But I made breakfast.

You can make your batter (plain flour, egg and water or milk) or buy the mix in a box or carton. Follow instructions on the box.

Put 2 to 3 tablespoons of batter on non stick pan. Wait till it's dry and flip.

Pour honey or maple syrup and put a big glob of butter.

Letitia's verdict: 5/10 (she said it tasted like cheese)

Mummy's verdict: Failure! She didn't like it.Maybe next time I'll add mashed bananas to the batter.

Sesame Porky Pig Porridge

Chop half a small brocolli and 1 Large Portebello mushroom

Bring frozen stock to boil.

Half a cup of rice. You can use short grain rice if you want a stickier consistency. I am using long grain.

Mince the pork. I am using loin meat.

Pour all the ingredients into the boiling stock and cook at low heat until rice is cooked. It should approximately 10 minutes. For Younger toddlers you can cook the rice longer so that is it softer. But if you boil longer than 10 mins put the brocolli in later.

Put generous amount of sesame oil. About 2 tablespoons and stir. Ready to serve. I forgot to take a picture of the finished product because Letitia was hungry.

Letitia's verdict: 7/10 (nothing new she ate it about 50 times before)

Mummy's verdict: I make the stock every Sunday religiously. So I have less work during the week. Time taken 15 mins.

In a great great hurry Vitamin ABC lunch

Put frozen stock into pot and heat till it boils.

1 small potato, 1 small carrot and 1 corn on a cob.

Dice carrot and potato into 1 cm cube.

Cut corn.

Minced beef.

Throw everything into boiling stock and simmer at low heat till everything is soft and cooked.

Pre cook rice before chopping the vegetables.

Pour soup over rice.

Letitia's verdict: 7/10 (because she loves corn and carrot)

Mummy's verdict: So easy to make nothing can go wrong. Not the most pretty looking meal but at contains vit A, B, C and Iron. Preparation 5-8 minutes. After that you can go and put make up on your face and get dressed. It will be ready to eat when you are done.