The cooking series

DiMi has gone for holidays to Hanoi/Halongbay for 5 nights. Dearie insisted that we shouldnt eat out for so many nights and we should try cooking instead. (#sweatbigtime!!)

Got some ingrediants, tips and crash courses from Mi the night before they flew off and following are 2 out of 3 dinners that we whipped out! :D (#quiteproud)

Dinner 1:
- ABC soup with half a chicken for taste (mad right!?) Haha
- stirfry vege
- steamed minced meat with egg
- airfried chicken wings
- mamak-bought curry kambing

Dinner 2:
- old cucumber soup with lots of pork for taste
- stirfry vege
- panfried fish
- sambal guling sotong

Recipe for steamed minced meat+egg:
Ingrediant:
- a butter box of minced meat (defrost)
- 2 salted eggs
- 1 normal medium sized egg
- abit of salt
- half teaspoon soy sauce
- 6 half egg shells of water

Steps:
- put minced meat into a plate suitable for steaming
- open the salted eggs, use only 1.5 salted egg white
- separate the salted egg yolks and put aside
- open 1 normal egg.
- add the salted egg white to the normal egg and beat evenly
- add eggs combo to minced meat and mix evenly
- add 6 cups of halfed-egg shells into the minced meat combo and mix evenly
- add salt and soy sauce. Mix evenly

-  break the salted egg yolks into small pieces and spread it into the combo of meat&eggs

- bring a wok of water to boil
- put in mixed meat combo and steam for 10-12 minutes until meat is cooked and water reduces.
- done

Sambal Sotong Giling
Ingredients
- 2 sotong (can add with some prawns as well)
- sambal giling
- 1 big onion sliced
- 2 onions and 2 chives of garlic chopped
- 1 lime or asam juice
- 2 tablespoon sugar
- half teaspoon salt

Steps:
- heat about 3-4 tablespoon of oil
- put in chopped onion and garlic, small fire
- when almost brown, put in sambal giling, slow fire. Let combo simmer until oil separates from the chilli paste
- add abit of water and let it boil
- add in big onion, lime juice, sugar and salt and let it simmer until onion is soft
- add in sotong and mix for about 1-2 minutes or until sotong is cooked (do not overcook sotong or it will get very tough)
- done

Old cucumber soup
Ingredients:
- 1 old cucumber sliced into big pieces (wash clean, dont need to remove skin or seeds)
- enough pork or chicken to sweeten soup
- handful of red dates
- 2 scallops
- salt to taste
- 5 big bowls of water

Steps:
- clean pork thoroughly and boil pork in a pot of hot water for about 5mins (this is to remove smell of pork)
- transfer boiled pork into a big pot of water (5 big bowls). Put in old cucumber slices, red dates and scallops. Cook under high fire until water comes to boil.
- turn to medium fire and boil for about 1.5 hours (do not use low fire. Taste of old cucumber and pork would not be nice if on slow/low fire).
- add salt to taste (about 2-3 teaspoon or more if taste is bland)
- done