Recent food success!

It's been almost a week since my last update. We have not been going anywhere except to a dinner hosted by K's new colleague, M last Sunday. Before dinner, we took a walk around the Mt Auburn Cemetry near their place which has a tower that enabled us to have a paranomic view of Boston. The weather was awesome that day despite the rainy forecast and it was the last of the warmer Fall weekend. This week has been definitely colder with temperatures below 10 deg C and Ry and I have both developed a slight cold.

Still looking fresh before we took the 90 steps climb up the tower!

View of the Boston and Cambridge skyline from the tower. Look at the beautiful colours of fall!

The scenery at the pond is so picturesque!

M has a 3 mth old baby boy who weighs as heavy as Ry now. Imagine how big he is! It was told to us that he had his daddy's genes and M was a giant baby himself. We had a nice cosy dinner at his place with baked trout (caught by M himself), baked pork chops and some side vegetables. I brought along fried bee hoon as M wanted to try some SG cuisine and apple crumble for dessert. The apple crumble was made according to Dan's recipe from Video Jug, http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-apple-crumble. Fortunately, I baked it successfully upon my first try, so did not lose face as worried by K on our way there!

Look at how chubby are his arms and ankles!

Other food accomplishments recently included my new recipe of garlicky ginger stir fried chicken with chilli, cupcakes, banana muffins with walnut toppings, oyako don and japanese curry rice with chicken cutlet. Yep, I have diversified my cooking to include Japanese cuisines as it is so easy for us to get the ingredients and condiments from the Jap supermarket here. And thanks to my friend, A, who has lent me this wonderful recipe book of japanese cuisines which has easy to follow recipes.

Banana muffins that I baked yesterday! Recipe is from http://www.catcancook.com/awesome-banana-muffin-recipe/

Here is the recipe of my Garlicky ginger stir fried chicken with chilli. This is made so that I can used up the chilli padi that I bought.

Ingredients:

2 - 3 pcs of boneless, skinless chicken thigh meat

5 pcs of chilli padi, chopped

1 tsp of minced garlic

1 tsp of minced ginger

Marinade:

1/2 tbs Chinese cooking wine

1 tbs light soya sauce

1 - 1.5 tbs cornflour

Seasonings

1/2 tbs chinese cooking wine

1/2 tbs oyster sauce

1 tbs light soya sauce

1/2 tbs dark soya sauce

4 tbs water

Steps:

1. Marinade the chicken for at least 30 minutes

2. Stir fry the minced ginger and minced garlic in oil until aromatic

3. Add the chicken and stir fry till almost cooked.

4. Add in the seasonings and cook until the sauce thickened.