Japanese curry

Japanese curry sauce base (5 servings)
2.5 cups water
Chuck beef (about $8 worth)
2 potatoes
2 green apples
2 carrots
1 white onion
2 tbsp oil

- fry beef in hot oil to brown and seal
- remove beef
- add onions to pan and fry till soft
- add potatoes and carrots and fry
- add water and curry base
- add apples
- bring to boil, then pour contents into slow cooker on auto/low for 2 hrs

Popiah

Popiah made on a whim on a lazy Monday holiday.

For the bangkuang filling,
- sliced bangkuang
- minced garlic, onion, dried prawn
- soya sauce
- oyster sauce
- water
- oil for frying

Condiments,
- Popiah skin (keep well covered with a damp cloth)
- hard boiled egg cut into pieces
- minced garlic
- prawns, boiled, shelled and sliced
- lettuce leaves, sliced
- corriander leaves

what else to add,
- boiled beansprouts
- ground peanuts
- sweet sauce
- chili paste

(The photos are not in sequence. Shall sort them later)

American cheeseburger pizza

Didn't know that this flavour existed till I tasted one in early July, from California Pizza Kitchen. The takeaway pizza came with salad greens and sliced tomatoes on the side. The cinch is in the chopped gherkins, fresh tomatoes, and ground beef.

This one, in picture, is from Swensen's. Equally yummy but a tad oily as they were generous with the olive oil.

Just as good

No matter that there were only 2 roast duck legs for 3. One would go to a friend in need and the other 2 we rest our case and went for wings instead. Equal misery, but miserable we were not.

Just as good :)
@ Pek Kio Hawker Centre

Oyster omelette

Ingredients :
- 2 tbs sweet potato flour
- 1 tbs rice flour
- 3 tsp fish sauce
- 125ml water, room temperature
- 2 tbs veg oil
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 2 tsp rice wine
- a pinch of white pepper
- 1 tsp chili paste, optional
- 100g or 8 large raw oysters, drained
- 2 coriander sprigs, coarsely chopped
- 1 lime, halved

Method :
1. Stir both flour and 1 tsp fish sauce in water to make thin batter
2. Heat oil in pan. Pour batter in and cook for 30sec or until batter is half set.
3. Add eggs. When egg and batter turn crispy on one side, divide into quarters. Flip each quarter to ensure cooked through and crispy.
4. Season with remaining fish sauce, rice wine, pepper, chili.
5. Add oysters and quickly toss everything. Do not overcook oysters.
6. Garnish the omelette with coriander and lime.

Oysters can be found at supermarkets at $6.50 for 300g pack which contains about 20 oysters. Remaining oysters can be used for bacon-wrapped oysters as an appetizer.

(recipe from Sarah Ong)

Fong Kee Delicacies

Potstickers again! Can't get enough of them. This time at Serangoon Gardens Hawker Centre.

Fong Kee's has been around for years. They've another branch in Chinatown market near where OG is.

Rustic coffee charm

Quaint little coffee boutique tucked away in the back alley of a row of shophouses. Its focus is on beans, roasting and machines. So the coffee they offer are really samples. Long flat, Cappucino and Latte, and you leave a tip!

http://papapalheta.com/

(the wafer biscuit's from our children's snack box)

They've also opened Loysel's Toy Cafe and the new Chye Seng Huat Hardware where you can get food and cakes along with their coffee.

Note : Papa Palheta will be moving out from Hooper Road on 21 Oct. They will operate from Chye Seng Huat Hardware Store.