Claypot Goat Meat with Beancurd Stick

Ingredients
1 lb goat meat - chopped
2 pcs beancurd stick - break into large pcs, soak till soft and drain
1 carrot - peeled and chopped into big chunks  
3 cloves unpeeled garlic
few slices of ginger
1 tbsp rice wine
2 stalks green onion
cornstarch solution
3 - 4 cups water
1 tbsp cooking oil

Claypot Chicken with Chestnut

Ingredients
2 chicken wings - separate wings and drummette
2 chicken thigh - chopped into halves
1 large dried mushroom - soaked, drained and quartered
15 fresh chestnuts
few slices of ginger slices
2 cloves garlic - unpeeled and lightly mashed
1 shallot - peeled and sliced
2 stalks green onion - white part only
1 fresh red chilli - remove seeds and cut 
1 cup chicken stock or water
1 tsp sesame oil
cooking oil

Claypot Seafood with Pumpkin

Comfort food for the autumn season - my series of claypot dishes on the way....

Ingredients
1 medium-sized pumpkin (use 1/4 of it) - peeled, remove seeds and cut into large cubes
4 small slices of fish fillet
12 mussels - washed and cleaned
8 squid rings
6 prawns - peeled and deveined, with tail intact
1 cup chicken or vegetable broth
3 tbsp dessicated coconut
1/2 cup coconut milk
few slices of ginger
2 cloves garlic - unpeeled and lightly mashed
2 stalk lemongrass - white part only, lightly mashed
1 star anise 
1 tsp coriander seeds - lightly pound
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
salt and pepper to taste
1 tbsp cooking oil

Purple Yam Dessert with Snow Fungus

recipe adapted from here
Ingredients
1 purple yam - peeled and cut into small cubes
1 small piece of snow fungus - soaked to soften it, then drained
rock sugar to taste
2 pandan leaves - knotted 

Stir Fried Ginger Scallion Chicken

Ingredients
4 chicken wings - chopped
1 knob ginger - peeled and julienned
2 green onion - trimmed and cut into 5cm length
cornstarch solution
1/4 cup water
1 tbsp cooking oil

Prawn Fritters

 

recipe adapted from here

Ingredients

200 g ( 1 1/2 cups) Plain Flour, sifted

1/2 tsp Baking Powder

1/4 tsp Ground Turmeric

1 level tsp Salt

250 ml (1 cup) Water

100 g (1/2 cup) Chinese Chives, trimmed and cut into 4 cm ( 1 1/2 inch) lengths

100 g (2 cups) Bean Sprouts, rinsed

20 Medium Prawns, peeled, with tails intact

Oil for frying

Steamed Pumpkin Rice

Ingredient

 1 cup rice
1 cup water 
1 bowl of cubed peeled pumpkin
1 tsp dried prawns - soaked and drained
1 chinese sausage - cut into small slices
1 small pc dried salted fish - diced
1 shitake mushroom - soaked, drained and diced
2 cloves garlic - chopped
1 shallot - chopped
2 tbsp soy sauce
salt and pepper to taste
cooking oil

BBQ Five-Spiced Babyback Rib

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fall off the bone five-spiced rib

Ingredients 

Spices and Seasonings

1 tbsp five-spice powder
1 tbsp soy sauce
3 cloves chopped garlic

1 tsp garlic salt
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp onion powder

Honeysuckle Flower Tea (金银花)

Ingredients
handful of dried jin ying hua
few pcs of gan cao
2 cups of water
rock sugar to taste

Method

1. Boil all the ingredients together for about 20 minutes.
2. Filter and serve the drink warm.

Potato Pancake

very large green onions from H-Mart

freshly picked from his farm....given by a generous craigslist seller when we bought an outdoor table from him. He invited us to pick those ripe, juicy italian plums too :)

recipe adapted from here

Ingredients

3 medium-size potatoes - grated

2 large eggs

1/2 cup cooked corn

1 stalk green onion - chopped
3/4 to 1 cup all purpose flour

salt and pepper to taste

cooking oil