Cooking Adventures: Chicken mushroom Baked Rice & Fried Enoki Mushroom

Since my nose become less sensitive as the months go by, I regained my passion for cooking & baking. 

The husband had craving for baked rice one weekend evening and I decided to cook it for him, since it seemed relatively easy from the recipe I've found through Noob Cook .

If the print screen that I've included in this post is too small, please head over to the author's blog to find the recipe!

This meal was so easy to make, and so delish that the husband said that it was the best baked rice he has ever eaten!

That same night, I was also craving for Fried Enoki Mushroom after seeing my friend had it in one of her instagram post. I wanted to go to the cafe to have it too, but I felt that $7 was too expensive for enoki mushrooms. So I planned to cook it myself. 

However, that day was the day that I had spent so many hours in the kitchen (macarons making) since I got pregnant, and my back and legs were really giving up on me. I couldn't continue to make the mushroom, so the Husband had kindly volunteered to cook it for me!

And this was the end result. Very nice I say! Craving totally satisfied :) 

But our lesson learnt was that we shouldn't attempt to cook the entire pack of enoki mushroom just for the 2 of us. Too much, and we ended up throwing some away. 

Here's the recipe for the Fried Enoki Mushroom, taken from Happy Recipe.

It was a super satisfying dinner. And that's why they say, homecooked meals are the best!

Cooking Adventures: Seafood Paella

So happy that the seafood paella I made over the weekend tasted reasonably decent. Not the most authentic paella but it was good enough to satisfy my paella cravings. 

Never ever gonna pay $50 for a pan of paella anymore! I can now cook it myself! :) :) 

First tried paella when I was on travelling in Spain many years ago and fell in love with the dish. When I went back to UK, my room mate attempted to make and I saw how tedious it was to make it, and hence I had put off trying to make my own paella even when I came back. Also, the ingredients,  to make paella, especially Bomba rice and saffron threads are not easily found in Singapore. 

During my honeymoon trip, I happened to pass by a shop that sold everything Spanish at Borough market and I immediately grabbed a 1kg packet of rice and a box of saffron threads! The next time I'm there, I would definitely want to get the paella pan! I made mine yesterday using non-stick pan and there wasn't any burnt crust, which is the nicest part of paella. So I definitely need the pan!

And so here I was yesterday, trying to whip up my own seafood paella, and it was successful!! 

The whole process took about 1 hour and honestly, it was fairly easy to make. Can't wait to cook it again, but I need to find another source of Bomba rice. Anyone who knows where to get it in Singapore, please let me know okay!

Cooking Adventures

As the MIL is away in KL again, I decided to whip up a storm again. This time it was more stressful, because besides feeding the husband, I also needed to feed the FIL.

It was stressful because the FIL's tastebud has been pampered by the MIL's fantastic cooking for decades, and now, he would have to try my noob cooking.

Hope I did not cause any food poisoning in any one of them.

On the table (clockwise direction): Honey fried chicken wings, Portobello mushroom stuffed with mozarella cheese (done by the husband!), Egg tofu with minced pork, stir-fried xiao bai chye. 

Cooking adventures

So last week when my parents in law were overseas at KL, I decided to be the good wife again and attempted to cook. 

So here are the dishes that I whipped up. 

French bean omelette, stir fry beef with broccoli (felt so proud of myself for cooking this, because I'm a non-beef eater and it was really difficult to judge whether the beef was cooked or how the gravy tasted like!) and stir fry chilli clams. 

Here's the vongole spaghetti in white wine which failed because it was toooooo spicy! I added 4 chilli padis instead of 1. I don't take chilli at all, so I thought the more chilli the better since the husband likes them. I had totally underestimated the power of 1 chilli padi. 

I cooked French beans with dried shrimps, Ma Po tofu and fried pork chops! Was craving for pork chop so decided to fry it myself! 

And finally green bean soup with sago! 

Now now, are you impressed with me already??