Growing up in Singapore, one of my favourite dishes was Kai-Lan in Oyster Sauce… if I could eat it 24/7 with rice I would have Kai-Lan is otherwise known in English as Chinese Brocolli and you cannot find it ANYWHERE here *cries* I’ve tried, even in the Chinatown but they have a substitute Pak-Choi which is pretty much similar and known in English as Chinese Cabbage so it satisfies my cravings! It’s great as a vegetable addition to any Chinese dish you cook & tastes amazing So here is my quick easy recipe that only takes 15 minutes to make & tastes yummy!

Ingredients:
2 Cups of Basmati Rice
2 Small Onions chopped
2 Peppers sliced into strips
2 Small Pak Choi
1 tbsp Chilli Sauce
As many uncooked Peeled Shrimps as you want
2 tbsp Vegetable Oil
1 Sachet Blue Dragon Stir Fry Oyster & Spring Onion Sauce (use another if you like more sauce)

Method:
Boil 2 cups of water into a sauce pan with the cup of rice with a pinch of salt for seasoning, the trick to perfect rice is for every cup of rice add 2 cups of water. Turn up to the highest temperature on the hob until boiling then turn right down puting the lid on the pan and let it simmer away for around 10 minutes. Never ever stir the rice as this leads to it becoming wet & soggy, you want dry fluffy rice, don’t you?!

Meanwhile, bring another pan of water to the boil, throw in the uncooked shrimps and boil them up for a few minutes until they become pink, this shows that they are cooked. Once cooked, leave to the side.

Next, add the Vegetable Oil to a frying pan to fry the onions & peppers with 1 tbsp of Chilli Sauce to give them a little kick until brown. Add in the sachet of sauce mix and let it simmer away gently until it’s nearly time for the rice to be ready. You’ll know when the rice is ready when the water goes away and holes start appearing between the rice grains. At this point, you can taste the rice to see if it’s alright & push a spoon to the bottom of the pan to make sure it hasn’t burnt (the joys of trying to make the perfect rice!)

Boil water again into the pan you used to cook the shrimps (saves on washing more dishes!) and de-segment the Pak-Choi blanching these for a few minutes. Blanching basically means to boil the vegetable quickly and then run under cold water for a few seconds to stop the cooking process (check me, eh!).

Lastly, add in the Shrimps into the Onion & Pepper mixture making sure that they get covered in the Oyster Sauce mix stirring for a minute or two to heat up the shrimps again. In the pan you used to blanche the Pak-Choi, add a little of the Oyster Sauce from the frying pan & mix together.

Add some rice to your plate, top with the Shrimps & Pak-Choi… et voilà, dig in*drool*

Note: If you can’t get Blue Dragon Stir Fry Oyster & Spring Onion Sauce or would rather make your own sauce mixture then all you need to do is purchase a bottle of Oyster Sauce (comes in handy!) and for this recipe use around 4 tbsps of Oyster Sauce along with 2 tsps of soy sauce, 1 tsp of corn flour and 3 tbsps of Chicken or Beef Stock, mix altogether and just carry on with the steps from above. It does taste so much better making your own sauce because you can add things & take away things but I ran out of my trusty bottle of Oyster Sauce so had to use the sachet instead.

We’ve been having pretty good weather in the Scotland on & off for the past month with temperatures reaching around 28 degrees celcius A few weeks ago we had a BBQ, something which we haven’t done in a very very long time (we’ve since bought a BBQ & used it several times!). There is something about a BBQ which makes food taste so much better, so here I am teasing you with some food p0rn

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Zup Ladies! I was chillaxing in the garden, getting my sun tan on, it’s hella hot here especially since I’m furry all over. Michelle keeps telling me that I’m getting my hair chopped off, can’t wait! I feel like a frikin sheep right now!

The evil humans had a BBQ 3 times in the past week and all I got was a hot dog, a little chopped up steak and a roll! Can’t a growing boy get some food?! And don’t get me started on those disgusting doggy biscuits they force me to eat! I’d rather eat my own toenails!

I can’t even get peace & quiet in MY garden because that evul doggy Fudge comes over and bounces around. He’s too big, annoying, and he should know that this is MY house, not his! But does he listen? No! He likes hearing his own barks so much! But I’m getting my own back on him mwahahah he has a barking collar on him now to help stop him barking so much, so everytime he comes near me, I bark at him, and he gets tazered mwahahhahahaha :grr:

I’m off to snooze now, I heard the evul humans saying I’m going to the V.E.T later this afternoon. They think I can’t spell but I went to doggy skool y’know!

Toodles, Doggy Dog

P.S. If any fine little female doggies wanna hit me up, just leave me a comment & I’ll read it when the evul humans are sleeping! I’m down with technology!

So I’ve been doggy sitting all weekend since my parents are up in the Highlands of Scotland on a mini vacation, just me & the dog, getting our geek on, especially me complete with glasses, no makeup on & lounging around in my PJ’s. It’s been fun having the house to ourselves with all those wild parties that doggy dog has been having with his harem of girlie dogs over for afternoon delights (of doggy bones!)… yes I’m actually joking, he doesn’t have any girl friends but I am working on that, anyone need some doggy pimping?! His Doggy Personal ad would read:

Cute male yorkie, 3 years old, WLTM a cute yorkie bitch for afternoons of rolling around in the grass, sharing doggy biscuits à la Lady & the Tramp style with the occasional bubble bath complete my rubber duckies if you’re the lucky bitch

How could anyone refuse his cute little face?!

*cough*

Back to the real world! Me & Doggy Dog have been chilling, watching movies, sharing popcorn & yoghurt, snuggling up in bed next to eachother, if he was human he’d be the perfect boyfriend hahahaha

*waves to her mom, no doubt she’s reading this!*

I think I’ll go now!

Toodles
xoxo

Look how happy Doggy Dog is running around on the grass, sipping water from my hand, walking for miles by the riverside, dipping his paws in the sand, it’s our favourite spot for dog walking & playing… he’s such a cutie especially when his little doggy face lights up when he gets to run around like he has dynamite stuck up his little doggy butt

It was all about the food for me since I’m on a diet, I took a day off & went to the movies with mom to see The Young Victoria starring Emily Blunt complete with a huge bag of popcorn & diet coke The movie was really good, I did a little review in the Cinemaniac section.

For dinner, I’ve been craving Fish & Chips for months to when the opportunity arose I went for it and ordered it for dinner instead of going out for dinner like Dad suggested to Mom. But no, I was a happy bunny with what I had

Later on last night, I had 1/2 of my mini birthday cake which was Chocolate Sponge with Chocolate Buttercream and Milk Chocolate smothered on top with Smarties sprinkled around it

It was chilled out, relaxed & I had fun but now I’m back on the diet *ugh* :grr:

I’m currently on a diet & slowly losing weight which is good, but the bad thing is, I’m craving all the food I shouldn’t lol. Mom & I are trying new recipes that are low fat since we cut out fried food & junk (I miss Pizza Hut the most!). Anyhooo the other day Mom bought some little frying steaks which I thought would be great in a Steak Sandwich (craving’s are a bitch!) & tonight I cooked that for dinner, the good thing is, it’s healthy… even down to the fries which we had along with it (I cheated on them, didn’t make them, they are Weight Watcher’s oven fries)! So here is the recipe with food porn photographs

Ingredients for 2 people:

2 Panini or Ciabatta rolls
2 Tomatoes sliced
A Handful of Salad Leaves (I’m currently digging Tenderleaf Mix)
1 Large Onion chopped
4 Frying Steaks (Or minute steaks, hell you could even use a normal steak & slice it up!)
Ground Black Pepper
Chilli Hot Sauce (I use Timor from Quinta d’Avó from Portugal which my brother got me, it’s amazing!)
1 Teaspoon of Chopped Garlic
Some Mayo, Ketchup or Mustard for Dressing (or all if you want!)
Fry Light Sunflower Oil Spray (if you want to be healthy, or just use a little Sunflower/Vegetable Oil)

Method:

In a frying pan, squirt some cooking spray (or use oil, whatever you like) and fry the chopped onions with the garlic until brown then add a teaspoon or two or three (if you like it spicy) of chilli sauce to give them a little kick. Leave to the side.

Next, you need to cook the steaks. I used the George Foreman Grill to cook them since it’s healthier (but you could fry them in a pan if you don’t have one). Before cooking, I rubbed them with ground pepper & a few teaspoons of the chilli sauce mix. The good thing about these steaks is that they cook in a few minutes, the ones we had cooked in less than 4 minutes, so this recipe is pretty fast

While they are cooking, get the panini rolls ready and add the tomatoes & lettuce to them along with your dressing(s) of choice. Once the steaks are ready, pop them into the rolls and top with the onions. Slice the rolls in half, stick in your mouth & enjoy

Today is Mother’s Day in the UK & since I’m a broke ass, I sent my mom an e-card and decided to cook dinner for her. It turned out really yummy & then we had triple chocolate mousse with a brownie