Sunday, July 11, 2010

Rolled Cabbage

Few days ago mummy saw some cooking program on tv and inspired her to make this dish. Then she went to search for recipes online and decided to try this recipe out http://erecipe.woman.excite.co.jp/features/okazu/o37.html


However, she made some adjustment from the original recipe.

Ingredient:
1 ball of cabbage (diced some and mix into the meat mixture)
350g minced meat of your choice
Half an onion (diced)
Breadcrumbs (1/4 cup)
Milk (3 tablespoon)
1 egg
some flour

Soup base
1 Chicken cube
Water 300-400ml
Tomato Puree 200ml
Ketchup 4 tablespoon
Sugar, salt, pepper to taste

Directions:
Cut out the stem of the cabbage as shown in the above link
remove the leaf of the cabbage one by one carefully (picking out about 8-10pcs of the biggest leaf and diced up some of the smaller ones that wont be used)
put the big leaves into a big pot of boiling water and boil for a few mins until soft. Drain.
Fry the diced onion and set aside
Mix in the cooled onion, minced meat, breadcrumbs and milk together and mix till well mix
Thin down the stem of the boiled cabbage leaf as shown in the link above
Sprinkle some flour onto the cabbage leaf
Take a handful of the mixed minced meat mixture and place on the cabbage leaf (place at the end nearest to u)
Fold in the 2 sides of the cabbage and rolled it up from the bottom. Secure the rolled cabbage with a tooth pick
Place the rolled cabbage into a big pot and pour in water to boil
Pour in the soup base ingredients and let simmer for 30mins.

Mummy made a total of 8 rolled cabbages and there are some meat left over so she rolled them into meat balls and throw them into the pot of tomato soup for my dinner. hee

A day at the beach

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Pizza Hamburger


Mummy made this for our dinner tonight. The directions to make this is exactly the same as the normal japanese hamburger. the only difference is the sauce used and the topping(green pepper and mixed cheese)

Ingredients:
Minced chicken (about 600g. 200g for 1 person. 100g per hamburger)-ok to use minced beef or pork as well
1 Onion (diced finely)
1 egg (beaten)
3/4 cup of bread crumbssome milk to mix with the bread crumbs to soften it.
salt n pepper to taste

Directions:
Fry the diced onion in strong fire till frangrant and let cool
Put the bread crumbs into a bowl and mix in some milk to soften the crumbs.
Squeeze out the milk lightly with hands and put into a big bowl
Add the cooled onions, minced meat, beaten egg, salt n pepper into the big bowl and mix everything well.
Shape the hamburger into the size u like.
Heat some oil in the frying pan and put the hamburgers into it letting it fry under strong fire
After the base turned brown, flip it over and turn the fire to medium
Cover the hamburger with a cover to let it 'steam' under medium fire so that the hamburger will be cooked through and not just the surface of it
Check for doneness
Once the inside has been cooked, add some pizza sauce(buy those ready to use type in a bottle), sliced green pepper and some mixed cheese onto it and return the cover
let it fry for a few more secs
Serve

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

A grown up girl!

today at shinjuku, i was sitting quietly in my pram while mummy shops..then KPO mummy worried that i might be hungry, offered me some snacks and beverages but i rejected them all and started to be grouchy.. scream and cry n mummy just let me be since i had rejected all her 'offers' but after a while mummy stopped the pram, looked at me in the eyes n asked me to stop crying n tell her wat i want. i tried so hard to stop crying, with tears all over my face n told mummy 'juice, juice' while trying hard to catch my breathe..n finaly i got my juice!(actually is barley tea but i call tat juice lol. my fav beverage. health concious girl!). n that makes me a happy girl all over again.

mummy WAS angry with my grouchiness but the anger all gone away when she hear 'juice, juice' LOL. she say im so cute... and she is very happy that i am finally able to tell her what i want. im a grown up girl!

Thursday, June 10, 2010

New Stroller! (カトージ かるいでちゅ)

Mummy bought me a new pram cos she says summer is coming and those meshed seat pram looks more cooling. and also, as ive grown heavier and mummy is unable to carry me PLUS pram outside when we need to climb stairs etc so she decided to look at those umbrella stroller which is smaller and lighter than the combi one that i have been using. and it came today! so mummy let me sit on the new stroller to class... i fell asleep in it on the way home!

verdict of the new pram: its not as comfy as the combi one i have (of cos! this cost only like 120sgd and the combi one cost about 600sgd!). but its more cooling as its mesh.. its smaller and lighter! mummy can lift the pram up with only her baby finger! (when im not in it of cos...). its only 2.9kg.. the combi one is very light too. but it weighs about 4.2kg.. anyway she bought rain cover and foot warmer together too hehe. mummy was saying.. this is not very comfy for my naps.. so if i need to nap, most probably she wont be using this pram. its easy to push around too!


Monday, June 7, 2010

KTV with mum n dad

Friday, June 4, 2010

iherb.com


The shopping Queen found another website for her to splurge on~ http://www.iherb.com/ LOL. this time, mummy bought some hair products (on the right. all big big bottles hehe), some essential oil (those tiny bottles on the foreground) and some bathing, hair products for me (natures baby organics on the background). Think summer cause mummy to be in this shopping mood hehe.
Mummy is especially attracted to this site for their wide range of products, low price, and most importantly, fast and cheap international shipping! Their minimum rate of shipping is USD4 for singapore and USD8 for japan. of cos if u order more, the shipping price increase as well. but anyway, this price for an international postage cost is simply too attractive for her! Whats more, first time customers get a USD5 discount over total price! Just enter this referral code JEQ707! And the time taken from the day mummy order and the day the parcel arrive is just 4 days! even faster than the local orders here sometimes! Thanks to her fren 'karen' for introducing her this great site!