The forecast for the past week and the week coming up is WINTER all over... words like rainy, showers, storm, wind, rain and more rain are on every weather forecast... miserable? Actually no! I like this weather - it is the perfect excuse to stay @ home, perfect DVD/watching TV/korean series type of weather, and there is this very cosy feeling when you're indoors, warm and the sound of rain outside...
My mum occassionally asks me what should she cook for dinner... I guess after 20+ years of cooking, you would almost run out of ideas! So with winter weather upon us, I thought of making braised beef and throw that over rice flour noodles (or otherwise known as kway teow) - it is one of my favourite lunch time dishes and I always order this when I have lunch @ Chi... so here it is... and despite some nervous moments, my family gave it the thumbs up tonight! Yay!!!
Fry up lots of sliced ginger, sliced garlic, spring onions in a bit of oil, the 5 star anise and cinnamon stick, then throw in the beef pieces and then throw in 1/2 cup of light soya sauce (for about 1kg of meat) - sounds like a lot of soya sauce and I would suggest going easy on this if you're not having this over noodles or the rice flour noodles - it is just fine if you are doing so. And then 8 cups of water - it might seem like a crazy amt of water... I was like "Oh no... this looks like beef soup!!!" but trust me, after simmering for 2hours there is not much of it left. Thicken slightly with tapioca flour. And because I like the dark colour look, I swirled in some thick soya sauce too.
Whoever said winter wasn't great?! :)
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6 comments:
hahahah ... almost sounds like your family are the 'guinea pigs' for your cooking creations ... I'm sure the food you cook are edible ... worst case, there's always 2 minute noodles right?
Yes... there's always 2 min noodles, which actually I do quite like! Esp after not eating it for awhile, I can get 2min noodle cravings!!! :)
Korean ones are the best, love the texture of the noodles! KH is addicted to them. Indo mi is quite good too ...
What about japanese ones? ;)
Japanese ones? Haven't really tried them to be honest ... maybe lacks the spicy flavours. Have you tried japanese curry? Not bad. The 'mapo' tofu is quite good actually.
My friend really likes the jap curry from Taka - I've tried it, it's not too bad... but I have to say, I'm not a big fan of it! It doesnt seem spicy/chilli enough and a bit sweet??? :P I'll like to make green curry next! :P
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