I've been Away and I'll be Away

Hello my followers, I am so sorry that I have been disappeared. Many things has been going on from my last post. I had to rush back to my country, because my father had hospitalized. Then he passed away unexpectedly. I have been stuck in my country, Myanmar with my mom, my sister and my dad's business. Everything has different from then. I came back to Thailand 3 weeks ago to see my husband, then I will be going back to Yangon, Myanmar again in few days to help managing my dad's business with my mom and sister. I will come back to Bangkok in 2 months time.

I have been wanted to post new blog post whenever I try to cook new meals and stuffs. But I have really been busy with my family and all. I am so sorry for not keeping in touch with you guys through this blog. And worst of all, I could not access blogger from my country, it is banned over there. It sucks.

I apologize you all that I will be away for awhile again. I will come back after things has been settled and when I can access. Thank you so much for all you guys wishes and love. I will post all those meals posts as soon as I can.

Thanks so much again and always appreciate your following me on blogger.

Love,
Flora

Stir-Fried Chicken Cocktail

(Sorry for the pic quality as I don't have my camera now and had to take it with my phone)

I love the taste of this dish. I love the simplicity of this dish. I love the taste of this dish. Most of all, it is one of the healthy meals.

Ingredients - 4 Chicken breasts, 1 green bell pepper, 1 red bell pepper, some basil leaves, 1 medium size onion, 4 cloves of garlic, a pinch of salt, 1 tea spoon of seasoning powder.

How to cook;

1. Add 3 tea spoon of cooking oil in a pan and heat the oil, then add chopped garlic and chopped onion to stir fry until they are soft and cooked.

2. Add bite size cut chicken after first stage. Add a pinch of salt and a tea spoon of seasoning powder and stir-fry them until chicken is cooked.

3. After chicken is cooked, add cut bell peppers and fry them for 5 mins.

4. After bell peppers are soft and semi-cooked, top with basil leaves and stir all the ingredients together for 3 mins more. You will notice the aroma of basil leaves and bell peppers, and see the beautiful colors and will taste the simply delicious dish afterward.

:) Enjoy!

Egg Plants With Sweet Chillies

Ingredients - 3 green egg plants, 4 big red chillies, onion, soy sauce, and celery


How to cook;

Pour little amount of oil in the pan. Heat the oil, when the oil is hot, add chopped onions and stir-fry until it is soft and cooked, then add chopped big sweet chillies and fry them for awhile, then add egg plants and 3 table spoons of soy sauce. (I use Kikkoman less salt soy sauce as below.) Minute later, add the chopped celery and cook the egg plants until it turns soft and cooked.

You will get very simple vegetarian egg plant dish. I was inspired to cook this dish from a guest chief from Masterchief Season 2 show. It is very simple, smells delicious and tastes delicious too. :)




Note - Before i cook the dish, I cut the egg plants in bite size. Then I mixed them with some salt for 30 minutes to let the salt soaks the bitterness from the eggplants. Then I washed them well with water again to prepare to cook.

Baked Potatoes and Chicken Breast

This is one of the dinner meal I did last week and it was very yummy. The baking is nothing special, the most important thing is to mix the chopped chicken breast in the sweet seasoning for few hours before you start baking.

All you need is 4 pieces of chicken breast, 2 big potatoes, salt, black pepper, some seasoning powder and very little oil to brush the baking pan.

I chopped the chicken breasts and mixed them in salt, black pepper and seasoning for 5-6 hrs and let them sit in the fridge in the plastic box.

Then when I wanted to bake, I took it out and let them lay in the non-stick baking pan with 2 big potatoes. I make small holes on the potatoes with a folk to get bake well inside too. Don't forget to wash the potatoes skin well before that.

I baked them for 30-40mins until they turn golden color. Then I got the yummy and very smelling good baked chicken and baked potatoes for dinner. :)

Pork Stew With Basil

Prok Stew With Basil

Very easy meal, all you need is some pork flesh ( I use pork shoulder ), sweet basil leaves, ginger, onion, some cooking oil, salt, black pepper and seasoning powder.

Heat the oil, when the oil is hot, fry the ginger and onions till soft and cooked, then add chopped pork, stir them in salt, seasoning powder and black pepper powder until pork is well cooked. When the pork is cooked, top the sweet basil leaves and stir-fry them for few mins.

Just an easy and quick dish you can create in your busy and rush days. The pork makes the meal to be sweet and basil leaves make the good smell for the dish.

Me The Novice To Bake

So, I got one more non-stick baking tray while it is on sale and muffin tray to try baking some muffins as first time in my life.

I got them from Robinson department store from here in Bangkok. The non-stick baking tray is on 50% sale + my 5% member card, so I got it with just around 2.5$ U.S.D or 79 Baht. The muffin tray is non-stick also, it is about 7$ +, which is 230 Baht. With my 5% discount card, I got it with about -1$ less..I think...I was happy and feel like that was a steal!

I have been using my 1st baking tray which is exactly like the one form picture for awhile and like it so much.

Aromatic Catfish Stew

Spaghetti with Ginger Topping

First Ever Baking

Brownies, Ready to Serve
Got A Little Burned :(
Ready to Put in Oven
Mixing It
Things Used to Bake My First Ever Brownies

Pork Ribs Soup With Potatoes

Main Ingredients; pork ribs, potatoes, onion, garlic, ginger, celery, seasoning powder, turmeric powder, black pepper powder, salt and cooking oil.

1. Heat the oil, stir-fry ginger and garlic for a min, then add chopped onions and turmeric powder till they turned golden color.

2. Then add pork ribs into it. Pour a glass of water, salt, seasoning powder and pepper powder. Cover the lid and let the pork ribs cooked.

3. When pork ribs are cooked, add bite size cut potatoes and let the potatoes cooked together with pork ribs. So, the sweetness from pork ribs go into the potatoes and also into the soup more.

4. Open the lid, top the chopped celery leaves on the soup. Switch off the heat in a min. Ready to serve after that.

African Beef Stew

African Beef Stew
Blended tomatoes, onions, chillies and ginger in the blender.
Cooking beef firstly after heating the oil with cloves of garlic.

Ingredients you need; beef, tomatoes, onions, ginger, garlic, cooking oil, salt, seasoning powder, black pepper powder, chillies

I do not have exact recipe like 2 teaspoons of this and that as I always guess and cook the amount I desire in each time differently.

First of all, chopped onions, ginger, and tomatoes, then add to the blender along with a few red chillies depends on how spicy you want the dish to be. Then blend all of them.

Heat the oil, saute the garlic and oil together until it turns golden, then add the chopped beef and stir-fry until beef are well cooked. Oh you have to add salt, pepper powder and seasoning powder while cooking beef. After that add the blended ingredients from the blender. Cover the lid of cooking pot or pan for 5 mins, stair and check often until you don't get the fresh smell of onions and tomatoes.

I eat the stew with rice. But some African people eat with fufu or whatever it is. :D

Baked Chicken Wings

( Ready to serve )
( After took the tray out from oven. It seems to be a bit oily. My first time trying to bake and first time using the gas oven, so hoping to correct it in my next time )
( I mixed the chicken with the spices I want to use and a little bit of oil. Then I covered it up and let them sleep in the fridge for 5-6 hrs )

Ingredients; chicken wings, seasoning powder, salt, pepper powder, oyster sauce and vegetable oil

Things you need ; oven, non-stick baking tray

This is my first time baking and using an oven. I mixed the chicken first, covered it up and let them sleep in fridge for few hours. Then when I wanted to bake, I preheat the oven for 200-250 in my oven, I am not sure it is C or F yet as they don't write it on. I will add the information when I know it. I placed all the chicken wings in baking tray. I layered oil a bit before placing chicken wings. Then I bake them for about 30 minutes or until your chicken wings turned golden color.

Family Meal - Stewed Pork with Potatoes and Boiled Eggs

( Adding boiled eggs is optional. I added boiled eggs because that is how my daughter and husband like. )

This dish was the one I cooked 2 weeks ago. I just started my cooking blog, so I just posted this picture as my first post here.

I forgot how much amount of pork. It is like one big tray of pork I bought from supermarket. I remember I used 3 big potatoes and 3 boiled eggs. Other ingredients are one big onion, little bit of chopped ginger, salt, black pepper, turmeric powder and seasoning powder.

I cut pork and potatoes to be bite size. I chopped the onions and ginger. Then I put all pork, potatoes, chopped onion, chopped ginger, salt, black pepper powder, turmeric powder and seasoning powder in a slow cook pot. I cooked them for about 30-40mins, 10 minutes before I stop cooking, I added boiled eggs.

It is one easy family meal. You can either eat it alone or eat with rice as we do. Good for children and good energy meal with plenty of protein, carbohydrate, and so on.

Hope you will like it.

F