I am making ~ Roasted vegetable salad

Another version of roasted vegetable salad, more sourish this time too as I use balsamic vinegar and lemon juice. Technically you can use any vegetable you like, most veges are nice when grilled. Using pepper of 3 different colours brighten up the salad wonderfully.

I am making ~ Roasted tomato with mozarella cheese and basil

I love tomato, it's an easy vege that can be eaten on it's own, baked, made into soup, pureed, used in pasta sauce etc. This super - easy recipe is prepared with minimal ingredients and is used as an accompaniment to my roast chicken.

Masak - masak Melayu ~ Pucuk Manis masak lemak

 I assure you that this is one of the simplest, lazy bum cooking ever using coconut milk as a base gravy. At the market if you don't know how the plant looks like, just say as confidently as you can "kak, minta sayur manis satu" and the lady would pass you one bunch. As for my case, I remember how it looks like but I forget the name hence my idiotic question was "kak sayur apa ni?" @ "What vege is this?", much to their amusement as I hand over the vege, probably thinking that how on earth would I cook a vege of unknown name :p

Masak - masak Melayu ~ Pucuk taugeh masak kicap

 I can't find the English or scientific name for this one, sorry. This is a simple vege for lazy people like me who rarely cook nowadays...

Masak - masak Melayu ~ Sup petola

Easy vegetable recipe for lazy people, fast and cheap, no need to think too much. Goes along with anything, increase or decrease water content to your liking and season with salt to taste.

I am cooking... Grilled beetroot with lots of other veges

 I love beetroot! It has its own taste of sweet and sour with the texture of potato. And that colour! 

Anyway, I was making this to accompany my roast chicken. The choice of vege is actually a liberal one, I sometimes use potato, asparagus, baby corn, tomato, onions, shiitake etc. It so happen that I was using the ones listed below when I decided to post this.

Masak - masak Melayu ~ Stir - fry tofu and bean sprout in soy sauce @ Taugeh masak kicap

Simple vege for lazy people like me who rarely cook nowadays...

So here we go.

Masak - masak Melayu ~ Stir-fry kailan in oyster sauce @ Kailan sos tiram

This is an easy vegetable recipe using oyster sauce, and using a cheap vegetable to boot. I omitted the use of salted fish here since my dad has high blood pressure. Some people like to add chopped beef and dried anchovy.

Masak - masak Melayu ~ Petola masak kicap

Easy vegetable, soft and juicy.

Ingredients:

Arrowroot...

With Chap Goh Meh over last week, signifying the end of Chinese New Year celebration, I bid goodbye to one of my favourite vegetables, arrowroot...

Sigh... This root vegetable is only available during the Chinese New Year season and is suprisingly VERY cheap! I bought 10 of them for only RM 3.00. It tastes like a crossover of potato and sweet turnip (sengkuang). I especially love using arrowroot in steamboat and also roasted with olive oil and herbs.

And so... GOODBYE & SEE YOU AGAIN next year!!! (Running away in tears...)

Masak - masak Melayu ~ Taugeh Masak Kicap @ Stir – fry bean sprouts in sweet soy sauce

This is a very easy one to cook, for all beginners because you don’t have to think much on how to clean and chop the vege and whatever fuss associated with cooking. Heck, I can even cook this with my eyes closed.

Masak - masak Melayu ~ Stir – fried okra with anchovies @ Bendi dengan ikan bilis

A friend of mine taught me this dish so allow me to recall a quirky part during the first time she demonstrated this recipe to me. We were in Sikuati at that time, preparing dinner. Due to the lack of proper utensils, she improvised the lesung @ stone pounder with a mineral water bottle filled full and used it to pound and grind the anchovies and onions to produce a more or less of the desired result. Next, to replace wok, we simply used rice – cooker. And lived, nothing exploded. (Of course, we were using Panasonic that time, so don’t try this unless you are very, very confident that your rice cooker can take it. I’m not liable for what happen to your rice cooker.)

Masak - masak Melayu ~ Kobis masak kicap @ Stir fry cabbage in soy sauce

Lazy me on a lazy day...

And I have to admit, I love soy sauce...

Masak - masak Melayu ~ Pucuk manis dengan telur

@ sayur manis, as known to the Peninsulites. Very easy!


Ingredients:

1. Pucuk manis, a whole stack of it. Get rid of the hard part of the stalks then just chop it to any length you want
2. Garlic, 5 cloves, chopped
3. Shallot, 2 cloves, chopped
4. Oyster sauce / Maggi thick chicken stock, 1 tbs
5. 2 eggs
6. Oil, 1 tbs
7. pinch of salt

Masak - masak Melayu ~ Kacang panjang dengan telur @ Fried beans and eggs

Ingredient:
1. Long beans, when chopped up will give you 2 (standard) cups.
2. 2 eggs
3. ½ carrot, sliced
4. 1 chili, chopped
5. 1 onion, chopped
6. 5 cloves of shallot, chopped
7. 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
8. 2 tbs oil
9. pinch of salt

Masak - masak Melayu ~ Kangkung masak air

I'm nuts over kangkung recently.

And the recipe, literally, yeah. Because the kangkung is cooked in such a way that cannot be referred as soup but watery, so there.

Masak - masak Melayu ~ Kangkung Belacan.

In this easy recipe you can opt to use real belacan or the powder one by Maggi. I used powder belacan to save trouble of roasting the real one over the fire.

Ingredients:
1. 1 stack of kangkung, get rid of the hard stem. You might consider slitting open the soft stem too. Using a pair of kitchen scissors help make life easier.
2. Garlic, 5 cloves, chopped fine
3. A handful of udang kering /dried shrimp, soaked in warm water, pounded
4. Oil, 2 tbs
5. Maggi belacan powder, 2 tbs (in picture) / 1 cm2 belacan, roasted till “fragrant” (no, it’s the opposite actually. It stinks…) then grounded
6. 1 red chili, chopped or pounded
7. Pinch of salt

Preparation:
1. Heat oil in wok, toss in dried shrimp, chili and garlic. Stir till fragrant, careful not to burn the garlic.
2. Toss in the kangkung and add the belacan (depending on how much you want actually). Stir till the vege wilt slightly.
3. Add salt in accordance. Off gas.

Too much belacan powder will make the dish bitter and salty at the same time, what more with the peculiar smell.