Patting dry the chicken before marinating gives you the crispy chicken skin on the outside during roasting. It is a great dish to serve on days when you want to leave the chicken in the oven and just get on with your errands. The bacon gives a nice smoky taste to the skin so do not add too much salt in the marinade.
This is a sweet and savory chicken macaroni that requires so little effort. I made this during the last 10-minute before I had to run out of the house to pick the kids. The evaporated milk makes the soup so creamy and savory, the kids couldn't resist having the 2nd bowl. This dish can also be cooked in a thermal pot or on stove top. Add more water if you are cooking this dish on stove-top to prevent the soup from drying out.
Making the sauce from scratch means that I know what ingredients are doing into the dish and I can control the amount of salt being added into the children's food. I drizzle sauce over baby pasta and it’s good even when I have to bring it out for his meals. I just place the sauce and pasta in separate thermos flask and mix them together for his meals when we are outside.
This rice cooker pumpkin rice dish is really easy to cook and the minced dried shrimps adds a fragrant umami twist to the dish. Cooking it in a rice cooker saves time and allows busy mothers to be throwing ingredients into the rice cooker and running off for errands.
Requiring only chicken and onions, (the marinades are staples in my kitchen), this recipe makes it a easy dish to cook when I haven't got the time to replenish groceries from the market. The sauce is savory and goes well with rice or porridge. It's a big hit with my kids who loves the sauce that they were trying to drink the sauce!
I cook this in the steamer tray in my rice cooker so that it cooks with the rice at the same time. It saves me the hassle of having to take out another pot to steam and wash. I remember fondly of the Chinese wax sausage as a nostalgia food that my grandfather used to cook for us a lot when we were kids as it can be kept in the freezer for months and defrosted really quickly.
Petai AKA Bittter beans, is a small bean that contains big benefits. Simmering the petai for 10mins ensures that the petai is cooked but the taste do not get mixed into the dish. Even my kids love this dish though they do not eat the beans.
Sweet and savory curry dish that is always a big hit with the kids. Diced the vegetables according to age(finely diced for younger children, cut into sections for older children). My son is a picky eater and he would pick out the vegetables but I always diced the vegetables into smaller cubes that I can mash up before he can pick it out from his plate.
