Pork Dumpling

Chinese food is too hard to make, I am talking about pork dumpling. The effort, time, energy, and patience you put into it. Nevertheless, I would love to learn to cook Chinese food.

This is my first experimental project on pork dumpling, where does the taste come from, what kind of ingredients they used.

About mid of September, tried to make Siu Mai (another first journey to become a Chinese Chef), everything went well, except one thing went wrong, which is the taste. It does not resemble the Siu Mai flavour at all. It seems like I was eating Dumpling in a Siu Mai shape.

So, I decided to make pork dumpling based on my Siu Mai recipe.

this is the mixing, you can't really see the full ingredients there, like soy sauce, mirin etc

And this is the first several dumplings i made

and I used up all the wrapper and still got some meat left...

Mixing took 15 mins, easy. Wrapping the dumpling took forever. I almost gave up and decided no to continue it. Guess I am still learning, I took me 60 minutes to make 40-ish dumplings.


The cooking part is not the hardest part at all, just put the stuff in, boil it and in less than 15 mins, it is ready to eat. Dip it into the dumpling sauce and eat it.


Example of Steam Dumpling

and Example of Dumpling soup

Vegetarian Spaghetti Carbonara

I am trying to make Italian Carbonara with a hint of Asian. What comes in my mind when I heard Asian food? Chilli, lots of chilliesssssssss. Most of Asian people are able to eat spicy food and eat chilli raw, unfortunately it is just not me…

I hate chilli, I ate chilli sauce when I was in year 9, and I never have raw chilli in my mouth before. Okay, I Mean I had one and it was unintentionally though (when I was 10 yo).

So, do I like chilli now? Not really… Chilli is never accepted in my cooking… this time, I allow my food to be invaded my chilli (as a presentational purposes)….

I never thought that with less than 5 ingredients, the food is taste superb… cream, onion, garlic, mushroom (a must) and Chilli.

Yum.. For sure going to make it again

Chicken, Bacon and Mushroom Soup

I just realised, I love to drink soups/stews. During a normal weekdays dinner when I was a child, my mum always prepare some kind of soup, ranging from clear easy made soup to the complicated Chinese traditional herb-y soup. Nowadays, I only have soup at most twice a week (if I am lucky).

Yesterday, I made this soup and it reminds me of my childhood that I’ve forgotten. After I taste the soup, it reminds me to one of my favourite soup, it called super square soup.

Super Square Soup is a soup where all the vegies been cut into small block, which consist of Potato, Carrot, Peas (only peas that taking a round shape), and mice pork.

my guess is, I hate vegies when I was child, and my mum successfully fooled me at that time. I ate it and I like it even up until now. (I am going to replicate mum’s super square food soon)

This is my second experiment with soup, the amount of ingredients I used just amazed me, which are; water, olive oil, carrot, peas, corn, chicken, bacon, mushroom, thyme, continental parsley, white wine vinaigrette, chicken stock, butter, garlic, onion, and flour.

Making soup is not as hard as I thought… and please refer to the pictures below for my presentation.

Fried Rice

This is Fried Rice... nothing much i can about this simple yet complicated dish.. I am still trying to perfect this dish...

Japanese flavoured rice with roast pork

 

My latest creation and I consider this as a lovely yummy incredible food that i ever cook.... by using miso paste, ginger, garlic, mushroom, mirin and Sake to create the authentic Japanese flavour. and for the roast pork.. i just roast it.. soaked 5 hours in the olive herbs bath then roasted....

Anyone, can somebody teach me how to smoke food? Appreciated

this is another angle from the first batch...

this is the second batch and as u can see the mushroom on the left hand side

and this is the first batch, view from rear

Tomato Ice cream with Strawberry Puree

I bought Ice cream machine/maker 2 weeks ago and my first ice cream is Tomato ice cream... It was a successful ice cream.

this is the final presentation... i am not so sure why the ice cream taste like Tomato/Coconut-ty flavour. And i do not know how to make it smooth-er... any comment ??

another angle of my food.. yummmm

Smith's new flavoured popcorn

If you are not reside in Australia, let me introduce 4 (temporarily) new flavours chips.... the winner will be the permanent chips along with Original, BBQ, Chicken, Thai Sweet Chilli...

I have tested all of them. Some of them are nice, one of them is crap, most of them have great idea. In no particular order, I will reveal it:
Caesar Salad
It was a great idea, but does it translate from idea to taste? this is one of my wanted list (before I tried it)... the combination of healthy salad and unhealthy chips just make me want it desperately. I tried it and I think it is not well translated to the real taste. It has this extreme subtle hint of tomato, bacon and lettuce. The taste is not my cup of tea… I would not buy this flavour anymore.

Idea (5/5), Taste (3/5), Would love to try it again (1/5)


BBQ Coat of Arms
Sounds promising at first, although not my wanted list.. I decided to try it out… after I had my first bite, I remember, It is a remake of Smoky BBQ… Nothing is new with this flavour. I have tried this flavour before… same taste different packaging (and name). although it is a remake, I would love to buy it again.

Idea (1/5), Taste (4/5), Would love to try it again (3/5)

Buttered Popcorn
I have a doubt with this flavour.. not on my list at first, but decided to have a go with it… I think it is a good idea… combining two snacks to create ultimate tasty treat. This is my Favourite. The drawback of this chip is the saltiness.. got this best popcorn saltiness which I can’t bare…

Idea (5/5), Taste (4.5/5), Would love to try it again (5/5)

Late Night Kebab
I am unable to comment on this one, this is the worst chips I ever eaten.. It tastes like Ground, earth and soil… it was a great idea, just does not translated well into the chips..

Idea (5/5), Taste (0/5), Would love to try it again (0/5)

Alobert, Try it!!

Nb: http://www.smithsdousaflavour.com.au/flavours-vote.php and vote for Buttered popcorn!