food obsession

No, I have not completely forgotten this blog. It's just that I have no enough motivation to pursue posting. Especially if all I have decided to blog here is about food. My obsession with food is probably more than enough reason. It's not lack of time or no ideas to write on it. Probably just my ever so lazy mind.


Anyway, I'm glad that I was able to come back (after almost a year, with only 2 posts) and manage to change the template and some. ^_^ I am hoping have that motivation this is not just a feeling of needing to maintain it. Since if I have the passion in cooking I can be able to write anything about it, right? Oh I don't know.


Theses past few weeks I'm trying to cut my budget in my grocery items and ingredients. Why? Because every time I want to go and travel to another place I realized my money is going somewhere else which is no doubt in Sainsbury's or Tesco (leading UK supermarkets). I even have no budget for shopping clothes. And each time I go outside just to send a fax or go to a book store I will surely without a doubt end up in the grocery. I don't know if this kind of obsession with food is healthy any more. 


I can quite say that my foods are healthy (or so I believe). If I tell to any of my co-workers that I love food and I so love cooking they will stare in my petite body and wonder. Then I'll just say, oh yeah I don't look like it but you haven't seen me eat yet. I have a fast metabolism. So I don't expand that much even when I eat loads, but I will do feel unhealthy especially if I eat junks. Crisps are my guilty pleasures.


Oh well, I think I can  manage this blog. It's not that I need to. You know, if years passed and I might have forgotten what I was really passionate about... Uhm, nah, I don't think I will ever forget.


I am hoping someday sometime soon to study culinary arts or maybe just a cooking/baking lessons. Can't wait. However, cooking lessons here are so darn expensive. I just feel like I needed to learn now so I can become a master chef just like those chefs I've been watching on TV. Hmmm, someday.. Someday.


Fingers crossed!

Mix, Wrap and Steam it!

the siomai obsession.

I've made a siomai (steamed dumplings) yesterday since I am craving for it for the last two weeks! I was dying to make one. The craving of it forced me to earnestly seek for a supermarket or any oriental food store where I can buy a wanton or siomai wrapper. There is none in any supermarkets here. Fortunately, my housemate told me there's an oriental store in town where I can buy Asian ingredients. By favorable chance I've found one!

What's holding me was not having a steamer in the kitchen, I was so obsessed in making one but not thinking of having no steamer to cook it. So Iike an eager beaver I searched for a homemade steamer and and again found a remedy. Yoohoo!

And these are just what I needed.

A foil.

A big pot. Mine's not that big.

Of course, water.

And my two bright clean hands.

Ever wonder how's it like?

Necessity is the mother of all invention. Haha!

My simple steamed siomai ingredients are:

250g Ground Pork

half cup of minced Prawn/Shrimp

1 Egg

3 tbsp Flour

minced Onion

minced Garlic

dash of Salt & Pepper

1 tsp Olive oil

Sometimes I include minced carrots, mushroom, and spring onions. Mix it all together wrap it with the out-of-reach siomai wrapper, place it in the steamer, much better if you have a rice cooker. Then steam for about 15-20 minutes.

If you have sensitive taste of every foods  that touched your tongue you will know what ingredients you can put and you can always experiment with flavors in cooking.

I have eaten siomai many times before. I can even eat it everyday. I never get tired of eating it.

When eating siomai, you can always dip it in chili sauce or soy sauce with lemon or lime. Much better if you put a li'l sugar, pepper & chilli powder. I like it hot and spicy but if you used too much, instead of feeling full, your tummy might feel sore with all those spice.

You can always find one at chinese food stores or restaurants where it's much tastier and delicious that I always wonder if there's a secret ingredient into it. It's just I find it expensive. I used to cook siomai back home where all the spices and ingredients I needed are always available unlike in here. They have these what they call 5 spice powder which brings the siomai much tastier and livelier... Yummy yum yum!!!

I enjoyed my siomai. Very much.

What a satisfying meal!

*Meat is a good source of protein.

Shrimps and prawns do contain a lot of omega-3 fatty acids, but these fatty acids are good for you and help prevent against heart disease, circulatory diseases and many other types of illnesses.

It also contains high levels of vitamin B12, zinc, iodine, phosphorous, potassium, selenium and iron and have smaller quantities of calcium, magnesium and sodium.

Many of these vitamins are essential for healthy skin, bones and teeth.

 

So, why not eat siomai everyday! Ei?

kidding!

 

Cheers!

the food blog

Yey! First post!

I created this blog due to some sort of obsession with food. Truth is, I’m no expert in cooking, in eating yes! But I believe I have skills and a great palate. I love the fact that I enjoy my time in the kitchen more than in my own bed. Kitchen, oh! The joy of eating the stuff I’ve cooked myself brings great pleasure.

I always dream to be a chef and own a restaurant someday. My late father is a great cook. Mom, not really, but they both influenced me in having good sense of taste.

I have few cookbooks to guide me but I don’t really follow them. I even break rules in measurements and stuff to satisfy my palate. If it gets too salty or too spicy there's always a remedy. I'm only strict in preparing food.

I always enjoy myself inside the kitchen, so I'm inviting you to come and be pleased with some of my appetizing & flavorful food.

Cheers!