Angled beans fried with eggs

Chop the angled beans to small pieces
Smash and chop garlic to pieces before frying
Add in beaten eggs and fry with garlic before adding in the angled beans.

Add salt and msg (if necessary) to taste.

Soaked vegetable & anchovies

Soaked vegetables will usually turn a bit salty and sour.
It is best if fried with anchovies to add in additional taste.

Firstly wash clean the soaked vegetables and chop to small pieces.

Pour in bits of cooking oil into the wok with medium fire.
Fry a small piece of garlic,
add in the soaked vegetables
and anchovies with low medium fire.

Must constantly stir the anchovies and the vegetables or else the anchovies will not be balanced cooked, some are crispy while others are not.

It is the best dish to eat with porridge.

Something bitter

Put in few slices of pig bones
Add in sliced bitter gourds
Add in a small clove of garlic
Two small bowls of water
Boil for 20-25 minutes and serve with bits of salt to taste.

This is a very easy to prepare soup and also  very healthy for our bodies.

(Pig bones can be alternatively be replaced by anchovies.)

Poor man's food

Some one told me, he used to have this food ever since young.  His family, esp. his parents used to buy this type of "gu cai" and "beansprouts" as they were cheap in the old days.

Now, I would take this type of dish as something very healthy.  To make it taste better, I add in the "baby corns" sliced to small pieces.

Put in a bit of cooking oil, add in minced garlic
Put in the "gu cai" and beansprouts and baby corns.

Add in some salt to taste.  It is extremely nice.


(all pics will be uploaded soon.)

"Tepus" Local Bidayuh word

The Bidayuhs call it "Tepus".  I search through the net, it is a ginger family plant found in the wild.

The Tepus are sliced off its skin and then cut to small cubes.  It got a type of sap which will bring thread forms.  But dont worry, just fry the tepus with garlic, minced meat or anchovies.

It is a very tasty vegetable from the wild. No chemicals at all.  Good for health.

Colocasia stalks

Not all colocasia stalks can be eaten.  Some are used for feeding pigs.

But only this type is edible by humans as the sap are not causing lips allergy.

The colocasia stalks are peeled off its skin, cut to small pieces.

Fry a small garlic and add archovies if you wish
and put in the coloocasia stalks with medium fire to low fire.

Before serving add in bits of salt or msg as you wish but NEVER ever add in water because
the stalks contains much water.

Garlic paste

Chop garlic to pieces
Add in soya sauce
Add in vinegar.
Alternatively, use lime, or fremented red wine from rice.

This sauce can be used to dip fried chicken or fried kuih.

Yummy but do have some odours..

Gourd cooked with anchovies

Gourds come in different shapes.  Some are long and thin, some are bottle necks.  Some are oval and big and etc.
The one I chopped or cut to small pieces belong to the long and thin type.

Some how, I didnt cook it within the time frame that the seeds inside turned old but no harm I still want to cook it.

Cut the gourd to pieces.

Chop garlic to small pieces and fry with anchovies.
Put in the gourd and stir well until cooked.
Serve with some salt added.

(Our family usually do not use msg to add as taste. So it is your option.)

Chicken soup with some herbs

Chop the whole chicken or half of it to pieces.
Put in some goji berries
Some slices of ginger.
Some small pieces of ginseng tops. (at the right corner side of the picture.)  (This type of ginseng is "Pau Seng" - not a hot type)

Wild Fern with prawn paste

This type of wild fern is called "Paku Pakis" locally.  They are sold in bundles and usually the upper parts are softer and to be plucked and if the paku is big, it has to be sliced to two or more pieces.
They are picked from the wild and it does not mean any wild jungles, one can find such ferns.
This type of fern likes to inhibit on moist ground.
Of course, in my own backyard, I have planted many too as I got the roots from the other ground and propagate here. It is a very healthy type of fern and no chemicals is needed to spray on such fern.  Coupled the sap of the fern does have lots of medicinal value to our bodies.
In restaurants, it is not a cheap dish.

Set medium fire over the wok
Fried the smashed garlic and ginger  with cooking oil
Also fried the prawn paste or belacan (a small cube)
After that, put in the paku and stir well for the water from the fern to be drained out
and at the same time mix with the prawn paste which will taste so nice.

Add bits of salt and msg if necessary before serving.

Making rice dumplings

It was a tedious job but easy way to eat.

Chop the leaves, cut the both tips of the bamboo leaves, boil  them.

Fillings are - Dried mushrooms to be soaked for a few hours and cut to small pieces.
Pork, onions fried.  Add in 5 spices, salt and pepper powder. (Some times, can add in dried prawns and
nuts.)

Glutinous rice to be soaked too for some 20 minutes.  And have them fried lightly and mixed well with 5 spices powder.

When wrapping up, fill the glutinous rice and the fillings.

Boil the water added with salt.

Then put in the rice dumplings under low fire for about 40 minutes and the rice dumplings are ready for serving.

Roasted chicken

Whole chicken or half only.
Season the chicken with flavoured powder or just salt.
Over the oven roaster, put in some tumeric leaves.
(Put a stand in the oven roaster, above it put a container to collect the oil from the roasted chicken
-to avoid the oven roaster in a dirty mess.)
a tray over the container and the tumeric leaves are laid on the tray.
The chicken (meat ) is placed on the tray.

Set the oven roaster to 200C and set the timer to 40 minutes.

When the chicken is fully roasted, it turns to brown and crispy on the skin.
Cut the chicken using the Amway Scissors(kitchen scissors) and serve hot.


Note: This type of chicken is better as it is not so oily!

Yummy!

Bitter gourd cooked with eggs

Cut the bittergourd to small slices.

Beat a few eggs.
Fry the garlic and  the eggs.

Put in the thinly sliced bitter gourds.

Over the medium fire, cook the bitter gourd with the eggs for about 20 minutes

and add in a pinch of salt before serving. 

Carrot soup

Take one big carrot and slice off the skin.
Boil the pig bones with carrot cut in cube forms.
Boil for 1/2 hour and serve with a pinch of salt added.

Fried Rice

A very simple one, add some quick noodles' fried onions to fry the rice.

Beancurd (Tofu) fried with eggs

Fried shallot and garlic
Add in beated eggs (2-3) up to your like.
Add in beancurd n slightly fried them.

Serve with some soya sauce added be it light or dark sauce.

Mixed Soup

Few slices of salted vegetable from Sichuan
Few slices of bamboo shoots
Carrots, baby corn, fresh green vegetables,
some tomatoes
Add some slices of chicken meat
Some slices of fish cake

Kangkong (Water spinach) fried with salted fish

Fried some garlic and slices of fish meat (shark meat)
and add in the kangkong.
While stirring the mix, I cut the kangkong using the Amway Kitchen Scissors.

Add pinch of salt to taste and serve hot.

Wild Fern + Chinese Wine

This type of fern is found in Borneo Island.  It is widely grown in the jungle.  It is easily fetched too.

Take the shoots of such ferns and wash clean. 
Cut a few slices of ginger
Fried the ginger and add in the fern.
Add some salt to taste and add in chinese wine.
Serve hot.  

Pomelo's skin

After eating the pomelo, we used to dry this type of skin for medicinal purposes or make into drinks.

At times, when the time permit, we make tea with few slices of dried pomelo skin or fresh pomelo skin.  So refreshing and it can obsorb much fats from our body.

If a person has stomach ache, pomelo tea is highly recommended before seeking doctor's help.  This type of tea will alleviate much pain and suffering. This is a recipe from ancient China.

Fried salted fish

Living remote in the village or kampung in Borneo, we used to have this type of quick food to be added to our meal.  It is the salted fish.  Sometimes, small salted fish, sometimes fish meat like the shark fish.

*** It's salty but add a good ingredients to our meals for generations.

Mixed vegetables wrapped in beancurd skin

In Chinese, it is called "lap Cheong" but it is usually with meat added.  For me, I rediscovered it in a different way as eating too much meat may not be as good to our body as to eating more vegetables.

Here, I cut different types of vegetables like:
long beans, colocasia, reddish, bamboo shoots and young corns
mixed with  a small cup of wheat starch flour

2 tablespoons' full of rice powder,
a few pinches of salt,
sprinkled some  pepper powder (home made white pepper berries.)

After mixing well, I wrap up the stuff with the beancurd skin which were properly cut in length and width.
Pour the cooking oil into the wok (Queen wok from Amway) and boil the cooking oil using low medium fire.           
Put in the wrapped stuff and fried till golden brown.
Take the fried "lap cheong" on the tray at the side of the wok to drain the cooking oil out.
Later, put to serve cut them  using the cooking scissors (Amway)
and serve with Thai chilli sauce or any chilli sauce that is deem fit.

Yummy.. for tonight's dinner.  Till then...


*** The taste is wonderful as the baby corn gives out sweety taste!




***  Other utensils used.