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.