Over the past one week, I’ve been pigging in and out quite a bit. Here are just some of the grub that I ate, bought and cooked :
Ribeye steak (well done) that I cooked with stir-fried brocolli and french beans.
Ribeye steak (medium well) that the hubs cooked, on a bed of mashed potatoes, black pepper sauce and boiled brocolli. His food presentation sure beats mine hands down. My hubs is really fastidious when it comes to food presentation. Me, I just chomp down whatever is cooked. No luxury time for nice food presentation when you have 3 kids to mind.
Pandan snow skin mooncake with lotus paste and egg yolk from Shangri-La Hotel. Nice! Love the super soft pandan flavored skin. Price is even nicer!Â
Strawberry flavored snow skin mooncake with lotus paste and cheese from Shangri-La Hotel. Too sweet for my liking.
This is ‘sar keong’ (in Cantonese) or cekur (in Malay). It is a type of root/herb from the ginger family and is also known as sand ginger. It is really aromatic. They are used regularly in Nyonya recipes. The leaves are finely shredded and commonly used in popular Nyonya dishes such as nasi ulam (Nyonya rice salad) and perut ikan (pickled fish stomach, vegetables and herbs curry). My mum planted this in her garden and brought some for me when she came to KL from Ipoh to visit me early this week.
And this is the plate of chicken which I cooked with the shredded ‘sar keong’ roots and leaves. This is one of my favorite dishes.  My dad cooks the tastiest ‘sar keong’ chicken. I still can’t pick up his fine culinary skill and no matter how many times I had cooked this dish, it can never taste as good as my dad’s.
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Yummy… can you cook for me???
yummy! can i check with you how your hubby cook the steak? pan fried or grill?
they look so yummy!
Rachel’s mom… we pan fried the steak. The ribeye steak that my hubby bought (from Lee’s Frozen) was really tender and juicy. Everyone agreed that they taste better than the steak from Victoria Station and cost way cheaper too!
I like shangrila mooncake. Too bad, I cant get it now!!! đ
SLURPS!!! It has been a while since I had a good piece of steak, cos I only eat steak medium well and I couldn’t do that when I was pregnant. The mashed potatoes look really good!! Did you or your hubs make them?
the steaks look *drool*
the steak look so tasty and on the bed of mashed potatoes!! YUMMY!!!!! Now u make me hungry!
strawberry flavored snow skin moon cake? sound interesting!
Yr turmeric chicken was a success, hubs likes it very much, now I wanna try your cekur chicken. How do you cook it ? Can you share with me the ingredients ?
Paik Ling… the mashed potatoes are from his shop – powdered ones. Where got time to make from scratch? Hehe….
Coffeesncookies… I’m glad ur hubs likes it. My fussy hubs likes it too. The way you shd cook the sand ginger or sar keong chicken is almost the same way as you would turmeric chicken.
First marinate the chicken with some soy sauce and, pepper.
Chop up some small onions (about a handful), chop / shred the sar keong roots and leaves and fry everything together until fragrant. Then pan fry the chicken for about 15-20 minutes until brown or fragrant. If you want, you can add some dark sauce for coloring and taste.
Then add some water and cover the wok and let the chicken simmer for about 15 minutes.
Once the chicken is ready, sprinkle some freshly shredded sand ginger leaves on top. This will bring out the aromatic flavor of the sand ginger leaves to the chicken when you bite on it!
Remember to add more sand ginger and onions so that the chicken will be really aromatic.
Good luck with it!