Ever since the mil went to Hong Kong, I have been spending quite a bit of time cooking. I cook dinner from Monday through Friday. On some days, I cook twice a day, like today. I now have a pot of porridge bubbling in the rice cooker and it will be ready just on time when Drama Queen and Cass come back from school in a bit. Tonight I will be cooking dinner with 3 dishes – a fried fish, veggie and a braised potato with tomatoes and minced meat. I wish we could afford to hire a cook so that I don’t have to spend so much time cooking!
Fortunately, I still have Drama Queen to help me. Thank God she loves cooking and baking and does not mind doing laborious stuff like peeling garlic and onions! She even washes the dirty dishes, which is my top most dreaded chore.
Here’s Drama Queen helping to peel garlic for my tau yew bak…
Braised pork belly with soy sauce is one of the easiest dish to whip up that kids and adults will enjoy. Peeling garlic aside, it is an otherwise sweat-free dish to prepare with no oil splatter. The pork belly can be replaced with chicken drumsticks. Some people add tofu, puffed tofu and dried mushrooms.
Ingredients:
1 Pork belly
2 Star anise – I used about 10 pieces
3 Some pepper corn – just half a handful or about 1 tablespoon.
4 Garlic – I used 1 whole bulb
5 Soy sauce – I used organic shoyu
6 Dark sauce – I only used a dollop. You can substitute it with blackstrap molasses as it tastes very similar to dark sauce and is a much healthier alternative. I ran out of blackstrap molasses, thus used dark sauce
7 Filtered water
8 1 tablespoon of organic brown sugar
9 Eggs
* adjust the amount of seasoning yourself, that’s what I always do. I never really follow recipes.
Method
Boil water in pot.
Once water boils, put all the ingredients into the pot and simmer in medium heat for about 1.5 hours.
Boil the eggs and peel off shell. Dump eggs into the pot to simmer together.
Plate up and enjoy!
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