Stir-fried Yau Mak Tam with Dace and Preserved Black Beans

One thing I like to do is mimic dishes that I have eaten in restaurants or stalls which I really like. More so if they are easy to cook type of dishes which do not require a host of ingredients.

My uncle who lives in Ipoh (a town in the northern part of Malaysia) loves to go to this restaurant called Man Choong which serves quite good Chinese dishes. He is a regular there so we get good serving size each time we dine there.

One of their vege dishes attracted my attention sometime back and I so wanted to do that at home but do not have the ingredients. So, one day I went to get a can of dace with preserved black beans to just try out. I have stopped eating canned dace for a while ever since the scare of mercury and was banned but it has been some time now and I think the manufacturers already got those contaminted ones removed.

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Ingredients

• 300g Yau Mak Tam (Romaine Lettuce)


• 1/2 can Dace with preserved black beans


• Soy sauce for taste

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Methods

1. Wash and dried the yau mak tam.


2. In a wok, heat up some oil (I used the oild from the can of dace) and pour in half a can of dace and stir fry for a minute.


3. Toss in the yau-mak-tam and stir till well mix.


4. When the yau-mak-tam starting to look limpy, sprinkle some soy sauce and give a quick stir before dishing up.

Baked Pasta on Bread

It has been a long time since I make any baked snacks at home. We have just too many packets of cookies and other snacks lying around the house waiting to be finished up. Darrius spent half the day in school so he skipped one snack time at home. When he returned, his lunch will filled him up till dinner time and that means, no more snacking time in those 5 days of the week!

I actually made these simple snack some time back when I was trying to find ways to make something interesting to munch...

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Ingredients

• 100g Pasta (I used some characters pasta)


• 6 slices of Bread (cut into star shape)


• Pasta sauce (I used the Leggo's Pasta Bake sauce)


• Cheese bits


• Ham bits

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Methods

1. In a medium sauce pan, boil the pasta with some salt. Drained and leave to cool down.


2. Cut the bread slices into star shapes using a cookie cutter and placed them into muffin tins with the 5 edges  sticking out.


3. In the centre of the bread, put a dullop of pasta sauce and some cooked pasta on it before dropping another dullop onto the pasta.


4. Before sending the tray into the oven, sprinkle with some cheese and ham bits on the top. Bake at 200°C for about 20 minutes or till the edges of the bread turned brownish.