Cream of Mushroom Soup

Recipe from noobcook (tweeked)
Ingredients

1. 250g Portobello Mushroom
2. 250g White Button Mushroom
3. 800ml of vegetable/mushroom stock
4. 1 tbsp plain flour
5. 1/2 onion, chopped into small pieces
6. 2 cloves of garlic, chopped into small pieces
7. 50ml white wine
8. 150ml thickened cream
9. Small slice of butter (just enough to fry the onions and garlic)
10. Parsley (to garnish)
11. Salt and black pepper (optional)

Directions

1. Heat up butter and add in onions and garlic. Fry till onions turn soft.
2. Add 1 tbsp of plain flour and fry for one minute.
3. Add stock.
4. Add in all the mushrooms and bring them to a boil.
5. Simmer for 15 minutes.
6. Remove some mushrooms and chop them into small pieces.
7. Wait till the soup cools and process them in a blender.
8. Pour the soup back into the saucepan and stir in wine and cream.
9. Add in salt and pepper to taste.
10. Garnish with parsley and a swirls of cream.

I'll probably not add any white wine the next round. 

White Fungus Soup

Bought a premix spice bag from Fairprice and I wanted something easy to cook so I made this soup. I cheated and didn't add any chicken with bones inside so I added a chicken stock cube.
I made my own chicken balls but you can get the ready made ones.

Ingredients

1. 10g white fungus (soak in hot water)
2. 1 canned button mushrooms
3. 200g chicken balls 
4. Premix spice bag
5. 1 tbsp wolfberries
6. 1 cube chicken stock
7. 1.5l of water
8. 1 tbsp DOM liquor.

Directions
Add all the ingredients except for Dom into pot and simmer for 1 hour. Stir in DOM after that.

Apple Pork Ribs Soup

Apple Pork Ribs Soup

Came across this recipe some time back but only tried this out today. It's a refreshing soup and the onions tasted nice too. (I hardly eat onions!)

Great for people who like sweet stuff.

This isn't really my cup of tea as I don't really like my soup to taste this sweet.

Ingredients

1. 4 red apples
2. 1 onion (cut into chunks)
3. 200-300g spare ribs
4. 6 red dates
5. handful of gou ju zi
6. Salt(optional)

Instructions

1. Blanch the spare ribs.
2. Pour 1.5l of water into the pot and throw all the other stuffs inside. 
3. Bring to a boil and simmer for 2 hours.

Old Cucumber Soup

Old Cucumber Soup
I didn't know what the hell was old cucumber and how it tasted like so I decide to boil this instead of the usual ABC soup.

recipe from noobcook but I tweeked the recipe a little. 

I like my soup to be boiled longer.

Ingredients

(Serves 3)

1. One small Chinese old cucumber
2. 1.5 litres of water
3. 10 red dates
4. 6 dried scallops
5. 200g pork ribs
6. 1 sweet corn, cut to small pieces
7. 1 medium carrot, peeled and cut
8. Salt

Directions

1. Scrub the skin of the old cucumber clean and cut it in half, length-wise. Scoop out the seeds using a spoon. Cut into small pieces.
2. In a small pot, blanch the pork ribs in boiling water for about 5 minutes. Drain and set aside.
3. In a pot, add all the ingredients and simmer the soup over low heat for about 2 hours. Season with salt if desired.

Notes:

1. The reason for leaving the skin on is to prevent the flesh from turning mushy after cooking.
2. Some people like to consume the seeds so if you do, then you don’t have to scoop them out.

First attempt

My first attempt in whipping up 3 dishes and a soup.
Am mad tired after that but I am bored of my granny's steamboat style way of cooking. She cooks that every single day since 2 years ago. 

The tofu looks quite disappointing here but mum thought that the soup and the tofu tasted the best of all the dishes.
I liked the cashew chicken though.



Braised brocolli with scallops

Cashew Chicken

Steamed tofu

Old Cucumber Soup