Easy cooking
I have to cook everyday over here (Shenzhen, China). It is such a challenge for me to think about what to cook for dinner just to make sure that the boys eat what I cook. I’ve to manage my time well too, for I can’t let them play by their own for too long while I prepare for dinner. So, what I normally do is to cook when hubby is back from work. Since that would be way past my boy’s dinner time (6 p.m.), what I do is to fully utilise the rice-cooker ‘cos I can’t afford to have burnt dinner just in case they fight while I cook.
How to fully utilise the rice-cooker? Easy! Just use it to steam food! I don’t need to worry that it’ll burn my dinner and at the same time making sure that it is well cook. There are 2 easy dishes that I like to prepare, steam pork ribs and mash potato.
For the steam pork ribs, all I need to do is to marinate the ribs way before hand, normally is during the boy’s nap time.
Just use some ginger, garlic, soy source and cooking wine. Leave it for 2 hours. Then put a steel stand in the rice cooker, enough water, put in the marinated ribs, switch to “rapid rice cook” and cook for 1 hour, wualah! yummy steam pork ribs which is tender enough even for the boys.
Another one is the mash potato. This is even easier, just peel the potato, cut into 1cm thick slices. Just pop them in when I’m cooking my rice.
When the rice is done, the potato would be soft enough to be smash with some butter, milk and salt to taste. Or I can use the powder form of ready made “Gravy Rich Chicken”. Easy huh!? Plus the boys love it!
Later on for dessert, what we had is strawberries! Yes, the local strawberries just cost RMB3.50 (around RM1.75) a packet which contain 15 ripped strawberries around 1 inch in size ! Cheap huh?
Just wash and cut them in half, serve with some sugar ‘cos the local one is not that sweet.
Just look at these two..
