Home cooked food is the best!

After all the delicious goodies for the past few days, I decided to cook a simple meal that takes only an hour of preparation and cooking time. 1 meat, 1 vegetable and 1 soup.

5 spices spare ribs













Ingredients

500g pork spareribs
2 tbs 5 spice powder
2 ts black soya sauce
2 ts light soya sauce
half large onion-chop into bite size
2 cloves of garlic-chop finely
1 ts salt
1 pinch pepper
1 tbs honey
2 tbs water

Procedure

1) Marinade all the ingredients together in a zip lock bag for at least 2 hrs. Best if overnight. Turn the bag occasionally.
2) Place some cooking oil in a pan and stir fry with the sauce till cooked for about 10 mins. or add water and simmer in a pot for at least 2 hours till the meat is soft. (have yet to try this method)


Eggplant with minced meat











Ingredients
2 medium size eggplants - chopped to bite size
200g minced pork
1 tbs mirin
1 tbs sake
1 clove garlic - chopped finely
half tbs dark soya sauce
1 tbs light soya sauce
200ml chicken stock

Procedure

1) Place oil in pot. Saute the garlic for 1 min and add in the eggplants. Stir well.
2) Add in chicken stock and bring to boil. Once its boiling, bring down to simmer and add all the rest of the ingredient in. Pork will be added last once the eggplants are soft.
3) Add the minced pork and ready to serve when pork is cooked.
4) Mix some flour with water and add into the dish if you prefer a thicker stock.

Salmon belly tofu soup










Ingredient
200g salmon belly - sliced to small cubes
200g tofu - sliced to small cubes
500ml dashi stock
25g miso paste
10ml sake

Procedure
1) Just simply add everything together and boil. Do not over cook the salmon. Always put the salmon last and monitor it. Garnish.