Chicken and Veggie Soup with Bread Dumpling

Stuffed Zucchini Flower

Zucchini flowers are stuffed with prawn minced (with fish sauce, sesame oil, brown sugar)

Caesar Salad with Baby Cos Lettuce

Walnut Chicken Roll

Notes:

- Garlic, use lots of garlic in the walnut mix and chicken.

- For coating, dip in flour, then egg, then bread crumb.

- Frying might takes awhile, to let it cook through. Oil temperature shouldn't be very high, otherwise the outside will be burnt before the inside is cooked through.

Jemput Pisang (Malaysian style Deep Fried Mashed Banana Fritter)

Ingredients:
1. 2 gigantic over ripe banana
2. 1 cup flour
3. 0.5 cup sugar
4. 1 teaspoon baking powder
5. 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
6. Pinch of salt
7. Oil for deep fry

Steps:
1. Mash banana
2. Mix all ingredients in
3. Deep fry in medium hot oil till turn golden brown

Time needed:
- Takes about 5 minutes to mix everything together. Frying take awhile if multiple batches need to be made, or if the frying container is too small. Took me about 20 minutes to do this batch.

Notes:
- Amount of sugar can vary depending on taste and sweetness of banana used
- Amount of flour can vary depending on how floury/mushy you want the inside of the fritters to be. For 2 large banana, 1.5 cup of flour will make a floury batch.
- Add a dash of oil in the mixture helps the fritters to not absorb too much oil while frying
- Can use different kind of sugar (e.g. brown sugar, honey, etc) might change the taste slightly
- Can try use half plain flour, half rice flour. I read that rice flour helps with crispiness, haven't yet tried
- Don't over mash banana, some banana lumps in the mixture makes the fritters yummier
- Don't fry in over heated oil, the outside will burn before the inside is cooked
- As long as the mixture is not too liquid, it will fry.
- Use 2 spoons to scoop the mixture into the oil

Piggy and Porcupine Vegetarian Bun (素馅包子）

Recipe from 小白的熊猫 at http://pop.6park.com/life6/messages/77832.html. I substituted 荠菜 with snowpeas sprout because all frozen 荠菜 was sold out that day.

Braised Meat Balls, Braised Chicken Wings, Cabbage and Meatball Soup (红烧狮子头，红烧鸡翅，大白菜猪肉丸子汤）

Braised Meat Balls（红烧狮子头）aka Braised "lion head" is made out of minced pork. There are many different ways of making it, just like spaghetti meatballs, probably have hundreds of ways of making them. This is my version:

Ingredients: Minced Pork, fresh lotus root, egg, soy sauce, oyster sauce, white pepper, Chinese cooking wine, salt, corn flour, ginger, shallot, garlic, sesame oil, sugar.

Steps:
1. Mix 50% minced pork with 50% finely chopped fresh lotus root. Mix in little amount of salt, corn flour, ginger, shallot, garlic, sesame oil, soy sauce. The consistency of the mixture should not be too watery, otherwise the shape might not hold while frying.
2. Make the mixture into ball shape.
3. Deep fry in very hot oil. Very hot oil can help maintain the ball shape. When the color of the skin turned a light shade of golden, take them out. At this stage, the meatballs might be only half-cooked.
4. In a pot, add little oil, return the balls to the pot, add some water (or stock) to cover the meatballs, then soy sauce, sugar, oyster sauce, cooking wine. Let it simmer till the water level is low.
5. Mix in corn flour+water mixture to thicken the sauce. Serve.