My first attempt at making pineapple jam.

2 pineapple in a food processor
1 tsp cloves
1 stick cinnamon stick
pinch of salt.

Blend until quite fine.

I had to cook it for at least 2 -3 hours stirring constantly so it doesn't stick and burn on the bottom.

Pork Chop over Rice

I tried making this similar to the one I had at one of our local restaurant. That was many years ago and trying to get the same taste is almost impossible and back then it was served over fried rice. The chop is tenderized marinated and then deep fried.

Pork Tenderloin with Tomatoes and Sugar Peas

Here it goes

Pork tenderloin sliced and marinated with light soya sauce and black pepper

2 medium size tomatoes cut into wedges

Sugar peas washed and remove the ends

2 cloves garlic and 2 shallot minced.

1 1/2 Tb oyster sauce

1 tsp cornstarch

1/4 cup water

Coat tenderloin with some cornstarch. Heat pan and fry the tenderloin slices until it is cooked and removed from the pan. Stir in minced garlic and shallots sautee for a few seconds then add in the vegetables. Stir for a 2-3 minutes then add in some water. Note: water will depend on the liquid from the tomatoes as well. You can reduce if you like. Let it simmer then stir in the cooked meat when you are ready to scoop it up over each individual rice plate.

Fried Bee Hoon - Rice Vermicilli

Last Friday I invited two of my younger sisters to come over for chicken tonic (chicken with a bowl of minced ginger, some dried chinese dates cooked with Martini Rossi and Glutinuous Rice wine. My son Marcus and two nieces didn't care for it so they had this simple rice vermicilli instead.

Wedding cake

Finally I am able to do a wedding cake. The bottom layer is banana cake with peanut butter and chocolate from Marcel Desaulniers "Death by Chocolate Cakes and the top cake is a glace fruit cake from "The Essential Guide to Cake Decorating" substitute sweet sherry with pear liqueur. Normally I prefer it with rum. On a personal note I didn't care for the glace fruit cake recipe.

Chiew Yim Crab

I made this for CNY dinner. It is with red and green bell pepper. Since my son Marcus doesn't like it spicy I omitted chillies.

Koh Lo Mein

Earlier in the day I made some char siew from home instead of store bought. I have ground pork, char siew slices, choy sum, and some wonton individually pack in wax brown paper. Note: I like extra gravy on the ground pork.

Improvised - Pickeled Green Chillies from Kuali

300 g green chillies

1/2 cup vinegar

1 cup boiled water, cooled

1 Tb salt

5 Tb granulated sugar/castor sugar or more depending on how sweet you want the chillies to be.

Wash and drain chillies well in a plastic sieve or colander.

Cut chillies into thin round slices and put it one side for later.

Pour warm water over the sliced chillies. Drain well and place chillies on absorbent kitchen paper. Place the sliced chillies in a glass jar.

Mix vinegar, water, salt, sugar, until sugar dissolved. Pour mixture into the jar to picke the chillies. Note: the chillies will be ready the next day and refrigerate.