Chinese claypot chicken rice is best eaten on a cold and rainy day. The aroma wafting up my nostril from the stall is simply too hard for me to resist. It’s one of the best tasting claypot chicken rice stalls around my area. We do have a few but i prefer the one here at Ding Hao Foodcourt. We do go there ever so often.
The only thing i dont like about the stall is the man cooking the claypot chicken rice. I’m here to give him business and yet, he never even smile. Oh, wateva. I’m here to eat, not to look at his face, lol. Hubby doesnt like it very much as he says it’s carcinogenic food. Yeah, i know. But i only ever eat claypot chicken rice like once or twice a year. Wont send me to hell so soon.h
So, what’s in the chinese claypot? We get rice, of course. A few pieces of chicken thigh, chinese pork sausage and a tiny piece of salted kurau fish. Can you see it? It’s right in the middle of the claypot, a little bit to the right with the blackish bit resting on a piece of chicken, above the chinese sausage. Am i being clear here? That’s the secret ingredient that’s making the claypot chicken rice so fragrant.
Do you like to eat claypot chicken rice? I have a good claypot chicken rice recipe. Let me go dig out my MIL’s recipe book and ask her how to make it when she wakes up. Will post the claypot chicken recipe up later on. Meanwhile, go drool over the picture of my yummilicious claypot chicken rice first, ya. Can you smell it yet? Oh, go ahead and hate me :p
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November 28, 2008 - 6:44 pm
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Ever heard of The Gingerbread Man story? It’s about the Gingerbread Man who ran away as soon as the oven door is opened and in the end, got eaten by a fox. I no longer have the story book but if i see it at the bookstore one day, i will buy it back and read it to my kids as they munch on the Gingerbread Man cookies that i bake. I enjoyed the book very much when i was little.
And here’s my Gingerbread Man Cookie Recipe:
Ingredients:
(A)
60 g butter
100g sugar
pinch of salt
(B )
1 egg
(C)
170g golden syrup/honey
(D)
460g flour
2tsp ginger powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
1tsp Baking soda
Method:
1) Mix (A) till well combined. Add in (B) and cream till smooth.
2) Add in (C), then (D) and mix till well blended.
3) Rest the mixture for 15 minutes. Roll it out to a thickness of around 3mm and cut it using a Gingerbread Man cookie cutter.
5) Bake at 180 deg Celcius for 15 minutes.
6) Once cooled, decorate with royal icing.
Royal icing recipe:
180g icing sugar
1 egg white
Method:
Mix icing sugar and egg white till smooth and of spreading consistency. For a softer icing, use an extra egg white. For stiffer icing, add extra icing sugar.
Hope you like my Gingerbread Man Cookie recipe. It’s a great Christmas cookie recipe. If you dont have a Gingerbread Man cookie cutter, you can get it here:
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November 27, 2008 - 9:27 pm
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Isnt this Gingerbread House beautiful. I went to Tesco Station 18 this evening and saw this right outside King’s Bakery. I didnt go to King’s to inquire, but my guess is they sponsored this Gingerbread House for Christmas. I tried to get a nice pic of this Gingerbread House with King’s in the background without the kid. Too bad, he just wont budge. Not my kid, k. Mine has gone to his Grandma’s, who lives nearby.
Seeing this Gingerbread House makes me want to make my kids some Gingerbreadman cookies. When was the last time you baked Gingerbreadman cookies for your kids? I have a good Gingerbreadman Cookies recipe to share. You can bake it with your toaster oven too. I bake all my cookies using a toaster oven. You can check out my post on how to bake cookies with toaster oven here. Here’s my Gingerbreadman Cookies recipe. Make some for your kids this weekend, k. I gotta go watch The Gem Of Life online and When Easterly Showers Fall On The Sunny West streaming now.
Christmas is less than a month away. It would be nice to have a Gingerbread House as part of your Christmas decoration. If you havent bought yours, you can get it here:
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November 27, 2008 - 8:23 pm
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Hubby got back from KL very late last night. Thus, he woke up quite late and didnt have munch at home. After sending Malcolm to school, we went to Jaya Jusco to buy some grocery items. Gordon has been bugging me to take him to McDonald’s since last week. Well, that’s because he remembered we didnt have ice-cream there last week. That kid, he has a good memory.
Anyway, hubby said he wanted to get him the Madagascar 2 Happy Meal set as it had some toy that can errrr “talk” when it’s shaken, lol. In the end, we bought Gordon a Happy Meal set with Alex the Lion, and that fler still insists on his ice-cream after that. And no, we didnt eat anything there as we’ve always felt McD’s food is a real rip-off. I only go there for the ice-cream.
As usual, we ended up having a bite at Black Canyon Coffee… AGAIN, lol. This is what we ordered for Gordon. This is what i call a real meal. A plate of rice with lots of vegetables and a large piece of fish deep-fried with lots of sesame seeds. Gordon loves it. Both hubby and i ordered a bowl of Thai Green Curry with plain rice to go with it. Yummy.
I’m going to watch The Gem Of Life 26 now. When Easterly Showers Fall On The Sunny West 21 is also on tonight. This series is going to end soon. No idea what’s going to replace it. Glad also cos i dont really enjoy it. The Gem Of Life will drag right up till next February. Oh, wateva. Gotta go now. Need my daily TVB drama fix, lol.
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November 24, 2008 - 8:48 pm
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These few days, my neighbor saw rats scurrying around her kitchen. Dont be alarmed. This is very common where we live. There is nothing much that we can do to prevent rats from entering the house since there are so many places that they can do so from. The only reason they are here is to look for food. What i can do to prevent the rats from coming back is to make sure that there are no food inside the kitchen for them.
My MIL bought some containers to keep all her onions and garlic. She used to keep all her potatoes on a rack until the rats ate some of it. No, rats dont like potatoes, but they will bite into anything to see if it’s edible or not. Onions, garlic and ginger are not spared, believe you me. Our neighbor made a homemade glue rat trap once and says it’s very effective and never fails to catch all the rats in her house.
Geee… i’m familiar with homemade glue rat traps. So, how to get rid of rats in the kitchen? If hubby sees rats around the house, he will buy rat glue from the hardware shop, paste them onto boards and place them around the kitchen. Sometimes, we can catch up to three rats on a single board. I hate the smell of those homemade glue rat traps. They stink, ewwwww. But those glue rat traps work like a charm.
We no longer make our own rat glue traps nowadays. We buy glue rat traps to catch rats around the house. There are quite a few brands available and take this Catchmaster glue rat trap for example. It can even catch snakes!!! If you have rats around the house and you want to catch them, you go give the Catchmaster glue rat trap a try. Dont let those rats run about your kitchen destroying all your food. Good luck.
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November 24, 2008 - 3:08 pm
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