Bone Broth Recipe

Making your own bone broth from home can take many hours. Yesterday I slow boil the pork bone for 10 hours and managed to get rich creamy bone broth. I used pork bone only. This broth can be used as Ramen soup base ( refer to the link here for the recipe )

I like to have the stock ready for stir fried vegetables or as a soup base for any noodles. This bone broth is rich creamy after low rolling boil for 10 hours. So worth it, as this broth is rich in collagen and calcium and other rich nutrients. 

after 10 hours, this is how it looks like

rich creamy bone broth

To read up on how to make this bone broth from scratch , check out the link here for more info on bone broth for ramen soup base from scratch.

Enjoy!

CNY Eve's Dishes That I Cooked

I managed to whipped up 4 dishes for our CNY Eve's dinner. I am super happy with all the dishes. I added to new dishes that was Steamed Fresh Abalone and Omanthus Egg Omelette With Japanese Imitation Shark Fin . They both turned out the best dishes. I had so much joy trying out new dishes and they will be listed in my dinner list for sure.

1st dish - Braised Sour Spicy Trotters

2nd Dish - Omanthus Egg Omelette withJ Japanese Imitation Shark Fin

3rd Dish - Steamed Fresh Abalone with Sizzled Soy Sauce Oil and Crispy Garlic

Green Onions and chilli garnishing

Close up of the Steamed Fresh Abalone

4th Dish -  Vegetarian Dish

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR - Year if the Rabbit. May the year brings Good Health Joy and Prosperity to all.

Red Bean Sweet Soup With Matcha Glutinous Rice Balls

It has been our family tradition to have sweet dessert served on the first day of Chinese New Year. This year is Rabbit Year. Wishing everyone a blessed CNY. May the Rabbit Year brings good health, joy and Wealth to all of us. 

I cooked a small pot of Red Bean Sweet Soup and added Matcha Glutinous Rice Balls filled with Peanut Butter. Great combo and a great start to a good year.

I used Niko Neko matcha powder. So fragrant. Great for ice cream too. 

I added dried longan to the red bean sweet soup for extra texture

The Matcha Glutinous balls are filled with Peanut butter...

for easy handling, lightly dab the hand with water

lovely green matcha Glutinous Rice dough

Ingredients for the matcha Glutinous Rice Dough

100 gm Glutinous Rice flour

1/2tbsp matcha powder

60 gm or slightly more hot water

Fillings

Skippy Peanut Butter

Divide dough into 15 balls each weighing 11 gm. Fill with peanut butter or anything of your your choice. 

Tip: for easy handling...lightly wet the hand when wrapping the balls. And it also gives the ball a smooth surface.

Enjoy!

Ribbon Cookies

Ribbon Cookies ...my all time favourite cookies. I watch a you tube video showing how it was done. I knew I had to jump onboard and join my other friends in making CNY cookies. It is very to make, even a first timer like me can make it. The texture is fluffy and yet crunchy. Perfect sweetness, not overly sweet. A keeper for sure. I am glad I gave it a try. You can try too. I have the link posted at the end of the page for your reference. 

I enjoy the folding and shaping of the cookies

best to rest the dough for at least 2 hrs for easy shaping

Ingredients

200 gm all purpose flour

18 gm vegetable oil

30gm sugar

5 gm salt

1egg yolk

70 gm water

Refer Video link for the method