Karaage Chicken for the kids

Instead of making Sushi and Temaki like we usually do, we made some Tori Karaage (Japanese Fried Chicken) because I have 2 deboned chicken thighs, sitting in my freezer.

Ingredients

• 2 pieces deboned chicken thighs (cut into small pieces/cubes, so it is easy for kids)
• some ginger juice (extract from pounded ginger)
• 2 tablespoon soy sauce
• dash of pepper and sugar (I omit this)
• 1/2 teaspoon sake (I do not have sake at home, so I used Chinese Wine instead)
• few drops sesame oil
• Corn starch to coat the chicken
• Oil for frying

Method

1. Best to marinate chicken cubes overnight
2. To dust with corn flour, place marinated chicken cubes (a little batch at one time) into a plastic bag that contains flour. Reason is so I do not have to use so much flour at one time just in case of wastage
3. Shake the mixture so that chicken cubes and evenly. Lightly dust off before frying.
4. Fry on a pan on medium heat (I cut the cubes very small, so they cook real fast)
5. Serve with salad, some mayonaise and a cut of lemon if you like

**Some tips to share

• You might wanna deep-fry twice so that the chicken pieces stay crunchy for longer time. How to do that? Just fry as normal, and after complete frying all the chicken, put it through inside wok and give it a rinse with hot oil.
• Instead of using corn flour, another alternative is to use self-raising flour (we use this a lot at home for all our deep fried because its very crunchy!) or potato-starch flour.
• Since I am cooking for the kids, I usually have my chicken thighs deboned before steam or frying. We keep and freeze the bones for our soup in future.

Original Karaage Premix -soft type

But if you are lazy to pound and squeeze the ginger extract (which you should not omit because it would makes a big difference), a good option is to get the Soft Karaage Premix. Do take note that there are 2 types of Karaage Premix, and the one I am using is the soft batter type, in original flavour (the sales girl from Shojikiya told me Pasta Zanmai outlet is using the same one).

Do note that the above tips are solely based on my personal experience and this post is written not related to any affiliate marketing.

Came across this recipe while I was at the hair saloon the other day. It was very easy and even hubby loves it!

Ingredients

• Eggs
• Dash of salt and pepper
• Meat floss (from organic shop)
• Mayonaise (used Kewpie)
• Tomato or Chilli Sauce (optional)

Method

1. Pan fry beaten egg to make a thin layer
2. Leave the egg layers to cool
3. Apply the ingredients and roll them up
4. Cut and serve

* Pretty easy eh?

I stumble upon this recipe on my hair saloon the other day. It looks simple and since we have some meat floss at home, I tried making this.

Ingredients

• Egg
• Mayonaise
• Meat Floss
• Tomato or Chilli Sauce (Optional)

Method

1. Pan fry egg into one big pieces
2. Spread some mayonaise, tomato sauce (or chilli sauce if you like) on it
3. Apply some meat floss all over and roll them up
4. Cut them before serving

Verdict:

My kids love it and even hubby commented this is good. These egg rolls would look pretty if you serve them in your kids bento.  Just add a nice sticker where you can print from inventory labels and it would add a lot color to your bento box

With the boys, I am very much more lenient. They eat whenever they want, but if they are not hungry during feeding time, I will put aside their food until they get hungry again. I find that this way, they eat very much better and we are all happier too!

Not being blessed with a fair skin like my peers and both my brothers, I had always wanted to look fair when I was young. I applied lots of baby powder on my face, take an umbrella whenever I go under the sun when I was a teenager. Unfortunately nothing works for me.

When I got pregnant with QQ, my mum advised me to drink the Ensure Milk from Abbott (she even bought it for me). It is highly nutritious and expensive soy milk (even suitable for be used as meal replacement). A tin of 1000g cost about RM55. My mum and her friends who drank this milk during their pregnancy swears by it (true enough my youngest brother is the fairest among us, and with a high nose bone, he look very “ang-mor” too :p)

However not everyone can tolerate milk, what’s more soy taste. Unfortunately I could not even accept the taste when I carried QQ (I am very disheartened each time her friend’s parents in school commented on her “tan” skin).

When I carried the twin boys, I love the taste! (be it vanilla, strawberry or chocolate) I am a milk drinker since young and I drink Ensure milk at least 3 cups a day! That is how both my Bumbo boys are blessed with fair, white and super smooth tofu skin although hubby and I looks tan.

Just imagine how many nappies we are washing daily now with 2 babies! We even use them to wrap up the babies to keep them tight (so that they will not get frightened easily) and warm. But for the past 2 days, it was raining so heavily that we almost have no nappies to use anymore. Unless we get one of those dryers otherwise we can easily substitude them with the disposable diapers. Really cannot imagine what it is like if I still live in the past where there are no diapers!

Since hubby is around and my girl got up so early today, we managed to go for a good breakfast and do some light marketing at the market. With the price hike on everything, especially the pork and meat, we bought so much vegetables and fruits since we are eating more vegetables now. Hope my children would love to consume more green in future so that they will not rely on acne solutions like their mum did in her teenage years.