wife arranged a dinner for her sis, hubby & son & her brother & sil. together with my youngest daughter we had 8pax this evening on 16.7.2016. 🙂
everyone loved the claypot rice. it was really flavourful. wife’s sil, this the second time she trying it, said you couldn’t get this flavourful claypot rice outside. chicken was very tender, smooth & flavourful, because of very slow gentle steaming & smokey flavours from the claypot.
quite a perfect dish though there is always slight variations. today just very slightly wetter c/w the last, but wife preferred it so. for me, dryer better, but this ok too.
in fact i am pondering whether i can cook this dish in a large pot for bulk, not claypot, so it will lose the smokey flavours, but will still be a very tasty kamameshi like rice dish (which are very slightly wet presentation c/w claypot rice). will check up on kamameshi recipes later.
claypot rice, tanhoon prawns & fine braised pork ribs
i also had claypot tanhoon prawns & fine braised pork ribs.
today though my tanhoon texture was not good enough. became a bit mushy after absorbing the stock.
my stock estimation was a bit over, so after adding the tanhoon i was not able to reduce the stock enough. instead of trying to reduce stock more, i should have left the tanhoon undercooked at the stove (so texture would be perfect at the dining table even if its was a wetter version). something to learn next time.
claypot rice, fine braised pork ribs & romaine lettuce
very tender but still firm with bite after 5hrs in 90degC oven & 45mins steaming.
just as important, the marinade was very tasty, very nicely flavoured. i think a really wonderful pork rib. steaming added quite a bit of moisture so i reduced the marinade before adding back to the ribs.
HK steamed red garoupa
HK steamed red garoupa
my wife’s sis is vegetarian who takes fish but no other meat & no eggs.
so my helper made nice HK steamed red garoupa.
sweet peas with baby corn
she also did 2 vegetarian dish.
sweet peas with baby corn always an excellent dish, very tasty & sweet.
stir-fried romaine lettuce
& the romaine lettuce too.
i made a tofu cheese cake which wife’s sis liked too & they brought back the remaining cake. i did not have mascarpone cheese to make tiramisu which was just as well as she does not take eggs.
today’s tofu cheese cake wasn’t done well & the gelatine did not hold the shape of the cake as well when cutting the cake. taste wise it was nice mildly sweet & tangy, smooth as usual.
a fun & quite easy family dinner with my helper making 3 dishes.
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