delivered homecooked curry chicken for teban gardens friday community breakfast on 26.8.2022.^^

this my 117th friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre, 8th time on restart after a 2 year hiatus due to covid.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

I started cook a dish for teban gardens on friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed. when I started cooking for HCA, this was reduced to 2 times a month (also 2times a month for HCA) so not overstretching my resources…

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delivered homecooked fungus chicken for teban gardens friday community breakfast on 19.8.2022.^^

this my 116th friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre, 7th time on restart after a 2 year hiatus due to covid.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

I started cook a dish for teban gardens on friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed. when I started cooking for HCA, this was reduced to 2 times a month (also 2times a month for HCA) so not overstretching my resources…

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delivered homecooked dishes for teban gardens friday community breakfast on 22.7.2022.^^

1. curry chicken & potatoes
2. fried eggs with tanhoon

this my 115th friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre, 6th time on restart after a 2 year hiatus due to covid.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

I started cook a dish for teban gardens on friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed. when I started cooking for HCA, this was reduced to 2 times a month (also 2times a month for HCA) so not overstretching my resources…

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delivered homecooked braised chicken with cloud fungus for teban gardens friday community breakfast on 24.6.2022.^^

this my 114th friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre, 5th time on restart after a 2 year hiatus due to covid.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

I started cook a dish for teban gardens on friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed. when I started cooking for HCA, this was reduced to 2 times a month (also 2times a month for HCA) so not overstretching my resources…

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delivered homecooked curry chicken and potatoes for teban gardens CSC friday community breakfast on 17.6.2022.^^

this my 113th friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre, 4th time on restart after a 2 year hiatus due to covid.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

I started cook a dish for teban gardens on friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed. when I started cooking for HCA, this was reduced to 2 times a month (also 2times a month for HCA) so not overstretching my resources…

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delivered 2 homecooked dishes for teban gardens CSC friday community breakfast on 13.5.2022.^^

1. soy sauce chicken
2. spicy blackbean sauce pork softbones

this my 112nd friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre, 3rd time on restart after a 2 year hiatus due to covid.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

I started cook a dish for teban gardens on friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed. when I started cooking for HCA, this was reduced to 2 times a month (also 2times a month for HCA) so not overstretching my resources…

had kopi with kok fai afterwards…

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made 2 dishes for PPH CSC teban gardens friday breakfast this morning on 6.5.2022.^^

this my 111st friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre, second time on restart after a 2 year hiatus due to covid.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

I started cook a dish for teban gardens on friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed. when I started cooking for HCA, this was reduced to 2 times a month (also 2times a month for HCA) so not overstitching my resources…

today’s menu

1. wine chicken
2. braised minced pork tanhoon

the residents also have lots of other food catered for them and sometimes Rosalind the centre director also cook very nice dishes like laksa, fishball soup, lontong, porridge..all fabulous dishes I like.

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restarted PPHC teban gardens community service centre friday breakfast on 29.4.2022.^^

this after a 2 yr hiatus decos of covid.

last time I made friday breakfast dish for teban gardens as on 6.3.2020 before the circuit breaker…

today just made curry chicken & potatoes..:-)

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ros made excellent ytf

ros made excellent ytf

ros made excellent ytf

with teban gardens PPH CSC staff and volunteers

with teban gardens PPH CSC staff and volunteers

teban gardens PPH CSC friday breakfast beehoon

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mala chicken with vegetables

mala chicken with vegetables

mala chicken with vegetables

mala chicken with vegetables

mala chicken with vegetables

mala chicken with vegetables

made made stirfried mala chicken with vege for teban gardens friday community breakfast this morning on 6.3.2020.^^

i cook a dish for teban gardens every friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed.

this my 109th friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

ros made very nice yft, a massive effort 👍

residents get lots of food..the beehoon also very nice 👍

wine chicken with potatoes

wine chicken with potatoes

wine chicken with potatoes

wine chicken with potatoes

made wine chicken with potatoes for teban gardens friday community breakfast this morning on 28.2.2020.^^

i cook a dish for teban gardens every friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed.

this my 108th friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

after that had coffee with WM @ 古早味teban gardens and chit chat.

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braised pork belly & loin with carrots and potatoes

made braised pork belly & loin with carrots and potatoes for teban gardens friday community breakfast this morning on 8.11.2019.^^

i cook a dish for teban gardens every friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed.

this my 107th friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

braised pork belly & loin with carrots and potatoes

braised pork belly & loin

carrots and potatoes

braised pork belly & loin with carrots and potatoes

braised pork belly & loin with carrots and potatoes

for today, i cooked braised belly pork and loin (about 2.5kg).

my usual preparation of fish sauce, oyster sauce, huatiao chinese wine and cornflour, and cooked/reduced till tender, about 1 hour. remove. cook carrots add potatoes and cook 10mins. then add back braised prok.

simple and delightful tasting dish for teban gardens residents.

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teban gardens PPHCSC (pasir panjang hill community service centre) organised a cooking sharing session on 9.10.2019. ^^.

this my 8th cooking demo and sharing… 🙂

20 residents attended today.

i made curry chicken.

my 8th cooking demo at teban gardens community service centre

my 8th cooking demo at teban gardens community service centre

my 8th cooking demo at teban gardens community service centre

my 8th cooking demo at teban gardens community service centre

it takes time to cook curry chicken on the spot so basically i provided the recipe and cooked the dish at home and brought over to teban gardens and heated up there, while i walked through the steps in the recipe i provided.

i used to make my own curry paste, but i not picky so i find the ready curry paste like heng’s, mak, and happy family all ok for me.

for me, curry paste settled, a key for me is the stock. in use very tasty intense chicken stock from chicken bones boiled with carrots etc and reduced over 4hrs. one can use ready chicken stock too.

in this case for cooking demo and sharing purpose, i recommend to remove the breast meat and boil the boney chicken parts like ribs etc over 1/2hr, then add back the breast meat…

for me i think texture is as key as the taste, so chicken must be just right and not overcooked, like anything else actually, lol! 🙂

the residents loved the curry chicken and potatoes and take with some “chiam tao roti” baguette!

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curry chicken with potatoes for teban gardens friday community breakfast

curry chicken with potatoes for teban gardens friday community breakfast

curry chicken with potatoes for teban gardens friday community breakfast

made curry chicken with potatoes for teban gardens friday community breakfast this morning on 1.11.2019.^^

i cook a dish for teban gardens every friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed.

this my 106th friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

for today, it’s the usual curry chicken.

i use a ready curry sauce, usually heng’s nonya curry, lately also happy family when on cheap sale like 2 packets for S$3.50.

for teban gardens, i used 2kg boneless chicken legs, defrost and cut into cubes when still 1/2 frozen and easier to cut. usually 7 legs cut into between 12 and 16 pieces each so on average close to 100 pieces.

i marinated with the curry sauce plus 2 tbsp of fish sauce in fridge overnight.

this morning, i fried 1 stalk of curry leaves (about 20+ leaves), lots of chopped garlic, then added the chicken, fried thoroughly and cooked for 8mins. then removed and cooked the potatoes about 10mins. then added back the chicken.

voila!

the teban garden residents all love the dish. it is an additional dish to their staples of fried beehoon, youtiao and porridge etc, which are nice too. 🙂

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teriyaki pangasius fillet

made teriyaki pangasius fillet for teban gardens community breakfast this morning on 11.10.2019.^^

i cook a dish for teban gardens every friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed.

this my 104th friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend TKF who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

pangasius fillet

pangasius fillet

teriyaki pangasius fillet

teriyaki pangasius fillet

teriyaki pangasius fillet

teriyaki pangasius fillet

teriyaki pangasius fillet

i bought 3×0.8kg packet(drained weight) of pangasius fillet. this a cheap vietnamese catfish.

the main thing about cooking this fish is to dry it as there’s lots of water content.

i defrosted, washed with salt, drained, then dried with kitchen towels and laid out on rack overnight.

this morning i dried some more with kitchen towels.

then fried ginger, cut chilli padi, shallots and added the fish fillet. high fire, added 4tbsp light soy sauce, 3 tbsp mirin, cooked/reduced about 6 minutes. i did in 2 batches.

basically this is like teriyaki style i would do for a whole garoupa fish, but not reduced as much as i did not want to overcook the fish fillet.

then garnished with more cut scallions and fried shallots.

it was was a nice tasting dish…pangasius has a strong “chao chey” basically mud taste so need to flavour well to mask the mud taste.

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sauteed dory fillet

made sauteed dory fillet for teban gardens community breakfast this morning on 4.10.2019.^^

i cook a dish for teban gardens every friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed.

this my 103rd friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

teban gradens friday breakfast

the residents are already well provided with beehoon and other dishes, so i just cook an additional dish..

sauteed dory fillet

i cooked 3 packets of pangasius fillet = 3x800g nett weight = 2.4kg or 12 pieces of fillet.

sauteed dory fillet

today i am just using my ubiqitous braise – 5 tbsp huadiaojiu, 2 tbsp oyster sauce, 2 tbsp fish sauce.

just marinate fish overnight.

this morning i cooked the fish in 2 batches of 6…anyway they only require like 6 mins, so very easy and quick to get the dih ready.

sauteed dory fillet

sauteed dory fillet

fried in oil, cut onions, and chopped spring onions, and over high heat to reduce the liquids to a flavourful tasty sauce.

sauteed dory fillet

i browned some shallots and topped off with garnishing of shallots and spring onions. 🙂

teban gradens friday breakfast

 the residents all enjoyed the dish.

afterwards i had coffee and good chat with TKF at 古早coffee stall at the food centre.

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curry chicken and potatoes

made braised pork with shanghai greens for teban gardens community breakfast this morning on 27.9.2019.^^

i cook a dish for teban gardens every friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed.

this my 102nd friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

curry chicken

this time i used happy family curry paste on promotion.

i think heng’s curry better but this is ok too.

marinated chicken with curry past overnight in fridge.

fried curry leaves and chopped garlic, then added chicken and fried about 5mins.

removed chicken and cooked cut potatoes for 10mins.

added back chicken and mixed.

curry chicken and potatoes

curry chicken and potatoes

off fire and transferred to aluminium carrier.

a simple delicious curry chicken dish for teban gardens residents.

c.h.e.f andy

braised pork with shanghai greens

made braised pork with shanghai greens for teban gardens community breakfast this morning on 20.9.2019.^^

i cook a dish for teban gardens every friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed.

this my 1001st friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

braised pork

today i made braised pork cubes.

braised pork

braised pork

braised pork

these are frozen pork cubes. i made 3 pakets 1.2kg. just blanched in boiling water and cleaned. then fried with minced garlic and added 5tbsp huadiaojiu, 2tbsp fish sauce, 2 tbsp cornflour, covered wok and cooked for 1hr.

i had 800g of belly pork which was cooked to tender, chilled and neatly cut, which i added when pork cubes were cooked and stirfried for few minutes.

braised pork

set aside.

shanghai greens

braised pork with shanghai greens

braised pork with shanghai greens

then i fried the shanghai greens with oyster sauce and added back the braised pork, and that’s a delicious braised pork with shanghai greens.

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100th teban gardens community breakfast dish on 30aug2019

100th teban gardens community breakfast dish on 30aug2019

100th teban gardens community breakfast dish on 30aug2019

teban gardens reminded me that today is my 100th meals i cooked for the friday community breakfast! 🙂

Ros presented me with a gift. i had coffee afterwards with my RI friend who started this PPHCSC.

today i made chicken with shitake and baby shanghai greens for teban gardens community breakfast this morning on 30.8.2019.^^

i cook a dish for teban gardens every friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed.

this my 100th friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

chicken with shitake and baby shanghai greens

chicken, shitake and baby shanghai greens

i marinated the 2kg cut chicken pieces with 3 tbsp fish sauce, 4 tbsp huadiao wine and 2 tbsp corn flour, in the fridge overnight.

& i cut the mushrooms and vegetables and placed in separate sealed containers in the fridge also.

shitake and baby shanghai greens

so it was quite easy in the morning to do the dish.

fried the mushroom and lots of chopped garlic, then added the shanghai greens, and 2 tbsp oyster sauce.

shitake and baby shanghai greens

set aside, using the aluminium carrier.

braised chicken

then fried the chicken.

there’s lots of fluids from marinate, so no need to add water.

just high fire, then cover and low fire about 8 mins.

braised chicken

braised chicken

braised chicken

braised chicken

chicken was tender and tasty, and gravy was delicious!

chicken with shitake and baby shanghai greens

added back the shitake and baby shanghai greens and mixed well.

tasted it…excellent delicious dish, looked great too!

placed in the aluminium carrier and brought to teban gardens.

teban garden residents

teban gardens staff and volunteer

teban garden residents

chicken with shitake and baby shanghai greens

a wonderful dish that the residents enjoyed.

c.h.e.f andy

teban garden residents

braised pork with potatoes

made braised pork with potatoes for teban gardens community breakfast this morning on 23.8.2019.^^

i cook a dish for teban gardens every friday unless i am traveling or otherwise indisposed.

this my 99th friday breakfast community meal dish at teban gardens community service centre.

i first started doing a community meal dish for teban gardens CSC on 8.1.2016.

the centre was started in 2002 after much effort & challenge by our RI friend who is a pastor of pasir panjang hill brethren church (pphbc) which owns & runs the CSC.

braised pork belly

for this time i decided to prepare the dish the evening before.

for belly pork i boiled in stock till tender.

braised pork with potatoes

and i cooked the diced pork pieces first, take about 1hr 15mins to be nice and tender.

carrots take about 1/2 hr and potatoes 10mins, so i added potatoes last.

i used my usual fish sauce, oyster sauce and huadiao wine marinade, very tasty & delicious.

braised pork with potatoes

this morning, i cut the belly pork. it doesn’t spray when it’s chilled.

braised pork with potatoes

and added to the pork potato dish.

braised pork with potatoes

braised pork with potatoes

heat up, covered and mixed well.

braised pork with potatoes

a nice dish!

braised pork with potatoes

and soon afterwards all finished.

teban garden residents

today my 99th dish for teban gardens community breakfast.

next week my 100th dish…i will do a chicken dish!

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