My Favourite HCP

I bought my Happy Call Pan (HCP) last year from Singapore. Used it once to bake sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes was cooked soften very fast but the sweet liquid of the potatoes stained my pan. I was so upset cause the stain cannot be removed. So I left my pan unused for few months.
Recently I was trying to cook sunny sides up for my hubby using my non stick pan but was not successful coz I do not know how to control the fire.
So I gave my HCP another try. Well, it's still the best coz I m able to cook prefect sunny sides up without over cooked yolks.

Sunny sides up using HCP

Prefect double sunny sides up for breakfast

The secret of HCP pan is to heat up the pan and cook using low fire. The best thing about using HCP for sunny sides up is, it is able to cook prefect sunny sides up without over cooked yolks. After cracking the eggs into the pan, just close the cover for 1 or 2 minutes and viola....perfectly cooked sunny sides up for breakfast is ready

Dinner (290716)

It's Friday and I decided to cook for my family. Went to market early morning to get the ingredients. Planned to prepare a simple dinner with simple home dishes.

Menu for the night:

Steam beancurd with crispy fried dried prawns and shallots

Ginger and spring onions stir fry pork with sweet and soy sauce

Salted egg yolks stir fry French beans

Steam beancurd with crispy fried dried prawns and shallots

Ingredients:

1) Silky tofu (beancurd)

2) Garlics and shallots

3) dried prawns

3) seasoning - soy sauce and sesame oil

Methods:

1) Steam tofu over gentle heat for six to seven minutes to warm the tofu, remove and set aside.

2) Heat oil in a wok, fry garlic and shallots till crisp and golden.

3) Remove but leave the oil in the wok.

4) Add the seasoning ingredients to the wok and bring to boil.

5) Reduce the heat and simmer until sauce thickens slightly; pour hot sauce over tofu.

6) Top with the crisp garlic, ginger and shallots, and finally the garnishing ingredients, serve immediately.

Ginger and spring onions stir fry pork with sweet and soy sauce
Ingredients:
1) Sliced pork
2) Garlics, gingers and spring onions (Julienne the gingers and spring onions)
3) seasoning - sweet and soy sauce, salt and pepper

Methods:
1) Heat oil in a wok, fry garlic, ginger till fragrant
2) add in pork slice and stir fry till 80% cooked
3) add in seasoning and spring onions, serve hot

Salted egg yolks stir fry French beans

Ingredients:

1) French beans

2) Garlics

3) salted egg

4) seasoning - salt and chicken stocks

Methods:

1) Prepare salted eggs, boil in hot water just like boiling hard boiled eggs

2) Separate the yolks and whites. Set a side

3) Blanch French beans in hot boiling water till semi cooked. Remove and set a side

4) Heat oil in a wok, fry garlics till fragrant

5) Add in salted egg yolks and fry till bubbled

6) Add in French beans and seasoning, fry till French beans are coated with the salted egg yolks

7) Add in the diced salted egg whites, stir well and serve hot

Silky smooth steam eggs

Steam eggs seems like a easy dish but it may not be as easy as it seems. To steam a plate of silky smooth eggs is a challenge of timing and skill.
I recently gave it a try. First try was a success. My family loved the texture of the steam eggs.

The secret to perfect steam eggs are the amount of water added and the timing.

Ingredients:

1) 3 eggs

2) 1 tbsp of soy sauce

3) dashes of chicken stocks

4) dashes of sesame oil

5) spring onions for garnishing

Methods:

1) crack the eggs into a bowl

2) prepare chicken stocks with water. the amount of water is 3 halves egg shell to 1 egg

3) stir the eggs and slowly add in the chicken stocks water

    note: do not beat the eggs as it will creates bubbles

4) slowly stir in soy sauce, sesame oil

5) Sieve the eggs into the plate for steaming

Cooking:

1) heat wok with water and steam rack

2) place the plate of eggs on the rack when the water is boiling

3) set timer to steam the eggs for 8 minutes

Note: 8 minutes steaming is for plain eggs. You may add in centure eggs and salted eggs but this will take longer steaming time