Pics from my birthday week!

My last birthday treat was lunch at Whitebait & Kale at Camden - where Evon and i had whitebait for appetizers (super yum!), snapper pie (real real huge) and kurobuta pork loin. We din have any space left for dessert (^.^)


Home cooked one-dish meals - Rice cooked with mushrooms, bamboo shoots and chicken & chicken porridge, simple dishes to clean out the palate

Chicken porridge
Ingredients
- 1 cup of rice (enough for 2 persons)
- 3 pieces of chicken thigh (fats removed)
- Sliced ginger
- Chopped spring onions
- Water
Steps
- Boil rice, water and ginger slices together in a pot
- Add in chicken thigh and simmer on medium/low heat
- Remove cooked chicken thighs and shred them
- Ladle porridge out into a bowl, top with shredded chicken and spring onions

Rice cooked with mushrooms, bamboo shoots and chicken
Ingredients
- 1 cup of rice (enough for 2 persons)
- 3-4 pieces of chicken thigh (fats removed) and cut up into big chunks
- Sliced ginger
- 2 cloves of garlic
- Half a can of bamboo shoots (i used Ma Ling brand), cut into big chunks
- 5 dried black mushrooms, soaked in water, halved with stem removed
Marinade
- Dark soya sauce
- Oyster sauce
- Pepper
- Sugar
- Sesame oil
Steps
- Marinade chicken and soaked mushrooms (i left it to marinade overnight)
- Using the rice cooker, put the uncooked rice, water, bamboo shoot, garlic, ginger, chicken, mushrooms and the marinade all in to cook