Assam Fish Sauce

Ever since I found these amazing sauce, at Assam House, Puchong, it became very handy every weekend whenever we want to cook anything.

Being a big fan of fish, obviously this present of sauce is the best souvenir ever!

Here I am steaming Golden Pomfret fish with the assam sauce which I also added garlic, sliced onion, tomatoes, ladies fingers and the secret ingredient of assam boi.

Other fish that were steamed with this sauce too:

I also stir fried sliced ladies fingers with spicy dried shrimp sauce which, recently, became a bonus addition for frying my favourite vegetables and also for marinating chicken!

Some of the effects of these 2 sauces are scrumptious sauces :

I wonder why I feel nauseous. Is it because of too much cooking for the day? I thought cooking is supposed to be therapeutic? Now I begin to understand why my mother who like to bake a lot of cookies and cakes and then send it to New Life church for sale and the charity. Mum used to bake cakes for my neighbour's son, Ryan till his mother was too embarassed and told her that their culture is not to receive gifts or food. Mum was a bit upset when she said that but I tried to reassure mum that it is probably because the neighbour was too embarassed to keep on receiving gifts and does not want to cultivate this culture in her son who is only 5 years old.

Anyway, I am a little hungry but kept feeling really full today despite drinking about three cups of Burmese tea and also Cameron Highlands' Strawberry tea.

I love fish soup but I admit I did not cook this. Mum cooked this. 

What's for dinner?

I guess I am in a cooking frenzy today. So I am marinating a chicken drumstick in tea drink, red wine vinegar, Sarawak pepper, soya sauce and lemon. Hopefully, my Tea Grilled Chicken turns out tasty ala Purple Cane? Alright, I am keeping my fingers crossed. Here are some snapshots of the meal :

Preparations : Marinating the chicken with tea

I finally had the Tea Roasted chicken drumstick for supper. The long marination time proved thorough enough to make all the red wine vinegar, lemon, oyster sauce, a mix of sweet, sour and salt combine to result in a an incredible taste in the tender chicken. The small baby tomatoes provided the natural sweetness for the chicken hence a great supper.

I then cooked roasted chicken marinated with lemon, oyster sauce and also black pepper sauce. I then sprinkled slices of mushrooms and also baby tomatoes and chilies. The result is quite alright, but too mild, not much taste, probably because too little sauce was added. I could not put vegetables as garnishing because my friend is carnivorous. So I compensated with two omelettes for him but he was still hungry after the whole meal. 

Grilled Mushroom black pepper and oyster sauce chicken

Whipping out crazy dishes on lazy Sunday

Yesterday, I took about 2 hours of lunch inclusive of grocery shopping at Giant in Plaza OUG which I have visited for the first time.

The result is what you see today. Since bean sprouts is the cheapest at about RM 0.60 for such a big packet, I figured that I would fry it today. In addition, I always have to pay about RM 7 for bean sprouts at the kopitiam tai chau outside or even at the Chicken Rice Stall or even places like the Chicken Rice Shop. But I cooked it differently in the sense that I cooked it with nice red chillies and lots of garlic and some shredded carrots and also a little oyster sauce that resulted in the slight brownish colour.

Bean Sprouts in the frying

The second dish was a little crazy where I stir fried a small chicken thigh with chilies, garlic, onions and the weird ingredient was ladies' fingers of all things! I cut the ladies fingers into very small slices, that shows the flowers right at the core. I added in some chili paste and chili sauce for the spice in addition to the oyster sauce.

The outcome: A hearty healthy meal. 

After all the cooking, my fingers felt tingly and somehow seems like all the mix of sauces has absorbed into my fingers causing some sort of pain.