Ribby Corn Soup

What better to make on a cold day? Hot soup of course. (^_^)

Ka's Easy Ribby Soup (KERS)

Ingredients:
200g prime ribs (chopped into pieces)
2 cobs of corn
4 carrots
1 cube chicken stock
white pepper - to taste
2 litres water

Method:
[1] Cut corn into chunks as shown.

[2] Peel and cut carrots into chunks. Trim the sharp edges of the carrots so they will not disintegrate during cooking. The carrot chunks should look rounded as shown.



[3] Put the corn and water in a pot. Simmer on low heat for 30minutes, half covered.


[4] Turn up the heat to get full boil, then add the ribs. This helps prevent scum from forming on the water surface. Once the water boils again, turn the heat back to low and simmer for another 30 minutes, half covered.



[5] Turn up the heat again; once fully boiling again, add the carrots. Wait till soup mix boils again, then turn the heat back to low and add stock cube and pepper, then simmer again for 30 minutes, half covered.

[6] Once done, serve hot. KERS. Super easy, with 3 ingredients, 30min per stage. (^_^)

Dumplings!!

Rainy day.. depressed over recent family issues... so... making dumplings with the hope of cheering myself up....

Ka's GIANT dumplings

Ingredients:

FILLING
100g minced pork (or any other lean meat)
1 medium onion - chopped
5-6 leaves cabbage - chopped/shredded
1 tbsp rice wine
2 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tsp pepper
1 egg
3 tbsp cornflour

DOUGH
2.5 cups plain flour
1 cup COLD water
half tsp salt

Method:
[1] Sift flour in a big bowl. Dissolve salt in water; and drizzle slowly over the flour. Mix with a fork (avoid using hands at this stage; you don't want the mixture to warm up..)
[2] When the flour has become clumps of dough, flour your hand and lightly knead so it become s a lump. Sprinkle with some flour and chill for at least one hour (also to relax the dough so it won't toughen up)

[3] Mix all the filling ingredients together. The mixture will be a little .. watery, but it's normal. DO NOT add too much cornflour else the filling will be too tough after cooking.
[4] Roll the dough into a tube, and cut off equal-sized chunks (about thumb sized is nice). Roll each chunk out till thin; it does not have to be round at this stage.
[5] Place about 2 tbsp filling (they're GIANT, remember?) on each rolled-out piece of dough; press edges together. Use a knife to trim off excess dough, then pinch the edges to get a pattern (this step is optional).

Messy? This is how the table looks like after I play around with any flour.... >.<

The "pattern" after pinching

[6] Boil a pot of water on high; sprinkle 1tsp salt and 1 tbsp oil in the water (oil prevents the dumplings from STICKING together....)
[7] Place the dumplings in the water only when it is at full boil. The dumplings will float up when cooked (about 3-4 minutes)
[8] Serve warm with black rice vinegar+ginger or just plain. YUMMY!!

Almost big as my hand... woo!

I made 12 giants...

Hungry already?