Eggplant Salad with coco milk
Topic: Salad
Broiled eggplant is my father's only favorite eggplant recipe ever since. He did not eat eggplant cooked in different way, only broiled with coconut oil and salt. That's it, and it taste delicious. Since, I cannot find edible coconut oil here in Kuwait, I substituted it with coconut milk and add some spices to taste more delicious.

Ingredients:
3 medium size eggplants (long variety), broiled
1/2 cup thick coconut milk
1 small onion, sliced into rings
1 medium size tomato, sliced thinly
2 stalk of green onions, chopped
1 tbsp. ginger, shredded
1 tsp. fish sauce
salt to taste

Directions:
1. Peel the broiled eggplants leaving the stem on.
2. Cut into 2 inches length and slice into halves.
3. Add all the ingredients and mix well.
4. Serve immediately.

Chili Chicken Wings
Topic: Chicken
Wings, my favorite part of the chicken. Be it fried, grilled, stewed or any, it taste so good as well. The picture below is Chili Chicken Wings that I cooked last night but I did not able to take a nice photo out of it. See...but it taste hot!

Ingredients:
15 pcs. chicken wing
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 tbsp. soy sauce
1 tsp. white sugar
3 tbsp. hot tomato ketchup
3 pcs. long pepper, choppped
1 tbsp. hot sauce
1 tsp. ginger powder
1 medium size onion, minced
1/3 cup water
salt to taste

Directions:
1. Rinse chicken and pat dry.
2. Heat oil in a wide frying pan over high heat. Fry the wings, a portion at a time (do not crowd pan);cook,turning as needed, until browned on all sides.
3. Return all chicken to pan, then add soy sauce, sugar, onion, ginger, pepper, ketchup, hot sauce and water. Stir well.
4. Turning chicken often, until sauce is thick enough to coat wings.
5. Cook until meat near bone is no longer pink (cut to test), about 20 minutes.
6. Serve hot.

Cheesy Cauliflower
Topic: Vegetables
My mother always cooked the vegetables in a crispy way or half cooked only becasue my father likes it that way. Being grown eating those crispy veggies, it became a great influenced in my cooking nowadays because I always cooked the vegetables in a crispy way also. Here's one of those crispy vegetables that I cooked.

Ingredients:
1 medium head of cauliflower, cut into florets
1 medium size carrot, sliced thinly
100 g quickmelt cheese, grated
1 medium size onion, minced
1 tsp. of minced garlic
1 tbsp. olive oil (any cooking oil will do)
1 tbsp. fish sauce
chop cilantro/stalk of green onions for garnish
pepper to taste

Directions:
1. Heat the oil in a skillet. Add the garlic, onion, carrots and cauliflower and cook for a high heat for about 1-2 minutes.
2. Turn off the heat and add the fish sauce and pepper, stir to blend well.
3. Transfer the vegetables to an ovenproof dish. Sprinkle with the grated cheese and chop cilantro/green onions.
4. Bake in a preheated 250o oven for 5-6 minutes. Don't overcook. Serve immediately.

Shrimp Fried Rice
Topic: Rice
It's shrimp season in Kuwait nowadays that's why most of the food we ate this month have shrimps also. My hubby is very fond of fried rice, and adding shrimp to it will make his meal perfect. Even our 2-year old son Azhfaar likes fried rice also, so LIKE FATHER LIKE SON.

Ingredients:
4 cups cold cooked rice
1 cup shrimp, peeled leaving tails on
1/2 cup mixed vegetables (corn, carrots and green peas)
1 egg beaten
1/3 cup pre-soaked chopped dried mushroom
1 meium size onion, minced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 tbsp. light soy sauce
1 tsp. fish sauce
1/4 tsp. black pepper powder
1 stalk of green onions, chopped
2 tbsp. cooking oil
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
1. Heat oil in a wok. Add and cook the egg until lightly brown. Flip to cook the opposite side. Transfer into a flat dish or chopping board, roll and cut thinly. Set aside.
2. Add the shrimp and mushrooms into the remaining oil, stir for a minute then add the garlic and onions, stir for few seconds then add the mixed vegetables.
3. Add the rice. Stir to blend well. Add the sauces.
4. Season with salt and pepper, continue stirring until the rice is heated through.
5. Turn off the heat and add the chopped green onions and the cooked egg. Stir to distribute all the ingredients evenly.

See also:
Tips on Cooking Fried Rice

Garlic Fried Rice
Topic: Breakfast Recipes
Watching fabulous movies late last night made me tired of waking up early this morning to prepare our breakfast. When I glanced at the clock, it's almost 8:00 am and I still have to take my shower! I thought we will go to the office without breakfast this morning but luckily, when I went out of the bedroom I smelled a fried rice and I saw a meal ready in the dining table. Oh, my hubby managed to wake up early and cooked rushly. This is what he prepared with fried fish:

The recipe I am writing below is not exactly the one in the picture above because that's my hubby's recipe, I don't know the exact ingredients he used. Anyway, here's the recipe for garlic fried rice:

Ingredients:

3 cups cold cooked rice
5 cloves of garlic, minced
1 small onion, minced
1/3 cup flakes of fried fish
3 tbsp of used cooking oil(had been used for frying fish or chicken)
salt to taste
chopped green onions for garnish

Directions:
1. Heat the oil in wok.
2. Add the garlic and stir until brown. Add in the onions and fish flakes.
3. Add the rice, stirring to blend well with the rest of the ingredients.
4. Season with salt. Cook until all the rice are heated through.
5. Turn of the heat. Sprinkle with chopped green onions and stir to mix well.

Serve with Fried Egg and slice cucumber.

See also:
Tips on Cooking Fried Rice