Chicken Corn Soup
Topic: Soup
Corn soup is a soup traditionally made in corn typically sweetcorn.The basic recipe is some type of soup base with corn added followed by whatever ingredients give it its distinct style. Basic and the traditional ingredients are corn cut from the cob, water, butter, some flour, an egg, with salt and pepper for seasoning. Some add, chicken, shrimp or crab. My favorite corn soup is th one with crab but unfortunately its very hard to find good quality crab here in Kuwait, so we prefer to buy some ready to cook crab corn soup in the Filipino supermarkets here however they are always out of stock, maybe due to its high demand. Anyway, since it's very difficult to make crab corn soup here, we make chicken as a substitute, it also taste good as well.

Ingredients:
3 cups Chicken broth
1 can 8.25 oz cream-style corn
1 cup chicken breast, finely chopped
1 tbsp. cornstarch
2 tbsp. water
1 egg, beaten
1 small size onion, miniced
2 tbsp. melted butter
1 tsp. sugar
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
1. Heat butter in a saucepan and saute onion.
2. Add chicken, stir for 1 minute.
3. Add broth, corn and sugar. Bring to a boil over a medium heat, stirring occasionally.
4. Blend conrstarch with water and add to soup.
5. Continue cooking, uncovered for 3 minutes.
6. Stir the beaten egg into soup. Reduce heat and stir for 1-2 minutes
7. Off the heat and transfer to a soup bowl.
8. Add salt and pepper if you like.
8. Garnish with chopped parsley or green onions (optional)

Serve while hot.

Squid Black Soup
Topic: Soup
Black soup, sounds weird and yucky but taste yummy!
Many people don’t include the black ink sac of the squid when they cooked it, even me, I only include it when I miss my Mother’s way of cooking it, she always include the black ink sac, the good taste hide behind those blacks, she said. And I knew she was always right. I only cooked this recipe once in a blue moon because I don’t like those black liquid sticking on my fingers, lol!

Here’s the one I cooked the other day:

Ingredients:
350 grams squids (big variety), cleaned and sliced thinly, reserve the black ink sac
3 cups water
1 medium onion, sliced
1 medium ripe tomato, sliced
1 tbsp. grated ginger
2 cloves garlic, crushed
10 peppercorns
1 bay leaf
1 tsp. fish sauce
1 long green pepper (optional)
2 tbsp. cooking oil
Green onions, chopped
Salt and Pepper to taste

Directions:
1. Heat oil in a pan. Saute garlic and onions, add tomatoes and ginger and stir well.
2. Add in the squid, peppercorns, bay leaf and fish sauce. Then add water , the black ink sac and green pepper. Simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Garnish with chopped green onions. Serve hot.

Tom Yum Soup
Mood:  party time!
Topic: Soup
Tom Yum is one of the famous Thai recipes which refers to spicy fish or seafood soup. But it can also be chicken or other meats, too. It is a combination of hot and sour and it will draw your sweat and tears while eating. My husband introduced it to me 3 years ago and I tried to cook it with trial and error until I almost perfected it now.
My sister Jong who is staying with us told me last week that when I cook Tom Yum Soup, I must have to teach here because she likes this Thai soup also. So last night I decide to cook Tom Yum, hence,we took our supper very late already because I waited for her to come home, their office time off is 9:00 pm and it takes 15 minutes to arrive at home if there were no traffic, I prepared all the ingredients so that by the time she will arrived we can start to cook immediately. Usually, when I cooked Tom Yum I will include shrimp of course but last night I didn't because my sister is allergic of shrimp. They arrived with my brother at 9:40, we cooked the soup together and we ate our supper at 10:00 pm. Unfortunately I did not able to take picture for the soup because by the time I place it on the dining table, everybody grabbed their individual spoon & soup bowl and take their share from it and we began to eat, hence I lost my mood of taking a good picture. Anyway, here's a pic I got from a recipe website. It's almost similar to the one we cooked last night but ours looks palatable than this! Next time I will try my best to take photo first before I will serve it insha Allah.

Ingredients:
5 cups water
100 gram chicken breast thinly slice
100 gram shrimp
100 gram medium squid/calamare slice thinly
100 gram fish fillet (optional)
100 gram button mushroom
2 stalks fresh lemon grass, trim off the very end of the root and cut into 1 inch pieces;
3 slices of fresh galangal root (smashed)
4 fresh kaffir/lime leaves
1 medium size tomato slice quarterly
2 tbsp. lime juice
2 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tom yum broth cube (optional)
1 tsp. sugar
3 pcs. chilli peppers or more
1 small onion slice thinly
2 spring onions or fresh cilantro for garnish

Directions:
1. Bring water to boil over high heat in a medium-sized saucepan. Add the lemon grass, galangal, kaffir lime leaf, fish sauce and tom yum broth.
2. Add the chicken and mushroom, bring to boil and cook for 5 minutes.
3. Add the onion, shrimp, calamare and fish and boil until they are cooked through.
4. Add the chili peppers and tomatoes.
5. Turn off the heat. Add the lime juice and sugar.
6. Taste to adjust the seasoning, adding more fish sauce or lime juice to taste. Garnish with cilantro or spring onions if desired.

Serves 4-5