Saffron Bloomer Sandwich Bread ( Dan Lepard)

Lovely soft crust bread, perfect for toast, sandwiches, dinner rolls.

Dry- fried Green Beans with Minced Pork

Dry frying with minimum of liquid, leaving the sauce clinging to the food. Tasty to go with just simply a bowl of plain rice, or it can be great side dish. At different occasions, I added two teaspoons of XO sauce to the frying too.

Steamed Chicken with Garlic Sauce (Martin Yan)

This dish can be served right after cooking, but also good for serving it cold.  You can substitute four to six legs, six drumsticks or thighs, or a dozen wings for the same amount of sauce here.
Simple, quick and delicious for meals with rice.

Ngoh Hiang ( Chinese Meat Roll)

These Chinese meatloaf tastes like the real thing that we normally have in the Malaysian Restaurant here!  

The fish paste that I bought from the Asian grocery shop here is quite salty as far as I know , so what I did was with the marinating,  I took a teaspoon ingredients and get it fried, tasted and tested and further adjusted the sauces used here.

With the unfinished ones that has already steamed, wrap them with  aluminium foil and another  freezer bag over it, good to go in your freezer. Simply thaw and fry them anytime you like, especially for your upcoming CNY meals.

Dark Brown Buut Chai Go ( steamed rice cup cake)

I used ramekins to make these yummy buut chai go, traditional type is steamed in a small bowl and you get a "belly button" in the centre of the cake, like what I did here.  Recipe is the same as the white buut chai go, just swap the white sugar to dark brown sugar.
Dark brown sugar does not taste very sweet which is good,  it has very nice chewy texture too. Great desserts or snacks for the coming Chinese New Year.
If you add the red beans halfway through steaming, you can get the beans to show up on the top of the cakes. If you would not mind at all,  just add them in right away, like mine.

Chive Pocket

In China,  people celebrates New Year eating buckets of dumplings, chive pockets is one of them. I find this very addictive, you easily gobble up a few at one go because it is very light, tasty and healthy snacks as well. I used nearly zero oil to pan fry them. Some people like to do it like the way you fry and steam the fried dumplings.

Chinese New Year's Royal Lion's Head ( Martin Yan)

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These large meatballs are supposed to resemble the head of a lion, especially when served with cabbage leaves draped over them as a "mane". It is often served on Chinese New Year meals to symbolize happiness.