Assam Curry Vegetarian Fish

Yesterday, after finishing my work at the shop, I came home feeling super hungry. On my drive home, I remembered that I have a few pieces of vegetarian fish, tomato, carrot, straw mushroom in my fridge. I was trying to think of something to cook so that I don't have to visit the grocery stores.

Here's what I came up with. Tadaaaaa!

It was good!!! Trust me. It really was. I used a lot of garlic, shallots, lemongrass, tamarind, curry powder and some coconut milk for this. It was a little sour, slightly spicy and the sauce was condensed. I've never used coconut milk for assam curry before. I got the idea when eating banana leaf rice in some indian shop few days ago. They had this sour curry which had thick coconut milk. It tasted very good too. Hubby praised that I'm really good in cooking curry. :)

Porto Romano

Last friday, my friends and I met up to celebrate one of our friend's birthday. Sometimes it's really a challenge to find a restaurant where we can accomodate both vegetarian and non-vegetarian. In the end, we chose this place called Porto Romano in Taman Tun Dr. Ismail.

Browsing through the menu leaves, hubby and I were having a hard time finding something to eat. I decided to "zag" a little and take some dairy that night.

I finally ordered their Spaghetti with Mushroom Sauce.

I really like the spaghetti. I've always been a big fan of white sauce pasta. Now that I decided to cut down on dairy, I find myself craving the sauce every now and then. Haven't tried cooking vegan version of such sauce.

Hubby did not want to take any dairy nor eggs. The only thing he could order (other than salad) was this.

This pizza has garlic and olive oil. It was pretty tasty. I forgot what it was called.

It was a fun night and everyone left with happy tummy.

Sun City Vegetarian Restaurant Visit 2

Hubby and I liked the food so much. We went there again. This time round, I wanted to try their noodles.

Hubby ordered fried zi hun gen (fried tapioca noodle)

I chose curry laksa

I have to say that their noodles are nothing that great. I didn't like my curry laksa at all. I was struggling to finish it. The soup was sweet rather than savoury. Hubby's noodles were a bit better but still not that good.

We ordered the sweet and sour fried mushroom also but it wasn't as delicious as our first visit's. I guess maybe the chef was different. Really hope they will be more consistent. No more noodles from this shop for us next time.

Tamarind Tofu

I tried to cook this dish again. Haven't been able to perfect it.

This time, I added orange juice and used less tamarind. I also let the tofu gets sauteed longer. It's delicious even though it doesn't look that good in the picture. :)

Success!!

Sun City Vegetarian Restaurant

Last night, I was too tired to cook. I had a long day so hubby suggested that we go out for dinner. Getting tired of all vegetarian restaurants around our house, we look into foursquare for more options. We drove over 20 kilometres to this restaurant in Port Klang called Sun City Vegetarian Restaurant.

The restaurant had a few tables occupied so this is always a good sign. I asked the waiter to introduced me to some of their special dishes and these are what he recommended.

Grilled Vegetarian Fish

四大天王 (famous chinese dish. direct translation is: Four Big Heavenly Kings). Yummy!

Sweet and Sour Crispy Mushroom. This was the yummiest of all. Hubby and I walloped the whole dish within a few minutes. Very good!

The best part was that all dishes were only about RM8 which is very cheap. I guess it is because of the restaurant's location.

I definitely want to go and try out their other dishes. Just going back for the crispy mushroom would have been worth the trip too.

PappaRich's New Vegetarian Dishes

There is a PappaRich right around the corner from my house which I like to visit. I used to wake up early on Sundays just to spend breakfast with Dad. We like the food (despite it being a chained restaurant) because erm...well, it's just different. I can't explain. You have to try it.

Last week, hubby had to meet some in Subang so we visited the one in SS15 Subang Jaya and was excited to find out that they've changed their menu.

Look!!! More vegetarian dishes now and they all look yummy!

I forgot to take the picture of my fried mee hoon with mutton curry. But here's what hubby ordered. Nasi kunyit with mutton curry... (nasi kunyit means glutinous rice with tumeric)

Will go back to try the other new items. Vegans, remember to tell them not to serve eggs with your dishes. Mine came with it. =.=

Yam Cake

One morning, I woke up and heard a lot of noises in the kitchen. In case I didn't mention in my earlier posts, I am currently living with my in-laws while waiting for our house to be done constructed. Anyway, back to the noises in the kitchen. It turned out to be my mum-in-law cooking yam cake, a wonderful Malaysian delicacy.

She used yam (cut in cubes), rice flour, water to make the cake and added fried onions, chili and scallions for the toppings. Since my mum-in-law isn't a vegetarian, she also used dried prawns for taste. But because hubby and I are vegetarians, she passed all the ingredients to me and taught me how to make the yam cake (minus the dried prawns).

Look how yummy it was!

If you want to know how to make it, please comment and let me know. I will try and get the ingredients measured and come up with the recipe. :)

Vegetable Curry

The other day I was craving for curry. I didn't feel like having mock meat so I cooked curry vegetable instead. This is the first time in my life to cook vegetable curry. All this while, I've learnt how to cook chicken curry only. I've used the same method (minus chicken and plus a lot of veges) and voila...success!

Question: How to know if the curry is good?
Answer: My hubby finished to the last drop and even licked the bowl (no kidding!)