The first is a big ceramic pan for stir-fry. We love fresh vegetables, but we also love it when food cooks fast - then we can eat it as soon as possible! Chinese stir-fry is our favourite comfort quickie, especially with Japanese mushrooms.
Sud-an is the Ilonggo word for side dishes - ulam in Tagalog, okazu in Japanese, pèi cài in Mandarin. It implies that there is rice, and then there is food that goes with rice.
Stir fry is the easiest, fastest (and often yummiest) way to get some daily veggies. We pile on our favourite ones with the 3 G's - garlic, ginger and green onion - add a big scoop of rice and feast.
My other lifesaver is this wondrous thing - the electric lunchbox. This is a mini rice cooker and steamer with handles and a plug which is meant to cook your food at work!
It was an impulse buy based on an ad, and the instructions that came with it were hilariously Google Translated, so I had to watch a few videos to get the hang of it. But of course I had to make the big staple first...RICE!
My new friend made a perfect pot of fluffy jasmine rice on the first try! Feeling braver, I decided to try a dish I'd been craving for ages and had never made myself: chicken binakol.
I used a fairly simple recipe from Panlasang Pinoy and piled all my ingredients in the pot: sautéed chicken pieces, coconut water, coconut meat (and a bit of coconut oil!) plus the 3 G's.
Then I added a bit of water to the lunchbox, sealed it, switched it on and left it for 20 minutes. When I came back it had helpfully switched off, having cooked my dinner all by itself.
And to this heavenly-smelling meal, I (of course) added a cup of rice to soak in all the goodness!
No more tired takeaway or soggy microwave dishes. Only the happiest of happy meals for this Londoner!
It was an impulse buy based on an ad, and the instructions that came with it were hilariously Google Translated, so I had to watch a few videos to get the hang of it. But of course I had to make the big staple first...RICE!
My new friend made a perfect pot of fluffy jasmine rice on the first try! Feeling braver, I decided to try a dish I'd been craving for ages and had never made myself: chicken binakol.
I used a fairly simple recipe from Panlasang Pinoy and piled all my ingredients in the pot: sautéed chicken pieces, coconut water, coconut meat (and a bit of coconut oil!) plus the 3 G's.
Then I added a bit of water to the lunchbox, sealed it, switched it on and left it for 20 minutes. When I came back it had helpfully switched off, having cooked my dinner all by itself.
And to this heavenly-smelling meal, I (of course) added a cup of rice to soak in all the goodness!
No more tired takeaway or soggy microwave dishes. Only the happiest of happy meals for this Londoner!
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