Vegetable Stew

It's one of those recipes where you can put all the ingredients you have prepared and leave it cooked. Well, not literally put all the ingredients in one time, but in order. :P It's very easy and everyone can make it. :)

Ingredients:

• Carrots, chopped
• Broccoli, cut and then boiled for a few minutes
• Cherry tomatoes, cut in half
• Mushrooms, chopped and then boiled for about 5 minutes (basically to get rid of the water used for boiling the mushrooms which usually turns dark afterwards)
• Spring onions, sliced
• 1/4 onion, sliced
• 3 cloves of garlic, pressed then sliced
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 chicken stock
• 2 tsp fish sauce
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1 tsp salt and 1/6 tsp sugar, which means only a little bit of sugar :D

Note: The quantity of all the ingredients above depend on how big the portion you'd like to cook is.

Method:

1. Heat butter in a pan, fry onion and garlic until smells good.
2. Put approximately 1L of water (again, depend on how much you want to make), chicken stock, and fish sauce. Stir well.
3. Put carrots into the pan. Leave it for about 5 minutes.
4. Put pepper, nutmeg, salt, and sugar, stir well.
5. Put mushrooms, broccoli, tomatoes, spring onions. Stir well.
6. Leave it until all the vegetables are cooked.

Happy cooking!

The Indonesian version: http://dapurdara.blogspot.ie/2013/01/sayur-sup-bening.html.

Scrambled Eggs

The easiest way to scramble eggs is to cook it in a microwave, but the taste is not great. Neither is the texture. So, I was browsing the internet to find a perfect way to scramble eggs. I found one, which is a recipe video. The key is apparently in the method. If you follow it, not only the taste will turn out delicious, but it'll also look good (fluffy and bright yellow)! :)

Personally, I modified the method shown in the video a little bit because I wanted to add a few vegetables with the eggs. 

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 2 tbsp milk
• 1 tsp butter
• cherry tomatoes, sliced
• mushrooms, sliced. Boiled for 5 minutes (or until well cooked) beforehand.
• parsley, salt, and pepper

Method:

1. Follow the method shown in the video, until you pour the eggs onto the pan. Note: I beat the eggs with milk, parsley, salt, and pepper before cooking.
2. Now is when I do the little modification. Don't stir the eggs straight away like being demonstrated in the video! Wait for approximately a minute, and then pour the sliced tomatoes and mushrooms onto it.
3. Stir it with a wooden spoon or a spatula. If you like big curds, stir it slowly. Quickly if you like small curds.
4. Once done, put it immediately on a plate. Leaving the scrambled eggs on the pan will make them dry. 

Remember, the key is low and slow. Enjoy! :9

The Indonesian version: http://dapurdara.blogspot.ie/2013/01/scrambled-eggs-telur-orak-arik-ala-bule.html.