Bohemia Bunny

Cooking Adventures Ep. 3

October 29th, 2007 by lynnylchan under Leisure

Sundays are cooking days, because there’s all of Saturday to go grocery shopping, and Sundays are relaxed days when we can take 2 hours to cook lunch. This edition: ABC Soup! Also known more prosaically as Onions, Carrots, Tomatoes and Potatoes Soup.

Ingredients:

Large red onions, sliced

Tomatoes, cut into wedges

Potatoes, cut into quarters

Carrots, cut into wedges

Pork on the bone (I used loin ribs, but spare ribs would have been better)

Large dried ikan bilis

Maggi Chicken Stock Granules (yes, cheating!)

1 clove garlic, chopped

Salt and pepper

Brown rice

Instructions:

Wash rice and put in rice cooker. Switch on and let cook. However, I used the saucepan for the rice and the mini rice-cooker for the soup, so I had 2 pots going simultaneously.

Put water in pot, let boil. Chuck in garlic, ikan bilis and stock granules, then carrots and potatoes.

When carrots and potatoes have softened up (after ~1 hour), add onions, tomatoes and meat.

When carrots, potatoes and onions have reached desired levels of cooked-ness, remove from heat. Eat with rice.

The final product:

Rated a great success, although time-consuming. My mother would be so proud.

Lots of pictures this time, although they were taken with a mobile phone so quality is a bit lower than usual.

The pots

Washing rice

Cutting the meat - I wouldn’t have had to do this if I’d bought spare ribs instead.

Cooking the rice, old-school style!

The water’s steaming. Bathtime, veggies!

Onions, tomatoes and meat like to soak in carrot-and-potato-flavoured water.

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble.

Lunch!