No-Frills Recipes ... cooking, baking & excerpts on travel

I'm a big fan of beancurd, be it beancurd puffs or beancurd sheets cooked in any manner.  Here, I'm sharing with you a very simple vegetarian dish which you can serve on the first day of  the 'Lunar New Year' which will fall on Monday, the 8th of February 2016. Recipe for Braised Beancurd Sheets ~  香菇焖豆卜 Ingredients 1 packet wet beancurd sheets 1 red capsicum - sliced 4 Shitake mushrooms, soaked and cut 6 waterchesnuts, peeled and cut small piece of ginger, sliced 1 Tbsp black bean sauce 2 tsp vegetarian oyster sauce Light soya sauce, salt and sugar to taste Sesame oil to drizzle Cornflour + water to thicken Method Lightly pan-fry the beancurd sheets and cut a strip into 3 pieces In the same pan, add some oil and saute the ginger slices with the black beans and mushrooms Add in water to simmer till the mushrooms are cooked Add in the beancurd sheets, capsicum and waterchestnuts Simmer and  test for taste Add cornflour mixt...

Recently, we had brunch at a vegetarian shop in Medan Ipoh Bistari ~ Fu Tien vegetarian.  I find that the menu is slightly different from the norm as they have sushi, bento and other a-la-carte dishes that sound interesting.  I ordered some sushi as I've never tasted vegetarian ones before.

I cooked this vegetarian dish yesterday as our household observed a vegetarian diet on Wesak Day .  The deepfried gluten puffs is one of my favourites whenever we have vegetarian food.  On its own, they're quite bland but once  cooked with some sauce, they are very tasty as they're very absorbent.

Vegetarian Soup ..... as the name implies, this is a very nutritious, healthy fat-free soup and yes it's meatless. Therefore, it's very suitable for people who are on a vegetarian diet be it due to religious, health reasons or otherwise.  On top of that this veggie soup needs very little effort and it's easy to whip up!

Once in a while I would like to have a vegetarian meal.  What I like most is dishes made with bean curd sheets, 'fu chook' or gluten puffs.    I've never been to this restaurant eversince they shifted to this new and bigger place and so last weekend, trotted there to check it out  ....... Gui Lin vegetarian restaurant. We ordered 4 dishes for the three of us and let me introduce them to you, one by one ......