meal of the day

Meal that on lunch and dinner table

a. chilli fried drumstick meat
b. chilli fried rice
c. steam drumstick
d. fried rice with mixed beans

e. tofu soup and tomato soup
f. chicken stew with tomato
g. lettuce - fried?
h. steam chicken piece on rice (chicken rice)
i. fried scramble egg wrap rice - ham and mixed bean
j. oyster source with vegetables


General tips
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Vegetables take longer to cook - but it is fine to eat raw. Beans even longer.
Meat is shorter - pan fried takes more than 5 mins
Food is easier to cook in boiling.
cut in small piece for easy to cook.
Think how to make sure things are cook and how the seasoning adds up.

Thaw time
1. meat should not be frozen and rethawed.
2. Meat thawed at room temperature (drumstick) takes longer than 1 hour.



Fried rice
1. heat rice in microwave ( add water if necessary) keep it at dry as possible
2. heat mixed bean in microwave 1 min or more to cook
3. Pan + oil (heat) . Let the beans in first for 2-3 mins
4. Add rice in ( by right no more water is required).
5. Add oyster sause / chilli sauce

Chicken rice
1. cook the chicken broth with chicken cube. 2 cube for 2 cups of rice. boil water as little as possible to dissolve the chicken cube.
2. chicken strips seasoned with soya bean and salt
3. wash rice in the rice pot, then add mixed bean/ vegatable first, followed by chicken strips
4. add in the broth. add more water to the suggestion line in rice pot if necessary.
5. cook.

Steamed chicken
1. chicken - cut and add salt and soya sauce
2. put in the steam pan for 20 mins


Fried rice
1. cut chicken strips (0r cube size) so that it is easy to cook
2. heat pan + oil
3. Add in chili sauce and seasoned chicken
4. cook for 3 mins
5. Add in rice to cook. Try to avoid adding water ( add a bit if required)

Tofu fried
1. Heat pan + oil
2. Add in Chilli sauce and tofu and egg at the same time
3. Cook for 10 mins
4. Add any salt / soya sauce

Tofu soup
1. boil water, add chicken essense 1 cube is enough
2. Add bean / vegetables - 5 mins or more (after water is boiled)
3. Add chicken strips (soya/salt seasoned) , add tofu at the same time.
4. cook for another 5 mins

searching for free air

Not knowing that air is so precious in california, I searched literally all the gas stations along El camino. To my disappointment, air is only fee at Colorado but the offer does not extend to California.
Here in california, everything is about money. If Singapore is materialistic, California is the place that you live buried in dimes and pennies. Everything is attached to a price here. Every service is charged by hour. The only thing that I treasure most and still free is the library access. Although I am not sure how long the priviledge will be available.

I remembered back in 90's, EON service had an advertisement that showcased a lady who sent her car to a service center for the steering was too hard to turn. Acting defensely, she argued that the price quoted for service was too expensive, when the service agent told her that "air is free for the car tires."

What if the economy of US really collapses? What does it mean when the economy collapses. Are the people do not produce enough? OR they produce less relatively? If the consumption is less than the production, does it result to the disaster? What about the huge investment of US funds?
While I am not sure how would I survive for the rest of the life if the money issue keep hovering over my head.