Chicken Hot Pot

Chicken Hot Pot By Bellalean

   Today's special recipe is chosen for my kids today. It's hard to feed my kids enough vegetables in their daily diet. My kids love anything with chicken. So I sometimes make this chicken hot pot since I can add lots of cooked vegetables to it. Of course, again, it's not spicy. But if you want you can certainly add chili powder (use Korean chili powder otherwise, it tastes bitter or sour) or chili paste to this recipe.

I got some great designs for stickers and cards from one of my blog friends. I copied them for my personal use to make it into some stickers for kids. Feel free to get these great designs here.

Baby organic apple tea

By Bellalean

     I used my slower cooker to make some organic apple tea and kept it in a baby food container.
Keep it in the fridge or freeze it.

Please refer to my other post on Apple and lemon tea. It is exactly the same except I used organic applies only this time.

You can view my post on Apple and Lemon Tea here.














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Fried Parmigiana Squid

By Bellalean

   Today's dish is Fried Parmigiana Squid. This dish is often my choice for appetizer. Often fried squid is coated with salt and pepper and a little bit of lemon juice.

But I like adding a touch of parmigiana in the coat. It is a light meal to compliment the main dish and the taste is not too overpowering. I used the tentacles as well but usually only the hood is used in this dish.


The key is not to over-fry the squid. Otherwise, it becomes rubbery when you chew.

No time to cook

Today, I have been too tired to cook anything. What do you do if you don't want to cook? Going out for a meal isn't the best solution when I am so lethargic. I guess that's why someone came up with an idea on instant noodles. Yes, why not. It's easy to cook and easy to eat.

So here is today's pick. I like Thai instant noodles too. But I couldn't get one lately.

Picked by Bellalean

It's supposed to be black bean sauce noodle.

Real Apple and Lemon Tea

Apple & Lemon Tea by Bellalean

  I tend to get too much bad stuff in my daily life. I take two tablets of pain killer at least once a month, drink too much coffee and too little water. In fact, I hate drinking water. Instead, I often make myself a cuppa. It all came from working with one of my colleagues at my previous workplace. She used to drink too much coffee. I never counted how many times she goes in and out of the tea room to get her fresh coffee but surely she had more than 3 times while working with me.

Cutlas Fish Hot Pot

Gal Chi Jo Rim By Bellalean

In my previous posting on Bul Go Gi Hot Pot, I reserved some of broth and half cooked radish to make today's meal, Cutlass Fish Hot Pot. It is very spicy and is served with boiled rice.
It is very important to cook this with fresh Korean radish since it gives some sweetness to the dish.

Just in case, if you are not sure what Cutlass Fish is, here is a picture I got from a fishing website:

Radish Kimchi

This is a variation of Kimch. Usually, Kimch needs to be fermented at least overnight upto few days to months depending on the flavour you like. This one, however, does not need fermentation process so you can prepare and eat it straight on the day you make. But I like to eat it the next day. Keep it in the fridge once you prepare.

You can find the ingredients at Korean grocery store. Please do not use other chillie powder, e.g. Indian or mexican etc. Korean chillie powder has sweet taste compared to those.

When you shred the radish, the length and width are not that important. But if you follow it, the final presentation will be better.

What I love to buy for me and my kids

Mums love to buy things on kids. How can you resist a tiny little finger pointing at something they want. They point their magic fingers to anything they desire regardless of the price tag. But I often find myself choosing kids' choice over mine. Even toys come to our house all carefully re-selected by me. I don't know if my children are happy with my choice. I say I buy things for kids but in a way, I buy what I choose to satisfy my status as mum.

Let's look at what other mums love to choose for their kids!!!
Love to buy'em for us one day.

ZIGO LEADER X2 INTERGRATED BIKE AND PRAM

Hot Pot Idea for Mum and Kids

Bul Go Gi Hot Pot by Bellalean

I love spicy food. I love spices. But, I cannot enjoy them with my kids. It's a tragic. Because I don't have enough time to cook separate foods for me and my kids at the same time. My second one eats solids so she does not worry me when it comes to selecting menu for dinner. My first one, this one is very cheeky, still refuses to try anything a little spicy. If I want to have any spicy food then I make the food and scoop out my portion and add spicy herbs. This makes the range of food selection very niche.