Rabbit Eggs?

No! Of course rabbits don't lay eggs! These rabbits are made from quail's eggs! My brother-in-law made this dish of little white bunnies for our early reunion dinner. I'm really impressed and am going to try doing some of my own during the Chinese New Year too :) These are really cute!

What you need?

Hard-boil quail eggs

carrot, cut into thin strips for the eyes.

How to make them?

1) Prepare some hard-boil quails eggs.

2) Cut a piece from the egg so that the egg can rest on a flat bottom. 

3) Cut out the shape of the ears using this cut out piece. 

4) Insert the carrots for the eyes.

5) Make a slit in the top of the egg to insert the ears. 

By the way, my brother-in-law mentioned that they took 2 hrs to create them.
So if you're thinking of making them, allow yourself plenty of time :) 

Salad with quail's eggs and tuna

Once in a while, when I don't know what to cook, or don't have much of an appetite, I would prepared salad for dinner. I know it lack some colour, like tomatoes. But I'm not really fond of tomatoes in the first place. Anyway,  it complemented our chicken pie perfectly.

Black & White Fried Carrot Cake

Jerome & I decided to go vegetarian every Monday. This was after we watched "Food Inc" the documentary that showed us the reality of the food we eat. It kinda shocked us and scared us about the food we eat. One thing for sure,  I know we won't be eating any beef from US and we'll try to eat less meat.

Anyway, I tried to prepare fried carrot cake for lunch. A common hawker dish- carrot cake fried with preserved radish and eggs. Jerome prefers it black and I prefer mine white so I prepared both. It's definitely not the best fried carrot cakes that we've eaten. I was kinda disappointed as I couldn't get the eggs to be crispy like my favourite crispy fried carrot cake. Anyone knows how to make the eggs crispy?

Recipe for fried carrot cake

Ingredients:

200g carrot cake, cut into cubes

2 eggs, beaten

2 cloves garlic, chopped

3 tbsp preserved radish, rinsed and dry on kitchen napkins

2 tbsp sweet sauce (for black) or 1 tbsp fish sauce (for white)

3 tbsp oil

Method:

1) Heat up the oil in the wok. Saute chopped garlic till fragrant.

2) Add the preserved radish and stir fry for a while. 

3) Add the carrot cake and stir fry. 

4) Pour in the beaten egg. 

5) Add seasoning. 

6) Fry well, dish up & garnish with chopped spring onion. 

The best fried carrot cake I've eaten is from Lim Hai Sheng located at the hawker centre at Ang Mo Kio Central. The egg was fried till crispy just the way I liked it. Jerome also gave his approval. Sometimes we would travel to Ang Mo Kio just for the carrot cake :P

Portuguese Egg Tarts

This has been on my "To Do List" for the longest of time -Portuguese Egg Tarts! I do love to eat them! The reason why I took so long if I make 20 tarts at a time, how is Jerome & I going to finish everything on our own when Jerome already said that he doesn't like egg tarts... and of course, the folding of the puff pastry seems to be quite challenging.

Hence, when the everyone's coming for tea last Sunday, I grabbed the opportunity to finally make them. I have my guinea pigs :P And thanks to You Tube, I managed to see exactly how to make the puff pastry.

I used the recipe from Alex Goh's "Irresistible Pastry" and I still had leftover puff pastry.

Portuguese Egg Tarts Hot from the oven...

A closer look at the not too beautiful tarts...

I need more practice...

Caramelized Egg Custard

Flaky Puff Pastry & Soft Egg Custard...

Thinking of having some again :P

I'm glad that the egg tarts tasted better than they looked. Even Jerome changed his mind about egg tarts. He loves them now :) Well, maybe just for Portuguese Egg Tarts. I should be making them again soon...

Century Egg- Pi Dan

A century egg, a hundred-yr-old egg? A preserved egg, a mysterious egg...
Usually eaten with some preserved ginger slices, in congee or as an ingredient for some Chinese dishes (I used it for Spinach soup)
Have you heard of it being preserved by horses' urine?
Anyway, decided to go do some research on the net how it's really being preserved.

Wikipedia's entry about century egg...
The traditional method takes 3 years for the egg to be ready for consumption!
The modern method takes a few weeks.
About the eggs being preserved in horses' urine, thankfully that's only a myth :)
Nevertheless, it's best not to take them often...

This site has some nice pictures of the century egg :)