Chinese Soup: Napa Cabbage with Fuzhou Fishballs
This soup might not be beautiful to look at, with practically cooked-to-death napa cabbage and if I may call them that, wrinkly stewed balls. Whenever I add prawn balls, fishballs, meatballs, etc to my basic vegetable soup, Jason celebrates that he gets to eat “ball soup special” because he is just simple like that. And whenever I cook this savoury cabbage soup, it is like Christmas day for him. This is the ultimate “ball soup special”– with ngoh hiang, prawn balls, fishballs, fuzhou fishballs (fishballs with a meat center)– cooked for hours, sweetened with napa cabbage, honey dates, and dried cuttlefish. I usually cook soups with onions, garlic, ginger, carrots in…
Luncheon Meat Scones (with Airfryer Option!)
We were eating some homemade cheese and butter scones one baking weekend when Jason had a bright idea. “Why don’t you make luncheon meat scones?” I looked at him, eyes wide opened.. then I thought about it seriously in the next two seconds. I think it is quite do-able! I used my go-to recipe for scones, from Joy of Baking. Stephanie’s recipes are straightforward and extremely easy to follow, even for a novice baker like me. Most recipes are accompanied by a step-by-step video, and you really can’t go wrong. I used the basic scones recipe in the link but sifted the flour, replaced the buttermilk with regular milk, and…
