• Pork,  Soup,  Under $2

    Pork Rib Apple Soup

    *Sorry for the lousy picture. It was taken at 8.30 pm, where there’s no sunlight! Soup has got to one of the most fail-proof dishes. Really, there is only ONE true component to making tasty soup: time. You can make a really sweet and savoury soup with just a few basic ingredients. If I’m trying to go meatless, the most basic soup would be ABC soup: corn, carrot, potato and onion. If I really want a rich, full bodied soup, I add pork ribs and honey dates, and boil for at least 2.5 hours over the stove top. You could also cook the soup in your slow cooker for 7…

  • Noodles,  One-dish Meals,  Prawns,  Seafood,  Under $3

    Prawn Noodle Soup (Malaysian Style)

    When I was a little fat girl, I had very little worries. My studies were not fantastic, but I was doing ok, above average I think, in all subjects except Maths. I had great friends, fish balls and zero point. And after school, lunch was always ready for me. Those days, Ah mm practically made sure our lives functioned. She would drive my brothers and I, and 88 to school (she was a Chinese teacher)- and we attended different schools- then go to the market (normally Ghim Moh) and talk to all the hawkers, buy ingredients for dinner, pack us lunch, go home, and pick us up from school. Then,…