On 27 May 2013

White rice served with:

Today, I continue to cook my vegetables without using any oil. This is the 4th meal I have blanched my vegetables. Apparently they can accept this way of preparation which is good for every body’s health. I will try as many types of vegetable as possible.

Today’s soup is rather special. Special in the sense that none of my circles of friends, including neighbors have ever eaten this soup before. My late father used to cook this soup once in a while and as far I can remembers, all my brothers like this soup and it is consider quite unusual if any one of us cook this soup. I am still trying hard to trace the origins. Obviously, the way of cooking and the ingredients appeared to be influenced by western cooking. Onion was used and starch or flour was added to make it slightly runny. It is totally different from the Chinese soup we used to have. It very much resemble the western style potato soup or creamy mushroom soup! If any readers have ever cooked this soup, please share with me and I am particularly keen to know more about it.

ANALYSIS OF DISHES COOKED UNTIL TODAY

It had been almost a month and  I am in the process of preparing a summary of dishes cooked to facilitate reader’s reference and comments if any. As I have stressed many times, the purpose of this series is for reader’s reference and share with readers how I rotate my meal plan. Purely putting up what I cooked today with further analysis will not serve much a purpose. As such, I am compiling the data and preliminary analysis disclosed the following figures. I welcome readers to comment on the dish cooked and share with me if they are any areas improvement that I need to work on…

FOR READERS WHO ARE INTERESTED TO HAVE A COPY OF EXCEL WORKSHEET ON THE MEALS COOKED, PLEASE JUST DROP ME AN E-MAIL AND I WILL MAIL YOU THE MEAL PLAN. THE WORKSHEET IS IN A TABULAR FORM AND YOU CAN SORT IT OR SEARCH BY VEGETABLE NAMES AND ETC.

Number of cooking days from 30-4-2013 to 27-5-2013 = 23 days

Hope you enjoy the series and for me, it is really a challenge and I am especially happy that I can maintain until today. I will continue and you will start to see the dish begin to rotate.

You can refer HERE. Click on the date in the calendar and you will be able to go that day’s menu..