No brainer chicken porridge

I love cooking.

If you follow my instagram you'll know that I post heaps of food pictures; stuff that I cook and stuff that I eat. I'm not quite a foodie or a masterchef hopeful though. As much as I enjoy Masterchef, which is coming back soon, honestly I don't think I'll ever be able to cook stuff as complicated as they do there (cooking rabbit?? venison?? lamb brains?? uugh nah.) stuff that I cook is usually quick and cheap because I'm poor money wise and time wise hehe. sometimes I do enjoy a sunday full of cooking though, especially when I cook for someone else other than myself.

Anyway...here's my very first recipe. I made this few weeks ago when it was cold in Sydney. Nothing better than soup and congee on a rainy day! The mr loved this and always ask me to make them when he's sick. When I was living in Indo, these stuff are consumed at all time of the day, you can have them for brekky, lunch, and dinner. There are plenty of congee styles there is in Indo, all of them are unique and most are tasty. This one that I make is a more chinese style congee and its super simple. You can make this even when you are fully drowsy from the flu and cold.

WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE THIS NO-BRAINER CHICKEN PORRIDGE


2 cups of white rice
About 2l of water
Chicken stock cubes (I use Royco brand.. South east asia style!)
Chicken pieces (amount is up to you)
Soy sauce, white pepper to taste
toppings: chinese fried bread (cakwe), green onions, fried shallots,chinese sausages, salted duck eggs etc etc..

1. first, boil water in the kettle, and then pour to a deep pan (whatever you use to make soup)
2. Drop your chicken pieces to the pan, and wait until it become all white. I do this because most of the time I use random pieces of chicken that I found on my freezer. Doing this will thaw and cook the chicken much faster, like 5 mins or so.  Take the chicken out and cut them into small pieces with a scissors.  You can leave it longer if you want and then shred them when they are fully cooked or chop the raw chicken before you put them into the pan.
3. Drop the 2 cups of rice to the pan, as well as those chicken pieces you just chop up. 
4. add those chicken stock cubes... 2-3 cubes should be enough.
5. Now boil the shiz out of that porridge. Its going to take forever (as in 45 mins plus) and you will have to check and stir it every 10 minutes or so to make sure that the rice does not stick to the bottom. When the water dries out and the porridge is not in the consistency that you prefer, add more water and seasoning.
6. After the porridge reaches the watery softness gooey ness that you like, turn off the heat, scoop them to your big bowl and garnish with chopped green onions, and all the toppings.

The above toppings are suggestion only. There are an endless list of things that you can eat with the porridge because it's technically just like rice. I like it with just chicken, chopped onion, fried shallots and soy sauce, but sometimes I add some salted fish or salted duck eggs when I have them. Just use your imagination and add anything in your porridge. This porridge is fridge friendly too, so if you make too much you can save it for the night or the next day and heat it with microwave. 

Hope you enjoy this! Now back to work.. hehe..

xx Liz

Come to mama

So I spent my whole morning being jittery in my work desk because I got a Shopbop code from vogue forums. This baby is coming to its mama now..which means that I have everything in my autumn/winter shop list now. I'm still missing a navy but bright blue pencil skirt (confusing?? well I want what Joan Holloway is wearing in Mad Men! something like this).. and I missed out on the leather look black skater skirt thing. but meh surely they'll come back soon!

The black ASOS AGGIE boots came last week and I LOVE it so much omg. I'm not wearing it today though because it was soaked by stupid Sydney rain yesterday! I'm so looking daggy this morning when travelling to work with trainers, but if that's what it takes to preserve my shoes then I'll do it!! and it's more comfortable anyway.

I went down to the South Coast on the easter break, but I'll tell about it later- pics are at the mr's camera and he needs to edit it and convert it to JPEG first yada yada. I don't get boys and their cameras, whats the point of taking pic in .RAW first when you will eventually change it to JPEG?? gahh. Here's my instagram pics for now- complete with the obligatory blogger style outfit pic muhaha

sunnies. check. dramatic background. check. the 'i'm so cool, not smiling' pout - check. thunder calves- check!!!!!!!!!!! sigh I swear it doesnt look like that bad (like a turnip) in real life!!

Pretty forest lah

Cake shop in Bowral. I feel slack for taking pics but not buying any, but we brought with us some garlic prawn baguettes for brekky. Which was awesome btw.

Wino night in our hotel/apartment. That Jacobs Creek Sauv blanc is the best cheapo Sauv blanc that I've ever had. But then again I'm a total noob in wines..

the mr went to a 'catch up' job interview today, fingers crossed that he'll get it!!

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all the nails and shiz

Life has been pretty damn boring and I have assignment due on wednesday! just FYI I work full time and doing the degree part time (its the Dip. of Financial Planning). I've been bludging for so long and haven't been studying for even longer, so getting my ass back to study is sooo hard.

I should do fine though! its not that hard because most of the stuff I've already known from work or from my bachelor degree... but still.. 100+page of assignment is still a pain..

Got these babies in the mail last week, OzSale really took their time in sending them... I'm loving all the colours though!

I went to the new Darling Quarter at Darling Harbour on saturday night. So pretty!! what a perfect night out- steak, mojito and live music! bliss.

The said mojito.. can't believe that I have never had one before (I might have one in Bali but not too sure if thats actually a mojito). where have you been all my life??? anyway the restaurant that I tried was Stacks Tavern (Taverna?) which is the one closest to the convention centre & furthest from playground. I had the rump steak with chips and the boy had pepperoni pizza.

I didn't take photo of them though because they dont really look pretty haha (unless if you think that a slab of meat with gravy is pretty!) They are delicious but not woah. I think it's pretty good value though- $69 for the two of us already including the mojito :)

The mojito outfit. Can u see my belly button?? haha.

ASOS AGGIE boots

... yes another one!! :) looking forward to have it in my claws next week!

The awkward pose

Here it is. Worn this a few weeks ago, not sure when, but it's gotta be a colder day...

Week

It feels like just a year ago That i came back home and saw my little brother sitting down on the floor, in front of my little tv watching spongebob. (I am watching the spongebob movie now hehe random but it's still cute and funny)
Last week was quite different at work as we are in process of moving licensees. All the network is not quite working yet so it wasn't really that effective but hopefully next week it's up and running.
Friday was my anniversary with my boy (3years 7months) and he bought me an oroton bag ❤❤ oroton was having 50% off sale and I actually went there on thursday and bought him the reversible bag. I fell in love with the Blum hobo and sent the picture to him for opinion. I walked out the store without it, but the next day when I thought I'm definitely going to buy it. , he came home with a huge oroton bag with the exact bag I fell in love with. How sweet!! :) I have the best lover.
I went to watch 21 jump street on Saturday and it was awesome. It's really funny but not the dumb sort of funny. Channing tatum is gorgeous as always. I was wearing the white Arab jumper that I seem to be living in the past week. So comfy ❤❤
Back to working week tomorrow.

Anyway re kony stuff, I honestly don't really believe in it and I'm not going to support it as I have other causes that I'd prefer to support (not that I think that child soldier and slavery is not important) well that's my position up until now.

K now gotta go sleep. Can't wait for the end of next week. Hunger games is going to come out and it's gonna be epic!! Who's gonna go?? :)

Sneaky

Sneaky outfit of the day shot. In the lift to work!!! Bahaha. I don't have full length mirror anywhere at home :(

wooo blogger at my iphone works!!

the jumper and apparently I am a versatile blogger??

My ASOS order came on monday this week and I absolutely love it. these are what I bought:

ASOS Aggie boots

heart tights

cream aran jumper

The Aggie boots is gorgeous and comfortable despite of the 8.5cm heels. I don't even notice the heels when I wear it, feels more like a 5cm-er for me. the colour is exactly the same as pictured. the cream jumper is nice and comfortable too despite of having a little loose knit on the arm (so it looks like a mini hole). I thought that it's going to be a thin jumper but it is quite thick and cozy.

I didn't think that the cream jumper is a 'basic' but then realised that they may be more versatile than the grey pullover that I planned to buy. made this polyvore as a reminder just in case if im having a moment of 'idonnowhattowearwithmyjumper'

anyway Lydia awarded me with Versatile blogger awards! yay so apparently I'm versatile haha. I thought that I only write about clothes and crap haha. hopefully I'll be able to write more different and interesting stuff in the future. Thanks again Lydia for the award! :)

Rules are:

1. add the award to your blog

2. Thank the blogger who gave it to you and post a link to their blog

3. mention 7 random things about yourself

4. list the rules

5. give the award to 10 bloggers

6. Inform all 10 bloggers by leaving a comment on their blog

no 1,2,4, tick tick tick. now 7 randoms about myself:

1. my favourite ice cream flavour ever is mango.

2. I know how to drive but I don't have a car so I don't drive.

3. I hate winter with passion! but I like how you get to wear so much layers and stuff

4. My choice of coffee is latte with one sugar.

5. I don't like white bread or most bread in general. I always buy wholemeal/multigrain and I toast them most of the time.

6. I love love cheese but my bf is lactose intolerant. so if i'm alone and I have cheese in front of me, expect me to go wildddddddddddddddd.

7. I'm a yoga and pilates fan but these days i go to Body combat classes too :)

I'd really like to tag people for this but most of them that I'd like to tag have already been tagged and posted :\ so no tags for now!

anyway shit day in Sydney today! but I'm proud of myself for being able to drag my ass to work this morning hahaha (typing this on my lunch break) you all have a good day/weekend!!

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