Simple And Easy Home Cooked Dinners For 2

There are days when I am not lazy to cook. Whenever I cook for only 2 people, I usually cook simple dishes. Sometimes, I find eating outside much more convenient and cheaper than cooking for 2 people. But once in a while, I cook whenever I miss some home cook food. I have here two sets of dinner which I cooked.

Dinner One - Chicken Red Wine Soup With Noodle

I used half a free range chicken, slices of old ginger and some home made red yeast wine to cook this dish. My red yeast wine didn't turned out red because I used less red yeast.

We ate the chicken red wine soup with noodles.

I stir fried a plate of amaranth green with garlic.

This is simple dinner #1

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Dinner 2 - Black vinegar pig's trotter with rice.

I used half a pig's trotter, old ginger, black wood fungus and black vinegar to cook this. This is only half of the amount, the other half went into the freezer for another day's dinner.

Bitter gourd slices and carrot strips fried with egg.

We ate the above 2 dishes with rice.

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The following photos are for joining Good Fences.

Fence next to railway track.

Fence next to railway track

Linking to Good Fences.

Now Christ has gone to heaven.

He is seated in the place of honor next to God,

and all the angels and authorities and powers accept his authority.

(1 Peter 3:22, New Living Translation-NLT)

*Home Made Confinement Dishes* at No. 2, O Cafe, Ipoh.

One day, my friends and I were so taken up with our chit chatting when it suddenly dawn on us that we have not taken our lunch yet. Looking at the clock, it was past 1.30 pm. We had no idea where to go or what to eat.

Then someone suggested that we go to a place where they serve "confinement" and home made dishes. Confinement dishes are dishes served to women after the deliverance of their babies to give warmth and nourishment to their bodies. The confinement period is usually 30 days from the day of birth of baby.

 Decorations on the wall near where we were seated.

The frame up consists of matchsticks boxes.

 Interior of No. 2, O Cafe.

If you are interested, the address is at:
No 2, Jalan Raja Kam, Taman Canning, Ipoh.
Tel: 014-3393796, 012-5841097.
Close on Fridays.

Black Vinegar Oink Oink Trotters with one hard boiled egg.

Chicken cooked in wine, wood fungus and lots of pounded ginger.
We finished off every drop of the wine and ginger soup.

Each dish comes with a plate of brown rice as a set.

A plate of dwarf milk cabbage or nai pak choy.
The 2 rice portion were big portion.
We asked for an empty plate and 3 of us shared the 2 portion of rice.

 2 glasses of pineapple juice. So refreshing on a hot, sweaty afternoon!

I can't recall the price of our lunch.

Haven't you yet learned that

your body is the home of the Holy Spirit God gave you,

and that He lives within you?

Your own body does not belong to you.

For God has bought you with a great price.

So use every part of your body

to give glory back to God because He owns it.

(1 Corinthians 6:19-20, TLB)

Home Cooked Dinner @ O Cafe, Canning Garden, Ipoh

I have heard and even read about this place that serves home cooked meals in Canning Garden but I have not been there even once. Recently, a friend mentioned it again and suggested that we should go there for our next fellowship meeting. According to my friend and what I have read, this place is famous for its confinement dishes e.g. chicken in rice wine and pork trotter in rice vinegar. These two dishes always seem to get my attention every time without fail.

So last Saturday evening, we decided to go to this place which is called O Cafe.  I have passed by this place a few times and I have no idea that it is a cafe! The reason is that it is like any ordinary single-storey house and there is no significant signboard showing that it is a cafe.  The only thing to look out for is a big figure 2.

The place is very homely and when we were seated, we were given the menu to choose our food. We ordered the following dishes.

Chicken rice wine - chicken cooked with crunchy wood ear fungus, coarsely pounded ginger and rice wine. This dish is really delicious and I finished off every drop of the soup.

Braised Pork Belly with salted fish, very appetizing with rice.

I have forgotten the name of this Minced Pork dish.

A plate of veggie.

3 plates of Healthy rice (small portion).
Total cost of dinner for 3 people MYR 45.60
(incl. 3 glasses of plain water)

Photo of wall on my right.

Photo taken from where we were seated.

Matches framed up on the wall facing me.
Address: O Cafe, No. 2, Jalan Raja Kam, Taman Canning, Ipoh.

Many curry favour with a ruler,
and everyone is the friend of a man who gives gifts.
(Proverbs 19:6, New International Version-NIV)