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Friday, October 2, 2009
Crabs!!!



Today was a nice and good day to cook chilli crabs!!! This morning baby came to my side early in the morning to go shopping for the ingredients for our lunch cook off... We needed to shop for crabs and onions since the rest of the ingredients were readily available at home for the cooking... Thanks baby for waking up so early just to reach my side at 10am... ILY!!! Even though she forgot to take the recipe it was okay since she already had to wake up so early just for me... Luckily i managed to on my brother's laptop and take a photo of the recipe which actually wasn't really important in the end haha...

So we went to Bedok interchange and walked between NTUC and ShengSiong to shop... In the end we didn't manage to find any instant mix haha... So we just bought our onions and crabs... The cost was not so bad as we managed to feed around a mouthful of 6-7people... We took 2 large crabs and a small one which weighted nearly 2 kilograms which incurred a cost of $36? Wasn't too bad at all ^^ Oh and did i mention it was live crabs? haha...

Got back home and we washed the crabs before killing them... Washing of the mud is very important as we do not want to eat muddy crabs right? After that we fought with the crabs to break the shell off like how my mother does so easily but it didn't really work... My father came to help us but he did it his way... He hacked the crab from the bottom down the middle as close as to the shell as possible and then managed to break of the shell and pull off the body... So he did so for the rest and then we started to prepare the other stuff...

I chopped and diced the garlic and onions as well as slicing ginger... Lots of onions till baby's and my eyes were irritated haha... So we started to steam the crabs and the crabs tasted so sweet by themselves because baby and i had to make sure the crabs were cooked to a certain extent before simmering it with the gravy... After that we put some oil and threw in the onions, garlic and ginger and fried them till their flavours came out and the onions become transparent... After that we added water, chilli sauce, tomato sauce, light soy sauce and sugar... Let it simmer for a while and tasted it for flavour and it was nice... We added a tiny bit of corn starch and thickened it... Finally came it the egg and it was just nice the thickness...

Crabs!!! The last thing to do was throw in the crabs!!! and mixed it all up and simmered the crabs in the gravy... Halfway the gravy became too little and i accidentally added too much water and became a little bit diluted but overall it was still okay for the first try... Not too spicy at all though cause there wasn't enough chilli sauce as compared to the tomato sauce... Also made egg soup with button mushrooms which was a nice compliment to the crabs to cool down the throat... My father, brother and baby enjoyed the meal and i felt a sense of achievement... I know that i myself have started to grow to learn how to cook on my own with the help of my baby... Hope next time will be better!!! JYJY!!!

i love you baby... we made a good team ^^

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