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Chulet’s Stir Fry Pumpkin and Pork Strip

19 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Found one really beautiful and pretty pumpkin the other day in Village grocer. Couldn’t help myself and bought the whole thing. Hehehe… hubby was shocked and asked if we could finish it?! Poor hub must be thinking he’ll have pumpkin for every meal for a week.

The staff there nicely helped me to quartered and packed each of the pumpkin slices (easier for storage and cooking later). The whole pumpkin cost about RM 37.

For the first quarter (which was the smallest one), I decided to use it for stir-fry. And since I have some pork, I decided to have that together. So, this was an experiment and I did forewarn hub that he was going to be a guinea pig.

Ingredients
  • ¼ Pumpkin finely sliced into strips
  • 150gm thinly sliced tenderloin pork
  • 4 cloves garlic (sliced) 
Marinate for the pork (5 minutes),
  • 1 tsp Oyster sauce
  • ½ tsp Soya sauce
  • ½ tsp sugar
  • ½ tsp sesame oil
  • ½ tsp Corn flour
  • Sprinkle over some Salt and pepper

Heat the pan fry with some oil, throw in the pumpkin strips and cook till soft (maybe about 5 minutes). Lift from pan into a bowl / plate.

Sauté the garlic till slightly golden, add the marinated pork strips. Remember to cook the pork really well (it is not good to eat uncooked pork).

Once it’s done, add back the pumpkin and fry it a bit. Close it with a lid and allow is to simmer for 2-3 minutes in low fire. And it’s done. Easy… only took me about 15 minutes to cook this.

Served really well with rice. Enjoy !!! (Hubby LOVES it. Yay !!! experiment success)

 

The Blue Cow Café

24 Friday Feb 2012

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Hub and I was not very hungry, so we decided to take our time driving around and choosing random restaurant instead of heading straight to our regular haunt. 

So, that’s how we ended up finding the Blue Cow café in plaza damas, hartamas. When we walk in, it felt like I was back in Melbourne’s butcher shop. Huge varieties of meats are stack neatly behind clear glassed refrigerated cabinets. I fell in love even before I sat down to dine. 

Since it was our first time there, we decided to try their Meat Platter. They have a few platter sizes which you can choose from and take note that their portions are quite generous.

We decided to try the medium platter, with the choice of 1 sausage, 1 burger patty, 1 kebab (for the sausage, patty and kebab, you can choose between beef, pork, lamb or chicken), 1 pork chop and some bacon, serve with mustard, mint sauce (if you choose lamb) and apple sauce. The platter comes with 2 sides. We chose coleslaw and chips.

*** YES – they serve pork even tough the cafe is call blue cow.

The sausage was nice, but a tad bit salty for me. LOVE the burger patty. (we had the lamb). I didn’t like the kebab but hub liked it. The bacon was normal. The pork chop was yummy !! I like that it is cook well but yet retains the juiciness of the meat (especially since it’s quite a thick cut). The apple sauce was a little bit disappointing. It’s too undercook in my opinion. I would have prefered if they cook it abit longer, add a dash of honey and maybe add some thyme. (but then, it’s just me. ;p)

Worrying that it might not be enough (hub is a HUGE meat lover), we ordered an additional side of Stir-Fry Roast Pork. I like this dish as the flavour has more punch to it. It’s stir-fried with some garlic and chilli padi. Hub was not really impressed with this as it’s quite common to get this dish in typical Chinese restaurant. The price seems a little steep too for a small bowl if compared to the platter we ordered.

 

While eating, we note a lot of Aussies dropping in for dinner. They have Aussie burger on their menu !!! oo.. how I miss aussie burger and beetroot. *drool*

Hub even remarked that eating here reminds him of Lygon street in Melbourne.

 

After we came home, I did some googling and found (with no surprise) that the café is owned by Australian couple. Cool. I foresee hub and myself returning there again for some of their juicy burgers. 🙂