Cabbage Rice with Roasted Pork

Nowadays I go for a one-dish meal or quick-made dish. This is partly because I am lazy and no mood, also, I want to get myself out of the mess in the kitchen so as to have more time for my son.
The dish I cooked on Sunday has most of the ingredients that my husband dislike. Yes, dislike, but I did not bother and go ahead as I want him to try things out with me and be a model for his son.
The prep time and cook time is a bit long, but they consist of the waiting time, thus it is still alright for me. By the way, I recalled how my mum did it and still I called her up to confirm the steps. :p She was happily shopping with my Dad at that time and gladly told me the steps through phone.
So here are the ingredients and method to cook for this rice. :)

Source: shuey’s Mum

Prep Time: 120 mins
Cook Time: 120 mins
Ingredients:

• 1.8 cups of rice
• Roasted pork cut into slices
• 2.8 cups of water
• Dried shrimps soaked in water
• 2 dried Shitake mushrooms soaked in water
• Cabbage
• Chopped garlic
• 0.5 teaspoon of dark soy sauce
• Light soy sauce to taste

Method:

1. Cut cabbage into slices and fried garlic in low heat and add in dried shrimps.
2. Add in cabbage to continue stir fry.
3. Add in sliced Shitake mushrooms and continue stir fry for a while.
4. Add in (uncooked) rice to continue stir fry. (My mum said this is to add in fragrant to the rice, it is an optional step though.)
5. Add dark soy sauce and light soy sauce, continue stir fry.
6. Add in slices of roasted pork.
7. Put all mixture into rick cooker, add in water and set your timer as per normal.
8. Leave the rice in rice cooker for around 20 ~ 30 minutes to dry.

Spinach With Dried Shrimp

In order to minimize the cleaning after a cooking session, (or rather I am not good at stir-frying veg), I tried to avoid stir-frying vegetables as much as I can.

I chanced upon this recipe from a Chinese website while I was searching recipe for my MIL. I simplified it much much more by keeping only 2 ingredients (the original version has, perhaps 8 ingredients). :D The fact is it turns out to be a simple and not so bad vegetable to serve.

Ingredients:

• Spinach
• Dried shrimp
• 2 slices of garlic
• 1 teaspoon of soy sauce

Methods:

1. Wash and place dried shrimp in hot water for around 10 minutes and steam it for 10 minutes, alternatively, you can steam it for 20 minutes.
2. Chop dried shrimp and garlic into small pieces and mix with soy sauce.
3. Blench the spinach in boiled water.
4. Pour water away and place spinach on plate.
5. Pour 2. onto the the vegetables. mix and serve.