Sweet and Sour Pork

This is the sweet and sour pork cooked by my confinement lady. Yum! :)

Ingredients:

Plain flour
Egg
Salt 

Wash meat, put salt and marinate. Mix plain flour and water, sticky. Put in egg and a bit of salt. put in meat after mixture is formed. Fry it. Put tomato sauce

Chicken with Mushroom

Ingredients

Chicken

Mushroom

Wolfberries

Ginger

Oyster sauce

Cornflour tsp

Light soya sauce

Sugar

Sesame oil

Soak mushroom soak in water. Dun throw the water away. Cut mushrooms into small pieces.

Chicken chop into pieces. Marinate with  Oyster sauce, sesame oil, light soya sauce, sugar, cornflour.

Put mushrooms, ginger and wolfberries in together. Put in fridge for a few hrs.

Steam for half hour when want to eat.

Confinement Herb soup

Some common chinese herbs

Yuzhu - for nourishment

 Beiqi - for 'qi', put 2 or 3 strips cos it is a bit heaty

 Danshen - for 'qi' and blood

 Huaishan - for hormones, for gastric

Fulin - to improve concentration

Herb soup

Danshen

Huaishan

Yuzhu

Longan

Red dates

Wolfberries

Pork ribs or chicken

Cook for abt 1.5 hrs

Stronger herbal soup

Danshen

Beiqi

Fulin (for concentration, just wash with water)

Wolfberries (1 tbsp)

Red dates

Dangui (heaty)

For cooling (liu wei)

Lianzi

Qian shi

Huaishan

Yuzhu

Longan

Red dates

Chicken breast meat