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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Herb Pork sausages, apple and sauerkraut (My hubby's recipe) - featured in Group Recipes

I call this my “half past six” meal. Meaning? Half of the ingredients are ready made and the other half added by me, haha. We had a busy day yesterday running errands and busy eating Chinese hawker food. By the time we returned home, it was too late to cook a meal that needs a lot of preparation. It takes only 20 mins and Wala! dinner is ready! The picture does not do justice to the dish, so please don't judge the book by the cover. Although I call it "half past six", the taste is not. Try it and let me know your view.

Serving: 1

Ingredients:

3 herb pork sausages (you can use any type of sausages)

2 cups bottled purple sauerkraut

1 tbs caraway seeds

1 tsp cinnamon

1 apple, (skin and core removed and diced)

1 medium onion , cut into rings

2 tb brown sugar

1 tb butter

Method:

Use a fork to pork some holes in the sausages and boil it for 10 mins. Spray the frying pan with a bit of oil and brown the sausages. Set aside. Add butter to pan and fry the apple and onion till onion is translucent and add brown sugar. Add sauerkraut and caraway seeds and cinnamon and fry till you can smell the fragance of the spices. Place sausages on top of the sauerkraut. Serve with crusty bread and potato chips.

A LITTLE ABOUT THIS QUAY PO

Before I was married to my "Quay Lo" (Guaylo) husband, I did not know how to bake or cook. Subsequently I learned some baking and cooking Western cuisine from him, and providing his food for him launched an interest in cooking in general. Many of my Chinese friends and family told me that "Quay" is the wrong spelling for devil in Cantonese. The right spelling should be "Kwai" or "Guay". Well, somehow I like the spelling "Quay" better although I have to agree that it does not sound very Cantonese. Try asking a Westerner to pronounce "Kwai" and you will probably hear "Quay" haha. Whether is "Quay" or "Kwai" or "Guay, just know the devil woman is me when you see Quay Po Cooks. My hubby said if people pronounce "Quay" as "Key" is even better because I am the key to his heart. LOL!

Only now, have I started to learn the traditional Cantonese cuisine of my Mum. She cooks fabulously and all her specialties are divine. These two interests, my husband's Western food, and my mother's traditional food, prompted me to document them so they will not be lost.

Here, I wish to share my cooking and baking experience with my readers. I also hope to inspire those who do not know how to cook or bake to do so because, trust me, if I can, you can too.

Something I'd like to mention is that I find that many people are rather unwilling to share their recipes. However, for me, I think differently. I think good recipes should be shared thus allowing as many people to enjoy it as possible. Unless those recipes are for doing business, I don't see why we want to keep them all to ourselves. So if you are generous in sharing your recipes, you are welcome to share on my blog. Send the recipes to me and better still with pictures of the final products and I will be very happy to post them them with credits to you of course.

Our cuisine is a deeply embedded part of our culture. When two cultures come together under the same roof the results in the kitchen can sometimes be comedic, sometimes confrontational, but more often it is a journey full of surprises and discovery. There is joy in our food. If we think upon this, it is intuitively obvious. This blog is a journey of joy and sharing, reflecting what the French like to call "joie de vivre" (joy of living). No one could be more different from one another then my husband and my mother. Yet one thing they share in common is knowing intuitively that food, cooking, and sharing can be avenues of joy in life itself. So herein, help yourself, to a little joy and , if you like it, share it with your own family and friends. Joy is something that should be shared.