Cooking for 2 - No Meat Dishes

Ash Wednesday came, being a catholic and for the spirit of lent season - I committed myself not to eat any meat and be vegetarian from February 25 till April 12. So with this, Mr. A and I shared vegetable dishes earlier.

assorted vegetables in shrimp paste (pinakbet in tagalog)

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Chopped garlic and onions

Squash cut into squares

Long greenbeans cut into 1inch long

Eggplant cut into circles

Bittergroud cut diagonally

Salted Shrimp paste (bagoong in tagalog)

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Saute garlic and onions then put all the vegetables. Simmer for 3 minutes before adding the salted shrimp paste.

vegetable omelette

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chopped garlic and onions

carrots cut into cubes

minced cabbage

beaten eggs

salt to taste

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Saute garlic and onions followed by cabbage and carrots. Once the vegetable's change color, add the beaten egg ( you can choose to make it whole or stir it like what I did). Put salt as desired.

Go India Restaurant - Vivo City

Go India Restaurant at Vivo City is I believe the only first-class indian dining in the whole vicinity. Mr. A and I went here once for an early dinner. I simply love the place! Ambiance is very classy, service is fast and food is too good.

We started with roasted papad serve with two different dip. After 30 minutes, our main dishes arrived. Tasting the food, I concluded that the meal was worth the wait.

Saffron Rice - aroma is very inviting, finely cooked

Garlic Butter Naan - tasty, perfectly done and not so oily

Fish Kebab - so flavorful, very tender and fresh

Buttered Chicken - big serving, meat is soft, so thick-gravy, bot spicy at all


They also have a wide selection of alcoholic and nno-alcoholic coctails to choose from. Not to mention that they also serve buffet during lunch time at S$25++ (not bad right? saw the buffet table is very long... hehe...)

our non-alcoholic drinks - pink bird for me, green slime for Mr. A

So either you want to have a heartly indian meal or you just simply want to relax and unwind over some cool drinks, you can never go wrong with Go India Restaurant.

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Rating 1-5 (5 being the highest)
Food - 4
Service - 4
Price: Expensive
Will visit the place again? YES

Cooking for 2 - Chicken Kare-Kare

Kare-Kare is a traditional filipino dish compose of beef and assorted vegetables sauted in thick peanut sauce. The process of preparing this meal is so tedious that it is just serve during big gatherings and special occasions. However, with the help of an instant peanut sauce mix, I took the challenge of cooking this last Sunday. Since Mr. A don't eat beef, I customize my menu a little and use chicken meat.

chopped garlic and onions
Egglant cut in circles
Long greenbean cut 1 inch long
chicken cut into serving size
knorr kare-kare instant sauce mix
salted shirmp paste (bagong in tagalog)


Obeying the instant mix instruction, I first boil the vegetables and set it aside. Then put ovile oil on the heated pan, sauted garlic and onion followed by the chicken meat. Add little water after a 5 minuted then completely dissolve the powdered peanut sauce while strring it continously. Add all the vegetables and simmer for another 10 minutes. Remove to pan, serve with salted shrimp past (bagooong).

The end result tasted not so bad but I know I could have made it better. I admit that there are some lapses on my part - I put more water than instructed making the sauce not so thick and I overboil the vegetables making it soggy/ waterly.

Still, I'm happy with the output. Thanks Mr. A for having the courage to eat it with me. Hehe... :P