Our first attempt

It has been really a long time since I wrote anything here. Almost a year. Had been too tight up with work for the past 10 months with the same old project. This project is almost at its end stage but would still need at least 1-2 months before we can really wrap it up. Anyway, at the end of the day, it all depends on the client whether they are satisfied with what they are getting.

Today both CH and I decided to try something from the recipe book which we had purchased quite some time back, but didn't really had the time to experiment on any of it. We had Tony Roma's beef ribs last weekend to celebrate our 3rd Anniversary together. And that gave me an idea maybe we should try cooking pork ribs this Sunday ourselves. We went through the list of ingredients required, headed for Carrefour to get the stuff that were required.

Came home, had lunch and started my task in seasoning the ribs. The following were the ingredients for marinating:
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sesame oil (didn't include that, the one we had, had expired)
2 tbsp plain flour (didn't have this)
1 tbsp custard powder (didn't have this)
1 tsp bicarbonate soda
200 ml water
200g corn flour, add in sauce

We lacked 3 ingredients and substituted it with black pepper and more corn flour. Funny, being amateurs, we didn't have any measuring equipment to measure 200ml of water and 200g of corn flour. So it was all just a wild guess on how much to put in. With all these I started the marinating process as CH was watching. Kept telling me, we added in too much water and needed to put in more corn flour. We practically emptied the whole bottle of corn flour we had and in the end, the marinating sauce looks thick :) We left it in the fridge until it was time to cook in the evening.

Time to cook, I started preparing the sauce. The following were the ingredients for the sauce:
2 tbsp tomato sauce
1 tbsp chilli sauce
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
1 tsp curry powder
1/2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp light soya sauce
3 tbsp water

CH filled the pan with oil and started the fire. Took out the ribs and found that it was covered in thick flour. We were like complaining, added too much corn flour?? Oh dear, is this going to work out? Put in the ribs into the hot oil and deep-fry until it was golden brown. Took it out, and fried the sauce that was prepared and added in the ribs. The following is the end results :)

Makan time - the moment of truth :) All of us had our first bite, and hmm... it tasted quite good. Even my sis, who is a picky eater said it tasted nice. CH was pretty happy on our first attempt. Next attempt, crabs?? But where to get fresh good crabs....