More cooking experiments

I tried to make Honey-glazed Baby Carrots but I did not add enough honey to make it coat all the carrots. Then I tried to make Sambal Blacan Vegetables but again, my lack of adequate proportions was my weakness. I did not add enough sugar. vegetables and chilli to offset the blacan I used. Onion Omelette was next on my list. I fried the onions for too long till they were burnt and the omelette was too thin. Lastly, Cream of Mushroom was the next one. This one seemed the best out of all the dishes I tried this day. The garlic did not taste as strong probably due to the thyme leaves I added. They actually tasted rather good. I did not add enough mushrooms and stock though. On the contrary, too much salt was used. More pepper would not have hurt too.

On an earlier date, I made Prawn Toast and again, too much salt was used. It tasted generally good though. I used Ching-He Huang's recipe which she demonstrated on Daily Chefs. I also did French Toast which was perfect, only because I decided to add in sugar at the last minute to get that sweet taste. Next on the toast list was Garlic Toast. I used margarine and this made the spread taste salty. The garlic could have been minced to a finer texture. The bread was not really toasted till brown. I guess it must have been due to my toaster, which I can't do anything much about, unless I get a new one. The last item was Prawn Salad which I thought of by myself. It is basically made up of boiled prawns, diced apples and raisins mixed together in Thousand Island dressing. It tasted rather good too, except that I may have overcooked the prawns.

I decided to stir- fry Dou Miao with garlic but it tasted crunchy, which it should not have. Any feedback on the reason why it tasted like that? I also tried to boil chicken soup but I should have added more red dates and had run out of dried longan. It tasted a little bitter. Also, it was a little too thick. I should have added more water.