Coconut Chicken Soup

I just came back from a trip to GuangZhou. The food there is amazing. The most memorable one is actually a soup! The soup base is the coconut water and the chicken is cooked inside the coconut to get a fragrant savoury flavour. It's to die for!

Here's how you do it and its so easy, the hard part is getting the freakin coconut open!

Ingredients:

Coconut
2 small chicken drumstick
1 small piece of pork
3 dried Logan meat
A small handful of goji berries
Salt to taste

First you chop up the drumsticks into small pieces. You can de-bone and de-skin if you like. Everything else just needs to be rinsed and set aside.

Now you can buy coconuts at any supermarket. I got mine at Walmart. I googled how to open the top before I set out to make this soup and the instructions said it would be simple and did not require much strength. Well, 45 minutes later I finally popped the top open. My first try was frustrating but I can see how it could be simple now that I've got the experience.

To open coconut:

Using the bottom edge of a small cleaver or the sharp end of a hammer start hacking a circle around the top of the coconut. Keep going around it a couple of times until the circle is deep enough to see. Then, using all the strength you have left, you stick your cleaver into the circle. Your cleaver should get stuck to the soft meat of the coconut. A quick flick of your wrist and the whole circle should pop right off. Watch out for the coconut water leaking out!

Once you got the coconut open, pop all the ingredients inside. Have a pot of boiling water going with a ramekin sitting at the bottom. Place the coconut inside the pot and steam boil for 2 hours.

You will start smelling the heavenly aroma very soon. Enjoy!

Pork a l'orange

Cowie Wowie is on a no- carb diet. It can get stressful thinking of things to make him for dinner. Here is a recipe I found in a magazine that uses pork tenderloin for the main course. It's pretty simple and turned out to be quite flavourful and juicy.

First of all, you need to cut the pork tenderloin into 1/2 inch thick slices. Season with salt and pepper. Take the orange and cut them into half moons and cut in quarters.

Heat a frying pan and brown the pork tenderloin then set aside. Put in sweet and sour sauce or marmalade, chilli flakes and soya sauce in the pan. Add the pork and its juices and orange slices into the pan with the sauce until they are warmed through.

Serve immediately and enjoy!