Labu air soup with bak kut, stir-fry long beans with egg and minced beef medly

Since I had some left over labu-air (I found out that it is called calabash), hubby suggested to make soup with it. In his scout days, in one occasion, they were given 1 labu air and some chicken and bamboo. So they dump everything into the bamboo, cooked the entire thing over fire, and the result turned out good. Previously I had cooked them with minced pork and tang-hoon. Well, I found the recipe online for this soup. You can find it here.
Here's the soup:

Calabash (labu air) bak kut soup

Stir-fry long beans do not require any introduction. There are so many version of this dish. You can cook long beans with belacan, with prawns, with lap cheong, or with chai por. Today, I kept it simple by frying them with egg, hubby's favourite. Always remember to fry the long beans first, add a pinch of salt and lastly the egg. Some people tend to add the long beans into the egg mixture, it is not wrong, but in my opinion, the long bean will taste quite raw, which I dislike.

Stir fry long beans with egg

The next dish, is what I call the minced beef medly. It's quite simple actually, the ingredients are the same as those you use to make spaghetti or any minced beef pie. U will need minced beef (Ramli's is good enough), onions, button mushroom, diced carrots, chinese wine..which are the main ingredients. For the sauce you can use tomato sauce/oyster sauce/hoisin sauce/oriental barbeque sauce. I used the latter with some oyster sauce. Add in some freshly ground black pepper too for an ommph! I've seen some versions whereby those frozen veggies (baby corn, green peas) are added too. In fact, some people add chicken stock into the gravy. It's up to you actually, go with your creative juices.

Minced beef medly

That's all for today (lunch and dinner). Spend the whole morning cutting, slicing and cooking. Time to rest and wait for hubby to come home. Hope he will enjoy the food.

xoxo,
Em