It was indoor lunch today. Today, it was just DT and I, so cooking for two can be quite tough. (I have the tendency to overcook, according to DT). I prefer cooking for 3 or more actually. Hehe.

So just him and I, I only boiled a soup - ABC soup and did a black pepper chicken dish. Anyone knows why is it called as ABC soup in the chinese community? Well, I don't know, my mom has been calling it as that since I was a kid. ABC soup basically consists of potatoes, carrots, tomatoes.

My version of ABC soup consists of:

• potatoes
• carrots
• tomatoes
• big onions (to bring out the sweetness in the soup)
• some dried oysters (to bring out flavor)
• some dried red dates (also for flavoring)
• and some soup bones

Tip: When boiling soup, always remember to boil soup bones in separate pot first, before dumping into the boiling pot with the rest of the ingredients. This, is to remove excess oil from the meat, and also the yucky raw meat smell.

My black pepper chicken consists of:

• big onions
• garlic
• deboned chicken breasts (marinated with pepper and salt)
• sliced button mushrooms
• black pepper sauce
• soy sauce
• oyster sauce
• and a dash of sugar

Parboiled chopped carrots can also be added into this dish, but I omitted it seeing that my soup already has carrots in them. Soy sauce and oyster sauce are to be added last minute, 2 min before turning off the fire.

Burp!