Housework Helper : U-Spin Mop

Are you someone like me when you need to mop the floor, you are kind of reluctant to do it because it is tiring?

I got something to introduce here, U-Spin mop!

What's U-Spin mop?
It is a mop that looks like below. There are alot of brands out there, I guess the innovator forgot to patent it, so there are just plentiful of manufacturers for this wonderful innovation.
There are many generations for the mop, now, it is like 6th Generation.



U-Spin mop.



Usually it will take me about 1 hour to vacumm and mop the floor. This mop saves me 15 mins and it is cleaner than before.

The magic behind the cleaning mop is the micro-fiber mop head and the high-speed spin of the spinner.

The one I got at home is a pedal-less spinning mop which should be the latest U-spin mop in the market. There is some bearing wheel in the mop that rotates the mop then you press on the spinning container.

I am happy to bought it from the BHG and it is also available at OG Supermarkets.

#3 Homecook food - Watercrest chicken soup and steamed toufu (bean curd)

*Still no decent photo to be added here. =)

This meal is WITHOUT mushrooms, I think you might have been thinking, I am a big fan of mushrooms ?! haha...

Ingredients:
1 bag of NTUC watercrest vegetable
1 chicken drumstick and breastmeat
Few pieces of garlics
Few pieces of dry chinese jujube (红枣） <--- the word jujube i got it translated on Google Translate.
1 pack of NTUC dry beancurd (豆干)
Small quantity of small white anchovies (银鱼）
1 tablespoon of Sha Cha sauce

How to cook:

• Clean and cut the watercrest vegetable
• Cut the chicken meat
• Cut the jujube
• Clean and smash the garlics
• Put all the ingredients into a bowl and add water to cover the ingredients
• Then put it into the base of the rice cooker and put a pair of chopstick on top
• Open the bean curd pack and place on a plate, add the white anchovies on top of the bean curd
• Put the plate on top of the soup bowl with the chopstick supporting it
• Switch on the rice cooker and wait for it to be cooked. Done!
• Once it is cooked, don't forget to add the Sha Cha sauce or soya sauce to the bean curd according to your taste! =)

Now sit back and wait for it to cook. I hope you had enjoyed by quick homecook meal sharing so far.

#2 homecook food - Chicken Mushroom Soup and Brocolli

**Again , no photo for this meal. Sorry!

The ingredients listed is good for 2. (My family only has me and wife.)

Ingredients:
5 pieces of dried mushroom (shiitake mushroom is ok too)
1 stick of carrot
1 small piece of ginger
1 tablespoon of rice wine
1 small bunch of broccoli
1 chicken drumstick plus the thigh meat
1 chicken wing
1 tablespoon of Sha Cha (沙茶酱) sauce
1 small bowl of rice

How to cook:

• Soak mushroom in warm or cold water.
• Dice the carrot
• Slice the ginger
• Wash and cut broccoli
• Wash rice and leave it aside
• Now cut the soaked mushroom
• Wash and cut the chicken drumstick and wing for the chicken soup
• Add adequate quantity of diced carrots, cut mushrooms and sliced ginger into the chicken meat bowl
• Add 1 tablespoon of rice wine and water to cover all the ingredients
• Put the rice at the bottom of rice cooker and lay chopstick on top of the rice bowl. Then put the chicken soup bowl on the chopstick.
• On the rice cooker and let it cook.
• Boil water and steam the broccoli and the diced carrots (if any leftover).
• Once the broccoli and carrots are cooked, add Sha Cha sauce.
• Wait for the rice cooker to complete it's cooking and that's all!

Done! Now you have a sumptuous and healthy dinner! Enjoy!

#1 homecook food - Chicken Carrot Mushroom Rice

This is the first homecook food using rice cooker.

**No photo to be attached here as I forgot to photograph it.

Ingredients:
5 pieces of dried mushroom (shiitake mushroom is ok too)
2 sticks of carrots
2 NTUC packed Chicken Breastmeat
1.5 cup of unpolished rice (you can use white rice)
1 small piece of ginger

How to cook:

• Wash and soak dried mushroom in a bowl of warm or room teamperature water (warm or room temperature is to prevent the nutrition in the mushroom being destroyed).
  **IMPORTANT : Don't throw away the water after soaking.
• Wash and chop carrots into small cube.
• Wash and dice the chicken breastmeat. Put the diced chicken meat in a bowl and add seasonings (pepper, light soya sauce and sesame oil). Amount of seasonings to add depends on your taste bud.
  Mix the seasoning and chicken meat well. Let the chicken marinate for 15 mins.
• Chop the ginger into small slices and cut unto match-stick width. Put it into the chicken bowl that you are marinating and mix them well.
• Check the soaked mushroom, it should be soft now. Cut the stem and put them back in the water. Slice the mushrooms.
• Now wash the rice and add enough water together with the mushroom water to cook into the rice cooker. The water from soaking the mushroom will add taste to the rice and there are alot of nutrients in it. So, don't waste it!
• By now, the chicken meat should be marinated for at about 15 mins. Add the chicken meat, carrot and mushrooms into the rice. Mix them well.
• Switch on the cooking on the rice cooker and wait for it to cook!
• Depending on the size of servings, it should be ready in less than an hour. Enjoy cooking!

How homecook interest started...

"Where shall we go for dinner?"
"Anywhere, you suggest..., I'm fine."
"Ok.Shall we go to xxxxx for dinner?"
"Again?"
"Then you suggest."
"Hmmm... don't know. Don't ask me..."
"Kk... then we go to xxxxxx for dinner?"
"I tot we just went there last week?"


*The cycle happens on and on and on and on... every week.

That's how the homecook journey began. =)

I am not a professional and 5 stars chef like Sam Leong from Humble House, but humble enough to share what I learnt from the after work home cooking.

The main idea is to cook after work within 1 hour, have simple and nice homecook food. Anything more than 1 hour of cooking is a no no.

Currently I am learning to cook a quick meal from a cook book bought from Taipei. It is a cook book with 400 recipes to cook a quick meal using rice cooker.
I will not publish all of it here but I will share my personal experience in cooking the quick meal.

The main principle of the cooking here is less oil (I can say, almost zero) and no frying. We eat to live and not live to eat. It is our responsibilities to take good care of our body and what we eat will make us to be what we are today.

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Enjoy!