purple sweet potatoes, prawn mee & oven fries

i dont know why i love purple sweet potatoes so much.

hmm well, not only sweet potatoes, i like yam too which has a slight purple hue.

purple is not my favourite colour, but when i see yam ice cream at swensens, or purple pao (chinese steamed buns) at the canteen, i get excited.

anyhow, theres this strange thing with me & my relationship with purple foods. hehe

oh n gummy bears? the green, yellow & orange goes to lil bro who glady finishes them for me. i only touch the purple.

sweet potatoes is a typical autumn root vegetable, and the usual yellow fleshed ones with purple skins are everywhere in the supermart, rarely do i find purple purple ones.

And when i do... just gotta grab!

Steamed purple sweet potatoes =) =) =)

And... i finally mustered the courage to cook prawn noodles!!!

Yellow noodles topped with bean sprouts, prawns, hardboiled egg, fish cake slices & a bit of blanched green vegetables, in very savoury prawn broth.

topped with fried shallots (which added so much fragrance!)

Thanks to mums recipe, i can have prawn noodles anywhere in the world!

managed to lay my hands on some very big tiger prawns with heads, which is very unusual at the mart i always go to. Since i love prawns so much, i jumped at it.

And thought hard on what i should do with it. to make super good use of everything (head & shells included), this is perfect.

To make the soup, i boiled some lean ground pork & prawns in it, deshelled the prawns, and threw the shells & heads back in to broil for some time.

Added only salt, shoyu & black soya sauce to flavour the soup.

used thin straight ramen today

we love it!

pumpkin fries to nibble on by the side

I bought this frozen fries & instead of deepfrying, baked them in the oven.

Did u know u can have french fries without deepfrying?

Toss the frozen fries (do not defrost) with salt & spray with cooking oil spray in a bag, shake & spread on a baking sheet. 20min at 250degC in the oven.

Guaranteed satisfaction.