For usually plainer tasting dishes like veg and rice:
For veg, esp cabbage types, fry veg with sliced onions and chopped garlic, add a cube of vegetable stock and a cup of water, more pepper n a lil salt, u can put cornstarch and frozen shredded crab meat in, the liquid'll be drinkably nice.
To turn your dry white rice into nice fried rice: first heat oil and fry and scramble eggs, then dump in rice, put more sambal chilli which should contain hei bi, 2+ tablespoons thai fish sauce, sesame oil, pepper, a little salt n soya sauce. put whatever else ingredients you want like pork floss, ikan bilis, egg..
to make all variations of steak sauce like red wine sauce, black pepper sauce, mushroom sauce, add those other condiments to the mother brown sauce. brown sauce is troublesome to make (fry mirepoix veg and bones with tomato sauce n flour then deglaze then bake bones till brown and add water etc) but no worries you can use instant brown sauce powder.. i'll add gruyere cheese and sliced mushrooms on top of my medium well steak with reduced red wine brown sauce.
a nice dish is cereal prawns, buy singlong's crispy cereal prawns instant mix from ntuc and the other ingredients listen on packet. you can also cook cod fish with miso paste and put the crispy cereal and crispy golden mushrooms on the fish.
2 simple ways to cook chicken: 1) kung bo style - marinate cubed chicken thigh in dark soya sauce, a lil light soya sauce, chicken powder, crushed black pepper, black peppercorns, sesame oil. fry dried chillis and sliced onions then add chicken and flambe, garnish with greens. 2) ive no name for this - fry diced onions and plenty of diced lean bacon and cubed chicken thigh. add a cup of white wine and reduce till < half left. add in shredded mozeralla cheese and a lil chicken powder and stir.
to make a simple omelette for breakfast, beat 3 eggs, put in salt and pepper, a teaspoon of cream and butter, heat oil and pour in eggs, stir in circles continuously till half solidifies, spread into circle again, put slices of cheese n mushrooms (optional), put ladle under top half of egg circle, lift pan and tilt and flip top half over bottom half.
author is 19 , can cook and likes eating , but isnt at all fat.