Confinement Dishes

With the absence of the confinement lady and since wife is still on her maternity leave, I have taken over the kitchen to whip out some confinement dishes till she goes back to work. We have bought two confinement recipe books when we had Ryan. The recipe book has proven to of value again this round....

Some of the dishes cooked are :-

Black Bean Soup with red dates, wolfberries, black dates, ginger and pig's tail bones
Salted Baked Chicken Drumstick with tong gui and wolfberries.

Chinese Herbal soup cooked with black chicken. Herbs include pak kei, wai sun, red dates, wolfberries and yuk chuk and dried scallop..

Braised chicken drumstick with mushroom and ginger ...

Lemon Grass and Shallots soup cooked with Chicken Drumstick ...

Stirred Fried Liver with Ginger and Black Pepper

Young papaya soup cooked with pig tail's bone, wolfberries and red dates....another must apparently for mommies who have just delivered and are under confinement ....

Pork Ribs cooked in sweetened black vinegar and ginger ..

Chicken drumstick steamed with ginger, wolfberries, red dates, chinese wine and essence of chicken