Pork Ribs w/Sweet Potatoes Porridge

Remembered I mention about preparing lunch for my girl everyday when I was a SAHM for the entire month of April 2008. Yah, this is one of the dishes I prepared for her. Trenyce loves this porridge as her favourite sweet potatoes and carrots are included! This is one healthy dish and pork ribs are good for their growth!

**Food picture unavailable** 
[Unfortunately Slide.com had ceased operation on 6 March 2012 and I didnt manage to transfer the pics in time of which some are lost permanently as I didnt have a spare copy.] 

Ingredients (4 pax share):

- 2 handfuls of Rice, perferably use "Xing mi", washed.
(aka "new rice", a type of rice used typically for cooking porridge. If not, normal rice also can but will take slightly longer time to cook.)
- 350grams pork ribs
(Rather than throwing the entire piece of ribs into the porridge, I like to cut the meat away from the ribs and chopped into smaller pieces before I throw both into the porridge so that I can feed my girl straight away :p)
- 2 pieces of sweet potatoes of medium size, cut into cubes (of average size)
- Optional: 1 carrot (of average size), chopped into cubes
- water

How to cook:

- Cook 1 pot (average sized pot) of water together with the rice and the sweet potatoes with medium fire.
- When the water is about half-boiled, add in the pork ribs.
- Before adding the pork ribs, rinse them with hot water twice. Remove the water when it turns milky. (This is to remove the pork "smell.)*
- Stir the porridge to make sure that the meat is well covered with the water and leave it to boil.
- When it boils, turn to smaller fire and let it boils slowly. For "xing mi", it usually cooks faster roughly abt 10mins. Normal rice will take about 10mins longer.
- Afterwhich, you may turn off the fire and the porridge is ready to be served.(However, if you like the porridge to be watery and not so "sticky" then boil the porridge at a shorter time frame so instead of 15mins maybe 10mins. Pls monitor the cooking of the porridge yourself to determine the "thickness" preferred.)

*Note: If you still find the pork smell too strong for you to handle after rinsing with hot water, you can add ginger into the porridge to get rid of the smell. If you do, add in the ginger together with the pork ribs :)