Steam Carrot / Radish Cake

Okay, I used up so much time to prepare the ingredients this time. Even went out early in the morning to get the rice flour so that I can cook these 2 trays before 12 noon.

Reason for cooking Radish cake today? 要讨个好彩头啦!!!

These are the step by step and the recipe, you can get it from Jo

Muah Chee 麻芝

Muah Chee 麻芝 - Some families must-have festival dish. Why did I make it today? It is because too much peanut powder (bought extra for cny cookies) and I always wanted to make this as EVERYONE of us loves Muah Chee. Well, I almost failed today as I didn't know it needs to be kneaded ( mum told me to use my kitchenaids mixer) until it is QQ, I thought after steaming, it already looked very QQ to me. hahahaha, thanks mum and dad for helping. >.<
Ingredients A
Shallots : 6 nos. (sliced)
Oil : 5 tbsp

Ingredients B
Glutinous Flour : 300g
Water : 450g
Shallots Oil : 3 tbsp

Ingredients C (finely grinded)
Fried peanut : 250g
Fried white sesame seeds : 50g
Sugar : 100g Method:
1) Heat up oil, fry shallots till golden brown, remove shallots for later use.
2) Mix Ingredients B till well combined
3) Strain into an oil-coated steaming tin
4) Steam over high heat for 45min.
5) Removed, use wooden spoon to stir in one direction till smooth
6) Sprinkle a handful of sugar on top to prevent it from turning dry
7) Sprinkle fried shallots
8) Cut into small pieces, roll over the peanut sesame mix and serve http://fenyingrecipe.blogspot.com/2008/04/mua-chi.html<img

Baking CNY Goodies

Chinese New Year Cookies - Beary Cute Doggies Cookies

After sitting there for almost 7 hours, I can't feel my back, my arms, my fingers and my vision is blur! Sooooo tiring and it was only half way thru... tomorrow I need to bake more and after that, I shall rest...

腊味香鸡碗仔饭

Yup I am cooking simple dinner tonight. Okay, obviously I do not have any claypot at home and parents are away again. It gives me reason to cook and to mess up the kitchen. Have I ever mention I do not have to clean up after I bake/cook? :) Ben is the world most lovable doting hubby!

Haha...that's the reason why I have not been baking RICH BUTTER CAKE, it was a simple request from Ben and granted!

By the way, these are some of the steps to prepare my very own 腊味香鸡碗仔饭

Preparation :
- cut the onion and marinates the chicken (I use boneless chicken thigh) with some seasoning.
- wash the rice and place them into a bowl with water, the ratio 1 (rice): 1.5 (water)
- wash the vegetable and boil it with some oil and salt, put aside
- cut the chinese saugages and put aside

Start cooking :
- steam the rice until it is half cooked (about 10 minutes)
- after that, put the marinated chicken and chinese sausages together with the rice and cook it at high fire for about 20 minutes, please check if the chicken is cooked
- add an egg if you want to
- serve it with the vegetables

Ben : WONDERFUL DINNER! Thanks baby.

Singapore Fried Carrot Cake

Ingredients
4 radish flour cakes
4 tbs vegetable oil or lard
1 tbs chopped garlic
1 tbs red chilli paste ------ forgot to buy
1 tbs chopped chye poh (salted radish)
2 eggs
1 tbs fish sauce --------- forgot to add
1 stalk fresh spring onion, chopped
5 tbs oil

Method
Heat two tablespoons of oil or lard in a wok. When smoking hot, brown the radish flour cakes, cutting it into small pieces with the spatula as you fry. Push aside the pieces. Heat another table spoon of oil in the wok. Sauté garlic and chye poh till browned. Toss with the radish cake pieces. Make a space in the middle, add the last of the oil and break eggs into the space. Leave to set for a few minutes and then push the radish cake on top. Drizzle with fish sauce, add chilli paste and toss some more to ensure an even mix. Serve hot garnished with spring onion.

Taken from cookbook titled “Singapore Heritage Food” by Sylvia Tan

Simple Dinner

I rushed home after work and managed to cook a simple meal for Ben. I am glad he loves it and he even wanna keep some for tomorrow's breakfast.

Slurppp...

Tonight we tried mushroom seafood sauce and it tastes even better ..

Simple PASTA

When parents are not around, we have to eat out at either restaurant or food court but tonight, Margaret suggested to cook pasta. As mentioned, I am already 3/4 dead after work, how to cook pasta?

Our Pasta with Bacon & Asparatus

-First, cook Thai asparatus in boiling water for 5 minutes.
-At the same time, cook the pasta in boiling water for 6 minutes.
-Heat the wok/pan, add chopped garlic into 3 tbsp of olive oil.
-Stir fry our bacon and pour in a 300gm of Campbell's mushroom soup and another 300gm of water.

Tadah!!

Surprise ! Surprise !

We decided to give mum a surprise - To Celebrate Her 56th Birthday, actually not one surprise but TWO!

First, we told her not to cook and our weekend gathering will be over our place on Saturday. Of course, I will be the one cooking. Ben was very kind to accompany me to do some marketing at Cold Storage and NTUC as he knew I can never carry all the bags on my own. Yeah, we took a cab home after that.

What's for dinner? LAKSA!! Eh...don't ask for recipe because I used premix and add other stuff. *come on, one man show leh, use only 4 hours, ok?*

I know I know, no big deal right? This is not the first time cooking dinner for 10 persons, so what's the surprise?

Tadah !! Peach Longevity Bun from D'Bun ! Mum was so happy!And our second Surprise - ICE CREAM CAKE for mummy!

Although it was a failure but mum never complained and she never did, I remember

- Baking numerous non edible stuff and wasted more than 50 eggs, she always says," Try again tomorrow.."

- During my Sec, I was so FAT that I still thought I was a pretty girl, why? Because no one(in the family)ever tease me. Of course now I know I was indeed SUPER DUPER FATTY BOOM BOOM. I was so touch when she told me she will definitely send me to Marie France..

- I SPENT $800 yakking on the phone with an idiot in my Poly 1st year instead of buying myself an air ticket to London but mum didn't scold me.

- I drove our Toyota out without license and banged against the lamp post, causing a big hump at the front and headlight was gone, mum said," you're so daring.." I thought she was going to wallop me! Maybe she would if it is dad's Merz..hahahaha... joking, I didn't get to drive daddy's Merz because I don't have the guts to get a car license after that accident. *chicken la*

Yeah, that's our mum... Happy Birthday Mummy!!!!

We Cook, We Eat !

Count the calories and divide by 6

Ben's kopi C (coffee with fresh milk) and my teh (tea with condensed milk)

Mum cooked prawn noodles - home recipe

The very tasty and cute hello kitty fishcake from Japan

It was so yummy that we all took at least 2 bowls of prawn noodles each (picture is for illustration only, we had a bigger bowl)

炒伊面

Ben loves Hong Kong Fried Noodles so much! Can you believe that it took me only 15 minutes to prepare this?

冰糖银耳雪梨Double Boiled Winter Pear with Snow Fungus

冰糖银耳雪梨

* Recipe will be updated *

A Long Break

Obviously I need a long break, Haha...

Mango Sago

See, we are really busy today..Here is the recipe from Zu's
Ingredients
600gm mango (abt 2 honey mangoes)
400ml mango juice (Peelfresh or any other similar brands)
125ml evaporated milk
80g sago pearls (original uses 300gm pomelo, split into small pieces)
250ml water
2~3 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp cornflour/tapioca starch
1 tbsp water
extra 100ml water

Directions
1. Boil 250ml water and sugar till sugar dissolves.
2. Mix cornflour/tapioca starch with 1 tbsp water and pour into the syrup and stir over low heat until mixture is smooth.
3. Take syrup and cornflour mixture off the heat and leave it to cool.
4. Cut the sides of the mango and cube them.
5. Scrap the remaining mango and put in a bowl, add 100ml of water to blend, put aside.
6. Add blended mango, cubed mango, mango juice and evaporated milk into the syrup solution (from 1) then stir.
7. Add sago pearls and stir, if too thick, add abit of cooled boiled water or more mango juice.
8. Chill before serving.

Preparation of sago pearls
1. Soak sago pearls in water till they turned abit translucent (About an hour)
2. Boil the pearls with water till it turns totally translucent.
3. Pour the cooked pearls into a sieve and wash it with tap water remove the starch and now it's ready to be used

Let's Make Acar !!

Acar aka Pickles - my favourite appetizer ... *slurp*

We don't like Malay styled acar --> too blend

We don't like Peranakan acar --> too strong

We don't like M'sian acar --> turmeric powder?

We don't like Taiwanese acar --> just vinegar

Mum has improvised the recipe and here we have our very own Acar ..
Recipe :
(A)
1 Large spanish turnip (mangkuang)
2 Large cucumber
1/2 pineapple
1 large carrot
3 tbsp of salt
Instruction: cut them into slices. Add salt and mix well. Put a side for approximately 20 minutes. Salt will make them crunchy and you will see quite a lot of water after that, remember to pour them away after the vegetables become softer and make sure they are dry before adding (B).
(B)
6 scallots
6-8 fresh red chili
some sesame
Instruction: Slice the scallots and blend the chili. Heat up your wok and start frying the sesame, followed by scallots and lastly, the chili. DON'T COOK THEM ALL TOGETHER! One after another.
When (B) are ready, add them into (A) and mix well. Don't forget to add in approx. 200gm sugar together with half a bottle of white vinegar. Mum said is ok if add too much sugar, because we can always pour more vinegar. If you think is too sour to your liking, then you can add more sugar. Like I've said before, there is no exact amount of ingredients when come to cooking (for my mum only) so sometimes, you need to taste your cooking using your fingers. Haha..

Hong Kong Styled Chee Cheong fun 猪肠粉 - Failed badly

After the lousy prawn dumpling, here I have terrible CCF. Maybe these days I shouldn't try cooking, I mean shouldn't have cooked when I am not really in the mood. Bad rolls...

Again, nothing is wrong with the recipe, must be the measurement! I think I need a pair of specs..Margaret suggested me to pour everything in and steam it, yeah, like carrot cake.

Recipe extracted from Baking Mum
Ingredients :
150g Rice Flour
1 ½ Tbsp Wheat starch flour
2 Tbsp Corn flour
1 Tbsp Oil
450mls Water
½ tsp Salt

Method :
1. Sift dry ingredients together.
2. Slowly add the water, mixing as you add.
3. Lastly add the oil and salt and mix thoroughly. Set batter aside for at least an hour.
4. Prepare your steamer. Grease a swiss roll pan or any aluminium tray with oil and pour the batter directly on the pan and steam for 5 mins.
5. After steaming, using a plastic scrapper roll the ccf up. If you are using ingredients like char siew or prawns, you can sprinkle it over the steamed ccf and then proceed to roll it up.
6. Place in a plate brushed with a little oil. Continue with the rest of the batter.

Sauce
Ingredients :
1 tbsp oil
2 tbsp sugar
a few slices of ginger (optional)
½ cup water
4 tbsp mushroom flavoured soy sauce or normal light soy sauce
½ to 1 tbsp dark soy sauce

1. Place ginger with oil and sugar in a pot. Cook over small fire until sugar turns brown.
2. When sugar is brown, add in the rest of the ingredients. Cook over medium fire for about 5 mins. Taste the sauce and adjust taste accordingly. If you find the sauce too sweet, you can add in a bit of salt.

Sweet sauce (cwl's recipe)
1/2 cup water
7 tbsp Hoisin sauce
3 tbsp soya sauce
3 tsp dark soya sauce

Mix all ingredients together and cook over medium heat until it thicken slightly.

甘香葱油饼 Onion Pancake

Using the same recipe from my Taiwanese Pancake. I know, the style is incorrect, I'll try again next time, ok? I prepared extra dough for the taiwanese pancake too, I prefer this one!