Spaghettii Bolognese

Spaghettii Bolognese

Ingredients
Spaghetti
Bolognese Sauce
Minced Pork
Mushroom
Tomato
Pepper
Salt
Water

Method
1. Fried minced pork till cooked.
2. Add in mushroom and tomatoes and fried till tomatoes turn soft.
3. Add in bolognese sauce, salt, pepper and some water. Simmer in medium heat till cooked.

腐竹薏米糖水

腐竹薏米糖水

Ingredients

豆包	300克 (can get at Tesco)
薏米	100克
白果	20粒
Pandan leaves	4 pcs
清水	2500毫升
冰糖	100克

Method

Put all ingredients into e-cook and press beans.

http://sweetheartkitchen.com/recipes/beancurd-sheet-sweet-soup/

Mug Bean Soup

Ingredients
Mug bean - 150g
Water - 1500 ml
salt- 3/4 tsp
Sago: 60g
Pandan leaves - 3
Rock sugar -100g and adjust accordingly

Method:
1. Put everything except sago into e-cook, press beans.
2. Boil sago (~5 mins) till transparent, drain with cold water.
3. Put sago into cooked mug bean soup after done for e-cook.
4. Keep warm.

Reference
https://youtu.be/48U4CPyJiMo

Yogurt Popsicle

Recipe inspired by Amanda 

https://www.facebook.com/miaopin.ang/posts/10157064820045693

Creamy Cabonra

Simple creamy cabonara without conventional ready mixed souce. Besides  cabonara, I added grilled chicken breast meat into the meal as well.

Recipe inspired by Eugene Kitchen

http://youtu.be/1LxRUKMCsrM

Avocado cabonara

I like cabonara and I love avocado.. I tried  half portion of the recipe for 1 person serving first in case it doesn't taste nice as expected. It turns weird when I prepared it halfway.. Sour because of lemon.. But after added Parmesan cheese, it just perfectly blended.. Not too sour yet not too creamy.. Yum yum 😋

Recipe Inspired by tasty/buzzfeed.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jodyduits/this-avocado-carbonara-is-so-perfect-for-a-quick-weeknight-d

Bread Pudding

I have tried few new recipes recently but do not have much time to update here. Before I forget all the recipes again, it is better I do my note here. haha.

Bread pudding making was inspired by Waynie. Photos she showed in FB are too tempting which make me to have a try on this. Pretty easy and just few ingredients needed, this dessert taste well and not too sweet. I felt happy and satisfied when Chris and Calvin fight with each other for this and request for more.

Bread Pudding Recipe

Ingredients:
Bread crust
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
1/2 tbsp raisin (adjust accordingly)- soak in water for around 10 minutes
1 tbsp castor sugar
Butter
Icing sugar/ snow powder

Method:
1. Spread butter onto paper cups.
2. Cut bread crust into smaller pieces and place into the paper cups together with raisin.
3. Mix milk, egg and castor sugar in mixing bowl and pour the mixture into the paper cups with bread crust and raisin. Note: the mixture to cover the bread to have better appearance of bread pudding after bake.
4. Bake in the oven for 15 mins with 200C until golden brown. Adjust temperature accordingly due to oven variance.
5. Spread icing sugar/ snow powder as decoration.

Healthy Diet - Day 4 Menu

Janice did send me a photo with scrambled egg as one of dish but too bad, no idea on how scrambled is done. Egg sounds easy yet difficult to me, the ingredients and method of cooking actually determine the type of egg yield! Without wasting the egg as my experimental scarification, I checked on the method to make scrambled egg from YouTube and grabbed the less fatty recipe from google on my trial. Hmm, bingo!! It's  passed!

Besides scrambled egg, i have teriyaki marinated chicken slices, macaroni leftover, cherry tomatoes and toast bread for today's menu!

  
Healthy Diet - Day 4 Menu
A) Mushroom Scrambled Egg
Ingredients
2 eggs
4 mushrooms
1/8 cup low fat milk
small qty of butter, salt, pepper, parsley flakes

1. Boil mushrooms till cooked and set aside.
2. Beat all ingredients (except butter and mushroom) in a bowl till even with no egg white seen.
3. Put butter in pan over medium heat to melt and add in the egg mixture and softly shake the pan.
4. As egg begins to set, pull the egg across the pan with an inverted turned, forming soft curd.
6. Add in mushrooms and continue pulling, lifting and folding egg until thickened and no liquid remain. Remove from heat.

B) Toasted bread
1. Toast in oven with 250 C, 5 mins.

C) Macaroni
D) Teriyaki chicken breast-meat
E) Cherry tomatoes

Healthy Diet - Day 3 Menu

It is day number 3 and I think I have almost used up all my creativity in my healthy meal cooking menu :(. 

I remembered I did buy macaroni which initially i bought  it just for the sake of buying and recommended by Janice. So, why not experiment on macaroni then? With my creativity and few days experience on healthy cooking, I made vegetables macaroni in addition to steam siu pak choy. Ohh, my macaroni turn out lovely but too much macaroni i put so is a bit too much for one person portion. Not to waste, i kept the balance in the fridge and heat up next day :)

Healthy Diet - Day 3 Menu Recipe
A) Vegetables Macaroni
Ingredients:
1/2 to 1 cup macaroni
4 cherry tomatoes (halves)
4 mushrooms
4 baby carrot
2 tbsp olive oil 
5 pieces chicken breast meat (marinated with Kikkom Teriyaki)
salt, pepper, parsley flakes

1. Heat olive in pan and add in chicken breast meat. 

2. Add in all vegetables, salt and pepper.

3. Toss in macaroni, parsley flakes and remove heat.

B) Steamed Siu Pak Choy

1. Boil the vege for 15 mins and drain.

2. Served with soy sauce and fried garlic.

Healthy Diet - Day 2 Menu

After yesterday day 1 cooking on healthy diet, i was so exciting on my cooking on day 2. Haha, as the result of being at excited state, i skipped body combat class..>.<

Today i feel to make grilled vegetables instead of just plain steam. After googling on a few website, i noticed the ingredient are just vege, olive oil, salt and pepper and it sounds pretty easy.. Without disappointment, the grilled vege is amazing and i enjoyed my day 2 menu very much.

Healthy Diet - Day 2 Menu Recipe

A) Steamed broccoli
1. Steam broccoli with steamer for ~15 mins.
2. Served with Kewpie sesame soy sauce dressing.

B) Grilled salmon
1. Marinate salmon with Kikkom teriyaki marinate. (I leave it overnight).
2. Grilled in oven ~25-30 mins in oven, 220 C.

C) Grilled vegetables
1. Ingredients:

• 5 baby carrot
• 4 flower broccoli
• 4 mushroom
• 4 cherry tomato (halves)
• 1 potato
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp ground pepper
• Parsley flakes 

2. In a large bowl, toss all the vegetables together with olive oil, salt and pepper.

3. Put the tossed vegetables on oven pan and roast/ grilled for 35-40 mins, 220 C. Remove the vegetables from oven and stir around every 15 mins.

Healthy Diet - Day 1 Menu

1st August was SP Kim wedding. Since mum is teaching the next day, I decided to straight back to Penang from Alor Setar instead of back to SP. 

Woke up at 1pm on Sunday and I started to plan my weekend activities. Brunch..bath.. massage.. pump petrol and dinner.. Now, what to eat for dinner? After many round of thinking, i decided to try on healthy diet meal rather than visiting the restaurant or pack and eat at home. After my massage and checking the diet recipe online and from Janice, I shopped for ingredients at Aeon. Hmm..I feel it is average which cost me around RM70...Broccoli, lady's finger, cherry tomatos, baby carrot, siu pak choy, mushrooms, potatos, chicken, salmon, Kewpie Sesame Soy Souce,  Kikkom teriyaki marinate and macaroni). All the vegetables, chicken and salmon are fresh and i think it should be enough for 5 days supply. Oh yaa.. higly recomended Kewpie Sesame Soy Souce dressing and Kikkom teriyaki marinate.. Both of these in addition to ground pepper serve as my multi purpose dressing for the cooking.

Too many ingredients and i decided to cook siu pak choy, chicken and lady's finger first. All turn out well except fried siu pak choy, too salty and I need to soak it in water before eating. Haha, I think it is better to just steam/ boil next time. Overall still ok and i give myself 60 marks for Day 1 menu (failure on the siu pak choy).

Healthy Diet - Day 1 Menu Recipe

A) Teriyaki chicken breast-meat
1. Marinate chicken with Kikkom teriyaki marinate for ~1 hr.
2. Pan fried and spread ground pepper when almosy ready.

B) Steamed lady's finger
1. Steam cut lady's finger (4) with steamer for ~10 mins.
2. Served with soy sauce and fried garlic.

C) Steamed breast-meat
1. Steam breast-meat with steamer for ~15 mins.
2. Served with Kewpie sesame soy sauce dressing.

No Bake Cheese Cake

It has been awhile i stop baking due to high work load for the past one year. Now while serving notice and is a bit free after work (no date.. haha), i decided to try again on no bake cheese cake which I have tried twice. The previous 2 times were not successful. 1st time no gelatin and it melt easily, 2nd time too much of gelatin and it was too jelly-like. After many research on the web on amount of gelatin to put, finally this recipe works well. It doesn't melt easily (but i think the gelatin amount can still be increased) and will not feel 腻，probably because there is lemon juice added for this recipe. I enjoyed it!

No Bake Cheese Cake Recipe

Yield: 8 inch loose-based baking tin

Ingredients:

• 110 gm digestive biscuits 
• 70 gm butter, melted
• 250 gm cream cheese block
• 50 gm caster sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp lemon juice + lemon zest
• 2 tsp gelatin (3 tsp if need to serve after taken out ~1-2 hr from fridge)
• 2 tbsp water (3 tbsp if need to serve after taken out ~1-2 hr from fridge)
• 200 ml thickened cream
• 250g canned peach slices (garnish)

Method:

1.    Put the digestive biscuits in a sealed plastic bag. Crush to crumbs with a rolling pin. Transfer the crumbs to a bowl. Pour over the melted butter. Combine well. Place them into the tin and press firmly with the bottom of a cup to create an even layer. You might need a spoon or spatula to help when pressing for the 4 corners of the tin.

2.    In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice + zest and vanilla extract with an electric mixer until smooth.

3.  Soak gelatin in water and dissolve by heat and add in mixture in item #2.

4.  Use another mixing bowl, beat the thickened cream until fluffy and smooth. Stir into the cream cheese mixture and combine well.

5. Spoon the mixture onto the biscuit base. Use a spatula to level the surface. You might like to smooth the top of the cheesecake with the back of a spoon damped with water.

6. Chill in fridge until completely set.

7.  Garnish accordingly with peach/ biscuit crush.

Notes：

• You can use either unsalted or regular butter.
• To get a very smooth surface of your cheesecake, try to use a damped spoon for the final touch, as the cream cheese mixture tends to stick to the spatula.

Durian ice cream

It is durian season again, my favorite fruit season through out the year!!! Besides enjoying the mouth watering "ang her" etc, this time i decided to try out durian ice cream.

Of course, i did not use branded durian for the first try but local durians with average quality. After 2 times trial, i feel it is better to use average or above average quality durians so that the aroma of the ice cream is stronger and better. Why use cheap or low quality durians which yield ice cream with not strong durian's aroma right? Haha.
Googled durian ice cream recipe online and I decided to grab the one from Year of the durian as reference.

I did some modification on the recipe and the ice cream turn out well and yummy. The sweet food lover of the house, dad said it has the standard as those selling outside. Haha. and this trial did satisfied me :)


Durian Ice Cream Recipe
Yield: 1L tupperware

Ingredients:400g durian flesh
30g of sugar (Do not add sugar if the durian is sweet)

130g of plain yogurt

200g of whipping cream.

Method:

1. Puree/blend durian flesh and sugar until it becomes a smooth paste. 
2. Transfer the durian meat into a cleaned, large bowl and mix in the yogurt. 

3. Whip the cream in a stand mixer until stiff and carefully fold into the durian/yogurt mixture.
4. Churn the mixture in completely freezed (24hrs freezing in the fridge) freezing bowl until it becomes thick and partially frozen.
5.  Freeze the ice cream until firm before serving.

Mushroom Aglio Olio

Today is the 6th day of CNY so I did not feel to stay at home after work alone without doing anything special. Very lucky I am able to go off from work at 6pm so I decided to cook Aglio Olio for myself. Searching the recipe from Google on my way to GIANT and I found the easy one from Sandra's Easy Cooking and My Kitchen Snippets.

My spaghetti turned out not bad but a bit too spicy as the result of putting too much of chili flakes.

It was a nice try but I think it will be better if i put more garlic and add some shrimps too to add the sweetness of this dish. Will try it again for sure as I still have lots of ingredients in the house, Thursday maybe.

Mushroom Aglio Olio Spaghetti Recipe:

Serving: 1

Ingredients:

120 of dry pasta (around 1/5 pack of 500g packing)

2 tsp salt for water + 1/4tsp for pasta (adjust according to taste)

1 1/2 tbsp olive oil

3-4 cloves garlic, minced

1/4 tsp red pepper flakes (adjust according to taste) 

1 tbsp parsley flakes (adjust according to taste)

1/8 ground black pepper (adjust according to taste)

3 button mushroom ( big fresh white button mushroom)

1/2 tbsp butter

1 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese

Method:

1. Bring a large pot of water to boil and add salt, drop the pasta in and wait to be cooked (6-7 mins). Set aside 2 tbsp of pasta water and drain the pasta. Immedietly place the drained pasta into a container and mix well with butter.

2. Heat the olive oil over medium heat in a frying pan. Add the garlic and fry until it begins to turn golden. Stir frequently to avoid from burn.

3. Add in mushroom and salt. Cooked until the mushroom begin to brown and the liquid from mushroom evaporates.

4. With low heat, add in the pasta and toss it into the mushroom mixture. Then add in chili, parsley flakes and ground pepper and mix together. Drizzle in the pasta water and mix well.

5. Turn off the heat and transfer to plate. Garnish with grated Parmesan cheese and served warm.

The whole tomato rice

2nd trial on the famous tomato rice on the net... tried once a few weeks ago but i think i had put too much water so it doesnt taste so nice..

This trial is considered succesfull and as similiar to the review on net, it taste damn good!!!

RECIPE: TOMATO WHOLE RICE
Ingredients:
1 whole tomato
1 cup rice
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp peper
2 tsp olive oil
Few pcs of sliced pork

Method:
1. Wash the rice and put in water.
2. Remove 6 tbsp of water from the pot to cater for the water from tomato.
3. Put in peper, salt and olive oil. Well mix.
4. Put pork and tomato into the pot.
5. Press rice button and wait till it is cooked.
7. When the rice is cooked, mix the tomato with the rice until well mixed.

Optional:  Put cheese which alredy cut into small pieces into the pot and keep warm for a while before it is served.

Ps: can add egg or fried egg as well

Hot chocolate

Hot chocolate recipe

Ingredients
1 cup milk
2 tsp brown sugar
1tbsp + 1 tsp chocolate powder

Instructions
1. Warm milk with arristo frother. Non spring cap.
2. Add in chocolate powder and stir.
3. Add in sugar, stir and serve.

Honey-Lemon Frozen Yogurt

It is my 3rd time making this frozen yogurt before I manage to post about this fantastic recipe. It taste just the same as original flavor where we can get from all froyo outlets.

For this recipe, it is pretty easy and least ingredients needed but honey quality plays a vry important part. The froyo taste weird when i used cheaper honey which i get it from ingredients shop. Recipe for froyo also less fattening compared to ice cream.. basically just yogurt.. honey.. lemon juice.

When i ate this froyo, i actually put some nuts on top/ florentine which make it very similiar to froyo outlets. And it really taste the same. :)

Recipe: Honey Lemon Frozen Yogurt
Yield:
1.2L tupperware containner

Ingredients:
1 cup honey
3 tbsp lemon juice
1.5 tsp lemon peel
Pinch of salt
3 cups plain low fat yogurt
3 egg whites

Method:
1. Double boil honey, lemon juice, lemon peel and salt. Stir them until well blended and set aside to cool.
2. Mix in the yogurt and put in refrigerator until completely chilled.
3. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form and fold into the yogurt mixture.
4. Churn the mixture in completely freezed (24hrs freezing in the fridge) freezing bowl.
5. Freeze the frozen yogurt overnight before serving.

Sushi (sushi roll)

Recipe: Sushi rice

Ingredients:

2 cups sushi rice

1 cup normal rice 

1/2 cup rice vinegar

1 tbsp vegetable oil

1/4 cup sugar

1 tsp salt

Method:

1. Cook sushi rice ( 1 4/3 cup water, press rice using ecook) and normal rice ( 1/1/2 cup water). Mix sushi rice and normal rice. Cool until cool enough to handle.

2. In saucepan, combine rice vinegar,oil, sugar and salt. Cook over medium heat until the sugar dissolves. Cool and mix into the rice by making vertical n horizontal cutting.

Recipe: Filling

1. Crab filament with mayonnaise. Cut filament into small pieces and mix with mayonnaise.

2. Spicy tuna. Canned tuna mix with mayonnaise and chilli powder. 

3. Egg. 3 eggs mixed with sweeten soy sauce. Pan friend and roll the egg when almost cooked.

4. Prawn

5. Sausage. Steamed.

6. Carrot

7. Cucumber

* place plastic between seaweed and bamboo mat while rolling sushi.

* place the sushi roll in fridge for 5-10 mins for better and easier cutting.

Cookies and cream ice cream

Cookies and cream ice cream is another favourite flavor of mine and since my ice cream making mood haven't off yet, I decided to give it a try. The result is quite successful but just a little bit too sweet with the original recipe, so I decided to reduce the original amount of sugar next time.

It get the recipe from the internet and did some modification ( the original is just too too too sweet). With my previous experience on green tea ice cream making, I ensure that my ice cream maker freezing bowl is freezed for 24 hrs ( I put it on Sunday 11pm and make it next day 11pm.. Hiak hiak..) and the mixture is completely chilled (Prepare the mixture after work and start ice cream making at 11pm before I sleep) this time. The churning just takes about 15 mins to concentrate the mixture and starts freezing within 20 mins, mostly because all ingredients and the bowl are chilled enough. 

Next day after work, 1st thing to do is to check my ice cream..and it is amazing.. Creamy and smooth..but just a little bit too sweet..** room for improvement**..:)

Recipe: Cookies and cream ice cream

Yield: 1.2L Tupperware

Ingredients:

3 cups whipping cream

1.5 cup low fat milk

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

20 Oreo sandwich cookies

Method:

1. Freeze the ice cream maker freezing bowl for 24 hrs according to manufacturer's instructions.

2. Double boil cream, milk, sugar and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl until sugar dissolved. Cool the mixture aside and chilled in the refrigerator (cover with plastic).

3. Put the cookies into a sandwich plastic bag and crushed into pieces (use roller) and ensure to Leave some large pieces. Store the cookies in the freezer.

4. After freezing bowl completely freezed, churn the mixture for around 20 mins. When the ice cream is nearly freezing, pour in the cookies and allow to mix thoroughly ( still need to stir it after the machine stop).

5. Store in 1.2L Tupperware container and freeze it overnight before serving.

Green tea ice cream

Green tea/ matcha ice cream.. Always my favourite ice cream flavour in any ice cream outlet...

I have seen a u-mate fb's post on homemade ice cream and this make me feel to make my own ice cream... Google on the recipe and I notice that there are recipes which need a machine and without a machine, hence I start my research on ice cream maker and ice cream recipe.

At last, I make up my mind to purchase Kenwood IM280 Ice Cream Maker from Lazada at the price of RM 119 ( Lazada price RM169 with Rhb debit card RM 50 instant discount) instead of RM199 member's price from SENQ. 

Of course, the 1st ice cream recipe to try on is my favourite green tea flavour.

I got the recipe from Nasi Lemak Lover (http://nasilemaklover.blogspot.com/2012/08/matcha-green-tea-ice-cream.html) and double up the portion so that there are more to enjoy and no whipping cream wasted.

The result is not disappointing, however it makes me very nervous and worry during the churning of the ice cream maker. The mixture took much more longer to get concentrated/solidified ( ~45 minutes) and the mixture churned after 45mins is not as concentrated as shown in YouTube and other bloggers (suspected the mixture is not chilled enough) before putting into the maker for churning.

Overall, the ice cream texture is awesome although it is not as smooth and creamy compared to those from Baskin Robin and Haegen Daaz.

I would definitely try for 2nd times or N times on this recipe. :)

Recipe: Green tea/ Matcha Ice cream

Yield: 1L Tupperware container

Ingredients:

2 cup whipping cream

2 cup fresh/ low fat milk

6 tbsp natural green tea powder ( I got it from purple cane)

1 cup sugar

2 pinch of salt

Method:

1. Freeze ice cream bowl for 24 hrs.

2. Mix all ingredients in a saucepan/ pot, cook till sugar dissolved. After cooled down, refrigerate the mixture until completely chilled. (This mixture need to be chilled for best result)

3. Churn in ice cream maker until solidified/ concentrated (~30 mins) according to manufacturer's instructions.

4. Transfer into a container and freeze overnight before serving.