Broccoli tofu

I added some Enokitake mushroom for extra vegetable and taste.














Broccoli
Tofu
Enokitake mushroom
Garlic
Ginger
Chilli
Oil
Soy sauce
Corn starch (Optional)

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1. Cut broccoli into small pieces. Bring a saucepan of water bring to boil and cook the broccoli.
2. Heat oil, saute garlic and ginger to brown.
3. Add Enokitake mushroom and soy sauce, cook to half cook.
4. Add tofu and water, cover and simmer.
5. Add cooked broccoli and chilli, stir and mix, add corn starch.

-All done-

Tiramisu

Tiramisu, 'Italian dessert,with the meaning of pick me up'










2 Tablespoons ground espresso coffee
250ml boiling water
125ml Masala
250g Sponge finger biscuit
300ml Thicked cream
40g Icing sugar
500g Mascarpone cheese
2 Tablespoons Marsala
2 Tablespoons cocoa powder

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1. Combine coffee and water in plunger, stand for 2 minutes before plunging. Combine coffee mixture & marsala, cook for 10 minutes.
2.Place half the biscuit in mould, drizzle with half the coffee mixture.
3.Beat the cream & sifter icing sugar in a small bowl until soft peaks form. Fold in and combined mascarpone cheese and extra marsala.
4.Spread half the cream mixture over the biscuits. Submerge remaining biscuits, one in a time, in the coffee mixture. Place over cream layer. Top with remaining cream mixture. Place over cream layer. Top with remaining cream mixture. Cover, refrigerate 3 hours. Dust with cocoa powder.

Very good dessert to make for you love ones. Also suitable for any occasion such as Christmas, Valentine's or New Year.

`Mince pork tofu

If you like a little spicy food, this is a pretty great dish to eat with rice or noodle.


I suppose to sprinkle spring onion on top, but unfortunately I didn't buy any spring onion.










Tofu - 1
Pork mince - 120g
Chopped Ginger - Trace
Chopped Garlic - Trace
Chopped Mini red chilli - 3 (can be reduce or added more for personal spiciness)
Chopped Spring onion - 1
Corn flour - Trace (For corn starch, can be optional)
Soy sauce - 2 tablespoons
Salt - Trace
Oil - Trace


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1.Heat oil in pan, add ginger and garlic. Saute it to brown, add pork mince with soy sauce and salt.
2.Cook the pork mince and add tofu with a bit of water, cover to cook till water thicken.
3.Add chilli, stir well and add corn starch, simmer and cook for 1 minute.
4. Place in bowl, sprinkle spring onion.

-All done-

Fruit tart

Basically you just have to make the tart base and prepare the pastry cream (filling) just like profiteroles pastry cream.Click here. Then top with any fruits that you like.














I was in a rush so the lime was very thick. It is suppose to be thinner sliced and candied for garnish.











Sweet shortcrust pastry (Tart base)
200g Unsalted butter
100g Caster Sugar
50g (1) Egg
300g Plain Flour
Pinch of salt.

This recipe makes about 650g of the pastry dough.

`Pastry (Tart)
1.Cream the butter and sugar lightly.
2.Add egg and continue creaming until absorbed.
3.Carefully fold in flour and salt, mixing only until combined. (The dough will be very sticky)
4. Wrap with greaseproof paper/ cling wrap, chill in fridge for 15 minutes.
5. Roll the dough out to about 5mm and line on mould.*
6. Use a fork and pop some holes on the lined dough.
7. Blind bake about 10-15 minutes or until cooked at 180 degree Celsius.*
8. Allow to cool.

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Splash some flour if dough is too sticky to work with.
Blind bake needs some rice or blind bake beans on the dough so that tart comes out flat.

`Pastry cream
Please click on the link above that say [Click here] for reference

` Assemble
1.Fill pastry cream in piping bag with star nozzle. Pipe into tart. (Photo shows at the bottom)

2.Line fruits over one by one overlapping each other.

(Goes from other layer to inner layer)













3.Glaze with apricot glaze, and all done :)

Custard Profiteroles

Choux Pastry (Profiteroles)
Water 120ml 
Butter 40g
Salt Trace
Flour 80g
Eggs 2

Pastry Cream (Custard Filling)
Flour 30g
Sugar 80g
Egg yolk 2
Milk 300ml
Vanilla essence trace

`Choux pastry
1. Sift the flour. Bring water, butter and salt to boiling point in a saucepan.
2. Add the flour and mix together with a wooden spatula.
3. Continue to cook this panada until the mixture leaves the sides of pan (Do not overcook)
4. Remove from stove, work in eggs one at a time to achieve a smooth, semi-liquid paste.
5. Fill the mixture into a piping bag and pipe as required.
~I used Macaroon Mat as based so every mixture pipe is the same size.
6. Space regularly and evenly to ensure even cooking. Brush with egg yolk.
7. Bake at 200 degree Celsius for 18 minutes, allow to cool.

`Pastry cream
1. Sift flour in to basin, add the egg yolk, sugar and 10% of milk and mix well.
2. Bring the rest of milk to the boil in a saucepan.
3. Pour the milk into the flour mixture, mix well and pour it back to saucepan.
4. Return to stove and bring to boil. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring continuously to cook the flour.
5. Pour into basin and add vanilla essence.
6. Cover with buttered greaseproof paper to prevent a skin foaming.

`Assemble
1. Cut the profiteroles in to half.
2. Pipe small amount of pastry cream.
3. Cover with the top of profiteroles.
4. Sift some icing sugar on profiteroles.

-All done- :) 

Bacon and Cheese Avocado Croissants

Inside look.

Outside look.










Ingredients
Croissants,
Avocado,
Bacon,
Cheese,
Nuttelex (Margarine)

On a pan, cook bacon to well done. Set aside to cool. Cut croissant into half, spread margarine on it. Top bacon and cheese on top then avocado on the side. Close with the other half of croissant and is done :)


Very easy and you can make it the night before, keep in fridge for next day's breakfast.

Currants chocolate chips muffins

Ingredients
125g butter
140g sugar
1teaspoon vanilla essence
2 eggs
300g self-raising flour
125ml fresh orange juice


Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius, line twelve 80ml muffin moulds.
Beat butter, sugar and vanilla essence in a large bowl until pale and creamy. Add eggs gradually. Fold in orange juice and flour.
Spoon into mounds to about 2/4 full then add currents and chocolate chips. Then spoon to about 3/4 full. Top with chocolate chips, this is optional.
Bake about 20-25 minutes till cook.
Dust with cocoa powder. [ Personally I did was top with Toblerone chocolate  by sticking them with melted white chocolate and dust with cocoa powder to finish. ]


Hope you guys like it :)

Vichyssoise (Potato & Leek soup)

Ingredients
25g butter
2 leeks
1 onion
150g potatoes
750ml white chicken stock
125ml fresh cream
1 tablespoon chives


Slice leeks (white part) and onion thinly. Melt butter, sweat leeks and onion until tender. Peel & dices potatoes. Add potatoes & white stock to stock pot and season lightly. Bring to boil, simmer 20minutes. Puree and strain into saucepan / clean pot. Re-boil and whisk in fresh cream. Cool in  refrigerator for 3 hours if serve cold. Chive to be garnish on top to serve.

Chicken pasta with salad

Chicken pasta
Put the required amount of fettuccine in boiling water and set aside ones is cooked.
Slice chicken in to small slice and dice some onion. Oil in saucepan, sweat onion in the saucepan and cook the chicken, ones chicken is ready, set aside and pour tomato paste in to the saucepan. Ones is ready, add the chicken in and the cooked fettuccine, stir to combine and pasta is ready.

Salad
Wash the salad leaves and set aside for later use. Dice avocado and cut smoked salmon into small pieces.  Season the salad leaves with a bit of olive oil and balsamic vinegar, place on the plate and top with avocado, smoked salmon and olive.


Dinner is ready :)

Chocolate Puddings.

Basically making chocolate pudding is very easy just keeping the temperature is important.

Is a bit in a mess, sorry.

Ingredients,
Fresh milk 140ml,
Fresh whipped cream 40ml,
Chocolate syrup 60ml,
2 eggs,
some strawberries for decoration.

Directions,
-Bring the milk and whipped cream to cook [together],  cook till 35 degree Celsius and boil them into a bowl.
-Stir in chocolate syrup, you can reduce the usage if you don't want it that sweet.
-Stir two eggs until well combined and add to the mixture you have above.
-Sieved the mixture and pour them into ovenproof bowls. If you want it in better sharp you can pour them into ovenproof heart sharp bowls.
-Bake them for 30minutes until it turns hard.
-Leave them on room temperature to cool down.
-Ones fully cooled down, put them into the fridge.
-When you want to eat, put the strawberry on top and serve cool.

Chocolate Muffins

What you need,
35g of Coco Powder,
85g of flour,
115g of Sugar,
115g of butter,
2 eggs.
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder.

What you do,
1, Stir the coco powder and flour also the baking powder.
2, Beat the sugar with butter,
3, Mix in coco powder, flour and baking powder that you mix in step 1.
4, Mix the eggs in,
5, Mix them evenly and fill them into muffins cups.
6, Preheat oven and bake the muffins with 170 degree Celsius for 15 minutes or when it cracks on the top.

Making sugar cookies.

This is actually what I learn from Soo Suen.

What you need,
195g of flour,
1 egg,
113.5g of butter,
1/2 teaspoon of soda,
100g of sugar.
And also the accessorizes like beaters, cookies cutters bowls and so. 

What you'll do is,
1, Mix the sugar with butter evenly,
2, Mix the flour in with soda,
3, Mix the egg in,
4, After mixing them evenly, it will turn into a dough then roll them flat to about 3mm-5mm[depends what you like] and put it in the freezer approximately 10 minutes.
5, Cut them with cookies cutter and bring it to bake. [before baking, preheat the oven]
6, 170 degree Celsius and bake it about 15minutes or when it turns gold.

Making chinese rice balls.

It's a little special post today. But this is what I have learn from my grandma.

Chinese rice balls.
Ingredients, glutinous flour and warm water.

It's really easy.
Just mix the flour with water. Mix it till it turns to dough so u really have to control the water amount depending on how much flour you got.
After that roll them into small balls.

Prepare water and bring it to boil.
Put those little rice ball in when the water starts to boil.
When the rice balls flow up to the top of the water means they are fully cooked.

Take them out and put some sugar and stir. You don't have to put any water or so, as you stir, the rice ball cool down, they will have this so call 'soup' for this little rice balls .

And it's all done!

It looks like eggs ain't they?