Warm and Sweet Chicken & Corn porridge

Again, freezing cold weather so I decided to cook porridge for dinner ^^

Have got some corns and a chicken drumstick... Shall I just cook chicken and corn porridge? YES!!! I have no choice lol!

Sharing my recipe with you~

Ingredients: - 1 chicken drumstick

                    - 1 sweet corn, chopped into small pieces

                    - 1 or 2 slices of ginger

                    - 1/3 cup of rice

Steps:

1. Wash rice, chicken and corn and chop corn into small pieces.

2. Cook rice in a pot until the water is boiled.

3. Put chicken and corn into the pot to cook with the rice when the water is boiled.

4. Cook for 45 minutes or until the rice is cooked thoroughly (or depending on how soft the rice you want it to be).

5. Seasoning with salt to suit your taste (the porridge is sweet enough so just add a little of salt will do).

6. Slice the chicken before eating.

7. Serve it hot!!!

Cooking in progress~

Tadah, the end product~
The sesames are just for decoration =P (you can eat them with the porridge as well if you like).

Look really good for me~
Warm and sweet... Best for winter!!!

Hope you like it! Bon appetit~

Triple Chocolate Muffin

Had some times to do cooking today. First experience baking triple chocolate muffin, so excited!!! Searched on the web to look for some recipes and I decided to adapt the recipe from taste.com.au ^^

Here's the recipe from the website:

Serves: 12

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 cups self-raising flour
• 1/3 cup cocoa powder, sifted
• 100g dark chocolate, chopped
• 1 cup white choc bits
• 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1 egg, lightly beaten

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 190°C/170°C fan-forced. Line a 12-hole, 1/3 cup-capacity muffin pan with paper cases.
2. Combine flour, cocoa, dark chocolate, white choc bits and brown sugar in a bowl. Make a well in the centre. Add milk, oil and egg. Using a wooden spoon, stir until just combined. (Tips: Don't overmix muffins, or they can become tough and chewy.)

    3. Spoon mixture into paper cases.

    4. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until browned and cooked through.

This is how the muffins look after 5 minutes...

And after 15 minutes...

    5. Stand in the baking pan for 5 minutes.

    6. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. 

 

    7. Serve it =)

OMG!!! I don't believe that my first attempt turned out to be SUCCESSFUL!!! The muffin is surprisingly good! (Maybe I'm really talented lol =P)

I hope you enjoy it and have a try baking yourself ❤

Thousand year egg chicken porridge

Haven't been cooking for really long time!!! The food I miss the most is the thousand egg chicken porridge - my mum's special recipe. Well, it doesn't look really different from those selling outside but I'm pretty sure they taste different (well of course!!! Cause everyone has different styles and skills =P). I'm proudly saying that my porridge tastes the same as the one my mum cooks (I'm inherited her skills and styles lol). 

You're lucky cause I'm gonna share the recipe with you here ❤
Remember that everyone can still produce the porridge with different tastes (so if your first try turns out to be not that nice, don't be sad cause PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT =D)!!! 

Recipe (2-3 serves)

Ingredients: - 2 Thousand year eggs

                       - 2 Salted eggs 

                       - 2 Chicken drumsticks

                       - 1/2 cup of rice

 

Steps:

1. Marinade the chicken drumsticks with a little salt and white pepper.

2. Boil water to cook the salted eggs. When they are cook, peel the shells, cut into small cubes and set aside.

3. Simmer the thousand year eggs boiled water for 3-5 minutes (this is to reduce the smell of the thousand eggs as they are really stink!). Peel the shells, cut into small cubes and set aside after taking them out from the boiled water.

4. Cook the rice in a pot (tips: Don't worry too much about the water level, you can always add water when it runs out of water).

5. When the rice is boiled (I mean the water) then put the chicken into the pot to cook with the rice.

6. Cook the rice till it's cooked and soft (depends on how you like your porridge to be, some people like it really soft while some people prefer less soft).

7. Put the salted eggs and thousand year eggs into the porridge and cook. Stir it. (Tips: you can cook the eggs with the porridge longer for richer taste of the eggs)

8. Take the chicken out from the pot and slice them (Tips: use 2 forks to slice them) and then stir in the chicken slices into the porridge.

9. You can add some salt and MSG (optional) depending on how salty you would like it to be.

10. It's ready to be served!!!
11. Serve it while it's hot. (Eating tips: Add some sesame oil and white pepper to the porridge. You can also add shallots or fried red onions. This is optional step if you don't like it.)  

I hope you like it =D

Bon Appetit

Weather is getting colder and colder... I've always think of ways to keep myself warm. You know, add more clothes, quilt...all basic stuff. And people always say that red meat (beef and mutton) keep you warm...Too bad, I don't eat either! That's why I have to think other ways...haha! And my very special way of keeping myself warm is eating hot dessert!!! Very logical... when you feel cold, will you still eat cold thing to make yourself even colder (well, I do sometimes. I love eating ice-cream when it's cold! I thought it's really exciting  =P)? For sure, most people choose hot stuff over cold stuff! My second logic...dessert is sweet, sweet gives you energy and it's quite filling!

So all my logics make this dessert! Let see what we've got~

Red Bean Paste + Glutinous Rice Ball  红豆汤圆甜品

As chinese, we normally eat glutinous rice ball during Winter (lunar calendar)and every year after you have eaten glutinous rice ball, you are 1 year older. Glutinous rice ball which is tang yuan 汤圆 in Mandarin also mean reunion, people also eat it when someone's getting married - tuan yuan, tuan yuan (reunion) is a good sight! 

Erm, I know  it's still not Winter but I really feel like tang yuan BUT BUT BUT doesn't mean that I get 1 year older after I eat them ok!!! Eating tang yuan with red bean paste...first time making it this way...wonder if it's gonna be nice...

YES YES YES, it's super nice! Very satisfied yum~

DO YOU WANNA MAKE ONE???

You know I'm very kind, I'm more than happy to share my love~

And here's my love!

Ingredients: (2 people)

• 1/2 cup of red bean 
• 3-4 cup of water
• crystal sugar (depend on you preferred sweetness)

• glutinous rice ball (any flavour you like, I have black sesame and peanut) or you can make it yourself with glutinous rice flour + water (just mix them and make into small balls)

Steps:

1. Wash red bean and soak in water for ~30minutes (this saves your time in boiling the red bean, the longer you soak it, the faster you can get it cooked and soft).
2. Boil red bean for around 1 hour or until the red beans are cooked and soft. Check and stir every 15 minutes so the water don't dry out. 
3. Add crystal sugar into the red bean paste and stir.
4. Add glutinous rice ball. Cook until they float on the surface (means it's cooked!). Turn off the heat and it's done!'
5. Serve while it's hot~~~

Bon Appetit ❤

All you like Udon

Ever think of begin cooking with just a simple dish? Tell you what. I think the easiest cooking is stir fry or fried rice or noodles or something similar. Know why? ...... Because the only thing you need to do when cooking is putting everything into the wok or pan! Sounds reasonable? Haha, anyway that's just personal view. You might say 'well, the easiest cooking is INSTANT NOODLE!' - Ermmm, agree with that but you know, something easy other than instant noodle :P

Presenting you my yummy lunch~ Fried Udon - Quick and Easy! Wanna try cooking yourself?

What you need:

• Udon noodles
• Crab meat stick
• Corn
• Seaweed
• Garlic (1-2 cloves, chopped)
• Oyster sauce
• Pepper
• Sesame oil

You can choose any ingredients that you like, the list above was what I used in my udon. You can always use meat and vegetables (Tips: if you are using meat -pork or chicken, you may wanna mix a very little cornstarch - this makes the meat tender when you bite).

Finished choosing your ingredients? Let's move on to the next step!

How? 

1. Boil water and cook the udon for around 8 minutes or until it's cooked. You can add some salt into the boiled water.
2. Strain the udon with cold water and leave aside for later use.
3. Heat oil in your wok/ pan and fry garlic.
4. Add your ingredients (crab meat stick, corn etc) into the wok/ pan and fry with the garlic.
5. Add seasoning (oyster sauce, pepper, sesame oil) and little water - making sauce to the udon.
6. When the sauce boiled, add the udon into the wok/ pan and mix them well.
7. If it's too watery, turn to high heat and keep frying until the noodles have soaked all the sauce.
8. Add seaweed for decoration (well of course, you can eat it! Seaweed brings a really nice taste to the noodles) and it's ready to be served! 
9. Serve while it's hot.

Tadah~ Here's my fried Udon ❤

First time cooking? No problem, this is easy! Try it today ^v^

Cook. Love. Food.

Well, if you know me well then you would know I'm a food person. I love eating, well, I think most people do! I don't mind eating cheap or expensive food, as long as they are yummy, I'm more than happy to spend that money. Right, I mean I choose quality over price O(∩_∩)O

Yes, when I say I'm a food person, I also mean that I love to cook (still learning to be a good cook though), from appetiser to dessert, any cuisine, as long as I think that's new to me, I'll try doing it! So throw me with any food recipe, I'll come out with something for sure (may not be super yummy but come on, be confident =P).

I've started collecting recipe books or any online recipes few years ago. Well of course, I've cooked or made or baked some of them. Am currently very interested to the recipes by Kit Mak (麥潔兒) - you might heard about her before. Yes, she was one of the judges in the HK show, Beautiful Cooking 2.

Introducing Kit Mak. Gosh, she is definitely a pretty chef!

Kit Mak also published a few recipe books to share her cooking ideas. She is very well-known with new ideas on cooking; incorporating traditional ways of cooking, she brings in new ideas to make different tastes to the 'traditional' dishes. Here are some of her books which I really hope I have them (apparently they only sell them in Hong Kong >.<). I only see them only and didn't really have the chance to look inside the book T-T. Well, not promoting these books, just to let the other cook person who also interested in Kit Mak's cooking (like me) and is living in Hong Kong, know about them.

This is interesting. Kit Mak worked with another writer to actually linking her cuisine to love stories and I heard (well not really heard, these are all what I read from the book description) that there are 40 recipes in it which have been decribed through romantic love stories ❤

Right, all I know about this book is making desserts with all kinds of flowers. People normally use flowers as gift, decorations, fragrance or tea, this is the first time I know that we can actually make desserts with flowers. Interesting~

Kit Mak gave this book with the name of 'The Taste of First Love' so I guess there must be something that make you feel 'in love' when you're making or tasting it. So wanna have one too!!!

Ok, here are some recipes that I searched online. Someone was very kind to share these online *thank you*. I'm not sharing the recipes here cuz it will take me very long time to edit them (as the picture sizes are really small and there are many of them) but I'm more than happy to share a few of them if you are interested ^v^

Show you some pictures here... How is it? Feeling hungry already?

Molten Chocolate Cake (巧克力心太软)
Yes, this was the one I made few weeks ago. I have the recipe in another post if you are interested.

Chicken Diavola (魔鬼烧鸡)

Rich Tomato Soup (番茄浓汤)

Chicken Steak with Apple and Herbs (苹果香草鸡扒)

Wow! Making me so hungry *drooling*

With Love ❤

Haven't been updating my blog for long... Too busy with stuff - Uni, assignments and blah blah blah... Anyway...
I'm kinda obsessed... TO DESSERT!!! lol
I'm a big TVB drama fan, always heard and saw this dessert in the dramas and so... I decided to try making one! Wonder if you know there's always a pretty chef named Kit Mak in the Beautiful Cooking Series.. I have tried making dessert before with her recipe therefore I thought of searching her recipe online and see if she has this dessert in her recipe...
Lucky me! She really has this dessert in her recipe yay! Oopsy, no one knows what's this dessert yet... It is called 巧克力心太软 (molten chocolate cake).
The name is very well related to the dessert... If you have seen or eaten this dessert before, you know why. For those who hasn't tried this before, it is called the name because it has really "soft heart" lol. Seriously, the outer layer looks like normal cake but when you cut it... YUM YUM, the chocolate filling flows out of the cake!
All right, enough nonsense... Just gonna share this recipe of Kit Mak if you are interested of making one by yourself. Enjoy ❤

Molten Chocolate Cake 巧克力心太软

What you need: - Cooking dark chocolate  80g
               - Brown sugar             2 tbsp
               - Butter                  50g
               - Egg                     3
               - Flour                   1/2 cup
               - Icing sugar             some
               - Cocoa powder            some
               - Water                   some
               - Soft butter             some

How?

1. Preheat oven at 200 degree celcius
2. Grease the baking mould with soft butter and sprinkle some cocoa powder (I guess this is to prevent the cake sticking to the mould).
3. Melt dark chocolate, butter and brown sugar in a bowl over simmering water.
4. Stir gently until well mixed.
5. Blend eggs and pour into the chocolate mixture and stir well.
6. Sife the flour into the chocolate mixture and stir well.
7. Pour the mixture into the baking moulds.
8. Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes.
9. Remove the cake from the moulds, dust with icing sugar and decorate your plates.
10. Serve while it's hot!!!


It is really simple, isn't it? Everyone can make one at home! Try it! Hope you like it... Cause I LOVE IT ❤

Mandy's specialzzzzz

Addicted to my home-made tasty and healthy salad recently~
I found this combination of veggies and fruits is the best I ever have!
Nah, I'm gonna share this 'recipe' with you!

What do you need?

• Celery
• Strawberry
• Cherry tomato / tomato
  
• Kiwi
• Nuts and dried fruit (optional)

I know some people do not like the smell of celery. You know what! You can't actually taste the celery with lotsa strawberries in it! The ratio of the veggie and fruits is really up to you! If you love celery then put more celery! If you hate celery do much... you can just leave out the celery and replace with other veggies you like or just pure fruit salad!
Nuts bring the crunchiness to your salad! I prefer almond, walnut, cashew nut and macadamia! Just add whatever nuts you like!
Wash and cut the veggies and fruits into small pieces or cubes... Serve onto a plate... That's it! Quick and easy! Most importantly, yummy and healthy!

Look! The very colourful salad~

Zoom in... They look so nice, don't they?

Try yourself at home! You will definitely like it! =D

First Love ❤

Goodness me! I didn't realize I didn't actually posted this entry! It was "lying" in my draft since 11th August! So geng! Anyway, this was actually my day with "sudden mood" to make a nice dessert which was introduced by the HK show- Beauty's kitchen (Mei lui cu fong)!
I think this dessert is just good for girls to make for their valentines during Valentine's Day!
Follow me for the procedure!

Dessert: First Love

What do you need? The materials are all very easy to get so no worries!

• Cooking chocolate 250g
• Marie biscuit 500g
• Vanilla essence Few drops (depends on how strong the taste you like)
• Egg (beaten) 2
• Dried fruit (cranberry, raisin etc up to u)
  
• Strawberry For decoration
• Chocolate powder
• Aluminium foil
  

What's next?

• Melt the cooking chocolate
  
• Add the beaten eggs once the choc melted and stir it
  
• Add few drops of vanilla essence
• Break the biscuit slightly, add into the melted choc and stir
• Add your favourite dried fruits
• Pour the whole thing on the Aluminium foil and wrap it (Tips: Press until there's no gaps between the choc and biscuit while you are wrapping <= you don't want your first love with lots of holes I supposed! lol)
• Then put it into the freezer overnight
• Cut to serve (Reminder: it's very sticky, be careful when you unwrap it. Sprinkle some chocolate powder on the choc surface so it won't stick on your plate or whatever when you are serving)

Some photos for you to refer! I had put the photos in sequence so if you don't understand the written procedure, do refer the photos!

Melted choc + eggs + vanilla essence

Marie in the melted choc

Stir it!

Add dried fruit! I added some cranberry! Again, stir it!

Ok, pour everything onto the Aluminium foil

Press and shape it!

This is the look when you unwrap it the next day

Sprinkle some choc powder on the surface

Cut it!

Serve it with some strawberries then will be PERFECT!!!

First Love...Sweet with a lil' sour... TRY DO IT YOURSELF!

YumMy...

Yum...Yumm!

I was just too 'free' to read through the recipe and i got this yummy dinner tonight!

I dunno what it calls, but it is definitely chinese stlye pork chop!

How does it look? Hmm...may not look very nice BUT is really tasty!I havent ate tasty pork chop long long time ler....

So touched! Haha!

It's easy to make! Not need long preparation time.

For those who want to try and make it, you need:

Ingredients:

- Pork chop

- Red chilli

- Scallion

- Red onion

- Mushrooms (optional)

Marinade with:

- Oyster sauce (3 tblsp)

- Sesame oil (1 tsp)

Sauce:

- Soy sauce (3 tblsp) >depends on how salty u like

- Water (2 tblsp)

- Sugar (1 tbsp)

- Cornstarch (1/2 tsp)

*Prepare the sauce first instead of just adding it when you cook (just to make easier)

Methods:

- Marinade the pork chop for at least 20 minutes

- Slice red chilli (remove the seeds), red onion, scallion and mushrooms

- Fry the pork chop until it is 80% cooked

- Quick fry the onion, mushrooms and scallion in the hot oil

- Put pork chop in and stir fry them then put chilli

- When the pork chop is almost cooked, put the sauce

- It is done when the pork chop is cooked!

Interested? Try it yourself!

Enjoy!