1. Clean potato with water. Then dry them with kitten towel.
2. Preheat oven to 190 degree C.
3. Coat potato with olive oil. Bake for 1 hour. My potatoes are in medium size. After being baked for 1 hour, they are completely cooked.
4. Cut potato into halves. Sprinkle a little salt and black pepper. Also place one small piece of butter on them.
5. Bake for another 10 mins.
6. Sprinkle cheese. And bake till cheese melts.
When my husband and I were in Hokkaido several days ago, we tried a famous local dish – soup curry.
A really nice dish that surprised us.
I wanted to try this dish at home.
1. Prepare vegetables you like.
I chose pumpkin, cabbage, potato, carrot, eggplant, shiitake and cauliflower. Add in a little olive oil, toss a bit.
Preheat oven to 190 degree C and bake for 30 mins.
2. While vegetables are in the oven, prepare curry chicken. Heat a little olive oil in the pan. Add in chopped onion, garlic and ginger. Stir fry till aromatic.
3. Add in 1 tsp cinnamon powder, 1/2 tsp nutmeg powder, bay leaf, 1 tsp paprika powder and 1 small curry cube ( I’m out of curry powder). Stir fry a bit.
4. Pour in 1 tsp mirin, 1 tsp light soy sauce, 1 tsp tomato sauce, 1 box of chicken stock and 1/2 cup water. Mix them all well.
5. Put chicken in the pan. Cover it with lid and simmer for 30 mins.
When the vegetables are done, check whether they are cooked.
Potato and carrot are a bit hard. Put them in the pan and simmer with curry chicken.
I also add in peeled tomato.
In a big bowl, put chicken at the bottom, then lay the vegetables above. Pour the soup over it.
Serve with half-boiled egg and rice. Sprinkle a little black pepper.
Mine tastes lighter. And my soup is much less. Next time, I should try with curry powder and improve.
Original recipe:
http://www.xiachufang.com/recipe/100571333/
I followed this recipe but changed a little.
Sourdough:
Bread flour 58g
Whole grain flour 58g
Water 71g
Yeast 1/2tsp (original recipe is 1/16tsp)
Mix all the sourdough ingredients. Let it rest for at least 2 hours. Original recipe said let it rest for overnight. That’s why I increased yeast to 1/2 tsp.
Walnut paste:
Walnut 50g
Water 50g
Honey 40g
Melted butter 20g
Salt 1 pinch
Blend all these ingredients in blender till paste.
Bread ingredients:
Bread flour 306g
Whole grain flour 34g
Water 145g
Salt 8.5g
Yeast 2g
Mix all the bread ingredients together into a dough. Let it rest for 30 mins.
Then fold in sourdough and walnut paste. Mix well into a big dough. Let it rise into 2 times big.
Preheat oven to the highest.
Knead it and press the air out. Let it rise again for another 40 mins. Cut the surface with pattern you like.
Turn oven to 230 degree C. Put in 1/4 cup water and let the water steam arise. Put bread dough into oven. Bake for 15 mins. Then take the water out and bake for another 25-30 mins. If the color too dark, cover with foil.
My husband and I love this bread very much.
Original recipe:
http://www.amuse-your-bouche.com/blueberry-shortbread-bars/
I followed this recipe strictly.
Ingredients:
Flour 125g
Sugar 50g
Butter 100g
Fresh blueberries 150g
1. Preheat oven to 180 degree C.
2. Mix flour and sugar in a bowl. Cut in butter.
3. Rub them with fingers till become coarse crumbs.
4. Press 2/3 crumbs into baking pan. Sprinkle blueberries over crumbs.
5. Spread the rest crumbs on the top also with a little extra white sugar.
6. Bake for 30 mins.
We bought a waffle maker yesterday. I couldn’t wait to cook some delicious waffles with it. My husband wanted Belgian waffles. So I found some recipes online and tried them. Yet, it was a big failure. Waffles I made tasted like strong baking soda flavor stuff. It’s not easy for me to quit, especially on cooking. I thought I should start with basic ones. And I found a wonder recipe online. Lucky me!
https://www.google.com.sg/amp/www.food.com/amp/recipe/basic-batter-waffles-110683
It’s super easy. No need to beat the egg white with electric mixer.
I just halved the batch.
Ingredients:
Egg 1
Milk 200g
Olive oil 1/6 cup
Flour 1 cup
Baking powder 1/2 tsp
Salt 1/4 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp
Vanilla 1/2 tsp
Preheat waffle maker first. And then prepare the batter.
1. Mix flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a big bowl.
2. Mix egg with milk, oil and vanilla in another bowl.
3. Combine dry ingredients with wet ingredients. Don’t overmix. Stop when they just combine. It’s ok if there’s still flour bumps.
4. Pour batter over preheated waffle maker.
5. Serve with syrup and fruits you like. You can also add nuts or butter.
Last time when my husband and I went back to my hometown in Shandong, China. I mentioned that I needed some chestnuts to bring back to Singapore for cooking. My auntie kept that in mind and bought me a big box of organic chestnut. I was really surprised. So I brought many packs back to Singapore.
Recently, this chestnut bread just came to my mind. So I tried with those chestnuts full of my family’s love.
Ingredients:
Bread flour 150g
Whole grain flour 100g ( I used rough whole grain flour)
Yeast 6g
Sugar 12 g
Warm water 170ml
Salt 3g
Chestnut ( cooked already. I used many around 200g. They were chopped in blender, not very finely, but roughly)
1. Dissolve yeast in warm water.
2. Mix bread flour, whole grain flour, sugar and salt in a large bowl.
3. Add yeast water in dry ingredients.
4. Knead all ingredients into dough. Keep kneading for 20 mins. That takes a lot energy.
5. Fold in chestnut.
6. Place dough in a big bowl. Cover with plastic wrap. Let it rise till 2 times as big as before.
7. Knead the dough and press air out. Let it rest for 5 mins.
8. Make the dough into shape you like. I divided it into two smaller ones. Sprinkle some flour. Cover them with plastic wrap and let it rise again till 1.5 times as big as before.
9. Preheat oven to 190 degree C. Bake for 20 mins.
They smell so good. And my husband loves them.
Very crunchy outside but soft inside.
And I believe they are healthy too.
It’s a super easy snack.
Ingredients:
Puff pastry
Egg
Chopped almond or grate almond
Sugar
1. Brush puff pastry with egg.
2. Sprinkle sugar and grate almond over it evenly.
3. Use a rolling pin roll the pastry to press almond and sugar into it. Or you can just use your palm.
4. Flip the pastry over and repeat step 1,2 & 3.
5. Cut pastry into strips. And twist them slightly.
6. Preheat oven to 200 degree C. At the same time, let the pastry rest for around 10 mins.
6. Bake for 15-20 mins. Till they turn golden brown.
It’s a traditional Chinese snack. And it’s very easy to make.
Ingredients:
Butter 100g softened
Sugar 60 g
Egg (half for the dough, half to brush on the dough)
Flour 180g
Baking soda 1/2 tsp
Salt 1 pinch
Cashew nuts some
1. Cream butter with sugar in a bowl.
2. Add in half egg. Stir well.
3. Add in dry ingredients ( flour, baking soda and salt).
4. Knead all ingredients into a dough ball. And refrigerate for 30 mins.
5. Divide the big dough into many small ones. Each is around 8-9 g.
6. Preheat oven to 175 degree C.
7. Brush small dough balls with egg. Then press cashew nut on each one lightly.
8. Brush egg on cashew and dough again.
9. Bake for 20 mins.
They smell so good and taste very nice as well. Very crispy.
Because I didn’t have minced beef at home, so I used bacon instead.
Tomato sauce:
1. Heat a little oil in the pan. Add in carrot , onion and garlic dices. Stir fry till softened.
2. Add in chopped tomato, 2 tsp tomato sauce, a little salt and black pepper. Stir fry evenly.
3. Add in some water. Turn to low heat. Simmer till all ingredients soften and sauce becomes very condensed and dry.
White sauce:
1. Melt 25 g butter in the pan with low heat.
2. Add in 25g flour. Stir slowly.
3. Pour in 200 ml milk and a little nutmeg powder.
4. Keep stirring till sauce becomes very condensed.
Bacon needs to be pan fried a bit.
Lasagna (4 pieces) in boiling water for 7 mins.
Preheat oven to 220 degree C.
Grease baking pan.
Put in 1 piece lasagna and brush tomato sauce. Place bacon and 2 cheese slices.
Then put in another layer of lasagna. Brush white sauce.
Then another layer of lasagna with tomato sauce, bacon and cheese.
And so on.
The top layer should be tomato sauce. And sprinkle grated cheese over it.
Bake for 30 mins.
It’s super easy and delicious.
Original recipe:
https://www.google.com.sg/amp/www.food.com/amp/recipe/dried-cranberry-shortbread-340103
Ingredients:
1 cup unsalted butter softened
3/4 cup icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup dried cranberries finely chopped
1. Preheat oven to 160 degree C.
2. Mix butter , sugar, vanilla, flour and salt by hand in a bowl till just combined.
3. Fold in dried cranberries.
4. Press dough into baking pan.
5. Bake for 30 mins till pale golden.
6. Cool and cut.
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