For the marinade:
2 tbsp miso paste,
2 tbsp mirin (Japanese sweet cooking wine)
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp water
Mix well in a bowl.
Place salmon steak into marinade and rest for 2 hrs.
Preheat oven to 180 degree C.
Bake for 20 mins.
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Seared Seer Fish
This is a very simple dish.
Prepare marinade:
In a small bowl, mix 2 tsp chili powder, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp ground ginger, 2 tsp minced garlic, 1 tsp paprika powder, and a little water. To make it into paste.
Brush marinade onto two sides of seer fish steak. Let the fish be marinated for 1 hour.
Heat oil in the pan. A little more than usual. Fry the fish till both sides turn golden brown.
Soy Sauce Chicken
Normally, a whole chicken is used in this dish. But I only cooked a half one.
1. Put chicken in a big bowl. Add in 1 tablespoon minced ginger, 1 tablespoon minced garlic, 1 tsp salt, 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce. Rub chicken a bit. And let it rest for a little while.
2. Heat a pan, add in 1 tablespoon oil. Sauté ginger slices. When aromatic, put the chicken in. Fry each side till golden brown.
3. Add in 2 tablespoon light soy sauce, 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce, 2 cups water, 2 tablespoon sugar. Turn to high heat and bring to boil.
4. Turn to low-medium heat. Cover the lid, simmer for 5 mins. Flip over, and simmer for another 5 mins. Repeat for 5-6 times.
5. Dish the chicken out. Cool down and cut into smaller pieces. Garnish with chopped spring onion.
Min Chiang Kueh 面煎粿
This is like a Singapore style pancake. Original recipe requires peanuts as filling. Because my husband doesn’t like peanuts, so I used chopped walnuts instead.
Ingredients:
Flour 1 cup
Baking soda 1/2 tsp
Yeast 1/2 tsp
Sugar 2 tablespoon
Egg 1
Water 3/4 cup
Mix all the above ingredients in a bowl. Then cover with plastic wrap and let it rest for 20-30 mins.
For the filling:
Pan-toasted white sesame 1/4 cup
Pan-toasted chopped walnuts 1/2 cup
Sugar 20g
Mix them well in another bowl.
Heat a pan on stove. Grease it with oil. Scoop batter into the pan. Keep low heat. Cover the lid for 3-4 mins.
Sprinkle walnut & sesame filling in it.
Cover the lid for another 2-3 mins.
Use a spatula to fold the pancake from one side to the other and press lightly.
Serve hot.
Pork Chop with Boiled Pumpkin
1. Place pork chop in a big bowl. Add in 1 tsp chili powder (if you want it to be more spicy, you can add more), 2 tsp paprika powder, 1 tsp chopped garlic, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp black pepper, and 2 tsp olive oil. Mix well. And let it rest for a little while.
2. Preheat oven to 200 degree C.
3. Heat a pan on stove, add in a little olive oil.
4. Fry pork chop till golden brown.
5. Into the oven and bake for 10 mins.
Serve with boiled pumpkin. For pumpkins recipe, please refer to:
Omelette Fried Rice
I wanted to try this dish for a long time.
To make fried rice:
1. Cut 1 chicken breast, 1 small carrot and 1/2 onion into small dice.
2. Heat a little oil in the pan. Add in chicken breast. Stir fry till white.
3. Add in onion and carrot. Sauté till onion turns brown.
4. Push all the ingredients to one end of the pan. At the other end, add in 2 tablespoon tomato sauce, 1 tsp sugar and 1 tsp soy sauce. Mix well.
5. Mix sauce with chicken, carrot and onion. Stir fry evenly.
6. Put in cooked rice or leftover rice. Stir fry to let rice be evenly coated with sauce. Season with salt and black pepper.
7. Use a spoon to make fried rice into oval shape in the middle of one plate.
To make omelette:
1. Beat 3 eggs in a bowl.
2. Add in 2 tablespoon milk and 1 tsp light soy sauce. Mix them well.
3. Brush pan with oil and pour out the excess. Test the pan with chopsticks. Chopstick dip in beaten egg, and slightly draw a line in the pan. If the egg line immediately solidify then the pan is ready.
4. Pour egg into pan. Stir with chopsticks. When the egg turns to be half cooked, slightly push egg to the end of the pan.
5. Use the chopsticks and spatula to gently turn the oval omelette over. Heat the edge a bit to make omelette sealed.
6. Gently place omelette over fried rice.
And the last is also the best part of this dish: use a knife to cut the omelette open.
Mushroom Pasta with Seared Scallop
For the seared scallops, please refer to:
1. When the scallops are done, take them out. There will be some butter left, use the same pan to fry mushroom.
2. Also add in some chopped garlic, sauté with mushroom till brownish.
3. Add in 3 tablespoon pasta stock. Simmer for 2-3 mins.
4. Pour in 1/2 cup milk. Sprinkle shredded cheese. Stir a bit to let cheese melt.
5. Season with salt and black pepper.
6. Add in cooked pasta. Give it a good mix.
In the plate and top with seared scallops.
Chocolate Banana Cupcake
I got this recipe from
Ingredients:
1 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup cocoa powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 small mashed bananas
1 egg
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup milk
3/4 tsp vanilla
1. Preheat oven to 180 degree C.
2. Mix all the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, salt) in a big bowl.
3. In another bowl, mash 2 small bananas with a fork. It’s ok if there’s still lumps. Beat in 1 egg. Stir well.
4. Pour in water, canola oil, milk and vanilla. Mix well.
5. Pour wet ingredients mixture into dry ingredients. Mix well.
6. Pour batter into muffin pan. Bake for 20 mins. Test with a toothpick. If toothpick comes out clean, then they are done.
Super moist and soft. Banana lumps turn to be creamy in the middle.
Double Cheese Pizza With Homemade Pizza Sauce
For pizza sauce:
1. Wash 1 cup cherry tomatoes in water. Cut a cross at the bottom of each tomato.
2. Soak tomatoes in boiling water for a little while to make it easy to peel them.
3. Heat a sauce pan. Add in 2 tsp olive oil. When the oil heated, add in 2 cloves chopped garlic. Sauté till aromatic.
4. Add in all the peeled cherry tomatoes. Stir fry and press with spatula or a spoon. It’s fine to have some tomato lumps. That actually makes pizza taste better.
5. Add in 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp dried herbs, 1 tsp sugar and 1 tablespoon tomato sauce. Mix all the ingredients well and set aside to cool down.
I found a very inspiring video on YouTube. And this enthusiastic Italian cook showed everybody how he made a perfect pizza. I just followed his guide.
For the pizza dough:
1 1/2 cup bread flour
1/2 cup warm water (more or less due to different flour)
3 g instant yeast
1 tsp salt.
Mix flour and salt in a bowl. Dissolve yeast in warm water. Pour yeast water into flour. Knead into a dough. If the flour is too sticky, then add more flour. Fold the dough several times. Then place it in a bowl, cover with plastic and let it rise till 2 times big.
Preheat oven to 220 degree C.
Press the dough into a big thin pizza dough. Brush pizza sauce. Sprinkle a little salt. Drizzle olive oil. Grate Parmesan cheese. Then sprinkle mozzarella cheese (I’m always very generous with mozzarella cheese, that’s why my pizza always looks white on the surface. 🙂 ), and basil leaves. Drizzle a little olive oil again.
Into the oven and bake for 7 mins.
The whole kitchen is full of sweet fragrance . It smells so so good.
So far, this is the best pizza I’ve ever cooked. It tastes so so good.
Very soft, and cheesy. Tomato sauce I made has a special texture and adds more flavor to the pizza. Every ingredient works so well.
Guo Ta Tofu
This dish belongs to Shandong cuisine.
1. Cut tofu into slices. Tofu should be firm one so it won’t fall apart during cooking. Silk tofu or egg tofu are too fragile.
2. Dust tofu with flour. Then dip tofu in beaten egg.
3. Heat oil in the pan. Fry tofu till golden color.
4. Add in 1 tsp sweet cooking wine, 1 tsp light soy sauce and 1/4 cup warm water or stock. Simmer for a while or till the water reduces.
5. Season with salt and drizzle a little sesame oil.
6. Garnish with chopped spring onion and serve hot.
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