Bear with Rocher

Aren't they cute...want bring them home? Snow White made these as teacher's day gift for her daughter. It is an ideal door gift for dinner and dance or as valentine gift too. We are charging S$3.80 per stalk with a delivery charge of $5 and collection at any MRT station. Anyone interested?

Anniversary

It has been a while since the last entry of the blog in November. As we discovered there are eataries around our building and it is much more convinent to eat out now. But we did not totally stopped cooking, we still do desert for some special occassion. Like today, I got my birthday request; Durian Crepes. It taste just as nice as the Angie's Choice Durian Roll although the crepes is bit thicker.^^

Rapunzel's birthday request; Durian Cheesecake.

Christmas' lunch; Rosemary Chicken.

Mango Cheesecake with mixed fruit for meeting.

Creamy Cheese Spaghetti

This Cream Cheese Spaghetti is all time's favourite for family. It another creation of Snow White.

Ingredients :

12 big prawns, shelled

2 squid

1 capsicum, cubed

1 can button mushroom, cubed

1 tomato, cubed

2 slice Cheddar cheese

2 tbsp minced garlic

2 tbsp onion

1 tbsp dry basil

200ml fresh milk

1 tbsp flour

coriander

salt and pepper

1 handful spaghetti

Method:

1. Cook the spaghetti as per instruction and put aside.

2. In a wok, heat some olive oil and stir fried the onion and garlic.

3. Add in the prawn and follow by the squid, fried till fragrant.

4. Add the flour and fried till the prawn and squid well coated with the flour.

5. Add in the mushroom, capsicum and tomato and lightly fried.

6. Pour in the milk and add the cheese when the milk boiled.

7. Let the sauce simmer for a while and add in salt and pepper to taste.

8. Sprinkle the dried basil and the sauce is ready to pour over the spaghetti.

Garnished some coriander and the Creamy Cheese Spaghetti is ready to serve.

Fried Wonton Noodle

Snow White used the balance of the chicken fillings left from Guo Tie to make fried wonton. Simply wrapped the fillings into the round wonton skin and deep fried till golden brown. Blanch the wonton noodle according to instruction then toss with the dark sauce, light sauce, oyster sauce and sesame oil. Top the noodle with blanch Chye Sim, fried wontons and finally garnished with fried shallot, spring onion and green chili, Fried Wonton Noodle is ready to serve in 30 minutes.

Choux with Strawberry Cream

Dessert for the day, Strawberry Choux Puff! It is done by Babe and Rapunzel with reference of the recipe given by Snow White. This time we replace the plain flour with self raising flour and added a tbsp of sugar. The texture is a bit light and moist but it taste just like custard puff. Not so bad after filling up with the Strawberry Cream.

Strawberry Cream
1. Whip 1 can nestle cream till creamy.

2. Gradually add in 5 tbsp sugar and beat till sugar dissolved.

3. Add in Strawberry puree into the cream and whipped till well combined.

4. Mixed 2 tsp of gelatin with half cup water.

5. Pour the gelatin into the Strawberry Cream and chill the cream in the fridge.

Mee Goreng

Rapunzel cooking one of her speciality Mee Goreng in Malay style. It is spicy hot but very yummy! The prawn is fresh and big and the Hong Kong Chye Sim is sweet and crunchy, Babe can't help taking a second serving.^^

The recipe can be find here, just replace the Kway Teow with yellow noodle.

Pan Fried Dumplings (Guo Tie)

Pan Fried Dumpling (Guo Tie) also known as Gyoza which is a popular dish in China and Japan as well as outside of East Asia. It is a very time consuming but it is fun when all family members share in making the dumpling.

Ingredients

Dough (20-22 pcs):
2 cup flour
¾ cup warm water
Pinch of salt

Fillings:
3 chicken fillets, minced
9 prawns, minced
8 water chestnuts (coarsely chopped)
1 pkt Chives (chopped)
3 glove garlic, minced
2 onion, minced
1 tbsp Tianjin preserved cabbage (冬菜)
1 small pc ginger, minced
2 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp fish sauce
Salt and pepper to taste

Dipping Sauce:
1 tsp vinegar
2 tbsp light soy sauce
Sugar
2 clove garlic, minced
10 sliced preserved ginger (shredded)

Methods:

1. Mixed the flour with warm water and salt, knead into a dough and put aside covered by a wet cloth.

2. In a big bowl, mixed all filling's ingredient together and seasoned with light soy sauce, sesame oil, fish sauce, salt and pepper to taste.

3. On a lightly flour surface, halved the dough and rolled into 2 sticks. Divide the stick into 10 equal parts and flatten into circle.

4. Wrapped a teaspoon of the filling into the dough skin and pleat it.

5. Heat oil in a shallow wok and pan fried the dumpling.

6. When one side is brown, sprinkler some water on top, cover the wok and let it cook.

7. Once the water dry up, the dumplings should be cooked by now.

Serve the dumplings with the vinegar dipping sauce.

It is really very time consuming especially the wrapping part...got difficulty in getting it pleat like the standard Guo Tie but the taste rather good.