Teacher's Day Gift Idea

Another pipe cleaner's creation from Snow White. A perfect gift idea for the coming Teacher's Day.

Yong Tau Foo Bee Hoon

We have Yong Tau Foo again! This time we used thick Bee Hoon.

Steamed Tapioca with Coconut Cream

Ingredients:
2 medium size tapioca, peeled and cut
250ml coconut milk dilute with 200ml water
3 pandan leaves, tied into a knot
80g sugar

Method:
1) Steam the tapioca till cooked and set aside.
2) Pour coconut milk, sugar and pandan leaves into a pot and bring to boil.
3) Simmer 5 minutes over low heat and add a pinch of salt.
4) Put the tapioca into the coconut milk, stirred till the milk thicken. Serve hot.

Herbal Chicken Noodle Soup

We bought a packet of herbal chicken spice last week from supermarket. Snow White did not steam the herbal chicken as per instruction but instead she stewed the chicken with the spice to make herbal chicken soup. She started to stew the soup since this morning so the chicken was especially tender.

Ingredients:
1 packet of herbal chicken spice
1 handful of red dates
1 handful of wolfberries
5 dried mushroom
2 slice ginger
3 bowl of water
15 pcs of chicken mid wings

Methods:
1. Boiled the water and add in the herbal spice, red dates, wolfberries and ginger
2. When the water boiled and fragrant of the herbal is out, add in the chicken.
3. Stewed the chicken soup for 2 to 3 hours then add in the mushroom, salt and rice wine to taste.
4. Simmer for another 15minutes and the soup is ready to soup.

The soup can eat alone or with noodle. We manage to find 2 string of mee suan and 1 egg noodle so just simply boiled and drained the mee suan and egg noodle then pour in the herbal soup, garnished with coriander and spring onion.

Steam Banana Cake

Ingredients:
3 eggs
100g sugar
3 ripe bananas, mashed
150g self raising flour
1/8 tsp Baking Soda
75g oil (unflavoured)

Method:
1. Shift together self-raising flour and baking soda and set aside.
2. Whisk eggs and sugar till flurry.
3. Mix in mashed bananas, beat till well combine.
4. Gently fold in the flour mixture and oil. Do not deflate the eggs mixtures.
5. Pour batter into baking tray.
6. Steam over high heat for 15mins or till an inserted satay stick come out clean.

Serve the cake warm as it is more soft and fluffy. A healthy cake with no bake.

Nasi Lemak

Nasi Lemak, rice cook in coconut milk, with pandan leave, ginger and salt. This tradition dish is normally serve with fried ikan bilis and sambal chili, and eaten as breakfast.


Coconut Steamed Rice
1.5 cup of rice
2 small cup of coconut (dilute with water)
salt to taste
2 sliced of ginger
3 screwpine leaves (pandan leaves)

Sambal Ikan Bilis (Dried anchovies sambal)
1/2 red onion
1 clove garlic
4 shallots
20 dried chillies
1 teaspoon of belacan (prawn paste)
1/4 teaspoon of salt
2 tablespoon of sugar
1 teaspoon tamarind juice

Other ingredients
6 small kuning fish (marinate with salt and turmeric powder then fried)
1 small cucumber (cut into slices)
1/3 cup of peanut (fried without oil)
1/2 cup ikan bilis (fried)

As usual we have it with more ingredients; fried selar kuning, otak, roasted peanut, ikan bilis and slice of cucumber.

Tom Yam Vermicelli

Snow White cooking Tom Yam with Vermicelli which we have not done before. To make it more interesting, she replace the seafood with sotong ball and Thai fish cake. Ha..not very sure how the Tom Yam would taste without the seafood.

It turned out quite well although there is no sweetness of the seafood. The soup was compensate with the overflow ingredients like sotong ball, Thai fish cake, cauliflower, some left over chicken meat form last week and straw mushroom.

Pandan Chicken with Rice and Fried Lady Finger

Rapunzel found this Chicken wrapped in Pandan leaf recipe from the Real Thai Recipes. Due to our limited utensil, Snow White make some changes.


Marinate the chicken with white pepper,garlic,white sugar, light soy sauce, cooking rice wine, sesame oil and coriander roots for an hour.





Fold the pandan wrap :

Start with the non-shiny side up
Fold the bottom-end up and over
Fold the top-end down and through
Pull to make tight




Flip over, and pick up the top-end
Bring through the top-layer and pull tight










Wrapped the chicken into the pandan leaf.







Deep fried the chicken till golden brown.









Unwrapped the leaf and top with the black sauce before served. The lady finger is stir fired with chili balacan. The chicken is juicy and the lady finger is spicy and crunchy, they go will together with the white rice.

Mee Goreng with Fried Popiah

Mee Goreng is an Indian dish which commonly found in most hawker center. It is a spicy fried yellow noodle with onion, chicken or prawn, fried tofu, chili, vegetables, tomatoes and egg.

This is Rapunzel second attempt and she omitted the prawn this time. Hmm, not totally vegetarian as she replace the prawn with fish cake.*wink*There are still some balance of the fried turnip left from last week so just simply rolled the fried turnip in the popiah skin and deep fried it.

Tah dah, we have fried popiah for side dish.

Fried Spaghetti

It is another stock clearing day. Snow White ransack the fridge and find some chicken fillet, chye sim and fish cake left so come out with this dish in less than an hour.

Ingredients :

2 chicken fillets (cubed and season with salt and pepper)

Chye Sim

3 garlic cloves (minced)

1 big onion (sliced)

1/2 bowl fresh basil leaves

2 slice ginger(finely slice)

1 fish cake (slice)

1 handful spaghetti (cooked according the package instruction)

Seasoning : Mixed 2 tsp back pepper, 1 tbs oyster sauce, 2 tps light soy sauce, 1 tps sugar and 1 tbs dark soy sauce in 1/2 cup of water.

Method:

1. Heat wok, add some oil, saute garlic, ginger and onion till fragrant.

2. Add in cube chicken and fish cake; continue to stir fry about 3 minutes.

3. Add in Chye Sim and seasoning, cook till the chicken become tender.

4. Toss in the cooked spaghetti and let it simmered for 3 minutes.

5. Serve immediately and topped with spring onion.

Mangomisu

Ingredients:

• 2 bottle yogurt (mango)
• 1/2 cup mango juice
• 2 mangoes (ripe-peel&cubed)
• 10 pcs kuih Balu (cut half)
• 1/2 tsp gelatine (melt in 1/3 cup of hot water)

Method :

1. Blend 1 mango with yogurt. Stir in melted gelatine until well combined and set aside.

2. Lightly dip 1 pc kuih balu with mango juice. Arrange it to the base of the cup.

3. Spoon a layer of mango yogurt on top and a layer of fresh mango.

4. Repeat step 2 and 3 till the cup filled.

5. Put in the fridge to chill for 2 to 3 hours.

6. Decorate with some mango on top if desire.

Penang Prawn Noodle

Penang Prawn Noodle is different from the tradition Prawn Noodle as the soup base is made of the prawn essence with a zest of spicy chilies.


The ingredients :

Method :
1) De shelled the 12 large tiger prawn and used the head and shell of the prawn to boil the stock with 2 slice of ginger.
2) Blend chili paste with 5 onions and 5 clove of garlic. Stirred fried the chili paste and add in some salt.
3) When the stock is boiled, dished out the shelled and scald the prawn and fish cake.
4) Add in the chili paste to the stock and favor with salt, fish sauce and rock sugar.
5) Stir fried the prawn with the chili paste and put aside.
6) Boiled and drained the kang kong and bean sprout for later used.
7) Drained the yellow noodle over the hot water and scope in a bowl, top with the prawn, fish cake, kang kong and bean spout.
8) When the soup boiled, pours over the noodle and garnished with fried shallots.

Bubor Cha Cha

Woo hoo! We have bubor cha cha for dessert today. The yam and potatoes is much softer then the other day as they are boiled longer.

Chee Cheong Fun

Chee Cheong Fun is a rice noodle rolled sheet which is a popular breakfast in Malaysia and Singapore. It is normally eat with sweet sauce, chili and sesame.

We did not make the Chee Cheong Fun but get the ready pack from NTUC supermarket. Snow White wanted to roll the chee cheong fun with the fried carrot and turnip. However, the Chee Cheong Fun was over frozen and turned out to be too lumpy and hard to unroll.

This is what Chee Cheong Fun supposed to look but it end up looking like Kway Tiao. ^^

The lunch is not totally destroyed as the fried carrot and turnip is amazing tasty.

Ingredients:

1/2 turnip (shredded)

1 carrot (shredded)

dried shrimp (soaked)

dried cuttle fish (shredded)

3 garlic (minced)

2 onion (minced)

Mixed the oyster sauce, soya sauce, pepper, salt with a bowl of water.

Method:

Sauteed the garlic, onion, shrimp and cuttle fish till fragrant. Add in the shredded carrot, turnip and mixed sauce. Stir fried a while and let it simmer for 20min.

Steamed the Chee Cheong Fun, lay it on a plate and pour the fried turnip and carrot over it. Garnished it with spring onion, coriander, sweet sauce, chili and sesame. Tah Dah! Our new creation of Chee Cheong Fun is ready to serve.

Seafood Yee Mee Soup

Seafood Yee Mee Soup, using the same recipe of fish soup. The ingredients include, sliced fish, prawn, tofu, cabbage, chye sim and tomato. This time we did not pan fried the fish but boiled in the soup directly.

The Yee Mee is boiled, drained and put aside. When the soup ready, then pour over the Yee Mee. Garnished with shallots and spring onion and the Seafood Yee Mee is ready to serve.

Souffle

Souffle is an fluffy sweet savory, made with egg yolks and beaten egg whites combined with other ingredients.

This is Snow White first attempt on this dessert, she did the blueberry and chocolate souffle based on this recipe.

It is a bit burnt on the top as we used aluminium muffin cup and baked in a mini toaster oven.

When the souffle ready to come out of the oven, it was puffed up and fluffy.

After a few minutes, the souffle fall rather quick just likes a flattened balloon.

The Souffle is best to serve hot or it will be too dense when cold. The texture is likes eating cotton candy, a light dessert which can be eaten immediately after a meal.

Salted Fish Fried Rice

As simple as it is, Salted Fish fried rice, with vegetables, salted fish, eggs, or any combination of the ingredients above and more. Regardless of the recipes, fried rice always pleases Rapunzel taste and appetite. A good fried rice calls for overnight rice. Keep it in your fridge overnight, and you will have the perfect overnight rice for Salted fish fried rice. But for today we use Japanese Rice which it could not be right because the rice is quite sticky and soft. Anyway this is Snow White Salted Fish fried rice recipe and it’s always have the right taste but only for the rice.

Ingredients:
3 bowls overnight rice
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon sesame oil
3 small chilli (finely chopped)
2 inch of kurau salted fish
2 small onion (finely chopped)
2 cloves garlic (finely chopped)
2 eggs (light beaten)
salt to taste

Method:
Heat up a wok with two tablespoons of oil. Add salted fish and fry until aromatic, set aside. Using the same oil, saute the garlic & onions until aromatic. Add in vegetables and stir fry until they are half cooked. Season with salt and continue to stir-fry until they are cooked. Add in the rice and stir well with the ingredients. Add in soy sauce, fish sauce, sesame oil, white pepper powder and continue to fry the rice for a couple of minutes. Make a “well” in the middle of the wok and pour the beaten eggs then cover the “egg well” with rice. Leave it for a few seconds and continue to stir-fry the fried rice so the eggs form small pieces and mix well with the fried rice. Add in the fried salted fish and do some quick stirs, dish out and serve the fried rice hot.

Honey Cornflakes Cup

Snow White making this honey cornflakes cups for Menessa to bring to her school for National Day's Celebration. We have a share of the cornflakes cups too.

Ingredients:
40gm butter
5 tbsp honey
1 tbsp sugar
1 big box kellogg's cornflakes
1 bowl roasted cashew nuts (coarsely crushed)

Method:
Melt butter, sugar & honey in a pot over low heat till it’s all melted and the sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat.
Add in cornflakes, cashew nuts and mix till well-coated.
Scoop mixture into mini baking cups.
Bake about for 5 - 7 minutes. Remove & cool.
Finally decorate with a little color sprinkles.










Happy Birthday, Singapore!