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.

Turmeric Chicken

This is a simple and easy prepared dish. We did this with the reference of the recipe from this blogger but we used turmeric powder instead of fresh turmeric. It turn out quite nice.

Ingredients:
1 kampong chicken
1 tbsp turmeric powder
2 stalk lemon glass
8 medium onion
1 small piece belacan
6 dried chili
salt and oyster sauce

Method:
1. Blend the lemon grass and onion.
2. Stir fried the blended lemongrass and onion with turmeric powder, belacan and chili till fragrant.
3. Add in the chicken and lightly toss with the sauce.
4. Cover with lid and let it stew in low heat till the chicken cooked.
5. Add salt and oyster sauce to taste, let it simmer a while and the chicken is ready to serve.

Garnished with coriander and served with white rice. Snow White also fried celery with dried shrimp as side dish to make the lunch more complete.

Fried Seafood Spaghetti

As mentioned before fried spaghetti is a versatile dish which you can stuff anything to bulk up. This time we stuff it with mixed seafood, vegetables and fried with chili. It is very oriental taste with zest of chili hot.

Ingredients:
12 prawns
1 squid
50g mussels
200g spaghetti
mixed vegetables(carrot, lettuce, cai sim)
1 onion, wedged
4 cloves garlic, minced
3 shallots, minced
3 chili padi, minced
Sauce; mixed 1 bow of water with:
1 tbsp dark sauce
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp rice wine
1 tbsp dried basil
1 tbsp black pepper
sugar & salt to taste


Methods:
1. Cook spaghetti as per instructions and put aside.
2. Saute garlic, chili, onion & shallot till fragrant.
3. Add in the mixed seafood and fried till half cook.
4. Add in the vegetables and stir fried for 5 min.
5. Pour in the sauce and let it simmer for 5 min.
6. Toss in the spaghetti and simmer for another 5 minutes

Garnished with slice of cucumber and coriander and the mixed seafood fried spaghetti is ready to serve. We deep fried samosa as side dished too.

Dry Yong Tau Foo Bee Hoon 2

Originally we planned to have Thai Laksa Yong Tau Foo but then Rapunzel crave for this dry version so we have this dry Yong Tau Foo Bee Hoon for lunch instead.

As usual, deep fried or pan fired the Yong Tau Foo.

Blanch the broccoli, cai sim and bee Hoon for later used.

Scope the bee hoon into individual plate, top with the yong tau foo and vegetables.

Finally, prepare the sauces; heat the oil, saute the garlic, ginger then add in 2 cup of water mixed with dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce & sesame oil. Thicken the sauce with starch and the sauce is ready to pour over the Bee Hoon. Garnished with fried shallot and coriander and the lunch is ready to serve.

Claypot Chicken Rice Using Rice Cooker

This is a simple one dish meal using rice cooker instead of claypot. Another signature dishes of Snow White upon Rapunzel request. It tastes as good as the claypot rice just that it has lesser burnt rice.

Ingredients:
14 chicken mid wings, marinated
1 cup of Chinese mushroom, soaked and sliced
2 cup of rice
5 slices of salted fish, fried and crushed
1 onion, minced
3 clove garlic, minced

Marinated for chicken
1 tbsp rice wine
1 tbsp oyster sauce
Salt and pepper to taste

Methods:
1. Heat the oil in a wok, saute the garlic and onion till fragrant.
2. Add in chicken stir fried till turn colour
3. Add in mushroom, a cup of water, 2tbsp dark sauce and 1tbsp light sauce.
4. Let the chicken simmer for a while till most water absorbed.
5. Washed the rice, put into the rice cooker with 2 cup of water and add in 1 tbsp dark sauce.
6. Add in the chicken and mushroom to the rice cooker and cooked.

When the rice cooked, sprinkle the salted fish over the rice. Garnished with some coriander and with cai sim (blanched and season with 1 tbsp oyster sauce) as side dish.

Curry Chicken Chinese Steam Bun

Snow White is craving for Pau (Chinese steam bun) and been wanted to try to make it. After some research from the internet, she finally did it today. It is quite successful and Babe also had fun in helping!

We have no bread machine so have to manual prepare the dough.

Ingredients

Bun:
3½ cups Hong Kong flour
1 tbsp shortening
¼ cup sugar
2½ tsp dry yeast
1 cup warm water

Fillings:
300g chicken fillet, cubed and marinate with salt and pepper
4 potatoes, cubed and steamed
1 big onion, diced
3 garlic, chopped
2 tbsp curry powder
1 tbsp curry leaves
salt and sugar to taste

Methods

Bun:
1.Put 3 cups of flour into bowl, cut shortening and stir in 2 tbsp sugar.
2.Combine the remaining 2 tbsp sugar with the yeast and add 1/3 cup of warm water, stir until yeast is dissolved.
3. Add the remaining ½ cup flour, mix well.
4. Combine flour mixture, yeast mixture and remaining 2/3 cup of water. Knead on lightly floured board for 5 minutes or till the dough is smooth and elastic.
5. Place dough in a bowl and will be ready for use in 2 hours.

Fillings
1. Heat oil in a wok, stir fried the garlic, onion and curry powder and curry leaves till fragrant.
2. Add in chicken and fried till cooked.
3. Pour in the steam potatoes and add salt and sugar to taste.
This curry chicken fillings is fried by Rapunzel.

When the dough double in size after 2 hours, rolled the dough into logs and divide the log into 14 equal portions.
Put some flour on the hand and flatten the dough with a thicker center and thin edges.
Place one tablespoon of the fillings in the center of the dough. Form the bun by pulling the dough up and around the filing. Pinch and seal like a bundle.
Place the bun on a parchment paper (we did not managed to get the paper so we used the plastic for steaming herbal chicken).

After all the buns are form leave them rest for 20-30 minutes to allow the bun to rise. Meanwhile get water to boil for steaming. Place the buns in the steamer and steam for 15 minutes.

Babe try to from a "pig" pau also but see what it turn out. ^^
The before and after steamed.........

Babe did not destroy Snow White and Rapunzel's hard work, the rest turn out just fine and looking good!

Choux with Mango Cream

We have this mango cream choux puff for dessert. It is a mouth watering dessert with sweet cream spilling out of the crispy puff, yummy!

Mango Cream
1. Whip 1 can nestle cream till creamy.
2. Gradually add in 6 tbsp sugar and beat till sugar dissolved.
3. Add in Mango puree into the cream and whipped till well combined.
4. Chill the cream in the fridge.


Choux
Ingredients:
20g butter
60ml water
35g plain flour
1 egg

Method:
1. Combined butter with water in a pot and bring to boil.
2. Add in flour and beat over heat till the mixture form a smooth ball.
3. Let it cool a little while and add in the egg.
4. Beat till the mixture becomes glossy.
5. Pipe small amount of choux pastry in 5 cm apart on baking tray.
6. Bake at 170°C for 10 minutes.
7. Cut open the puff and bake for a further 5 minutes till dry.
8. Remove and let it cool.
9. Spoon the mango cream into puff and ready to serve.