潮州炸韭菜粿：

This recipe ingredients makes about 16 pieces.

200g all purpose flour
200g tapioca flour
1 tbsp cooking oil
Pinch of salt
Some hot water to add till dough form.

~ 500g 韭菜， pinch of salt and 1 tbsp 碱水
Dry shrim and garlic fry till fragrant add some salt
Pour onto  raw 韭菜 and stir

Wrap and fry

Milk bun plain dough, soft and nice texture.

Bread maker dough function:
A)
130ml water
1 egg
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp sugar
2tbsp milk powder
300g Bread flour
2 tsp dry yeast
40g Butter
* BM dough function and 1st round proofing. Takes ~1.5hr

Take out the dough, deflat and cut into ~ 12 equal ball size or shape as you like.
(You can add cinnamon sugar or cheese or raisin or ham etc as your preference.
Or just the plain bun is tasty enough to go with a cup of cafe latte 😋)

Leave the dough for 2nd rise ~ 1hr.
Bake it at 180C ~12-15min

Spread butter whole bun is hot right out from oven to get the shiny surface.

椰糖/红糖发糕

This recipe makes about 8 cups of cake. 

A) ingredients:
160g Gula Melaka
160g water
3 pandan leaves
* heat and melt the sugar and sieved

B) 120g Evaporated milk 淡奶
Add to A and let it cool down

C)
250g all purpose flour 普通面粉
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
Mix it

Add B to C then add 4m tbsp veg  oil. Stir in
Add  1-2 Tbsp water if too thick then sieve it

Steam for 18-20min

Blueberry/Banana/Choc Muffin

This recipe can make about 12 medium size muffin.

Ingredients A (dry):
225g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
120ml sugar

Ingredients B (wet):
125ml fresh milk
125g butter (soft to melted)
2 grade A eggs

Methods:
1. Hand whisk the ingredients B
2. Sieved the flour and b.p then mix in sugar
3. Pour in B bit by bit to A and mix it
4. Add in mashed banana, blueberry, choc chips or raisin
5. Scope to 3/4 full muffin cup
6. Bake at preheat oven at 190C for 25min

Kuih Talam - The Nyonya delight

Ingredients:
Bottom Layer:
1. Rice Flour  70g
2. Tapiaco Flour 30g
3. Water 250g
4. Pandan leave - 10 pcs (juice it with 250g water)
5. Sugar 170g
6. Sodium Cabonat "Kee Cui" 1/2 Tsp

Top Layer:
1. Coconut milk 300ml
2. Rice flour 50g
3. Tapioca Flour 1 Tsp
4. Salt 1/2 tsp

Method:
1. Stir the bottom layer ingredient over medium heat, stir evenly until solid transparent form, pour over to steam plate, steam for 20min
2. Bottom ingredient pour over to steam green layer, steam for additional 10 min

Banana Cake

Recipe:

• 12 oz Margerine or butter
• 12 oz sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2Ts milk
• 2 ts lime juice
• 1lb flour
• 2 cups mashed banana
• 1ts baking poweder
• 1ts baking soda
• Walnut
  

Method:

Cream the butter and sugar. Add beaten egg one at a time and stir. Then add mashed bananas, milk and lime juice. Lastly add flour and mix well. Bake at 170oC/330F for 45min - 1hr.

Croissant

Recipe:

8oz All purpose flour

1Ts yeast (10g)

1/2 cup water/milk (120ml)

4oz butter (125g)

3 Ts sugar (35g)

1ts salt

Bake ~ 375F for 15-18min

* the recipe make about 8 small croissant.

Sambal Prawn

1. Prepare the chilli paste:
- Dry red chilli + 6 shallots + 3 gloves of Garlic + 2 stalks of lemon grass + 1 small cube of
Prawn Paste
- Grind in blender

2. Heat up cooking with ~ 5 Ts cooking oil, add in the grind chilli paste, stir fragrant for 2-3 min. Add in cut tomato, cut red anion and okra. Add 1/2 cup of water and cook at low heat until okra is soften. Add sugar and salt to taste. Before turn off the heat, add 1/4 cups of milk.

Corn Flakes Cookies

Ingredient:

• 8oz butter
• 6oz sugar
• 1 egg
• 1ts vanilla essence
• 10oz Self Raising Flour (SRF)
• conflakes

Note: Self Raising Flour = All Purpose Flour (APF)+ Salt + Baking Powder

10 oz SRF = 2 cups APF +3 ts b.p + 1 ts salt

Method:

• Cream butter and sugar, add the beaten egg and vanilla. Add in flour and mix to a smooth dough.
• Kneat into small smooth and coated evenly with cornflake.
• Bake at 350F for 15-20min.
  

Apom Balik (Ban Chang Kuih)

Batter mix:

• 200g All Purpose Flour
• 60g Rice Flour
• 1 Ts baking powder
• 1/2 Ts Baking Soda
• 1/2 Ts salt
• 240ml Milk with 1Ts of Apple Cedar Vinegar (can be replaced with coconut milk)
• 80ml Carbonated Water/normal water
• 80g sugar

Filling:

• Roasted Ground peanut
• Brown Sugar
• Melted Butter
• Cream Corn

Method:

Combine the batter mixture and leave aside cover for 30min.

Stir fry Mix Vegetable

Last Sunday, Oct 25 2009. Ck and me drove to San Ramon to buy Soya bean milk from 中华豆腐. We both like their soya bean milk cos it's not too sweet. On our way home, we missed the exit to highway I680 and by chance we saw there is a small fruit stall at the crossroad selling lots of pumpkin. ohh.. it's halloween next week (Oct 30)... so we stopped by the fruit stall and joined the crowd to see what the stall is selling. We saw this special in purple color cauliflower selling at $0.99/each... labeled crunchy sweet cauliflower. I had never seen purple cauliflower before and we decided to give it a try... we stir fry with brocolli, mushroom/shitake, carrot and celery... hmm.. it taste really good and it was really crunchy and sweet... I am sure this plate of colorful vegan make up full range of healthy nutricient that will definitely boost your energy!

Sausage Bun

Sweet Potatoe Bun (番薯包)

Ingredients (for ~ 25 buns):

• Sweet potatoes 300g
• 1 carrot
• Bread Flour 1kg
• Baking Powder 1Ts
• Instant Yeast 1Ts
• Lard (白油) or replace with Cooking oil 50g
• Sugar 250g
• Water 400ml

Boil sweet potatoes and carrot in water until soft. Smash or blend it in blender/chopper until smooth. Let it cool to room temperature. Add smash sweet potatoes to the rest of flour mixture and kneat the dough evenly and until not sticky to your hand. Divide the dough into small pieces (~ 100g) each small dough and cover with wet cloth or plastic wrap until the dough rise to ~ 1.5x or 2x bigger. Steam for 10 min.

Penang Prawn Mee (Hokkien Mee)

Ingredient for Stock:
1. Boil prawn shell for 30min at medium to low heat.
2. Boil pork ribs in 8 cups of water for 1 hr (till the ribs get tender).
3. Add prawn stock to pork stock and at low heat continue to cook for 30min.

To prepare the chilli paste:
1. Dry chilli
2. 5-6 clove of garlic
3. 8 shallot
4. blend 1-3 become chilli paste and saute it with 5 Ts cooking oil until frangrant.
5. Pour half of the chilli paste to the stock together with the chilli oil

To garnish:
De-shelf hard boil egg and slice it
Bean sprout, kangkong
Rice noodle (bee-hoon) and yellow noodle.

Chicken Chop with Black Pepper souce

Chicken Cabonara

Ingredients:

(A)

2 teaspoons olive oil
4 ounces thinly sliced pancetta/bacon, chopped
2 teaspoons minced garlic

4 cups coarsely shredded chicken (from 1 roasted/steam chicken)

(B) Prepare the cream mixture:
2 1/2 cups whipping cream
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan
8 large egg yolks
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil leaves
1/4 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley leaves
Salt 1 pound spaghetti boil in Salt water for 8-10 min
Freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup chopped walnuts/Pecan (pre-bake for crispiness)

Directions:
Saute(A) in frying pot until bacon become crispy, add the shreded chicken.
Whisk (B) in large mixing bowl.
Add the spaghetti to the frying pot, add the cream mixture and toss over medium low heat, mix until the cream coated spaghetti. Sprinkle some chopped walnut and pepper. Chicken cabonara is ready to serve.

Steam Fish (老虎斑)

Oct 4, 2009, Sunday. As usual ck and me went to do grocery shopping for the week at Ranch 99.

We spotted this fish known as (老虎斑), ck was thrilled when he saw this fish cos it's very rare and expensive fish in our hometown and he was excited because of the price we pay for the fish is much cheaper in U.S (~ 2.99/lb). The fish weighted 3.5lb (~USD10). It can cost > RM80 per fish in M'sia. So we give it a try to steam this fish for our dinner. Surprisingly the fish turned out to be quite fresh and tasty.. haa.. now it's time to show off to ck's father as this is father favourite fish....

Crispy Fried Chicken

Fried Flat Rice Noodle (Fried Kuay Teow)

Homemade Bagel

Bagel in California is common for breakfast . I like its chewing bread texture, and it usually served with cream cheese, peanut butter or a more dedicate combination is with eggwich+sausage+bacon or tuna/chicken cheese melt. There are many varieties of bagel. It has cinnamon raisin, jalapeno, cheddar cheese, sesami seed, garlic, anion,poppy seed, wheat. The bagel i am making here is with raisin, sesami seed and cheddar cheese. It's my first time making bagel.. whoo.. a lot of first time.. it turns out pretty good although the shape is a bit small/uneven, but the texture and taste is satisfying. I will try to improve it next time by properly measuring each dough to make sure the bagel turns out all to be equal size :)

Recipe 1:

4 cups bread flour/Wheat Flour
1 Tbls sugar
1 1/2 tsps salt
1 Tbls vegetable oil
2 tsps instant yeast
1-1/4- 1-1/2 cups of warm water.

or

Recipe 2:

2 lbs bread flour
5 tsp ground cinnamon
1.5 tsp salt
560 ml lukewarm water
2 g active dry yeast
6 g. malt powder/Honey/Sugar
2/3 cup raisins

Method:
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. Transfer the dough to countertop and knead for about ten minutes, or until the dough is uniform and smooth. Cut the dough into 8 equal sized balls, and let rest for 10-20 minutes Pre heat your oven to 425.

Now, take each of the dough balls and using two hands, roll it into a little snake on the counter. When the snake is longer than the width of your two hands, wrap it around your dominant roiling hand. Let your bagels rest on the counter for about 20 minutes, and meanwhile, bring a pot of water to boil, and grease a large baking tray lightly. You can just rub a splash of vegetable oil and rub it around.

Boil for about a minute, turn them over, and boil for another minute. Take them out and you may coat the bagel with either sesami seed, cheese, garlic/anion. Let dry for a minute and then place them on your oiled baking tray. Bake at 425F for 20-25 min.