Salmon + pasta

If you want a dish that is quick and easy yet yummy, this is one. Grilled salmon + pasta + some greenish stuff, in this case it was rockets. While grilling salmon (coated with a bit of olive oil + salt + black pepper) just pop red chillies as well. They are not as hot when grilled. Pasta was tossed with a bit of olive oil + salt + pepper + whatever else you are in the mood for :)

Spaghetti tomyam

Was in the mood for something soupy and spicy, so came up with spaghetti tomyam. Daun limau purut and cili padi were from our garden! Avoided shrimps to save me the agony of hidung gatal.

1. Tumis 2 ulas bawang. Masukkan daging (or ayam or whatever).

2. Tambah air, biarkan mendidih.

3. Tambah serai (dititik), bawang (potong labu), daun limau purut.

4. Tambah cili padi, perasa tom yam, sedikit air limau nipis.

5. Tambah sayur-sayuran.

6. Perisa dengan garam.

7. Serve as lauk or in this case, with spaghetti.

*I know some people add fish sauce. Unfortunately, dah habis di dapur.

Nasi lemak kukus

Yesterday I was a bit adventurous in the kitchen and decided to try nasi lemak kukus. It certainly took a bit more effort, but it was worth it because the final product was much nicer ... lagi lerai. Worth a try!

nasi lemak kukus

1. clean beras and soak in santan cair for at least 2 hours. Santan should cover the rice grains.

2. prepare steamer by boiling water with 3 pieces of daun pandan.

3. Steam rice grains till 1/2 cooked (about 10 minutes).

4. in the meantime, saute bawang merah + 2 b putih + 1/2 inci halia + kulit kayu manis.

5. When done, mix onion mix with santan pekat + salt.

6. Pour 1/2 cooked rice into santan pekat. Mix well and allow to soak for 10 minutes.

7. Return to steamer till cooked.

pasta

Had some leftover roast chicken from dinner last night. That became lunch. Very easy to do.

1. Cook pasta as per instructions.

2. Warm some olive oil, saute few cloves of chopped garlic, add chicken meat, tomatoes, chopped green stuff (we had daun sup in the fridge).

3. Toss pasta in above mixture.

4. season with salt & pepper.

Eat while hot.

Pancakes

The recipe for these pancakes have been posted sometime back. This time I tried with a new non-stick pan - works better. Plus followed the instructions of heating up the pan for about 10 minutes before cooking the pancakes. Had this for breakfast. Yumm.

dinner

this was nasi pilaf (modified), chicken kebab and tomato salad.

sambal

Trying out sambal nasi lemak .. nice for sunday breakfast.

Sambal

equal numbers of cili kering + bawang merah
cili kering buang biji and blend with bawang merah.
tumis (more minyak than you would normally use...)
add 1 sliced onion
air asam jawa from about 'secekup' asam jawa
salt
sugar - went overboard - 2 heaped tablespoons (!!)

Still trying to improve the nasi bit. Next change!

nasi ayam

hi all,

made nasi ayam yesterday - made the chicken soup pakai pressure cooker. took only 15 minutes. Chicken was nice and soft. Then i roasted it a bit in the oven. Nasi - cook in rice cooker (tumis bmerah, putih, halia) with soup and daun pandan.

chicken pie

dear all,

this was quite easy to do and nice to eat. i've translated it to malay - so that next time my helper can do it! infact she uli-ed and made the crust, so it's maid-teachable!


Chicken pie

Crust
400 g tepung gandum (ayak)
200 gram marjerin
secubit garam
7 – 8 sudu besar air sejuk (dari peti sejuk)

campurkan dengan hujung jari tepung + Margarin + garam – jadikan seperti serbuk roti. Tambah air sehingga adunan lembut
bahagi kepada 2 bahagian – biarkan sebentar kira kira 20 minit.

isi
400 gram isi ayam (potong dadu)
1 sudu besar butter
1 biji bawang besar (dadu)
35 gram tepung gandum
1 ½ cawan susu segar
2 sudu besar minyak masak
3 daun bawang
keju – 4 keping

panaskan minyak dan goring ayam. Biarkan ketepi.
Cairkan butter dan tumis bawang hingga lembut. Tambah tepung.
Tambah susu, sedikit sedikit. Kacau. Tutup api bila pekat.
Campurkan ayam, daun bawang, sayur campur, garam, lada putih, keju.

Panaskan oven 180 darjah.

Tepung – diuli leper. Letakkan ke dalam bekas (disapu marjerin dulu). Cucuk beberapa kali dengan garpu.
Bakar dalam oven – 20 minit.
Letakkan isi ke dalam bekas.
Tutup dengan adunan tepung. Buat potongan halus di permukaan.
Berus dengan telur yang telah dipukul.
Baker dalam oven 180 darjah – 40 hingga 45 minit.

Nasi hujan panas and ayam masak merah & cupcakes

Dear All,
this morning went on a cooking spree - Chef Wan's nasi hujan panas (resipi is too long - it's in the book 'sedapnya'.. malas nak type out now. But i tried the ayam masak merah (recipe Kak Mas who cooked and catered in Manchester) using pressure cooker (which i have no instructions just hemtam - good, took only 15 mins and so lembut. made acar bodoh as well - timun / cili/ bawang/cuka/gula.

then tried my hands at cupcakes (terkenang the cupcakes lala brought)... nampak sangat first attempt! but the cake tastes nice so recipe can be trusted.
VANILLA CUPCAKES (resipidiana.blogspot.com)


Sumber: Cintabiru


Bahan-bahannya


250 gram mentega tanpa garam, dilembutkan


180 gram gula kastor (resipi asal menggunakan 250 gram gula tapi pada rasa saya terlalu manis dan saya kurangkan)


4 biji telur


185 gram tepung naik sendiri
60 gram tepung gandum
185 gram susu segar
Cara-caranya
1. Kedua dua jenis tepung diayak, letak tepi.
2. Pukul butter dan gula sampai gebu.
3. Masukkan telur satu persatu, pukul lagi.
4. Campurkan tepung dan susu segar berselangseli dengan adunan tadi.
5. Siapkan kertas cupcakes, bubuh adunan di dalam dan bakar pada suhu 180 deg dalam 7-10 minit, bergantung kepada size kertas cupcake anda.

Frosting(Untuk 12 cupcakes size sederhana)
Bahan-bahannya
3 biji putih telur
Icing sugar
secubit garam
1 sudu teh orange extract (untuk mengurangkan rasa manis pada frosting)Pewarna mengikut citarasa
Cara-caranya
1. Pukul putih telur sampai kaku (terbalikkan make sure confirm tak jatuh kat muka).
2. Masukkan gula sedikit sedikit, pukul lagi.
3. Akhir sekali masukkan sedikit garam, orange extract dan pewarna.
Nota: (Icing sugar ni saya letak cuma agak agak jer sebab tu tak letak sukatan.. maaf ye. Tapi selalunya 70% of the whole 500g packet)Tips:- Make sure biarkan frosting tu seketika dulu (dalam 5mins) sebelum kita pipe.. kalau tak nanti tak cantik frosting kita.- Kalau tak ada nozzle untuk ketatkan tip ngan piping bag, dulu saya ketatkan dengan menggunakan scotch tape.

Ayam masak merah Kak mas

Tumis
10 tangkai cili kering
5 biji cili merah
3 sm halia
3 ulas bawang putih
1 biji bawang besar
2 batang serai
4 biji tomato
2 sudu besar sos tomato


tumis bahan di atas
tambah ayam, kacang hijau, garam, gula, bawang hiris

Pizza

Dear All,

THis is my favourite picture to date!! Before and after pictures. Found this in this cookbook by KKM (kem kesihatan msia) - must be a campaign for cara hidup sihat. This dough is nicer than the previous one. Very do-able. in fact i made in the moring, put in fridge and popped in the oven for lunch. The sky's the limit when it comes to the topping choice. didn't have mozzarella (boy i do miss all that cheese in UK!!) so used sliced cheddar cheese instead. the tomato base was a bit sweet so i'd reduce the sugar a bit next time. didn't have fresh tomato either so I skipped that.

Pizza (KKM resipi) Feb 2007

a) Doh
200 g (2 cawan) tepung gandum
20 g (2 sudu the) yis segera
3 g (1/2 sudu teh) garam
5 g ( 1sudu the) gula
10 g (1 sudu makan) minyak sayuran atau minyak zaitun
air suam untuk menguli (less than one cup)

b) untuk sos tomato
3 biji tomato masak, cancang besar
3 sudu makan pes tomato
1 biji bawng besar, dicincang halus
2 sudu makan gula merah
1 sudu makan minayk sayuran
1 sudu teh oregano atau basil

c) untuk topping
(whatever)
120 g keju mozzarella, diparut kasar.

campur tpung, yis, garam, gula, minyak. Sebatikan
masukkan air suam sedikit demi sedikit – uli sehingga menjadi satu doh yang lembut dan elastic
masukkan doh ke dalam bekas yang telah disapu minyak dan letak di tempat yang panas selama 40 minit. Doh ini akan naik seganda
minyakkan acuan pizza
canaikan kepada bentuk bulat dengan ketebalan 2 sm
masukkan ke dalam aucan yang telah diminyakkan dan tinggal selama 10 minit sebelum diletakkan topping.

Sos:
tumis bawang hingga lembut
masukkan tomato yang dicincang dan kacau hingga lembik
masukkan tomato paste, oegano / basil, gula dan masak atas api perlahan hingga beberapa minit hingga pekat.
sejukkan.

Pizza
sapukan sos tomato pada doh dan tabor topping.
tutup topping dengan taburan keju serta oregano.
baker selama 20 – 30 minit pada suhu 200 oC atau seningga doh nam=pak rangup dan warna keju bertukar menjadi perang. .

Mee Calong and Kuah Dhal

yesterday tried this mee calong from hanieliza fotopages but since there was no 'calong' i call it the modified mee calong (had no idea what that means till i read the recipe - hanieliza fotopages).

MEE CALONG (hanieliza)Bahan 1 rangka ayam [potong kecil] 500 gm mee kuning atau bihun [celurkan] 1 pokok daun sup [hiriskan] 1 batang carrot [potong kecil] 3 pokok sawi minyak/baby sawi/kailan [potong pendek] 3 biji cili merah [hiriskan] bawang goreng garam air secukupnya 2 s/b minyak 1 kiub ayam [maggi atau knor] Bahan tumbuk/mesin 2 ulas bawang merah 3 ulas bawang putih 1 s/b lada hitam Bahan Sos Kicap Pedas 15 biji ciliapi ] tumbuk halus 1 ulas bawang putih ] 2 s/b kicap cair Bahan Calong 1/2 cawan isi ikan tenggiri atau selayang 1 s/k lada hitam tumbuk sedikit tepung jagung sedikit garam Cara. 1. Isi ikan digaulkan dengan lada hitam, tepung jagung dan garam. Bulat2 bentuk kecil. 2. Panaskan minyak dan tumiskan bahan tumbuk/mesin sehingga wangi. 3. Masukkan air dan biarkan mendideh. 4. Masukkan garam, tulang ayam dan renehkan sehingga mendideh. 5. Apabila mendideh asingkan tulang2 ayam tadi dan masukkan calong. 6. Masukkan kiub ayam dan carrot dan bairkan mendideh perlahan2. 7. Masukkan sawi/kailan. 8. Bila mendideh tuangkan bahan sup keatas mee atau bihun. 9. Taburkan daun sup dan cili yg telah dihiriskan dan bawang goreng. 10. Hidangkan panas2 bersama sos kicap pedas.


the other pictuer was my kuah dhal - easy to do but i notice other recipes look more complicated. the way i did it - soaked dhal overnight, then tumis bawang, add biji sawi, daun kari, add that dhal (can also boil first so that it's more lembik), add bit of kunyit and salt to taste. let simmer.

Roti canai - frozen ones.

Oven-baked chicken with garlic and parmesan

okay rita, I figured this google account thing. THis is another you-must-try recipe, especially if your audience like things cheesey. not exactly ready in 1/2 hour but it's take out ayam in the morning, marinate in the afternoon (or this reads as leave instructions for helper to do.. if you do this on a workday as in my case), bake in the evening and ready in one hour. recipe from Delia's summer collection with some modifications

Oven-baked chicken with garlic and parmesan

1 chicken – 8 parts
4 large clove garlic ]
1 teaspoon rock salt ] tumbuk

3 x size 2 eggs ]
black pepper ] whisk, add garlic puree and pour over chicken.
Marinate at least 4 hours

Preheat oven 350oF or 180oC
Pop in shallow roasting tin containing:
50 g butter
4 tblspoon olive oil

50 g fresh breadcrumbs ]
40g parmesan cheese, grated ]
2 heaped tablesppon finely chopped fresh parsley ]
seasoning ] mix and put on plate
(* had no parmesan so i used 3 slices of cheddar cheese - grinded sekali with 2 pieces of kepala roti that no one eats anyway). No parsley so i added some other spice for the colour.

remove chicken from fridge,
take one piece at a time
sit in crumb mixture, pat and coat with crumbs
add chicken pieces
bake on high shelf 20 min
turn and bake another 20 min (*for my oven i did 30 mins)
pour off excess fat, bake another 5 mins

drain and eat.

coleslaw from Hanieliza - cabbage + carrot + mayonnaise +lime juice +2 spoonful cold water.

Sausage Rolls and Nasi Goreng Cina

Okay, so i found out that i can make this without my bread maker ('can' meaning it's a good workout!). appearance - hmmm, boleh diperbaiki but taste is there.

SWEET BUN for sausage rolls

Ingredient A :
500g high protein flour
25g milk powder
75g sugar (I lessen it to just 50g since I want to make sausage rolls)
10g instant yeast
1 teaspoon bread softener
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt

Ingredient B :
250ml water
75g margarine

Ingredient C :
Red bean filling
Butter
Sugar
Sausage
Raisins/sultanas

Method :
1. Mix well ingredients A.
2. Add in water and knead till a soft dough is formed.(I called upon my antique but still reliable mixer to help me with this process!)
3. Add in margarine and knead again till soft and elastic.
4. Divide the dough into 50g balls.
5. Shape the dough to your liking.
6. Leave to prove till double the size.
7. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degree celcius till golden brown.
8. Once out of the oven, brush some margarine on top.















Then today for lunch, kelaparan, since ada rice, tried this recipe - i know there are 1000 and 1 ways to make nasi goreng but i followed this to see the effects of ginger and oyster sauce. Comment from my sister -hmmm, sedap!

Chinese fried rice (Zack fotopages)

Ingredients:
2 cups white rice
6-8 shrimps
1/2 of 1 chicken breast, diced
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
1/2 green onion, minced
1 tsp minced ginger
mix veggie
2-3 eggs
2 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tbsp spring onions
2 tbsp fried shallots (bwg goreng)
2 tbsp veggie oil + 1 tbsp sesame oil salt,
white & black pepper,
sugar to season

How to make:
1. Prepare all the ingredients; Have them placed in bowl along with the seasonings; oyster sauce, salt, sugar and pepper. Make sure that everything is within your hands reach because you'll be cooking very fast, so you won't have time to run to the sink or table for the ingredients.
2. Heat up the wok, put in the oil and check to make sure that the wok is really hot by sprinkle a little bit of water to the side of the wok and it should steam up very quickly.
3. Pour in onions, garlic, chicken and shrimps. Stir quickly followed by the oyster sauce and mix veggie. Pour in the rice mixed with eggs ( see the TIPS picture above ) and stir fry quickly. Use a big spatula is you need to. It sure helps sometimes
4. Lastly add in the spring onions, fried shallots and season with enough salt, sugar and pepper of your liking.

Mee Hailam

dear Folks,
You all must simply try this - siap within 1/2 hour (from start siang daging/sayur to makan) and it's simply sedap. had it for late lunch - today saturday is nice and cool - hujan dari pagi till now almost 3.15pm.. went into my springcleaning mode then got hungry hence the late lunch. i suppose those of you who are not keen on mee kuning can use sphagetti. Eat it when it's hot. Oh, and i added cili padi sebijik sebab tak ada cili powder. to the kuah. the bawang goreng adds the kick, so add it as well. And i malas nak boil the meat for the stock so used that cube - 1 piece.

MEE HAILAM PHALIN OOI (from mamafami fotopages)
Mee kuning
Beef fillet ~ sliced thinly, boil for 5 minutes and keep the stock
Chicken fillet sliced Onion ~ sliced Garlic ~ chopped Chicken cube Chillie powder Oyster sauce Sweet soya sauce Soya sauce Tomato sauce Vegetables ~ whatever you like...hehehe (my choice is carrot, celery and tomatoes) Cornflour mixed with water ~ to thicken the gravy Oil for cooking Method : 1. Boil the fresh noodles till soften. I skipped this step because my noodles are well cooked. 2. Heat the oil and saute onion and add in the beef fillets and chicken fillets. Fry for about 3 minutes. 3. Add in the crushed chicken cube and chillie powder. Stir well. 4. Pour the beef stock. Add in oyster sauce, sweet soya sauce, soya sauce and tomato sauce. Stir well and let it boil. 5. Add in eggs. 6. Add in the vegetables. 7. Pour in the cornflour mixture to thicken the gravy. To serve : Put the noodles in a bowl, pour the gravy on top. Garnish with chopped spring onions and fried onions.
And this choc cake - someone gave for CNY - it's simply delicious - 1/2 gone since last night. Don't know who made it. And the bottom picture - like i said, springcleaning mode. All those went into the washing machine... 

homemade pizza

okay folks, tried this tonight. Thick base - dough can actually be used for 2 of this sized pan.


Pizza (modified from Chef Wan’s recipe)

Base – (actual recipe requires 4 cups ‘tepung roti’ + 30 gm yeast – uli 10 mins, leave few mins, uli again)

4 cups flour
1 teaspooon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
bit of bicarbonate soda
2 tablespoon olive oil
½ cup warm water (actually i used aobut 1 cup - keep adding till uliable)

Mix dough and flatten on pan

Tomato base

3 garlic pips
¼ onion - tumis in about 2 tablespoon olive oil
add ½ cup or so tomato puree
add about 1 tablespoon sugar
½ teaspoon each of oregano + basil + thyme (to taste)


pour base onto pan
add stuff – bake in preheated oven 180oC for about 10 mins
sprinkle grated mozzarella cheese (used sliced chedder cheese quite okay)
bake somemore till cheese bubbles nicely. 

Beef stew and Yorkshire pudding

Got inspired after watching Nigella's cooking show on tv last night. So we had beef stew (modified from her lamb stew) which had feta cheese and mint leaves sprinkled on it - lovely comfort food!!

recipe as below:

Brown meat in oil

Blend:

Celery (3 – 4 sticks)

Onion – 1 big

Garlic 4 cloves

Pour celery/onion mixture into the oil

Saute till soft

Take ½ out, put beef in, pour back the ½

Add bay leaves (about 3 – 4) + 1teaspoon oregano powder

Add carrot – chopped into ¼

2 cans chopped tomato

water

leave 2 hours

add some macaroni

serve with feta cheese / bay leaves (used mint)

Then had yorkshire pudding (as in for a sweet dessert rather than with roast beef). Ate it as soon as it came out of the oven - with cream and honey - hmmmmmmm yummmy. Oooh, dah kenyang....

recipe for Yorkshire pudding:

Heat oven 425
Put pan into oven (with about 3 mm of oil/fat in it)

4 eggs + 350 mls milk – blend and let rest for 15 min.
add flour 1 ½ cups
blend together

pour into hot pan
bake 20 – 25 min

eat when still hot (immediately out of oven!) with cream and honey

Pancakes

Finally found a recipe that gives fluffy and thick pancakes, courtesy of Betty Crocker's. Lovely saturday morning breakfast. Once again, recipe to follow.

Pancakes (betty crocker’s – thick and fluffy)

1 large egg

1 cup all-purpose flour (if using self-raising omit baking powder and salt)

¾ cup milk

1 tablespoon granulated or packed brown sugar

2 tablespoon vegetable oil

3 teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

butter, stick margarine or shortening

1. beat egg till fluffy, beat in remaining ingredients except butter just until smooth

2. for thinner pancakes stir in additional 1 to 2 tablespoon milk

3. heat griddle or skillet, grease if necessary

4. for each pancake, pour slightly less than ¼ cup batter, cook till bubbly on top, puffed and dry around edges, turn and cook other side until golden brown.

29th Ramadhan

First picture - entourage baru a few hours sampai, so chief cook (MIL) tak dibenarkan masak lagi. But she unpacked her made-in-KL sambal belacan, sambal tempoyak ikan bilis and karipaps! that victoria sponge cake is easy to make - 110 grams butter beat with 110 grams sugar, slowly add 2 eggs, then 110 grams flour. add esen. bake in 2 greased sandwich pan 190 deg for 20-25 mins. Wow- i dah hafal!!! i put strawberry jam in between and dust with icing sugar. can prepare in less than 1/2 hour if your butter dah lembut.


The 2nd picture was the result of me saying "okay Mak, hari ni Mak nak masak apa-apa, masaklah..." so the result is - tak muat meja!! Saya langsung tak masuk dapur :) The other 2 pictures were taken just this evening along Oxford Road. Deserted on a saturday afternoon. I love the autumn colours, so I thought I'd share it with you guys. OH, and it's confirmed we are raya-ing on monday, so tomorrow will be last buka puasa this Ramadhan.
Selamat Hari raya to you all!



 

Mee Jawa Malindo

We had mee jawa yesday. Everything the maid masak kat rumah di gelar "Malindo" coz she's Indon and usually masak Malaysian, esp Trg, dishes. Tapi since this is memang mee jawa, tak payah lah Malindo kot...

The pix doesn't look as good as it tasted. Guess I shoulda taken the pix of the mee without the kuah, that was more appetising looking. Don't ask me how to make the kuah, but there were prawns, chicken strips, boiled egg, and mee hoon for me, mee kuning for the rest of them. No togeh for me either. Then of course, the sprinkly green things (whatever they are, daun bawang mebe?) and bawang goreng and the little baby limau for squeezing.

I also took a pix of the goreng pisang we had but it didn't turn out well. Looked worse than the mee jawa pix, so I left it out, in the interest of not making everyone else sick ;o)

Anyone nak post gambar raya cookies they made? Kalau tak, nanti I'll post gambar the raya cookies I bought pulak! Ha ha ha!