#26 Ayam Masak Merah

So here's my 26th recipe, and also happens to be one of my favourite dishes to eat. I actually cooked this upon my boyfriend's request, yup, another book out session. It's quite easy actually. So here goes.

Ingredients

For the gravy

A handful of dried Chillies  (Boiled & Strained)

1 large onion, cut into quarter

3 cloves of garlic

About 4 cm of ginger, skin peeled off.

For the chicken

1 tablespoon of tumeric

1 teaspoon of salt

Cooking Oil

2 Chicken Drumsticks cut into half

Others

One small can of tomato puree (It's the 90 cents can)

2 pcs of star anise

1 stick of cinnamon

4 pcs of cloves

3 cardamom seeds

About 4 cm Galangal 

1 stalk of lemongrass 

2 tablespoon of sugar

Salt to taste

4 potatoes (peeled, cut into quarters & fried)

Instructions:

Blend the onion (peeled), garlic, chillies and ginger. Add some water until the water level is half of that the ingredients. Then blend until it becomes a paste that is not too watery neither is it too dry. 

Marinate the chicken with tumeric powder and a pinch of salt. This recipe is for small serving, you can add more chicken but the ingredients need to be more too. OKAY, so once that is done, fry your chicken. It doesn't have to be fully cooked. Half way cooked is okay, just need to stop the blood from flowing. Then put aside your chicken, fry your potatoes using the same oil. Make sure your fire is at medium to low while doing this so the inner part of your chicken will be cooked and you won't burn your potatoes. Fry the potatoes until golden brown. Set aside. 

Don't need to turn off the heat, add in your 4 spices, and then add in the blended ingredients. After which, add in the galangal and lemongrass that has been slightly smashed. Stir it up. Leave it to simmer, until you can see the oil separated from the ingredients. Add in your tomato puree, and then some water. As for the water, I prefer this dish to have more gravy, so I added more water. Those who doesn't like it that way, just add like half a cup of water. I added 1 cup of water. Stir it again, and then let it boil. Upon boiling, add in the chicken. Stir again and let the chicken meat absorb the gravy, this would vary between 8 to 12 minutes. Then, add in your potato and stir the dish again. Add in your salt and sugar, then stir. Let it boil once again, for about 6 to 7 minutes and turn off the heat.

Guess what? You're done. Garnishing using coriander leaves is optional. :)

#25 Sliced Baked Potatoes with Cheese

Hello! Okay so I know I have been posting this picture for quite some time already, but no recipes. It's because I was waiting to do call centre before I can blog. Haha. Anyway! I am 1/4 through to my goal of 100 recipes!! Wheee! Hahas... Amazeballz..!

So let's cut to the chase now and let me share you this DELICIOUS recipe! Seriously it is as easy as ABC. Now let's get to it!

Ingredients

Russet potatoes

Salt

Pepper

Mixed Herbs

A slice of cheddar cheese (per potato)

Butter

Garlic (thinly sliced)

Instructions

It's easy you know. Wash you potato thoroughly becuase you'll be eating with the skin yeah. Next, you cut the potatoes, but not all the way through. Like leave 1/7 of the potato uncut. Then in between the thin layers, you slot in some butter, and garlic. Then you sprinkle some salt, pepper and mixed herbs for seasoning. I put some chilli powder to make it spicy hehe. Then you wrap it in aluminium foil and bake it for 1 hour. After you are done, take it out, just open the top part of the foil. You tear the cheese apart, and slot it in between the potatoes and some you just place on top of the potato. Bake for about 5 minutes, just until the cheese melts. *ding*! And you're done to devour this tasty dish! :D

Happy trying folks!

 

#24 Thai Lemon Prawns

So work was rather boring today.. So I decided to look up for simple recipes to cook that wouldn't cost me much. I chanted upon this recipe that simple caught my eye by one word. "thai". Hahas I have this mad love for thai food. Alright so here goes!

Ingredients

Prawns, deveined and deshelled

3 cloves of garlic finely chopped

3 chilli padi, finely chopped as well

1/4 cup(60 ml) of sweet chilli sauce

1 teaspoon of normal chilli sauce

1 tablespoon sugar

1 lemon, juiced

3 kaffir lime leaves, sliced

1 tablespoon fish sauce

1 teaspoon palm sugar

1/4 cup coconut milk

1/4 cup chinese parsley (chopped finely)

Instructions

Marinate the prawns in the chilli sauce, sweet chilli sauce, garlic, sugar, lemon, kaffir lime leaves, fish sauce and chilli padi for about 10 minutes or more.

Heat a pan with some oil, like a tablespoon, put all the marinated prawn together with the marinade in the pan, heat it up, and then add in your coconut milk. Stir the ingredients on medium heat all the way. Once it comes to a boil and has evenly mixed, off the heat and put in the parsley. 

Viola! You are done babeh! Yeah it's that simple. ;)

Do look out for my baked potatoes recipe tomorrow yeah! :)

 

#23 Pan Fried Salmon with Garlic Cream Sauce

Hi readers! Today's dish would be something that is a little costly, but once in a while, it don't metter right?

Well, it's not something that I eat, but something that the man I love eats. It's salmon. I really don't like salmon to be honest. I only eat salmon in raw fresh state, as sashimi, that's all. Alright, let's cut to the chase now.

Ingredients:

Pan Fried Salmon

Salmon (up to your preference the size of it)
Half a lemon
Salt
Pepper
Egg White
Mixed Herbs
Olive oil

Garlic Cream Sauce

Cooking cream, one small box, like about 300 ml
4 Cloves of Garlic (chopped finely)
Mixed herbs
Corn flour
A pinch of salt
A pinch of pepper
Butter

Instructions:

Okay the recipe is a little vague as it really depends on the size of your salmon so if I were to say a tablespoon of salt, and you use a big slice of fish, then the thing would be tasteless right? Okay you get my point.

So anyway, firstly, wash your fish then drain the water off. And then wash it with lemon, so that it won't have a fishy taste/smell. After which i dipped in egg white, this is to make sure that the flesh remain intact when cooked. Then I seasoned with a pinch of salt, some pepper (if you want it to be more hot, put more pepper in then), and a teaspoon of mixed herbs. You can add more herbs if you want it to be more fragrant. I then poured some olive oil on it. Heat up a pan with a little olive oil, on low to medium heat, pan fry the salmon. Until you see the the bright orange flesh turning to peachy light orange. Don't overcook it though. So why it was sizzling on the pan, i put some more mixed herbs on both sides of the fish. It took me about 8 minutes or so to fully cook the fish.

Yeah it was that easy.

So next, the sauce. Take like a tablespoon of butter, heat in a small saucepan. Put in the garlic, and saute for a while, this is a very quick process because garlic gets burnt very quickly. Then you add in your cream. Best to use a whisk. Add in the corn flour a bit by bit to thicken the sauce. I added the same mixed herbs, a pinch of salt n pepper for taste and kept putting in the corn flour until it thickens. Keep whisking and make sure there are no clumps. And all these should be done as low heat. And viola! Once the sauce thickens, you are done.

Just pour it over the fish. That's all! Happy trying! :)

P.S. Ignore the potatoes and chicken in the picture that's optional.

#22 No bake Oreo Cheesecake

Holla! Alright so tell me now, which one of my readers love cheesecakes? I'm sure everyone does! Especially if it is OREO CHEESECAKE! Well I was pretty much free at work, thus I had some free time to watch YouTube videos for recipe. As usual, I would pick the easiest one.

When i made the cake I didn't even use a measuring cup or what. I just used everything. So It's pretty easy when all you have to do is dump in all the ingredients. As for the oreo, I bought the one in a box where there are 9 packets of 3 oreos in them. Why am I baking all of a sudden? Well point one, my birthday is next Sunday. Next point is my bestfriend's brithday is next Monday. Then the next point is another bestfriend who lovessss oreo cheesecake birthday falls a day before mine. And lastly 13th of October we would be celebrating our biirthdays together and thus, the need for a cake. As we are all adults I don't see for fanciness in a cake to be a need. Haha as long as our tummies are happy. 

Ingredients:

9 packets of oreo (5 packet finely crushed & 4 packets crushed into chunks)

250g of whipping cream (I used Pauls, that's considered one box)

1 packet of SCS cream cheese

Half a tin of condensed milk/sweetened beverage creamer

Instructions:

Whip your cream until it has a soft peak. That means if you use the mixer, you will see that it has thicken but it's not dry and airy. We don't want that yeah. Beat on high speed yeah.

Then you take like half of the chunky oreo bits plus a tablespoon of the crushed oreos and also your creamer, mix with your cream cheese until you get a soft texture. I used a whisk for this. Then I added this mixture to my whipping cream. I mix it for a short while on medium speed just to incorporate the ingredients. Viola!

Now get your jar or for my case.. Tupperware. Wahahaha. Coz i couldn't find any Mason Jar anywhere. Pfft. Okay so use the finely crushed oreos as your base, put about half a centimetre. It's up to you how thick you want it to be. Then you put some of your cheesecake batter in. Not so much,  you sprinkle some of the bigger chunks oreo, and then cover that up with some more batter. Then you just tap the tupperware on your table top to get the air bubbles out. Then you put some of the chunky oreo on top, amd cover the top with a finely crushed oreos until all you see is BLACK. Hehe. As i am not a fan of black and white only, I also sprinkled some heart sprinkles to make it pretty. Then i just used some of the condensed milk to drizzle on top. That's all basically. Put in your freezer overnight. Frankly speaking, I can't wait to eat it!!!!!!! Okay happy trying! Budget was around $13, but for 3 big tupperwares (about 6 jars), it is definitely worth it. ;)

Happy 22nd birthday to me! :D 

p.s. What a coincidence!! It's my 22nd recipe!! I don't know about you! But I'm feeling twenty twoooo~ :P

#21 Terriyaki Chicken Wings

Hey hey heyyyyy~! Okay so today I'm going to share with you a super duper extremely simple recipe. It's called Terriyaki Chicken Wings. Please make sure you ONLY  buy Woh Hup terriyaki chicken marinade. This is because other terriyaki chicken marinade contains wine and will make your dish haram to be consumed. You'll be surprised how yummy and simple this dish is.

Ingredients:

Woh Hup Terriyaki Chicken Marinade
Chicken wings
Mixed Herbs in a bottle (optional)
White pepper
Oil
1 garlic (chopped finely)

Instructions:

Yes, the ingredients are as little as that. Wash your chicken first okay! Then you put the chicken in a bowl , be generous with the terriyaki sauce, but not so much, as long as it covers the chicken and have enough to act as gravy for your dish. I used about half a bottle of the marinade. Lather your chicken in the marinade, and add in a little mixed herbs, but this is optional, but I'm telling you, you won't regret it as it gives an aroma to your dish that makes you drool. Oh yums. Just a dash of it will do, don't need so much, like about a teaspoon. I also added in a dash of white pepper for taste as well. But again, it's optional. I just like unique flavours in my cooking.

Leave the chicken marinade to set for at least 30 minutes. The longer the better, so that the taste would be stronger. Heat up your pan. Don't use so much oil, just about 1 tablespoon. Then you add in your garlic. After which, you just pour the whole marinated chicken in a pan. Slow cook the chicken on low heat. Occasionally turn flip the chicken, and then cover the pan with a lid. So that the chicken would be throughly cooked. Repeat this flipping process like twice for each side of the chicken. Afterwhich, your dish is ready to be served! So easy right? You're welcome. Haha.

P.S. Receipe courtesy of my dad.

#20 Kerepek Bayam

Hellllooo~! Okay this recipe was adapted from the cooking show "Dapur Bujang" by Chef Fendi. I just loveee that show! You guys should really watch it, which is readily available on YouTube by the way, as he teaches super simple recipes for learners. Amazingly, he commented on my picture yesterday on Instagram when I posted a picture of my groceries for this recipe. I was super happy as I always told my mum, I wouldn't mind marrying this guy coz he is hilarious and is a great cook. Fendi noticed me.... *dreaming* hahah alright let's start cooking!

I made some improvisation to the recipe as all he put in was salt and sugar, so I think there's a lack of flavour.

Ingredients:

Round Spinach (any amount you want)
Rice Flour
Water
Salt to taste
1 teaspoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Pepper
1 teaspoon Chicken Stock

Instructions:

Pluck the leaves of the spinach as we won't be using the stems. You can use that for other dish. Or just eat it like that like Popeye. No lah just kidding. Haha.

Then You add the flour in a mixing bowl (just use spoon will do), and add water bit by bit, until you get a thick watery mixture, some sort like a milkshake texture. Then you add in a pinch of salt, sugar, pepper and the chicken stock. Well this amount varies with the amount of flour you are using. I didn't make much thus I didn't need so much salt etc.

Then you heat up some oil in a flat frying pan (not a wok), dip your spinach leaves in the batter, and fry it in the hot oil until crispy. Yes! It's as simple as that! Repeat the step over and over again! All the best!

#19 Asam Rebus Batang Keladi

Okay so for the next recipe. IT IS SO SIMPLE I COULD JUST CLOSE MY EYES WHILE COOKING IT! Haha well not action lah.. but it's really easy. This is also another request from my colleague.

 

Ingredients:

1 onion (blended)
About 10 dried chillies (boiled and blended)
Some anchovies (up to you how much you want)
Grab a handful of tamarind
Batang keladi (gasak lah aku tak tau English cakap ape. Haha!)
1 teaspoon Salt
Water
1 tablespoon belacan

 

Instructions:

 

First and foremost, boil the batang keladi until it looks quite soft. This batang keladi can only be found at Geylang market by the way. Boil about 10 minutes or so at low heat

 

Drain the water from the pot. You will be using the same pot. Then in a bowl, you mix the tamarind with water, and then pour JUST the tamarind water in the pot, until it fills half of the pot. If it's not half yet, keep adding water to the same bowl of tamarind, and repeat process. I repeated thrice for the size of my pot. Once you get the water level, put it on the stove on medium heat.

 

Then you put in the anchovies chilli, onion, salt and belacan. Yeah just dump it all in. Haha. It is seriously that easy. Just let it boil under medium heat for about 10 minutes or so, and you are good to go. Some people prefer this dish to be sweet so you can add 1 tablespoon sugar. But I don't like it sweet. Happy trying!

 

#18 Siput Sedut Goreng Kicap

Yo! So today I have 2 recipes to share with you guys. Very simple recipes. 1st one would be siput sedut goreng kicap. I am cooking this as my friend who is a breast cancer patient who is going for an operation this Thursday requested for it.

 

She's like my mum, my bestfriend, my everything at work. It saddens me to see her in pain. So I told her she can name anything in the world she wants to eat and I will cook for her. So here goes!

 

Well to prepare the siput sedut you have to cut its ends using pliers. This was, however, done by my dad. Haha. Oops.

 

Ingredients:

 

1kg Siput Sedut (with ends cut)
1 medium sized onion, diced
2 cloves of garlic
8 tablespoons of blended chilli
1 teaspoon chicken stock
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons dark soya sauce
1 tablespoon sweet dark soya sauce
1 tablespoon sweet soya sauce
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1 tablespoon tomato sauce
2 tablespoons sesame oil
1 chilli padi finely chopped
Ground black pepper (up to your preference how much you want)
Corriander finely chopped

 

Instructions:

 

Firstly you must sauté your onion, garlic and blended chilli with some oil in a big wok. Once you see the oil separated from the chilli, you add in all the sauces mentioned at once. Yeah just put them all in no chronological order. Then add in sugar and chicken stock.

 

Then you add in your siput sedut, and stir well, making sure that every siput sedut is covered in sauce. Then add in the finely chopped corriander, black pepper and chilli padi. Stir it up again. Cover the wok with a lid for about 6 minutes to make sure that everything is well cooked. Turn off the heat and you are good to go!

 

Easy right? But my teacher chef was so fierce (my dad) and so strict one hahaha. Oh wells! Happy trying! :D

The End Result

Ingredients required

#17 Oreo Cake

Hello hello!

I know, it has been forever since I updated my blog. My bad. I have been cooking, but I haven't been updating, due to laziness and also I thought nobody even read this blog so why bother. Haha. So anyway, this isn't really MY recipe, but it's a simply recipe, for an extremely delicious cake. Strictly for OREO LOVERS! Well I am not a good baker, but when I bake this, it can be gone in a day.

You can find this at certain Value Shop, NTUC Xtra or NTUC finest. I bought mine at NTUC Xtra. It costs about $6.20. Apart from that you would need one small carton of milk (the small HL carton), use the whole thing, and also 4 tablespoons of butter. These steps are stated at the side of the box.

So the thing is, it's better if you use a smaller tray, so your cake would be thicker. But if you don't have, you can use paper cups (for cupcakes). It would be more tedious but easier to eat.

Instructions:

Melt your butter, mix thoroughly with the oreo crush, which is in packet number 1. Make sure it is evenly distributed or your base would just crumble. Nope, not a good sight. And the ones with more butter, will clump. Spread this evenly at the base of your baking tray or cupcake holders. Just a thin layer would do it.

Step 2, mix the packet number 2, with the milk using a mixer. Do not under beat. Beat the thing until it becomes a thick cream. Once you get that texture, open the last bag in the box, which is the broken oreo pieces, take out half of it, and fold it in the mixture. Don't use the mixer. Just use a spatula.

Here comes the tideous part. Spreading the batter on top of the crust. As it is rather thick, while spreading, your crust might just "dislodge" from the base of your tray. This sucks and make sure you fix this problem. Just do it slowly. Doesn't matter if it looks messy, it's nicer that way actually. After the whole crust is covered up, this is when you utilise the remaining oreo pieces in the 3rd packet, just place it anywhere you like it on the cake, and however you want it. Freeze it in the freezer for about 2 hours or so, and you are done. As for mine, I used some heart sprinkles and chocolate rice. To make it more pretty and yummy!

Happy trying!

#16 Bee Hoon Tiga rasa

This is the 3rd post today... I cooked this for ifthar yesterday for my family. I saw one of my Facebook friends uploading a photo of Bee Hoon tiga rasa that she bought and it made me crave for this. I based on the ikan siakap tiga rasa recipe and changed a few ingredients here and there.

Ingredients:

1/2 a packet of rice vermicelli (this is up to you based on the number of people eating)
2 squids (washed & sliced into rings)
6 prawns (washed)
2 fish cakes (thinly sliced)
3 tbsp chilli sauce
1 small onion (peeled)
2 cloves of garlic (peeled)
10 dried chillies (cut and boiled)
5 limes (for the juice)
3 chilli padi (chopped finely)
1 yellow bell pepper (cubed into small pieces)
2 tbsp oyster sauce
4 tbsp sweet soya sauce
2 tbsp fish sauce
About 5 pieces of kai lan *optional*
Knorr Hao Chi to taste
Coriander for a final touch

Instructions:

Firstly blend the chillies and the onion together to get a paste. In a big bowl, soak the rice vermicelli in water while preparing the wet ingredients such as the squid and prawns. Soak for about 10 to 15 minutes.

Heat the wok with some oil. Sauté the chilli paste and the garlic on medium heat. Once you see the chilli seems to be separated from the oil, add in the tomato sauce, chilli sauce, fish sauce, soya sauce and the oyster sauce. You will get a thick paste from there. Add in your squid, fishcake and prawns to ensure that these ingredients are well cooked, thus they need to be put in first.

Once you see these ingredients are cooked, add in your rice vermicelli. Stir until the noodle is completely covered in the paste. Add in a small cup of water so that the noodles would cook easily and can absorb the flavours better. Add in 2 teaspoons of Hao Chi (some sort of flavouring enhancer), and with this you don't need to add in salt. keep on stirring. Add in your chilli padi. And then squeeze out the lime juice and add in to the wok. Continue stirring.

Lastly, add in your corriander and kai lan, so that the vegetables remain crunchy even after cooking. Turn off the heat and serve with some fried shallots.

It is quite easy to make actually. I spent about $9 to make this and it is really worth it as I get to feed 6 mouths with this. If anything is amiss, it is up to you to add more of what sauce since the amount of rice vermicelli we used differs. That's the beauty of cooking. You just do trial and error! :)

HAPPY TRYING! :) ♡

#15 Fried Mars ball

This shall be a yummy dessert post! Well I am sure most of us have heard of fried mars balls. But to find a halal one is practically impossible. They just like to use beer batter for this recipe. But not for my recipe! :)

Ingredients:

4 Mars chocolate (cut into 5 portions and left in the fridge to freeze)
1 tbsp corn flour
2 cups of plain flour
1 tsp baking soda
Water (just nice to make the batter thick but not so thick; should be thick liquid form)
Oil. (For frying)

Instructions:

Mix all the ingredients (except the chocolates.. duh) together and beat to get a thick liquid mixture.

Heat up the oil for deep frying. Take out the chocolate from the fridge. Dip it in the batter, and fry it. Then toss the oil using kitchen towel.

You are done! This thing is awesome to eat with ice cream! But you can also just enjoy it like that if you are

a crazy fan of Mars like me! :P

HAPPY TRYING AND HAPPY EATING! :)

#14 Kentang Goreng Belado

Salam ramadhan to all my muslim followers. It has been a while since I updated but I have 3 recipes to update. Just couldn't find the time to do so. This is a simple side dish I made for ifthar today just to satisfy my cravings.

Ingredients:

5 potatoes (peeled and sliced thinly)
About 12 mini cucumbers (sliced thinly)
*this ingredient is optional but it's reallly nice to eat so you should put it in!*
2 cloves of garlic finely chopped
1 small onion (cut into quarters)
About 5 dried chillies (snipped and boiled)
3 chilli padi *optional as well*
Salt
Oil

Instructions:

First of all, fry your potatoes lightly so that it would cook easily later on. About 40 seconds or so?

Then take your dried chillies that has been boiled,  blend together with the onion, to get a chilli paste. Once your potatoes are done frying, toss the oil using kitchen towel.

Meanwhile, heat another pan up, add in some oil, sauté your chilli paste and also the garlic. Once you can smell the aroma rising, put in your potatoes and stir fry it until all the potatoes are covered in sambal (chilli paste). Then you snip in the chilli padi into small pieces using scissors and continue to stir. Add in some salt to taste, and then put in your cucumbers last so as to maintain the crunchiness of the cucumber. Add salt to taste, about half a teaspoon? Stir for about a minute more to make sure the whole thing is covered with the sambal, then off the fire. :)

Yeah, you are done. It is THAT simple. Happy trying! :)

 

#13 Cheesy Meatballs with cheese sauce

Hey hey! So another recipe is here already since it is the weekendsss. (But I am working anyway tomorrow so who cares?) I made a simple dish today.. it's a repetiton of the potato au gratin recipe for the cream cheese... if you haven't seen the recipe, it's okay.

Ingredients:

1 packet of cheese chicken meatballs (there are 2 brands, anyone will do)
1 block of cheddar cheese (shredded)
2 cups of full cream milk
A little pepper
Some mixed herbs (this is optional and you can buy this in a bottle from any supermarket)
3 tablespoon plain flour
4 tablespoon butter
1 clove of garlicb(finely chopped )

Instructions:

First you pan fry the meatballs until it is cooked. This is the simpler step. Once it is kinda brown on the outside and looks crispy, you are good to go. It is good enough to be eaten as it is. Haha

Moving on... I first heat a small pot, put in the butter. Then I put in the garlic. The garlic gives this cream sauce a nice flavour when eaten. Use a whisk for this step as you want the ingredients to mix well. Then you add in the flour bit by bit to avoid clumps, while whisking in between each time you put in the flpur. You will see the butter thicken with the flour.

Next, add in the milk and continue to whisk. Afterwhich, add in your mixed herbs and pepper. Mix it well. Just a dash of pepper and herbs shall do it. Then you add in your cheese. You can at it all in at one go, no problem.  Keep stirring so that the cheese would be evenly melted. You will see the mixture thickens. If it is too thick? Add in more milk then. Then off the fire once done.

So the thing is, it hardens rather quick. Or thickens if you wanna put it that way coz it is still soft just that not totally liquid anymore. Pour some sauce on a serving dish, put the meatballs, and pour more sauce on top of it to cover the meatballs. Anddd you are doneee! No kidding! It is THAT easy. You can also choose to make this cream sauce as a dipping sauce to eat with the meatballs. Up to individuals.

Happy trying folks! :) ♡

 

Bangkok!!

Hiii! I am back from Bangkok my loyal readers! Hehehe!

So I am here to share about my foodie experience there! Obviously I went there for the food! It was just a short 3 days trip. The 1st day I went to Purr Cat Cafe. I did not buy any food, afraid that it might contain lard or anything. I bought caramel machiato and shared with my boyfriend. It was definitely worth the buy coz it was quite delicious actually. Wasn't so costly as well. Apart from that, accompanied by the soft kittes just completed my life even! I was just so happy I could cry tears of joy. Yeah, trust me, I am THAT emotional when it comes to cats.

After that, we went to Terminal 21. We had our dinner here. There is a food court where you have to buy a pre-paid card which is refundable. Every stall sells pork expect the stall named Bismillah. (like duh) We had a hard time finding it though it was just the first stall haha. The food was not bad actually. It costs like 40 baht, which is barely $2. Don't unse the cutleries by any means. Seems like it is shared for all the stores. Which doesn't make any sense actually. Oh don't forget to eat the Mango Sticky Rice! It was sooooo nice! TO DIE FOR!

At night, we returned to pratunam market, where our hotel is, and I bought Banana prata, which has milo powder all over it plus sweetener milk and sugar. It was sooo awesome! And so cheap too! 30 baht or so. So that was my dinner.

As for the second day, we went to Chatuchak, AKA Jatujak Market/ JJ Market as what the Thai say. We ate mangoes there. It was just a mango heaven, with aunties wearing a hat with a big mango on their heads, HAHA! Okay anyway we went to have our lunch at Saman Islam. The name is rather funny coz direct translation woukd be like "Fine Muslim". Okay forget it. This stall is beside the clock tower. There is only 1 clock tower there. If I am not wrong it's located at section 16. There is only 1 food stall directly beside the food tower. I ate the tom yam noodle which was so delicious. My firned ate mixed rice, and the rendang was very nice coming from a Thai. As for my boyfriend he ate Chicken briyani, which apparently not to my liking as the spices were abit too strong and not nice to eat. The milk tea was very delicious there, and I also bought mango salad as well as a side dish. Apart from that I bought Thaksin Beef Noodles take away, only to eat it in Singapore. It was almost the same as the one in Singapore so nothing unique about it.

After a heavy lunch, we went to eat coconut ice cream by the stalls at JJ market. It was so delicious I had 5 scoops HAHAHA! Okay then after walking endlessly at JJ Market until our legs almost broke, we went off to MBK. Where we had ice cream AGAIN but this time at Swensen's. The Ice Milk Tea was so nice I jsut could not stop myself from drinking no matter how full I was. Haha! The ice creamw as also very nice... It has koko crunch at the bottom. Hehe. As for dinner, we ate at Yani Restaurant at level 5. It has since been renovated since the last time I visited BKK last year. It is much spacious now. The food is still yummy. We ate chicken green curry, rice, black peper stiry fry beef. It was sooo yummilicious! Hehehe! Everything also yummy eh?

As for the last day, nothing special, just ate Cold Stone at the airport. It was so cheap! Haha. I bought cake batter plus caramel cuppucino with resse chocolate. It was super yummy in the tummy! Hehehe! Wasted sia someone never buy or tasted mine. :P

Okay so that's all for my BKK trip! You guys should really visit BKK one day! And I am planning to visit this place once a year. Crazy right? I know. Haha! K bye.

#12 Chicken Thai Green Curry

As promised, here is the instant Thai Green Curry recipe. Reminder: green curry paste can only be found in Thailand and can be substituted with other brands that can be found in Singapore.

Ingredients:

1 onion (finely chopped or blended)
1 clove of garlic (chopped finely )
1 small box of coconut milk
1 packet of thai green curry
4 small eggplants
1/2 a chicken cut to desired sizes
3 tablespoon Tumeric powder
1 teaspoon salt
3 green chilli padi
4 potatoes (peeled and cut into quarters *optional ingredient*)
3 kaffir lime leaves
Water

Instructions:

Cover the chicken in tumeric powder and fry the chicken as usual in my other recipes as well. I added some salt; just a pinch. Then deep fry these chicken just until half cooked.

After that in another pot, sauté the onion and garlic. After it caramelise, you add in the green curry paste. Then you add in a cup of water and then the coconut milk. Put in your potatoes,  and let it boil. About 1 minute later, put in the chicken that has been pre-fried. After that put in your kaffir lime leaves (a must for thai dishes). Add in the salt as per mentioned. Not too much ya since your chicken also has salt and the paste might also have salt in it.. 

Let the chicken cook for about 10 minutes or so and then you add in the eggplant and the chilli. The egg plant has to be added in last as you don't want it to be soggy. Let it cook for about 5 minutes, and turn then heat off. You're done! Enjoy the meal with hot rice!

Happy trying! :) ♡

These are the main ingredients used. Not in picture would be the eggplant,
potatoes, lime leaf and chillies. As these are optional items.  

Idea and travel

I have already thougt of the next recipe I am going to cook, which is Thai Green Curry Chicken. Why all of a sudden I am cooking thai? Coz I am going to Bangkok on Saturday! No kidding, the food in Bangkok is to die for. Maybe coz I am an avid fan of thai food? So apart from recipes, I shall also post on food, delicious food I eat whilst travelling as we all know it is quite difficult to find Halal food in other region apart from Malaysia and Indonesia, I wanna make it easy for people to travel with a happy tummy as well. I have done my research but it was from various sources. Might as well put it up under one blog right as a summary?

I shall blog again tonight or tomorrow on my Thai Green Curry Chicken recipe. However, once again, it is an instant paste, and I bought the paste in Thailand last year. Haha! So in other words, you need to source for your own thai green curry paste in Singapore. There is la, brand name, Roi Thai, tried that one before and it was simply delicious, and all you needed to do was to put in whatever you want in your curry (chicken, veggies, beef? Anything!). The one I bought in thailand requires manual input of coconut milk etc. So let's try tonight! If it's nice, then I shall buy more in Bangkok! Muahaha! :)

#11 Black Pepper Stir Fry Beef

Halloooo~! Okay so I have been cooking quite a lot lately. This is a cheat recipe. Why cheat? Coz I used instant mixture. I bought instant Adabi Black Pepper Beef mixture. Just to try out the taste actually but I swear it was soooon delicious! And super simple to make! I also have a tip on how to make your meat tender! Let's go!

Ingredients

1 medium sized onions (half sliced thinly, half finely chopped)
2 cloves of garlic (finely chopped)
1 packet of Adabi Black Pepper mixture (About $1+ can find at NTUC)
400g of sliced beef
Corn flour
Corriander leaves
Oil
(So little ingredients but so delicious?!)

Instructions

Firstly, this is a very important tip. Wash your beef. Lather your sliced beef with corn flour. Afterwhich, heat up some oil, and deep fry your beef. Don't over fry it, as it would end up being hard. Why do this extra step? Coz this step will tenderize your beef. It will be easy for you to chew then. Once done, you set the beef aside.
Next, heat up another pan, with about 3 tablespoon of oil. Saute the finely chopped onions and garlic, until you you can see it caramelized, and then add in your beef. Stir fry the beef. Meanwhile, add some water to the black pepper mixture. It will look quite watery, but don't worry, that will dry up pretty quick in the pan. After that you add it in. Stir the beef, so that every beef is covered in this delicious sauce.

To make the dish more appealing, I put some corn flour like 1 tablespoon, mix with some water, to thicken the paste, and will make your beef glisten. Once you see the sauce has already thicken up, just snip the corriander leaves into small pieces using a pair of scissors, and then add in the sliced onions. Let is cook for about a minute, turn off the heat, so the corriander and onion would still be crunchy. I added in 1 chilli, cut thinly, as a decoration, to add colours to my dish. And there you go! Your Black Pepper Stir Fry Beef!

Happy trying! :)

#10 Roti Kirai (or Roti Jala)

Hii! So I mentioned in the previous post that I would be posting on roti kirai in my next post, which is exactly what I am going to do now. You should definitely try as it is very easy and sooo delicious to eat with chicken curry!

Ingredients

1 packet of plain flour
1 egg
a pinch of salt to taste
water
1 tablespoon of tumeric

Instrcutions

Beat all these ingredients up. As for the water, put in slowly until you get a semi thick mixture, but not so thick. Liquid form but can be considered thick. Looks like a pancake batter.

It's recommended you buy this squeeze bottle, to easily make roti kirai coz if you use the old school method, it would be very messy. Heat up just a little bit of oil in the pan and do your magic with the bottle. Just "scribble" the pan with the mixture! Let the thing cook for about 30 minutes, dab some oil on it (for fragrance I suggest use a pandan leaf *tips from dad*) and then flip it over. Cook for another 30 seconds or so, and you are done! :)

Happy trying and happy eating!!! YUMMMEHHH~!

The End Result of my Roti Kirai!

#9 Chicken Curry

I made this Chicken Curry yesterday during my off day. I've promised my boyfriend's mum that I would take care of him while they're away in Perth, Australia, which is why I cooked this dish for him. I cooked a whole pot, which is good enough to last for 2 days. Anyway, here's the recipe!~

Ingredients

2 Onions
2 cloves of garlic
4 cm of ginger
half a packet of curry powder (in this case, I used chicken curry powder)
Water
salt
chicken stock
4 potatoes (Peeled and cut into 4 parts)
Chicken (cut into small pieces)
The 4 spices (1 cinnamon stick, 2 cardamom, 4 cloves and 2 star anise)
1 box of coconut milk
Tumeric powder

Instructions

After cutting your chicken to your desired size, you lather the chicken with tumeric powder, but not too much, just a thin layer. After that, fry the chicken until it is half cooked, so that the chicken will cook easily if you were to cook it later. Set aside to cool afterwards.

Upon peeling the onion, garlic and ginger, toss them in the blender. Put in water about half of these ingredients height in the blender. Blend until smooth. Once done, take the mixture out, and then stir in with the curry powder until you get a thick paste.

Next, heat up the pan with oil, and put in the 4 spices. Once you can smell the aromatic aroma from the spices, you put in your curry paste. If it seems too dry, add in more oil. Stir the mixture  and then let it cook under medium heat. Once you see the oil separating from the mixture, add in the coconut milk. Upon adding, fill the empty coconut milk box twice with water and add into the dish. Stir the mixture slowly until everything is uniform. Add salt taste. After that you add in your chicken and potato. I also added in 2 chilli, cut into halves, just to add colour to my dish.

Now all you have to do is put it on medium heat all the way and wait for your curry to cook. Yum2! Hehe! It's a surprisingly simple dish to make and you should really try it! You can buy instant prata to go along with that and also roti kirai (next recipe). Happy trying!

As indicated, the water level needs to be half of the height of the 3 ingredients in the blender.

Top left hand corner is the blended mixture together with the curry powder.
Top right hand cornor, chicken lathered with tumeric powder.

End result of my chicken curry!

#8 Sheperd's Pie

Helllo! It has been a while since I cooked.. Been pretty busy lately, or I'm just tired, that's all. So yesterday I was on vacation leave to attend my boyfriend's graduation ceremony. After the ceremony I decided to make some sheperd's pie. It was a pretty simple dish actually and I thank my boyfriend for the help. Here goes.

Ingredients:
1 Onion (finely shopped)
2 cloved of Garlic (finely chopped as well)
300g of minced beef
salt
pepper
6 big potatoes (peeled)
About 50g of butter
Half a packet of beef curry powder
6 small aluminium trays (like the cupcakes one)
3 slices of cheddar cheese

Instructions:
First step would be to cut the peeled into quarters. Don't need to be perfect coz you are going to mash these babies up soon. Boil the potatoes in salt water for about 20 minutes. To check, poke a fork into the potatoes. If it easily goes through then you are good to go.

While waiting for the potatoes to cook, you prepare the meat. I wanted to use some carrots but my boyfriend's family does not eat vegetables. Saute the onion and garlic with some oil. Mix the curry powder with a little water like 3 spoonsful, just to make the curry powder like a very thick paste. Then add into the wok. Just keep stirring that, make sure that every bit of the curry is cooked, or else your dish would be spicy. Then, add in the beef. If you have diced carrots, you can include that in as well at this point. Stir the beef, make sure it mixes well with the curry paste, so that every bit of the beef has flavour. Add in a pinch of salt and pepper to taste. Let the beef cook, and dry up a little. Make sure it isn't too dry coz it would suck.

By then your potatoes should be done. Mash the potatoes up with like 2 tablespoon of butter. Taste it. If it's bland, put in some salt and pepper to taste.

This part now is very easy. Add the beef as the first layer in the aluminium tray, take half of the cheese slice, and you tear it into small pieces to cover the beef. And then cover with a layer of the mashes potatoes. Do this for the rest of the trays. Place these in a pre-heated over at 180 degrees celcius and bake for about 30 to 40 minutes. For the last 10 minutes baking, change the heat to just the top oven to cook the potato until it becomes light brown. Once you hear the oven *ting*, you're good to go! You can eat with chilli sauce if you want. Bon Apetite!

Happy Trying!

#7 Hot Hot Chix

This is my boyfriend's all time favourite. We love to eat this at BBQ Chicken but now the shop has closed down, thus need to create this dish myself. Hehe.

 

Ingredients

 

Part A:
Chicken (I used 4 wings, and 3 drumsticks for this recipe)
Fried chicken seasoning flour
Corn flour
2 eggs

 

Part B:
5 chilli padi (finely chopped)
2 cloves of garlic ( finely chopped )
About 1 cup of chilli sauce
About half a cup of tomato sauce
3 spoonful of honey
1 spoonful of apple cider
1 spoonful of oil
A dash of pepper

 

Instructions

First you cut the wings into 2 parts so that it would cook easily. Next slice your chicken drumstick, also for the same reason. Clean the chicken afterwards. Get 3 plates. Pour the seasoning flour, corn flour and 2 eggs (beaten) in the respective plates. First you place the chicken (one by one) in the corn flour. Next, the eggs and then you cover it with the seasoning flour. Repeat this process for all the chicken and then fry the chicken for about 10 minutes or until golden brown on medium heat to slowly cook the inside of the chicken. Once done, put that aside and let the chicken cool down.

 

Now for the sauce. Add some oil to a different pan, put in your finely chopped chilli padi and garlic. Then your apple cider and honey. After that you add in your tomato sauce and chilli sauce. I prefer more chilli sauce so it would be spicier. This sauce is up to individual. More spicy then get a spicy brand chilli sauce.  The one I am using isn't spicy so I had to put in more. After mixing the ingredients well, put in all your chicken at once. Stir them up until all your chicken is covered with the sauce. Served while hot and best served with mashed potatoes. I bought my mashed potatoes at 7 Eleven haha. There you go! Your hot hot chix is complete!

Happy trying! :) ♡

Dab the chicken in corn flour, and then egg, and then the fried chicken batter.

Fry the chciken until it becomes golden brown on medium heat

Ingredients needed for the sauce

Hot Hot Chix with Mashed Potatoes

#6 Potato Au Gratin

I thought I have updated my blog about the potato au gratin recipe but I guess not. So here goes. I have another recipe as well which I cooked today, which will be in the next post.

 

Ingredients

6 potatoes (peeled and sliced thinly)
2 cloves if garlic (chopped finely)
4 slice of chicken picnic ham (shredded)
1 packet of sliced cheedar cheese (torn into small pieces) *you can also use the normal cheddar and grate it
1 bombay onion (sliced)
2 cups of milk
3 spoonful flour
1 spoon butter
Salt
Pepper
Italian herbs

 

Instructions

Slice the onion and the potatoes thinly about the same size. Put that aside. Heat a pan, put in the butter, and then fry the flour on low heat. When you get a mixture, make sure it doesn't clump. And then pour in your milk bit by but until mixture thickens. Once it looks thick enough you put in some salt and pepper to taste abd also a dash of italian herbs. Then add in your cheese. I suggest you use a whisk for this process. Then you will get a gorgeous thick cream cheese sauce for your potato au gratin.

 

Butter your baking tray, place the potatoes to cover the base of the tray, next the onions, after you separate the onions like rings, and then the shredded ham. Put a pinch of salt and pepper, and then pour in some of your cream sauce. Repeat the process with the top most layer with potatoes and sprinkle some salt and pepper again. Pour the remaining cream sauce on top and then I put some ham, and like 4 rings of onion for decoration. I slow baked the potato au gratin in a preheated oven at 180°C for about 1 and a half hours. And you are done! It is a super simple dish to make and also superr delicious! 

 

Happy trying!!

The final result

Part of the ingredients needed

How to layer your ingreidents. And how the Potato Au Gratin looks after baking.

Ideaaa

Don't know if I should call it idea or simply another craving of mine. So today I intend to make creamy potato au gratin. It's potato in cheesy cream sauce. It would be my second time making it but it has been a while since I last did.  

Anyway, there are various recipes online on this, but me being me, I would add a personal touch to it. Typical Rin. Hehe. It's a simple version. No thyme, nutmeg and such. Just a simple and yummy potato gratin. I shall post about it later on as I have yet to buy the ingredients for now... stay tuned!

#5 Spicy Fried Rice

I know it has been a while, coz I was busy over last weekend, thus did not whip anything up. I cooked something simple tonight though since I am not a fan of duck rendang. I cooked spicy fried rice... and also to satisfy my cravings.
 

Ingredients:
2 spoons of sambal belacan
1 small onion thinly sliced
1 clove of garlic chopped finely
About a handful of dried anchovies
Rice (up to you how much. I used about 2 plates)
Salt
Sweet soya sauce
2 eggs
2 cili padi
 

Instructions:
Saute the onion, garlic and anchovies together until you see the anchovies is cooked. Put in the 2 spoons of sambal belacan and then add in the rice. Mix these ingredients until the sambal covers up the rice evenly. Add like 2 spoons of sweet soya sauce, mix the fried rice again, and then add in some salt to taste. I added in some water (about 4 spoons) as it was a little difficult to get the rice to be evenly distributed with the sambal. When the water is almost dried up, add in 2 eggs, scramble it up and mix with the rice. Cut the 2 cili padi into tiny pieces for the spiciness! And then you're done!

It is really that easy. Have fun trying!
 

#4 Beef & Cheese Bread Lasagne

Ingredients

1 onion (diced into small pieces)
2 cloves if garlic (chopped finely)
3 medium sized potatoes (diced into small pieces)
300g of minced beef
About 3 cm ginger (chopped finely)
1 stalk of corriander
1 carrot (diced into small pieces as well)
Salt
1 loaf of bread
1/2 a packet of Meat Curry Powder
About 20 cheese slices
Butter to oil the baking tray
Some oil to fry the fillings
Water
3 eggs

 

Instructions

First, sauté the onion, garlic and ginger together. Once you realise the colour is changing to yellowish, add in the curry powder about jalf a packet and fry it. Make sure there is enough oil or your curry powder will burn and taste gross.

 

Once you realise that the mixture thickens, add in the beef, potato and carrots. Add in half a cup or water, mix it up a little and let the ingredients cook as potato will take some time to be cooked. Stir it a little every now and then at low heat. About 15 minutes later, or until it is almost dry, add in some corriander to have that nice aroma in you dish but this is optional really. Once done, turn off the heat.

Oil the baking tray with butter. And then cut the sides of the bread before placing them into the tray.

 

1st layer would be the bread, then u add cheese, and then the filling you cooked earlier. Take 3 eggs and beat them. This would act as a glue. Pour some of the egg on top of the filling and then sprinkle some spring onions on, which is again, optional. Then I took 2 cheese, tore them apart and scatter them all about the baking tray. Then I put the bread again, and repeat the process to the 2nd layer of spring onions. But this time instead of tearing the cheese apart I just cover the fillings with the square sliced cheese since I need to make sure my lasagne doesn't fall apart when I bake it. Lastly cover with another layer of bread. Put in the oven for about 15 minute at 150°C. And you are done!

Have fun trying!

 

Part of the ingredients needed

This is how the process of cooking the fillings should look like

The layering instructions. Step 1 to 8.

Beef and cheese bread lasagne

This recipe is proudly brought to you by my colleague, Makiah, with guidance and tips by my mum, Fauziah. It's delicious as everrr! Not including margarine, corriander, egg,cili padi and salt coz these are like the basic necessities that are readily available in my house, I spent $14 to make this dish. But it is totally worth it coz everyone loved it. :)

Next recipe

Hi everyone. I tasted something new at work today. One of my colleague brought along this bread beef pie she said... it was like a bread and butter pudding.. but in this case, it is not a dessert.

It was so delicious.. the texture was there... the taste was there... so I asked for the recipe and ahe gave me a brief recipe of it. So this shall be my next dish! Look forward guys coz it really tastes awesome!

#3 Fried Tom Yam Bee Hoon

Aren't you sick of eating the same old white fried bee hoon A.K.A 'mee party'? Well I am. Well this is a simple recipe yet again. Of coz I cheated using instant noodles. But fret not health concerned people, this is not maggie but rice vermicelli. In this case I am making a serving for 3 people. There are 2 brands.. one is PAPA, and one is mama? No la just kidding. The other one is myojo, which is the one I have been using all these while... I prefer this coz it's cheaper actually... by alot. Anyway here is the recipe!

 

Ingredients:

1 onion (just a small one.. not as small as a shallot though & thinly slice it)
1 clove of garlic (finely chopped)
Some oil
3 packets of Myojo Tom Yam Vermicelli
Water
A small stalk of coriander leaves
Otah fishcake (or you can use anything you want as the topping)
Chilli padi (up to you how many you want, I just used 1 in case others can't handle the heat)

 

Instructions:

First of all, you boil the 3 packets of rice vermicelli as it is. Not until it is soggy, just until you realise it isn't as stiff anymore. Then you just pour out the water and set that aside.

 

Next you sauté your onion and garlic until you realise the onion starts to caramelised.  After which you add in your rice vermicelli. Then you put in all 3 packets of the chilli paste provided in the packaging. Then you stir them up until even. It is quite tedious so add in like half a cup of water. Then add in only two of the seasoning provided in the packaging. (3 and you will end up with high blood pressure coz it is too salty.) And again, stir until even. Once even, add in the otah fish cake. You will realise the water has yet to be absorbed by the rice vermicelli,  which is good... let the thing dry and at the same time cook your fishcake.

 

Just keep tossing and stirring the noodle until it is almost completely dried up, add in 1 chilli padi, snipped into small pieces, and same goes for the corriander, snipped into small pieces. With that done, turn off your fire. And you're done!

 

You realise that I have something else that is green in my pan.. that is just long beans. I just added 1 of that for colour so it would look more appealing. Yeah exactly.. since when there's long beans in tom yam... but if you're the chef, even if you wanna add a banana in it would be possible. Nah just kidding hehe.

 

Happy trying!

 

Breakfast with Naan

Good morning! 

So on this beautiful morning, I have decided to eat Garlic butter naan with the dish I made yesterday. No, I am not such a pro to make naan from scratch. Hehe. Courtesy of my boyfriend for baking the naan.

The garlic butter naan can be found at NTUC. 4 pieces of naan for $4+, and that is very cheap actually coz it would be quite costly to buy a naan meal outside. To make it nicer, you can add butter before baking the naan to avoid it from being too dry, and then add some more chopped garlic (coz you can't really taste the garlic when you eat it as it is from the packet). Then just follow the instructions at the back of the packet to bake how long. Am not too sure since I wasn't the one baking it. Hehe.

And of coz it would be splendid to eat with rendang, masak kuali or tandoori... Go check it out at your nearest NTUC. Doesn't the picture look tempting? :)

Happy trying! :)