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. :)

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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! :)