Grilled Chicken Kenny Roger's Style & Stir Fry Chayote With Garlic

Another finger licking good grilled chicken recipe

 

Recipe is from Melly's site

 

What you need:

 

1 free range chicken - cleaned

3 large onion

4 cloves of garlic

2 inches old ginger

 

Seasonings:

3 tbsp oyster sauce

2 tbsp dark sweet soya sauce (kecap manis)

2 tbsp honey

enough black pepper

1 tsp chicken stock powder

2 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp salt

1 tbsp butter

1. Chop onion, garlic and ginger, mix with a little water and blend til smooth
2. Mix with seasoning and put chicken in, marinade overnight
3. Take out chicken from the seasoning, put in the griller, smear seasoning all over and grill til cooked
4. Halfway grilling, smear the remaining seasoning

 

I cooked this vegetable dish to accompany the grilled chicken, just a simple dish of julienned chayote stir fried with garlic and seasoned with salt, pepper and a little sugar

Sweet and crunchy, nice :)

 

Brownies Pudding

This chocolaty sweet refreshing dessert was so good I could not stop munching on it
The funny thing was, it needed more than just a few bites to relay the message to my brain that this pudding was so good
My first impression after the first bite wasn't so convincing, it's just too heavy to call it pudding, it could make me so full I could consider it as a meal - definitely because of the use of bread in the pudding
But as my mouth kept munching, slowly my impression changed, to the better
And final result - I was addicted to it! And so was my kids
It's delicious, sweet, chocolaty and so smooth
DH wasn't though, he still prefers something light, and unlike me, after a few tries his opinion didn't change
Oh well, I just enjoyed it together with the kids then :P

Recipe is from Nina's site but I didn't make the custard sauce and I didn't use almond, either (the original recipe is to sprinkle chopped almond in the mould before pouring the pudding mixture and serve with custard sauce)
To me, the pudding is already so good on its own :)

What you need:

14g plain white agar agar powder
1200ml fresh milk
6 pcs stale white bread, remove the crust
225g sugar
100g dark chocolate, chopped
1 egg yolk, lightly beaten

Wet the pudding mould
Blend bread, half of the milk, chopped dark chocolate and agar agr powder til very smooth
Pour the mixture in a pot, mix with the remaining milk, sugar and egg yolk, bring to boil over small fire, off heat
Turn on the heat again, stir vigorously, bring to boil another time, off heat
Pour into the mould, let it set and cool
Keep in the fridge


This is how the kids enjoyed the pudding... ^_^

 

I'm submitting this post to Aspiring Bakers #24 (October 2012): Jellies and Puddings hosted by Charmaine of MiMi Bakery House

Bake Along #34 - World's Quickest Yeasted Coffee Cake

Quickest - one of my favorite word when coming to kitchen activity :)
Indeed it didin't take long to make this cake
Another interesting fact was to bake in a cold oven, yeay, no need to preheat! LOL
But one thing I couldn't think the same way was to name this as cake, cos to me this is bread :)
It's yummy especially when it's fresh from the oven
It turned dense when cold, warming it up in the microwave helped, though
I baked half recipe using rectangle 20 x 10cm baking pan, and it's enough for a day consumption - eaten by me and DH :)

The recipe is from the book Cake Keeper Cakes by Lauren Chattman

What you need:
(half recipe)

90ml fresh milk
2 tbsp unsalted butter
3/4 tbsp instant yeast
98g plain flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 cup sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon (I use full recipe measurement since I love strong flavour of cinnamon)
2 tbsp light corn syrup (the one I had in stock LOL)
1 1/2 tbsp light brown sugar
30g chopped walnuts

1. Grease pan and dust with flour, knock out any extra
2. Heat milk and 1 tbsp butter in a small saucepan until butter melted and milk is very warm to the touch
3. Pour into a large mixing bowl and whisk in the yeast to dissolve. Stir in the flour and salt and beat with mixer on medium low speed til forming sticky dough
4. Press the dough into the prepared pan
5. Combine sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugat evenly over the batter
6. Melt the remaining 1 tbsp of butter. Combine the corn syrup, brown sugar and melted butter in a medium bowl and stir. Spread over the dough. Sprinkle walnuts evenly across the top
7. Place pan in a cold oven. Turn the heat ti 175degC. Bake until the cake is golden and set in the center, about 20 minutes
8. Let cool slightly and serve warm

This post is for Bake Along, hosted by wonderful bakers Zoe, Joyce and Lena

 

 



ABC October 2012 - Honey Oatmeal Bread

Another nice bread I baked for ABC from the book The Weekend Baker by Abigail Johnson Dodge
Looking at the name, it made me somehow knew I'd love this bread, and it's true :)

This bread is soft, moist, aromatic and sweet from the honey and tasty, too with yummy buttery crust at the top
I didn't need anything else to enjoy this bread, I ate it plain
I had a confession to make, when the bread was just out from the oven, I couldn't wait I ate four slices at one go! *grin*
Yes, it's that good!
It's still good the next day, I just popped into oven for awhile just before eating
Microwave would be good too, only no crusty top, which I don't mind cos the taste is still really nice

I followed the recipe to the dot but I used two 20x10 cm loaf pans, also I used bread flour instead
Used breadmaker to do the kneading and first proofing, divided the dough into two hence my rather short bread :)
Due to the size, my baking time was only 25 minutes


Do check out other members who baked this lovely bread HERE

Coconut Rice (Nasi Lemak)

I've cooked coconut rice three times for the past few months with three different recipes

The first one I made, pic below, I used packet instant seasoning, just mixed with the rinsed rice and water, put in the rice cooker. Served with fried fish, stir fry kangkong with dried shrimp, stir fry prawns and petai using instant sambal seasoning with dried shrimp, fried ikan bilis and store bought nasi lemak sambal chilli
My kind of cooking when hit by lazy bug LOL

Second time I made was more original, pic below, everything made from the scratch including the sambal chilli
I served with pan fry seabass, fried silver fish, scrambled eggs and prawn sambal belimbing

 

 

Recipe for the nasi lemak is from recipe book: All About Rice & Noodles

 

What you need:

 

For the rice:

 

uncooked rice (amount as needed)

half part water and half part coconut milk to cook the rice

salt

4 pandan leaves

1. Rinse rice and combine well with coconut milk, salt and water. Set aside for 20 minutes then add pandan leaves
2. Cook in rice cooker

 

For the sambal chilli:

 

Blend well:

1 small piece lemon grass

1 clove of garlic

1/2 tsp ground turmeric

20g dried shrimps (soaked til softened)

1 small piece of prawn paste (belachan)

140g shallots (chopped)

100g onion (chopped)

30g red chillies (chopped)

 

3 tbsps sugar

1 tbsp light soya sauce

salt and pepper

1. Heat oil and fry the paste til oil seeps out, add sugar, light soya sauce, salt and pepper
 

Third time I cooked nasi lemak, pic below, I used recipe from Ellena's site and now I know, this is the recipe I'm going to use in the future

My whole family loves this nasi lemak, so tasty and fragrant, too

I served with fried noodle, prawn crackers, fried silver fish and fried chicken with crumbs

 

 

 

 

A unique recipe using F & N ice cream soda, yields a very satisfying kind of coconut rice

Do give this a try, you won't regret!

Recipe can be viewed HERE

 

The sambal chilli I used the recipe I shared above, nice sambal I must say, even though the preparation is not so friendly to my eyes -> chopping 240g of shallots and onion, teary eyes I got at the end of everything, but it's worth it - really! :P

 

Even from the pictures, you will know which one going to be your favorite, isn't it? :)

 

 

Snowskin Mooncakes 2012

Some of mooncakes I made last month yet to be posted til today *grin*
Ya ya ya, me and my backlogs.. see, I'm posting out my mooncakes in the month of October this year LOL

I made 4 varieties:
* Apple snowskin with red wine berries filling
* Cranberries snowskin with passionfruit filling
* Plain snowskin with chocolate filling
* Coffee kahlua snowskin with chocolate filling

Not so pleased with the result, I should have made the skin a little thinner
The plain skin with chocolate filling - the filling leaked out :(
And the coffee kahlua skin should have been more moist - if you see the first picture below, the one on the right side, the brown color, that's coffee kahlua skin with a little crack :(
But tastewise, it's still really good :)

I love the fruity types, while the rest preferred those with chocolate filling

Recipe for the skin can be viewed HERE
I replaced the cold water with:
-cold apple juice for apple snowskin
-cold cranberry juice for cranberry snowskin,
-1 sachet of 3-in-1 powder powder (20g) with 90ml of hot water. Leave to cool and then completely chill in fridge before using

As for the filling, I purchased the chocolate filling from Jasmine from The Sweetylicious, and the rest were complimentary from her, so sweet of her :)

Bake Along #33 - Remastered: Japanese Choux Pastry

Baked this sometime ago and failed miserably
You may view the 'choux with hat' HERE

With Bake Along theme this month - cream puff, I knew it's time for me to give this recipe another try
But this past two weeks has been a very busy time for me, so I only managed to bake this today

Ian was sick, I mean really sick, started with mild cough on Monday last week
Then it started to get worse, broguht him to our family doctor and he had 3 days MC last week - Wednesday to Friday, high fever with very bad phlegmy cough and blocked stuffy nose. His fever was so high, it's so rare to see the thermometer below 39deg, it's always between 39-40deg, shivered badly, vomitted numerous times, diarrhea and tummy pain - it's a 3 days of nightmare

Even with antibiotics, his condition was not getting any better on Monday morning, so I had to bring him to KK Hospital on that morning, did blood test and X-ray, and he's diagnosed with mild asthma and respiratory infection and gave him a week MC with a series of medication and reliever puff

Reached home, I started giving him the medication and to my horror, at night I saw his eyes were swollen and red, and soon rashes started to appear all over his body
The very next morning which was yesterday, I brought him back to KK Hospital and doctor said he might be allergic to the antibiotic since he never took this type before
So I had to stop giving him the antibiotic and gotta give him syrup for allergy for the next 4 days

Thank God since yesterday afternoon til now, his fever has stopped completely
Now he's more alive, appetite is slowly coming back, rashes only a little left and nomore swollen eyes. Cough and runny nose is much much better, too
He's now still on MC and will be back on Monday

Parent's nightmare is when the child is sick, indeed
So glad the real Ian is back now, a kind of miss his mischievousness :P

Okay now back to my today's bake
Here's the pics, so glad I could bake it right this time :)
I made two fillings, vanilla rhum and chocolate

Full recipe can be viewed HERE

With chocolate filling...

With vanilla rhum filling...

This is for Bake Along event, hosted by Joyce, Zoe and Lena