Steamed Minced Pork with Salted Egg

My grandma and mum used to make this which goes very well with porridge/congee. Easy and yummy!Ingredients:
600g of minced pork
2 salted eggs
2 tbsp cornstarch
2 tbsp water

Method:
Mix the cornstarch into the minced pork and place it on a steam plate. Place the salted eggs onto the mixture. Remember to break-up the yolks. Add in the water and steam for 10 minutes.

Cereal Muffin

These muffins were specially baked for my 2 children as they contain Nestle cereals and they enjoyed it.

This recipe was adapted from Nestle recipe booklet.

Ingredients:
1 cup self-raising flour
1/2 teaspoon baking power
3/4 cup NESTLE wheat + milk infant cereal
150 g butter or margarine
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon essence of vanilla
1/2 cup milk
Method:
Sift flour and baking power together. Sitr in NESTLE wheat + milk infant cereal. Cream butter and sugar until light and creamy. Stir in egg and essence. Fold in flour mixture alternatively into patty tins to 3/4 full, spread evenly. Bake in preheated 180C oven for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on wire rack.

Honey Chicken Rice

My colleagues and I are regulars to a cafe called "Ice-Cream House" for lunch and we usually ordered the set lunch comprising rice with a dish of our choice, a bowl of soup, a drink and a scoop of ice-cream. The idea of placing a sunny side-up egg on the rice is interesting. This makes preparing a meal fast and easy as I only need to cook one dish :-)

Recipe for the honey chicken was adopted from Bay Books

Fried fish with ginger

Thinking of cooking sth quick and simple which goes well with plain porridge. Finally decided to go back to basic by improving skill in frying fish. Crispy inside and soft inside. Mom's tip: Don't cook with slow fire. Rub the fish with salt and fry for about 10 minutes depending on the size of the fish. Place the fish on a plate. Fry sliced ginger and place them on the fish and add in soya sauce. Served immediately with hot porridge. Long beans with fried eggs made a good combination.

Plain Mini Cupcakes

Daughter loves cakes with buttercream. Was not really satisfied with the buttercream recipe that I've tried before. Am quite delighted with this new found butter icing recipe which taste better in terms of its texture and level of sweetness.

Ingredients:

100 g butter

200 g icing sugar

2 tablespoons cold milk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla or other essence

Method:

Cream the butter until light and creamy. Gradually beat in sugar, alternately with milk. Continue beating until is light and fluffy. Beat in essence until well blended.

Yee Mee

Decided to cook something light and fast for dinner and made simple variation to the cantonese yee mee recipe. Heat up the wok, stir fry garlic, sliced fish cake, and mushrooms. Pour in chicken stock. Add thick soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt and corn flour for thickening. Pour the gravy on top of the noodle. Serve it with shredded chicken and bean sprouts.

Cinnamon Tea Cake

Not a real fan of cinnamon but after tried baking this, cinnamon is actually superb. This recipe is like a buttercake sprinkled with a mixture of sugar and ground cinnamon but tasted much better with the additions at the top. My hubby, daughter and I finished almost the whole cake at one go.

Source: Bay Books

Lemon and Rosemary Chicken Stew

This dish gives a different *kick* to it. The ingredients used are butter, garlic, lemon rind, rosemary, chicken stock and lemon juice. Decided to peel of the skin before cooking the drumstick.

Source: Bay books

Oatmeal biscuits

Managed to bake these just in time for chinese new year.

Source: Biscuit code by Florence Tan

Dinner at Hilton Kuala Lumpur

Had a nice dinner at Chynna Restaurant at Hilton Kuala Lumpur and can't resist to take a photo of this dish ....... so much of great and interesting stuff in it.

Started dinner with *lou yee sang* using this big long chopsticks.

.... and ended with this simple dessert.