Cook: Eggs Benedict.

Frying the bacon! I wanted to get smoked salmon but it's kind of wasteful if there is only the 2 or us eating.




Here's a video of how to poach eggs, detailed with good explanations.




Eggs Benny! I used mayonnaise instead, hollandaise sauce is not really my kind of thing. I got the burger buns from 7-eleven, just cut them into half and toast them a little on the saucepan if you don't have a toaster, no oil needed.




Comes with friend enoki mushrooms and carrot sticks. Boyfriend loved it.




Slurp!




Go on and make some for yourself! It's addictive!

Bake: Rice Cooker Bread

Baking this bread requires you to have a modern rice cooker, the kind that has a timer capability. Easier for those who are not very good with baking.

As for me, I only have the old rice cooker at home and it keeps going off when there's no water or it's hot enough. All I have to do is to keep watching the cooker, keep turning it on every 10 mins after it goes off.

Ingredients:
350g bread or strong flour
21g butter
21g sugar
35ml milk
180ml water
5g dry yeast
6.5g salt

Steps:
1. Mix some water with the yeast and put aside.
2. Put in all the ingredients, except the butter.
3. Mix and knead until all the ingredients combine together and shape it into a ball.
4. Put the butter into the center of the dough and knead until it combines well and the dough becomes less oily and less sticky. Shape into a ball again.
5. Leave the dough in the rice cooker and cover, let it rise for an hour in a warm area.



6. After an hour, bring out the dough from the rice cooker. Drop the dough from a height of 50cm from the tabletop to release the air trapped inside the dough. Do not punch the dough.
7. Put it back into the rice cooker, cover and let it rise again for another hour (secondary fermentation).
8. Turn on the rice cooker and set timer for 1 hour.
9. Once the 1st hour of baking has ended, turn it over using a spatula. Bake for another hour 1 hour.
10. After the 2nd hour, turn it over again. Continue to bake for one last hour.
11. When the baking is completed, remove bread from the rice cooker and leave it on a wire rack to cool.

Hope you'll enjoy baking your bread too. =)

Cook: Wanton Mee

Since I was lazy and there is frozen CP Shrimp Wantons in the fridge, I decided to make myself wanton noodles!

Boil egg noodles in a pot.




Prepare sauce for noodles.
- Fried onions with the oil - 1 tablespoon
- Thick soya sauce - 1 tablespoon
- Light soya sauce - 2 tablespoon
- McDonald's Garlic chilli sauce - 1 packet




Ladle out the noodles after it is cooked and mix well together with sauce.




Blanch some veggies in boiling water and add it to your noodles. I'm using kailan.




Next, boil your wantons in the same water that you have just used to blanch your veggies. Save water and you don't have to wait for it to boil again.






Tadaa! Wanton noodles. Enjoy!




This a a drawing from boyfriend showing how he's using the lint roller on baozi to clean him. Yes, I have defined Baozi as a him. Baozi is my bunny plush, I don't understand why boyfriend drew him like he's a gingerbread man.





More pictures taken around my neighbourhood for your viewing pleasure. =)

Cook: No-Fry Tuna Croquettes

I was posting a recipe on inthewok and I saw this recipe which made me start drooling, I just happen to have the ingredient at home too. Eliminated the milk and cheese as I'm not a dairy lover.

You will need:
1 medium potato
1 onion, sliced
Pinch of salt and pepper
1 tbsp mayonnaise
1/4 can mayonnaise tuna
1 tsp dried Italian parsley
2 cups cracker crumbs
1 eggs, beaten lightly

1. Boil potato till soft.




2. While the potato is still boiling, toast onions till browned at the edges.




3. Remove skin from potato, add in parsley, salt and pepper. Mash with a fork.




4. Add in mayonnaise, tuna and onions. Mix well.






5. Crush crackers into fine crumbs, I used this brand of crackers. My crumbs are not fine enough. To crush crackers, just put them into a plastic bag, get any container and start crushing.






6. Roll mixture into patties. Dust with crumbs, dip into egg and roll again in breadcrumbs.




7. Lay patties on tray, toast in toaster or oven until the crumbs are brown.




8. Serve!

Cook: Pancakes.

Going to make some pancakes for lunch today. Boyfriend don't have any eggs at home, so I had to go down myself to get some. This is quite like my first time going down without him.

It's pretty fun though. =)




Time to get started. The pancake mix is from Diaso, you will just need 2 eggs and water (follow the instructions on the package).




The Storie app is cool! Do follow me, my username is thesushi. =)

Cook: Simple pasta.

For this, I only used:
- 1 cup of pasta, cooked
- 3 to 4 spoonfuls of canned campbell soup
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 hotdog, sliced
- 3 shiitake mushrooms, sliced
- 5 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 2 tablespoon oil

1. Stir fry chopped garlic in oil until a little brown.
2. Add in hotdog and mushrooms, continue to stir fry till half cooked.
3. Add campbell soup and water, cook till the campbell soup dissolves and has become thick.
4. Stir in pasta and stir well.
5. Garnish with dried parsley and serve!

toasted potato wedges.

I just needed to relieve myself from all those tension that I have been having for the whole day, I wasn't able to focus properly on my studying. Exam is tomorrow!

Feeling irritated and hungry, I had to solve one of them and so I could feel a little better. Cooking soothes my mood every time and I needed some comfort food too. Potato wedges sound like a good idea.








Toasted Potato Wedges (serves 1)

Ingredients
1 medium potato
1 teaspoon spiced salt (Daiso)
1/2 teaspoon dried parsley (IKEA)

Steps
1. Cut potato into wedges, lay them nicely on the toast tray.
2. Toast wedges inside the toaster, flip wedges once in a while to make sure both sides are brown and cooked.
3. Sprinkle both spiced salt and dried parsley, mix well.

This is definitely not going to be crispy like the deep fried ones but healthier.

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Thanks boyfriend for buying me Gong Cha and for chasing away all that tension! ♥

Crusty Taiwan Sausage Pizza.

I just had this sudden craving for Taiwan sausages and off I go to the supermarket after exams. I didn't want to spend too much money for a simple meal, since I still have frozen prata (quite a lot of them) left at home, I though of a special sausage pizza. It's all sausage, isn't it? Just a little different. *Giggles*


Crusty Taiwan Sausage Pizza (Serves 1)

Ingredients
1 frozen roti prata (Chinatown brand)
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
1 Taiwan pork sausage, sliced
1 white button mushroom, sliced
3 tablespoons mozzarella cheese
1/4 teaspoon dried parsley (garnish)

Steps
1. Pop frozen roti prata into toaster until it is a little crispy on both sides, poke a few holes to make sure it doesn't get too puffed up.
2. Spread mayonnaise on the roti prata.
3. Put Taiwan pork sausage, white button mushroom and topped it with mozzarella cheese.
4. Continue toasting until the cheese has melted and until side of the roti prata looks brown.
5. Garnish with dried parsley and it's ready to be served.

Sugar-glazed prata.

A little burnt at the middle, I'll just have to scrap it off. Very crispy with the caramelized sugarat the top.


Sugar-Glazed Prata (serves 1)

Ingredients
1 frozen roti prata (Chinatown brand)
2 tablespoons sugar

Steps
1. Sprinkle sugar on the prata
2. Put inside toaster until prata is brown and ready to be served.