200g minced beef
2 cups lettuce (thinly sliced)
4 cups boiled rice (precooked day before)
3 eggs (lightly beaten)
2 shallots (finely sliced)
2 tbsp light soya sauce
salt & pepper
1 tsp cornflour
cooking oil
seasame oil

Marinte mince with dash of soya sauce, cornflour, seasame oil, salt and pepper for 30 mintues. Heat oil, cook mince till medium done, set aside. Hard scamble eggs, set aside. Stir fry rice till heated through, then stir in eggs, mince and lettuce, flavour with salt and pepper and soya sauce. Garnish with shallots.

“GET SOME PORK ON YOUR FORK”

Ton = Pork, Katsu = Deep fried

For tonight’s dinner we have tonkatsu, my first time making it too, and we were both happy with the results.

4 pork chops
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 egg (beaten)
1 tbsp water
1 cup Japanese bread crumbs
Canola oil for frying

1. Trim fat off pork, cut into bite sized pieces. Flatten pork with mallet to tenderize meat. Then add salt and pepper on pork.
2. Dip the pork in beaten egg with water and roll the pork in the bread crumbs until evenly coated.
3. Fry pork in hot oil until golden brown, drain on paper towel.

1kg chicken wings
225g can pineapple pieces in natural juice
1 tsp paprika
2 tsp pepper
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 cup chicken stock
1 large brown onion, roughly chopped
6 cloves garlic, flattened

Preheat oven to 220 degrees Celsius. Spray casserole dish with spray oil. Add onions and garlic to the bottom of the dish.

Mix together chicken wings, paprika, pepper, salt and soy sauce, place into dish, adding pineapple pieces on top of chicken, then pouring chicken stock and pineapple juice. Bake covered for 55 minutes, then base with juices and continue cooking for further 25 minutes uncovered at 200 degrees Celsius. Serve with steamed rice.

Happy Birthday to my big brother Anson!!

Chocolate Cupcakes

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup unsalted butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celscius line 12 cup muffin tin. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, cocoa powder and salt; set aside. Mix milk and vanilla; set aside.
2. In a large bowl beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy for 3 to 4 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. With mixer on low speed, add half of dry ingredients, followed by milk-vanilla mixture, then remaining dry ingredients. Divide batter evenly among prepared muffin cups.
3. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 20 to 25 minutes. Cool cupcakes 5 minutes in tin, then remove and cool completely on a rack.

These Viennese Fingers just melt in your mouth, and are a perfect accompaniment with a steamy hot cup of tea.

100 grams unsalted butter (softened)
20 grams icing sugar (sifted)
100 grams plain flour (sifted)
¼ tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla essence
50 grams chocolate

1. Preheat oven to 190 degrees C, line baking paper on two trays and set aside.
2. Cream together butter and icing sugar till pale, light and fluffy, then mix thoroughly flour, baking powder and vanilla essense. Spoon mixture into piping bag with medium nozzle, pipe out 15 fingers each being 4cm long.
3. Bake for 10-15 minutes until pale golden brown, set aside to cool.
4. Half fill saucepan with water, bring to boil, remove from heat and place bowl with chocolate over the saucepan, and stir until chocolate is smooth and melted. Dip a quarter of the finger into the chocolate and leave to set.

Did you know prawns are an excellent source of ……….. You probably would know the answer if you love reading the trashy gossip magazines near the check out counter while waiting in line like me! I remember reading about it a few years ago, a famous celebrity called Victoria Beckham, who ate them obsessively like a mad woman possessed by a demon. Maybe not in those exact words, but anyways …

She was onto a good thing, cause prawns are an excellent source of protein and they also contain iron, zinc and vitamin E.

250 g prawns (shelled, deveined)
2 tbsp corn flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp five spice powder
1 tbsp oil
2 tsp garlic (crushed)
1 tbsp flat leaf parsley (roughly chopped)
2 shallots (finely sliced)

1. Mix together prawns, flour, salt, pepper and five spice. Fully coat prawns, shake off excess powder.
2. Heat oil in fry pan on medium heat, add prawns, cook 2 minutes on each side, or until prawns turn pink, toss through garlic, parsley and shallots.

One of my favourite foods is salmon, be it smoked, sashimi, grilled, baked, fried. The smell of freshly pan fried salmon, with mouth watering crispy skin, where it melts in your mouth, together with the tender medium-rare flesh, and rich succulent flavours.

It’s amazing how it can be so effortlessly prepared and eaten it in so many different ways. High in protein and low in saturated fats, it even has the benefit of being rich in omega 3 essential fatty acids that help fight diseases. For a balanced diet it’s recommended to eat fish twice a week, and this can be done easily with such an simple recipe. 
 

2 salmon fillets, skin on
3 tsp olive oil
Freshly ground salt and pepper

1. Scale salmon fillets, and remove any bones, wash and pat dry with paper towel. Season salmon on both sides with salt and ground pepper.
2. Heat olive oil in non stick fry pan on high heat, add fillet to hot pan skin side down, cook for 3 minutes, or until crispy. Turn and cook for further 1- 2 minutes. 

This is unbelievable, I really want this LEGO KEY RACK, made with REAL lego blocks that I don’t even need, its so cute, functional and reminds me of my childhood when I use to play with lego blocks. Disregarding the fact it doesn’t even match our place, and honestly I have no where to place it. And also the yellow LEGO HEAD EGG CUP SET, how cute is that!! oh why oh why ET did you show me this website !!!

Price $27.99 Lego Shop

Price $9.99 Lego Shop

Anyone for lego ice bricks?

 Price $ 4.95 Lego Shop