Saturday, May 23, 2009
Pan-fried Chicken Breast + Garlic Butter Asparagus
Inspired by Jamie Oliver on the Ministry of Food]
What you will need:
1 Chicken breast (half it along the soft bone)
4 slices of prosciutto
1 cup of grated parmesan cheese
½ teaspoon of mixed Italian herbs
Salt and Pepper to taste
A bundle of asparagus (~ 8-10 stalks)
1 clove of garlic (well minced)
1 knob of unsalted butter
Optional: 1 wedge of lemon
Prepare:
- Marinate Asparagus with butter, garlic and lemon juice.
- Lay the chicken breasts on the wooden board
- Sprinkle salt and pepper and herbs evenly over the chicken breasts
- Divide the grated cheese into 2 portions and sprinkle each portion over each chicken breast
- Lay (to cover) 2 slices of prosciutto over each breast.
- Cover each portion with plastic sheet and whack it hard to flatten breasts and to make sure everything gets pushed in together.
Cook:
- Placed breast, Prosciutto side down on a well heat pan with a little oil/butter. Cook for 2-3 minutes, flip and cook for another 3 min, until cooked.
- Leave it to rest for 1 min, slice each breast into 3 thick slices
- In other pan, pan fry asparagus until just done.
Assemble & Serve:
- Assemble asparagus and slices of breast on to a plate. Drizzle the reminding marinate of butter, garlic and lemon juice (from asparagus) over the dish…
Labels: Recipe101
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Mexican Dinner [Special Treat for De]My first attempt at Mexican cuisine, cuz i asked de wad he wanted to eat and I will cook it. Its not 100% authentic but i am pretty proud of my homemade salsa. Hard work but its fun.
Ingredients: Lettuce (shredded), Homemade salsa, chunky salsa dip (bottled), mustard marinated chicken, tortilla, red bell pepper, corrinder, onions, avocado (^_^)
Homemade Pea Soup: (inspired by Nigella Lawson) Peas, garlic, onion, potato, corriander.
My pride - homemade salsa: Tomato, onion, chilli, corriander (diced) + balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt, lime juice.
The assemble: YUM!!
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Home Made Chicken Rice(Serves 2-3)
3 Chicken tights (skin, fats and bones removed – leave it whole)
Rice:
2 cups rice (wash and drain)
Pandan leaves (optional, tied up)
1 tsp sesame oil
Salt to taste
Marinate:
3cm ginger
6 cloves of garlic
1 lemongrass
1 tbsp cooking wine
½ tbsp sesame oil
1 teaspoon light soy sauce
Salt and Pepper to taste
Blend all ingredients for marinate together to form a semi-fine paste
Marinate chicken overnight or up to 3 days
Before cooking, scrapped off excess marinate paste from the chicken – you should be able to get a heap of it enough to fill a Chinese soup spoon.
Boil 4 cups of water. Once it starts boiling rapidly, place chicken into the water. Cook for 5 mins and off the fire. Let chicken remain in the hot water for 10 mins. Remove chicken and slice into big pcs. Keep the chicken stock.
Heat rice cooker with 1 tbsp of oil. When heated, stir fry the marinate paste that you have scrapped off from chicken earlier, for 1 min. Add in rice, salt, sesame oil and pandan leaves and stir fry until rice changes color ~ 3mins.
Pour in chicken stock and cook rice as usual.
After 10 mins, check rice and put chicken pcs onto the rice. Cover and continue cooking until done.
When the rice cooker auto ‘off’, leave the rice covered for an additional 5-10min.
Serve with chilli and vegetables for a complete meal.
Labels: Recipe101
Thursday, May 08, 2008
~ Going Green ~
Not feeling too swell these 2 days as I was down with a re-ocurring Cold. So I was craving for something green-ish to eat for lunch today. The salad looked nice but I was too lazy to go back to the room for my camera (^_^). Its a really simple recipe with no cooking and really healthy cuz no oil, no salt, no carbs.
Greenish With Roast Chicken
1 Serving of Roast Chicken Breast - Sliced (Leftovers are good too)
1 huge handful of mixed salad veg - rocket, cos, lettuce, sprouts etc
1 Kiwi - cubed
1/2 Avocado - cubed
1 tsp Lemon juice
Pepper to taste
2tsp Balsamic Vinegar (optional but taste better when added)
Lightly toss all ingredients in a salad bowl. The Kiwi and Avo will be slightly mashed and be mixed in with the other ingredients creating a "natural" dressing. Avo brings a creamy texture and the Kiwi brings sweetness and a slight tangy taste to the salad.
Labels: Recipe101
Friday, March 28, 2008
Fruity DinnerWe had a huge papaya at home and 2 super sweet mango. So i came up with some fruity recipes of my own... nothing special but it taste rather good and refreshing for a hot day.
Papaya + Mango Refresher
1 Pcs of Papaya (fruit stall cut size)
Half a Mango (try to pick those with less fibre)
3 Tbsp water
2 Tbsp Absolut Mandarin Vodka
- Blend fruits and water till smooth, pour it through a sieve if mango has alot of fibre
- Fill a glass with ice, pour the vodka over and top with fruit smoothie
- Serve with a straw to stir
Mango Soba
(Serves 2-3)
A small bunch of Soba
1 Mango
handful of chopped Coriander leaves
- Cook soba in boiling water for ~ 6-8 mins
- When cooked, place soba inmmed in iced water to stop cooking process, after 1 min, Drain
- Blend Mango and sieve if needed
- Mix mango puree with soba and top with Coriander leaves
- Garnish with some fried ikan bilis if you like.
Labels: Recipe101
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Homemade Goodness...Its the first time I made pumpkin soup today. Infact i was never a fan of pumpkin stuff.
The first time i had this soup here is when I bought one canned of Heinz pumpkin soup. It taste salty and too sweet for my liking. And that time i went marketing and saw Butternut Pumpkin going for $1. We bought one and tried, it was much yummier then the canned soup for sure :)
Recipe: Creamy Pumpkin Soup
Serves 3-4
- Chop half a pumpkin into cubes and bring to boil till soft
- Pour off 1/4 of the water in the pot when it starts to get soft
- And transfer remaining water into a large bowl
- Using a potato masher, mash pumpkin into pulp
- Seive it to get the squashy stuff (the remaining pulp can be used to make fritters)
- Combine squashy stuff with water in the large bowl and stir
- In ANOTHER pot, fry half an onion (finely diced) and a teaspoon of garlic. Add a pinch of curry powder/chilli powder/ paprika and a sprinkle of herbs.
- Pour in soup mixture and stir well
- Pour in 3 tbsp of cream and salt and pepper to taste
- Bring to a boil and serve with parsley
Labels: Recipe101
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Eventful Friday...
Boi own me a bday cake for this year bday... so he bought me a choc mud cake and cream... Supposed to whipped the cream and decor it for me. But end up I do 90% of the work, Cuz he just dunno how to whip the cream -_-
But we had fun and made our own piping bag too haha...
Tadah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know it looks horrible... hahaha the one on the right is an apple teacake that we bought on sale and since we had extra cream we decor tt as well...
Then in the evening, I went for dinner and marketing with some of the guys from hostel. Din wan to stay home on a friday, cuz it gets boring and boi is at his church stuff on fri nights. Dinner at the chinese restaurant was GOOD but pricey la of cuz. But it beats staying hme all the time. We had seafood hotpot, sweet and sour pork (good), Kung po chicken with cashew (Shiok!) and szechuan pork. Full full.. but the guys wanted ice cream so we went hungry jacks (Burger King as known in SG). Bao bao!!
Labels: Clicky Snaps, Him, Recipe101
Monday, August 13, 2007
SG'rians DinnerBoi was invited for a Sgrian dinner last sunday which was like a belated celebration for National Day. Cuz we dun have a PH here, so it was pushed back to sunday.
The house was Big... and I am so in love with the black marbled fireplace. Its really warm and smell of logs. Very nice...
And the parents got many cool toys for the kids actually and there was this functional rocking horse that look like ancient ang moh toy. So cool.
The food was good. Cuz it has Sg food... Curry Chicken, Keropok, Rendang, Rojak, Otak, Mee Siam, You tiao, Grill chicken wings (not so sgrian), carrot cake (black and white versions), choc creme puff and D24 Durian!!!! Its dun have a strong pungent smell but it taste SO GOOD!! Rover will love it.
Thereafter we watched Just Follow Law! Damn hilarious, good movie. I like it! By then it was like 10 plus and we made our way home via a hostel mate's car. It was pure darkness to the car, but when we looked up, the sky was sparkling with like a million stars. So pretty!! They are so bright as well. And as the house was on a hill top... we had the bird's eye view of the city from afar, with bright lights lighting up the city. So pretty. Nv get that in SG for sure.
***************Food Food and more Food****************
Just some more pictures about the food we had here.... (^_^)
Boi made me my long awaited breakfast!! Its took him a LONG time to get it done, but it was yummy. The eggs are to my liking... Sunnyside up (as i requested) and he added cheese on top.
And recently I got into this cake frenzy... and bought this cake from the supermarket... it isnt anyone's bday, but its just that they sell cakes with wordings on it.
Yummy, light sponge with fresh cream and choc flakes..... And the best thing....
THE PRICE!!!!! $0.99 onli..... GRAB!!! hahahhaha
Then here are other pics of dinner I prepared over my days here. Not all la, only the more meimei ones...
Turkey Steak with Mushroom sauce, Wedges, Multi-grain bun and a salad.
[Enlarged pic] Cheese sauce on cauliflower, carrots and baby spinach.
Main pic: Cheese veg, Tomyam seafood, fried chicken wings....
And a rich and fresh strawberry smoothie! We made ourself...
one pint strawberries (frozen)
2 Scoops Vanilla mint flakes ice cream
3 Cups of skim milk (or 2 cups milk 1 cup iced water)
1 tsp Honey ( or sugar)
Blended till frothy... Enjoy!
Labels: Clicky Snaps, Living the Aussie Life, Recipe101
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
...Online Shopping is my Vice...I cant shop shopping online ever since my couz introduced me to my first ever spree from Supre. And now I have like ordered things from VS, Mandee, TW Auctions, CCT Fashion, Drugstore, La Senza and countless of times from Supre. Die die die.... where is all my money going.
And now Jy say in US branded watched are like DAMN CHEAP and so is COACH stuff. I wan everything!!!! And Maybelline stuff are like so cheap in USA. ERGH....
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Auntie Val's Caloriec Food Lesson 101
- Sinful Pancakes -
Ingredients: 2 Pancakes / 2 handful of choc chips / Half a handful of walnuts - coarsely crushed / 1 heap tablespoonful of chopped almond / 1 tablespoon crunchy peanut butter / 2 tablespoon honey
Pancake in pan (still cooking on the underside), spread peanut butter over and sprinkle one handful of chips over. Heat will melt them and use a spoon to roughly mix into a gooey mess.
Sprinkle both kind of nuts over and the remaining chips. Cook the other pancake layer and cover it. (Pic shows before pancake is covered). Drizzle Honey over the top.
ENJOY AND GROW FAT!!
