Steak with Mushroom Sauce

It's been awhile since I cooked proper meal, but here I am, Proudly present my home made steak with mushroom sauce! <3
It took a lot of effort and time to cooked it. I spent approximately 2,5 hour just for this dish.I know it seems a pretty long time but there are a lot side dishes that consume more time to prepared! The veggies,  mash potatoes (Yes, I made it by myself, Not an instant one) AND  cauliflower cheese croquettes. Yeey!

btw, sorry for the bad quality image. :p

British Toast

I'm fully aware that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Majority of people give assortments of reasons of not having breakfast, with the most common one is can't get up early enough and thus, no time. Skipping breakfast is also a common strategy for people to loose weight. MYTH .... DEBUNKED !!! As a matter of fact, there is a saying

 'Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, 
and dinner like a pauper'
Having breakfast is proven to be very intrumental, even for dieters. It will provide you with energy that burns off faster as you have the whole day ahead of you. And as a British, this is the typical breakfast that I regularly have. Toasted wholemeal sandwhich with wholesome butter in the middle, served warm and let the butter melts as you bite. Sprinkle some sugar or any preferred toppings you like!

food

Taa-daa!! Spicy minced beef with peas :D
Well, I didn't intend to cook this last night, but I could only find minced beef and peas at the supermarket close to my house :P But yeah, it was pretty delicious I would say :) and it was really easy to cook. It only took 10 minutes preparation, and 20 minutes cook.
So, I suggest, if you guys want to cook something healthy, quick, easy, and yumm! this could be your option :)

Rice paper roll

Do you guys like vietnamese food? I like it so much! For me, it is fresh, healthy, simple, but delicious as well. My favourite vietnamese food is  the prawn spring roll!

However, I hate deep-frying. It needs a lot of oil and I also hate to clean the oily pan. That's why, it is better for me to do the rice paper roll that doesn't need to deal with frying. In fact, because we don't need to fry it, it is also very healthy and good for people who are in diet ;)

So, here is the recipe :
1 sachet of rice paper roll
250 g of prawns
200 g of crabstick
5 eggs
1 sachet of rice noodle
1/2 cabbage
1 bottle of sweet chili sauce

It is very simple dish to make! You can make 20 rolls from the recipe above, which is great because you can share it with your family and friends :)
Another great thing about it is you can customize the filling. So, if you hate seafood, you can always change the prawn and crabstick to chicken.

So, what you need to do first is basically cook the raw ingredients : pan fried the egg, boil the rice noodle, prawn, and crabstick.

After that, dip the rice paper roll into a bowl of warm water for approximately 30 seconds, quickly put the ingredients on the top of the roll, roll it, and finishh!

Serve it with lots of sweet chili sauce! nom nom

How the filling looks like, it's a little bit messy though

Happy cooking! Share your love with this dish!

cooking~~

wow, cooking. I'm not very much the type of cooking fantastic type of food but i love to bake and make dessert. Dessert has always been the best food for me!

Now, i'm making tiramisuuuuuuu... <3 the easiest and delightful dessert.


And here how it turns out:

yes, there's the smiley face. I think that makes it looks more interesting.it might not be the best picture to show the tiramisu but um i had fun making it and the smiley face! haha. Anyway,  trust me, it's easy than what you guys thought. you don't even need a whisk to do it. All you need is warm water, spatula and a big bowl. That's all folks! =]

Have fun exploring on making dessert! ^_^

Samgyetang recipe!

Hi everyone, Today I am going to post a recipe which is samgyetang.
Samgyetang is a ginseng chicken soup that comes from korea. I decided to cooked it yesterday because of the very cold weather in melbourne and just wanted to enjoy something hot such as soup.
Okay soo, the recipe for samgyetang:

• Whole chicken
• Dry ginseng (you can find it at korean grocery store)
• Red jujube
• Sweet rice
• green onion
• salt and pepper

I actually having a hard time to handle the chicken because for this recipe, small chicken is more recommended but I can't find any so I am using a pretty big chicken which was bigger than my face :P.

enough of the chicken joke.. let's get back to the recipe :D

1. so first, chicken needs to be clean so wash wash~~~ 
2. soak the sweet rice in cold water for about one hour and,
3. soak the dry ginseng as well just before cooking
4. after one hour, chicken is ready to be stuff. stuff the chicken with sweet rice, red jujube, and ginseng.
5. place it into the pot, pour water and boil it for about 20-30 minutes. 
6. while boiling, skim any foam and fats that appears on the surface.
7. pour more water and boil it for one hour.
8. add salt and pepper to taste
9. and lastly, sprinkle some green onion.

I'm using a big pan because the chicken can't fit into my pot and I like to enjoy my samgyetang with kimchi so hope you guys find it interesting :)

When Foods are not just about 'Foods'

What does cross your minds when you heard 'foods'? Hungry? Salivating? Yummy? or maybe disgusting? Yuck!!!! Well, that's the constant reaction. But when you dig deeper, those imagination about foods will lead to people surrounds you, how you cook together, how you eat together, how you all cannot get up because your tummy is too full. What's amazing about food is not the taste, not about the technique, not about the presentation, it's the memory.

Those photos were taken times ago, when I cooked at my house, my homestay and my cooking lesson. When looking at those photos, I remember the ups and downs of my cooking experiences. When my cakes got burnt and sunk, when I put too much soy sauce in the salmon teriyaki, when I got flour all over my clothes, when 'Mbak Yanti' was angry at me because I 'burnt' the kitchen down, but also the moment when my cakes are fluffy and yummy and I got it spot on for my steamed fish. And I do remember how my parents like the fish, how my brothers hate the cakes and how my maid looked at my stir fried cabbage and disgusted with the amount of chilies that I put in. All of those memories will never fade.

I guess foods are more than just about 'foods'. It makes you remember.....

This post is dedicated to 'Mbak Yanti', who has inspired me a lot in cooking.. I always miss her anchovies fried rice.....