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21 August 2007
Chocolate Muffins
Now, for a simple fix for cravings for chocolate, try this recipe that makes about 4 medium sized muffins:
Ingredients:
4 tablespoons soft butter
55g sugar
1 egg
85g self-raising flour
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
small pieces of chocolate (to place in the centre of muffins)
1) Preheat the oven to 190 degree celcius
2) Place butter, sugar, egg, flour and cocoa powder into a large bowl. Beat these together until it's well-mixed.
3) Put paper baking cases in a muffin tin (or use muffin paper cases that won't flatten under the weight of it's contents). Spoon in half of the batter into the paper cases and add pieces of chocolate to the centre of each. Spoon in the rest of the batter to cover the chocolate pieces.
4) Bake for about 20 minutes and serve warm so that the chocolate centre is still runny.
08 August 2007
Fried Rice
Here's a rough guide on how I cooked fried rice:
Ingredients:
1 bowl cooked rice
ginger (cut into strips)
red onion (diced)
carrot (diced)
long beans (cut into small pieces)
fish cake (cut into strips)
1 egg (beaten)
light soya sauce
white pepper
cooking oil
1) Heat up some oil in the wok. Pour in beaten egg and fry an omelette. The omelette can be cut into small pieces.
2) Using the oil left over from frying the egg (add more if needed), fry the ginger strips, red onion for a few minutes until fragrant. Add in carrot, long beans, fish cake to the wok and fry for a few more minutes.
3) Add cooked rice and the pieces of omelette to the wok and mix with the other ingredients. Add light soya sauce and white pepper to taste.
03 August 2007
Udon in Soup
Serves 2 persons
Soup:
4 cups water
chicken bones
carrots
1 red onion
2 tablespoons miso paste (optional)
light soya sauce
Ingredients:
2 packets Udon
Lean pork
1 tube silken tofu
1 packet enoki mushroom
japanese fish cake
dark soya sauce
white pepper
1) To prepare the soup, put chicken bones, diced carrots and onion into boiling water and boil for about 1/2 hour. Add in miso paste if desired. Add light sauce. (This soup can be prepared before hand or ready-made soup bases can be used too)
2) Slice lean pork and season with light/dark sauce and white pepper. Cut tofu into cubes. Cut japanese fish cake into strips. Cut off the ends of the enoki mushroom.
3) To assemble the whole dish together, heat up the soup base until it starts to boil. Cook udon in the soup for about 3-5 minutes or according to the instructions. Remove from the soup and place into bowls. Add all remaining ingredients into the soup. When these ingredients are cooked, arrange them on top of the udon. Add soup to the udon and it's ready to be served!