Air Fryer Char Siew

This recipe is really simple and I love it! I'd rate it a difficulty level 2 out of 5 and it takes about 30 minutes to prepare, excluding time to prepare marinate which is a few short minutes.

Baby friendly Mushroom Soup

A simple recipe for a delicious mushroom soup! I'd label this a difficulty level 2 out of 5. The only tedious bit was all the slicing XD It takes about 30 to 45 minutes to prepare this dish. 

Baby Friendly Rice Cooker Chicken Rice

This rice cooker chicken rice was highly recommended by Angie. I tried it and we loved it. I cooked a soup to go with it as well as long bean eggs.

Adriel loves soup and he is seen using the B.Box cup here. It has a straw that is stuck to the side of the cup and handles for the cup for independent drinking of soup (: 

Anyway, this recipe is easy, takes about 15 minutes to prepare given that the rice cooker does the rest of the work. I'd rate it a difficulty level 2 out of 5. 

Baby Friendly Rice Cooker Chicken Rice

This recipe serves 2 - 3 pax

1 cup rice

1 bulb garlic

2 - 3 chicken legs

sesame oil

2 pandan leaves, knotted

stock (3 cups for the low GI rice I used, 1.5 cups or a little lesser for Jasmine rice)

1. Washed rice thrice. 

2. Smash 1 bulb of garlic (8 to 10 pcs) and remove skin and base

3. Added stock and pandan leaves. 

4. Added a drizzle of sesame oil.

5. Cook as per white rice function.

6. Serve and enjoy! 

The soup I cooked together with lunch (:

A simple long bean egg (: 

Baby Friendly Pumpkin Sauce Pasta

I found an easy way to make pasta sauce 🤣 

Steam some cubed pumpkin/butternut squash for 7 to 10 mins. Mash. Stir in cooked pasta. Sprinkle some dried herbs like parsley and you're good to go! It tasted naturally sweet and Adriel loved it!

Baby Friendly 1 Pan Udon

I love 1 pan dishes and here is a rendition I love! 

It takes about 20 minutes to prepare and I'd rate it a difficulty level 2 out of 5.

Baby Friendly 1 Pan Udon

This recipe feeds 2-3 pax

 200g Ground beef

4 -5 pieces of da bai cai, sliced

1/2 packet white button mushroom, sliced

1 carrot, sliced, 

1 packet Enoki mushroom

 1 egg, fried in sheet form

1/2 broccoli 

 1 piece udon (frozen from don don donki) or 1 to 2 packs of regular udon

  Tesco's garlic bread spices (salt free) or any dried herbs you like

garlic powder 

black pepper 

olive oil

Method

1. Fry egg with some olive oil in a sheet form and slice

2. In the hot pan with olive oil,  fry mushroom till softened. 

3. Add minced beef. Season with herbs, garlic powder and black pepper.

4. Add in all vegetables and Enoki mushroom, stir fry and cook for 4 mins.

5. Add in udon and cook for time required in package. 

6. Season with black pepper, herbs and garlic powder.

7. Serve. 

Baby Friendly Salmon Fried Rice

Adriel loves rice. His first try of this salmon fried rice had him having 3 servings non stop cos he just loved it so much! (: I love adding lots of ingredients to it so here's my rendition.

I'd rate it a difficulty level 2 out of 5 and it takes about 30 mins to prepare, given that rice has already been cooked.

Baby Friendly Salmon Fried Rice Recipe

Serves 3 - 4

1 cup rice, cooked and cooled (I prefer overnight rice but if that is a concern for you, cook it, cool it, refrigerate it for a few hours and use it. Overnight rice seems to be tastier for fried rice!)

200g salmon, diced

1/2 corn, diced

4 - 5 pieces of long bean, diced

1/2 box white button mushroom, diced

1 carrot, diced

6 prawns, diced (optional)

4 eggs

Olive oil

black pepper

garlic powder (optional)

1. Heat up olive oil in pan. 

2. Stir fry mushroom till softened.

3. Add in all corn, long bean, carrot and prawns and stir fry.

4. Add rice and stir fry, breaking rice up.

5. Mix eggs and pour evenly into rice.

6. Stir fry, ensuring that rice is coated as evenly as possible.

7. Add salmon. Fry. Season with black pepper. Add garlic powder if you fancy. I LOVE GARLIC POWDER (: 

8. Enjoy! 

Adriel sure loves his fried rice! (: 

Sweet Potato Parmesan Stacks (baby friendly)

A simple dish that Adriel likes. Works well in the oven.. can probably work in the air fryer too. Parmesan is usually salty so I omit the top layer when serving to Adriel. I'd give him the insides that has a little cheese. If you are not comfortable offering cheese, you can omit cheese from the recipe.

I'd rate it a difficulty level 2 out of 5 and it takes about 30 minutes to prepare this. 

Sweet Potato Parmesan Stacks (baby friendly) Recipe

2 sweet potatoes

Olive oil

Dried herbs like basil, oregano etc

Parmesan

Peel and slice sweet potato thinly. This gadget from Daiso works well! 

Add olive oil (1 tbsp or so), dried herbs of your choice and a couple tbsp of freshly shaved parmesan. Mix well.

Add more parmesan on top if you fancy. Bake in a preheated oven of 200 degrees Celsius for 15 to 20 mins or till tender.

Enjoy! 

Beef Bolognese (Baby friendly)

So I've embarked on Baby-led weaning for Adriel and I've been cooking a lot more though they have been really simple fares. Here's a really simple Beef Bolognese sauce that I've prepared, It freezes well for up to 3 months. I cooked it using my pressure cooker though it can definitely be cooked over the stove or even in the thermal cooker. 

It takes about 1 to 1.5 hours in all to complete this recipe and I'd rate it a difficulty level 2 out of 5. The tough part is actually the cubing of the vegetables (:

Beef Bolognese (baby friendly) Recipe

2 large tomatoes, cubed and seeds removed 

3 brinjals diced

4 stalks celery diced

4 carrots diced 

1 can whole tomatoes (Hunt's)

Collagen stock (homemade) or beef stock (readymade) 

600g minced beef 

Bay leaves

Assorted dried herbs like oregano, basil etc

Method

Heat up pan(I used my pressure cooker to halve the cooking time) with olive oil.

Cook vegetables (excluding brinjal).

Remove vegetables from pan. 

In the same pan, add more oil and cook beef.

Add all vegetables (including brinjal) in with stock, herbs and canned tomato. 

Liquid should be sufficient to just cover ingredients. 

Cook for 1 hour on low heat (stirring occasionally) for regular pan. 

If using pressure cooker, cook for 30 mins and cook for another 10 mins after pressure release or so to dry up/thicken sauce.

Allow sauce to cool completely before freezing. I use this as a base for lasagna too! 

I freeze them flat in individual portions. I do not even thaw it XD 

I simply peel off the food storage bag and pop the entire frozen brick into the pot. 

DISCLAIMER: I did not salt the recipe so it's friendlier for Adriel. Please feel free to salt it according to your liking. 

Enjoy this delicious recipe!

Full of goodness!

Freezing in individual portions

When freezing, lay kitchen paper between each bag to prevent sticking of the bags. They tend to tear if they're stuck together. I also lay a sheet on the base of the freezer that's made of plastic. 

Collagen Broth

I was inspired by a friend who cooked up some collagen soup lately so I decided to try it too. It uses sooooooo much ingredients  (as in quantity) for a small quantity of soup yielded 🤣 but given the benefits of it.. it's worth a go! 

Thanks to Annie for her recipe! 

INGREDIENTS

2 chicken carcasses

20 chicken feet

2 pork bones (about 4 packs from NTUC)

5 to 6 litres of water (based on my 28cm Happy Call deep pot)

METHOD

Blanch pork bones and rinse well. I used my hands to wash them real clean.

Blanch chicken feet. I didn't trim the feet  but do trim them! Rinse well. 

Blanch chicken carcasses and rinse well.

Place in pot with water and bring to a rolling boil. Boil on high heat for 10 mins.

Boil away!

After 10 minutes, reduce heat to low and boil for 4 hours, checking in occasionally and removing scum. Salt it if you like now or salt it when you use it. My soup reduced about half in quantity. 

Remove ingredients and sieve soup.

Chill for coagulation to take place.

Freeze for future use or use it as a stock in your cooking. I used it to cook Bolognese today.

Adriel had this with us (: I cooked it as such as he could consume it. I'm doing baby led weaning for him and I'll share more details soon! In the mean time, enjoy your collagen broth! 

Meringues Kisses on Sugar Stamps

I wanted to heat up my oven badly yesterday so I decided to use the sugar stamp sheets I got eons ago. I kinda regret not using them earlier cos the prints have faded. The meringue kisses were still delicious nonetheless! Here's a simple recipe for it!

I'd rate them a difficulty level 2 out of 5 and it'd take about 3 hours in all to be done. 

Creamed Mushroom Pasta with Pan Seared Chicken

Today was a busy day. Hubby and I woke up early to clean the house before ma and our aunties came over to make mooncakes. I decided to whip up a simple lunch after our cleaning session and before they came over. This recipe is simple yet delicious. It requires few ingredients and is good on its own, even without the chicken I cooked today. 

I did a simple LIVE video of it earlier in June and it was well received! Here's the link to the video tutorial where the quantity is explicitly mentioned. 

LIVE video (replay) here. 

I added some back bacon in today's version. I pan searched the sliced back bacon of about 100g till it was ALMOST cooked. I removed it before adding the butter.. (I didn't clean the pan so as to retain the good flavour of the bacon).. I added it just before adding the cream to the pan.

As for the pan searched chicken, I used 2 chicken legs (fresh ones preferred). I seasoned it with salt, freshly grounded black pepper, garlic powder, dried parsley and dried oregano before pan searing it with about 2 - 3 tbsp of oil. I cooked it for a total of about 12 minutes on medium-low heat, flipping it every 3 minutes or so. 

This is delicious, trust me. Enjoy it! (: 

Homemade Mango Sorbet (With just 2 ingredients)

Last week, my office combined forces (haha!) to order mangoes from the supplier. We ordered a thousand odd bucks worth of mangoes from the supplier! 

As the weather was just really warm, the mangoes ripened a little too soon for my liking. I had gotten 2 cartons after all! These Chousas were pretty sweet and had a lovely creamy texture.

After sharing one carton with both my families, I had one carton to myself. I was busy over the weekend conducting replica food classes (Yes I do them now!) so I haven't had the time to play with these lovely mangoes.

 

 

I did 3 workshops over the weekend and ma came over for some fun too! 

Cartoon was a little busybody! 

Nonya Kueh Bracelet! 

A Disney inspired donut bracelet from one of the sessions! 

Replica food has been my latest hobby, especially after I hurt my back in April/May.. I've been on a baking/cooking hiatus ever since! XD 

Anyway, I was inspired by Gemma of Gemma's Bigger Bolder Baking and decided to make some Mango Sorbet! 

I peeled 6 mangoes.. 

Slice the mangoes into small pieces and freeze them. I did so in a bowl and it got stuck together. I'd suggest that you freeze them on a baking sheet instead! I allowed my mangoes to freeze overnight.

In a food processor, add mangoes and condensed milk. I blitzed them in the ratio 200g mango: 35g sweetened condensed milk. 

Allow mixture to blend till you get a nice and creamy texture. Scoop into containers and freeze overnight.

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I stored them into mini containers with lids purchased from Cold Storage. I added a lovely sticker from Taobao just to make it prettier! My hubby enjoyed it last night... I took some to the office and my colleagues loved it too! It's just so rich in mango flavour and it's so easy to make. I hope you'll enjoy making it too!