Nancy Ho

I have a bottle of balsamic vinegar sitting in the store room, other than making salad i have no idea what to do.
Found a very simple recipe while surfing the web, at kitchen experiment



It taste great!!

Here's 2 more flavours of ice cream:


From left is Durian Ice cream, mango passion fruit ice cream and Pistachio nut ice cream

I was really surprised to see pistachio ice cream in such a colour initially compared with what i saw outside. Its the really colour of pistachio actually
Btw I learnt that coldness will mute colour, flavour and sweetness .... the best you can give for your ice cream is to use strong flavoured ingredients

I have not made fried dough fritters with filling for a long time.
It is actually very simple to make, excluding making the dough fritters
Just go to any neighbourhood market that sell dough fritters and ask for "white" instead golden dough fritters
Reason: you do not want a burnt dough fritters when you fry it with filling


Ingredients
fish paste
prawn paste
sotong paste
meat paste

Note: You can use any of this two combination to form the filling base followed by seasoning

Seasoning
sesame oil
pepper
salt (i omit as the fish paste was salted)

Method
Mix the paste and seasoning till well mixed
Cut the dough fritters into 3-4 smaller plc, then cut a slit length wise
Put in 1 tbsp of mixed paste into the slit
Deep fry with the filling face down till golden brown

So far the best dough fritters that i like are found at bendemeer and bedok 216 hawker centre

Whenever i bake cake, Chloe usually will stay a while and help but she will run off after a while.
I have been thinking of her education and how best to let her understand the world around her.
Today, she was game to try swiss roll ... so another chance to teach her about function of air on eggs and thereby affecting the cake

I gotten the recipe from Aunty Yochana - sugar roll. Instead of putting butter cream, i used raspberry jam


Ingrdients
4 egg white
80 gm. caster sugar
4 nos. egg yolk
1/4 tsp. vanilla essence
100 gm. cake flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
40 gm. corn oil

100 gm. Butter cream (use raspberry jam)

1. Whisk egg white for awhile, then add in caster sugar gradually.
2. Drop in the egg yolk one by one into the beating egg white until finish and continue beating for another 3 mins.
3. Stop the machine, fold in the cake flour and baking powder.
4. Fold in cornoil and pour into a 11" x 14" tray or 10" x 14" tray and bake at 200C for about 10 mins.
(5) Take out from tray and leave on the wire rack to cool.
(6) Spread butter cream onto the cooled swiss roll and roll into a swiss roll.
(7) Sprinkle some sugar onto a greaseproof paper and roll the swiss roll to and fro until evenly covered with the help of the greaseproof paper.
(8) Slice and serve.

I have been making ice cream for the past weeks ..... so i have excess of whipped cream .... wondering what to do with them?

Btw i went for ice cream making class again at Dessert Art again!
Yes i got the answer - make mashed potato!!


Here's what i did for dinner


The one on the left was done by me and the right by Chloe

Simply decorate the mashed potato with baked beans and pork cheese sausage.

Here's a list of the ingredients (agar agar only)
garlic ... pan fry with small amount of oil
whipped cream
russet potato (boiled in chicken stock and mashed)
black pepper
salt
cheddar cheese

Mix all together while potato is piping hot!!

Yummy

I am into cheese cake this week as i had bought up to 1kg of cream cheese!!
This is a very addictive cake that is very simple to make, its like chocolate butter cake with cheese



Recipe from My culinary journal
Ingredients A :
250 g cream cheese
60 g castor sugar
1 egg

Ingredients B :
125 g butter ( original 180 g )
150 g castor sugar
3 eggs
4 tbsp cocoa powder (original is 3 tbsp)
120 g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder

Method :

Beat ingredients A until light and fluffy.
From ingredients B, cream butter and sugar. Add in eggs one at a time. Add in remaining ingredients.
Using a 7" square tin, pour in half portion of chocolate batter. Then pour in cream cheese mixture. Pour the remaining portion of chocolate batter to cover the cream cheese portion. (there are a total of 3 layers of batter)
Baked in oven for 180°C for 40 - 45 mins.
Cool well and store cake in the fridge.

The weather was terribly hot!! Bought 2 young coconut from the market, thinking of making Buccos salad but had missing ingredients so decided to make cocnut konnyaku jelly instead


Ingredient
coconut water - 750ml
konnyaku jelly - 7 grams
sugar - 40g
coconut flesh (scrap from coconut and cut into small pieces)
1 tsp lemon juice

Method
1. Mix the jelly powder with sugar and put it into pot with coconut water
2. Keep stirring till almost boiling
3. Add lemon juice
4. Pour the mixture into jelly mould/cup with flesh of coconut in it
5. Chill the mixure when its set