炒小白菜

草菇腐皮卷

呢個菜係跟江獻珠寫的書«蒸煮»學的, 做得不美, 但是好味! Ha!

[Recipe] Oatmeal bread

 

Here I m making bread again.
I m using a "carrot bread" recipe :-S  but replacing carrots with oatmeal becoz Mr Chen very strangely does not eat carrots!!!

I used a total of 5 tbsp of Oats and mixed seeds!!!  Very healthy!!!

Keeping in an air tight container and it can stay fresh for a couple of days.  Best to eat toasted with butter and jam!!!  I am using hand kneading.  May be it is time to consider to buy a bread machine, or a stand mixer??    hmmm....


Ingredients:

• Bread flour 300g
• Dried Yeast 1 + 1/2 tsp (the ones that do NOT need to dissolve in water)
• Sugar 2tbsp
• salt 1 tsp
• butter 25g
• milk 100ml
• warm water 50ml
• Oats 5 tbsp (or u can add in some mixed seeds too!!)

Method:

1. In a big bowl, put in the flour, dried yeast, sugar, salt, mix together
2. Mix milk and water together, then add the liquid to the dried ingredients a little at a time, until a dough is formed.  (You might notice u don't need to use all the liquid or u may need more)
3. Knead the dough for ~5 minutes
4. Add in butter, knead for ~5 minutes
5. Add in Oats, knead for ~5 minutes
6. Put the dough back into the big bowl, cover with cling film, put it in a warm place (e.g. You can put it into an oven or microwave), let it raise to double its size.  It might take 1 to 2 hours.  
7. Get the dough out, knead it a few times to release the air.
8. Seperate the dough into two big portions, shape them as two big balls, place them into a lined loaf tin.
9. Cover the load tin with a towel, put it back to the oven/microwave, let it to raise to the size of a normal bread loaf, it might take half an hour to one hour.
10. Once the dough is ready, preheat oven to 180C, bake it for 18 minutes.  Done :-)

Tips:

• Suggest to check this blogger's website for bread kneading technique
• Always store the bread in air tight container ( e.g. the clip lock plastic boxes), then it can be kept for a longer time.

東莞蒸蟹缽

HTO來英國時送我一本江獻珠寫的蒸煮. 好書!!

第一個試做嘅菜是東莞蒸蟹缽.
係蒸蟹, 下面放蒸雞蛋豬肉和豆豉.

好好味呀~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

蒸蟹嘅汁流哂落啲蛋喥
豬肉和豆豉!! 係豆豉呀!!! 好似有啲怪，, 但同埋蛋一齊篜, 超好味!!
請客時多一個見得人嘅菜啦!!!

[Take away in London] The tale of India, Docklands

Making croissants yesterday was really a hard work, I was then too tired to cook dinner.  So we ordered an India take away from The tale of India in Docklands.

We had Vegetable Samosa, Tandoori half chicken, Lamb Madras, Chicken Vindaloo.
Well again we have ordered too much food and the Tandoori chicken was left untouched.
The taste of the curry was not bad but the meat was so bland and chewy.
Next time, better to try the other takeaway shop :-S

The bill was £20. 

Homemade croissants

Wow, it is my first time making croissants!!!  They look not bad at all!!!
Recipe is from my translated Japanese cookery book.
Half of a butter block is used!!!   And I made one minor mistake which is I forgot to add in salt :-p
Next time will be better, definitely!!!

Sirloin steak, portobello mushrooms, creamy mash and garden peas

有人見我煎兩塊12oz扒, 覺得有啲唔夠, 叫我煎多舊魚 :S

好彩我冇咁顛 , 食唔飽仲好啦, 餐餐七分飽, 冇咁易肥!

結果係多到見唔到個喋底, 最後又係飽到飛起, 減肥真難!

Cheese and Oats bread

There was some time in HK I felt quite bored during the weekend.  Apart from going to Jusco to do grocery shopping, I will go to the nearby bookshop to check out their cookery books :-)   I never tried any of their recipes coz there was no one I can cook for :-S  Now, it is different and I just can't stop cooking hahaha.

Few days ago I found this bread baking book from my bookshelf.  It is actually a translated Japanese cooking book.  So I chosen their "Cheese and sesame bread" recipe but I didn't have any black sesame, so I replaced it with my fav "Oats and mixed seeds".    And the book said to use processed cheese but certainly I won't buy those artificial processed cheese.  I simply used cheddar.

It was a success even though it was my first time doing it.  Great!!!

Btw, there are more cheese in the centre of the bread.   The top one is just for decoration!!! hahahahah

牛筋腩扒生菜

咸蛋雞蛋蒸豬肉