Our small dinner on Friday night

I did different small dishes on Friday night, we ate together with the children and watch X factor.
There are 4 different types of small dishes on a french bread.
First bread:
Spread mayonnaise on the bread, a slice of turkey, Bearnaise sauce, and cheddar cheese.
Second dish:
Spread of mayonnaise on the bread. As for the beef.
Thinly slice beef, which I stir fried with garlic, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey, sesame oil, salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle sesame seed.
Third bread:
Spread of mayonnaise on the bread. Mozzarella cheese, and sprinkle with sun seeds.
4th bread.
Spread of mayonnaise on the bread. Cut into small stripe of chicken fillet. Marinate them with 5 spices, salt and pepper. Dip the chicken stripe with egg beaten and roll them with bread crumbs.Lastly fried them till golden brown.
I put them in the oven at 200 degree for 10 minutes until the cheese melted.

Some fried chicken wings.

And spicy chicken wings.

Cinnamon Roll (Kanelbullar)

Yesterday Thursday 4th October is a Kanelbullar Dag in Sweden.

My son send me an sms at 7:30am while he was on his way to school in a train.
"Mom today is Kanelbullar Dag" (Cinnamon Roll Day)
So I asked him "How did you know?"
Replied, "It's in the newspaper"
There is a free newspaper everyday called Metro newspaper and they are distributed all over every train stations and bus stations here.
So I asked," Did you read it in Metro?"
Replied, "Yes I read it sometime"
So I told him that I will buy for him when he come home from school but thinking about it, why buy when i can do it myself and that boy would not feel that its enough with one bulle.


Rolls:
1 pkt dry Yeast
2 tbs Butter, melted
1 Cup Milk
¼ Teaspoon Salt
¼ Cup Sugar
3 Cups of Flour
1 tps Cardamom

Filling:
2 tbs Butter
3 tbs Sugar
1 tps Cinnamon

Topping:
1 Egg

Combine milk and butter.  Sprinkle the yeast over the milk and butter mixture. Stir until dissolved and let rest. Sift the flour, sugar, and salt and mixed until the dough is elastic and not sticky. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it rise for 30 to 40 minutes.

 While waiting for the flour to rise, you can prepare the butter and cinnamon spread.
When the dough has risen, knead for one minutes. Roll it into a rectangle. Spread the filling over the whole top.

I did one roll with Nutella spread

Once rolled cut them between 3 cm depending on how thick you prefer.

This is the next rolled I did with cinnamon and butter.

Usually you need a baking paper cup to lay each and everyone of them inside but since I do not have one at home, I just lay them on a tray with baking paper underneath.

Beat one egg and brush them lightly on top of the cinnamon roll and sprinkle pearl sugar.

This is the pearl sugar.

Baked them in the oven at 200 deg for 20 mins. Sometimes it can be faster so just keep checking them. Once it is brown like the picture below, you can take them out.

This is the Nutella chocolate roll.

This is cinnamon roll.

Stir Fried Beef With Vegetables

Stir Fried Beef With Vegetables

Ingredients

Beef slice very thinly

3 Garlic chopped finely

1 red chili thinly slices

Carrot

Broccoli

Short Bean

Tomato

Light Soy Sauce

Oyster sauce

Corn Flour for thickening of sauce

Salt and pepper to taste.

Add oil in a pan and stir in garlic, red chili

Shortly after add in the thinly slice beef

I rather have the beef stir till the water from the beef evaporate and dries up before adding light soy sauce and oyster sauce

Add a cup or 2 of water till the beef is cooked. If you using a tough chewy meat please let it cook longer.

Once it done, put in all the vegetables, salt and pepper.

Do not overcook the vegetables as it is much nicer when it is fresh and crunchy than soggy.

Lastly add in the corn flour, stir and mixed them in seconds and immediately off the fire.

It's a joy!

Congratulation to my very good friend Suzanne and her husband Bobby for the arrival of their baby girl on the 3rd October 2012, Wednesday. The baby weight 3.3 kg and they have not confirm any name for the girl yet. Very happy that the girl and mother are safe and healthy. Wishing you both all the best and hope that it would be a wonderful journey for your family together.

Singaporean Mee Kuah Daging

I was craving for Singaporean style of Indian Mee Kuah Daging (Noodle Gravy with meat) Since my husband is out for a meeting early in the morning today and will be back only later in the evening, I decided to cook this yummylicious noodle for lunch. This is pretty simple dish to do and I always add in my own ingredients if I do not have all the ingredients I needed for my cooking and usually it turn out well. 

Ingredients:

200 gram meat ( chop in small pieces) I like a little fatty in the meat.

2 large onion

3 Garlic

1 inch ginger

1 lemon grass crushed

2 tbs tomato puree

2 tbs chili paste

1 large potato peel and chop into very small pieces

Meat soup spices ( You can get this in any Asian shop)

Beef boullion

Spring onion ( slice thinly)

Cabbage (slice thickly)

Egg 

Salt and Sugar to taste.

Blend onion, garlic, ginger to a fine paste

Add little oil in a pan and stir fried the blended ingredients and lemon grass for few mins

Later add in tomato puree, chili paste and continue stirring for another 2 to 3 minutes

Once the oil rises, you can add in the meat and mixed them well with the paste. 

Add in water, estimated around 4 cups.You can add in more water during the meat stewing process as the water normally decreases.

Add in chop potato, meat bouillon, salt and sugar.

Lastly add in the cabbage and turn off the fire.

 As for the egg, I did separately in another saucepan with a boiling water and poached them before adding them into the meat gravy.

Served with vermicelli noodle or yellow noodle. 

Sprinkle spring onion before serving.

Enjoy!!

Duck with orange sauce

This duck dish is a mixed of Asian and French origin dish which is called Duck al' orange. The first time I did followed the french recipes totally but later I tried the packet duck marinated seasoning mix and it tasted so much better. My whole family loves my roast duck with orange sauce. 

Wash and dry the duck.

Marinate the Roast duck Seasoning mix on the duck and let it stand for an hr.

Heat the oven to 200 degree and roast them for 1hr 30 min, turning the duck occasionally OR what 

I did was that I cut the duck into half on one side and spread them up so I did not have to turn the duck during roasting.

While duck is roasting I prepared the orange sauce.

For Sauce:

• 2 tbs sugar
  
  
  • 2 cup fresh orange juice either from fresh oranges.( I normally use 1/2 packet orange juice which turn out the same)
  
  
• 1 tbs light soy sauce
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• chicken broth
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1 carrot slice  
• 1 large onion slice
• 3 tbs tomato puree

Direction:

Melted butter in a pan,

Add in onion and carrot for 2 min

Add in tomato puree stiring for another 2 mins

Pour in orange juice, chicken broth, light soy sauce and salt

When the duck is ready, let it cool of before cutting.

Remove the bones and throw the bones in the orange pot.

Let it cook for another 15 mins together with the bones.

Just min before it is ready, add the flour to thicken the sauce.

Filter the rest of the ingredients away and take only the orange sauce.

Slice the duck in thin slices.

  Serves with warm rice, salad, tomato and cucumber.

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Roast Hainanese Chicken Rice

Ingredients for the Chicken
1 Chicken (Whole)
1 Tsp of Honey
1 Tsp of Maltose
1/2 Tsp of Molasses
1/2 Tsp of Five spice powder
Few dashes of Ground white pepper
1 Tbsp of Ginger juice
2 Tbsp of Light soy sauce
2 Spring onion stalks
5-6 slices of Ginger 
Any coarse Salt – for exfoliating the Chicken

Ingredients for the Rice

2 cups of  rice

2 Tsp of Salt

5-6 slices of Ginger

2 cloves of Garlic –pounded

2 1/4 cups of Chicken stock

1 Pandan leaf 

2 Tbsp of Chicken fat with skin attached – obtained by trimming excess fat from Chicken

2 Tbsp of Water 

Ingredients for the Soup

2 cups of Chicken stock

1/2 of a White radish/Daikon – cut into large chunks

1 Tsp of Salt

Few dashes of Ground white pepper

1 Tbsp of sliced Spring onions or Coriander leaves for garnishing

Ingredients for the Chilli Sauce

7 whole Red Chillies

4 cloves of Garlic 

4 slices of Ginger 

1 Tbsp of Lime juice 

1 Tsp of Caster sugar

1 Tbsp of Chicken stock

1 Tsp of Chicken oil - obtained from rendered Chicken fat during the Rice preparation

A pinch of Salt (to taste)

Put all the ingredients in a blender and grind them to smooth.