Healthy Apple Lemongrass Beverage

Apple Lemongrass drink

An easy peasy steps to follows and is said to be home remedy to ease knee pain.  How effective it is.  I really dont know as this is my 1st trial.  But no harm trying.  Here you are the details.

What you require

2 apples

5 stalks of Wlemongrass  (smashed)

5 cups of water

How

Clean and cut the apples into pcs

Smashed the lemongrass

In a pot add in the apples, lemongrass, water and bring to a boil.

Simmer for about 1 hr off the fire and serve warm.

Happy Trying my friends

Scrumptious BBQ Chicken Wings

Time really flies, another year has gone by. Now I am back again to continue where I have left off, sharing  my knowledge on culinary skills.  
This  is a  BBQ chicken wings recipe.  A simple and easy dish that you all will definitely want to try.  Just marinate the chicken for a few hours and bake in the oven for about 20-30 minutes.  The dish is ready to serve.  If you wish to hold a party, you can prepare the BBQ in advance and heat them up in the oven before serving.

Ingredients

10 pcs of chicken wings

some honey for brushing

Marinade -  Mix all together in a bowl

2 tsp of aromatic spice

1/2 pc of nam yee  南乳

1 tbsp of chili paste

1tbsp coriander powder 芫荽粉

2tbsp brown sugar 

1 tsp fish sauce

1/2 tbsp black vinegar 浙醋

Method 

1. Clean the chicken wings and marinade with the ingredients for 4 hrs or overnight.
2. Preheat oven to 200°C 
3. Arrange chicken wings onto  baking tray lined with alluminium foil.  Bake for  about 20 mins or till done.   Turn the chicken wings in between till golden brown.
4. Last 5 mins of baking, brush honey on both side of the wings for the glossy shine.
5. Serve. 

ENJOY AND HAVE A GREAT DAY 

Charity Cooking Demo At Spastic Centre on Korean Fried Chicken & Cheesy Tuna Puff

I have neglected my blog for the year 2015.  I am in the verge of giving up blogging as I have encounter problem  on missing blog posts and even  photos are missing.   Hope I can gather enough energy and IT knowledge to tacle the problem.  

My main purpose of this post is to share the recipe of my yummylicious Korean Fried Chicken and Cheesy Tuna Puff which I demonstrated at Spastic Centre on their monthly cooking demo event on 22nd August 2015.
The  monthly charity cooking demonstration is organize by Women's Auxilliary of  Spastic Centre, Petaling Jaya, headed by Datin Faridah. The funds collected will  be channel to the centre for the spastic Children.  Every month I will  post the event details on my facebook.  

Only during these 2-3 years I shared my culinary and some baking knowledge (I am just a home chef cooking for my family, and I did not go for any professional training) through charity cooking demonstration, namely Spastic Centre, Ti-Ratana, and Shelter Home 2.  During these journey of returning back to society and community, in return I gain more knowlege of culinary and enjoy every moment of it.  

So, Ladies do make a date with Spastic Centre, PJ every month.  (Normally the is the last Saturday of every month  and subject to change).

A big thank you to my friends came to support the event.  We have a  record of close to 50 participants.

Now lets the photos do the talking.  I have no chance to take  any photos myself while demonstrating,  photos taken are courtesy by others.  A Big Thank you.

The Korean Fried Chicken Wings

These Korean Fried Chicken Wings prepared for my family prior to the demo.

Cheesy Tuna Corn Puff -  Will share the recipe in my next post.

Updated on 14th Sept.15 -  

A write out on the event by Sin Chew Daily星洲曰報 Metro Edition 大都會 12th Sept 15 Saturday write out on the Charity Cooking demo that I did the demo Spastic Centre, PJ on 22/8.

Healthy Vegetarian Rice sheet (Cheong Fun) Rolls

The highlight of the dish is the sauce which I like it very much.  

The miso black sesame sauce, or you may prefer your own special  sauce of your liking!  

Recipe adapted from Ms lee Yin Suit during a charity cooking demo at Ti-Ratana,  Jalan Penchala, Petaling Jaya in March 2015.



Ingredients

20 pcs of flat sheets chee cheong fun - unfold
50 toasted sesame seeds (white and black)

Filling

600 g yam bean (sengkuang) - finely shreddded
½ carrot - finely shredded
French beans - wash and slice thinly
1 pc of wood ear fungus (black fungus)  - soaked, wash and shredded
6 pcs dried mushroom -  soak, washed and shredded
3 tbsp coriander leaves and stem - cut in ½ inch length ( I don't have, so ommitted)
1½ tsp salt or to taste
1 tsp pepper
2 tbsp oil
1 tsp sesame oil
100 ml water

Method

1. Heat oil in a wok and stir-fry mushroom till fragrant
2. Add yam bean, black fungus, carrot and french beans.   Stir-fry for a few mins and add water, salt and pepper.  Simmer till vegetables are soft
3. Add sesame oil and corriander leaves. Stir fry awhile before turning off the flame.  Allow to cool.
4. put 2 tbsp of the filling in the middle of a rice sheet.  Tuck in each side.  Then roll it  like a swiss roll.
5. Serve with toasted sesame seed and miso sesame sauce.

The ingredients of the fillings can be any vegetables and mince meat can be added too.

The unfold cheong fun

Miso Sesame Sauce

2 tbsp sweet/yellow miso
2 tsp  black sesame paste 
200 ml water ( I reduce 130ml water as I prefer a thicker sauce)
2 tbsp sugar or to taste

Slurry (Mix)
1tsp corn flour
1 tbsp water

Method

In a pan, bring all the ingredients to a boil
Thick with corn flour slurry
Remove from heat.

Healthy Cooking! 

 

Hainanese Fish Maw with Pineapple海南鱼鳔伴凤梨

Believe it my dear friends!    This is my 1st post for year 2015!   I am involving few charity events lately as a way to return to society and help the needy in a small way.  Hope to share my experience on social charitable responsibilities in my future posts.

This dish was prepared in early March 15.  And I promised a friend Patricia to share the recipe!  She must have ran out of patients!  Patricia my sincere apology.   

This is a typical  must have Hainanese dish that my late mother in law used to prepared during all the Chinese festivals!   One of the ingredients she used is the dry pig skin, but instead I subsitute it with fish maw and is taste as good.  

Hainanese Fish Maw with Pineapple海南鱼鳔伴凤梨 

Ingredients

100 gms of Fish Maw soak and cut into pieces  (I substitute pig skin with fish maw)

½ pineapple cut into pieces

1 Big onion -  clean and cut into quarters

2 cloves garlic – minced

3 slices of ginger

1 small pc of rock sugar

1 red chili – slice into pcs

1 tabsp of oyster sauce

1 tbsp of chili sauce

1 tbsp of vinegar/Lemon juice

Salt to taste

Method

1. Heat oil in wok add ginger, garlic and  big onion,  and in rock sugar sauté till sugar dissolve and aromatic.
2. Add in fish maw, stir fry a while add in the oyster sauce, and ½ cup of water, continue stir fry. 
3. Add in pineapple pieces, vinegar, chili and chili sauce.  Add in the salt to taste cook till gravy almost dry up  and dish out. 
4. Serve hot with rice.  

HAPPY COOKING 

1

Red Velvet Cake Temptations (by Daughter Tammie Kwong)

My youngest daughter Tammie Kwong came back for the  summer holidays in University of Melbourne.   She has been  'force to' cook and bake for herself in Melbourne since eating out can be very costly.

The Red Velvet Cake is her 1st attempt as my kitchen are well equiped with ingredients and utensils unlike her accomodation in Melbourne.

From measuring the ingredients, mixing, blending to frosting and decorate the cake with all her heart. Tammie has developed the passion and love for baking. I am very sure her baking skills will definately improve further.  Gambateh, Tammie!

She randomly google the recipe.  With modern technology if you have the passion to learn 'google' and You tube are ever ready to give you aassitance needed! 
And  TADA here is the product of Tammie Kwong!

The texture looks good and most important taste good!

Pumpkin Ogura Cake 南瓜相思蛋糕 - LTU Oct 14

The heat is on Pumpkin this October 14 for the Little Thumbs Ups event by Zoe of Bake for Happy Kids and friends.

Pumpkin meat floss Ogura cake is my 2nd post, and today is the last day of the event!   Gosh!  I have more recipes on pumpkin to share!  Stay tuned for future post if I have the energy!  LOL

Chinese Broccoli in 2 Style (Yin Yong Baby Kai Lan)

Chance upon another blog event "My Treasure Recipes #3 ~ Tastes of Autumn (Oct/Nov 2014).  
My Chinese Broccoli (Kailan)  in 2 Style just prepared at the right timing for the event. 

I am glad to be able to prepare this dish at home  in a more healthy way compare to restaurants whereby they deep fried the shreeded kailan leaves. 

Shreeded Kai Lan leaves 

Fabulous Steamed Pumpkin Cake 蒸黄金蛋糕 LTU - Oct 2014

Another Cake using steaming method to tempt you!  By using Steaming method,  even without any oven,  home chefs are able to  make delicious cakes for their family and is more healthy too!

This time using pumpkin to join in the Little Thumbs Up October theme -  Pumpkin.  I have quite a few goodies with pumpkin as one of the main ingredients. Hope I can get rid off the lazy worms in me!  hehe......... look forward for a Roctober 2014!

No coloring is add to the cake, the golden charm is from the pumpkin itself!

This recipe is floating in the facebook sometime ago which is in Chinese version, I make some modification and translate into English.           I have many others cakes using steaming method, namely Steamed Banana Cake ,  Steamed Layered Pandan Cake and Steamed Orange Layered Cake and the best of all  Steamed Super  Moist Chocolate Cake.

The texture is soft, moist and dense and the taste is superb!  

To whet your appetite, I leave you with this picture.

Aromatic Spicy Golden Pumpkin 甘香金瓜

This is  a must try recipe for all home chef out there..  I am pretty sure all family member will give their thumbs up  for your efforts.  I used to cooked  this dish using chicken as the main ingredients.  This time I used pumpkin instead.  The end result is fantastic.  Everyone love the dish with  1st bite.  My eldest daughter Pearly she does not  fancy chicken meat, before entering the house after works, the aroma of the dish,  hmm.... she frown.... mom cooked chicken again!  But end  up she is the one eat the most of the pumpkin.  Yeah!  Thumbs up to me!

 Its looks more like a meaty dish!  Right?     Look very tempting, right? 

Simple Apple Crumble 苹果金宝

This Apple Crumble was prepared in the August but only managed to post it now.  Just right time for the event of Little thumb ups.  Forgive for the to bad photography.   

There is so much to learn and need lot of improvement on food blogging be it the recipes, editing and photography are have to be 1st class, for me it is quite taxing will limited knowledge of modern technology.

I am not pretty, but I am sure is delicious!

Mexican Churros

It was a lovely Sunday morning, Buddy Camie and I head to the home our adorable Ms Fuzi ( founder FUZI Magic - Building Bridges of Goodwill )  to prepare on  our very own snack  Churros base on Fuzi memory of her late grand mother's recipe.  Armed with this recipe  we will conduct cooking demo on this churros to the children at orphanage.

Please 'like' the FB page of  Fuzi Magic Building Bridges of Goodwill.  To know more about Fuzi Magic aiming to link  the privileged to the under-privileged in our CSR activities : STUDENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS. 

It will be perfect to dip with chocolate sauce! 

The churros should be longer and thinner, rooms for future improvement!

Home Made Honey Brandy Bak Kwa 白兰地 肉干 for sale

Mid Autumn Festival 2014 is round the corner  which falls on 8th September 2014.

Here would like to continue my sale of Bak Kwa which was sellable for the last Chinese New Year 2014.

Lazymamainthekitchen Brandy Honey  Bak Kwa  (BBQ dried meat 

slices)  白兰地 肉干 strike back be  for  your continue support 

to place your orders  for the mid autumn festival 

celebration 2014.

Its home made without preservative and oven grille.
Message or comment below for further information.

This promotion is for the residence around Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur.  Own collection or delivery can be discussed.

Kindly message/comment below for further clarification. 

Vegetarian Dish ~ Fried Mushrooms with Nestum Cereal 麦片 鲍鱼菇

This is one of my 'almost'  vegetarian dish, as I used butter instead of margarine as I don't have it in my pantry.  Its turned out good.  Trying my best to go vegetarian with less meat.  Its  easy but I will try!  And...... my fridge is full of meats!   Hahaha......

Ingredients

300 gm abalone mushrooms
5 sprigs curry leaves
4 -5 chlli padi, chopped
1 red chilli, sliced 

Seasoning
1 tbsp margarine ( I used butter)
1/2 tsp sugar
salt to taste
1 tbp of vegetarian oyster sauce.
1 tbsp of cooking wine

Fabulous Steamed Banana Cake 蒸香蕉蛋糕 - LTU

Steamed cake vs Oven Baked
I choose to steam the cake over baking it. What about you?



Baked cake is dense and a bit dry unlike the steamed cake, which is light moist and fluffy, that is my experience in my cake making journey.
Would you like to  share your views and  experience? 

Here is some comparison that might help, click here.

Beside steamed Banana Cake, I shared recipes on Steamed Peppermint Orange layered Cake, Steamed Pandan Layer Cakes and the most popular Super Moist Steamed Chocolate cake.

Here I would to highlight my Irresistible Super Moist Steamed Chocolate Cake which is a hit even at  my charity cooking demo at Ti-Ratana, Penchala, PJ, Spastic Centre, PJ and Shelter Home.  
A sure keeper!


Updated on 9th September 2014, Steamed another Banana Cake using Clabber Girl baking Powder (strongly recommended by our famous Chef William Tan)  You may join his fanpage.  for interesting recipes.

Steamed Banana Cake with Clabber Girl Baking Powder and w/o CG

The results - The cake is more spongy and soft with Clabber Girl Baking Powder. My family love it! So do U! 

 

This version of Steamed Banana cake is marvelous, its light, fluffy and moist!  We love it!

Cottony Cinnamon Cheesecake

Lately, most of my bakes,  cinnamon powder is one if the ingredients I used.    Guess I really love the aroma of cinnamon added in  my bakes.  Join me for a cinnamon baking spree as more with cinnamon to come.  Stay tuned! 

My previous posts with cinnamon are namely Simple Apple Cake and  Simple Carrot Cake.  These cakes are simple, quick and easy to bake.  Do give it a try.  

Recipe of this Light cinnamon Cheesecake is adapted from  Dessert's Temptation by wendy's delights.  I double the amount of the ingredients to make 2 7inch square cake for my family and my brother's family.   If I were to bake the amount of cinnamon powder have to be reduce, as we find the aroma of cinnamon is too strong.