Home Made 'Pizza" Bread

Updated 29th June 2015 done some shortcut quick and easy pizza bread to fill the hungry stomach.  If you like to Pizza Bread,  I am sure you will like the Easy puff pizza Patry as well. 

 A more colourful and appealing pizza bread with fillings of  yr choice.

I used to buy pita bread from Mediya for my home made pizza, this because I found their pita bread very soft in texture compare to other brand, but was told Mediya no more produce pita bread as the machine for making it was down and beyond repair. Mediya decided to stop producing pita bread since. Here we are using just white bread or whole meal bread to spread whatever topping we desire and make our own, and much healthy 'pizza' bread.

Hmmm.......Tammie (my youngest daughter can't wait to taste the 'pizza'

These DIY 'pizza bread' is prepared by Tammie from A to Z. I just gave her the idea.

This is an as easy as ABC to prepare snacks/breakfast/lunch for the whole family! So make it a joint family effort, get your children to involve to create their own topping of their choice. Children not only enjoy doing it, they will love and enjoyed yummy 'pizza' prepared by themselves. This is great, don't you think so? This will further strengthen family bond. Can imagine the fun you and children enjoyed!

Ingredients

White bread (how many you decide) I used whole meal bread
some butter to spread on the bread
Tomato sauce to spread on the bread (Optional)- We omitted this because of my children preference.
Mozzarella shredded cheese

Toppings - Unlimited choice to your family liking)

To name some of the topping -

ham chips, sausages, bacon button mushroom, chopped big onion, bell pepper of different color, crab stick and all other you can think of...........
You may refer my earlier tuna fish sandwiches as toppings to make it more adventurous!

Method

1. Spread butter over the bread
2. spread another layer of tomato sauce
3. Top with the topping of your choice
4. Lastly spread mozzarella shredded cheese onto the topping
5. Bake in a preheat oven till you can see the cheese oozing out, or some prefer to brown the cheese for more crispy and crunchy bites.My advice is try for cheese oozing out then the crispy, and determine which one your family prefer.
6. The time really depend on what you prefer Baking duration . ...err....says.... 10 mins or so plus and minus.
7. Tada....... The hot 'pizza' breads are ready for the whole family to enjoy!

HAPPY FAMILY TREATS

Chinese Dumplings with Soba 日本面条与饺子

Many people including foreigners love chinese dumplings, it can be in soups, deep fired, pan fried or even steam. I will never get bored with dumpling which ever way is prepared. You may make your own dumpling skin or just buy from hypermarkets.

Follow the instruction of the package of the soba to cook the noodles, drain and put into serving bowls add in cooked veges of your choice. Pour in the anchovies soup.

Don't you agree this is real mouth watery and drooling?

Dipping sauce is very important in dumpling dishes.

Recipe for the filling

Choice on ingredients for the fillings are up to yr liking. The list can go on and on; minced chicken or pork meat, shrimp, chinese cabbages, leek, 'kuchai' celery, carrot, chinese mushroom, wood fugus, water chestnut and etc etc.
For this time around the ingredients I used are minced pork, chinese mushroom (soak and diced), chopped carrot, chopped 'kuchai, chopped celery and some minced ginger. Mix all together with pepper, 1 tsp of sesame oil, 1 tsp onion/garlic oil, salt and fish sauce to taste.
combine and mix till the fillings is sticking. Chilled in the fridge for 1/2 hr. Use the dumpbling skin and wrap the filling as shown the video.

You may boil the dumplings in soups with anchovies base or chicken broth or you may pan-fry the dumplings, all is up to your preference.

As for the dumplings skin I bought them at Tesco hypermarkets, save me work for preparing the skin. hehe....
Or you prefer to make your own, here is the recipe

1 3/4 cups flour
1/2 cup water
some cooking oil

Method

1. Combine and knead the ingredients into a dough. Put dough onto a floured surface and knead for few minutes.
   
2. Knead into nice consistency, wrap and rest with plastic loosely for at least 10 minutes or more.
3. Roll the dough into strips and cut the strips the size of 20 cents coin and roll and flatten into round shape. It's ready to use.

I never make my own dumplings skin, so i really don't know how is the texture, may be you can advice me, thank you in advice.

Dipping sauce

Put some thinly sliced young ginger with black vinegar, soya sauce and chilli oil.

Home made Shanghai Pancake 上海窝饼

Place and spread the red bean paste evenly onto half of the pancake.

Fold the pancake and put with little batter on the edge to seal it. Important tips : Poke some holes with a fork to release air bubbles.

This DIY home made shanghai pancake is merely for home consumption, it is no way to compare with the restaurant type of Shanghai Pancake, which is a more tedious process, making 2 type of doughs. Mine is much simple and easy for those home maker as lazy as me, sorry! no offend arh! hehe.........

Recipe

Ingredients

3/4 cup flour
1 tbsp rice flour
1 egg
1 tbsp oil

Filling:

some ready to use red bean paste ( which can easily obtain from bakery shop.)

Method

Put both flour into a bowl. Add egg and mix Pour in water little by little. Mix into batter. Set aside for 20 minutes.
Heat a non stick frying pan with little oil. Pour a ladle of the batter and swirl the pan to spread evenly. Fry into a thin pancake. Dish up.
Spread some red bean paste onto half the pancake as shown in the photo.
Fold the pancake and seal the seam with some leftover batten.
Use fork to poke a few holes to release air bubbles.
Heat oil in frying pan. Shallow-fry the pancake until golden brown and crispy. Dish up and cut into pieces. Serve.

Note:

Nowadays red been paste can be easily obtain from shops, saved us a lot of trouble to prepare paste which is quite a tedious task.

Will make this pancake again to improve further as my family love this snacks, so stay tune for my next venture!

HAPPY TRYING!

上海窝饼

材料：
面粉 3/4杯
粘米粉 1汤匙
鸡蛋 1粒
生油 1汤匙
水

馅料：
现成红豆沙 （烘焙店可找到）

做法：
把面粉和粘米粉放入碗中, 加入鸡蛋搅拌。逐少加入水，拌匀成粉浆，静置20分钟。
烧热平底锅，灒油，倾入适量粉浆蕩匀，煎成薄饼，盛起。
将适量红豆沙铺于一半的薄饼如上图。
把薄饼折半，用少许粉浆埋口。
叉几个洞在薄饼把空气放出。
烧热油在平底锅，下薄饼，半煎炸至金黄色及酥脆。上碟切件，即可品尝。

Healthy Pineapple and Celery Juice 菠萝西芹汁

After days of heavy foods, it times to detox, have a glass of cool Healthy Pineapple and Celery!
Feel so refreshing. This simple and easy is a joint effort with hubby; he cut the pineapple and blend the juice, I do the cutting of ingredients, 1, 2, 3 done. The Juice is ready to be served.

Nutrition Tips

Celery contains a variety of rich- nutrients. It also contains celery oil which helps lower blood pressure, sedate, strengthens the stomach and it diuretic. it is a health vegetable. The sour taste from pineapples helps in digestion and maintains gastrointestinal health.

Recipe source from Active Vegetable and fruit Enzymes 2 by Anna Phua and I made slight amendment on the recipe)

Ingredients

1/2 celery
100 g pineapple
1 slice ginger
100 gm filtered water
4g Japanese acid citric powder (Can be replaced with fresh oranges)

Ingredients that is not in the original recipe

Honey to taste
Lemon juice to taste

Method

Cut celery into pieces. Peel pineapple and cut into pieces
Place all ingrdients in blender add in water and blend for a minute or 2.
Ready to serve or you prefer to chill in the fridge before serving

Tips

I doubled the amount for extra serving, you may add on amount according to yr needs.
I added the honey and lemon juice to enhance the drink to give that extra Ohmmp!


材料

1/2条 西芹
100克 菠萝/凤梨/黄梨
1片 姜
100毫升 过滤水
4克 日本粉状柠檬酸 （可以改用鲜橙取代）

不在原本食谱内的材料

蜜糖 适量
柠檬汁 适量

做法

西芹切块。凤梨去皮切块。
将所有材料放入调理机中，加入水搅打一分钟即可饮用。
放入冰箱如果想喝冷。

温馨提示

我使用双倍的材料做了两杯的饮料。您可随意增减材料分量来符合您的需求。
我加入了蜜糖和柠檬汁来调味。

Terubong Sea Food, Penang

DINING OUT

Discovered that there are lots of food lovers willing to go an extra mile to look for good food, be it in a posh and cozy restaurant or a back lane hawker delights. I would like to share with you my food hunting adventure, and this is solely my family's view. Its a kind of one man food another man poison. If you have better idea, comments and places for the food I have posted, please feel free to do so.

Here would like to recommend and share with you a restaurant that we must visit at least twice whenever we were in Penang for leisure and 'makan package'.



Stir-fried shark skin with spring onions. According to the restaurant owner that the Shark skin is rich in collagen so good for joint and excellent for ladies' beauty woh! I really dont know is this true!

When this Fish paste herbal soup reached our table is still piping hot leh! You will notice every table sure to have to soup. What more to say??!!

1st time tasted this vegetable! Nice! FB friend Wendy said this veg is call ' sayurumi' woh!

Fresh and juicy lala! Yummy!!

This fish is cut half - Half to steam. Fresh and sweet!

The other half - Grilled, taste even better

Sambal chilis to go with the grilled fish!

Grilled Stingray for another day's dinner

Local delight, Balitong

By 7.00pm is crowded with diner liao! patrons standing around to pick their favorite sea food. The chef is willing to recommend you the good foods

GPS direction : 5.387474 N,100.27496 E

Koay Chap (Rice flour Noodles) 粿汁 - Dining Out

Dining out

On early Saturday morning, we left Penang at 6.45am and headed to Alor Star. It was a working trip for my husband, we just tagged along during the 2 weeks school's break. Arrived Sg Petani almost 8.00am.

Koay Chap - This authentic hawker delight seemed only can be found in Sungai Petani, Kedah. Correct me, if otherwise. The stall opens early in the morning, and by 9.30am the food is sold out. We saw local people came to 'ta pau' (literary means buy in pack to take away). So, be sure to go there earlier to avoid disappointment.

The stall owner told us that when he was 13 years old, he followed and helped out his father to man the stall, today the business is entering to the 3rd generation.

Location - Its in the town center opposite the Sg Petani TM office. A lane behind a row of shops, selling foods in the morning only.

Seaweed & Beancurd Rolls 紫菜卷

Accumulating quite a number of recipe yet to post onto my blog! My apology for those who follow and support me!

Here is the recipe of this healthy seaweed & Bean curd Rolls

3 sheets seaweed or nori
3 sheets bean curd sheets cut to the same size as the seaweed

For the Filling
200gm fish paste
100g shelled prawns (diced)
1 small carrot (grated)
100 gm yambean or sengkuang (chopped) I omitted this simply bcoz I don't it in my kitchen
4 chinese mushrooms (soaked, diced)
3 tbsp diced spring onions

Seasoning
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp caster sugar
1 tbsp fish sauce
2 tbsp cornflour
some pepper
1 tsp oyster sauce

For coating

2 eggs (lightly beaten)
1 cup sieved tapioca flour ( I used cornflour)

Method

1. Combine filling ingredients with seasoning and mix into a sticky paste. Divide into three parts.
2. Blush some egg onto a piece of bean curd sheet, then top with a piece of seaweed to stick both together. Spread in a part of filling, roll up and seal the edge with egg, repeat process.
3. Coat the seaweed rolls with beaten egg and roll over tapioca flour. Deep-fry in hot oil till golden. Dish out, cut into pieces.
4. Serve hot with chilli sauce and/or mayonnaise.

Enjoy!