Dinner - Before & After

~ Posted on Monday, March 2, 2015 at 12:40 PM ~

Last year, I wrote about a look back into my home-cooked journey so far. Then shortly before the end of 2014, I wrote a post on my preparation when cooking. Then I thought, "Why not snap a picture of before start cooking and the final results after cooking?"

So, here you go..

Top part of the picture is the ingredients all ready to be cooked on 6th February 2015. From top left (clockwise): Slices of pork marinated with sugar, sweet soy sauce, Worchestershire sauce, salt and pepper, Asian sea bass (siakap), a cup of chopped scallions, a cup of corn kernels, 2 eggs beaten, a cup of chopped onions, a cup of sweet sauce mixed with water, sugar, salt.

Dinner - Before & After

My dinner dishes for that day? Click on the dish name to check out my recipe.

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Dinner - Before & After

~ Posted on Friday, February 20, 2015 at 6:03 AM ~

Last year, I wrote about a look back into my home-cooked journey so far. Then shortly before the end of 2014, I wrote a post on my preparation when cooking. Then I thought, "Why not snap a picture of before start cooking and the final results after cooking?"

So, here you go..

Top part of the picture is the ingredients all ready to be cooked on 14th January 2015. From top left (clockwise): Prawns marinated with turmeric powder and chilli sauce with 3 stalks of curry leaves, a bowl of sweet soy sauce with water and salt pepper, minced pork marinated with sugar, sweet soy sauce and cornstarch, a spoonful of sliced garlic, prawns with chopped garlic and sweet snap peas, a small bowl of oyster sauce with water and a little bit sugar.

Dinner - Before & After

My dinner dishes for that day? Click on the dish name to check out my recipe.

  • Stir-fry Prawns with Sweet Snap Peas in Oyster Sauce

  • Stir-fry Minced Pork with Garlic

  • Stir-fry Butter Prawns

In case you are interested to view my other recipes, feel free to hop over to my Recipe Library page for more info!

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Breadmaker Recipe - Home Made White Bread

~ Posted on Friday, February 13, 2015 at 6:56 AM ~

For this post, I am sharing my 1st breadmaker recipe, Home Made White Bread. We were out grocery shopping at Tesco when hubby beckoned me over to have a look at some breadmakers sold there. After a quick Whatsapp session with my buddy (she's using one too), we decided to get the Tesco breadmaker (model BM10). I got this recipe online and followed it exact to the dot.

Ingredients:
* 1 1/3 cups of room temp water
* 1 tbsp of sunflower oil (for my 2nd attempt, I replaced this with VCO)
* 1 tsp of salt
* 2 tbsp of sugar
* 3 1/3 cups of bread flour/high Protein flour/high gluten flour
* 2 tsp dried yeast


Methods: 
* The key is to put in the liquid ingredients, followed by semi liquid and finally the dry ingredients. So add water follow by oil, flour, salt and sugar.
* Tap the pan lightly to settle the flour.
* Make a small hole at the center of the flour heap. Add the yeast there.
* Lock the breadpan in the bread maker.
* Set the program to "Basic" follow by loaf size and select the crust color. (I didn't change any settings, and leave it as default)
*  The bread maker will complete the task in 3 hours.

Outcome:

This recipe is definitely for keeps!

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