Stir Fry Egg Noddle a.k.a Mee Goreng

Mee Goreng is one of my favorite food which I like to make when I'm not in good mood to cook or want something quick and healthy (I believe it's healthier than indomie goreng:)). Especially when my stomach is start singing and need a quick meal to stop the annoying noise. I always have plenty of stock dry egg noddle as well in my pantry which help me a lot when I need it.

Ingredients:

350 gr dried egg noddle

2 eggs, lightly beaten

150 gr prawn

100 gr chicken, thinly sliced

4 beef ball, thinly sliced

1 carrot, julienned

1.5 cup shredded cabbage

2 stalk celery, diagonal sliced

1 spring onion, cut into 1 cm

1 cup chicken stock

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp ground white pepper

soy sauce

sweet soy sauce

1/4 cup rice bran oil

Marinating chicken:

1 tsp soy sauce

1/2 tsp sugar

1/4 tsp ground white pepper

Marinating prawn:

a pinch of ground white pepper

a pinch of salt

Spice paste:

4 garlic

2 shallot

2 roasting candle nut

1/4 tsp whole white pepper

Direction:

Mix all the marinating sauce and marinate chicken for 10 minutes or more. While marinating chicken, I can start work mortal and pestle to make the smooth paste, chop veggies and boil water for cooking noodle. Drain the cooked noodle and mix well with sweet soy sauce. Heat some oil in the wok to make scramble egg. put a side. Pour some oil, brown the chicken, add prawn and beef ball. put a side. Heat the rest of oil, cook the spice paste until aromatic, drop in the veggie, chicken stock, noodle, meat and egg. Mixed well and seasoned with soy sauce, sweet soy sauce, ground white pepper and salt according to taste. Serve with crispy fried shallots.

Chicken Karaage

Haven't make this dish for a while because I don't buy chicken thigh so often. Mostly, I like to buy chicken breast because it doesn't take much time to clean and take off the excess fat. As far as I know, usually in Japanese restaurants, they use chicken thigh to create this dish, so I want to follow them to create something close to authentic one:)

Ingredients:

200 gr chicken thigh, cut into strip

1 egg white, lightly beaten

some corn flour for coating

some oil for frying

Marinating sauce:

1 tbs tamari

1 tsp rice wine

1 tsp sake

1 tsp mirin

1 tsp grated ginger

1 tsp sugar

a pinch of ground white pepper

Salad:

1/2 carrot, julienned

1 cup shredded cabbage

Dressing:

1/4 cup ponsu sauce

1 tsp sesame oil

Direction:

Mix all the marinating sauce together and marinated chicken thigh for at least 1 hour. Dipped chicken pieces into lightly beaten egg white and coated with corn flour. Deep fry in hot oil until golden brown. Usually it takes about 2 minutes for both sides. Serve with mayonnaise and salad side dishes.

Green Tea Frappuccino

With 37'c weather, I always want to find something cold to beat the summer heat. Thinking for a while, what's the best to have. When I checked out my pantry, found out that I got plenty stock of green tea milk powder, so my choice go to green tea frappuccinno which is one of the easy and quick to make.

Ingredients:

6 tsp green tea milk powder

1 tsp green tea powder

1/2 cup warm water

2 tsp sugar

1 cup low fat milk

2 cup ice cube

Direction:

Dissolved sugar, green tea milk powder and green tea powder with warm water. Blend all the ingredients together. Serve immediately, topped with whipped cream and dust with some green tea powder. See, how easy is it..and it's finished within 5 minutes, express to make express to finish it:)

Betawi Chicken ala Chef Lonny

Searching on Google, come up with recipe from Chef Lonny. Since, it's just use simple ingredients and for sure it's available in my pantry, so I decided to try this recipe. I do recommend as it's really yummy, refreshing and surely, you will ask for more rice to finish it. Warning: it's best to have ASAP, don't keep until next day or you will loose the original flavour. So, better to cook according to your portion, as I only cook 1/3 of the recipe and serving for two.

Ingredients:

200 gr chicken breast, sliced.

100 gr AP flour

A pinch of salt

A pinch of ground white pepper

1 tsp Garlic powder

2 garlic, finely diced

2 shallot, finely diced

1 tsp ground coriander

sweet soy sauce

1 tsp sambel oelek

Lemon juice

some sugar

some oil

Direction:

Mix flour, salt, pepper and garlic powder. Coated chicken breast into flour mixture. Drain the excess flour. Quick fried into hot oil. Don't over fried or chicken will become hard and loose it's moisture. Put a side. Heat 1 tbs oil, sauteed garlic and shallot, add sambel oelek, ground coriander, sweet soy sauce, sugar and lemon juice. It will become a thick sauce, pour into the fried chicken breast and mix well. Serve immediately.

Tofu Omelette with peanut sauce a.k.a Tahu telor

I usually cook Tofu a lot in Chinese food version. It's been long time I never make this dish, when it suddenly come up in my mind, perhaps it the sign that I miss home:( This is one of the authentic Indonesian food, which you will find a lot in Java. I have no idea exactly if this is consider as Java food or not, cause I see a lot too in my hometown. So, regardless wherever it come from, one thing for sure, it's yummy, express and surely you will love it.

Ingredients:

2 tofu cube, diced into cube and fried half done.

2 egg, well beaten.

a pinch of salt

a pinch of white ground pepper

1 tbs oil

Peanut sauce:

75 gr peanut, fried and ground it using mortal and pestle

2 garlic, sliced and fried with peanut

1/2 tsp salt

60 ml water

2 tbs sweet soy sauce

1 tbs sugar

Direction:

Mix tofu with lightly beaten egg, seasoned with salt and pepper. Heat the oil and pour in the egg mixture, let it set for a few minutes or until the color is brown.

Making peanut sauce:

Process all the ingredients using mortal and pestle to make it smooth.

Serving:

Pour over the peanut sauce over the tofu omelette's, serving with some slice boiled potato, prawn crackers and crispy fried shallots.

Ended 2008, Getaway to Daylesford - Mineral Spring Spa and Goodies from Choc Mill

It's pretty hard to make a day trip in Melbourne due to weather that keep changing all the times. So lucky for us, that on 30 Dec 2008 was a nice sunny day which was a perfect day to drive along country side. There are plenty of interest place to explore in Victoria, I think we made the right one to drive to Daylesford. It's about 2 hours driving from our place. Consider pretty long driving, as there is not much to explore over there. However, it's worthed to visit Chocmill for chocoholic like us:) and Hepburn for those who enjoy spa as I did. I do love Chocmill and definitely will drive there again some times during this year. The chocolate was marvelous, once you eat it, you can't stop it (sound like there's some addictive on it, but it's pure Belgian chocolate). Herewith some memories and goodies from Chocmill which I'm sure will make everyone drooling...

Chocolate machine to produce fresh chocolate


Display that definitely will make you drool





Yummy chocolate ice cream topped with dark choc



And finally, our goodie bag: assorted dark choc to enjoy at home when we miss Chocmill.

Banana and Strawberry smoothies

Summer is identical with berries around the supermarket. One of our favorite beside blueberry is strawberry. With plenty of strawberry in my fridge, I love to make smoothies to refresh the hottest summer. I like to mix with banana too. Smoothies is my shortcut to finish up the over riped banana, which I think nobody like to eat it when we look at the dark brown banana skin:) So, I enjoy having over riped banana in smoothies instead of throwing to rubbish bin. Here is my simple and refreshing banana and strawberry smoothies:


Ingredients:
1 cup strawberries, diced
1 banana, diced
1 cup anlene low fat milk
1 cup anlene low fat yoghurt
1 cup ice cubs
1 tbs honey diluted with 2 tbs warm water

Direction:
Blend all ingredients until smooth and serve immediately. Better to have it within 30 minutes or it will not fresh anymore:)