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:)

X-mas Dinner Menu - East meet West

While the x-mas lunch is so popular in Aussie, I'd prefer to have x-mas dinner which's allowed more time to prepare the stuffs. Our X-mas 2008 celebration were simple and tasty with mostly home made meals plus some dinner breads from new Korean bakery shop and take away roasted duck from Chinese restaurant:) and special menu that I was looking forward to cook: Turkey breast stuffed with the recipe I found from Food Ideas magazines. So, what did I have for x-mas dinner? Basically, it's a combination of East and West menu, to fulfil every body's taste.
First, for the appetizer, we had dinner bread with butter and Peking Duck wrapped.
The main course was turkey breast stuffed served with Rosemary Roasted Potato, Salad Mix with Asian dressing sauce, Green bean with crispy crumbs, honey buttered dutch carrot and Garlic steam Lobster bough by my mother in law.
I like something sweets for the dessert. My first choice was black forest cake by Gordon Ramsay, with the recipe from Australian Good Food Magazines. As soon as our stomach were singing, then I forgot everything:), so some pictures were forgotten to be taken as well.

Here is the tiny crunchy dutch carrot with the picture taken before cooking:)

Turkey Breast stuffed wrapped with bacon.




Yummy Gordon Ramsay's Black forest cake recipe with my own decoration.

Stir Fry Rice Vermecelli a.k.a Beehon Goreng

We usually just have light, simple and quick lunch. Big and complete meals only served for dinner. Here is one of my favorite express lunch with some basic ingredients that I have in my pantry and fridge to create a such of simple and delicious meal.



Ingredients:
200 gr rice vermicelli, soaked with warm water
1 ea medium size carrot, julienned
2 stalk spring onion, chopped into 2 cm
2 cup shredded cabbage
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 tbs dried shrimp, soaked with warm water
5-6 tbs Rice bran oil

Marinated:
1/2 part of chicken breast, thinly sliced
1 tsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp ground white pepper
1 pinch of sugar
1 tsp garlic powder

Mixing sauce:
1/2 cup chicken stock
1/2 tsp chicken powder
4 tbs sweet soy sauce
2 tbs soy sauce

Spice paste:
3 cloves garlic
3 shallots
1/2 tsp whole white pepper
1/2 tsp salt

Directions:
Heat the wok with about 2 tbs rice bran oil. Make a scramble egg. Set aside. Add a bit oil, stir fry the chicken just until lightly brown (not over cooked as chicken breast will become hard), set a side. Add another 2-3 tbs oil, cook the spice paste until aromatic, add dried shrimp, carrot, cabbage, spring onion and stir fry for 1 minutes, then add the rice vermicelli, egg and chicken. Pour in the mixing sauce and continue stir fry and fold until well mixed. I used my giant wood chopstick to well combined. Top it with crispy fried shallot.

Wholemeal Blueberry Muffin

When we saw that blueberry was on sale on Aldi we rushed there quickly. As from our previous experiences, all the good values stuffs will sold out quickly. So far, I've watched out the supermarket catalogue every week, I never see blueberry sell at $1.99/box. We like blueberry much and don't want to miss that good opportunity. As soon as we arrived in Aldi, I grabbed 3 packs:). With plenty stock of blueberry in my fridge, my favorite baking is blueberry muffin, because it's fast, easy and yummy. I used to make muffin a lot with the basic recipe that I got in the packaging of healthy baker flour. I like this recipe and fit perfectly with our taste. Originally it recipe for raspberry crunch muffin with SR flour, but I just modified according to what I have in my pantry. This time, I want to experience of using SR wholemeal flour. Here is our favorite blueberry muffin:


Ingredients:
2 1/2 cup SR wholemeal flour
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
100 gr butter, melted
1 cup buttermilk
1 tbs vanilla extract
125gr fresh blueberry

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 180'C. Mix the flour and sugar in a bowl. In another bowl, whisk to combine egg, butter, buttermilk and vanilla. Add to flour mixture and stir until well combine. Gently stir in blueberry. Spoon the mixture to the muffin pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes.

Chocolate Madeleines

Madeleines are a great company to enjoy our lazy afternoon tea. There are easy to make, with the simple ingredients and tools. I got this recipe from my cooking book collection by Donna Hay - Simple Essential Chocolate with a little bit adjusting in sugar contents cause we don't like too sweet cake plus I dusted with some icing sugar. These madeleines are turn pretty good and yummy.

Ingredients:

2 eggs

65 gr caster sugar

50 gr AP Flour

1 tsp Baking powder

2 tbs Cocoa powder

60 gr melted butter

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 180'C. Whisk egg and sugar in a medium size bowl. Sift flour, baking powder and cocoa over the egg mixture and fold through with the melted butter. Spoon the mixture into greased madeleines tins and bake for 10 minutes or until its set. Dusted with icing sugar.