Parent's Wishes

To my dear children,
If ever you forget to be kind to us, please remember this ....

http://parentswish.com/site02/big.html

Baked Tumeric Chickthighs

I adapted this recipe from the Kitchencapers website.

Here's sharing with you the recipe ....

Ingredients:

about 1 kg chicken thighs
1 tbsp tumeric powder
1 tbsp ginger juice
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp DOM
1 tsp salt

Method:

Marinate the chicken thighs for at least 1 hour or more.
Pre-heat oven at 220 degree C.
Place seasoned chicken thighs onto aluminium foil on tray.
Bake the chicken thighs for 30 minutes or till the skin turn a golden yellwish brown.

Baked Hickory Chickwings

Got to know about using this seasoning when my friend B shared her lunch with me sometime ago. I managed to buy this from Cold Storage and used this to season the chickenwing sticks.
The chickwings tasted good and dh commented that they tasted like the chickwings were BBQ.

Here's sharing with you the recipe ....

Ingredients:

1 kg chicken wings
3 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp sunflower oil
2 tbsp chinese wine
1 tbsp Hickory sauce (liquid smoke)

Method:

Marinade the chicken wings with the above ingredients for at least an hour.
Pre-heat oven at 220 degree C.
Place seasoned chicken wings on aluminium foil on tray.
Bake chicken wings for 30 minutes or till skin turn golden brown.
Serve hot.

Brownie Muffin

I got the recipe from a fellow blogger and adapted it to make it moist. The family loved this and it's very easy to do. I even baked more of it for a class party and gave them out as gifts.


Here's sharing with you the recipe (makes 12 standard muffin cups).

Ingredients:

3 tbsp Valhorna Chocolate powder
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup AP flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup evaporated milk
1 tbsp Bailey's Irish Cream
2 beaten eggs
1/2 cup chocolate chips

Method:

Pre-heat oven at 180 degree C.
Sieve the flour , chocolate powder and baking powder together.
Mix all the wet ingredients together and then pour them into the dry ingredients.
Add in the chocochips and mix well.
Place the batter into muffin cups and bake them for 15 mins.
Cool the muffins and place them in air-tight containers.

Nutty Mochi

What can I do with some of the left over moonie filling I had? I made Japanese Mochi out of them and they tasted good. I couldn't stop myself eating them and my brother loved them too.
The filling was made of the white lotus paste with almond nuts and sesame seeds and dried orange peel. The skin recipe was obtained from Baking Mum's blog. Thanks LeeLee for sharing the recipe.

A whole lot of information and other Mochi recipes can be found in the website below ...

http://www.geocities.com/scocasso/mochi/mochi04/mochi04.htm

Below is the Mochi skin recipe I used ....

http://bakingmum.blogspot.com/2006/11/mochi.html

Lavender Cookies

My first introduction to dried lavender flowers was when I read about a fellow blogger baked cookies using them. I had a chance to purchase these dried flowers at Shermay's cooking school and they were expensive. I paid almost $10 for a packet of 20 g dried lavender flowers for cooking and baking. I searched the internet for a simple drop cookie recipe using these precious flowers and baked them.

Presenting the final product here. See the precious flower peering from just the cookie surface. The flowers are tiny but they really gave a lovely fragrance while the cookies were baking and after which the fragrance lingered on in the container where the cookies were kept. The recipe gave a soft and chewy cookie and the lavender fragrance gave a new experience to eating them.

Here is also sharing the website to know how to use these lovely dried lavender flowers.

http://whatscookingamerica.net/Lavender.htm

Here's is the recipe I used ....

Ingredients:
2 tsp dried lavender flowers
2 cups AP flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
125 g salted butter, soften
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
2 tbsp evaporated milk
1 tbsp Irish Cream Bailey

Method:

Pre-heat oven at 180 degree C
Sieve together baking powder and flour.

Whisk butter and sugar together till fluffy.

Add in the beaten egg, Irish Cream Bailey and milk.

Add in the dried lavender flowers and stir well.

Add in the flour and stir till well combined.

Drop tsps of cookie dough onto cookie sheets lined with baking mat.

Decorate with quinns.

Bake for 10-15 mins or till cookie turn a golden brown.

Cool completely on a wire rack before storing in an air-tight container.

Cornflakes / Rolled Oats Cookies

My family and my parents loved them to bits.. I managed to find the time to bake these last weekend. The recipe was adapted from Kitchencapers contributed by Gina here. Thanks Gina for sharing the recipe.

Rolled Oats Cookies

Cornflakes Cookies

Here's how I did mine .....

Ingredients:

180 g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
125 ml sunflower oil
90 g caster sugar
1 beaten egg
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 cup cornflakes or rolled oats
a couple of tbsp of milk to bind the ingredients if you still find it dry.

Method:

Sift flour, baking powder and soda together.
Mix in the sugar, cornflakes or rolled oats till well mixed.
Add in the oil, essence, beaten egg and milk and stir till a dough is formed.
Use a cookie scoop or spoon to form balls and place them on cookie trays.
Bake in a pre-heated oven of 180 degree C for 15 mins. or till cookie turns a golden brown.
Remove and cool on wire rack completely.
Store in air-tight container.

Beef Slices With Onion and Oyster Mushroom

This is one of my family's favourite beef dish. The recipe was adapted from The Chinese Pregnancy and Confinement Cookbook by Ng Siong Mui.


Ingredients:

400 g beef fillet
1 big onion, wedged
1 clove garlic, minced
half a packet of oyster mushroom

Marinade for beef slices ....

1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp light soya sauce
1 tsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp ginger juice
1 tbsp chinese rice wine
1 tbsp potato starch
2 tbsp oil

Method:

Heat up a cooking pot with 2 tbsp of oil and stir fry the onion wedges and oyster mushrooms till
fragrant. Put aside for further use.

Heat up another tbsp of oil and stir fry the minced garlic till fragrant.

Add in the marinated beef slices and stir-fry them for a minute and then add in the sauted onions and oyster mushrooms. Stir fry for another minute.

Add in about a quarter cup or less of hot water and let beef slices simmer for about a minute.

Ladle out and serve hot with white rice.