Chocolate Turon

I made dessert last Sunday. This dessert is a common street food in the Philippines and it is called Turon. This is a chocolate version of the turon.

The picture attached, I know, doesnt look appetising - oily n soggy, but seriously it is heavenly. Even my angel almost wallop half of what I made. I didnt hv the big spring roll wrapper and my bananas were overripe. I will definitely try my hands at this again. I will just need to get the right size for the spring roll wrapper and bananas should be just ripe! Try making this Chocolate Turon. I am sure you'll like it!

Ingredients

4 ripe bananas
8 spring roll wrappers
1/2 cup semi sweet choc chips
oil for frying

Method

Slice bananas into half crosswise then half each piece lengthwise.
Place one half of banana flat side up on a spring roll wrapper.
Arrange a layer of choc chips to the surface of banana.
Cover choc chips with other half and wrap as in a spring roll.
Repeat for the rest of bananas.
Heal oil in a pan and fry spring rolls till golden in colour.
Drain oil in paper towel.

Chicken Wrap

For Sunday's lunch, since there were leftover roasted chicken - mainly the breasts, from Saturday's "lunner", I thought hey why not make Chicken Wrap. I had all the ingredients needed except for tomatoes to make the Chicken Wrap. Here it is the pic and recipe.

Ingredients

flatbread
cooked chicken, shredded
onions, sliced
lettuce, shredded
mazorella cheese, shredded
mayonnaise
chilli sauce

Method

Spread some mayonnaise on the bread.
Fill with chicken, onions and lots of lettuce.
Then sprinkle some mazorella cheese.
Fold the bread into 2 and toast it on a pan or put it in a preheated oven till the cheese melts.

Serve drizzled with chilli sauce.

I also made a dessert for Sunday's lunch which I will share tomorrow. Check out this space again yah!

Seafood Fried Noodle

Like mentioned in my earlier blog, my buddies came to my house on Saturday afternoon. We went grocery shopping before we head home though.

So for lunner - dats lunch cum dinner .. hehehehe .. we had Seafood Fried Noodle that we fried our own and Spring Chicken (1 Roasted and the other fried) that we bought.

I also made Baked Kueh with Mince Meat aka Kueh Bakar Berlauk that we had with pandan tea. Izz also managed to make Crab Rangoon using the cheese mixture that I had prepared and froze some time ago.

My buddies left about 7pm bringing home with them the Kueh Bakar Berlauk, Crab Rangoon and the leftover Fried Noodle.

Here I share the Seafood Fried Noodle recipe, courtesy of Mila aka Dimplez.

Ingredients

3 eggs, beaten
2 big onions, ground
3 cloves garlic, ground
15 dried chillies, soaked and ground
1 pack dried plain maggi-like noodle (can be found at a supermart)
250g prawns
1 pack fishball, sliced
1 pack crabstick, sliced diagonally
2 tbsp sweet soy sauce
2 tbsp tomato sauce
1 tsp salt
oil for frying
spring onions and fried shallots to garnish

Method

Heat a pot of water then boil the noodle till aldente, drain off the water and put aside.
Heat some oil in a wok and fry the beaten eggs and put aside.
Use the same wok, heat more oil and fry the ground ingredients till frangrant.
Put in the prawns, fishball and crabstick.
Toss in the noodle then eggs.
Season with soy sauce, tomato sauce and salt.

Serve garnished with spring onion and fried shallots.

Baked Kueh with Mince Meat aka Kueh Cara Berlauk

Since last Friday was a holiday, I experimented on a new recipe - Kueh Cara Berlauk. This recipe requires the use of a Kueh Cara mould but I didnt have one hence I used my mini muffin tin instead. This is one of my favourite kueh. In fact, anything with mince meat is my fave.

Anyway, as promised, moi dearest hubby, this savoury stuff - Kueh Cara Berlauk was baked with love especially for you.

Ingredients (Mince Meat Mixture)

1 cup mince meat, pre cooked
1 onion, diced
1 clove garlic, diced
1 tbsp curry powder
oil for frying
salt to taste

Heat oil in a pan and fry the onion, garlic and curry powder till fragrant.
Add mince meat and salt to taste.

Ingredients (Batter)

2 cups flour
1 cup coconut milk
2 cups water
1 egg
salt to taste
yellow colouring

Blend/Mix all of the above and strain.

Garnish

red chillies, sliced finely
spring onion, sliced finely

Method

Preheat oven to 175 dec C and grease muffin tin.
Pour batter into mini muffin tin 3/4 full.
Put in a little mince meat.
Garnish with spring onion and red chillies.
Cover the top of tin with aluminuim foil and bake for 30 mins.
Turn out when cook and serve on a plate.

It's Been a While

Whoa .. it's been a while .. almost 2 weeks since I last updated my blog. I have been bz with work and two weeks ago I also attended a workshop called Writing Back by Ron Kaufman.

I also took leave last Wed and Thur just to unwind. Initial plan was to go on a short trip to Penang but hubby couldnt take leave. So I went for a self indulgence trip instead in urban Singapore - spa treatment and shopping. Hubby also managed to take half day leave last Thursday so we ate lunch at Straits Kitchen @ Grand Hyatt. Chef Wan, a Malaysian celebrity and chef was there and we managed to take a pic with him.

He is soooooo friendly. Really no air. What you see on TV is exactly the same what you see outside TV. Just one disappointment though - I wanted to get his cookbook with his autograph but unfortunately it was sold out.

Last Saturday, my buddies and I went for a Chocolate Therapy class where we learnt about chocolate, how it was made and stuff and also did some hands on, making Choc Nibblers, Rocher and Knackerli. After the therapy my buddies and I went shopping at Giant, Bedok and then went to my house to cook a lil something.

I've got to go now. Will update more on food in the days to come yah ie the recipes and the pix as well .. dat I promise!

Chapati and Keema

I prepared Indian food for dinner yesterday - Chapati and Keema. Actually mum prepared part of the ingredients for me as I do not have the slightest idea of how to cook Keema. Mum then explained to me the other ingredients that I need to prepare and how to cook them.

As for the chapati, I bought them frozen from the supermarket. Just need to heat it up on a non stick pan for a few minutes and it is ready to eat.

Thanks mum for the great Keema recipe!

Ingredients

3 onions, diced
3 cloves garlic, pound
1 cm ginger, pound
1 level tsp ground coriander
1 level tsp ground cumin
4 heapful tbsp ground dried chilli
1 tbsp tomato sauce
2 small potatoes, cubed
1 small carrot, cubed
3/4 cup water
500 gm mince meat (pre cooked)
Chicken granules and salt to taste
Oil for frying

Method

Heat oil in a pot.
Fry onion, garlice and ginger till soft.
Add in ground coriander, cumin, ground chilli and tomato sauce and fry till frangrant.
Put in diced potatoes and carrot and add in water.
When potatoes and carrot are almost soft, add in the precooked minced meat.
Put in chicken granules and salt to taste. Mix well.

Serve keema with chapati.

Pig Out, Chill Out & Let Out!

My buddies and I decided to meet up at the eleventh hour yesterday just to "chill out". We planned to meet at Bedok MRT. They had to wait a long time before I arrive as I had to fetch the kids home before going out to meet them. My buddies were expecting me to drive but the rain had dampened my confidence to drive and I took a cab instead.

We settled for MacDonald's Cafe, East Coast. With the Extra Value Meals, upsize mind you, and sides like corn and apple pies, the 3 of us really "pig out".

We also had our after meal of Chocobanana Cake and Double Choc Frappe.

So while having our after meal, we actually "let out" almost about anything and everything - from work to our own personal lives to marriage lives to other people's lives, etc.

We left the place at 11pm feeling lighter really .. a load off our chest.

To my budddies - U gerls know wat?? We should do this again and I mean it .. ;-)