Simple Cooking Ideas

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Another chicken pie dish for the kids. The kids will like to eat for their lunch or dinner. So busy mothers do try to make this pie on a not-so-busy day. The pies can be kept in the fridge if you cannot finish in a day. Pies can be eaten warm or cold. However, many are discouraged from making them because they have the impression that pastry is difficult to make. This is no longer a problem, for pastry is available at most supermarkets.

Try this easy to make filling for a quick pie.

Ingredients:

1 chicken breast chopped into finger-sized cubes
3 chinese mushrooms soaked, rinsed and cut into cubes
or 1 cup canned botton mushrooms cut into cube
5 medium potatoes, cut into cubes
2 medium onions, chopped
2 pieces garlic, chopped
1/2 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 chicken cube
1 teaspoon cornflour mixed with a littl water.

Method:

In a sauce pan, fry the onions and garlic, add in the chicken cubes and stir-fry for a minute. Throw in the potatoes and contiue to stir-fry for 2 minutes. Add in the mushrooms. fresh milk,sugar, salt and pepper to taste. Simmer till the potatoes are soft and the chicken is cooked. Thicken with cornflour mixture.

Place the filling into pie shell and top it with second sheet of pastry. Fold the edges of the pastry together to seal the pie with fluted edge pattern. Brush the pie with beaten egg yolk. Bake in the oven for 45 minutes at 180 degrees celsius. or until it turns a golden brown.

This stir-fried dish is quick to cook and is very suitable for lunch or dinner accompany with a dish of green vegetable and a bowl of soup.

Ingredients:

500 gm meduim size fresh prawns,peeled shells and deveined
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon MSG
1 tablespoon black soya sauce
1 teaspoon cornflour mix with a little water
some cucumber and chinese parsley

Method:

Marinate prawns with soya sauce and MSK. Set aside. Heat enough oil to fry prawns till cooke. Set aside.

Remove oil from wok and leave 1 tablespoon oil and saute garlic until fragrant.Add in prawns and stir-fry a minute, follow by the rest of the ingredients except cornflourand cucumber.Add half bowl of water and cook until it boils.

Add cornflour mixture to thicken sauce.Simmer till boil and remove. Garnish with cucumber slices and parley.

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During the weekend when there is time left, bake a cake for the children to eat. Here I introduce a walnut cake that my daughters used to eat for snack and tea time.

Ingredients:

250 gm plian flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
250 gm butter
4 eggs Grade A
240 gm castor sugar
2 teaspoon instant coffee
2 tablespoon hot water to mix
100 gm walnut (chopped)
3 tablespoon

Method:

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in eggs one at a time until well mix.

Sift flour together with baking powder and put aside. Next,combine coffee with hot water. Add in evaporated milk to mix with cofee.

Blend well,alternately with flour, coffee mixture and walnut. Pour batter into a well greased round cake tin in a moderate oven for 40 minutes. Cake is done when it has shrunk slightly from side.

The fruit of Capsicum plants have a variety of names depending on place and type. They are commonly called chili pepper, red or green pepper, or just pepper in Britain and the US; the large mild form is called bell pepper in the US, capsicum in Australian English and Indian English, and paprika in some other countries (although paprika can also refer to the powdered spice made from various capsicum fruit).
Capsicum fruits and peppers can be eaten raw or cooked. Those used in cooking are generally varieties of the C. annuum and C. frutescens species, though a few others are used as well. They are suitable for stuffing with fillings such as cheese, meat or rice.

They are also frequently used both chopped and raw in salads, or cooked in stir-fries or other mixed dishes. They can be sliced into strips and fried, roasted whole or in pieces, or chopped and incorporated into salsas or other sauces.

They can be preserved by drying or pickling. Dried peppers may be reconstituted whole, or processed into flakes or powders. Pickled or marinated peppers are frequently added to sandwiches or salads. Extracts can be made and incorporated into hot sauces.

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