Simple Cooking Ideas

This is a Thai dish which is popular in Thailand. It is basically ‘chilli hot’with the addition of locally grown aromatic herbs and grass. Here is a quick home-cooked tom yam for those who like a spicy taste of the soup.

Ingredients: serves 6

6 large fresh prawns, shelled and deveined, leaving the tail intact
2 stalk lemon grass
5 shallots
5 chill padi, seeded and cut into half
3 kaffir leaves or limau perut leaves
2 tablespoon oil
30 gm ready bought sambal belacan
freshly chopped coriander leaves
2 litres water

Method:

Shelled and deveined the prawns, leaving the tail intact. retain the heads. Cut the lemon grass into short lengths and pound alittle with the back of a knife. Cut the onions finely. Half the chilli padi. Heat the oil in a pot and stir-fry the onions, lemon grass, prawn heads for about 3 to 4 mins and add the water. Add in the limau perut leaves and sambal. Cover pot and bring to boil. Lower heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Add the prawns and cook till tender but still firm. Pour in the lime juice and add salt to taste. Throw in the chopped coriander leaves and serve immediately.

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In the recipe, you have to get ready with four types of cheese to add in. This cheesecake is for those who does not like to eat too sweet and you will enjoy eating it. Do have a try.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 tablespoon Butter (for pan)
1/4 cup Fine breadcrumbs, toasted
1/4 cup Finely grated cheddar cheese
6 oz Thinly sliced ham
1 1/2 lb Cream cheese, room temp.
3/4 lb Sharp cheddar, grated
1 cup Cottage cheese
3/4 cup Chopped green onion
4 Eggs
3 teaspoon Jalapeno pepper
2 tablespoon Milk
1 Garlic clove, chopped

Method:

Preheat oven to 325. Butter 9″ springform pan. Mix breadcrumbs and 1/4 cup cheddar. Sprinkle mixture into pan, turning to coat. Refrigerate. Dice about half of ham; reserve remaining slices. Mix diced ham with remaining ingredients in blender or processor until smooth. Pour slightly more than half of filling into prepared pan. Top with reserved ham slices in even layer. Cover with remaining filling. Set pan on baking sheet. Bake 1 1/4 hours. Turn oven off and cool cheesecake about 1 hour with door ajar. Transfer cheesecake to rack. Remove sides of pan. Cool to room temperature before serving.

Rabbit meat is not widely eaten as a delicacy, compared to chicken or mutton. Mostly this cute cuddly thing is kept as a pet. The meat is said to be low in cholesterol and calorie levels compared with other meats. It is rich in proteins and further more it is widely believed to have aphrodisiac properties.

Ingredients:

500 gm rabbit meat
50 gm mushroom, previously soaked and cleaned
50 gm carrot, cut into slices
200 gm ‘choy fah’
100 gm spring onions
10 pips garlic, minced
100 gm ginger, cut into slices
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1 tablespoon soya sauce
salt and MSG to taste
1 tablespoon Fah Tiew wine
1 teaspoon cornflour mixed in a little water

Method:

Clean rabbit and cut into thick slices. Heat a frying pan and fry the meat without oil until it is yellowish in clour. Take out the meat and rinse with water to clear off any smell. Heat wok with oil and fry ginger and garlic, until fragrant. Add in the meat and mushrooms, oyster sauce, soya sauce, water, salt, MSG, sugar and Fah Tiew wine. Allow it to boil until meat is tender. Then take out and pour into the claypot. Continue to simmer until meat is soft. Finally add the carrot, choy fah and spring onion. Thicken the gravy with the mixed cornflour and bring to boil for 1 minute. Serve while is hot.

A casserole is labour saving way of cooking. Everything goes in, meat, vegetables and gravy. You can cook it early in a day and heat it up later on. But casserole must be cooked slowly, because when you add fluid to meat, quick cooking will make it tough. It must be cooked gently amd simmer longer time until the meat is soft.

Ingredients:

500 gm boneless lamb
1 tablespoon soya sauce
1 teaspoon black sauce
1 tablespoon tomato sauce
2 large onion, cut into wedges
2 cloves garlic (do not crush)
2 thin pieces sliced ginger
2 carrots, cut into wedges
300 gm potatoes, peeled and cut into wedges
3 medium tomatoes, cut into wedges
1 teaspoon salt
1 stock cube
black pepper, freshly ground
1 tablespoon cooking oil
1 tablespoon cornflour mix with a little water

Method:

Cut the meat into bite-sized cubes and marinate with soya sauce, black sauce and tomato sauce. Add salt and pepper to taste. In a pot, add oil and sty-fry garlic, ginger and big onion. Add in the meat and continue to stir-fry a minute. Pour in 2 cups of hot water. Add in the rest of the vegetables and a stock cube. Bring to the boil. Lower heat and simmer till the potatoes are soft and the meat is tender. Thicken the gravy with cornflour mixture. Simmer till done. Garnish with chop spring onion and parsley when serve.

This isn’t your normal lunch treat; it’s a homemade good dessert pizza.

Ingredients:

* find any kind of sprinkles you have
* Chocolate sauce
* Nutella, or custard sauce
* A tortilla

Method;

1. Spread Nutella on a tortilla (you can cook the tortilla if you wish).
2. Put chocolate sauce on it.
3. put on your sprinkles

Tip: Hershey’s chocolate sauce would go great with it.

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