Jiaozi

Dough
500 g Plain Flour
1 Cup Water (room temp)
1 Tbsp Oil
Pinch of Salt

Filling
300 g Minced Pork
300 g Minced Prawns
500 g Chinese Cabbage (chopped, squeeze with some salt, strain)
1 Cup Kucai (cut finely)
1/2 Cup Chopped Spring Onion
2 Tsp Chopped Ginger

Seasoning
3 Tbsp Sesame Oil
1 Tbsp Soy Sauce
2 Tbsp Rice Wine
1 Tsp Corn Flour
Salt and Pepper to Taste

Dipping Sauce
1 Part Soy Sauce
1 Part Black Vinegar
Shredded Ginger

Method

1. Mix dough ingredients and knead well. Let it rest for 30 minute
   
2. Mix filling ingredients with seasoning.


3. Knead the dough until smooth and divide into small balls.
   
4. Roll the portion into circle
   
5. Place a small portion of filling in the middle of each wrapper, fold them inot the shape of a crescent, or make small pleats along one side of skin.


6. Blanch dumplings in boiling water, strir lightly to prevent sticking.


7. When water is at rolling boil, add a small amount of water for it to subside, and wait till rolling boil again.


8. Repeat 3 times.


9. Remove, strain and serve with dipping sauce.


10. Alternatively, pan-fry to make gyoza. Serve with dipping sauce.

Chinese Style Beef Brisket

Made this "Mann Ngau Lamm" a few days ago for the Pot-Luck Brunch. I know the picture don't look too good, but was quite yummy (praising myself here!!! :-D )


Ingredients
Beef Brisket (Cut into chunks)
White Radish (cut into chunks)
Garlic
Green Shallots
Soy Sauce, Black Sauce
1/2 Star Anise and 2 cloves
2 Pcs "Fu Yue" (Fermented Bean Curd)

1. Fry garlic and green shallots fragrant.
2. Add in the beef chunks, and fry for about 5 minutes.
3. Add in the white radish, sauces, Fu-Yue and the spices, plus water to cover.
   
4. Wait till boil, then turn the fire down.
   
5. Simmer till the beef brisket is soft and tender.
   

Banoffi Pie....

Recipe is courtesy of Judy... But I doubled the amount of digestive biscuits and butter. The other ingredients' measurements are kept unchanged. Also, used chocolate digestives instead of the normal ones.

Crushed Digestives
Digestive Biscuits Base

Toffee/Caramel Poured onto Biscuit Base
Bananas Arranged Evenly on Toffee/Caramel
Final Product

Yummy Donuts!

We bought a dozen of Yummy donuts today.
LOOK at how lovely they are!!!


There's 3 Al Capone on the left. 4 Glazzies, 1 Oreology, 2 Coco Locos 1 Snow White and 1 Mango Blitz.

My Favorite???
AL CAPONE, of course!

Crunchy Californian Almonds on White Belgian Chocolate...

Fruity Cupcakes

Made cupcakes with the boys last Friday. Usually, we make plain butter cupcakes. But this time, I itchy-fatt added some Sunquick into the cake mixture. The taste of the final product is quite tangy and nice. But S2 didn't really like it, although he LOVES to drink Sunquick. Anyway, the boys had the icing colored ORANGE. Does look abit like Halloween, yeah??

Apple Crumble and Ice-Cream

Made Apple Crumble this afternoon. S1 is a terrible fruit-eater, and the number of fruits that he would eat can be counted on one hand. Even fresh apples, he has trouble eating...But pop them into a crumble, he would happily devour them. I know nothing beats fresh fruit...but some kind of fruit is better than NO fruit, right?

Picture of Apple Crumble with Vanilla Ice-Cream.

Recipe

100 g Block Butter
200 g Flour
180 g Sugar
6 Apples (Peeled, cored, and diced)
Cinnamon Powder
Vanilla Essence

1) Arrange apples onto an oven-safe casserole dish
(I like to use PYREX as I can see the apple layer)
2) Add half of the sugar into the apples and mix well.
3) Sprinkle cinnamon powder and vanilla essence
4) Rub the flour and butter until resemble breadcrumbs
5) Mix in the remaining sugar.
6) Pour crumble mixture onto the apples, and pat lightly
7) Bake in a preheated oven of 180 deg C for about 50 minutes.
Note: This recipe makes quite a BIG tray

Onion Loaf

Went to Tony Roma's with H and the boys last Saturday. We ordered a Family Feast and an onion loaf. Managed to take a picture of the onion loaf but the boys ATTACKED the meats when the Family Feast came. What to do? We are a family of carnivores!!!! So, unfortunately, no pictures of the meats. There were BBQ Chicken, Fried Shrimps, Carolina Honeys Baby Back Ribs. Boys really loved the tender juicy ribs...

Contrary to popular belief...it is quite easy to get PORK over here. Even the baby back ribs served at the Tony Roma's in this populous Muslim country are PORK ribs. As I'm told (not been there personally), the Tony Roma's in KL serves Beef Ribs. Where got shiok???

Anyway, the onions were all arranged very neatly in rows and the into a ring, ie. with a hole in the middle where they put the dipping sauce.