3/3/2015 Tuesday : Meals of the Day

Good morning dear mummies ~

Simple meals for my 19mo lo....

I remembered one mummy asking if she can pan fry the hash brown instead of baking it in the oven. I tried pan fry this morning but it was not so easy as the texture is soft. I pan fried it very carefully and finally done. But I still prefer the baking version. Haha... easier and not oily.

Breakfast : baked eggplant with potato cheese topping and melon yogurt smoothie

Lunch and Dinner : star pasta v short spaghetti in mushroom sauce

Teatime: potato cheese pancake and orange juice

Baked eggplant with potato cheese topping

Ingredients 

1 organic eggplant

1/2 potato

1 tbsp grated cheddar cheese

10g unsalted butter

Some dried parsley

Steps:

1. Slice eggplant into 5mm thickness, soak in salt mild water and rinse dry

2. Steam potato then mash with butter and cheese, add in some dried parsley, mix well.

3. Spread the potato mixture on every slice of the eggplant.

4. Bake at preheated oven of 180'C for 25mins or light golden brown on topping.

Melon yogurt smoothie

2" thick slice of rock melon

1 tbsp natural yogurt

Blend till smooth.

Star pasta v short spaghetti in mushroom sauce 

Ingredients 

Any types of desired pasta, cook as per instructions 

Mushroom soup

Ingredients :

Cauliflower 1-2 florets

2 big size brown button mushroom

20g cheddar cheese

1/2 cup full cream milk

1/2 cup water

1 clove of garlic

Steps:

1) slice the garlic. Sauté the garlic the some olive oil

2) cut the mushrooms into smaller size

3) put the mushrooms, garlic,cauliflower, milk into a container and use a hand blender to blend them till smooth. (Use normal blender also okay)

4) pour the blended mixture into a sauce pan, add in water and cheese, dash some pepper powder. Cook till boiling and cheese melted.

5) off fire and done. Ready to serve warm by itself or serve with pasta or rice.

To cook with frozen mushroom soup

Fresh vegetables : red, yellow & orange pepper chilli( can use capsicum too) diced

Few stalks organic fresh grey mushroom

1/2 slice of ham (optional)

2-3 tbsp frozen garden pea

Steps:

1) heat pan with some grape seed oil, add in ham to stir fry till light golden brown

2) add in all other ingredients and stir fry for 1 min

3) pour in 6-7 oz mushroom soup and dash of pepper powder.

4) cook till boiling then add in the cooked pasta then mix well and off fire.

5) ready to serve warm

Potato cheese pancake (hash browns but pan fry version)

Hash Brown

Ingredients : 

50g cooked potato

2 tbsp rolled oat

10g grated cheddar cheese

Steps:

1) soak rolled oat with hot water for 20mins (if lo is below 10mo, soak at least 4 hours), drain away the water.

2) while soaking the oat, boil 1 medium size potato with skin on for 15mins

3) peel off potato skin and weight 50g quantity and cube it into roughly 5mm cube size

3) mix all 3 ingredients by a spoon gently.

4) scoop 1 tbsp of the mixture on the non stick baking sheet and shape by the spoon and damp fingers. (Yield 5 hash browns )

5) bake at preheated oven of 190'C for 20mins or light golden brown.