19/7/2017 snoopy bento with minced meat tofu

今天的妈咪有睡迟了~ 昨晚收拾厨房里的一些便当用具到很夜，所以今天的精神有点不足。但是宝宝的食物也不能忽略。。于是快手快脚地做了个简单的香蕉杯子蛋糕，史努比肉碎豆腐便当和鲜橙奶昔给小公主。

Very embarrassing to say that, mommy was lazy to wake up again this morning ended I started to cook at 5.50am. Fast hand fast leg to cook rice, put my gal's clothes to laundry, take out minced meat from freezer, mashed the banana, made banana cake, cook the minced meat tofu, blend the Orange milkshake, take out the banana cupcakes from oven, continue the remaining cookie dough from yesterday, shaped and baked, assemble the Bento, boiled the quail eggs. DONE.

Today i used 1/2 of the recipe and yield 3 pcs cupcakes

baked at 175'C for 15 mins only

(100g batter each)

Banana Cake

Ingredients

½ Tbsp. butter for greasing the baking dish (i didn't)

1 ⅔ cups (208g) all-purpose flour

½ tsp. salt (i put 1/4tsp)

½ tsp. baking soda

½ tsp. baking powder

½ cup (113 g) butter, soften

50g cane sugar

2 large eggs, at room temperature

1 Tbsp. cooking oil (vegetable, canola, grapeseed oil)

1 tsp. vanilla extract

3-4 ripe bananas (about 200g)

½ - ⅔ cup raisins (optional)

1 additional banana for topping

Steps:

1) Preheat oven to 175°C and grease an 8” square baking dish with butter (bottom and sides).

2) In a bowl, combine flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder and whisk all together.

3) In another bowl, combine soften butter and sugar and whisk well.

4) Add eggs, oil, and vanilla extract and beat with the whisk until well blended.

5) Mash bananas with a fork and mix into the egg mixture.

6) Add the flour to the banana mixture and stir just until blended. Add raisins, if you prefer.

7) Pour the batter into the prepared pan, spreading it evenly with the rubber spatula. Slice 1 banana thinly into rounds and decorate on top of the banana bread.

8) Put the pan in the oven and bake at 175°C until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean, about 1 hour.
9) Remove the baking dish from the oven and let cool for 20 minutes. If you don't eat right away, wrap each slice or the whole cake with plastic wrap. Store at the cool place and enjoy within 2-3 days. 

baked in 9" square pan on 25/5/2015

4/7/2017用了2个5寸的圆蛋糕模，175‘C烘烤35分钟

香蕉蛋糕
材料：
少许抹烤盘的奶油（我没抹油，也很容易脱模）
208g 低筋面粉/普通面粉
1/4茶匙 海盐
½茶匙 小苏打
½茶匙 泡打粉
113克 无盐奶油，软化
50克 有机蔗糖
2个大鸡蛋，室温
1汤匙 植物油（玉米油，米糠油，葡萄籽油）
1茶匙 香草精 （我没有放）
3-4条 熟的香蕉（约200g）
½ - ⅔杯 葡萄干（我没有放）

另外1条香蕉，切片，铺在蛋糕面糊上面

做法：
1）预热烤箱至350°F（175°C），并用奶油（底部和侧面）涂上一个8“方形烤盘。
2）在一个大碗中，混合面粉，海盐，小苏打和泡打粉。
3）在另一个碗中，将软化的奶油和糖搅拌均匀。
4）然后加入鸡蛋，植物油和香草精，搅拌均匀。
5）用叉子把香蕉压成泥，加入蛋糊中，拌匀。
6）把粉类加入到香蕉蛋糊中，用橡皮刮刀，轻拌混合。 （不要过度搅一面起筋）
把葡萄干加入（可不放）
7）将面糊倒入准备好的蛋糕模，用橡皮刮刀把表面抹平。将1条香蕉切片，装饰在香蕉面糊上。
8）送入已经预热175°C的烤箱里烘烤约1小时。 （如果分2个蛋糕模烘烤的话，时间可以缩短，烤35分钟即可），用竹签插入蛋糕，出来是干净的就是熟透了。如果表面不够上色，可以把烤盘移至上层，让蛋糕快速上色。
9）从烤箱中取出烤盘，待凉20分钟。如果不立即享用，用塑料包裹每片或整个蛋糕。存放在阴凉处，2-3天内享用。

snoopy bento 史努比便当

Minced meat Tofu

Ingredients:

100g minced meat

1 box organic soft tofu

some carrot

1 cloves garlic

2 small scallion

1 tsp liquid amino

Some oil

Dash of pepper powder

1tsp corn flour+2 tbsp water

Steps:

1) crush the garlic and scallion, slice the carrot

2) heat pan, add some oil. sauteed garlic and scallion till fragrant then add in minced meat and stir fry.

3) add in carrot and tofu and continue stir frying.

4) add 1/4 cup of water and cook till boiling.

5) add in liquid amino and dash of pepper powder. add in the corn flour mixture to thicken the sauce.

6) off fire and done.

肉碎豆腐

材料：

100g 豬絞肉/肉碎

1盒 有機軟豆腐

一些 胡蘿蔔

1片 蒜米

2粒 小蔥頭

1茶匙 液體氨基

一些 植物油

胡椒粉 適量

1茶匙 玉米粉+ 2湯匙水

做法：

1）剁碎蒜米和小蔥頭，胡蘿蔔切片。

2）把鍋加熱，倒入一些油， 蒜米和小蔥頭碎炒香，然後加入豬絞肉拌炒。

3）加入胡蘿蔔和豆腐，繼續拌炒。

4）加入1/4杯水，煮至沸騰。

5）加入液體氨基和胡椒粉。然後加入玉米粉混合物，煮至濃稠。

6）熄火，完成。

昨天没有用完的杏仁燕麦饼干面团，今天做成手指饼干形状。

remaining cookie dough from yesterday and i made it into finger shape cookies.

Almond Oatmeal Cookies recipe / 杏仁燕麦饼干食谱

https://haruko5350.blogspot.my/2017/01/almond-oat-cookies.html

我使用的无盐寿司紫菜

the seaweed that i use in making sushi or shaping 

04/07/2017 (Tuesday) 香蕉蛋糕

Bento of the day

I baked in 2 pcs 5" round pan today

Banana Cake

Ingredients

½ Tbsp. butter for greasing the baking dish (i didn't)

1 ⅔ cups (208g) all-purpose flour

½ tsp. salt (i put 1/4tsp)

½ tsp. baking soda

½ tsp. baking powder

½ cup (113 g) butter, soften

50g cane sugar

2 large eggs, at room temperature

1 Tbsp. cooking oil (vegetable, canola, grapeseed oil)

1 tsp. vanilla extract

3-4 ripe bananas (about 200g)

½ - ⅔ cup raisins (optional)

1 additional banana for topping

Steps:

1) Preheat oven to 175°C and grease an 8” square baking dish with butter (bottom and sides).

2) In a bowl, combine flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder and whisk all together.

3) In another bowl, combine soften butter and sugar and whisk well.

4) Add eggs, oil, and vanilla extract and beat with the whisk until well blended.

5) Mash bananas with a fork and mix into the egg mixture.

6) Add the flour to the banana mixture and stir just until blended. Add raisins, if you prefer.

7) Pour the batter into the prepared pan, spreading it evenly with the rubber spatula. Slice 1 banana thinly into rounds and decorate on top of the banana bread.

8) Put the pan in the oven and bake at 175°C until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean, about 1 hour.
9) Remove the baking dish from the oven and let cool for 20 minutes. If you don't eat right away, wrap each slice or the whole cake with plastic wrap. Store at the cool place and enjoy within 2-3 days. 

baked in 9" square pan on 25/5/2015

今天用了2个5寸的圆蛋糕模，175‘C烘烤35分钟

香蕉蛋糕
材料：
少许抹烤盘的奶油（我没抹油，也很容易脱模）
208g 低筋面粉/普通面粉
1/4茶匙 海盐
½茶匙 小苏打
½茶匙 泡打粉
113克 无盐奶油，软化
50克 有机蔗糖
2个大鸡蛋，室温
1汤匙 植物油（玉米油，米糠油，葡萄籽油）
1茶匙 香草精 （我没有放）
3-4条 熟的香蕉（约200g）
½ - ⅔杯 葡萄干（我没有放）

另外1条香蕉，切片，铺在蛋糕面糊上面

做法：
1）预热烤箱至350°F（175°C），并用奶油（底部和侧面）涂上一个8“方形烤盘。
2）在一个大碗中，混合面粉，海盐，小苏打和泡打粉。
3）在另一个碗中，将软化的奶油和糖搅拌均匀。
4）然后加入鸡蛋，植物油和香草精，搅拌均匀。
5）用叉子把香蕉压成泥，加入蛋糊中，拌匀。
6）把粉类加入到香蕉蛋糊中，用橡皮刮刀，轻拌混合。 （不要过度搅一面起筋）
把葡萄干加入（可不放）
7）将面糊倒入准备好的蛋糕模，用橡皮刮刀把表面抹平。将1条香蕉切片，装饰在香蕉面糊上。
8）送入已经预热175°C的烤箱里烘烤约1小时。 （如果分2个蛋糕模烘烤的话，时间可以缩短，烤35分钟即可），用竹签插入蛋糕，出来是干净的就是熟透了。如果表面不够上色，可以把烤盘移至上层，让蛋糕快速上色。
9）从烤箱中取出烤盘，待凉20分钟。如果不立即享用，用塑料包裹每片或整个蛋糕。存放在阴凉处，2-3天内享用。

throw back 19/12/2014 Friday

Can mummies imaging that carrying a 11kg weight while preparing food? My 16.5 mo lo was waking up at 6am and I have no enough time to make her sleep again as my food still cooking half way... As hubby is on business trip and i have no choice to carry her with carrier while cooking at the same time...

Breakfast: Baby Roti Canai + hard boiled egg + mango strawberry yogurt

Lunch : kunbu chicken porridge + pomegranate

Teatime: banana cake + mango strawberry yogurt

My lo took half piece of roti canai while i was carrying her and some pomegranate.

(Feel my shoulder is stiff and tired... Wooo... Wooo...)

Baby Roti Canai

Ingrediants:

250g all purpose flour/medium protein flour

1 egg

1 tbsp sugar/muscovado

15gm unsalted butter

1/8 tsp salt (can omit for lo below 1yo)

100ml water

some olive oil for pan frying

steps: (i use bread maker)

1) put all the above ingredients into bread maker and on "dough" function for 20mins. If using hand knead, knead till no more sticky and smooth. (if dough is too dry, add water; if dough is too wet, add flour)

2) let it rest 20mins by cover with damp cloth/cling wrap (for hand knead); just let it sit inside the breadmaker and switch off the power.

3) divide dough into 50g each and brush some butter or vege oil and cover with cling wrap. for lo maybe 30g each dough. Rest dough at least 6 hour or overnight.

4) put some oil on the table top, take a small dough and press it till flat and lightly stretch it and do as the roti canai maker to flip it... (haha..i cant do it...i just stretch it as far as i can)

5) pan fry it with some olive oil till both sides golden brown

Mango strawberry yogurt

Ingredients:

1/2 mango

2 strawberries

2 tbsp greek style natural yogurt

blend together till smooth

i tasted it and its super yummy as the sweet mango has neutralized the sourness of the yogurt...

Banana Cake 

Ingredients (A)

100gm flour

1 tsp baking powder 

20gm sugar 

Ingredients (B)

1 egg

100gm banana puree

60ml grapeseed oil

60ml buttermilk (i pour 60ml milk into 1 tsp lemon juice, and let it stand for 5mins)

Steps:

1) Sieve flour and baking powder

2) Mix with sugar

3) Mix (B) together

4) Combine (A) and (B) to s smooth batter

5) Pour batter into baking mould / baking tray

6) Bake at 170’C for 15-20 mins or insert a bamboo stick and comes out clean.

Kunbu Chicken Porridge

Ingredients:

1/2 chicken breast

1 inch carrot

goji berries

kunbu

3 tbsp mix grain rice

water

Cook in the slow cooker for 1-2 hours

16/5/2016 (mon) 香蕉蛋糕

Happy Monday dear all...

Very embarrassing to say that I was lazy again to get up from bed this morning and resulted my gal was having super simple lunch.. hope later she will have some vegetables to top up.

We went to IKEA cheras yesterday and my gal enjoyed so much with the toys and playing tents. Finally mommy decided to buy her the playing tents and a rabbit soft toy and daddy is the one paid money... Keke..

Yaki Edamame (Pan Roasted Edamame)

Ingredients:

50g unshelled Edamame (green soybeans) 

1 tsp sesame oil

pinch of salt

50ml water

Steps:

1. Wash and cut off both ends of the pods with scissors.

2. Heat sesame oil in a frying pan and cook Edamame on medium until golden brown.

3. add in salt and water into the pan, cover, and cook for 2 minutes.

4. Uncover and cook until water evaporates.

麻油煎煮毛豆

材料：

50克 帶殼毛豆

1小匙 麻油

鹽少許

水50ml

做法：

1. 洗淨並用剪刀切斷毛豆的兩端。

2. 熱鍋加入麻油和毛豆，煎炒至金黃色。

3. 加入鹽和水，蓋上鍋蓋，煮2分鐘。

4. 打开锅盖和煮至干水即可。

Cheesy Garlic Stew Chicken Drumstick 

(in udon)

Ingredients:

2 small bowls cooked udon (85g each bowl)

2 chicken drumsticks

5 cloves garlics (crushed)

1/3 cup milk

1/2 cup water

dash of pepper

1 slice natural cheddar cheese

Steps:

1) heat pan, add in some oil. Sauteed garlic till fragrant.

2) add in the drumsticks and pan fry till light golden brown.

3) add in water, close lid. simmer till almost dry.

4) add in milk and quick cook with high heat.

5) add in pepper and off fire.

6) place drumstick on top of udon noodle and put 1/2 slice cheese on top of each drumstick

7) bake in preheated oven at 180'C for 10 mins or till cheese is melted.

蒜香奶酪悶雞腿

佐烏冬麵

材料：

2小碗烏冬麵

2隻 雞腿

5瓣 蒜頭（剁碎）

1/3杯 牛奶

1/2杯 水

胡椒粉 適量

2片天然切達乾酪片

做法：

1 ）把鍋加熱，放一點油爆香蒜泥。

2 ）把雞腿加入翻炒至略帶金黃色。

3 ）加水，然後蓋上鍋蓋。煮至幾乎收汁。

4 ）加入牛奶開大火快速煮乾。

5 ）加入胡椒粉，熄火。

6）把雞腿放在烏冬麵上面，把1/2切片奶酪放在鸡腿上面。

7）在已经预热180'C的烤箱烘烤10分鐘，或至奶酪融化。

Easy Banana Cake

Ingredienst:

120g Cake flour/Plain Flour

1 tsp Baking powder

1/8 tsp Baking soda

pinch of salt

1 egg

30g organic cane sugar/ Brown sugar

150g mashed banana 

35g melted unsalted butter / vegetable oil

1 tsp vanilla extract 

30g fresh milk/soy/rice milk

Steps:

1) Preheat oven to 180 degrees

2) Combine flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda

3) Lightly beat egg with sugar, then mix in banana, vanilla extract, milk and oil

4) Add banana mixture to dry ingredients, stir well

5) pour into 2 × 20cm aluminium cake pans and bake for 25-30 mins and insert a skewer comes out clean.

简易香蕉蛋糕

材料:

120 克低筋面粉

1茶匙  无铝泡打粉 (baking powder)

1/8茶匙 蘇打粉（baking soda）

鹽 少許

1隻 雞蛋（打散）

30克 有机蔗糖/黃糖

35克 融化牛油/菜油

150克 熟透的香蕉（用匙羹壓爛）

1茶匙 雲呢拿香油 (vanilla extract)

30克 牛奶

做法: 

1）先把烤箱預熱到180C度。

2）混合麵粉，糖，鹽，泡打粉和蘇打粉

3 ）打散鸡蛋與糖，再拌入香蕉，香草精，鮮奶

4 ）把香蕉混蛋糊倒入粉类，攪拌均勻

5）倒入2 × 20厘米鋁泊蛋糕盤，烤25-30分鐘，把木签插入以测熟透。

溫馨提示：

這個食譜非常簡單，不用打蛋器，只需要一個木匙羹或膠刮。

Homemade Dried Apple Snack

Ingredient:

2 organic apples

1/4 tsp salt

2-3 bowls drinking water

Tools required: Food Dehydrator and oven

optional way to keep apples from browning:

 1 cup water + 2 tbsp honey, soak apple slices for a few minutes.

Steps:

1) add salt in the water, stir well

2) wash, peel skin (not to peel if using organic apple, remove core, slice into 2mm thickness

3) soak the cut apple in the salt water for few seconds

4) drain away the salt water and pat dry the apple with kitchen towel (can skip this if no kitchen towel)

5) lay all the apple slices on the rack, do not over lay them

6) set temperature 70'C, on the fan for 8 - 12 hours (depending on the moisture in the fruit)

7) after the apple slices are dried, the texture of the dried apple is chewy

8) bake at preheated oven of 100'C for 15-20'C, the texture of the dried apple is crunchy now.

If using oven only, 120'C for 2 hours.

自製蘋果乾小吃

材料：

2粒 有機蘋果

1/4茶匙 鹽

2-3碗 煮过的水

所需工具：食品脫水机和烤箱

做法：

1）把盐和水混合。

2）苹果洗净切成大约2mm的厚片。

3）把苹果片浸泡在鹽水幾秒鐘。

4）滴干鹽水，用廚房紙巾吸掉水分（如果沒有廚房紙巾可以跳過）。

5 ）均匀的把苹果摆在脱水機架上，不要重叠。

6）設定溫度70'C ，在風扇8 - 12小時（視水果的水分）

7）蘋果片乾燥後，还不是很脆的。

8）預熱烤箱100C度烘烤15-20分钟。

如果没有食品脱水机，可以直接使用烤箱。

做法：

1）把盐和水混合。

2）苹果洗净切成大约2mm的厚片。

3）把苹果片浸泡在鹽水幾秒鐘。

4）滴干鹽水，用廚房紙巾吸掉水分（如果沒有廚房紙巾可以跳過）。

5）把苹果均匀的摆在烤架上。

6）放入烤箱中层。

  7）启动对流风扇，120度，大约2个小时。

**苹果片烤制前用柠檬水泡一下或用淡盐水煮一下可以有效防止氧化变色

**烤好的苹果干要密封保存，尽快吃完，以防受潮后发霉变质。

25/5/2015 Monday Blue gal

My 22mo lo was crying badly this morning when I left home to go to work.... What a Monday blue day for her... after sticking to mummy 24hours since Friday night.

This morning I only cooked 2 type of foods and 1 is frozen mantou cooked previously.

Breakfast: Steam pumpkin & black sesame mantou (my gal finished 1 and half of the mantou) and a cup of fresh milk ( i prepared walnut milk but she rejected and mil offered her fresh milk)

Lunch & Dinner: Mee sua & hard boiled egg with kunbu black fungus pork soup

Teatime: Banana cake & strawberry yogurt 

Recipe of Pumpkin Mantou

Recipe for Black Sesame Mantou

Mee sua with radish corn chicken soup

Meesua ~ cooked and rinse with ice cold water then add 1 tsp olive oil or grapeseed oil

Soup base ~ 1 chunk of pork tenderloin, 1/2 slice of organic kunbu, 1 pc of black fungus, 3-4 cups water,  Boil for 30-45mins.

Recipe was shared by Just One Cookbook (Facebook)

RECIPE with step-by-step pics: bit.ly/MoistBananaBread

Banana Cake

Ingredients

• ½ Tbsp. butter for greasing the baking dish
• 1 ⅔ cups (208 g) all-purpose flour
• ½ tsp. salt
• ½ tsp. baking soda
• ½ tsp. baking powder
• ½ cup (113 g) butter, soften
• ½ cup (100 g) sugar (I used 50g muscovado sugar only)
• 2 large eggs, at room temperature
• 1 Tbsp. cooking oil (vegetable, canola, grapeseed oil)
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 4 ripe bananas
• ½ - ⅔ cup raisins (optional)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C) and grease an 8” square baking dish with butter (bottom and sides).
2. In a bowl, combine 1 ⅔ cup flour, ½ tsp salt, ½ tsp. baking soda, and ½ tsp. baking powder and whisk all together.
3. In another bowl, combine ½ cup soften butter and ½ cup sugar and whisk well.
4. Add 2 eggs, 1 Tbsp. oil, and 1 tsp. vanilla and beat with the whisk until well blended.
5. Mash 3 bananas with a fork and mix into the egg mixture.
6. Add the 1 ⅔ cups flour to the banana mixture and stir just until blended. Add raisins, if you prefer.
7. Pour the batter into the prepared pan, spreading it evenly with the rubber spatula. Slice 1 banana thinly into rounds and decorate on top of the banana bread.
8. Put the pan in the oven and bake at 350°F (175°C) until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean, about 1 hour. Remove the baking dish from the oven and let cool for 20 minutes. If you don't eat right away, wrap each slice or the whole cake with plastic wrap. Store at the cool place and enjoy within 2-3 days. 

24/3/2015 Tuesday: Meals for my 20mo lo

Woke up sharp at 4am, DL my lo, changed her diaper and hardly let her sleeps again today. Finally I escaped from bed and go down to start preparing foods for her.

Breakfast : sweet potato rice sticks and mango yogurt

Lunch and dinner : mee sua with chicken apple corn soup

Teatime : Banana steamed cake and orange juice

sweet potato rice sticks

Ingredients:

Sweet potato : rice 
1:1 ratio
And some water

Blend them together till smooth.
Pour into a plastic bag. Cut a small hole and squeeze on parchment paper. Bake at 180°C for 10-15 mins or slightly golden brown.

Mango Yogurt

1/2 ripe mango

2-3 tbsp plain yogurt

1/2 tsp honey

Blend till smooth and ready to serve cold

mee sua with chicken apple corn soupMeesua, cooked and rinse with ice cold water then add 1 tsp olive oil or grapeseed oilSoup base: 1 pc of apple, 1/2 stick of sweet corn, 1 pc of chicken tight, 8 pcs of red dates

Banana steamed cake
Ingredients: (5 muffins)
1 Egg
1 Tbsp sugar
1 medium ripe banana (200g)

2 tbsp full cream milk
1/2 Cup Cake Flour
1 tsp Aluminum free Baking Powder
1 Tbsp Grape seed oil (or any flavorless oil)

Steps:
1.Sift together flour and baking powder, set aside.
2.In a mixing bowl, whisk together Egg and sugar till fluffy. ( I used hand whisk till bubbly only)
3.Mix in mashed banana, milk, and oil, beat till combine.
4.Add in flour mixture and mix well.
5.Pour Batter into muffin pan, lined with muffin cups.

6.Steam over high heat for 10 mins or till an inserted skewer comes out clean.