throw back 22/12/2014 Monday

Happy Winter Solstice to all mummies!

Yesterday we ate Tang Yuan at my mother's house and my 16.5mo lo also enjoyed eating it~ so today i made her something in ball shape too... Mini meat ball~

Breakfast: bear/piggy sweet bun + strawberry yogurt drink

Lunch: mee sua with vege soup base + meat balls + orange juice

Teatime: Red Bean Dessert

40 mins method soft milk bun

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon instant yeast

1 tablespoon brown sugar

1 tablespoon caster sugar

1/3 cup warm milk

2 tablespoon olive oil

1 cup bread flour (can add more flour if too wet and can't form a dough)

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon beaten egg

remaining egg add in some milk for egg wash

filling:

some cheddar cheese

some raisin 

Steps:

1. Add instant yeast, brown sugar, caster sugar, olive oil, milk into a mixing bowl, stirred it and rest aside for 10-15 mins till you will see floating foam as showed in the picture.

2. Mix in flour, salt and 1 tablespoon of beaten egg then use a spatula to fold and mix well the mixture into a dough form.

3. Then use electric kneading hook to knead for about 5-10 mins or till well combined.

4. Roll, cut and shape into 8 small doughs.

5. Grease little oil on the baking pan and line the dough in, cover with wet cloth and let it proof for about 10 mins. ( If sufficient time, let it proof for 20mins)

6. Brush egg wash onto the bread.

7. Bake at pre heat oven at 180 degrees C for 10mins (baking time vary for different oven)

Meat Balls

Ingredients:

Minced meat 20-30g

small egg 1 pc

cabbage, spinach and shallot (chopped finely)

pepper and salt to taste

sesame oil 1/2 tsp

corn flour 1 tsp

mix everything together and then pan fry till both sides golden brown.

p/s: use damp hands to form the balls or pancake shape..

Red Bean Dessert

Ingredients:

precooked red bean 2-3 tbsp

muscovado sugar 1 tsp

milk 1 tbsp

water 1/2 cup

cook to boil and can be served cold or warm/.

9/9/2015 Wednesday 雙色珠寶甜點

Good morning dear all mummies!! 

Yesterday my lo finished all the Fish bun biscuits and requested for some more.... So,  I bake another batch using the batter kept in the freezer...

Squeezed some butterflies and fish for her and hope she likes it..

Breakfast: Butterflies bun biscuit, stew lotus root, fresh Barhi dates and fresh milk

Lunch: Meesua with beetroot soup and broccoli and kunbu

Teatime: Two tune Honey balls, baked lotus root flakes and carrot juice 

魚兒麵包餅/蝴蝶麵包餅

（原食谱自：米亞妮 QQ，略改一點 ）

材料：

雞蛋2顆，無鹽奶油25g，牛奶/水90cc，高筋麵粉55g，2 茶匙蔗糖

做法：

1.高筋麵粉用濾網過篩備用。

2.將牛奶，糖和無鹽奶油放入鍋內，中小火煮至沸騰，轉小火。

3.將高筋麵粉倒入用木匙快速攪拌。

4.攪拌到麵粉完全成糰且不沾鍋子即關火。

5.麵團放至手摸不燙時，將蛋液分2次慢慢加入，每次都要攪拌均勻才可加的蛋液(約加了1顆半的蛋液) 麵糊如有成糊狀就可以不用在加蛋液了。

6.將麵糊裝進塑膠袋中剪一個小洞0.5mm,擠出魚的形狀或數字或任何喜歡的形狀，要保留間距。

7.放入預熱至190度C的烤箱中烘烤18分鐘或表面金黃，用餘溫在燜5分鐘即可取出。 （各家烤爐請自己拿捏，我家烤爐不給力，需要200度）

備註：昨天我把麵糊分成2份。已經烤了一份。另外一份收在冷凍庫，可以收一個星期左右哦。 。忙碌的媽咪們可以在下一次的烘烤節省時間哦。 。今天烤的就是冷凍庫裡的那份。

FISH/ BUTTERFLIES Bun Biscuit

Ingredients :

2 eggs

55g high protein flour 

90g fresh milk or full cream milk or water

25g unsalted butter 

2 tsp muscovado sugar or any sugar or omit

Steps :

1) sieve flour and set aside 

2) cook milk, sugar and butter in a wok with low heat until boiling

3) add in flour and stir quickly with a spatula until dough is form and non stick

4) off fire and remove dough from the wok, let it cool down

5) when hand can touch on dough,  add in egg 1 by egg, mix well 1 egg then only add in another 

6) once the dough turns into very wet dough, can stop adding egg (you may refer the photo below for the texture)

7) put the well mix batter into a plastic bag 

8) Pre heat oven at 190'C 

9) cut a 0.5 width hole at the edge of the plastic,  squeeze out the fish shape or any shapes or alphabets on the non stick baking sheet laid on the baking tray

10) bake for 18mins or till light golden brown, turning halfway, sit in the off oven for 5 mins.

Meesua with beetroot soup stock, stew lotus root and broccoli

Steps:

1) cook misua till tender, rinse dry, soak in cold icy water for 30 secs, rinse dry again, add 1 tsp grapeseed/olive oil and mix well)

Beetroot soup stock (can refer weekend soup stock)

Stew Lotus Root

Ingredients :

2"-3" lotus root

1 tsp Amino liquid / less salt soy sauce

1/2 tsp brown sugar

1 cup water

1 slice kunbu (10cm x 10cm)

1 tsp vinegar

some sesame seeds

few drops sesame oil

Steps :

1) peel and slice the lotus root in 4-5mm thickness

2) soak the sliced lotus root in vinegar and sufficient water to cover it for 15mins.

3) in a small pot, cook water, kunbu, sugar, liquid amino and lotus root with medium fire till liquid turns thick, add in sesame oil and off fire.

4) pour out and sprinkle with some sesame seeds.

5) ready to serve warm or as cold dishes.

Broccoli 

Cook broccoli in boiling water, few drops oil and pinch of salt for 3 minutes.

由於馬來西亞最近空氣很污染，希望煮些可以防止呼吸道感染和清熱的甜點給寶寶吃。翻了食譜書籍，找到了這個還不錯的食譜，就試做了。 。 。

雙色珠寶甜點

材料：

1根 胡蘿蔔

1粒 雪梨

1/2  茶匙蔗糖

1/2  茶匙天然蜂蜜（蜜糖）

水適量

做法：

1. 將雪梨去皮；用挖球器挖成圓球。

2. 胡蘿蔔去皮洗淨，用挖球器挖成圓球。

3. 在一個小鍋裡加水，放入蔗糖煮滾。

4. 加入胡蘿蔔球，用小火煮10分鐘。然後才加入雪梨球，中火熬濃（大概5分鐘）。

5. 用玉米粉勾薄芡，淋入蜂蜜，即可勺出裝盤。

6. 冷熱食用皆美味。

小叮嚀：

如沒有挖球器，可用刀把“雙球”切成櫻桃般大小即可。水不可多放，成品菜以芡汁裹勻原料為宜，不要有太多湯汁。

營養分析（載自網絡）

梨：梨含有蛋白質,脂肪,糖,粗纖維,鈣、磷、鐵等礦物質,多種維生素等.具有降低血壓、養陰清熱的功效。

胡蘿蔔：胡蘿蔔能提供豐富的維A,可促進機體正常生長繁殖、維持上皮組織、防止呼吸道感染與保持視力正常、治療夜盲、胡蘿蔔素有維護上皮細胞的正常功能、防治呼吸道感染、促進人體生長發育及參與視紫紅質合成等重要功效。

Two Tunes Honey Balls

Ingredients:

1 carrot

1 golden pear

1/2 teaspoon brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon of honey 

Adequate amount of water

Steps:

1. peel and dig golden pear into ball shape.

2. peel and dig carrot into ball shape too.

3. In a small pot, cook water and sugar till boiling

4. add in the carrot balls, shimmer for 10 minutes. Then add in the golden pear balls too and cook for another 5 minutes.

5. add in corn flour water mixture to thicken the sauce.

6. add in honey and ready to serve Hot or cold.

挖剩的胡蘿蔔和雪梨，可以打成果汁，不會浪費哦~

throwback 30/9/2014 (14 mo)

September 30, 2014 · Kampong Ulu Klang · Edited

Kangaroo mummy at work!

My 14mo lo woke up 3:15am for nen nen, changed her diaper while nursing her and sleep again. I got up at 4am by alarm. While preparing her food, she cried for me around 5am. I nursed her to sleep again and continue cooking at 5:30am... Unfortunately, she cried for me again at 6am... @@

Finally i just carried her with carrier to avoid her interrupting my hubby's sleeping.

I let taste her foods, apple cinnamon oatmeal, mee sua miso soup and walnut banana cookies!! She likes them!

I nursed her to sleep again after finish cooking at 7am... and hubby told me just now that she woke up at 9.05am.... great!..^.^

Breakfast: apple cinnamon rolled oat

Apple cinnamon rolled oat

Puree 1 apple with 1/2 cup full cream milk

Add 1 tablespoon rolled oat to puree and cook under low heat for 2 mins.

sprinkle some cinnamon powder and chia seeds. mix well and ready to serve.

Lunch: mee sua in vege miso soup

Vege Miso Soup

Ingredients:

some carrot

some seaweed

some cabbage (cut into small size)

1 tsp organic miso paste (1/2 tsp for 1 serving)

Steps:

1) cook misua till tender, rinse dry, soak in cold icy water for 30 secs, rinse dry again, add 1 tsp grapeseed/olive oil and mix well)

2) add 4 cups of water in a small pot

3) add in all ingredients except miso paste when water is boiling

4) cook for 10-15mins (cabbage become tender)

5) off fire

6) add in miso paste and ready to serve

Teatime: walnut banana cookies (3 ingredients only)

Walnut banana cookies

Ingredients: 

2 medium banana, mashed

1 cup of uncooked quick oats (i used rolled oat)

1/4 cup crushed walnut

Steps:

1) Combine all 3 ingredients

2) shape and bake at 180°C for 15-20mins or till golden brown

23/7/2015 Thursday (2 yo)

What a rushing morning again and this is because mummy overslept and got up from bed at 5.30am. Therefore, simple meals again can be prepared by lazy mummy today.

Breakfast: Banana Chiaseed pancake "LOLLIPOP" and fresh milk

Lunch and Dinner: Vegetables Soup with mee sua (lunch) / Rice (dinner)

Teatime: Sweet Potato Oat "LETTERS" and Rings 

What is Chia?

Chia seed is the richest combined source of Omega 3, fibre and

protein. Also rich in antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. Chia is also a fantastic source

of vegetarian protein, containing all nine essential amino acids.

FIBRE

Chia provides the ideal balance of soluble and insoluble fibre, which

are both essential for good health and can keep you feeling fuller

for longer. Soluble fibre swells to form a gel in water, which can help

regulate blood sugar and lower cholesterol. Insoluble fibre helps

promote digestive health.

PROTEIN AND AMINO ACIDS

Protein is a potent force in all living cells. Our bodies use protein to

build and repair tissues, make enzymes, hormones and other body

chemicals. It is also an important building block of bones, muscles,

cartilage, skin and blood. We need to obtain protein from the food

we eat. Chia seeds is a complete protein, containing all nine essential

amino acids. And while some of those can be made by the body,

others must be found in diet, which is why chia is so important.

Amino acids are used to synthesize body proteins and are used as

a source of dietary energy.

OMEGA 3

Omega 3 from plants is called Alpha Linolenic Acid (ALA)

deemed an Essential Fatty Acid (EFA)’s as they are essential for

human health. Omega 3 ALA is especially important for a healthy heart and

research has shown it can be beneficial for lowering cholesterol

and reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.

After studying more details on the chia seeds benefits, even for hyper active and less concentration children, the chia seeds can increase their concentration and improve emotional.

Banana Chiaseed Pancake (by Wong Yen Li)

Ingredients:

95g ripe banana (i used 2 pcs medium size)

50g whole egg (i used Large size egg)

2 tbsp self-raising flour

1 tsp chiaseed

Steps:

1) Blend banana and egg till smooth

2) add in flour and stir well

3) heat pan with little olive oil and wipe off with kitchen towel.

4) place the pan onto a damp cloth or water to cool down and return to stove

5) pour the whole batter on the pan and sprinkle the chiaseed on top of the batter

6) once the batter is semi cooked, start rolling the pancake from one side till the end

7) roll gently till it is well cooked.

8) cut the pancake roll into 10-12mm thickness slices

9) insert an ice cream stick to each slice and form the "Lollipop"

p/s: can use normal non-stick pan OR Korean Egg Roll Pan

香蕉煎餅圏

材料：

95克 成熟的香蕉（我用2條中等大小的）

50克 全蛋（我用大的雞蛋）

2湯匙 自發麵粉

1茶匙 奇亞籽或奇異籽（樣子像芝麻，有黑白兩色，有豐富的奧米加三脂肪酸。）

做法：

1 ）首先，用攪拌機把香蕉和雞蛋打成糊狀

2 ）然後加入麵粉，用湯匙攪拌均匀

3 ）放少許橄欖油在熱的平底不粘鍋或韓國雞蛋卷煎鍋，再用廚房紙巾抹匀

4 ）把麵糊倒在鍋裡，灑上奇異籽 （全程請用小火）

6 ）一旦麵糊半熟，開始從一側卷起来。輕輕滾動直到煮熟。

7 ）起鍋後，把煎餅卷切成10-12毫米的厚片

8 ）插入雪糕棒就形成了“棒棒糖”囖

韓國雞蛋卷煎鍋 （我用的是這種）

什么是奇亞籽？？

奇亞籽是含Omega-3最豐富，唯一不需加工直接安全食用的純天然食品。與魚油相比​​，奇亞籽的Omega-3脂肪酸含量更高，且無膽固醇，不會引起過敏，無營養富集的海洋污染物。與亞麻籽相比，奇亞籽不含任何對人體有害的成分，且自身含有自然抗氧化物，保護了Omega-3的品質，不像亞麻籽容易腐壞變質，產生有毒物質和異味。

奇亞籽含有豐富的蛋白質，含量比大豆更高，是純牛奶蛋白含量的5倍。尤其是奇亞籽中的蛋白質是含有20種氨基酸的完整優質蛋白，在植物類的蛋白載體中是非常罕見的。

自古以來它被做為戰士和運動員增強免疫力的高能食物。

奇亞籽是優質纖維食品，它的水結合力、陽離子交換力、吸水力均優於亞麻籽、香草、麥麩等，且營養含量也相對較高，可溶性膳食纖維是全麥麩含量的12倍。可有效增強飽腹感，促進腸道蠕動，防止便秘。

Mee Sua with Vegetables soup

Steps:

1) cook misua till tender, rinse dry, soak in cold icy water for 30 secs, rinse dry again, add 1 tsp grapeseed/olive oil and mix well)

Vegetables Soup 

Ingredients: 

1/2 Radish

3 dried mushroom

6 dried oyster

8 red dates

1 honey date

1 tbsp Goji berries (put in soup before off fire)

2 liters water, boil for 1.5 ~ 2 hours

Sweet Potato Oat sticks or rings (by Wong Yen Li)

Ingredients :

45g cooked mashed sweet potato 

3 tbsp instant oat / rolled oat 

2 tbsp natural plain yogurt 

Steps:

1) cook the sweet potato in boiling water for 15mins (with skin on) 

/ or you can peel, slice and steam

2) weight 45g sweet potato and mash it while still hot

3) blend the sweet potato, yogurt and oat till smooth by hand blender

4) put the mixture into a plastic bag and cut a hole at the edge

5) squeeze out ring shapes on the parchment paper / non stick baking sheet laid on baking tray

6) bake at preheated oven of 180'C for 15 mins or till light golden brown

throwback 5/nov/2014 (15 mo)

Good morning dear all~ i was not sharing any foods yesterday because there are just normal foods like steam grape cake, porridge, blueberries yogurt and cheesy little star for my 15mo lo.

Today's meals are:~

Breakfast: yummy walnut sweet potato pancake 

(mummy eats nonstop. This recipe I just mix and match by myself and tested 1st piece then its ok only i continue the balance batter..hehe..luckily its yummy!! soft and fluffy even just put 1/2 teaspoon of aluminum free baking powder as usually need 1 teaspoon)

Recipe:

cooked/steamed sweet potato 40g,

walnut 1 tbsp,

muscovado 1 tbsp (molasses or brown sugar also can),

milk 7 tbsp,

all purpose flour 3 tbsp,

aluminum free baking powder 1/2 tsp &

egg white 1 pc (as the egg yolk was used in the tomato potato rings, so i use the balance egg white for this recipe, can use 1 whole egg too but the flour qty may need to be added more, will try this next time)

Steps:

1) I blend everythings except the flour and baking powder with my tokebi hand blender for 10 seconds.

2) add in flour and baking powder, stir well.

3) heat pan with little olive oil and wipe off.

4) place the pan onto a damp cloth or water to cool down

5) put 1 small scoop of batter on the pan and put another till your pan has no more space.

6) close the lid for 1 min

7) open lid and you shall see little holes on the pancakes are formed.

8) flip carefully and cook the other side till brown

9) repeat steps 4-8 until all batter is finished

Lunch: mee sua with prawn cabbage soup (first time let lo to try prawn)

Teatime: tomato potato rings

(Recipe by 吳貞穎) 

Ingredients:

cherry tomatos 20g (5-6 pcs, remove skin and seeds) , steamed potato 50g, egg yolk 1 pc, salt (2 rice size big)(omit if lo below 1 yo)

Blend everything till smooth with my hand blender for 5 seconds.

put the mixture into a plastic bag.

cut a hole at the edge.

squeeze a ring shape or any shape you like on a parchment paper or baking sheet.

bake at 150'C for 30mins. ( my oven's time is 25 mins only)

throwback 21/8/2014 (1 year old)

Thursday today and very soon weekend again.. I cook everyday for my 1 yo lo, some foods she likes very much and some foods she will reject. Kinda picky eater. She uses her tongue to taste the food first before she open her mouth widely. @@ Then i know how to make her eat for those foods she rejects. I let her feed by herself by using hand or spoon, at the mean time, i feed her with another spoon. Haha! Good trick!

Today's meal:

Breakfast ~ Apple cinnamon rolled oat

Puree 1 apple with 1/2 cup full cream milk

Add 1 tablespoon rolled oat to puree and cook under low heat for 2 mins.

sprinkle some cinnamon powder and chia seed. mix well and ready to serve.

Lunch~ Organic mee sua with beetroot soap base and chicken & fried egg

Boil meesua till tender. set aside.

Boil frozen beetroot soup with minced chicken.

Pan fry egg become scramble egg.

serve mee sua with soup and topping with scramble egg.

Teatime~ homemade oatmeal bun (baked yesterday and still soft today)

Recipe can be found at yesterday's post.

2/7/2015 Thursday meals

On 14/4/2015, I sent my Tokebi  hand blender for warranty repairing and the normal time for collection shall be 2-3 weeks. But I only able to receive it yesterday.  Due to the delays,  the dealer showed his apologize by giving me a small gift and deliver the blender to my door step instead I have to collect it by myself. I am very appreciated to mummy Jesse Tu in HFFMB and Mr Xavier of MyClick Resources  for being so  helpful. 

This morning I can use my Tokebi hand blender again after 2 months of absent in my kitchen. I miss it so much~

Breakfast: Sweet Potato Bread Balls, fruits & fresh milk

Lunch and Dinner: Mee Sua with corn soup

Teatime: Avocado milk shake, raisin and cherries

Sweet Potato Bread Balls

Ingredients:

4 thin slices homemade bread (You can use 1 slice of massimo white bread)

1 japanese sweet potato

1/2 organic apple

20g cheddar cheese ( I used Mainland Colby cheddar cheese)

some raisin for topping (optional)

Steps:

1) slice the sweet potato (with skin on) then steam for 15mins

2) peel off sweet potato skin and weight it to get 100g

3) mash the sweet potato with a fork or spoon.

4) cut and blend apple into puree

5) tear the bread into small pieces

6) mix mashed sweet potato, apple puree and bread together till well combined

7) weight 13~15g each small dough and roll into ball shape then place on a non-stick baking sheet laid on baking tray.

8) bake at preheated oven of 190'C for 10mins then remove tray from oven

9) place a small slice of cheddar cheese on each balls

10) continue baking for another 10 mins

Corn soup

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

Soup base: 1 pc sweet corn, 50g pork tenderloin, 1/2 carrot

Avocado Milk Shake

Ingredients:

1 avocado

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup water

1 tsp honey

Blend all ingredients till smooth.