4/3/2015 (Wed) Apple yogurt rings

Good morning ^.^

My 19mo lo is teething again... she was letting her tongue out very frequently yesterday and she rejected some of the foods that she usually likes.

Today I bake some soft and hard cookies to let her has more choices and cook her some cooling barley drinks as weather is hot recently.

Breakfast : sweet potato doughnut bread and carrot apple juice

sweet potato donuts bread (freeze it on 10/2/2015)

Just thaw and reheat it by steaming

Ingredients:

100g Sweet potato puree

60g fresh milk/ full cream milk

20g sugar

260g high protein flour

40g cake flour

Pinch of salt

1 tsp instant yeast

15g olive oil

1 egg

Steps:

1) slice the sweet potato and steam till tender, mash it while still hot

2) put all ingredients in the bread maker, use "dough" function to knead 20 mins

3) off the power and let the dough proof in the bread maker till double the size

4) take out the dough, roll flat and fold 3 times, then cover with wet cloth and rest for 15mins

5) roll the dough flat to 1cm thick, use different size of round shape mould / doughnut mould to cut

6) place the doughnuts on a non stick baking sheet and put the tray inside the oven, put a bowl of hot water inside the oven, close door, proof for 30-40mins

7) take out the tray 10mins before and heat the oven at 180'C

8) bake for 15mins or light golden brown

Apple & Carrot Apple Juice

1/3 organic apple (diced)

2" of carrot (diced)

2-3 tbsp water

Blend till smooth then sieve through a strainer.

Lunch: Baby Spinach seaweed rice

Baby Spinach seaweed Rice

2.5 tbsp mix grains (presoaked overnight)

steam for 15-20mins

Other Ingredients

1 bowl baby spinach (chopped)

some carrot (tiny sliced)

some Chayote (tiny cubed)

1 chunk of tenderloin pork/chicken (tiny cut)

10cm x 10cm size seaweed (cut in small pieces)

Steps:

1) Marinate the tenderloin with 1/2 tsp liquid amino and 1 tsp of corn flour

2) once the rice is cooked, add in all the other ingredients and mix well.

3) add 1/3 cup water and mix well too

4) steam again for 15 mins and ready to serve warm.

Teatime or snacks: Apple yogurt Rings and apple crackers and barley drinks

Apple yogurt rings

Ingredients:

15g diced apple

1 egg yolk 

5g sugar (i did not put today)

10g plain yogurt

20g all purpose flour

Steps:

1) Blend everything and pour into a plastic bag. Cut a hole at the edge and squeeze out rings.

2) Bake at preheated oven of 150'C for 10-15 mins or light golden brown.

Apple Crackers

Actually this is an experiment by using only egg white after making the apple yogurt rings. Because i was trying to measure the quantity by spoon instead of digital scale.

myself personally ate 2 pcs and found that the taste is not bad... smell nice... 

Ingredients

2 tbsp blended apple+yogurt

2 tbsp egg white

2 tbsp cake flour

1 tsp muscovado sugar

2 tsp full cream milk

Steps:

1) mix everthing and the texture shall be able to flow drip smoothly.

2) scoop by 1/2 tsp of the mixture onto a non stick baking sheet, can yield 12-14 pcs

3) sprinkle some black sesame on each batter (optional).

4) Bake at preheated oven of 160'C for 15mins or or till golden brown

23/2/2015 Snack

February 23 near Serdang Lama · 

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Snack for Teatime
Japanese sweet potato mix grains sticks

Recipe
Ingredients :
(Ratio 1:1) cooked mix grains / rice : sweet potato
1cm3 unsalted butter (for easier in blending and crunchiness) (can omit and replace by water for lo below 1yo

Blend the 3 ingredients till smooth then put into a plastic bag. Cut a small hole at the edge. (Bigger size will resulting not so crunchy) squeeze out sticks shape on the non stick baking sheet.
Bake at 150'C for 20-25mins or golden brown.

12/02/2015 Thursday

February 12 · Batu Caves · Edited

Good morning and have a nice day...
Baked some teeth less snacks for my 18mo lo this morning because of some mummies' asking for teeth-less lo can eat it..

(Please click on each photos for the recipes...thanks)
Breakfast : Bite size flowers sweet potato (teeth-less lo can eat) & blueberry yogurt

Lunch and dinner : Creamy sweet corn meat floss Rice

Teatime: Banana Biscuits (Crunchy and hard type, suitable for lo above 1yo and knows how to chew and at teething stage too) & Fuji pear juice

Bite Size Flowers sweet potato
Sugarless & flourless

Ingredients:
Sweet Potato 85g
Unsalted Butter 15g (melted)
1 egg yolk

1) i cook 1 whole sweet potato (with skin) in boiling water for 15mins, after cooked, peel off skin and weight 85g then mashed it with a fork.
2) slowly add in the melted butter and mix well.
3) mix in the egg yolk till well combined
4) put in a piping bag with flower shape nozzle, squeeze the batter on a non stick baking sheet
5) bake at preheated oven of 180'C for 15mins-20mins or till light golden brown at the edges

Creamy sweet meat floss thick soup Rice
(for 2 servings)

Ingredients
2 packs of sweet corn (4 tbsp each)
½ potato (cook in boiling water with skin for 15mis, then peel off skin and mash with fork)
½ onion OR 1 shallot
2 floret broccoli
2 tbsp homemade meat floss (or can replace by 1/4 chicken breast, cut into small size, boil for 10mins, blend with some water)
1 inch of carrot (diced tiny size)
Olive oil
10g cheddar Cheese
2 tbsp fullcream milk OR fresh milk

Steps:
1) Boil potato with skin for 10-15mins
2) Blend 1 pack of the corn & potato with some water
3) Cut Onion, broccoli & carrot into tiny size (set a side)
4) Boil chicken for 10 mins, then blend with some water till smooth (SKIP if use homemade meat floss)
5) Heat pan with some olive oil, saute the onion, corn, broccoli & carrot for 1-2 mins, then add in the corn mixture and 2 cups of water
6) Cook with small fire shimmer for 10 mins.
7) Add in cheese and milk, cook until cheese melted and till prefer consistency then can off fire.
8) pour on top of cooked rice and ready to serve warm
9) If cant finish, can keep the creamy sauce in the freezer for next consume, thaw first then steam for 10 mins and ready to serve warm with rice or macaroni.

homemade meat floss
recipe pls refer link --> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152885034529300&set=o.156632364509354&type=3

Banana Biscuits

50g mashed banana
10g muscovado sugar (or any type of sugar)
20g grape seed oil (or any type of vegetable oil)
80g cake flour
some white sesame

Steps:
1) Mash banana, mix in sugar and oil,
2) fold in flour by separately 2 times,
3) divide dough into 16 balls and place on baking tray with nonstick baking paper,
4) use a flat bottom item to press the small balls till flat, sprinkle some sesame on the center, lightly press the sesame.
5) Bake at preheated oven at 160’C for 30mins

27/3/2015 Happy Friday

What a happy for a ftwm on the last working day of the week....

Recently I always missed out the alarm but self-awake at 5am. Maybe I am really tired already. i was sitting at the dining area and looking at the bunch of recipe print outs, finally decide to bake an express pizza, potato rings & sticks and raisin butter rice.

Surprisingly the pizza is really yummy and this is the first time i bake pizza for my 20mo lo. I really hope she will like it.

Breakfast: 10-min Mini Pizza & honey dew juice


10-min Mini Pizza
Ingredients

Pizza dough~
1/2 cup (55g) Self-Raising Flour (i used ---> 1/2 cup all purpose flour + 1/2 tsp baking powder + pinch of salt)
20g unsalted butter (tiny cubed)
1 tbsp full cream milk

Pizza topping~
4 tbsp (STEAM for 10mins) frozen mix vegetables (carrot, garden pea, sweet corn) (i used fresh carrot, frozen pea & fresh sweet corn)
1/2 slice of ham (optional, can omit if do not have)
some grated cheddar cheese
2 tsp pure tomato paste (i do not have it, i used maggi tomato sauce)

steps:
1) add butter into the flour and rub till bread crumbs stage
2) slowly add in milk to form a soft dough (can stop adding if dough is formed)
3) divide dough into 4 portions
4) roll into ball shape then press into flat
5) shredded 1 layer of cheddar cheese on the flat dough
6) spread 1 tbsp of the mix vegetables on each pizza flat dough
7) put 1/2 tsp tomato sauce on each mini pizza
8) lastly shredded another layer of cheddar cheese on top of the mix vegetables
9) bake at pre-heated oven of 180'C for 10 mins

P/S: i have remaining mixture of potato sticks and i transformed it into the pizza dough. just squeeze out the mixture into swirl form until almost same as the pizza flat dough size, and continue steps 6 onwards.

Honey Dew Juice
2 slices of honey dew
1 tbsp plain yogurt

Blend till very smooth and ready to serve cold

Lunch & Dinner : Butter Raisin Rice & Spinach soup

Butter Raisin Rice

Ingredients

4 tbsp mix grains rice (pre-soaked overnight and drain away soak water) (quantity is enough for 2 servings for my 20mo lo, please adjust accordingly to your lo's serving size)

1 handful of organic raisin

1 handful of mix vegetables

10g unsalted butter

pinch of salt

4 tbsp water

1/2 egg (lightly beat)

Steps:

1) heat pan, melt the butter

2) add in the rice and stir fry for 2 mins

3) add in raisin and mix vegetables, keep stir frying for another 1 min

4) transfer the fried raw rice into mini rice cooker / a bowl

5) add in the water and egg, then mix well

6) cook rice as usual or steam for 20mins

Spinach soup

5oz of frozen soup stock

some baby spinach

Boil for 2 mins and ready to serve

Teatime: Potato Rings & Golden pear Juice

Potato Rings

Ingredients

75g cooked mashed potato

8g unsalted butter

8g potato starch

1/2 egg (30g)

5g cheddar cheese

Steps:

1) blend the above ingredients till smooth

2) put into a plastic bag

3) cut a hole at the edge (3-4mm)

4) squeeze out ring shape or stick shape on non-sticky baking sheet

5) bake at pre-heated oven of 170'c for 15mins or light golden brown

Golden Pear Juice

1/2 pc of Golden Pear

some water

Just Blend till smooth and sieve through a strainer for smoother texture...

ready to serve cold

23/3/2015 Monday : Meals of the days

Overslept mummy today again I I missed out the alarm at 4am and only woke up at 5am by my crying lo who wanted to drink milk. I DL her and also changed her diaper and trying to make her sleep again in order for me to cook for her.

Finally I only able to cook at 6am. I cook green bean which I soaked yesterday morning till evening and freeze it till this morning. And the frozen green bean can be cooked tenderly within 30 mins only.

Breakfast : Mung Bean Oat dessert

Lunch & Dinner : pork kunbu porridge

Teatime : Carrot Cheese Sticks & honey lemon

Mung Bean Oat Dessert
Ingredients :
40g Pre cooked mung bean
1/2 cup water
1 tbsp rolled oat
2 tsp muscovado sugar
2 tbsp full cream milk

Pork kunbu porridge
3 tbsp mix grains
2 cups water
Some seaweed
Some kunbu
1 chunk of pork tenderloin

Cook in slow cooker for 1-2 hours.

Carrot Cheese Sticks
Recipe please click ---> Carrot Cheese Sticks

22/3/2015 Sunday Baking

I woke up quite early this morning as I couldn't sleep again after DL my lo at around 3am++

Long time I didn't bake cheese sticks for my gal and today I bake her carrot cheese sticks. The outcome is very satisfying and the texture is crunchy soft, suitable for lo 12mo above with less teeth is no problem.

Ingredients
100g Cake flour / low protein flour
20g grated cheddar cheese
15g grated carrot
2 tsp muscovado sugar
50g cold unsalted butter (cubed tiny)

Steps
1) add butter into flour and rub them well combined
2 ) add in sugar and cheese and continue rubbing them
3) add in carrot and knead till a soft dough is formed
4) weight 10g dough for each sticks
5) roll into a long stick, then bend into half and twist as photo shown
6) place twisted sticks on the non stick baking sheet
7) bake at preheated oven of 180'C for 15-20 mins or light golden brown

12/3/2015 Thursday : Meals of the Day

Good morning dear all mummies ~

After I boiled the radish soup only I recalled that I suppose to cook tomato sauce spaghetti for my 19mo lo because of the prego spaghetti sauce advertisement. Every time my lo watches the little girl was eating yummy spaghetti in that advertisement, she will say "yummy" too..

Breakfast : vege egg rice pancake and mango yogurt

Ingredients

1 egg

1/2 cup cooked mix grain rice / white rice

some pea sprout (cut finely) ( you may use cabbage/carrot/garden pea/any vegetables)

pinch of salt and pepper

Steps:

1) just mix all ingredients and pour onto greased frying pan

2) pan fry till both sides are golden brown

3) cut into 6 or 8 pcs

P/s: the yellow white colour in the bowl is Mango yogurt

1/2 mango + 1.5 tbsp yogurt, blend well and serve cool

Lunch and dinner : tomato noodle with radish soup

ingredients:

1/2 radish

1/2 bowl of lean meat (pork or chicken)

some red dates

some goji berry

6 bowls of water

Steps:

Boil all the ingredients in a small pot for at least 1 hour.

No seasoning is needed as the soup is very yummy by its own natural taste.

Serve soup with rice or any noodle.

Teatime: Strawberry Crunchy Rings and orange juice

Ingredients

35g Potato Starch

40g Strawberry Puree

10g unsalted butter

5g milk powder

1 tsp sugar or condensed milk

Steps:

1) Weight 50g strawberry and blend it till smooth, pour through a strainer to get the fine smooth puree.

2) heat a non stick pan with low heat, add in the butter and till melted, pour in the potato starch and stir fry till a dough a form

3) in a small mixing bowl, add in 40g strawberry puree, potato starch dough, milk powder, sugar, use a spoon to mix well

4) pour the smooth mixture into a plastic bag

5) cut a small hole (3-4mm diameter) at the edge

6) squeeze out the mixture to form rings

7) bake at 160'c for 20mins or light golden brown (for crunchiness)

p/s: original recipe was 150'C for 8-10mins only... but i did not get the crunchiness... you may try if you prefer not to bake longer time..