Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Seafood Paella



Ingredients

  • 1 red pepper, finely diced
  • 1 medium onion, finely chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled
  • 400g paella rice
  • 125ml dry white wine
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika
  • Generous pinch of saffron threads
  • 1l hot vegetable stock
  • 4 large prawns
  • 4 prepared squid, approx 170g in total, sliced into rings
  • Handful flat leaf parsley, chopped
  • 1 lemon cut into wedges
  • Olive oil
  • Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Steps:

1. Heat a couple of tablespoons of olive oil in a large paella pan or frying pan. Add the onion and cook out briefly.

2. Add the chopped pepper and crush in the garlic. Season with a little salt and pepper and cook until softened.

3. Sprinkle the smoked paprika and saffron into the pan. Follow with the rice and stir well so that each grain of rice is well coated in oil.

4. Add the wine and allow to evaporate before pouring in the hot stock.

5. Cover with a lid and leave to simmer gently for 20 minutes. Stir occasionally to prevent the rice from sticking.

6. Five minutes before the end of cooking add the prawns and squid to the pan. Stir, and replace the lid to finish cooking.

7. Just before serving, mix through the chopped parsley and garnish with lemon wedges.

Add other seafood if you prefer

Monday, March 16, 2009

Marble Butter Cake



Not enough chocolate powder.

This is the recipe:
Ingredients
250 gm butter
200 gm caster sugar
6 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
300 gm self-raising flour (sifted)
½ to 3/4 cup of evaporated milk

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 160°C.
2. Beat the butter with the caster sugar until white and fluffy. Add in eggs one at a time and mix well. Then add is vanilla essence and evaporated milk and mix well.
3. Replace about 30g of flour with cocoa powder. After the flour is mixed into the butter mixture and mixed well, take out about 1/3 of the batter and add the cocoa powder into it. Place the white batter into tin and drop the chocolate batter into different spots and use a skewer or a chopstick to swirl it to make the marble effect and bake for about an hour.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Celebration ...

Gong Xi Fa Chai ...


Thaipusam ...

Food .... fooD and moRe foOd

Outside food...









Home cook food ... thanks to my aunt




Friday, January 16, 2009

How can I resist ~


added into my collectionssssss ....

Monday, December 1, 2008

28 nOvembEr 20xx

nIcEeee....

ChRistMas .....

Just got our Christmas tree ....
Before deco...



Just added the lights.....
And now the final version....