Stuffed potato

Ingredients
1. 3 medium sized potato
2. 1 onion, diced
3. 1 stalk of celery, diced
4. 1 root of carrot, diced
5. A small bowl of minced meat ( around 100 cc)
6. Cheese
7. Salt pepper to taste

Direction

1. Cut the potato to two parts each. Boil until soft enough to be poked.
2. In another pot, sauté the onion, celery and carrot until soft
3. Add in minced meat and cook until crumbly
4. Add salt and pepper to taste. Put it aside
5. Scoop out the inside of the potato. Leaving about 1 mm of potato layer inside the jacket
6. Mash the potato that have been scooped out and add in into the beef.
7. Add in some cheese into the mix. Toss evenly
8. Stuff the beef mixture into the hollow of the potato jacket
9. Sprinkle on some more cheese
10. Bake until brown

Bahasa Malaysia

Bahan2

1. 3 biji kentang
2. Sebiji bawang besar, dicincang besar
3. Sebatang seleri, dicincang besar
4. Sebatang lobak merah barsaiz sederhana, dicincang besar
5. Semangkuk kecil daging hancur
6. Keju
7. Garam dan lada hitam mengikut cita rasa

Kaedah
1. Kentang dipotong melintang dan direbus
2. Tumis bawang, seleri dan lobak merah
3. Masukkan daging dan kacau hingga masak
4. Masukkan garam dan lada secukup rasa. Letak tepi
5. Korek keluar isi kentang dan ditinggalkan 1mm isinya
6. Hancurkan isi yang dikeluarkan tadi dan dicampurkan dengan daging
7. Tambah keju dan digaul rata
8. Isi ke dalam mangkuk kentang
9. Tabur keju ke atas kentang yang sudah berisi
10. Bakar hingga keju perang

Portugese egg tart

Ingredients
1. Pie pastry
2. 4 egg yolks
3. 1/3 cup white sugar, or to taste
4. 1/3 cup heavy cream
5. 1/3 cup milk
6. 3 drops vanilla extract

Direction
1. Prepare your pastry into a muffin baking tin, or you can do like me: make your own case using aluminum foil
2. Beat the egg yolk
3. Add the cream, milk and vanilla extract. Beat in together into egg.
4. Sieve the egg.
5. Pour in the egg into the pie pastry until 80% full.
6. Bake in a 170 degrees Celsius preheat oven until the egg is slightly browned, about 15-25 minutes

Bahasa Malaysia

Bahan2
1. Pastry pai
2. 4 kuning telur
3. 1/3 cawan gula, atau mengikut cita rasa
4. 1/3 cawan krim pekat.
5. 1/3 cawan milk
6. 3 titis ekstrak vanilla

Kaedah
1. Sediakan pastri anda, ke dalam bekas bakar mufin, atau anda boleh membuat sendiri menggunakan kerajang aluminium
2. Pukul kuning telur
3. Tambah krim, susu dan ekstrak vanilla. Pukul bersama dengan telur
4. Tapis telur tadi.
5. Tuang ke dalam pastry pai yang telah disediakan hingga 80% penuh
6. Bakar di dalam ketuhar 170 darjah celsius yang telah dipanaskan hingga telur berwarna perang, dalam 15 hingga 20 minit.

Tuna casserol

In corellation of Father's Day... I make tuna casserol as asked by my ayah...


Ingredient
1. 1 big onion, diced
2. A stalk celery, diced
3. A root of carrot, diced
4. A can of cream of mushroom soup
5. Water or milk
6. A big can of tuna in water or oil
7. A medium sized bowl of pasta such as macaroni, cooked
8. Shredded cheese
9. Semi-crushed taco or potato chips (natural flavor)


Direction
1. Sauté onion, celery and carrot in a pot.
2. Put in the mushroom soup.
3. Add water and stir to boiling
4. Put in tuna and stir in
5. Toss in pasta
6. Pour in into a casserole dish
7. Sprinkle cheese
8. Sprinkle with taco or potato chips.
9. Bake in a preheat oven until the cheese have melted and browned.




Bahasa Malaysia

bersempena dengan Hari Bapa... saya membuat casserol tuna di atas permintaan ayah.

Bahan2
1. Sebiji bawang besar, dicincang
2. Sebatang seleri, di dadu kecil
3. Sebatang lobak merah, di dadu kecil
4. Setin cream of mushroom
5. Air atau susu
6. Setin besar tuna dalam air atau dalam minyak
7. Semangkuk bersaiz sederhana pasta, seperti macaroni yang sudah direbus
8. Keju yang sudah dikisar
9. Keropok nachos atau kerepek kentang (berperisa asli) dihancur besar.


Kaedah
1. Tumis bawang, celery dan lobak merah hingga separa lembut
2. Masukkan mushroom soup. Kacau rata
3. Masukkan air. Kacau hingga mendidih.
4. Masukkan ikan tuna dan dikacau rata. Padamkan api.
5. Masukkan pasta dan dikacau agar kuah rata.
6. Tuang ke dalam bekas bakar
7. Taburkan keju
8. Taburkan keropok kentang
9. Bakar di dalam ketuhar yang telah dipanaskan hingga keju mencair dan berwarna perang.

chicken stew

• 1 big onion- cut to small cubes
• 1 root of carrot- half cut to small cubes the other half cut to big cube
• 1 stalk of celery- half cut to small cubes the other half cut to big cube
• 1 potato, cubed
• 1 bowl of cubed chicken
• About 150 ml of chicken stock
• 2 big tablespoon of butter
• 3 tablespoon of flour
• 3 tablespoon of skimmed milk
• Salt.

1- Fried the chicken in the pot you are going to make the stew in very little oil to caramelize the chicken.
2- Put the chicken aside.
3- With the same pot, saute the onion, followed with the small carrot cube and then small celery cube.
4- Put in the chicken
5- Add the chicken stock, add hot water until it cover the top of the chicken. Wait until the fluid boil.
6- Add in the carrot, which then followed by potato, then celery. Wait until the fluid to boil between each.
7- Add the skimmed milk
8- In another pot, melt the butter. Add in the flour and stir until golden. Add the flour into the stew.
9- Let the stew boil until the potato and the carrot are soft.
10- Add salt to your liking. You may add crushed black pepper.

Versi bahasa malaysia

• 1 bawang merah yang besar- didadu kecil
• 1 lobak merah- separuh didadu kecil dan separuh lagi didadu besar
• 1 batang seleri- separuh didadu kecil dan separuh lagi didadu besar
• 1 kentang didadu besar
• 1 mangkuk ayam didadu sederhana
• Lebih kurang 150 ml air rebusan ayam
• 2 sudu besar mentega
• 3 sudu besar tepung gamdum
• 3 sudu besar susu skim
• Garam

1- Goreng sedikit ayam di dalam periuk yang akan digunakan untuk memasak stew hingga ayam menjadi sedikit perang.
2- Keluarkan ayam dari periuk dan ketepikan.
3- Dengan periuk tadi, tumis bawang yang kemudiannya dimasukkan lobak yang didadu kecil dan diikuti dengan seleri.
4- Masukkan ayam
5- Tambahkan air rebusan. Tmbahkan air panas hingga cukup untuk menutupi permukaan ayam. Tunggu hingga mendidih
6- Masukkan lobak, diikuti dengan kentang dan seleri. Pastikan cecair mendidih diantara setiap bahan.
7- Masukkan susu skim
8- Dalam periuk lain, cairkan mentega. Masukkan tepung dan kacau hingga perang. Masukkan tepung tadi ke dalam stew.
9- Biarkan stew mendidih hingga kentang dan lobak lembut.
10- Masukkan garam mengikut citarasa. Anda juga boleh menambah lada hitam yang ditumbuk halus.

Cooking... sewing...

Once, before I started working, I got a call from my aunt. We talked about how she once have all time in the world to cook and sew but no money to do so. Now that she's a working woman, with enough money to buy all the flour, fabric that you want...but not even enough time to sleep.

During that time I am a sit-at-home-waiting-for-result girl, so I'm at the first phase my aunt was saying... now I'm at the next phase, when you have the money... but not the time..

Ohhh... how I miss cooking and baking and sewing.. and doing craft... and...