Creamy tuna pie

 

Upon eating my chicken mushroom pie, my tuna avid father requested for tuna pie...

So I started to again search for some recipe for tuna pie. I was also actually somewhat ready to make new pastry crust (I used my previous crust for the chicken pie). I finally decided to use this recipe as my referral to make my pie. 

Ingredients:

2 tbs butter

2 tbs cooking oil

3 cloves of garlic, chopped

1 small onion, chopped

2 tbs all purpose flour

3 cups of milk

1/2 cup corn, drained

4 piece cheese

2 can tuna or 1 can tuna & 1 can sardine, drain, rinse and flaked.

salt pepper to taste

puff pastries, thawed

Methods:

Preheat the oven to 175C.

Melt the butter with the oil in a pan. Saute the onion and garlic until fragrance. 

Add flour and stir until cooked. About 2 minutes.

Turn off heat and whisk the milk little by little until creamy. 

Add the tuna, corn and cheese. Mix carefully.

Spread the tuna pastry to a suitable size. you can make a big pie if you want, but for me, a hand-held pie is more manageable. 

Give the pie an egg wash, you may sprinkle some black sesame or some oregano flakes if you want and bake the pie for about 10 minutes or until golden. 

chicken and mushroom pie

CHICKEN AND MUSHROOM PIE

My mother requested for me to find a decent chicken and mushroom pie as she wants me to provide stocks for her bakery. I searched and try to make my own recipe based on the 5-6 recipe that I found. This is my recipe; of course you can adjust and make your own. 

Ingredient

pie crust

3 piece of boneless chicken breast (small cube)

500g button mushroom (sliced)

1 onion (sliced)

2-3 cups of chicken stock or 1 cube of chicken stock

3 tbs oil

2 tbs flour

1/2 cup cream

1 tbs thyme

a pinch of salt; or to taste

1/2 tbs black pepper or garlic pepper

water ( as needed)

gravy:

100 g butter

1/2 cup flour

1-2 cup of chicken stock or 1/2 cube of chicken stock

1/2 tbs thyme

salt and pepper to taste

Methods:

Heat the oil on a frying pan. Sear the cubed chicken. Remove from the pan and set aside.

Saute the onion until soft and slightly caramelized.

Add in the mushroom, saute until soft. Stir.

Add the thyme and black pepper. Stir.

Add the flour and let it cook for awhile. Stir.

Add water and chicken stock. Stir. 

Add salt.

Add cream and stir until smooth.

Prepare the pie crust, it is better to do a blind bake before putting in the filling. 

Cover, put on an egg wash and bake until golden. 

For the gravy; melt the butter in a pan, add flour, whisk until fully incorporated. Add thyme and black pepper. Add chicken stock. Add cream while whisking. Add salt to taste. 

 

Peanut butter cake

 

Upon a request, I googled for recipes of nuts cake. I read about walnut cake and multinut cake and fruit cakes too. Suddenly I was inspired to search about peanut cake, and lo behold google gave me recipes for peanut butter cake. I picked one that seems easy enough and picked an occasion to test the recipe out. The recipe request upon peanut butter frosting, but as  I buy just enough peanut butter for the cake, I need to improvise for the frosting. Using the peanut butter - grape jelly combo and chocolate for frosting, I serve the cake square to my family first. My children loves the cake with the chocolate frosting better, but I've found the peanut butter - jelly frosting suits my taste better. 

Here are the recipe:

Ingredients:

CAKE
2 cup Flour
2 cup Sugar
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 cup Milk
2 Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla
1 cup Water
1/2 cup Butter
3/4 cup Peanut Butter

FROSTING
1/2 cup softened Butter
1 cup Peanut Butter (or chocolate spread or peanut butter-jelly combo)
3 tbsp Milk
2 cup Powdered Sugar

Methods:

Cake

Preheat oven to 175 C.
Grease a 9×13 baking dish with butter. Dust with flour to prevent sticking.
Whisk together flour, sugar, and baking soda in a large bowl.
Add milk, eggs, and vanilla to bowl.
Beat mixture at low speed until blended.
Add water, butter, and peanut butter to a saucepan.
Heat over medium heat stirring frequently until blended (about 5 minutes).
Add peanut butter mixture into flour mixture.
Stir until batter is well mixed and pour into prepared dish.
Bake about 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Allow to cool.

Frosting 

Cream together the butter and peanut butter (or chocolate spread for my case).
Slowly add in the sugar, if it gets too thick then add a little milk to thin.
Continue until all of the sugar is in and the frosting is blended to the right consistency.
Spread frosting over cooled cake.