Raisin Butter Cake

School term holiday started and Olivia is so kind to lend me a hand.
She wants to help mummy to bake mummy's favourite Butter Cake.

School holiday just started and Olivia said she wanted to help me bake my favourite  butter cake, specially those who made from creamy butter. I choose to use salted butter because I prefer a little salty and that brings out the butter taste of the cake. I used SCS butter, although it is a little pricey but you will get a premium quality butter cake.

My Butter Cake has no rules! You may add in additional ingredients your wish. I will add in Desiccated Coconut and Raisin, topped with some almond flakes. It turns out very nice indeed! 

Ingredients 

250g Self Raising Flour

180g Sugar

4 eggs

250g Butter

1/4 cup Raisin

10g Desiccated Coconut

4 tbsp Milk

1 tsp Vanilla Essence

SCS Butter

Sim reduced from 200g to 180g Sugar

4 eggs (A size)

250 self raising flour

10g dessicated coconut

Raisin

1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence

Mix butter & sugar in low speed

Add in eggs one by one

Ready to bake

The result

Creamy Garlic Butter Prawn

10 devined prawns (marinate soya)

2 tbsp mince garlic

3 tbsp butter

1 cup evoporated milk

1 slice cheese (Kraft)

Salt & pepper to taste

Method

1) Heat Frying Pan with 1 tbsp cooking oil. Stir fried prawns for 1 minute. Set aside.

2) Use a clean pan/wok, heat pan add in butter, when melted add in garlic. Stir till smell the aroma of the garlic but not turning brown. In medium flame, add in milk, keep stiring till u see boiling bubble add in cheese. Stir till cheese melt and mix well.

3) Add salt & pepper to taste. (I skipped salt, but add little pepper)

4) Add in prawn and stir till prawn well coated with cream.

5) voila!

NESTLE Natural Set Yogurt Quiche

If you are planning to bake a healthier quiche perhaps you could replace the pastry crust with bread and the sour cream with yogurt. I love the crunchiness of the bread, as it taste like a fresh toast from oven and the savoury fillings of seafood and egg just combined so well.

Yogurt is an excellent substitute for sour cream in most recipes, but keep in mind it is thinner in texture, so to thicken the yogurt you will need to drain it through a cheesecloth-lined sieve over a bowl in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. 

 

 

NESTLE Natural Set Yogurt.

Ingredients

6-8 slices of Bread

2 tablespoon olive oil

200 gm Seafood of your choice

1/2 cup Bacon (chopped)

2/3 cup NESTLE Natural Set Yogurt.

3 Eggs

2 cup Mozzarella Cheese (grated)

1 tomato Slices

Salt & Pepper to taste

Oregano & Parsley

Method

1. Greased bread with either butter or Olive oil. Line them in a Oven proof glassware or pan.

2. Pre-bake them in a 160°C Oven for 5 minutes. You don't want to toast them brown, just need to

    harden the bread, so they will not turn soggy.

3. Fried the bacon bits. Keep the oil, use it to cook the seafood.

4. Cut the seafood, I used squids, prawn and fish fillet. Marinate them with salt & pepper. Precook the

    seafood, to avoid sogginess when baking because seafood then to release liquid when cooking.

5. Use an oil free non stick pan, grill the tomato slice, so they look dried.

6. Mix Sour Cream & Eggs together, whisk them well and add salt & pepper to taste.

7. Add seafood, egg mixture and 1 cup of cheese. Top with tomato slices, bacon and the remaining cheese.

8. Bake for 40 minutes. Use a sharp knife, cut the middle of the flan, if knife comes out dry then

    your flan is done.

Creamy Spinach Sauce Nuggets Served with White Rice

 Yesterday we had potluck and every each of us cook some nice dish so  we ended up with some left over and never throw them away as you could use them to make another dish for lunch or dinner. I preheat the nugget in a frying pan without using any oil, because you don’t want oily nuggets, all you need is to reheat the nugget in a non stick pan, use medium flame and when you could feel the outer layer is crisp again, then set aside.

What goes well with nuggets? Actually nuggets goes well with all dips and sauces. So I tried Creamy White Sauce, and the outcome is quite good. Olivia like everything creamy and cheesy. I skipped the cheese this round, because I will pack this as Olivia’s lunch, which she might eat it an hour later and if any sauce contains cheese it will get harden and lumpy.

If you are packing lunch for your toddler, serve nuggets and creamy white sauce with white rice.

To make the sauce/dip, it’s very simple. Below are the ingredients and here are the simple steps:

Creamy White Sauce Ingredients2 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 Cup Chopped Spinach
Dash salt & pepper

Methods

1)      Use a pan, pre heat it in medium heat and add in butter. When butter is melt whisk in flour. Keep whisking until l lumpy texture is achieved.

2)      Whisk in milk and stir until the lump is dissolved. And the texture should be creamy. Add in salt and pepper to taste.

3)      Add in chopped spinach (this is optional).

4)      You are done, pack the nuggets, rice and sauce separately.

Simplee Dinner Idea : Star Fish Dinner

What would you call this? A piece of "Fish Fillet" serve with Spinach that molded into a Star shape with creamy white sauce? I call it "STAR FISH DINNER". When mummy gets lazy and tired, this is what Olivia will get for her dinner, simple and fast meal in less than 10 minutes. She loves this combination! All you need is a frozen fish fillet that you could get in most of the supermarket.

Ingredients

1) 1 piece Frozen Fillet

2) 1 Cup Spinach

For the Sauce

1) 2 tbsp Butter

2) 1 Slice of Cheese

3) 2 tbsp Flour

4) 1 Cup water

5) Salt to taste

Methods

1) Fry fish fillet in a frying pan, set aside.

To make sauce

1) Melt butter in a saucepan, whisk in flour and keep stirring till bubbly.

2) Whisk in water, and become roux. Add in salt to taste. 

To make Star spinach

1) Blanch spinach in a boiling water with a little salt added. Drained and soak in ice water for 3 minutes to maintain it's greenish colour. Drained.

2) Use a star shape cookie cutter, stuffed spinach in to fill the space. The pull out the mould.

Star Fish Dinner

1) In a plate, pour sauce and then place fish and spinach on top of it. 

2) Done! Voila