ShortBread

Merry Christmas!!

大家聖誕節快樂

濃濃的奶油味, 大家都愛, 可我還是酌量著吃.  Shortbread 是個材料簡單食譜易記的餅乾

1 糖 : 2 牛油 : 3 普通麵粉  (份量比例)

不過我還是在食譜上動了手腳, 糖肯定要減!

Most of you love the taste of butter but I ate as less as I can :) As we know, ingredients of shortbread is simple and the recipe is easy to remember. However, I still made some changes on the recipe, especially the quantity of sugar.

 

湯圓tangyuan (Glutinous rice dumplings)

冬至快樂!
Happy Dong Zhi (The winter solstice) to all

我幾乎每年都錯過冬至, 記得某人說冬至都在12月20日, 在20號那天就趕緊做了湯圓, 沒想到提前了. 忙了一天, 做了4種, 7種口味的湯圓, 真得快累壞了.
I  almost forget dongzhi every  year. I remember somebody told  me dongzhi is on 20th December every year, so I made some tangyuan on that day. Now I know I had made it earlier. Spending whole day to make 4 types and 7 favors tangyuan is a very tired job.......

新鮮原料, 內餡自己做
Fresh ingredients, all filling made by myself

 

團團圓圓, 紅豆湯湯圓出路啦!
Round and round means reunion. TangYuan in redbean soup is ready

蔓越莓牛油餅Cranberry Butter Cookies

蔓越莓牛油餅Cranberry Butter Cookies

好久都沒弄這種重油的餅乾了, 心血來潮弄一些解解饞,  反正家人一定會喜歡.

果然, 沒兩下就完了 :)

It has been long time not making the oily butter cookies but sometimes, you know, you just like to have a bite. Thus, I made some and  my family should love it. Yes, indeed. All finished in such a short time. :)

辮子優格麵包 Braid Yogurt Bread

是時候上自家做的原料做麵包. 這個優格麵包, 是越嚼越香, 口感很好. 幫他綁個辮子, 可愛吧!
有人想吃甜甜圈, 我把部分的麵團做成了甜甜圈, 淋上自製的橙汁糖衣, 居然被嫌棄太甜, 有可能是橙本來就甜, 下次改進 :P 我一向都是少甜, 或許他們也習慣了, 突然來個"正常"版的, 就覺得膩了.....

Homemade yogurt
It's time to use homemade ingredient to made bread. It tastes good and have special aroma when you chew. I made the bread in braid shape. Does it look cute ?
Someone was asking for doughnut, so I left some dough for the doughnuts. I used orange sugarcoat as the topping but I had been complained for it's too sweet. I guess maybe the orange is sweet, so the sweetness is a bit over. I'll improve the recipe next time :P
I use to make less sweet cooking. I think they are used to it. When I tried the "normal" standard, no surprise, they won't like it .....

香橙甜甜圈 Orange Flavor Doughnuts

自磨黃糖粉 Homemade brown sugar powder

清炒小小白菜 Pan fried Tiny Pak Choy

怎樣炒出又脆又綠的青菜? 

大火快炒? ~ 喔, 不

高油? ~ 喔, 不

加小蘇打? 喔, 不

讓味道更好

加雞精, 味精? ~ 喔, 不

都說是清炒了, 當然用的材料很少, 就蒜頭和菜. 少油, 少鹽, 加一點點的生抽/醬油. OK啦!

How to cook greeny and crunchy vegetable?

Without high heat frying

Without oily frying

Without baking soda

Without food enhancers like MSG, artificial chicken powder and etc

All you need is garlic and vegetable. A little bit of oil, salt and soy bean sauce. That it is! 

香蕉葉香氣的馬鈴薯饅頭 Potato Mantou with banana leaf fragrance

哈哈, 饅頭做到好像"粄", 對啦, 我"大頭蝦", 忘了減了麵粉. 沒關係, 錯有錯著, 好吃, 當晚餐吃.

偷了鄰居的香蕉葉, 沒想到香蕉葉的香氣居然成了關鍵材料, 好香喔! 真正的純天然的香精  :)

又軟又有彈性. 

It doesn't look like traditional mantou at all. Yes, I forgot I had cut down the quantity of flour. However, it is delicious. I made it as my dinner.

The banana leaf was stolen from my neighbour. Never thought that it became the main role of the ingredient. The fragrance is nice-the real natural fragrance extract. Moreover, the texture of the mantou is soft and springy.

p/s 謝謝長過來的香蕉葉 Thanks those banana leaves grow over my house ^_^

重點材料 : 香蕉葉,馬鈴薯

Highlight ingredients: banana leaf, potatoes

使用塑料容器須知

塑料容器上的號碼, 你知道代表什麼意思嗎? 對了, 代表它所使用的原料.

①號用一次、②號不重複、③號不微波、④號低耐熱、⑤號使用較安全、⑥號遠離熱酸鹼、⑦號類多應慎選」。

1. PET-俗稱寶特瓶，耐溫約60℃~85℃，建議不要重複使用。
2. HDPE-對酸鹼抵抗力優，耐溫約90℃~110℃。
3. PVC-使用普遍，大多使用在非食品的用途方面。耐溫約60℃~90℃。
4. LDPE-柔軟、呈半透明、耐酸、耐酒精、耐鹼、耐熱至80℃，重複性使用之水壺內的吸管大多為LDPE材質，但因耐熱度不佳，所以只限於吸食常溫之飲品。
5. PP-具有高耐熱程度(約130℃~140℃) 、耐油、可煮沸、可用蒸氣消毒、具光澤度，具有良好的剛性。
6. PS-耐熱度90℃、剛性佳、透明度佳、不耐酒精、不適用於高溫熱飲，容易染色、印刷性良好，但不耐油性， 產品只適合用於冷食類及無油脂類之食物。
7. Other-美耐皿( 美耐皿容器為三聚氰胺與甲醛聚合而成的聚合物，耐熱110℃~130℃，但有溶出雙酚A疑慮，不建議裝盛熱食)、ABS(70℃~100℃，耐酸鹼、油，不耐酒精)、壓克力PMMA(~90℃，耐酸鹼、油，不耐酒精)、聚乳酸PLA(透明度高，耐熱性約50℃，產品只適合用於冷食類。)、PC(遇熱有釋出雙酚A疑慮。耐熱溫度可達130℃，耐酸不耐鹼、耐油，透明度佳)。

溫馨提醒 ~ 少用塑料產品, 安全又環保 :)

蒜味耳朵餅 Garlic Crackers】

【蒜味耳朵餅 Garlic Crackers】

把我不是很愛的五香粉味重的耳朵餅改成大家都愛的蒜味, 本人自覺是非常成功的, 顏色也好看很多, 重要的是全家都愛. 雖然, 很少做油炸食品, 但是, 他的總油份含量, 我想不會比牛油餅乾來的多, 嘻!本人會控制的嘛! 沒辦法, 炸也是一種烹飪法, 也是要會的啦!

I don't like the traditional ear shape crackers with the heavy 5-herbs fragrance, so I changed the formula to have the fragrance of garlic. The change is quite successful, better color and the most important thing is whole family love it. Although I don't cook deep fried food so often but I think it is less oily than butter cookies. Don't worry! I have control on it :) Deep frying is one of the cooking method. I have to know with no choice.

【蒜味耳朵餅 Garlic Crackers】

干梅子檸檬麵包 Lemon Prune Bun

干梅子檸檬麵包 Lemon Prune Bun

重點材料 : 有機麵包麵粉 (蛋白質含量 13%)

                   干梅子

Highlight ingredients: Organic Bread Flour

                                Dried Prune

最近都好累, 累積的料理照片, 好多還沒整理, 又懶的上載...
這個挺受歡迎的, 很快就吃完了. 想不到這個組合還不錯, 好吃. 又多了一個配方, 樂 ^_^

Feeling tired recently. Lots of food photos are unorganized and I don't feel like to upload  either ... :P
People seemed to like it a lot and all finished quite fast. I never thought that this can be good. I guess I just have one more recipe for myself :)

香蔥軟面包 Spring Onion Soft Bread

香蔥軟面包 Spring Onion Soft Bread

重點材料: 自家院子的蔥

Highlight Ingredient: Home planted spring onion 

我喜歡有鹹味的, 管他法式, 台式, 到我手裡就變了我式, 哈哈哈! 我加東, 加西 ....

I like salty taste better, so I made the spring onion filling bread. No matter what styles, french style or Taiwan style, in my hand, they all become my style. How wonderful is it! ........

黃梨拌炒飯 + 白蘿蔔海帶雞湯 Pineapple Mixed Rice + Radish Seaweed Chicken Soup

黃梨拌炒飯 Pineapple Mixed Rice

做一道讓家人驚艷的料理吧! 好巧, 心裡想著要做黃梨炒飯, 就讓我買到了甜的小黃梨, 而且還特價呢! 那還等什麼呢?...

所有的食材都是新鮮的, 玉米也是自己蒸熟了一顆一顆的剝下, 這次買的玉米好甜哦, 忍不住一邊剝一邊偷吃 :P 都沒有用冷凍的喔!

我的炒飯, 都不叫炒飯. 因為要減少油份, 我都用拌炒或半炒都行, 所以也是很健康地....
炒飯總得配個湯, 那就來個白蘿蔔海帶雞湯吧! 我很喜歡海帶, 海帶的料理. 日本, 韓國, 台灣, 中, 港, 澳, 海帶的料理很普遍, 可這裡很少, 這海帶還是從國外買回來的. 白蘿蔔的料理也不普遍, 偏偏都是我的最愛. 不會忘記小時候外婆煮的蘿蔔湯, 海帶湯. 今晚, 就煮這個... :)

Sweet and small pineapples, just nice for the pineapple fried rice cuisine. I cooked the soup which I never find in any food stalls so far, to go with the rice. I think they are just nice for tonight dinner

白蘿蔔海帶雞湯 Radish Seaweed Chicken Soup

雜穀紅蘿蔔面包 Grains Carrot loaf

重點材料: 有機面包粉, 現打新鮮紅蘿蔔泥

Main Ingredients : Organic Bread Flour, Fresh Carrot Paste

終於都買到了有機面粉, 加上了紅蘿蔔汁, 好看有好吃. 味道是淡了點, 沒關係, 可以塗上巧克力醬, 菜油增添風味. 隔天, 我把他做成蒜頭面包, 好吃吧! :)

I finally got the organic bread flour for my bread. With the fresh carrot paste, it looks nice and yummy. The taste is little bit plain. You can add some chocolate spread and margarine for more flavors. In the next day, I made it into garlic bread, no doubt for yummy !:)

黃薑茄汁魚 Turmeric Tomato Fish

好久都沒吃魚了, 午餐弄個魚, 再加個菜, 也挺好的. 原本, 魚是要拿來煎, 健康一點還是用煮的吧! 這個料理的特色重點是黃薑. 黃薑是很好的食材, 是天然的色素, 香料, 增味劑, 而且還很健康. 但是, 黃薑有種很重的味道,  料理的時候要酌量, 我儘量不讓他搶味 ....

It's quite some time not having fish dishes. I cooked fish and vegetable for lunch. Instead of frying, it would be healthier by cooking, so I changed the method of cooking. Highlights of this cuisine is Turmeric. Turmeric is a very good ingredient as natural color, flavor, flavor enhancer, and very healthy, but having a kind of heavy flavor. You should control the amount of turmeric as the spices in your cuisine. However, it plays a very important supporting role ... :)

自製優酪乳 Home Made Yogurt

想做好久了, 總於都吃到自己做的優酪乳. 最愛的吃法是蘋果加優酪乳, 水果天然的香氣和甜味在加上優酪乳, mmm 就是愛這個味道. 沒有了香精, 糖, 食品優化劑, 讚!!

我用的培養菌是 Lactobacillus Bulgaricus 保加利亚乳杆菌, Streptococcus Thermophilus嗜热乳链球菌. 

longing for homemade for so long and finally to have it. Yogurt with apples is my favorite. Love the natural fragrance of  the fruit and the sweetness. How wonderful to have it without artificial flavors, sugar and food conditioners ^_^

Fruits yogurt is always the best but the best of the best is to have  own planted fruits with homemade yogurt. Feeling so.... happy ^_^ 

水果優酪乳永遠都是最棒的, 更棒的是用自家種的水果加上自製的優酪乳, 能覺得不幸福嗎?

【楊桃優酪乳 Starfruit Yogurt】

椰香玉米糕 Corn Cake

大部分人在做玉米糕的時候, 都用現成的罐頭玉米醬. 我就偏要一顆一顆的拔下, 再把它打成醬. 好香哦! 濃濃的玉米香... 這次的試做, 糕體軟了一點, 卻能自成一格:) 下次會再做調整, 也要甜一點, 甜品嘛, 甜一點別人比較喜歡....

Normally people will use can corn paste for the corn cake. I just like to trouble myself by picking the corns one by one and blend it into paste. Mmm, the fragrance is so nice..... The cake is a bit soft but it tasted nice as well. However, I'll make adjustment of the recipe and add sweeter since most people like sweeter ....

迷你雞排 Mini Chicken Chop

昨天醃好了雞肉, 下午拿出來煎一煎, 不等到晚餐, 偶爾一個這樣的午餐也不錯 :)

The chicken was marinated yesterday. Could not wait until dinner, I just fried it for lunch. It's not too bad to have such a lunch sometimes :)

咖哩糙米米粉 Brown Rice Noodle Curry

中秋節那天, 要買午餐時, 才知道好多檔子沒開. 沒辦法啦, 簡簡單單得弄一餐, 那就煮個咖哩米粉吧!

At lunch time, I just found out lots of stalls were closed on festival day. I had to prepare a meal in such a short time, so I made the simple dish, brown rice noodle curry :)

柚子茶 , 柚子蛋糕 Pomelo Tea, Pomelo Cake

怎能放過中秋節的柚子, 做了柚子茶 , 柚子蛋糕, 這個周末不寂寞 :)

haha, how can I let go the pomelo from the festival. I made the pomelo tea and cake. Should be nice on weekend with them :)

柚子茶 Pomelo Tea

柚子蛋糕 Pomelo Cake

月兔月餅慶中秋Moon rabbits celebrating the mooncake festival

 中秋節快樂 Happy Mooncake Festival

月兔慶中秋 Moon rabbits celebrating the mooncake festival

從煮糖漿, 炒餡料, 做外皮花了4天的時間, 功夫活做了很多, 好不好吃?

月餅不是很甜, 天然無添加的餡料, 可惜, 黃糖用完了, 只好用白糖

Spent 4 days for cooking the sugar syrup, frying the filling and making the skin of the cakes. A lot of skill work to do, how should it taste? :)

Not very sweet and no additives in the filling. It should be perfect if I used brown sugar but the brown sugar was running out, so I replaced it with white sugar

自家薏米水 Homemade Barley Drink

幾乎所有的傳統咖啡店都有賣薏米水, 可自家煮的比較濃也沒那麼甜. 又熱又濕的天氣, 要常喝薏米水去濕. 有時我會搭配其他甜品一起煮, 不過, 今天單純一點, 來個純正薏米水

Almost all the traditional coffee shops are selling barley drink but homemade barley drink is more thicker and less sweet. For the hot and high humidity weather, regularly drinking barley drink helps getting rid of the body humidity. Sometimes, I'll cook the barley with other desserts but today, I just made it simple, a pure barley drink :)

Ondeh-Ondeh

Ondeh-Ondeh 一種本地的甜品, 天然的綠色素來自香蘭葉, 內餡是一種叫gula melaka 的椰糖. 吃的時候, 小心一咬, 糖汁滴下來. 我把糖弄粗一些, 所以糖沒完全變成糖漿, 吃的時候就不會有這個問題. 他們說這樣也很好吃. 還有人說比外面買得還好吃.. 成功! 耶!

我覺得這個比麻糬還好吃, 他的層次感比較多. 雖然, 椰糖是主味, 不過, 椰絲也加分很多, 而且在外觀上, 增色不少.

A local dessert ~ Ondeh-Ondeh. The round little greens balls with natural color comes from pandan leaves have the filling called gula melaka( coconut sugar). You have to be careful when you eat it. After boiling the sugar will become liquid, it will drop when you bite it. I made the sugar more coarser so that it won't be melted fully. They said it tastes good too. Some even said it tastes better than those selling in the market. Yes, I  made it, ya!!

可愛動物造型麵包 Cute Animals Bread

小烏龜開心玩樂 :D

Little tortoises play happily :D

讓忙碌不堪得生活來點情趣吧 :) 把牛奶麵包和巧可力麵包做成小動物的造型, 很多是原創造型的哦! 你們喜歡嗎? ^_^

沒刷上蛋液, 可是我的特色哦! :)

Let's have fun on busy life. I shaped the milk bread and chocolate bread into animals shapes. Some of them are my idea. Do you like it ?

I didn't glaze those breads with egg because it's my style ! :)

椰的饗宴Coconut feast

昨天忙了一整天就為了這椰的事. 都說是挑剔啦, 小店明明就有刨椰機, 怎都要拎回家自己刨. 那刨椰機成天都在店門口, 想也知道那.....

So busy yesterday just because of a coconut. Sounds picky ah?The grocery shop has the coconut shredder machine why should I have to do it myself. The machine is always in  front of the grocery shop and you should know that ....

刮了零零碎碎的椰肉丟進了黑糯米粥煮. 取得椰漿之後, 

Dropped some pieces of coconut into the black glutinous rice porridge before getting the coconut milk. 

做了kaya 和煮咖哩菜

I made kaya(coconut jam) and cooked vegetable curry with the coconut milk.

Kaya ( Coconut Jam)