Thursday, December 29, 2005

Stickbabe's Vegetable Heaven

I used to burn any vegetable dish I cooked. So if I can cook this, you can too, Tai Tai... I present you with Stickbabe's 'Vegetable Heaven'!

--> The wonderful texture and colour brings a smile and the capsicums sweetens your day.<--

Ingredients:

Sliced capsicum (red or yellow to give colour); green leafy vegetables (xiao bai cai is fine too); Soaked chinese dried mushrooms; garlic; pounded ginger (juice extracted); shallots; oyster sauce; sugar

Method:

1. Heat oil. Fry shallots, add ginger and garlic. Add green vegetables.

2. Add ginger juice to the water used to soak mushrooms. Add oyster sauce and sugar to taste.

3. Pour mixture into saucepan. Bring to a boil.

4. Add capsicum and mushroom. Sprinkle pepper (optional).

5. When everything looks cooked, serve!

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Panna Cotta con Mango

My sis taught me how to make this. It's delicious, and proved to be a hit among friends. You can vary the amount of whipping cream to achieve different consistencies.

Since my sis is the one giving me the recipe, I reproduce it 'her style' - with ingredients and steps all mixed together. I hope you can understand. I'll try to elaborate.

Steps :
1. Heat saucepan - add 2 whipping cream
2. Add 1/3 cup of milk (try not to use HL milk, rumoured to produce a strange aftertaste)
3. Add unflavoured gelatine, dissolve it
4. Add 2 tbsp of sugar and honey
5. Remove and sieve
6. Dice mangoes into cooked mixture (more like she squashed the mangoes 1st)
7. Save some mangoes for garnishing (aha, too late if you followed Step 6)
8. Put into glass and refridgerate (huh what glass? i think she meant glass containers)

Ginger steamed milk pudding

I particularly liked a hot ginger steamed milk pudding found in a restaurant called Macau. Searches over the internet end up directing me to western puddings. But I found it at last!

Ingredients
Fresh milk - 1 litre; Ginger - 1 piece; White sugar 5 tbsp

Steps
1) Peel and wash ginger, grate to make 8-10 tbsp ginger juice
2) Filtrate the juice finely, divide into 4 bowl equally
3) Add in sugar, mix with ginger juice
4) Boil fresh milk, keep stirring until fully boiled, turn off the fire
5) Keep slowly stirring until milk becomes a little cooler
6) Pour milk into each bowl quickly
7) Serve few minutes later when milk become solidified


Remarks
Grate the ginger only before use, or milk cannot be form solidified
When milk is boiled, stir about 20 times slowly, it's right time to lower the temperature
Do not pause when pouring the milk into the bowls
Serve in hot temperature is better, or chilled for better feeling in Summer