Choco flakes

My nails are resting from the polishes, it has been about 4 days.


My wallet has been resting since Friday, I had forgotten my wallet that day. Now I am in debts, but should be able to repay my dear friend and colleague soon. I decided to forgo the Club 21 Bazaar Sale over the weekend to make my chocolate cornflakes (to imitate a similar Japanese snack which has discontinued!!) and do some chores (yea, the usual - laundry, dumping the recyclables in the bins downstairs and tidying up the kitchen).


Here's the simple recipe for my chocolate cornflakes. I leave them in the fridge now as they were sticking together and wasn't easy to dry up!

Ingredients:
A bar of bittersweet chocolate, Van Houten, 200g
A box of cornflakes, 325g (but only used 30-40%)

I should really temper the chocolate but I haven't had the proper equipments to. But I did use similar steps, using the double boiler method. I don't have that, so I used a bowl to contain my chopped chocolate and place it over a pan of water. The chocolate melted really quickly as I stirred it with my rubber spatula. Soon enough, it was smooth and silky. I couldn't measure the temperature! So I just based it on my guts :) Then I removed the bowl of melted chocolate, and add in the cornflakes bit by bit, till most of the chocolate were used up. Then I lay the coated cornflakes on a piece of aluminium foil. Now they are sitting in two containers in my fridge, I'm pretty pleased I could make so much out of so little. It costs $4.80 for a small pack in the Japanese snack store, though that's not the one I'm imitating (which is in the shape of sliced pizza).

Hotcakes

My second attempt and the shapes get better each time. This is done with buttermilk pancake mix :)  I didn't make these this morning as the rain kept me in bed till late!! I miss making banana pancakes, maybe next weekend ya!

Tip: Use butter/margarine to grease pan.

Yum (02) - Mushy pork belly

It's another day I did grocery shopping with mum, and it's beginning to show that she doesn't want to be the decision-maker anymore. She would constantly ask what I would like to eat, and I would choose and she would just whip up dishes with them. It wasn't nice all the time especially when it was experimental.

I spotted shark fillet today and thought it was interesting, so I got those. Mum decided to fry them with a soupy base with ginger, tomatoes and 酸菜 (pickled cabbage resembling sauerkraut), it was not fascinating, I think there is a better way to cook it, well will try it next time!

She also did the pork belly with pickled cabbage, she was in a rush to go to a mahjong session with her friends, so that's her lazy way out. I told her I wanted to try something with the mushrooms, so I made my own dish :)

I call it "Mushy pork belly", there's no photo as I have already almost finished them, ooopss! I can't say for you but I quite like it, probably because I would eat anything with mushrooms!


Mushy pork belly =  Fry strips of pork belly with sliced shiitake mushrooms, add in tiny bit of Lee Kum Kee chicken marinade.

Yum (01) - Spicy cucumber

The other day, I went grocery shopping with mum (one of my favourite things). We picked up so many ingredients for the upcoming days. She decided to try doing up this dish which she had at her friend's. In the end, I was the one whipping it up! But it was a lovely try.... I think I could have finished the whole plate.

I never used to post entries on stuff I cooked. I have lost many of the good recipes I had since. Guess I should start compiling again.

Japanese cucumber fried with hae bee hiam

It's made from 3 long crispy Japanese cucumbers fried with hae bee hiam (or sambal udang kering in the malay terms) and mum added a tiny pinch of salt (it was already salty enough). Hae bee hiam is like a spicy mix from dried shrimps, shallots, chilli and garlic cloves. I pounded it myself using the stone pounder (mum likes it the traditional way, not today's electric blender).