Sweet and Sour Prawns

Bonjour,

We had sweet and sour prawns for dinner with friends last weekend. What I can tell is this dish was really delish and yet so easy to prepare. Everyone may have their own sweet and sour sauce flavour but for me this one is the good one so far.

Simple and delicious, that's what important for me. For certain kind of food may need some efforts to prepare and it doesn't matter sometimes as long as the food really make someone happy and satisfied.

SWEET AND SOUR PRAWNS

Ingredients;

300g prawns
1 pepperoni, sliced
1 carrot, sliced
1 onion, sliced
1/2 cup pineapple, sliced
1 clove garlic, chopped
2cm fresh ginger, chopped
1/2 cup tomato ketchup
4 tablespoon white vinegar
2 teaspoon corn flour
1/2 cup water
Salt and sugar to taste

METHODS;

- Heat a little oil in pan or wok and fried pepperoni, carrot and onion for a few minutes.
- Add prawns and continued to cook until everything is cook through. Set aside.
- Use the same oil and fried garlic and ginger until fragrant.
- Add ketchup, vinegar and pineapple.
- Mix corn flour and water and add to the ketchup sauce.
- Let the sauce thicken a little bit and taste with salt and sugar.
- Lastly add fried vegetables and prawns and mix until everything well coated.

What a pleasure, bon appetite

Banana Muffins and Banana Bread

Salut,

Banana is one of the fruits that I always have in the house. I often make smooties using banana, to make a cake, muffins, bread or just to make a simple fried banana Malay style like we always did at my hometown.

I've actually tried quite a few different recipe of banana muffins and banana bread and so far these two recipe is my favorite. There are a lot of banana recipes out there that I need to try one day and who knows there is another good one at least for my liking.

BANANA MUFFINS

3 ripe bananas, mashed
1 egg
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1/4 cup vegetables oil
3 tablespoon fresh milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
A pinch of salt

METHOD;

- Preheat oven 180° and prepare muffin tin.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together mashed bananas, egg, yogurt, oil, milk and vanilla.
- Add in flour, sugar, baking soda and salt and mix everything just until smooth.
- Pour the batter in a muffin tin and bake for 15-20 minutes or until the skewer comes out clean.

EGGLESS BANANA BREAD

3 ripe banana, mashed
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup raisin, optional
A pinch of salt

METHOD;

- Preheat oven 180° and prepared bread loaf pan.
- In a mixing bowl, combined mashed banana and melted butter.
- Add in milk and vanila, mix well.
- Add sugar, baking soda and salt.
- Lastly, add flour and raisin, mix just until everything combined.
- Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and bake for 1 hour or until skewer comes out clean.

Rice Porridge

Hello,

For most of the time in Asia, rice porridge or sometimes called congee are often served or eaten for breakfast. In fact, congee is a simple Asian dish.

While in Asia I don't eat congee in the morning since I'm not a fan of these dish, but now I do eat what called breakfast food at lunch or dinner time. And now I have to admit that how good to have rice porridge some time for dinner. Porridge is a really simple and healthy food and it makes us full enough and satisfied for a long time.

RICE PORRIDGE

1/2 cup rice
2cm ginger, sliced
4-5 cup water
Salt and pepper to taste

METHOD;

- Boiled rice, ginger and water and reduce to a simmer with cover until the rice broken and creamy.
- Stirring frequently and season with salt and pepper.

Porridge accompaniment;
Spring onion, fried anchovies, soy sauce, fried fish or seafood or other side dish according to individual preference.

Bon appétit!

Amaretti Cookies

Buongiorno,

It's sounds Italian right? In fact, I don't speak Italian but I do love the Italian language as well their cuisine. I made some Italian amaretti cookies not too long ago and this cookies was so easy to make. It just need a few ingredients and voila, cookies ready..

I might not made a real good Italian amaretti cookies but for some occasion, these cookies would be good enough to please people.

AMARETTI COOKIES

Ingredients;

1 large egg whites
100g almond powder
70g caster sugar
1 teaspoon almond extract or vanilla extract
Some powder sugar for dusting

METHOD;

- Preheat oven 160° and prepare baking tray.
- In a bowl, whisk the egg white until soft peak.
- Gradually add sugar, almond powder and almond extract.
- Continue to stirring until become a smooth dough.
- Roll a small ball and place on the baking tray.
- Baked for 15-17 minutes until crackled in appearance or until golden.
- Dust with powdered sugar.

Arrivederci....

Stir-Fried Tom Yum Prawns

Salut,

This month of May is a month more public holidays in France than any other month. The weather also has been beautiful for this past week, not too hot or too cold. Its just nice and I love spring, my favorite seasons.

Alors, let's talk about food now. Stir-fried tom yum prawns, one of the simple Thai recipe that I like the most, from tom yum soup to tom yum grill fish, tom yum is always good, at least for me because I like spicy food.

STIR-FRIED TOM YUM PRAWNS

Ingredients;

200g prawns
1 onion, sliced
1 carrot, sliced
1/2 cup snow peas
2 cloves garlic, chopped
2cm fresh ginger, sliced
1 tablespoon tom yum paste
1 tablespoon sweet Thai chilli sauce
Fish sauce to taste
Oil

METHOD;

- Heat some oil in a wok or sauce pan and fry garlic and ginger until fragrant.
- Add onion and carrot, continue to stir for a minutes.
- Add in prawns, snow peas, tom yum paste and sweet chilli sauce.
- Season with fish sauce and continue to stir-fry until the prawns is cooked.