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.