Recipe: BBQ Chicken with Honey Lemon

Ingredients:

1. 4 portions of chicken
2. 1/2 lemon
3. 1 Tablespoon honey
4. 1 Tablespoon olive oil
5. 2 cloves of garlic (with skin)

Steps:

1. Clean the chicken.
2. Squeeze lemon juice into a baking tray (the squeezed lemon can be placed into the tray as well).
3. Add olive oil, honey and garlic.
4. Put in chicken into the tray.
5. Season with salt and pepper.
6. Bake in a preheat oven (with fan) at 180ºc for 50 minutes.

Tips: You can turn the chicken occasionally (about 15 minutes once) to ensure all parts are baked evenly.

It is rather easy to make a delicious BBQ chicken, without setting up the BBQ equipments. Feel free to try it out.

Food Processor Really Makes Things Easier

Preparation Time: 10 minutes (chopping) + 4 hours (Marinating) + 10 minutes (wrapping)
Cooking Time: 12 minutes

You can place a piece of banana leave and some Chinese cabbages on the bottom of the steamer to add fragrance and avoid stickiness.

Make sure the steamer is covered well.

Eat while it is warm.

Ingredients:

• 200g minced chicken/ pork
• 200g minced prawn
• 4 soaked mushroom (finely drained and chopped)
• 80g bamboo shoots (finely drained and chopped)
• 1 teaspoon chicken essence
  
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon of pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
  
• 1 egg white
• 1 1/2 Tablespoon corn flour
• 30 pieces wantan skin (rounded-shape)
• 2 salted egg yolk (cooked) or some ebiko or crab egg for dressing

Steps (Preparing)

1. Mix chicken, prawn, salt and chicken essence into a big bowl
2. Add in mushroom and bamboo shoots, sugar, sesame oil and pepper
3. Add in egg white and stir thoroughly (mixture looks wet a bit)
4. Add in corn flour and mix well (flour will lock and firm the mixture)
5. Put the mixture into refrigerator for at least 4 hours (you can cover with plastic seal)
6. Cover meat with wantan skin and shape it well (like "siew mai")
7. Add dressing on top of each "siew mai"

Steps (Steaming)

1. Add enough water into the wok or steamer
2. Put a piece of baking paper (punched holes) or few pieces of chinese cabbage ("pak choi") on the steaming stray to avoid stickiness.
3. Place "siew mai" onto the tray and steam for 10 minutes

Tips: Meat, mushroom and bamboo shoots MUST be "dry" enough, else the excessive water will ruin your delicious "siew mai".

Recipe: Basil Beer Bread

When I found this recipe, I was attacted by its simplicity (basically there is only 1 step, that is, to mix everything together... hehe... it suits me well). And, not to forget, I have basil plant at my place and have no idea on when to use it except for creamy cheese spaghetti. But, the thing is, I over-estimated the weight of basil leaves. I thought 10 leaves will make up 30g. At the end, I have to clear all (try to imagine the basil plant is "botak" now) for this bread.

About the taste, it tasted like... beer (but not as strong as you drink as sugar was added). It is bitter for me cox I don't like beer very much. I think next time I got to substitute the beer with milk. But I have to plant some new basil plants first... ;) hehehe...

If you like to try on something different, it is good to experiment on.
Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

• 375g self-raising flour
• 30g chopped fresh basil leaves
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp crushed black pepper
• 375ml beer

Steps:

1. Mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl.
2. Bake in 50 minutes at 160ºc .

Extra easy, right?

No More Hawker Stalls at Desa Setapak

Yesterday night when I passed by Taman Desa Setapak , I was so surprised that over hundreds of hawker stalls have been demolited by DBKL yesterday morning.

For those who wanted to find Chinese hawker stalls in Taman Desa Setapak(Wangsa Maju LRT), or purposely come to the area for food recommended by "Ho Chiak", would be disappointed now.

More pictures and details, please refer to these links:
http://weechookeong.blogspot.com/2008/05/dbkl-playing-politics-and-its-action.html
http://chinese3.cari.com.my/myforum/viewthread.php?tid=1221372&extra=page%3D1

So Embarrass to Tell...

that this is my first blog...

"Unbelievable? Believe it."

I always believe that to get started is always difficult. That could be one of the reasons why I did not start my blog long long time ago. I have the plan before (I couldn't remmember since when), but the plan never turn into action due to laziness and worries.

I know what is in your mind. You might think that "hey, you are in IT field and you are telling me that you only start to learn to use this thing now? So...." Embarrass ya... I also feel kinda...
But, after the encouragement of my friend (you know who you are, hehe... thanks!), I decided to create my blog. Perhaps it will never be too late.