Recipe: Chocolate Chips & Almonds Cookies

Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Baking Time: 10 minutes

My end products. Let's take a picture: Pose 1.

How about Pose 2?

My cookies look bigger (I use table spoon and scope too much, hehe ;)).

A clearer view. Do these look delicious?

I got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc, about 12 big cookies.

Actually more than that.

Testing time. Now, you see it.

Now, you don't. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1. 125g All-purpose Flour (1 cup)
   
2. 1/2 tsp of Baking Soda
3. 1/4 tsp of Salt
4. 115g Butter (room temparture) (1/2 cup)
5. 100g Brown Sugar (1/2 cup)
6. 50g Sugar (1/4 cup)
7. 1 Egg
8. 1 tsp of Vanilla Essence
9. 80g Chocolate Chips
10. 80g Almonds

Steps:

1. Shift both all-purpose flour and baking soda. Mix them well with salt.
   
2. In another medium bowl, beat butter, brown sugar and sugar until well-blended. Add in egg and vanilla essence and beat well.
   
3. Fold in the flour mixture into (2) until well-combined.
   
4. Fold in 60g chocolate chips and all almonds into the batter.
   
5. Place a piece of baking paper on the tray and scope the batter using a tea spoon on it. Make sure there are some spaces (about 2 inches apart) between 2 cookies.
   
6. Bake in a preheat oven at 175ºc for 10 minutes.
7. In minute 6th, put the remainder chocolate chips on top of the cookies.
   

Tips:

1. You can replace almonds with other nuts of your choice.
2. Why I use teaspoon to scope? Actually, I use a tablespoon to scope the cookies that I bake (shown in picture), so you can see some are really big. Of course you can decide the size.
   
3. Do not flatten the battle that you scope on the baking tray as it will be shaped during the baking process.
4. Why I separate the chocolate chips? So that the cookies look nicer whereby some chips are seen on the top. (Hehe, I forget to add chips on top this time, may be next time).
   

Recipe: Quiche

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 8 minutes
Baking Time: 30 minutes

Preparing ingredients...

Garlic, shallots, onions...

Fried bacon makes the Quiche much more delicious (remember to discard excessive fat, if possible).

Making pastry on pie dish using hands (remember to use a fork to press some holes on the pastry).

Ready to bake.

Those dark brown color things is not burn, it is Parmesan cheese.

This time I put bacon, mushrooms & garlic, shallots & onions.

Yummy yummy... ;)

Ingredients (Pastry):

1. 120g Shortening
2. 200g Plain Flour
3. Pinch of Salt
4. 1 Egg
5. 2 Tbsp of Fresh Milk
   

Ingredients (Filling):

1. 200ml Fresh Milk
2. 500ml Whipping Cream
3. 50g Plain Flour
4. Parmesan Cheese
5. 3 cloves of Onions (ring)
   
6. 5 cloves of Shallots (minced by food processor)
   
7. 5 pips of Garlics (minced by food processor)
8. 1 can of Luncheon Meat (pieces) or bacon (pieces)
   
9. 2 Tbsp of Oil
10. Salt and Pepper for season
    

Optional Ingredient:

1. Different veges (corns, carrots, beans, sweet basils, celery, etc).
2. Mushrooms
   

Steps:

1. Mix all pastry ingredients to form a dough. Flatten the dough and shape it into a pie dish.
   
2. In a medium heat pan, add some oil to stir fry onions, shallots and garlics till fragrant.
3. Add luncheon meat into (2) and cook for about 2-3 minutes.
   
4. Season with salt and pepper.
   
5. Spread filling into the pie dish evenly.
6. In a seperate bowl, mix fresh milk, whipping cream and flour well. Pour the mixture into the pie dish and spread some parmesan cheese on the top.
   
7. Bake in a preheat oven at 200ºc for 30 minutes.

Tips:

1. Do not knead the dough too hard to prevent toughened pastry.
2. Luncheon meat can be replaced with ham or bacon if you don't like can food or with optional ingredients if you prefer veges.
   
3. Best to serve while quiche is warm.