Almond & Pumpkin Seeds Florentine 杏仁南瓜子脆饼片

Almond & Pumpkin Seeds Florentine 杏仁南瓜子脆饼片

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I did 10 types of bakes this Chinese New Year's Day (CNY). This Almond & Pumpkin Seeds Florentine 杏仁南瓜子脆饼片 has to endure simplest, easiest. I would rate it a difficulty flat of ii out of 10. Easy equally that, would yous believe that I had to throw away my entire outset tray? Yup...my outset tray of florentine was 'superglued' onto the baking paper! Excessive almond nuts, excessive pumpkin seeds together with excessive florentine pulverization produced disastrous result!

I learnt my lesson. It pays off to pass but about fourth dimension studying how other nutrient experts created their successful recipes, no affair how uncomplicated it may await or sound.

And hither nosotros become amongst the correct combination together with method subsequently my few rounds of case & error.... This time, I tin dismiss actually claim that it is "So Simple!" equally all tin dismiss endure done inwards twenty minutes or less!

Ingredients :

• 150 gm sliced almond nuts (I prefer the ones amongst peel equally they are to a greater extent than aromatic subsequently baking) 
• 50 gm pumpkin seeds
• 100 gm florentine mix / pulverization (this is a substantial proportion to agree the nuts withal florentine would non plough likewise sweet)

Method :

1. Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees celsius or 338 degrees fahrenheit.
2. Combine sliced almond nuts, pumpkin seeds together with florentine mix inwards a bowl.
3. Use a spoon to toss till mixture is good together with evenly combined.
4. Transfer mixture onto a rectangular baking tray lined amongst baking paper.
5. Spread the mixture thinly together with evenly to embrace the entire tray.
6. Bake inwards pre-heated oven for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, standby a knife.
7. Remove tray from the oven when florentine yields golden brownish color inwards close 10 minutes. You may allow it remain inwards the oven for but about other few minutes if yous prefer a darker, to a greater extent than caramelised tone. Do banking concern stand upwardly for constantly to ensure that it is non over-baked. 
8. Once out of oven, purpose a knife or pair of scissors to cutting into desired sort together with sizes whilst hot. Be swift. Do non hold off till it cools down. 
9. Let the cutting florentine pieces cool for but about other fifteen minutes earlier transferring to storage containers. The florentine should non stick onto the baking newspaper together with would agree its sort nicely.

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Let me warn yous that the Almond & Pumpkin Seeds Florentine 杏仁南瓜子脆饼片 is addictive. Surely, yous would non halt at one!

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Chocolate Flake Cookies (With Or Without Cereals) 巧克力饼/巧克力燕麦饼

Chocolate Flake Cookies (With Or Without Cereals) 巧克力饼/巧克力燕麦饼

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Chocolate Chip Cookies (without Cereals) 巧克力饼

Chocolate Chip Cereals Cookies 巧克力燕麦饼

Chocolate Chip Cookies 巧克力饼 are definitely my personal all-time favourites. Up till now, I even together with therefore cannot resist the Famous Amos cookies. Don't inquire me why I never liked the sealed-in-the-box types. I ever prefer freshly baked ones... but they are grossly pricey! To satisfy the cravings, my side past times side best choice is to convey some copycat home-made versions. 

At home, they'll locomote finished inward no fourth dimension no affair how many batches I bake. My married adult man is some other large fourth dimension fan. The other payoff of home-baked cookies is that I tin add together or cut back whatsoever ingredients to my ain likings. It is rather amusing to come across my married adult man ranting similar a little for "more chocolate chips...more raisins...more nuts...."  

Today's the third batch inward a calendar week equally my CNY visitors convey savoured them all. I realised this forenoon that my cookie tin has turned empty! This time, I am making two versions : 

A. Chocolate Chip Cookies (without Cereals) 巧克力饼 
B. Chocolate Chip Cookies (with Cereals) 巧克力燕麦饼

A. Chocolate Chip Cookies (without Cereals) 巧克力饼 :

Ingredients (yields almost 65 to lxx cookies) :

• 250 gm butter (room temperature, sliced or diced)
• 2 tsp shortening
• 100 gm castor sugar
• 220 gm brownish carbohydrate (i prefer less sweet, y'all tin add together to a greater extent than carbohydrate if y'all prefer)
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 450 gm multi-purpose or overstep flour (both ok)(sifted beforehand)
• 1 tsp salt
• 1.5 tsp baking powder
• 1 loving cup raisins or/and dried cranberries (you may add/reduce inward accordance to your preference)
• 1.5 loving cup chocolate chips (you may add/reduce inward accordance to your preference)

Method : 

1. Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees celsius or 338 degrees fahrenheit.
2. Mix butter, shortening, castor & brownish carbohydrate at high speed till lite together with fluffy.
3. Add egg together with vanilla essence. Mix at depression speed till good combined.  
4. Let the mixer operate along to run at depression speed, spoon inward sifted flour till good combined.
5. Add chocolate chips together with raisins/cranberries to dough. Mix at depression speed till chocolate chips together with raisins/cranberries evenly spread.
6. Remove bowl from mixer, lightly stir dough inward bowl amongst a spoon to ensure ingredients are good combined. At this juncture, the cookie dough would locomote soft together with sticky.
7. Use spoon or hands to curlicue cookie dough into little circular balls (do non convey to locomote perfect circular balls) of almost a xx cent money diameter.  
8. Place circular cookie dough balls onto a lined baking tray. Do non identify them likewise closely. The dough would spread together with it requires infinite to spread during the baking process. I did almost fifteen balls on each rectangular tray.
9. Bake inward pre-heated oven for fifteen to xx minutes. 
10. Once out of oven, permit the cookies to cool for v to 10 minutes  before transferring to cooling rack. 

Tip : If y'all prefer to a greater extent than crispy cookies, bake at lower temperature for longer duration. If y'all prefer to a greater extent than chewy cookies, bake at higher temperature for shorter duration. 


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Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees celsius or 338 degrees fahrenheit. Mix butter, shortening, castor & brownish carbohydrate at high speed till lite together with fluffy.

Add egg together with vanilla essence. Mix at depression speed till good combined.

Let the mixer operate along to run at depression speed, spoon inward sifted flour till good combined.

Add chocolate chips together with raisins/cranberries to dough. Mix at depression speed till chocolate chips together with raisins/cranberries evenly spread.

Use spoon or hands to curlicue cookie dough into little circular balls (do non convey to locomote perfect circular balls) of almost a xx cent money diameter.

Place circular cookie dough balls onto a lined baking tray. Do non identify them likewise closely. The dough would spread together with it requires infinite to spread during the baking process. I did almost fifteen balls on each rectangular tray.

Bake inward pre-heated oven for fifteen to xx minutes. Once out of oven, permit the cookies to cool for v to 10 minutes earlier transferring to cooling rack.

Chocolate Chip Cookies (without Cereals) 巧克力饼

B. Chocolate Chip Cereals Cookies 巧克力燕麦饼 :

Ingredients (yields almost 70-80 cookies) :

• 250 gm butter (room temperature, sliced or diced)
• 2 tsp shortening
• 100 gm castor sugar
• 220 gm brownish carbohydrate (i prefer less sweet, y'all tin add together to a greater extent than carbohydrate if y'all prefer)
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 450 gm multi-purpose or overstep flour (both ok)(sifted beforehand)
• 1 tsp salt
• 1.5 tsp baking powder
• 1 loving cup Nestum cereals
• 1 loving cup raisins or/and dried cranberries (you may add/reduce inward accordance to your preference)
• 1.5 loving cup chocolate chips (you may add/reduce inward accordance to your preference)

Method : 

1. Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees celsius or 338 degrees fahrenheit.
2. Mix butter, shortening, castor & brownish carbohydrate at high speed till lite together with fluffy.
3. Add egg together with vanilla essence. Mix at depression speed till good combined.  
4. Let the mixer operate along to run at depression speed, spoon inward sifted flour till good combined.
5. Fold inward cereals into cookie dough equally the mixer runs.
6. Add chocolate chips together with raisins/cranberries to dough. Mix at depression speed till chocolate chips together with raisins/cranberries evenly spread.
7. Remove bowl from mixer, lightly stir dough inward bowl amongst a spoon to ensure ingredients are good combined. At this juncture, the cookie dough would locomote soft but non equally glutinous equally the "without cereals" version.
8. Use spoon or hands to curlicue cookie dough into little circular balls (do non convey to locomote perfect circular balls) of almost a xx cent money diameter. You tin convey it bigger inward size, but that would yield lesser cookies. 
9. Place circular cookie dough balls onto a lined baking tray together with flatten it slightly. This is because this dough (with cereals) would non spread equally much equally the ones without cereals. You ask to flatten it around your desired cookie size first. Still, produce non identify them likewise closely together. The cookie dough volition even together with therefore spread a trivial during bake time. 12 to fifteen balls on each rectangular tray is good.
10. Bake inward pre-heated oven for fifteen to xx minutes. 
11. Once out of oven, permit the cookies to cool for v to 10 minutes  before transferring to cooling rack. 

Tip : If y'all prefer to a greater extent than crispy cookies, bake at lower temperature for longer duration. If y'all prefer to a greater extent than chewy cookies, bake at higher temperature for shorter duration. 


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Follow precisely Step 1 to vii equally to a higher identify Chocolate Chip Cookies (without Cereals). The solely deviation is to crimp inward cereals earlier chocolate chips together with raisins/cranberries together with that the cookie dough would non locomote equally glutinous equally the ones without cereals.

Use spoon or hands to curlicue cookie dough into little circular balls (do non convey to locomote perfect circular balls) of almost a xx cent money diameter. You tin convey it bigger inward size, but that would yield lesser cookies. Place circular cookie dough balls onto a lined baking tray together with flatten it slightly. This is because this dough (with cereals) would non spread equally much equally the ones without cereals. You ask to flatten it around your desired cookie size first. Still, produce non identify them likewise closely together. The cookie dough volition even together with therefore spread a trivial during bake time. 12 to fifteen balls on each rectangular tray is good. Bake inward pre-heated oven for fifteen to xx minutes. Once out of oven, permit the cookies to cool for v to 10 minutes  before transferring to cooling rack. 

Chocolate Chip Cookies (with Cereals) 巧克力燕麦饼 - Humble looking but sense of savor yummy.

Chocolate Chip Cookies (with Cereals) 巧克力燕麦饼 - Humble looking but sense of savor yummy.

Make your choice.  Chocolate Chip Cookies (without Cereals) 巧克力饼 or Chocolate Chip Cookies (with Cereals) 巧克力燕麦饼? If y'all inquire me which is better. I tin solely tell "to each his own".

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Garlic Butter Prawns 蒜香牛油虾

Garlic Butter Prawns 蒜香牛油虾

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It is the Chinese 人日 today. According to the Chinese calendar, this seventh twenty-four hours of Lunar New Year's Day is likewise the birthday of all mankind. It gives us a adept argue to dine amongst our identify unit of measurement members. We exactly stimulate got to hand it to our ancestors for their wisdom. They created as well as then many occasions for the identify unit of measurement to 'eat together' inwards this Spring festival month! 

Since it is an auspicious twenty-four hours for all, nosotros must swallow something meaningful, something good. It is a no brainer for me to gear upwards prawns for the identify unit of measurement today equally it symbolises 嘻哈大笑, or exactly lay it - Joy as well as Laughter. It tin live tricky to gear upwards for former folks as well as ourselves at the same time. In this instance, my hubby prefers pasta whilst my parents desire rice.... This Garlic Butter Prawns 蒜香牛油虾 is uncomplicated as well as versatile. It satisfies my former folks to accept the dish with steamed rice as well as I brand my hubby happy yesteryear serving him Garlic Butter Prawns Pasta.

Ingredients (enough for 4 pax to larn amongst steamed rice or pasta) :

• 16 pcs of large whole prawns (cleaned as well as pre-marinated amongst 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar, 1/2 tsp grounded dark pepper)
• 10 cloves garlic (50% thinly sliced, 50% finely chopped)
• 2 shallots (chopped)
• 2 dried chilli (chopped)
• 1/3 of a lemon
• parsley or coriander (optional)(finely chopped for garnishing)
• 2 to three tbsp salted butter (in accordance to your preference)
• 1 tsp crispy sambal shrimps or dried chilli flakes

(tsp = teaspoon; tbsp = tablespoon)    

Method : 

1. Melt butter inwards medium oestrus frying pan/wok.
2. Add aromatic ingredients (garlic, shallots, dried chilli, crispy sambal shrimps/dried chilli flakes).
3. When the ingredients plough aromatic, crease inwards marinated prawns.
4. Gently toss prawns till fully cooked. Prawns would live cooked inwards exactly few minutes. 
5. Squeeze lemon juice, plough off heat/fire as well as hand it ane lastly toss.
6. Transfer for plating as well as garnishing.

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Serve this Garlic Butter Prawns 蒜香牛油虾 with steamed rice or pasta. It's truly a perfect match for Aglio Olio. Tasty as well as pleasing to the eyes.... a uncomplicated dish that made us all 嘻哈大笑 at abode this evening.

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Homemade Bak Kwa (Chinese Pork Jerky) 自制猪肉干

Homemade Bak Kwa (Chinese Pork Jerky) 自制猪肉干

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Recipe inspired past times in addition to adapted from Miki Food Archives.

Making Homemade Bak Kwa (Chinese Pork Jerky) 自制猪肉干 is a husband-wife weekend bonding projection inwards our home. I produce non eat much of this local delicacy. Few pocket-size pieces are fine....no to a greater extent than than that. I am a cancer survivor. This sort of indulgence has to live moderated. On the other hand, my hubby loves them! 

What precisely is Bak Kwa? 

"Bak Kwa, also known as rougan (肉干), is a dried savoury sweetmeat that traditionally takes the shape of sparse foursquare slices in addition to is unremarkably made from pork. Bak kwa and rougan, meaning “dried meat” in Hokkien and mandarin respectively, also shout to barbecued pork or pork jerky. Originating from China, bak kwa has piece of job a favourite local snack inwards Singapore, alongside its popularity peaking during Chinese New Year, every bit evidenced past times the long queues at the branches of famous Bak Kwa chains during the festive period."

Source : http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1746_2010-12-30.html

We had been spending hundreds of dollars buying Bak Kwa from famous chains for many years. Yes! We did crazy things similar queueing for hours just to purchase few kgs. We fifty-fifty drove to far destination of Singapore inwards promise to purchase direct from the nutrient factories. You know they are pop when the stores lead keep to restrain buying quotas for each customer. In Singapore, nosotros ofttimes purchase Bak Kwa for gifting to identify unit of measurement elders in addition to for problem concern associates earlier Chinese New Year's Day (CNY). That explains why everybody buys inwards larger volume. They are non cheap. H5N1 kg of Bak Kwa is unremarkably inwards a higher identify SGD$50 during the peak festive seasons. And the prices lead keep been increasing over the years.

As our parents age, nosotros were told non to purchase Bak Kwa for them this CNY. We gladly acceded to their requests every bit that would relieve us a expert amount of money. I did non forget that I had to satisfy my man's appetite for the pork jerky. It was delightful to know that he was groovy to embark on this Homemade Bak Kwa (Chinese Pork Jerky) 自制猪肉干 journey together.

There are many versions of Bak Kwa recipes available on the internet. It took us ii days, four rounds of lawsuit & fault earlier nosotros derived alongside our favourite formulae. As much every bit nosotros enjoyed the making process, the hours of bonding through troubleshooting in addition to the yummy end products, Homemade Bak Kwa (Chinese Pork Jerky) 自制猪肉干surely would non live something that nosotros would brand often. Once or twice a year....maybe?

Seasonings/Ingredients for Marinating  :

• 2 kg minced fresh pork (Need to lead keep most 10% fat, cannot yield expert consequence if pork is every bit good lean. We tried using frozen minced pork too, the consequence was non every bit expert every bit the meat were withal every bit good moist for grill afterwards defrosting unless nosotros drain the pork relatively dry out alongside a drainer.)
• 3 tbsp oyster sauce
• 1 tbsp fish sauce
• 2 tbsp low-cal soy sauce
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 8 tbsp brownish saccharide (Bak kwa color would live darker if yous role brownish sugar. Use white saccharide if yous prefer a lighter colour)
• 1/2 tsp grounded white pepper
• 1 tbsp Shaoxing rice wine
• 1/2 tsp sesame oil
• 5 tbsp love (blend alongside to a greater extent than or less other v tbsp water)

Ingredients for Grilling :

• 2 tbsp love (blend alongside 1/3 loving cup water)

(tsp = teaspoon; tbsp = tablespoon)    

Method : 

1. Mix all marinating seasonings inwards a bowl. Use chopsticks to blend them well. Ensure saccharide is non clumpy.
2. Add mixture to minced pork. Use chopsticks or mitt to stir till all seasonings blend evenly in addition to pork becomes sticky. We used our hands. 
3. Cover bowl alongside cling wrap. 
4. Chill inwards fridge for iii to four hours.
5. When time's up, preheat oven to 160 degrees celsius or 320 degrees fahrenheit (Upper & lower heat. Do non role fan mode. We had 1 side totally burnt when nosotros tried on fan mode).
6. Prep your baking trays alongside 1 layer of aluminium foil in addition to top alongside 1 canvass of baking paper. My baking newspaper was sticking madly to the baking tray when I did it without the aluminium foil. Or yous may just piece of job without whatsoever baking newspaper or foil. 
7. Remove bowl from chiller, spread marinated minced pork thinly in addition to evenly onto rectangular baking trays. We managed to yield iii trays alongside the ii kg pork. 
8. Cover a layer of cling wind over the minced pork when done. Use a roller pivot to lightly whorl over to ensure the minced meat's all flat, fifty-fifty in addition to stays together. 
9. Remove cling wind when yous are satisfied alongside the result.
10. Send 1 tray into middle rack of the oven. Bake for xx minutes. 
11. For the remaining tray(s), recollect to encompass alongside cling wind in addition to chill earlier yous post them into the oven. Do non larn out them inwards the opened upwards to await for oven's availability.
12. Meanwhile, blend ii tbsp love inwards 1/3 loving cup water. Standby a brush too. 
13. Remove tray from oven afterwards xx minutes.
14. Adjust oven rut to 220 degrees celsius or 428 degrees fahrenheit.
15. By now, the pork would lead keep shrunk at to the lowest degree 20% to 30% inwards size.
16. Use a tong to agree in addition to a couplet of pair of scissors to cutting the pork into your desired piece size.
17. Brush love mixture onto surface of the pork.
18. Use tong to flip piece past times piece inwards the tray.
19. Brush love mixture on this side of the pork slices too.
20. Send tray dorsum to oven. This time, 1 rack higher, instead of the middle rack.
21. Bake for v minutes.
22. Remove tray from oven again.
23. If yous are happy alongside what yous see, yous may post the tray of bak kwa for cooling. Otherwise, repeat Step 17 to 20. Bake for ii minutes in addition to assess again. Repeat processes until yous are happy alongside the destination product. 
24. Do the same alongside other trays.
25. Ensure bak kwa slices are aired adequately in addition to fully cooled downward alongside no wet earlier storing inwards air tight containers. If not, the bak kwa would plough mouldy pretty fast. 

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All inwards all, nosotros were happy alongside our Homemade Bak Kwa (Chinese Pork Jerky) 自制猪肉干. Our bakes lasted us throughout the CNY. We did non purchase whatsoever Bak Kwa from the chain stores for the offset time. Besides, my hubby in addition to I spent ii days of character fourth dimension together. No doubt, it could live rather tiring alongside all the anticipations in addition to anxieties inwards the bak kwa making process!

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