Airfry: Frozen seaweed wrapped chicken

Ingredients:

Frozen seaweed wrapped chicken

Directions:

1) preheat airfryer for 5min, 180oC. 

2) while preheating, take out Frozen seaweed wrapped chicken from freezer to slightly thaw. 

3) pour desired amt of chicken into airfryer basket

4) air fry for 10min at 180oC. 

5) serve hot. :)

Airfry: open face breakfast sandwich

Ingredients:

Frozen sausage (slightly thawed)

2 slices of bread

1 egg (room temp)

Butter

Instructions:

1) Pre heat air fryer 5min, 180oC

While pre heating:

(Lay an aluminum sheet on work bench and do the following)

2) Slice sausage to about 0.5cm slices.

3) Spread butter on bread slice 1 and 2

4) Use a cookie cutter to cut out the middle of bread slice 2

5) stack bread slice 2 butter side up on top of bread slice 1. 

6) line sausage slices in the middle

7) crack egg over sausages

8) (optional) add shredded cheese

9) lift aluminum sheet with sandwich into air fryer basket

10) line remaining sausages around the sandwich if you wish

11) air fry for 8-10min at 180oC

12) serve hot :) 

White fungus snow pear dessert

(Referenced original recipe from here : http://dequeenkitchen.blogspot.sg/2013/04/snow-pear-with-white-fungus-soup.html?m=1)

So the elder JZ is in another bout if cough and phlegm AGAIN so I decided to try some TCM methods that does not require bitter medicines... :)

This is suppose to be good to clear phlegm , cough and strengthen lungs.

Here's what I did:

Ingredients :

Wash above, slice pear, and about 1-2tsp of each of the rest. 

White fungus - soak for 20min, rinse and break into smaller florets

 + Chuan Bei Mu (seed form or ground into powder, got from ZTP) 川贝母

+ rock sugar to taste 

Final product after 15min boiling and 45min simmer:

(Can be served warm or chilled. )

Apple Salad :)

Made this for our Christmas eve get-together :)

Ingredients:
1 Red Apple (I like the big crunchy type)
2 Granny Smith green apple (1 if it is a huge one)
Raisins
Bacon bits
Mayonnaise (or Yogurt if you prefer a healthier version)

Instructions:
1) Dice apples (soak them in salted water for a few minutes to prevent browning)
2) Drain water
3) Add the rest of the ingredients (raisins, bacon bits, mayonnaise) and mix well
4) Serve chilled.

(Optional: Add walnuts or sunflower seed or your favourite nuts for extra crunch.)

NO BAKE Cake ! :)

I don't have an oven, so I LOVE this recipe from a friend.

Below are instructions from her (enough to serve 4-5pax, each having a pretty decent portion of cake! :) 

It turned out awesome! [Image borrowed from Pf Fletcher :) 'cause no one took pictures!]

2 super ripe whole bananas. Usually I wait for the bananas to be super ripe. ie. blackish skin & flesh to be mushy. That's the best banana to use.

1 1/3 rice-cup self raising flour
1 cup sugar (depending on sweetness level you want)
3 eggs
1 pinch of salt ( for preservation)
1tsp vanilla essence
2/3 egg shell of odourless cooking oil (we used vegetable oil)

steps:
1. Roughly mash bananas
2.Whisk eggs, sugar, vanilla essence, oil, salt together until smooth consistency.
3. Add in mashed bananas and whisk to let it mix tgt
4. Add in flour and whisk till even consistency
5. Steam for 30mins using medium fire with a cloth under lid to prevent water droplets from falling onto the cake.
6. Use a chopstick to check 'done-ness'. Test at 4 corners and centre of cake. Chopstick should come out clean. A little bit of cake stuck onto chopstick is ok.
7. Let it cool for about 30mins. This is to let the insides of the cake set ie. cling tgt and the sides of the cake will pull off from the bowl letting the cake slide out easily.
8. Cut, serve & enjoy

Notes :
1. finish the cake within 2 days cos we didnt use artificial preservatives.
2. Always make sure that the water is boiling before putting the cake in to steam or it will affect the way the cake rises.