Banana Nutella Oreo ice-cream!

Ingredients:

(Adjust accordingly: more Nutella = more chocolatey, more Oreo = more crunch)

5 bananas

2 tablespoon Nutella

5 crushed Oreos

Instructions:

1) peels bananas, slice them to abt 1-2cm pieces. Freeze for at least 2hours.

2) Break Oreos (any flavor you like) into small pieces

2 hrs or so later:

3) use blender to pulse and blend banana until you get a creamy texture (first minute or so might be clumpy but it should get creamier and easier to blend after a while). 

4) add Nutella and blend till about even throughout 

5) add Oreo pieces and pulse till about evenly spread throughout 

6) pour into container and return to freezer until ready to serve. 

(If serve less Frozen will taste like soft serve ice cream; if freeze longer will taste like traditional ice cream.)

Enjoy!!!

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.)