Rain rain go away, little children want to play... it has been raining for almost half of the day now. The carving of having piping hot pretzel popping into my mouth with a cup of hot coffee is the only thing I need most from one of my sleepless night with baby Shane. 

So without any hesitation, let's get started on making some mini cheese hotdog pretzel! Unlike those hard pretzel you have tasted at Auntie Anne, my version is softer yet tougher than normal bread. 

The question now is what do you need?

This recipe will yield 16 mini pretzels

Equipment:

Electrical Mixer with swirling hook attachment

Ingredients:

 

For the dough - 

1 cup of warm water ( about 40-50 Degrees Celsius)

1/2 cup of low fat milk; alternatively, you may opt for skim milk =)

2 1/4 teaspoons of active dry yeast

4 1/2 cups of all purpose flour

1 teaspoon of salt

15 g of sugar 

28 g of butter

For the fillings - 

8 pieces of hotdogs of your choice 

Mozzarella cheese

1 egg with splash of water as egg wash

This recipe is supposed to have the pretzel dipped in baking soda solution before egg wash,  but I did not do it since I don't have baking soda at home. 

For the dough

1) Mix the butter, salt and milk together (Mixture A) and microwave it for 1 minute and leave it to cool. 

2) In the mixer bowl, dissolve the sugar and the warm water first then mix in the active dry yeast. Once done, wait for approximately 5 minutes or until you have seen foaming from the mixture. 

3) Add in Mixture A into the mixer bowl and stir with the electric mixer. Add the flour slowly into mixer bowl, add more flour if required to ensure the dough is not very sticky. 

4) Once done, kneed the dough for 5-10 minutes on the surface dusted with all purpose flour.

5) Round the dough and put into the big bowl which was oiled with vegetable oil on its surface.

 

6) Use a clean towel to cover the top for 1 hour in a warm environment. 

   The dough should be expanded twice its original size.

7) Divide the expanded dough into 16 pieces onto a oiled flat surface.

For the filling

8) Cut the hotdogs into half. 

9) Cut the middle of the cut hotdog and stuff the mozzarella cheese into the slit. 

9) Once ready, pick 1 of the divided dough and coil around the hotdog, making sure both ends do not have any exposed ends of the hotdog. 

10) 30 minutes before placing the hotdog pretzels  into the oven, heat the oven at 180 Degrees Celsius.

11) Egg wash the top of the hotdog pretzels . 

12) Place the tray of 16 pieces of mini hotdogs pretzels into the oven for 15 minutes until golden brown. 

Hope you try the recipe out and I have a hearty teabreak with these mini pretzels~~

Seriously, I really hate myself for neglecting my blog! Without wasting our time to read half of this post with all my whining,  I shall present you my 10 minutes meal for today... 

Bread Pizza !!!! These are so easy to prepare that you can have a healthy and selection of  toppings of your choice breakfast before starting your day! Without further ado, let's move on to the ingredient section. 

Ingredient to Use

6 Cherry Tomato, sliced

4 Shitake Mushrooms, sliced ( Please note to remove stem and pad dry the caps before slicing)

Some shredded Mozzarella cheese

2 slices of wheat bread on baking sheet 

Steps to prepare this dish:

1)  Preheat the oven at 130 degree C. 

2)  Fill the bread with mushroom slices, cherry tomato slices and top with lots of mozzarella cheese. 

You may add onion rings on top or chicken cubes to each on your own. 

4) Put the tray of bread into the preheated oven for 6 minutes and you are done!!! 

Hope you will try and do this easy prepared breakfast for yourself!!! Enjoy the wonderful Sunday evening!

It has been a while again I have blogged about something.... busy with work and stuffs or rather too lazy? hahaha... if ..if  you were as lazy to make breakfast in the morning, maybe you would like to try this "Do it in 10 minutes' meal" to kick start the day.

Can you guess what is the main ingredient that is used to fry the rice? ....... Tomato ketchup? Noooo..

Ingredients to use:

2 Big Eggs
1 Can of Baked Beans ( I used only 1/2 of it)
Leftover white rice from yesterday's dinner
Sprinkle of cheese
Slices of seaweed to garnish

Steps to cook the dish:

1. Add some cooking oil into the sauce pan and throw in the rice and 1/2 of the baked beans. Please try not to pour too much of the baked beans' gravy to prevent rice from getting soggy.

2. Cook the mixture for 5 minutes till every grains of rice is well mixed. Scoop the baked bean rice and put aside.

3. Clean the surface of the sauce pan and oil generously. This is to prevent the egg mixture from sticking on the surface later.

4. Beat the 2 eggs in a bowl with a pinch of salt and pepper.

5. Pour the egg mixture into sauce pan, spread around the surface, start sprinkle cheese generously to have the cheesy taste.

6.  Wait till 2 mintues,when the fried egg can be flip by a spatula, add the baked bean rice to half of the egg and fold to 2/4 of the other end.

7. Add some slices of seaweed to garnish. =))

Here you are!!! My breakfast was served on bed. Hehe.... 

For the past few days of celebration, I have been eating a lot till  I think I have gained at least 2 kg!!!!! Chinese New Year goodies have always been very delicious , especially the pineapple tarts., pumpkin kuei, and so many more!  Of which, one of my most favorite must eat goodies is the pan fried Chinese Glutinous Rice Cake with yam and sweet potato.

Please don't think that the brown brown kuei may taste weird , you will be so wrong ! The best rice cake in Singapore in this traditional Chinese shop 大中国。

oooo...Most importantly, credits of making this dish must be given to my mummy!  She is the master chef for this dish. 

In order not to have any uncooked yam and sweet potato when frying with the rice cake, do steam the cut yam and sweet potato first! For us, we use the rice cooker to steam the yam and sweet potato!

Slice the rice cake to almost same size as the yam and sweet potato. Get ready some plain flour with water to mix with an egg. 

Yeah... Drip the sweet potato and yam with rice cake into the flour mixture and pan fried it. 

I have been really itch to make some healthy and yet mouth watery foods for myself. And I finally moved my butt to do some research before trying out this pizza recipe. I have taken this recipe from iowagirl eats and modified a bit due to lack of some resources, or rather I prefer not to spend money on ingredients that iI seldom use.

Frankly speaking, the picture I took did not do any justice to the pizza! Hump~ By the way, SBC= Spinach, Bacon and Cherry Tomato!  Let's get started!!

Ingredients

12 " Pizza Dough - Yes, I am making dough! Really prayed hard it will turn out well.=)))

1/2 cup of warm water ( Not lukewarm nor scotching hot, more like hot shower temperature)

1&1/2 teaspoon instant yeast 

1&1/2 cups all purpose flour maybe more for kneading

1 tablespoon sugar ( You may substitute with honey)

1 tablespoon of canola oil 

Pizza Toppings

1 branch of spinach 

10 cherry tomato

4 strips of bacon

1 pack of Pizza plus ( Mix of Mozzarella, Parmesan, Cheddar cheese)

BBQ sauce 

Let's get going with the Dough!

Dissolve the sugar into the prepared water and add the instant yeast powder into a giant bowl and place it in a warm area. Wait for 10 minutes until the solution turns foamy, bubbles~ 

Pour the rest of the flour and oil into the mixture and rock & roll the mixture into a ball. Add more flour  during the 3 minutes' kneading  such that the sticky mixture will be smooth and dry.  

Use a towel to cover the top of the bowl and wait for the dough to "grow" for 50 minutes to 1 hour. At the last 15 minutes, make the bacon strips to crispy lots. Yummy!! Can't wait to see my Dough! 

Yeah! expanding well and ready to spread the dough into a circular shape. As I do not have any pizza pan, I wrapped the baking tray with foil and spray some oil to prevent the dough from sticking the foil surface. 

Mold the dough into thin, circular shape and spread the BBQ sauce ( or whatever sauce you like) get ready for some decoration for the plain dough!

Before that, mix the spinach with some pepper, oil and salt to taste and quick fry a bit. There you go!!! Into the Oven at 220 Degree Celsius for 15 minutes. Sprinkle some cheese too!!!!! 

  

All done!~~~ Hope you will enjoy the pizza making session!!!! 

 Every morning, especially during weekdays, my breakfast will be a piece of wholemeal bread, glutinous grains' cereal. Are you like me feeling sick having the same routine breakfast almost everyday?  Let's get down to the kitchen and cook some porridge which is healthier than most outside foods.

Ingredients

1 Century Egg
1 Salted Egg
Long Grain Rice
2 cups of water 

Actually not many people like the taste of the century egg as compared to the salted duck egg. Some may even wonder what is a century egg and salted egg?  A century egg is also known as preserved (Can be Duck, Chicken) egg and like its name, it is cured with a coat of clay which made up of salt, wood ash and mud. The taste of the egg is sure very unique where not much people can stand it nowadays. But... I love it!!!

As for the salted duck egg, the egg is coated with a thick layer of salted charcoal to preserve the egg, giving it its saltiness.

Clean the rice and boil them into the water till the rice grains are white and soft. In the meanwhile, remove the coats of the eggs and boil them for 15 mins.

You may chop the eggs in wedges or dices if you like it smaller pieces. Well, I preferred mine in wedges. Hehehe... Last but not least, I would sprinkle some pork floss and some dry seaweed bits to my porridge.

Oooh... yeah~

Ever Since I posted the first entry on the recipe's section, I have been slightly obsessed in trying all sorts of cruises. Well, maybe the simpler ones from the internet and slowly improvised to healthier choice.

Nowadays, I tried to whip up dishes such that they can be served as a meal, like lunch or dinner. Still wondering what can I do to present the best to this blog? hahahah... 

 

How do you find it? 

Well,, with all the ingredients that were found in the fridge, I have decided to cook the Korean egg roll with spicy tofu meal and a corn soup to fill my stomach for dinner. 

So, Let's get started

Ingredients : Sweet Corn Soup

A packet of Silk Tofu, cut in dices 

1 Can of Sweet Corn Cream

1 packet of Minced Chicken 

2 small packets

 of Chicken Broth

Mix the minced meat with a pinch of pepper, salt and 1/2 tablespoon of cornflour. After mixing the mixture, I rolled them into little meatballs.

Leaving the meatballs aside for awhile, pour the 2 packets of chicken broth and the sweet corn cream into the pot and bring to boil. Whisked the egg and poured into the soup slowly...  finally throw the tofu dices into the soup during the last 5 mins. 

Da...da...da...da....da...da.... 

Now, we can get ready for the next dish, the egg rolls....it is a pretty easy dish, it's just that you need to make sure the omelette was "well rolled". =))) 

Ingredients : Korean Egg Rolls

3 eggs

1/2 of the Onion

A pinch of salt 

Chopped the 1/2 onion into little dices and whisked the eggs together. Poured some oil into the pan and spread the egg, wait for 1 min. 

Using the spatula, flipped one side of the omelette and slowly rolled it to the right side.  Make sure the oil was well spread so that the omelette won't stick to the pan or burned. 

Chop chop chop evenly and this should be what you have. 

I am not sure what happen to me recently, but I am totally into tomato based soup or dishes which made me felt refreshed or energetic after having some of the hot food into my stomach! And that reason is sufficient for me to decide on whipping up a tomato vegetable soup and a grilled chicken with peachy cream sauce to have for my prefect dinner!

I hope these two dishes would look appealing to you !!!

Grilled Chicken with Peach Cream Sauce

Ingredients

All Purpose Flour
Peach Halves in Syrup (400g)
Chicken Fillets             4 Pcs
Whipping Cream           1/4 cup
Chicken Stock              1/2 cup
Balsamic Vinegar          1/4 cup
Spring Onions               1/4 cup
Salt and Pepper
Dry Basil

All chop chop and cleaned to go into the cooking pans! hahahaha. Let's get started with the chicken fillets first before preparing our sauce.

Marinade with pepper and salt to the fillets. Thereafter, make sure to powder the chicken fillets well to cover them completely with the all purpose flour.  Not so bad huh? =))

Heat the pan with some oil and pan fried the chicken fillets. Turn the chicken to another side , approximately 3 mins each side, until slightly brown.

And now that is the sauce I am going to make now.   Firstly, pour the balsamic vinegar into the pot and cook slowly till half with the spring onions into the vinegar. Add in the chicken stock and whipping cream into the pot and cooked till thicken. Finally, add some basil and light cook the peaches into the sauce without overcooking them.

Tomato Veggie Soup 

Ingredients

Chicken Broth 300g
Tomato Diced  250g
Tomato Paste   50g
1 Cauliflower
2 Carrots
1 Huge Potato
Slices of Button Mushrooms

Throw the chicken stock and tomato sauce plus diced tomato into the pot till heated. Next, add the cut vegetables into the pan and let them stewed in the pot. And you got the end product after 30 mins!! You may add some pepper and basil to taste.

Hope you enjoy the food like me!!!!!<3