Pizza

Ingredients: makes 3 pizza bases

375 mL (1 1/2 cups) warm water

2 tsp (7g/1 sachet) dried yeast

Pinch of caster sugar

600g (4 cups) plain flour

1 tsp salt

60 mL (1/4 cup) olive oil, plus extra for brushing (i just used normal cooking/vegetable oil)

Method:

Combine water, yeast and sugar in a small bowl. Set aside for 5 minutes or until foamy.

Combine the flour and salt in a large bowl and make a well in the centre. Add the yeast mixture and oil. Use a round bladed knife in cutting motion to mix until the mixture is combined.

Use your hands to bring the dough together in the bowl.

Brush a bowl lightly with oil. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 10 minutes or until smooth and elastic. Place in the prepared bowl and turn to coat in oil.

Cover with plastic wrap and set aside in a warm, draught-free place to rise for 30 minutes or until dough doubles in size (what i did was I turn on the heater and put the bowl in front of it because there's no way the dough will rise in 30 mins in cold weather)

Then, roll the dough into round shape and put on a baking tray.

Spread pasta/pizza sauce (can be bought from store or you can make it yourselves). Sprinkle your desired toppings be it just cheeses, tuna, prawns, vege, pineapple.

When I made this pizza i just put cheeses because that's what left in my fridge. And also i made just 1/3 of the recipe since it was just for me alone.

Bake for 10-20mins at 180 degree Celsius. To get that rustic brownish colour on top, i turn the oven to grill mode for few mins.

Got the recipe from here.

More pictures of food

Fish and chips

Home-made burger

Maggi Goreng

Maggi Goreng? Lame right? Whatev.

Ingredients:

3 tbsp blended onion

1-2 tsp chilli powder (2 tsp is very hot)

3 cloves of garlic - crushed

soy sauce

some vege (as you can see I'm obsessed with corn kernels, also added some shredded carrot)

2 eggs

3 tbsp oil

2 pcs instant noodles - boiled and drained.

Method:

Heat some oil, fry 1 egg. Then put aside.

Fry off the garlic until it caramelised a bit.

Add onions and keep stir-frying until the onion cooks.

Add chilli powder and stir occasionally.

Add some water maybe about 4-5 tbsp.

Add your veges and wait for them to cook.

Add soy sauce as much as you like. Put the mixture to one side in the pan.

Add 1 egg but don't mix the egg with the mixture yet. When the egg is reasonably cooked, then you mix them altogether.

Finally add the noodles and stir like a mad person but don't squash the noodles.

And serve. Garnish with spring onions and fried shallots if you have them.

Red velvet cupcakes

Okay, so i know my cupcakes is not that red velvety. Well that's because i've ran out of red food colouring. Nonetheless, i think the cupcake is quite good and moist and perfectly a good combo with cream cheese frosting. I got the recipe from here.

Ingredients

• 300g (2 cups) plain flour
• 30g (1/4 cup) cocoa powder
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 315g (1 1/2 cups) caster sugar
• 250ml (1 cup) buttermilk
• 200g unsalted butter, melted
• 2 eggs, lightly whisked
• 1 tbs white vinegar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1-2 tsp red food colouring (in the comments they say it's not enough. try use 5-6 tsp)

Topping: even though i filled my cupcakes, there's still some leftover. Try make half the recipe if you don't want to fill your cupcakes or 75% if u wanna do like i did.

• 2 x 250g pkts cream cheese, at room temperature
• 300g (2 cups) pure icing sugar
• 120g butter, extra, at room temperature
• 1 tsp vanilla essence, extra

Method

1. Preheat oven to 170°C. Line eighteen 80ml (1/3 cup) capacity muffin pans with paper cases. Sift flour, cocoa powder and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl. Stir through the sugar. Whisk the buttermilk, butter, eggs, vinegar and vanilla in a large jug until combined. Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture. Add the buttermilk mixture. Stir until just combined. Stir in the food colouring.

2. Divide the mixture among the lined pans. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centres comes out clean. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

3. Use an electric beater to beat the cream cheese, icing sugar, extra butter and extra vanilla until smooth. Spread over cupcakes.

I did some tricks with my cupcakes.

First, make an indentation to your cupcake to help you cut a small round. I used my measuring spoon.

Then carefully cut a small round using a sharp knife.

Fill your cupcake with filling of your wish.

So, the cut out part look like this right?

Cut the cut out part to look like this.

Then put the cupcake cover back like this.

Put the frosting and decorate as u desire.

And then, when you cut/eat the cupcake, tada! it will look like this.

Pfft, ignore the out-of-focus pictures. Really should practice more.

Gathering

Yesterday I hosted a small gathering for friends just to meet up before everyone goes back to Malaysia. Made few stuffs, cut two fingers (one from both sides) and the kitchen is still in a mess.

Red velvet cupcakes (will update the recipe later)

Churros with caramel sauce and choc sauce

Fish fingers with sweet chilli sauce

Tuna boat

I cut the sides of white bread, flatten them, cut circles from them, brush with melted butter and bake the circles in muffin pan until crispy. Added mayonnaise, black and white pepper and some grated carrots to the tuna and mixed everything. Added the tuna to the bread just before the guest arrived.

Corn chips with salsa (also i added jalapeno cheese sauce to the chips)

Toast pieces with hommus

Remember the tuna boat? After we cut the circles there surely be some leftover bread right? So what i did was mixing the pieces with some melted butter and oregano and baked them until crispy.