effortless cheese cup-muffin-cake

 

Salam readers!!!

I have finally found this amazing easy recipe for cheesy cupcake/muffin, it is seriously easy to make and you don't need anything extravagant to make it.. no special ingredients! :)

Here's whatchu need:

1 1/2 cup all purpose flour

1 cup of milk

1 large egg

3 cups of any grated cheese (i used marble cheese)

62ml or 1/4 cup of melted butter

1 Tablespoon of baking powder

a pinch of salt and sugar

12 baking cups

first, you mix all the dry ingredients all together (flour, baking powder, salt, sugar,) and put them in a large bowl

on a smaller bowl, mix melted butter, egg and milk

now you mix the dry ingredients and wet together, slowly pour the wet ingredients into the dry one.. trust me it'll make the mix nicer and easier to stir after...

after you mix both thoroughly, you will find that the mix is heavy and thick! Yes! it is supposed to be thick and heavy...

Now pour the grated cheese and stir them nicely with a non stick spatula (not with mixer)..

You need to preheat the oven at 190c before putting the cup-muffin-cakes in..

Bake them for about 20-25mins and once they're done, allow them to sit and cool off :)

Enjoy this deliciously effortless cup-muffin-cakes!!

My asian stomach's acting up!

I have been craving Indonesian food for a month now, unfortunately, I crave the hard-to-find-ingredients ones! Yes, Canada might be the land of immigrants but not the "part" I'm in, this city is so small and coloured skin like myself is a minor. Therefore, It's is almost impossible to find the herbs and spices needed in this city.. So different with the last city I lived in, we immigrants were majority hahahaha.. . So I decided to make something small, easy to make but still cure my homesickness :'( that is LUMPIA.

The ingredients are very easy to find...

• 300gr of lean ground beef
• 150gr bean sprouts
• 1 Medium carrot
• 3 Medium shallots
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 stacks of green onions
• 1 tbsp of salt
• 1 tbsp of ground pepper
• 1 pack of frozen spring roll wrap 
• White part of egg (just one egg)
• Enough oil to deep fry the lumpia

 Cooking instructions:

• You need to cook the filling first, so fry the shallots,garlics and ground beef first.
• Add the remaining ingredients, don't over cook them because we're going to fry them again with the wrapper
• Put them aside to cool off for 10 minutes
• Once they've cooled off, you can start putting them inside the wrapper then seal it with the white egg, repeat until filling is finish.
• Heat the oil for deep frying the lumpia.. Once it's ready then start deep frying them...

VOILA

this is the outcome of my lumpia 

 xoxo

For the love of eggs!

Okay, so I want to share another recipe that involves a lot of eggs :) mind you guys, egg is one of my fav food.. hard boiled eggs, scrabbled eggs, balado eggs, telor asin (duck eggs), etc etc :)

This is another Russian recipe, it's one of my mother in-laws dish that I like so much... hahaha

It's called stuffed eggs.. okay look below for ingredients and directions :)

PS: I don't have any pic for this food but if you google it, you can see what it looks like (just to get the general idea, everybody makes it differently)

Ingredients:

• 1 Canned Mushroom (sliced) or 1 Pack 
• 1 Large yellow onion
• 5 Eggs
• 4 TBsp Vegetable oil
• Mayonnaise
• Salt
• Black Pepper

Directions:

• Heat your pan before putting the oil into the pan, this process is really important but most of us often forgets (like myself hahaha)
• Put the mushrooms and onions into the pan, cook them for about 20-30mins in medium heat (I like them a bit crispy so I usually cook it longer) - don't forget to salt them during the process :) and sprinkle some black pepper
• Meanwhile, boil the eggs :)
• The two major ingredients should finish about the same time..
• Now peel the hard boiled eggs and cut the into halfs, take out all the yellow part and put it in a bowl
• Place the sauteed mushrooms and onions into a food processor and chop it for 20seconds (or we can us "Slap Chops", or we can manually minced them with knife- but make sure to mince them FINELY) 
• Now, mix the chopped sauteed mushrooms and onions with the yellow eggs... take 1 1/2 TBsp of mayonnaise and mix them all together.. (you can add more mayonnaise if you like)
• When it's nicely mixed, start putting them into the white part of the hard boiled eggs... make small mountains, don't make it flat :)
• When you're done, you can place some green vegetables on top.. I like to use parsley :)
• Now it's ready to be served :) ENJOY!!!

xoxo

мимоса (mimosa) - Layered fish salad

This is one of my favourite Russian salad, it's quite heavy as an appetizer so I usually eat it with a main dish...

Ingredients:

• 2 Canned fish (I usually use tuna or salmon)
• 1 Medium yellow onion
• 5 Eggs
• 3 Carrots
• 3 Potatoes
• Mayonnaise 
• Ground black pepper

Directions:

• Boil the eggs (we are making hard boiled eggs) - Once it's done, peel the skin off and slice them in halfs. Separate the yellow part of the eggs and the white.. Cut the whites in small dices, same for the yellow, put them aside separately.
• Boil carrots and peeled potatoes until tender, once they're done, cut them in small dices and put aside to cool off.
• Finely minced the yellow onion.

Now all the main ingredients are ready to be put together...

Spread the white eggs evenly at the bottom of the dish
Spread carrots on top of it... *take your time, no rush.. sometimes if we rush, the stacks fall off*
Now spread the fish.. Sprinkle some ground black pepper.
Spread the mayo
Sprinkle the onions
Sprinkle the potatoes
Now spread the yellow eggs
And lastly, cover it with mayo...

For decoration, we can put parsley leaves at the very top :)

It should look like this..
ps: again, I took this pic with my fone.. :( I hope you guys can still see it

all credit goes to my mother in law :) she taught me how to make this even before i became a wife :)

Easy Breezy Delicious....

Baked french potato wedges

NOTE: Preheat oven to 190 degree Celsius or 375 degree Fahrenheit.
be sure to spray the baking sheet with non-stick vegetable spray or you can use 2 Tbs vegetable oil drops and spread it on the baking sheet.

Ingredients:
4 medium potatoes- not peeled
2 tbsp melted margarine/butter (preferably salted butter)
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp dried chopped basil
1 tbsp crushed garlic, equivalent to 2 cloves of garlic
1 1/2 tsp dried parsley
2 tbsp of grated mozzarella or marble cheese
a pinch of salt and pepper

Instructions:
1. Clean the potatoes by scrubbing them, then cut them into wedges.
2. In a container, mix the ingredients mentioned above except the grated mozzarella/marble cheese.
3. Scrub the potatoes with the mix - do it thoroughly to get the evenness of taste.
4. Place the scrubbed potatoes on the baking sheet and bake it for 30 minutes. Turn the wedges over after 15 minutes and brush it with some left over mix (cuz you will have some left over from scrubbing it)..
5. Sprinkle the grated cheese on top of the wedges while its still steamingly hot
6. Serve the wedges with fresh vegetables like tomatoes, carrots or cucumbers.

Happy cooking!

It looks much better than this picture actually cuz my phone camera doesn't capture small details. In the future, I'll be sure to post the food pictures with my actual digital camera.. :)