Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Butter Chicken



This is the most delicious chicken I have ever cooked! I rubbed Olive Oil margarine all over the chicken, inside out and baked using my Turbo Broiler. (I call it my flying saucer) Crispy and fragrant and dripping with margarine. Yummy!

Monday, May 11, 2009

Pancakes



When it comes to pancakes, I like to use different flour each time just to see what it tastes like. Generally the pancakes are popular with my kids when I use unbleached white flour. For this particular batch, I used pastry flour which gave it a different taste yet I can't quite place it. My children kept complaining about the funny taste yet they wolfed the pancakes down.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Green Tea Buckwheat Noodles



Buckwheat noodles look really gross but somehow I have developed a taste for them. I especially like the ones with green tea. These noodles go really well with Soba Sauce and leftover meat (that's my leftover from my oven baked chicken). However Soba Sauce contains MSG and I feel so thirsty after that so I usually just eat them without any sauce. Super gross. (It's an acquired taste. Really.) Sometimes I cook them for my kids for lunch and they really complain! But they still eat it.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Sweet Beans Are Made Of These



This is a stir-fry vegetable dish I frequently cook for my family. It is very easy to prepare. The ingredients are sweet beans, fresh Shitake mushrooms, fresh baby corns and raw tomatoes.

Oven Baked Chicken



This is the first chicken I had baked using my Baby Belling oven. I used a simple marinade of black soy sauce and black pepper. I was really apprehensive and rightly so. It took a really long time for the chicken to be cooked. I kept poking it and poking it. Everyone got really hungry waiting for it to be cooked.

Verdict:
It tasted really tender despite the amount of time it spent in the oven.

Postmortem:
Use smaller pieces of chicken next time to reduce cooking time.