Soft and Moist Banana Cake

I have 2 over ripe banana to clear so today I made a simple yet soft and moist banana cake for tea break.  This original recipe is from Serene Tan, a member in a cooking group who shared her recipe few years ago.  I have thus made slight changes to it.

Out from oven

Cut up look

Recipe from Serene Tan

Ingredients:

225g plain flour

200g butter

170g castor sugar

2 eggs

50ml milk

3 banana, mashed (I used 2 as I only have 2)

1tsp baking powder

1tsp baking soda

1tsp vanilla essence (I used vanilla bean paste)

Pinch of salt (I omitted)

Method:

1. Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda together and set aside.

2. Cream butter and sugar till pale and creamy.

3. Add in egg one at a time, beat well before adding another.

4. Add in milk, mashed banana and vanilla bean paste. Mix well.

5. Fold in flour in 3 batches 

6. Pour batter into greased and lined 6" cake tin.

7. Bake at preheated oven at 160 deg for 40 to 45 mins or till cooked

Tomatoes Ketchup Prawns

This is a child friendly dish as I did not use any chilli unlike some others will add chilli in it.  Prawns and ketchup is my kids's favourite too.  Hope they will like this dish I cooked.

Recipe

Ingredients:

8-10 large prawns, shell and vein removed

Some cooking oil

Some chopped garlic

1/4 cup ketchup, mix with 40ml of water

1/4 bell pepper, cut into pieces

1 tomato, cut into chunks

Method:

1. Heat oil in pan and fry garlic till fragrant.

2. Add bell pepper and tomatoes chunk and stir fry for few minutes on medium heat.

3. Add prawns and fry till prawns almost cooked.

4. Add ketchup solution in and stir till the paste bubbles.

Braised Mushroom with Spinach (Po Choy)

You can find this dish in some of the wedding menu.  My family likes the mushroom to be very soft texture so I braised the mushrooms for one hours.  As for the sauce, my whole family including the kids likes it very much.

Recipe:

60g mushrooms, soak in water till soft 

2 packs of spinach from supermarket(Po Choi)

400ml water

3 tbsp oyster sauce

1tsp oil

8-9g rock sugar

some corn starch solution (to thicken the sauce)

Method:

1. Bring 400ml of water to boil.

2. Add oil, mushroom, oyster sauce and simmer for 1 hour or till to your desired texture of mushroom.

3. Add in spinach and let the spinach cooked

4. Add rock sugar and stir till it dissolved.

5. Add some corn starch solution to thicken the sauce.

6. Dish up and serve

Fu Zu Barley

This is my first time cooking fu zhu barley.  It is nice to eat it cold or hot, up to individual preference.
I did search for few recipes for reference.  I never use gingko as I do not have it.

Recipe:

100g pearl barley, washed
80g fu zhu, break into smaller pieces
100g rock sugar
5-8 red dates
5 pandan leaves, tie into knot
2000ml water

Method:
1. Soak fu zhu with water till soft.
2. Fill pot with 2000ml, barley, red dates and pandan leaves and let it boil till barley cooked.
3. Add fu zhu in and let it cook till very soft.
4. Add rock sugar in and stir till dissolve. Remove pandan leaves.
5. Let it cool completely and chill in fridge if you want to serve it cold

Magic Custard Cake

Recently this magic custard cake is a hit in baking group.  I am amazed that just one batter and you can get 3 different texture of magic cake. The bottom layer is "kueh" texture,  centre layer is "custard" and the top layer is "souffle" texture so today I try my luck on this magic cake.  You can see from my picture there is some tiny black look like seedling because I use madagascar vanilla bean paste and it is so delicious that my girl ask for second piece of cake.  Really thank bakingtaitai.blogspot.sg for sharing this recipe.

Cut up view reveiling the 3 layers

Recipe adapted from: bakingtaitai.blogspot.sg
Kindly click on the above link for recipe and step by step method

Note:
I use half recipe and bake in 6" tin
I use Madagascar Vanilla Bean Paste instead of normal vanilla paste

Cod Fish with Teriyaki Sauce

Thought of eating Cod Fish so today bought a piece of cod fish from supermarket.  This time I use kikkoman teriyaki sauce to cook.  As long as any dish with teriyaki sauce, my kids will love it so do the adults.

Recipe:

1 piece cod fish

Kikkoman teriyaki sauce

Some Ginger, slice into thin strip

Salt

Corn flour

Cooking oil

Some water

Method:

1. Wash and pat dry fish. Marinate fish with some salt.  Then coat with corn flour.

2. Heat pan with oil and fry the ginger strip till golden brown. Dish out and set aside.

3. Put fish into the pan and pan fry till cooked on medium heat.

4. Then pour some teriyaki sauce in and let the fish coat with the sauce and pan fry for awhile then dish out onto a plate.

5. Pour some more teriyaki sauce into pan and some water in under low heat. When start to bubble, you can off heat and pour the sauce over the fish.

6. Ganish with the ginger strip that is set aside earlier on. Serve

Braised Prime Ribs with Soy Bean Paste

When I do not have any idea what to cook for dinner I will choose to cook this dish "Braised Prime Ribs with Soy Bean Paste.  This is a One Dish Meal and it is so appetising till you can eat 2 bowl of rice with this dish.

Recipe:

500g Prime pork ribs

1 Potatoes, cut into big chunk size

1 Bittergourd

1 yellow Onion, cut

2-3 cloves Garlic, crushed and chopped

1tsp Kwong Cheong Thye Superior Dark Soya Sauce

3 tbsp Soy bean paste, crushed type

1000ml water

Method:

1. Heat up pot with some oil. Add garlic and onion and fry till fragrant

2. Add in pork ribs, soy bean paste and stir fry till meat turn white.

3. Add in potatoes, dark soya sauce, and water.

4. Let it boil. When boil, switch to low heat and let it braise for 2.5 hours.( Braising time depend on individual preference on how soft you want the prime ribs to be)

5. After braise for 2 hours, add in bittergourd.

6. Off heat once reach 2.5hours

Note: Do check the water level. Add extra water if water reduce alot. Then you can add either soya sauce or salt to taste.