Wacky Cocoa Cream Cheese Cupcake |古怪的可可奶油干酪蛋糕

A week ago, I am cracking my head on what to prepare to let the little boy bring to his school for Potluck Day. Those chocolate, junk foods and sausage is out of my list. I have 1 options, cream cheese cupcake or Hokkaido cupcake. I have end up with this wacky cupcake as I have no more eggs in the fridge!

Ingredients for cupcakes:

Yield 10-12

200g all purpose

110g granulated white sugar

3½ tbsp cocoa powder

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

240ml milk

80g canola oil

1/2 tablespoon white vinegar (optional)

Cream Cheese Filling:

200g cream cheese at room temperature

60g granulated white sugar

1 tablespoon lemon juice

Directions:

Cream Cheese Filling:

1. Using mixer, beat the cream cheese until smooth.

2. Add the sugar and lemon juice and beat until creamy and smooth. Set aside.

Cupcakes:

1. In a large bowl sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

2. Mix milk, oil and vinegar.

3. Mix the dry ingredients and wet ingredients until nice and smooth.

4. Divide the batter evenly among the cups. Then spoon the cream cheese filling into the center of each cupcake and cover a bit using the batter.

3. Bake in the preheated oven 180C for about 25 minutes, or a toothpick inserted into the chocolate part of the cupcake will come out clean.

Hope you and your friends enjoy!

Fish Maw Scallops Chicken Soup | 鱼漂干贝鸡汤

Bamboo fungus is new ingredient for me, I just get to know about it when I saw it in the pork shop I use to go every week. I am surprise that this fungus has a lot of benefits that I never know.

There some info I found from the net.
Bamboo fungus is rich in crude protein, fat, and a variety of essential vitamins, especially glutamic acid content is very rich. 
Bamboo fungus has the role of fat, can reduce the accumulation of abdominal fat, weight loss Cellulite, plus dictyophora adsorption cool air in the mountains bamboo forest, slightly cold, so at the same time lowering blood pressure, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering utility for people who have been suffering from mild fatty liver, is blindly therapeutic medicine.
Bamboo fungus can qi Yin, lungs and cough, heat and dampness, to improve immune disease resistance, to some extent inhibited tumor initiation and proliferation of lung cancer patients have a better therapeutic effect.

Ingredients:
Half chicken without skin or 4 drumsticks
5-6 scallops
2 medium size fish maw
Half pack bamboo fungus (竹笙)
8 red dates
5g wolfberry

Directions:
1. Blanch chicken in boiling water for 2mins. Drain away water.
2. Add 2L water in a pot, bring to boil. Add in all ingredients except bamboo fungus, bring to boil again. Lower heat and simmer for 1.5hrs.

3. Add in bamboo fungus at last 30 mins and taste with salt.

Blueberry Cream Cheese Pound Cake |蓝莓奶油干酪蛋糕

Ingredients:
1¼ cups cake flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
½ cream cheese, room temperature
½ cup + 1 tbsp sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
100 gm blueberry filling

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter a 9 x 5 loaf pan. Line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper and butter the parchment paper as well. Set aside.
2. Sift together flour and baking powder and add in salt. Set aside.
3. Beat cream cheese, butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in egg one at a time. Add vanilla extract and mix until combined.
4. Using spatula, gently fold in flour mixture until well combined and fold in 2 tbsp of blueberry.
5. Transfer the batter into the pan and in between add in blueberry filling and stir evenly.

6. Bake for 55-65 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let sit until cool, at least 30 minutes and then remove from pan.

Abalone Sauce Fried Rice Omelette|蛋包鲍鱼汁炒饭

I always fried rice as it’s always welcome by the choosey eater and it’s simple for me. However, I will feel monotonous sometimes. Today I am a bit hard working to comes out this dish.

Ingredients:
3 cup cooked rice
2 garlic bulbs mashed
2 kampung eggs
2 tbsp abalone sauce
½ tsp salt
2 tbsp oil

For Omelette:
3 large eggs
Pinch of pepper
Some oil

Directions:
1. Lightly stir the eggs and set aside.
2. Heat the wok will oil, add in garlic and sauté until aromatic.
3. Add in rice and keep frying and make sure the rice is not sticky.
4. Pour in the egg and sauté until all rice is coated with egg.
5. Add in abalone sauce, pepper and salt, sauté evenly and dip up.
6. Using paper towel, soak some oil and gently wipe on a non stick pan.
7. Stir in 1 egg and fry both side until golden brown. Repeat for another 2 eggs.

8. Dip up and roll in the fried rice.

Pork Fried Mee Hoon | 红烧肉炒米粉

This is 1^st time I heard and eat this fried style. There is coincidentally I have lunch with friends and they ordered this mee hoon. It’s new food to me and I am pretty sure my husband would like is as he likes this kind of pork.

Ingredients:
(Yield for 3 serving)

1 medium size can of braised pork (红烧猪肉)
Half pack Mee Hoon 
2 bulbs garlic
2 tbsp oil
2 eggs

Seasoning:
2 tbsp oysters’ sauce
1 tbsp sesame oil
2 tbsp thick soya sauce
Some salt for taste
2 tbsp water

Direction:
1. Soak mee hoon become soft and dip up to dry.
2. Lightly stir the eggs and fry on non-stick pan, cut in egg wire and set aside.
3. Drain out the extra oil from the can of braised pork; I also removed the fat of the pork.
4. Heat the wok with oil and fry garlic until aromatic.
5. Add in mee hoon and stir fry until all coated with oil. Add some water if it’s too dry.
6. Add in seasoning and keep frying. Adjust the taste for you liking.
7. Smash the pork in chunks (optional) and add into mee hoon to fry until the sauce is getting dry.

Lotus Root Mung Soup|莲藕绿豆汤

Mung bean is a great food for summer. It has high medicinal value. During the summer heat, we use to drink greed bean porridge which not only to prevent heatstroke but also Altermalisation.

In the past, I like to cook with mung bean soup but this time I would like to have a new try to cook green beans with lotus root. I did not think the taste is so good. My little Barbie doll even request me to give her eat the bean rather than the soup.

Ingredients:
500gm lotus roots, peeled and sliced
½ cup green beans, rinsed
300gm pork ribs
8 red dates
1 honey date
2 slice ginger
salt to taste

Directions:
1. Blanch pork ribs in boiling water for 2mins. Drain away water.

2. Add 2L water in a pot, bring to boil. Add in all ingredients except salt, bring to boil again. Lower heat and simmer for 1.5hrs. Add salt to taste.

Chrysanthemum Cane Drink | 菊花甘蔗凉水

There is a really hot day today…..i felt like I am getting to faint, my head is heavy until I d’t want to wake up from my bed. I think I need to drink something to “cold down” my body. Without thinking for second, I quickly search if anything I can cook. Hehe …. Lucky me, I found these. The taste is so good regardless serve with warm or cold.

Ingredients:
Chrysanthemum
Dry Cane
Chinese Yam (淮山)
1 piece sugar

Directions:
1. Add all the ingredients except sugar into 2L boil water and simmer for 1.5 hours.

2. Add in the sugar and keep simmer for 10 minutes.