Chef zy is back!! LOL.

Made some diy tiramisu for 8 people for the Christmas party on Tuesday.
Have already decided which 6 to give.
May eat the other 2, or give to 2 more people. LOL.

So the last time I made them, it was pretty successful?
I had good reviews. So, LOL. But didn't take a photo then bc it wasn't photogenic.

Here's my recipe, after cross-referencing via 3 blogs.

These are the 3 blogs I have referenced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AuUr_9oI3Q
http://delishar.com/2013/09/eggless-milo-misu.html
http://scrumptiousmagazine.com/2011/04/chocolate-whoopie-pies-with-milo-cream-filling/


Milo Tiramisu (with crushed Kit Kat)

Ingredients:

• 200ml whipping cream
• 250g mascarpone cheese
• Savoiardi (ladyfingers)
• 3 in 1 instant milo

Instructions:

1. Prepare 3 in 1 instant milo as per normal - leave aside for later use.
2. Beat whipping cream and add milo powder until creamy. (I added one tablespoon of milo, and I spilled some whipped cream on the floor as I was whipping, LOL.)
3. Add mascarpone cheese and mix. Added a few teaspoons of milo as I was mixing.
4. Place ladyfingers on the jar. I tend not to like it when it's dipped, so I would pour 1/2 teaspoons of milo over the ladyfinger biscuit.
5. Layer with cheese. Number of layers up to you. Some of my jar had 3 layers, some had 2 layers.
6. Sprinkle with crushed kitkat or just dust with milo. (I did both this time round)

And omg, it's done!!!

Anyway, basically why I use 250g of mascarpone cheese is because I bought the 500g one (referring to the mascarpone cheese).
So using half of it is easier, given our supermarket's whipping cream's standard size is 200g.
I guess the proportion of whipped cream and mascarpone is different this time round since I spilled some of the whipped cream, lolol.

Didn't like the texture of whipped cream when it's too hard? Lol. So I'd do it till creamy.
And one thing to note is to remember to pour the 1 or 2 teaspoons of milo over the ladyfinger biscuit.
I forgot to do for one, and I attempted to redo it by scraping a little of the cheese off, and pour the milo through there. HAHAHA.

I was trying to find Kit Kat tiramisu recipes online but couldn't find. :(
Wonder if it's because the texture is fundamentally different.
Like the tiramisu base is soft/creamy and ice-cream like, whereas kit kat is harder?
So clash of taste in the tastebuds.

I still have the other half ingredients to do another batch of this?
Haha. Might experiment with another flavour, or just stick to this, lolol.

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So I made mushroom patty today!!!

Recipe from: http://americanfood.about.com/od/vegetarian/r/Mushroom_Burger.htm

I edited the recipe a little since there isn't enough mushrooms at home.

Makes 8 average-sized patties.

Ingredients

• 450g of mushrooms roughly chopped (250g portobello, 200g shiitake)
• 50g rolled oats
• 20g shredded cheese
• Breadcrumbs (I used 2 slices of bread, and made them to panko - dry bread crumbs!)
• 1 tsp parsley
• 1 tsp oregano (I used slightly lesser than this bc the smell of oregano was quite strong)
• Pinch of salt
• Pepper
• 2 eggs

Method

1. Saute mushrooms.
2. In a separate bowl, add in oats, cheese, breadcrumbs, parsley, oregano, salt, pepper eggs.
3. Mix well and leave them for 15 minutes for it to sit.
4. Divide to 8 equal portions.
5. Fry in pan until golden brown.

Anyway, it looks darker than in the picture, since this was filtered of one of the layers of instagram, hahahaha. I made flatter patties for the next 4 though. Didn't take a picture. Haha. Bc my dad said they need to be flatter so they'd be fried evenly.

So I took around 3 hours from start to finish. HAHAHA. I took a long time chopping the mushrooms. Asked my dad if there's any tips for faster speed of chopping, my mom says it comes with practise. Lol. Wonder if chopped mushrooms are available in the market. Such a chore to chop them. Lol.

After that, my dad helped to blend the shiitake. Bc I didn't want to chop anymore, hahahahaha. It turned a little mushy. My dad helped to fry the patty for me too. Lol.

I used the blender to blend my breadcrumbs too! Before I microwaved them.
The recipe I use for my panko is this: https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/150346-how-to-make-panko-fluffy-crunchy
They became super fine!! Unlike the one before when I manually grated them. I guess manually grated panko tastes better for fried food? Since you're eating that layer which is fried.

Next time I think I'd try without the egg. See if it still binds or not. And probably forego the cheese. I couldn't taste the cheese, lol.

I need to get more mushrooms so I can eat more next time. It's not enough. LOL.

I think I know why things like burgers cost more? Like in restaurants.
Bc they are hard work!!

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Cupcake

• 420g of Nutella
• 3 eggs, at room temperature
• 149.5g cake flour

Nutella Frosting

• 280g of Nutella
• 8 oz cream cheese, at room temperature

1. Preheat the oven to 177 C. Line miniature muffin tins with 28 paper liners.
2. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs together. Add 420g of nutella. Whisk the eggs and Nutella together until your mixture is smooth and shiny.
3. Add the flour and gently stir it in, just until the flour streaks disappear. Don’t overwork it, or your cupcakes will be tough.
4. Divide the batter between the muffin cups. Bake the cupcakes for about 13-15 minutes, until the tops are puffed and cracked and spring back when lightly pressed. Let the cupcakes cool on a wire rack while you prepare the frosting.
5. For frosting, combine the 280g of Nutella and the cream cheese in a mixing bowl, and beat on medium-speed until combined, light, and fluffy.
6. Pipe the frosting on top of the cooled cupcakes.

Labels: cooking, recipe

So I made nutella frappe today!! Adapted from http://kirbiecravings.com/2014/05/nutella-frappuccino.html 😊

Changed the recipe a little since I don't have a coffeemaker at home.

Ingredients:
1 sachet of instant coffee
1 cup of water
2 cups of ice
3/4 cup of milk
3 tbsp of nutella (placed in microwave for 30 seconds to make it easier to melt/mix in blender)

Instructions:
1. Place everything into the blender.
2. Blend until ice is thoroughly crushed. Place a chopstick in to check if there's any lone ice that's still uncrushed. If there isn't, you're done!

Awesomely, you don't need sugar! Nutella itself already has them. It's sweet enough.

I think there's too much water for this attempt though. For my next try, I would add 3 cups of ice instead, and remove the water. Hahaha.

Labels: recipe

• 4 potatoes (Amount up to you)
• Salt and black pepper to taste
• Olive oil for drizzling
• One button mushroom (optional toppings)
• Cheese^

Made mixed vegetable croquette yesterday. Followed ochikeron's recipe, lol. Ran out of panko at the fifth croquette. HAHAHA. 

Labels: recipe

• 6 baby potatoes, sliced thinly
• 125ml milk and 75g greek yogurt
• 1 cup of shredded cheese* about 90g
• 5 pieces of broccoli (plucked from the original stem)
• Salt to preference

Labels: recipe

Anyway, I found a post that tastes like Starbuck's potato salad!!
Shall try next time.

And yupp, as you can see from my recent bomb of homemade food on instagram, I've got a new hobby - cooking/baking. Lol.
Too much interests.

Labels: recipe

So I made chocolates today!

Bought the following ingredients at NTUC fairprice:
1 x baking chocolates 340g @ $6.90
1 x sprinkle @ $2

Got cereals at giant.

My brother helped me to buy aluminium foil cups at SKP.
50 pieces for $5. Pretty pricy tbh. But to keep the shape of the chocolate, would have to use alumium foil.

Followed the instructions here exactly!!

Had wanted to do matcha chocolates, but saw this video that seems even easier.
So yupp, matcha one probably next time. Haha.

Labels: recipe

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Chef zy is back!! LOL.

Made some diy tiramisu for 8 people for the Christmas party on Tuesday.
Have already decided which 6 to give.
May eat the other 2, or give to 2 more people. LOL.

So the last time I made them, it was pretty successful?
I had good reviews. So, LOL. But didn't take a photo then bc it wasn't photogenic.

Here's my recipe, after cross-referencing via 3 blogs.

These are the 3 blogs I have referenced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AuUr_9oI3Q
http://delishar.com/2013/09/eggless-milo-misu.html
http://scrumptiousmagazine.com/2011/04/chocolate-whoopie-pies-with-milo-cream-filling/


Milo Tiramisu (with crushed Kit Kat)

Ingredients:

• 200ml whipping cream
• 250g mascarpone cheese
• Savoiardi (ladyfingers)
• 3 in 1 instant milo

Instructions:

1. Prepare 3 in 1 instant milo as per normal - leave aside for later use.
2. Beat whipping cream and add milo powder until creamy. (I added one tablespoon of milo, and I spilled some whipped cream on the floor as I was whipping, LOL.)
3. Add mascarpone cheese and mix. Added a few teaspoons of milo as I was mixing.
4. Place ladyfingers on the jar. I tend not to like it when it's dipped, so I would pour 1/2 teaspoons of milo over the ladyfinger biscuit.
5. Layer with cheese. Number of layers up to you. Some of my jar had 3 layers, some had 2 layers.
6. Sprinkle with crushed kitkat or just dust with milo. (I did both this time round)

And omg, it's done!!!

Anyway, basically why I use 250g of mascarpone cheese is because I bought the 500g one (referring to the mascarpone cheese).
So using half of it is easier, given our supermarket's whipping cream's standard size is 200g.
I guess the proportion of whipped cream and mascarpone is different this time round since I spilled some of the whipped cream, lolol.

Didn't like the texture of whipped cream when it's too hard? Lol. So I'd do it till creamy.
And one thing to note is to remember to pour the 1 or 2 teaspoons of milo over the ladyfinger biscuit.
I forgot to do for one, and I attempted to redo it by scraping a little of the cheese off, and pour the milo through there. HAHAHA.

I was trying to find Kit Kat tiramisu recipes online but couldn't find. :(
Wonder if it's because the texture is fundamentally different.
Like the tiramisu base is soft/creamy and ice-cream like, whereas kit kat is harder?
So clash of taste in the tastebuds.

I still have the other half ingredients to do another batch of this?
Haha. Might experiment with another flavour, or just stick to this, lolol.

Labels: recipe

So I made mushroom patty today!!!

Recipe from: http://americanfood.about.com/od/vegetarian/r/Mushroom_Burger.htm

I edited the recipe a little since there isn't enough mushrooms at home.

Makes 8 average-sized patties.

Ingredients

• 450g of mushrooms roughly chopped (250g portobello, 200g shiitake)
• 50g rolled oats
• 20g shredded cheese
• Breadcrumbs (I used 2 slices of bread, and made them to panko - dry bread crumbs!)
• 1 tsp parsley
• 1 tsp oregano (I used slightly lesser than this bc the smell of oregano was quite strong)
• Pinch of salt
• Pepper
• 2 eggs

Method

1. Saute mushrooms.
2. In a separate bowl, add in oats, cheese, breadcrumbs, parsley, oregano, salt, pepper eggs.
3. Mix well and leave them for 15 minutes for it to sit.
4. Divide to 8 equal portions.
5. Fry in pan until golden brown.

Anyway, it looks darker than in the picture, since this was filtered of one of the layers of instagram, hahahaha. I made flatter patties for the next 4 though. Didn't take a picture. Haha. Bc my dad said they need to be flatter so they'd be fried evenly.

So I took around 3 hours from start to finish. HAHAHA. I took a long time chopping the mushrooms. Asked my dad if there's any tips for faster speed of chopping, my mom says it comes with practise. Lol. Wonder if chopped mushrooms are available in the market. Such a chore to chop them. Lol.

After that, my dad helped to blend the shiitake. Bc I didn't want to chop anymore, hahahahaha. It turned a little mushy. My dad helped to fry the patty for me too. Lol.

I used the blender to blend my breadcrumbs too! Before I microwaved them.
The recipe I use for my panko is this: https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/150346-how-to-make-panko-fluffy-crunchy
They became super fine!! Unlike the one before when I manually grated them. I guess manually grated panko tastes better for fried food? Since you're eating that layer which is fried.

Next time I think I'd try without the egg. See if it still binds or not. And probably forego the cheese. I couldn't taste the cheese, lol.

I need to get more mushrooms so I can eat more next time. It's not enough. LOL.

I think I know why things like burgers cost more? Like in restaurants.
Bc they are hard work!!

Labels: recipe

Cupcake

• 420g of Nutella
• 3 eggs, at room temperature
• 149.5g cake flour

Nutella Frosting

• 280g of Nutella
• 8 oz cream cheese, at room temperature

1. Preheat the oven to 177 C. Line miniature muffin tins with 28 paper liners.
2. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs together. Add 420g of nutella. Whisk the eggs and Nutella together until your mixture is smooth and shiny.
3. Add the flour and gently stir it in, just until the flour streaks disappear. Don’t overwork it, or your cupcakes will be tough.
4. Divide the batter between the muffin cups. Bake the cupcakes for about 13-15 minutes, until the tops are puffed and cracked and spring back when lightly pressed. Let the cupcakes cool on a wire rack while you prepare the frosting.
5. For frosting, combine the 280g of Nutella and the cream cheese in a mixing bowl, and beat on medium-speed until combined, light, and fluffy.
6. Pipe the frosting on top of the cooled cupcakes.

Labels: cooking, recipe

So I made nutella frappe today!! Adapted from http://kirbiecravings.com/2014/05/nutella-frappuccino.html 😊

Changed the recipe a little since I don't have a coffeemaker at home.

Ingredients:
1 sachet of instant coffee
1 cup of water
2 cups of ice
3/4 cup of milk
3 tbsp of nutella (placed in microwave for 30 seconds to make it easier to melt/mix in blender)

Instructions:
1. Place everything into the blender.
2. Blend until ice is thoroughly crushed. Place a chopstick in to check if there's any lone ice that's still uncrushed. If there isn't, you're done!

Awesomely, you don't need sugar! Nutella itself already has them. It's sweet enough.

I think there's too much water for this attempt though. For my next try, I would add 3 cups of ice instead, and remove the water. Hahaha.

Labels: recipe

• 4 potatoes (Amount up to you)
• Salt and black pepper to taste
• Olive oil for drizzling
• One button mushroom (optional toppings)
• Cheese^

Made mixed vegetable croquette yesterday. Followed ochikeron's recipe, lol. Ran out of panko at the fifth croquette. HAHAHA. 

Labels: recipe

• 6 baby potatoes, sliced thinly
• 125ml milk and 75g greek yogurt
• 1 cup of shredded cheese* about 90g
• 5 pieces of broccoli (plucked from the original stem)
• Salt to preference

Labels: recipe

Anyway, I found a post that tastes like Starbuck's potato salad!!
Shall try next time.

And yupp, as you can see from my recent bomb of homemade food on instagram, I've got a new hobby - cooking/baking. Lol.
Too much interests.

Labels: recipe

So I made chocolates today!

Bought the following ingredients at NTUC fairprice:
1 x baking chocolates 340g @ $6.90
1 x sprinkle @ $2

Got cereals at giant.

My brother helped me to buy aluminium foil cups at SKP.
50 pieces for $5. Pretty pricy tbh. But to keep the shape of the chocolate, would have to use alumium foil.

Followed the instructions here exactly!!

Had wanted to do matcha chocolates, but saw this video that seems even easier.
So yupp, matcha one probably next time. Haha.

Labels: recipe

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