Baked Meat Balls

Baked meat balls.

Serves 4


Total Preparation and Cooking Time: 5-7 hours, including marinating.


Ingredients

- 350g Pork Mince (beef or veal may also be used)
- 1 tablespoon Sesame Oil
- Lots and lots of non-sugar-coated crackers, crushed finely
- 8 cloves Garlic, chopped finely
- 2 Eggs
- 1 tablespoon Soy Sauce
- Salt

Optional

- Spring Onions (shallots)

Method

- Mix all ingredients in large mixing bowl. Spread plastic wrap on bowl and marinate in refrigerator for at least 3 hours.

- Preheat oven to about 180ºC. Spread baking paper on baking tray.

- Shape mixture into individual bite-size meat balls and place on tray, leaving about 1cm in between.

- Bake for about 20-30 minutes, or until cooked.



Comment: This goes really well with ketchup. Feel free to try out any other dipping sauces if desired!


Recipe by NSFX, and altered by _pdra.

Fried Rice

Serves 2

Ingredients

- 1.5 cup Jasmine rice, cooked and left overnight (or at least an hour in the refrigerator)
- 1/2 can of SPAM Lite, chopped into small cubes
- 2 large eggs, beaten.
- 3/4 cup Chicken stock
- Spring Onions (shallots)
- Dark Soy Sauce
- Pepper
- Sambal, for serving


Method

- Place cubes of SPAM in large frying pan and fry for about 8 minutes. Pour onto medium plate/bowl.
- Add eggs into frying pan and scramble until cooked. Pour onto plate/bowl containing the cubes of SPAM.
- Pour cooked Jasmine rice into frying pan and add half of the 3/4 cup chicken stock. At this point, the rice would have been hardened from the cold temperature of the fridge. Add cubed SPAM and eggs in.
- Fry until rice softens. Add remaining chicken stock and a dash of dark soy sauce. Pour in spring onions (shallots) and pepper (any amount) and cook for about 5 minutes.
- Serve on plate with sambal.


Comments: We have cut down the amount of oil originally used.. But we can guarantee the perfect taste of this dish!


Recipe originated from a website (we forgot the address) and altered by NSFX and _pdra.

Porridge (Eastern Style)

The best porridge recipe!

Serves 2.


Total Preparation and Cooking Time: 5 hours.

Ingredients

- 3/4 cup Jasmine Rice, rinsed.
- 3 tablespoons Dried Scallops
- Sesame Oil
- Salt
- 1/2 cup Spring Onions (shallots), chopped.


Note: _pdra also recommends eating the porridge with pepper and soy sauce.


Method

- Soak dried scallops in small bowl with luke warm water for 3 hours.
- Mash dried scallops into small pieces with hands. DO NOT POUR WATER AWAY.
- Place rice on medium-large sauce pan, add 1 tablespoon of Sesame Oil and salt (any amount, but try not to over-add) and rub with hands. Leave (covered with lid) for 10 minutes.
- Pour dried scallops (+ the bowl of water) into porridge and add water (covers 3/4 of the sauce pan). Bring to boil.
- Lower the fire and cook for 2 hours, stirring every 30 minutes. Add more salt/water to adjust.
- Serve porridge in medium bowl with spring onions.



Recipe originated from Mel and Experimenting Baker; altered and written by _pdra.

Doublo-Triplo Choc Chip Cookies

Cadbury Dark chocolate chips - Highly recommended.

Ingredients

- 125g (approx) butter (@ room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg (@ room temperature)
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup self-raising flour
- 1 cup plain flour (or whole meal flour)
- 2 tablespoon cocoa powder
- 1 whole bag of Cadbury (ONLY!) chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon bi-carbonate soda - 5 tablespoons Nutella
- 3 - 4 tablespoons thickened cream


Method

- Preheat oven at 180ºC.

- Beat butter, extract, sugar, egg in small bowl with electric mixer until smooth - do not overbeat. Stir in sifted dry ingredients and chocolates.

- Place baking paper on oven tray. Drop level teaspoons of mixture (diameter of 3cm) onto tray and flatten them. Allow 1 cm gap between each cookie dough.

- Bake for 12 minutes. Transfer cookies (using a pair of tongs) onto wire rack to cool.

- Store cookies in air-tight container - best consume within a few days. Add 1 teaspoon Nutella on top of cookies before serving, if desired.



Recipes co-invented by authors Experimenting Baker and _pdra.

Home-made mashed potatoes

_pdra's trademark mashed potatoes.

1 serving

Ingredients:
- 2 - 3 small potatoes
- Butter
- Hot full cream milk
- Salt + Pepper
- Chicken Salt


Method:
- Boil potatoes on small sauce pan until very tender.
- Drain water. Mash potatoes with spoon.
- Place potatoes in sauce pan on low fire. Stir and add milk (gradually).
- Add butter (approx. 1 tablespoon), salt and pepper. Mix thoroughly.
- Place mashed potatoes onto small bowl and add chicken salt to taste.