08-MAR-2009
Fruit Platter
This is for a lazy Sunday night.
Ingredients:
Mango, Gauva, Red pear, Fuyu persimmom, Grapes
Preparation:
Chop, slice, cut, and arrange.
03-MAR-2009
Quesadilla
Ingredients:
Flour Tortillas
White Cheddar and Monterrey Jack cheese
Onions
Green peppers
Jalapeno peppers
Avacados for the guacamole
Preparation:
Heat the pan to Medium. Place the flour tortilla and heat till bubbles form in the tortilla. Add the cheese and wait till it melts. Lower the flame to low and add the chopped onions, green peppers and jalapeno peppers. Add the other tortilla. Invert and heat on Medium for a minute more.
Serve with guacamole.
26-FEB-2009
Shwe Swirls
This dish is dedicated to my sweetheart.
Ingredients:
Puff Pastry sheet
Bitter Chocolate (I used fresh chocolate from Mexican cocoa)
Cinnamon
Walnuts
Preparation:
Spread the chocolate on the puff pastry sheet. Sprinkle some cinnamon and the walnuts on the sheet.
Roll the sheet and chop into 8 pieces.
Bake at 350C for 20 minutes.
26-FEB-2009
Vegetable puff
Ingredients:
Puff pastry sheet
3 Potatoes
A handful of peas
1 or 2 green chilies
Salt and chili powder to taste
Preparation:
Spread the puff pastry sheet, grease with a little butter and cut into 9 pieces. Smaller is easier to eat, but if you prefer them slightly bigger, cut into 6 pieces.
Prepare the vegetable stuffing using the potatoes and peas by boiling the potatoes and then cooking it over medium heat with the peas. Add the salt and chili powder and a green chili to add some spice. Add one spoon of stuffing into each square and then fold over. crimp the edges.
Grease a baking pan and bake at 350C for 20 minutes.
08-JAN-2009
Rice and Peas - Jamaican recipe
A blast from my childhood.
Ingredients:
1 can kidney beans (rajma)
1 cup regular rice
1 can coconut milk
Onions, cardamom, cloves
Spring onions
Preparation:
Soak the rice in water for 10 minutes and then drain it.
Fry the spices and onions then add the rice and lightly fry for a minute or two. For one cup of rice, add the 1 can of coconut milk and 1 cup water. Add the rajma. Add alt and cook like normal rice or fried rice. Serve with the Spring Onion.
05-JAN-2009
Pasta with peas
Ingredients:
2 servings Penne Rigate (any pasta will do, but I like penne)
Tomato Basil Pasta sauce or marinara sauce
Broccoli, green peas, onions, green peppers
Cheese to sprinkle
Preparation:
Add the pasta to 4 quarts boiling water and boil for about 10 minutes. keep poking to make sure pasta is soft. Add salt during the process.
Drain the pasta.
In a pan, add olive oil, and the veggies. Stir for a few minutes, and add the pasta sauce. Add the pasta in to the pan and keep stirring. For additional taste, pour a little Cabernet Sauvignon.
Eat with garlic bread.
27-DEC-2008
Veggie Sandwich
Ingredients:
Veggie patty from Trader Joes' Masala Burger packets.
1 Onion, 1 tomato, 1 cucumber, 1 avacado
Pesto sauce from Trader Joes
Lupak Butter
Wheat bread
Preparation:
In a pan add some Lupak butter. It is extremely yummy so add a little. Toast the bread in the butter. Add the burger and fry till the burger is thawed and easy to mash.
Slice the tomato, cucumber and avacado. Spread the pesto on one slice. Add the burger and the veggies, add the second toast and slice diagonally.
25-DEC-2008
Beans
Ingredients:
1 packet cut green beans - readily available.
Mustard seeds, salt, chili powder
Preparation:
To some oil in a pan, add some mustard seeds till they pop. add salt and chili powder and mix till the pan is evenly spread. Add the beans. Pour a few drops of oil on the beans and keep cooking, till the beans lose their crunchiness.
Easy but can be eaten with rice or chappati.
25-DEC-2008
Dal
Ingredients:
1 cup dal
Salt
Preparation:
Add the dal into a cooker, add twice the water and cook with the weight on. After 3 whistles lower the temperature. After 2 minutes switch off and remove. Add salt and eat with rice or plain. You can also turn it into a soup by keeping some of the hot water, mashing the dal and adding some tadka (mustard seeds fried in a little oil).
21-DEC-2008
Bajji
Ingredients:
2 onions
1 potato
1 green pepper
2 cup besan
1 cup rice flour
salt
Preparation:
Mix the besan with the rice flour, add salt and some water and mix till it is not too thick or too watery. Slice the vegetables. Dip the vegetables in the mix and then drop them into a frying pan with oil. Fry till golden brown.
Truly Yummy.
19-DEC-2008
Fruit Salad
Ingredients:
Any kind of fruit/fruits
Preparation:
Cut, mix, add chocolate sauce.
Simple but delicious.
16-DEC-2008
Pizza
Ingredients:
1 Boboli pizza pie (comes in a packet of two)
1 Boboli pizza sauce
1 tomato, few small grape tomatoes
1 Green pepper, 1 onion
2 Green chillies
Mozarella cheese
Oregano
Preparation:
Spread the pizza sauce on the pie. Add the cheese. Slice the tomatoes, onions and green peppers, and the green chillies on one half. If you make a pizza you have to make it half and half. Add more cheese. Bake in a preheated oven at 450C for 10 minutes.
Once baked, add oregano and chili flakes. Boboli is an expensive brand but worth it. Yummy!