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Cucumber Salad

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This is a super easy recipe .. easy to make & easy to modify.

1. The Sauce

Remove the seeds of 1 red chili ( more if you like hot ), cut into thin strips. Mince the leaves of 3 sprigs cilantro. Combine chili and cilantro together in a bowl, add 2 table spoons lime juice, 1 table spoon soy sauce, 1 table spoon sugar, and 2 table spoons e.v.o.o, stir well. On this part you can adjust the ingredients to your taste. If you like sweet add more sugar, etc.

2. The Cucumber

Trim the end of 1 cucumber then cut the cucumber a long spiral way using potato peeler, stop just before the inner seed part. Make sure your potato peeler is in well condition, mine was not sharp enough and took time to make a long and nice cut.

3. Serve

Mix the cucumber with the sauce, sprinkle with roasted peanuts, add dried cherries. I also added blueberries just for fun. You can modify the toppings as you like.

Simple Chocolate Cupcake

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In my search for an ultimate chocolate cake recipe, I found this simple recipe and decided to give it a try. Well, my point is 8 out of 10 for this recipe, quite good. I did a little adjustment and added my secret ingredient which is now not so secret anymore after you read this post. If you add some frosting on the top, I think it will be yummier.

Ingredient :

–       4 eggs + 4 egg yolks

–       175 gr sugar

–       150 gr butter, melted

–       100 gr flour

–       20 gr maize flour

–       50 gr chocolate powder

–       the original recipe uses ½ tbsp baking powder, I changed it to ¼ tbsp ( just a little effort to be more natural ).

secret ingredient : Loving Kindness – most of us will agree if I say “when we think chocolate, we think love ( valentine )”- so try to meditate the love you get everyday while trying this recipe. Today I dedicated the cake to the unconditional love my mom gives to me J.

My other secret ingredient is yogurt. Most of the time I will add 1-2 tbsp of yogurt to any cake recipe, makes the cake more moist. I have proved it myself.

1.    Prepare the oven to 350° F.

2.    Beat together eggs, egg yolks, and sugar until pale and fluffy, add yogurt and beat for another minute.

3.    Sift all dry ingredients together and mix into the batter alternately with melted butter. Make sure it’s mixed well.

4.    Pour into cupcake paper cup.

5.    Bake, test with toothpick.

6.    Enjoy!!!!

Basa Fillet & Napa Cabbage in Kimchi Style

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Since I didn’t have grocery shopping last week, I only had 1 bunch of napa cabbage and 2 pcs 1ft long basa fillet left in the fridge. I decided to make Basa Fillet & Napa Cabbage in Kimchi Style for dinner. Why kimchi ? did I really use kimchi ? NO… It’s just a name that came to my mind because of the dish looks like kimchi, hot & spicy, plus I used napa cabbage which is the common vegetable for kimchi.

Ingredient:

– 8 sheets Napa cabbage leaf, cut into 2inch or preferred size

– 2 pcs 1 ft long basa fish fillet, cut into 1inch or preferred size

– I egg white, lightly beaten

– 2 cloves garlic, chopped

– 2tbsp oyster sauce

– finely crushed 5 red chilies

– maize flour; ½ cup for fillet, 3tbsp diluted in ½ cup water for thickening

– sesame oil

– 5 tbsp vegetable oil

– additional 1 ½ cup water

– salt & pepper to taste

( note : ingredients above, except for napa, fish, and egg, are not precisely measured )

 

1. Mix fillets with eggs white and maize flour.

2. Cook the fillets in boiling water, set aside.

3. Sauté garlic in vegetable oil.

4. Add napa and oyster sauce, cooked until almost tender.

5. Add cooked fillets and chilies, stirring gently, add water + salt pepper to taste.

6. Pour the diluted maize flour while stirring thoroughly.

7. Drizzle with sesame o before serving.

8. Bon Appétit