December 19, 2010

Blueberry Muffins

It is holiday season ! It's moment to spent time with our dear family and friends ! Also, It is time to make treats to accompany with..
Muffins must be one of the most rewarding things to cook. They're simple, tasty and can be ready in next to no time ! That's why they are my favorite treats..

BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

Ingredients :
3 cups (375gram) Plain Flour
1 Tbs Baking Powder
3/4 cup (165 gram) Firmly packed Soft Brown Sugar
125 gram Butter, melted
2 Eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup (250ml) Milk
1 1/3 Cups (185gram) Fresh or Thawed Frozen Blueberries

Directions :
- Preheat the oven to 210 C (415 F)
- Lightly grease two 6-hole muffin tins.
- Sift the flour and baking powder into a large mixing bowl.
- Stir in the sugar and make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients.
- In a separate mixing bowl, add the melted butter, eggs, and milk and stir to combine.
- Add all at once to the flour mixture and fold until just combined.
( Do not overmix, the batter should look quite lumpy )
- Fold in the blueberries.
- Spoon the batter into the prepared tin.
- Bake for 20 minutes, or until golden brown.
- Turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
- Enjoy....





December 7, 2010

Thai Dessert - Sweet Cassava



Every time I visit Thai restaurant, I will get into myself with hot and spicy food. But I do not need to worry that I can burning my stomach or tongue, because I will balance the feeling with famous Thai Dessert - Sweet Cassava ! It is a smart way that people from Thai can climax the deliciousness of their spicy food with nice and sweet dessert like this.
Cassava is also called Yuca or Manioc. In my country, we have a lot of this. I found in State, we can easy find Cassava at your local grocery store. Sometimes you can find the frozen one that ready to cook, so you don't need to peel and clean the dirt skin.
I like this dessert if they are not very sweet. It is easy to make this dessert for whatever occasion and always suit with whatever meal that you prepare..

Ingredients

1 Kg Cassava - Peel the skin, clean and cut in to same size
500 ml Water
250 gram Sugar

500 ml Coconut milk
1 tsp salt
1 Tsp Rice Flour
1/2 Tsp Tapioca Flour

1 Tsp Sesame

Directions :

- Boil the water in the pot.
- Put Cassava inside the boiling water and cook with high medium heat.
- When Cassava is cook, bring the heat into medium, and put the sugar into the pot.
- Stir slowly and bring the water until thick. Turn off the heat.
* Set Sweet Cassava into a serving plate.

- Put into the sauce pan coconut milk, salt, rice and tapioca flour and cook with medium heat.
- Keep stirring until the coconut milk thicken and start to boil.
- When starting to boil, keep stirring just for second and turn off the heat.
* Set the Coconut milk on the top of Sweet Cassava.

- Put the sesame into frying pan.
- With low heat, stirring the sesame just until the color change into golden brown.
* Sprinkle the Sesame on the top of Sweet Cassava.