Friday, April 17, 2009

Nonya Fried Seafood Noodles

Nonya Fried Seafood Noodles
( Serves 4 )

Ingredients
1 lb ( 500 gms )Yellow Egg Noodles; blanched with hot water and drained
( cook one box of spaghetti if yellow noodles are not available)
½ lb ( 250gms) Shrimp with shells and heads on
1 fish cake; can be replaced with calamari chopped shredded
5-6 stalks of any leafy vegetable chopped into bite sized pieces
¼ lb ( 100gms ) bean sprouts
4-5 cloves of garlic chopped fine
1 tablespoon tau cheo
2 Eggs fried omelette style and shredded
Cilantro and shredded green onions and red chilli for garnish


Shrimp stock
Remove heads and shells from shrimp. Place heads and shells into a small pot add one cup of water and a chicken cube and bring to a boil. Keep aside for use later.

Method
Fry garlic till fragrant; add chopped up shrimp and vegetables. Fry till shrimps turn red ; add sliced fish cake or calamari. Add one tablespoon of tau cheo. Fry for a minute and add blanched noodles. Stir all the ingredients with the noodles till well mixed. Add shrimp stock and stir well. If not salty enough add light soy sauce. Add bean sprouts and fry for a further 30 seconds.
Pour out onto a large serving plate ; garnish with cilantro , green onions, red chilli and shredded omellete

Monday, April 6, 2009

Butter Cake Recipe

BUTTER CAKE

Prep Time: 20 min
Cook Time: 23 min
Oven Temp: 350 F
Ingredients
· 2 cup(s) all-purpose flour
· 2 teaspoon(s) baking powder
· 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt
· 3/4 cup(s) whole milk
· 1 1/2 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract
· 1 1/4 cup(s) sugar
· 3/4 cup(s) butter or margarine, softened
· 3 large eggs
Directions
· 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 13" by 9" metal baking pan, or three 8-inch round or two 9-inch round cake pans. Dust pan(s) with flour.
· 2. On waxed paper, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. In cup, mix milk and vanilla; set aside.
· 3. In large bowl, with mixer at low speed, beat sugar and butter just until blended. Increase speed to high; beat 3 minutes or until creamy, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. Reduce speed to low; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
· 4. Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture just until blended, scraping bowl occasionally. 5. Pour batter into prepared pan(s). Bake 40 to 45 minutes for 13" by 9" cake, 23 to 25 minutes for 8- and 9-inch layers, or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool in the pan(s) on wire rack 10 minutes. With knife, loosen side of cake(s) from pan(s); invert onto wire rack to cool completely