Easy Cook: Anything That You Got in Your Fridge

Sometimes you just bored with the same dish everytime.. and sometimes you don't even know what to cook..

recently i tried to make my all dishes as healthy as possible.. so i have lots of vege in the fridge.. i have to admit.. i used i hate vege... but now.. i can eat them.. not love but i tried to have as much as i can.. and chicken breast is one of the thing i have i my fridge.. i hate chicken breast.. i can never eat those that has not been cut.. unless i have lots and lots of chilli sauce.. so i usually make soup out of it.. or tomyam...

tonite i wanted grilled chicken.. and there's no way i can eat grilled chicken breast... so i improvised.. chopped them into pieces and pan grilled them...

Ingredients
Chicken breast cut into smaller cubes
Veges.. a few will be better... (i put long bean, potatoes, and capsicum)
Garlic powder
Salt
Pepper

Steps
1. Marinate chicken & potatoes with salt and garlic powder
2. Pan grilled with very little vege oil (i use canola)
(How long it's really up to you.. but i like mine to be a bit burned..)
3. Add salt & pepper
4. Put vege wait until it's cooked..(i like mine a bit al dante.. so i didn't wait till it fully cooked)

and your are done! easy huh??
you can eat it just like that or with some white rice..

Easy Cook: Cranberries and Nuts Granola

Got the recipe when i went for breaking fast at Ben's... so i tot of giving it a try... as usual, i alter the recipe a bit..

Ingredients
5 cups rolled oats
1 cup almonds
1 cup walnuts
1/2 cup flax seeds
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
1 cup dried cranberries
2 tbsp ground cinnamon
1tsp ground ginger
1tsp salt
1cup honey
2tbsp vege oil (i used canola oil)

Steps
1. Preheat oven at 150degrees
2.Mix well all dry ingredients
3. Mix well dry ingredients with wet ingredients
4. Flatten it on a tray lined with greased paper
5. Bake for 30minutes. Flipped them after 15minutes if u want.

Cooking Experiment: Nutella

i'm so into pinterest now.. it is soooo much easy to look for recipe on pinterest!! and one thing for >sure they look very yummy...

and i found this recipe: http://awoodennest.blogspot.com/2011/03/homemade-nutella.html to make nutella...

sometimes when i cook, i just need to finish whatever that i have in the kitchen without buying a new one.. and this one doesn't work for me as i don't have some of the ingredients..

so i create my own.. this is my first time trying doing this... it taste good for me.. so i'm just gonna share it here

Ingredients
250gm chopped milk chocolate
4tbsp peanut butter
1/2 cup chopped roasted nuts
2tbsp vegetable oil (i use canola)

Steps
1. Using double boil, melt the chocolates
2. Add oil and stir
3. Add peanut butter and stir
4. Add chopped peanuts and stir
5. Once all ingredients are well mix pour your nuttella mix in a jar.

easy peasy right?

Cooking Experiment: Smoked Salmon

smoked salmon is one of my favourite foods... last year i went to Melbourne i try this amazing smoked salmon open sandwich at one of the cafe there... i'm not a vegetable eater.. and this particular sandwich has loads of it.. and somehow i love it!! and when i came back i kept thinking about it.

so i tot why not make myself. it won't be that hard.. i'll just buy those store-bought smoked salmon.. easy peasy.. and when i went to Cold Storage (Tesco Mutiara doesn't have smoked salmon) i was shocked with the price.. nothing less thank RM15 and only few pieces in it.. then i remembered Paul once told me his colleague made smoked salmon.. and i go and asked him how.. and after that i google to have a better idea on how.. since i don't have smoked machine i combine the technique Paul told me and the one i found on internet.

Things that u'll need:

1. salmon (of course)

2. salt

3. sugar

4. rice

5. tea

6. aluminium foil

7. steel wire with stand

8. wok

note 1: i don't really have measurement for it.. but for 2 pieces of 5"x4" salmon i use 1tsp of each sugar and salt

note 2: you can put some pepper too if you like

note 3: if u can find chipped wood at your place you can use chipped wood instead of rice and tea

what you need to do:

1. if you have a good knife, sliced your salmon into thin layer. I don't have a good knife or even a good cutting skill. so i just de-boned the salmon.

2. then you need to cure your salmon by putting the salt, sugar (and maybe pepper) on your salmon. and the keep it over night.. like more than 12hours.

3. the next day, put a layer of aluminium foil on your work and then put the rice and tea on top of it.

4. put you steel wire on the wok and you can arrange your salmon on top of it.

5. use medium heat and wait till smokes start coming out from you rice.

6. then take something and cover your work so the smoke will stay inside the wok. i use my non-stick lid to cover my wok. the process is very quick, in 1 minute you should finish smoking your salmon.

easy right??