Easy Recipe - Pain Perdu , good for tea time !

Pain Perdu, meaning a "Lost Bread" from French, is one of recipes from France. This one is easy to cook at home, and less fats than the version from Hong Kong. The one from Hong Kong is deep-fried and with peanut-butter filling between two of the sliced breads, which is deemed as a high calories tea break item in Hong Kong.

So, today I will use one piece of bread for my tea time serving with some fruits and my coffee, hoping that it is less calories... :)


Ingredients  (1 pax)

1. bread of your choice 
2. 1 egg
3. 30 ml of fresh milk
4. cinnamon
5. salt
6. butter

Method

1. beat the egg in a mixing bowl
2. add a pitch of salt
3. add a pitch of cinnamon
4. mix well the mixture
5. put the mixture on a tray with milk
6. soak the bread until all mixture is absorbed (cut your desired size in advance)
7. heat the skillet with butter
8. pan fried on medium heat and serve with Nutella or toppings of your choice.

Bon appétit!

Easy Recipe - Gazpacho

It's time to share my recipe again since talking so much on art and cultures.

Here I would like to introduce my secrete recipe of Gazpacho - a soup originating from Andalusia of Spain.  It's a very low cost, high in nutrient and yummy recipe! Sometimes I have left little vegetables like half of cucumber, bell peppers, then you can just buy some more tomatoes to make Gazpacho. 
Gazpacho serves chill so it is ideal for summer.   

Ingredients:  (for 2 pax)

8 large tomatoes
1/2 cucumber
1 clove of Garlic
1/4 of green bell pepper
1/4 onion
1/2 slide of day-old white bread

Seasoning:
Olive oil (Extra Virgin)
Salt
Black pepper
Basilic leaves / mint for garnish

Luxury version: add Spanish ham on top (optional)




Cooking Method:
1) Cut a cross on the bottom of tomatoes and boil under hot water, to remove the skin of tomatoes
2) Cool down the tomatoes in a room temperature
3) Wash all vegetables and cut into cubes , leave some vegetables cubes for garnish
4) Use a blender to blend all tomatoes, bread and vegetables, seasoning with salt and pepper
5) garnish with mint/basilic leaves or Spanish ham for topping , with extra virgin olive oil.
6) Lastly, chill them before serving

Volia! Let's try ! Really good for summer and it can keep up to 2 days.

Easy Recipe - Flan Caramel Home Style

One of my favorite desserts of my home recipes is Flan Caramel !

Flan Caramel

It is so easy and just spent you 15 minutes to make, just using milk, eggs and sugar!

Ingredients: (for 2 persons)
2 eggs
250 ml fresh milk (use cream for rich and tasty for option)
1-2 tablespoons of white sugar
few drop of vanilla essence (optional)

For caramel:
2-3 tablespoons of white sugar

Method:
1) Warm up the milk and sugar in a casserole (not boiling)
2)  In a separate mixing bowl, beat the eggs well and smooth
3)  Pour the milk mixture to the egg mixture, vanilla essence and mix well
4)  Use a casserole to melt the sugar into caramel
5)  Pour the caramel in the container preferred for the base
6) Pour the milk and egg mixture into the container
7)  Cooking
Option A) Use a bain marine (water bath) method, bake the flan in a 180°C for 10 minutes.
Option B) Water steaming in a Chinese Wok, for 10-15 minutes.


It's ready! Serve it hot or chill !!

Bon appetit!

好易做食譜-「妖怪手錶」地縛貓曲奇餅 Jibanyan Cookies

我同家姐都勁鍾意「妖怪手錶」，卡通片就一定有睇喇，家姐就勁到連精品玩具都有。今次就試做地縛貓曲奇餅送俾家姐，大家有興趣就試下啦！

材料：（可做4大塊）
先下載地縛貓個貓頭 （約8cm)
無鹽牛油-70 g
糖-40g
蛋黃-3隻
低筋麵粉-160g

Mise en place

做法：
1) 把糖加入室溫牛油打勻 (making cookies #1)
2)加入蛋黃打勻 (making cookies #2)
3) 加入過篩麵粉打勻至曲奇麵團 (making cookies #3)
4) 把麵團分成三份(見圖）(making cookies#4)
5) 其中一份加入橙味食用色素 (colouring #1)
6) 另一份就加入朱古力粉 (colouring #2)

用保鮮紙包著放雪櫃三十分鐘

making cookies

colouring

做型：
7) 使用模具牌麵團切割成地縛貓型、外面橙色貓型、眼睛、鼻子、口

ready to bake !

烘焙：
8) 預熱焗爐170度
9) 用少量蛋白塗上其面、將眼耳口鼻拼貼好
10) 焗10分鐘即可

Yeah~~! Done! Let's Party!