3 Egg and chicken Congee(Rice porridge)

1-2 small Onion, slice thin

1-2 tsp Garlic, crush

1-2 tsp Ginger, crush

1 Chicken Breast, dice

1 Century Egg, shelled and diced

1 Salted duck egg, shelled and diced

1 Chicken egg

200g Rice

800-1000 ml Water/chicken stock

Sesame oil

Salt and pepper

Method

wash rice and strain. Heat up a pot with a little oil, fry off ginger garlic and onion till fragrant. add in chicken and seal off. then add in rice mix, add in the water, century egg and duck egg. bring up to boil then simmer till the rice splits roughly 1-1.5 hrs. season to taste. then lighly beat the chicken egg and stir it in to the congee add sesame oil.

Now dig in :)

Enjoy:)

Ideas To decorate or use Gingerbread

Gingerbread house

Royal Icing

Ginger bread, rolled and baked as per the above picture

Candies/lolies/sweets/chocolates

Method

Cut the gingerbread in to desired shape(use a template if not sure if the design of the house would fit), using the the royal icing glue the ginger bread together as the following pictures. oh don't forget to cut out a door and window for the house after all it won't be a house with out a door and window.

you can put candies in to the house if you like or your gift

then decorate as you like

Sample 1

Sample 2

oh i decorated the gingerbread man gave it eyes and mouth, buttons and boots

Royal icing

1 egg white

250g icing sugar

1tsp vinegar/lemon juice

Method

pour in everything in to the mixing bowl, mix on low for 2-3 min then on high for 3-4 min or till white as snow:) scoop it out in to a piping bag :)

uses

Gingerbread house

Gingerbread man

(will add more as i go along)

Gingerbread

Ingredients

1L Honey

0.5kg Sugar

0.33L Fresh Milk(UHT milk can be used)

4 nos Eggs

10g Ginger Powder

13g Cinnamon Powder

20g Baking Powder

20g Baking Soda

2kg Cake Flour(plain flour)

Method

Bring sugar and milk to boil then add the honey and take off the heat. Mix well and set a side to cool. Sift all the dry ingredients together.

When honey mixture has cooled pour in to a mixing bowl(if using a mixer use a dough hook), add the eggs mix well.

scoop in the sifted dry ingredients on a low speed setting till it is all combined,( the mixture was too much for the mixture so i transfered it to another bowl to finish the mixing process by hand) Do not over mix the mixture.

When all is combined, set a side for at least 2 hrs resting time or you can continue the next step the next day.

On a floured bench take out a chunk of the dough, roll it out with a rolling pin to a thickness of 0.5 cm. Then dock it with a fork or a docker(Dock=to make small holes on a pastry)

And use a cutter of your choice to cut the dough( in this case its a Gingerbread man). Place the gingerbread man on to a lined baking tray, brush egg wash over the gingerbread man and bake in a pre-heated oven of 160-170C(every oven is different i set mine at 150C) for 6-7 min then take it out of the oven and brush egg wash over the gingerbread man, back in to the oven for another 6-7 min or till golden brown.

Now you will have left over Scrap dough. What to do with it? well you still can use it, but remember you must not over mix it. So no kneading the dough, just pile the dough together and just press the dough together to form a square or round, and roll it out again like before.

Always try to get as much portions from the first roll.

This yields a lot of gingerbread man. I estimated about 60-70 nos of this size of gingerbread man.

Have fun:)

Golden Syrup

Ingredients

600g Sugar

450ml water

4 slices lemon (as in the picture below)

Method

Place everything in to a pot, over high heat desolve the sugar with out stirring(if it is stirred crystals would form and would not have a great result). bring it to a boil and then simmer for 50 min(soft ball stage, 120C)

Set it a side to cool, then pour it in to a bottle and it is ready to be used the next day.

*yes the sugar has to be made the day before (can be kept for a yr plus(for next yr)) making your moon cake or other recipes that require it:)

*yes i know i put only 2 slices of lemon i did only half recipe :)

My New Toy

As you can see this is my new toy in the kitchen!!!

My trusty hand mixer beater broke after 3 yrs of putting up with me:)

As my Grandfather always tell us, "if the old one don't go the new one won't come:)

now you will see more of it in my pictures:) oh i can do more with it too:)

quick drunken chicken with mien sien (for one)

um where to start....

1/2 onion, sliced

2 garlic cloves, sliced

1 tsp ginger, crushed

4-5 chinese spoon chinese rice wine

100-200 g chicken breast, diced and seasoned with salt and pepper

1-2 serves mien sien

some pak choi

200-250mil chicken stock/ water

Method

Put on a pot of boiling water. In another heated pot add a table spoon of oil and add in the onion, garlic and ginger. Fry till fragrant, then add in the chicken to seal. then add in the rice wine, let it reduce slightly and add in the chicken stock and bring up to boil and simmer.

By this time the pot of water would be boiling drop in the mien sien and stir till cook strain. refresh with cold water and then strain of the cold water and in to the simmering drunken chicken soup add in the pak choi and it is ready to eat:)