Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies 燕麦蔓月梅曲奇

These oatmeal cranberry cookies are quick and easy to prepare and they can be a hit with both the kids and adults. Rolled oats are used in these cookies and the ingredients are easy to put together. You can bake them in a shorter time if you prefer them to be soft and chewy in the centre or if you prefer crispy cookies, just bake them a little longer. You can also make this as a gift for X'mas and the batter can be prepared, keep refrigerated and the cookies baked the next day.

Recipe for Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies

Ingredients

226 gm butter
195 gm plain flour
100 gm soft brown sugar
30 gm caster sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp salt (reduce or omit if you're using salted butter)
1/2 tsp cinnamon
260 gm rolled oats
100 gm dried cranberries
40 gm choc chips

Method

Sift flour with bicarbonate of soda and salt, set aside.
Beat butter, add the brown sugar and caster sugar, beat till well combined. Add in the eggs. Add in the vanilla, mix well.
Fold in sifted flour into the batter, mix well.
Add in the rolled oats, choc chips, cinnamon and finally the cranberries. Mix well.
Scoop the batter with an ice cream scoop onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Place cookies 2 inches apart, flatten slightly with your fingers.
Bake in a preheated oven @ 180 deg.C for about 15 to 20 mins.
Yield : 20 large cookies

Hakka Mee aka Hakka Noodles

This is yet another one dish meal, Hakka Mee/Hakka Noodles. These noodles are quite similar to Won Ton Noodles, except that they have less lye water and the noodles are a bit flat and thicker. They're served with bean sprouts with a generous serving of minced meat sauce. the noodles, ........... need to loosen them up before cooking serve with chilli sauce topped with chopped garlic ..... that will do the trick ..... yummy! Recipe for Hakka Mee aka Hakka Noodles Ingredients 180 gm Minced Pork 60 gm Garlic - chopped 200 gm Bean Sprouts 4 dried Chinese mushrooms - soaked and diced 3/4 cup water 1 Tsp cornflour + 3 Tbsp of water 3 servings of Hakka noodles Oil for frying. Garnishing - Chopped spring onions Seasoning for minced pork 1/2 Tsp Salt 1 Tsp sugar 1 Tbsp Fish sauce 1 Tsp dark soya sauce A dash of pepper Preparation Saute the chopped garlic with 1 Tbsp oil, fry till fragrant Add in the seasoned minced pork, diced mushroo

Herbal Jelly ~ Gui Ling Gao

H erbal Jelly ~ Gui Ling Ga o literally translated means 'Tortoise Jelly' is one of my family's favourite desserts. It's much more economical to prepare this at home for you'll need to fork out between Rm 9 to Rm 11 for a bowl of this cooling dessert in any of those herbal tea outlets. This soothing jelly, served chilled, is supposed to be able to help reduce our body heat, helps to get rid of toxins and is believed to be good for the skin thus culminating a healthier complexion.

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Double Boiled Herbal Chicken Soup

Double boiling is slow cooking ........ means to put a soup pot or any covered ceramic or steel pot inside a bigger pot, immerse in boiling water, and let the soup cook at a lower temperature. Hence the soup is cooked from heat generated from the boiling water and not from direct heat source. Double boiling lets the soup ingredients slowly release their nutrients into the soup, thus making it tasty and wholesome. It's a long cooking process, roughly averaging 2 to 4 hours. The tip is not to open the cover to check on the soup as it'll bring down the temperature and affect the cooking process. The plus point is there's little evaporation and the soup will not boil over. The only thing is to monitor that there's enough water in the bigger pot and not let it run dry. Of course, nowadays, the slow cooker is another alternative to double boiling, saves the hassle of checking the water level.

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