No-Frills Recipes ... cooking, baking & excerpts on travel

  This is a sweet smelling, fragrant and crispy shortbread cookie.  They are easy to make, full of flavour with spices from the Chai Tea bag and rolled in spiced sugar before baking.  Great with a cup of coffee or tea.  If you love spices, this is the cookie for you! Jumbo Chai Tea Cookies Ingredients 113 gm butter 1/2 cup oil 90 gm caster sugar (or light brown sugar) 250 gm plain flour 1 egg 1/2 tsp baking soda 1 Chai Tea bag 1/2 tsp vanilla a pinch of salt 2 Tbsp granulated sugar + 1/4 tsp cinnamon (sugar mixture) Method Sift the plain flour with baking soda, salt.  Set aside. Cream butter and sugar till fluffy, add in the oil and beat till thoroughly incorporated. On low speed, add in the egg and vanilla, mix well.   Open up the Chai Tea bag and pour the tea leaves in the mixture, mix till thoroughly incorporated. Fold in the sifted flour, mix well.  The dough is soft at this juncture. Cover the mixing bowl with cling wrap and refrigerate for about 2 hours. Prepare the sugar mixture

  These Airfried Honey Glazed Chicken Drumsticks are bursting with flavour, crispy and slightly sweetish on the outside, tender and juicy on the inside.  Unlike deep fried chicken drumsticks, these barely have any oil and the only oil there is, are from the chicken skin and fat.  Quick and easy to prepare this for dinner especially for working mums!  Airfried Honey Glazed Chicken  ~    气炸香蜂蜜鸡 Ingredients 6 chicken drumsticks 1.5 Tbsp garlic powder 1 Tbsp McCormick chicken seasoning 1.5 tsp paprika 1.5 tsp seasalt 1.5  tsp black pepper 2 Tbsp honey + 1/2 tsp water Method Wash the drumsticks.  Pat them dry with kitchen paper towel. Mix all the seasoning except honey in a bowl. Rub the seasoning onto the drumstick, giving them a good massage.  Let rest for 3 hours or more. Place the drumsticks onto the basket of your Airfryer.  Airfry @ 200 deg.C for 10 mins. on one side, flip over and airfry for another 10 mins. Meanwhile, dilute the honey with water and brush onto the drumsticks.  Airfr