Tasty Breakfast Omelette!

I like my omelette filled with different ingredients, so if you do too, this one is for you! :)

Preparation Time is about 5mins, cooking time is about 10mins.

Serving Size: 1 person

Ingredients

2 medium eggs

1/2 slice ham

Several mushrooms (I like shitake, brown or white mushrooms, but largely your preference!)

2 teaspoon olive oil

1/4 green pepper

1/4 tomato

1 tablespoon milk

A few drops of soy sauce

1/2 slice kraft cheese or shredded mozzarella

A pinch of parsley (and any other herbs that you might like)

Method

1. Beat the eggs, milk and parsley together.

2. Heat the olive oil in a pan.

3. Lightly fry mushrooms, ham, tomato and green pepper until mushroom turns slightly brown.

4. Pour in the beaten eggs mixture over the ingredients and spread it out to cover the base of the pan.

5. When the eggs are firm at the bottom but still runny on top, place the cheese on one side.

6. When cheese has melted, slide the omelette onto a plate and fold/roll it.

And that makes for a yummy breakfast! Have a great morning! :)

Red Skin Potato Salad

Needed a staple to go with my chicken and lamb chops today, so tried out this simple potato salad!

Preparation Time is about 5mins (largely dependent on how fast you chop your shallots!) while cooking time is about 25mins.

Serving Size: 4 pax as a side dish

Ingredients

5 medium size red skin potatoes

1 small shallot / onion

2 tablespoons mayonnaise

1 tablespoon milk

1 slice ham

salt and pepper

1 hard boiled egg (optional)

Bacon bits (optional)

Method

1. Clean the potatoes, do not remove the skin.

2. Bring a pot of water to boil, add 1/2 tea spoon salt. Place the potatoes inside and cook for 15 mins or until firm.

3. Remove potatoes from water and leave it to cool. Cut them up into quarters or eighths, depending on preference.

4. Chop the shallot finely and cut the ham into slices.

5. Gently toss together potatoes, shallots, ham, mayonnaise, milk, salt and pepper. Serve chilled.

Orange Rind Butter Cake

This recipe makes for a pretty decent butter cake. You can change the type of fruit you like to put in by substituting accordingly e.g. 1 banana instead of 1 orange.

Preparation time is about 15mins, while baking time is around 50mins.

Ingredients

125g butter (or half a slab!)

90g castor sugar (if you like it sweeter, can add 10g more)

100g self raising flour, sifted

2 whole medium size eggs

2 additional egg yolks

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

1 tablespoon whipping or nestle cream

Zest of 1 orange

1 orange to be squeezed for the juice

Method

1. Cream butter and sugar together using the low speed. When butter is creamy and a shade lighter, it is done.

2. Slowly add beaten eggs, cream and vanilla essence a bit at a time. Cream the mixture well after each addition. (this is so that it will not curdle)

3, Fold/beat in flour with metal/plastic spoon.

4. Fold/beat in zest and juice.

5. Line cake tin with baking paper (am lazy, didn't want to do a lot of cleaning!) and pour in mixture.

6. Bake at 160deg, middle shelf for 50mins (to put in a toothpick to check, if it comes out clean, it is cooked / when cake has a nice dark golden brown crust)

Have fun and let me know how it turns out! :)

The start of something new!

Since it's the hols and nearing the end of the year, thought I'll do something new and start a simple food recipe blog! Hopefully this would help you folks out there who need easy to cook items that you can chuck in the oven or on the stove! However, not all these might be as easy to prepare beforehand (I did say easy to cook...didn't say anything about preparations! :p) but if you have 15mins to spare, why not?

Will just upload recipes for now, not all items come with pictures as yet. Will take them as I cook over the next few weeks, so be patient! :) And because I take the pictures on my handphone camera, it isn't very 'pro'....hopefully you'll understand!