Thursday 31 March 2016

# 47: Victorian Sponge Cake (twisted)



"The Great British Bake Off" is simply amazing and so inspiring. Gosh! I couldn't resist trying out the classic Victoria Sponge Cake.

Thanks to BBC good food for the recipe!  The link is:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1997/classic-victoria-sandwich

This is how it turned out! ;)





The little twist I added was to doing a full butter icing all round the cake and sprinkling a few decorations! While reducing the filling a bit to suit my family's taste.. 



Enjoy!

Wednesday 24 February 2016

# 46: Salmon Courgette Delight!



Going bonkers over my new found love for courgettes aka zucchini :)

With just a few ingredients I possibly made myself a simple yet amazing meal.. here's to my salmon courgette delight :

Ingredients:

  1. Salmon fillet- 1
  2. Courgette -1 
  3. Carrot-1
  4. Mushrooms (handful)
  5. Roasted Peanuts (handful) 
  6. Salt to taste
  7. Vegetable oil -  1/2 tsp
  8. Pepper to sprinkle!
Preparation: 


Marinate the salmon fillet with lemon juice and a pinch of salt. Leave it to rest for a bit.

Chop the vegetables (courgette, carrots, & mushrooms).  My preference would be courgette cubes, carrots discs and mushrooms in halves!

Heat half a teaspoon of oil in a pan, add the carrots, courgettes and stir. It will soften up within 2 minutes then add the mushrooms and stir well. Add salt to taste and garnish with pepper and peanuts. (P.S: I personally like to have that crunch when in my stir fried veggies so totally depends how long you would want to cook the vegetables!)

With the Salmon, you can either grill it or pan fry it. I chose to pan fry it to a nice golden brown tinge! Salmon by itself leaves a lot of oil so honestly,  I didn't have to use any oil to fry it.


And..... 

Oh! a little addition and cheat treat to my already yummy meal was a hash-brown! :D