Archive for the ‘Entertaining Recipes’ Category

Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Steamed Chicken and Sausages ( 3 American servings/6 Chinese servings)
1 ( 2 1/2 pound) chicken
2 tablespoons sherry teaspoon
1/2 salt
teaspoons cornstarch
2 to 3 Chinese sausages, cut into thick diagonal slices (more…)

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Chinese New Years Dinner

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Deep Fried Pork Balls (4 to 6 American servings/ 4 to 6 Chinese servings)
1½ pounds pork (loin, butt or shoulder) with some fat, minced
1 slice fresh ginger root, minced
3 water chestnuts, minced
1/2 medium onion, minced (more…)

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Chinese New Years Dish

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Sweet Sour Pork  (4 American servings/8 Chinese servings)
1 recipe sweet sour sauce
1 pound lean pork
teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoons sherry (more…)

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Grilled Buttered Bananas in Crepes

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Ingredients
Crepe Batter
1 metric cup plain sifted flour Salt and nutmeg
3/4 metric cup evaporated milk
1/2 metric cup water
3 eggs
Dash of rum and maraschino brandy (more…)

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Bread Custard Pudding

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Ingredients

5-6 slices of stale bread (wholewheat bread)
1 cup raisins or 1/2 cup raisins mixed with 1/2 cup sultans or 1 cup mixed fruit
1 tsp grated orange rind
1 tsp powdered cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
3 eggs
3 cups diluted evaporated milk
2 tbsp butter
red currant jelly or jam for glazing

Method
Cut off crusts from bread slices, cut each slice into squares and butter them generously on one side. Grease with butter an ovenproof dish 1 quart or 36 oz pyrex dish or a dish 17 cm across (6 1/2 inches) and 7.5cm (2 3/4 inches) deep.
Mix orange rind and cinnamon with the dried fruit. Scatter some dried fruit on bottom of dish and place over them some pieces of bread, buttered side up. Spread over bread slices more mixed fruit, then a layer of bread pieces, and continue to do this till dish is three quarters full.
Beat up the eggs, add sugar, salt, milk and vanilla essence and strain through fine sieve over the bread and fruit in dish. Allow to stand for 1/2 hour for bread to absorb the custard mixture. Bake in moderate oven for about an hour or till set.
Brush top with jelly or jam that has been heated and, if top of pudding is not sufficiently brown, put dish under grill till golden.

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How to make French Loaf

Friday, January 8th, 2010

French Loaf

Ingredients

1 French stick or French loaf
butter or margarine
aluminumfoil

Method
If french stick is used, halve it so that you can cut each half diagonally into slices to, but not through, the bottom crust. Spread butter on the slices, sandwich style, wrap each half in aluminum foil and bake in moderate oven for 3/4 hour, just before serving.
To serve, place foil wrapped bread on plate, open up the foil and let each person help himself to the hot slices of bread.

More ** The Completed Low Cholesterol Diets** and ** Great Cuisine**

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Quick Vegetable Salad

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Ingredients

2 cucumbers, halved lengthwise and thickly sliced
1 small ripe pineapple, sliced and each slice coarsely shredded in short lengths
300g soy bean cake fried to a golden brown on both sides and sliced thinly (optional) (more…)

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Local Special “Gadoh-Gadoh”

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Ingredients
Vegetables to be boiled
600g kangkong washed thoroughly and cut into short lengths, using the stalks as well as the leaves
300g long beans, cut into 3 cm lengths
300g cabbage coarsely shredded
4 medium sized potatoes, washed, boiled in their skins and sliced (more…)

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Cinnamon Toast

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Ingredients

8 slices of sandwich loaf, 1 cm thick, with crusts removed
butter, about 125g
6 dsp: caster sugar mixed with 3 dsp powdered cinnamon

Method
Toast the bread slices and butter them generously. (more…)

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What is Epok Epok

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Ingredients for the filling

2 cups finely shredded bamboo shoot (robong)
For conveniece, use tinned bamboo shoots, but wash the pieces in cold water and boil them briskly for 15 minutes before shredding. I recommend a small tin of Sen Tai brand whole green bamboo shoots, drained weight 225 g or 7 ozs.
2 cups finely shredded yam bean (if shredded portions are too long, halve)
4 small soy bean cakes cut each in 2, then cut each half into three pieces lengthwise, and then finely shred. Fry in shallow hot vegetable oil, till golden brown, but not crisp.
4 large cloves garlic, finely chopped
2 dsp salted soy beans washed and finely pounded
salt and pepper
1/2 cup water
3 dsp vegetable oil, left over from frying shredded soy bean cakes. Add more, if necessary, to make up amount required.

Method
Heat oil in pan. Fry garlic till golden brown and then add pounded salted soy beans and when fragrant, add shredded bamboo shoot, yam cakes, salt, pepper and 1/2 (more…)

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