Category: My Kitchen

I’ve been wanting to make mochi a long long time but never get to do it. Finally, few weeks ago, I did it. It’s so easy!

Ingredients:
2 cups of glutinous flour
2 cups of water
2 tablespoons of sugar
Sesame seeds/dessicated coconut/anything that can avoid the mochi sticking to each other (no specific measurement, for coating)

Instructions:
1. Mix glutinous flour and water well.

2. Place it in microwavable container covering the top of the container.
3. Microwave on HIGH (900 Watt) for 4 minutes.
4. Leave it cool for a bit.
5. Roll into ball and coat it with sesame. Do it as fast as you can. The longer it takes the harder it is to shape it into a ball.

Tips: Use plastic knife or spoon cut or scoop the mochi to avoid sticking.

Variations:
Green tea mochi: Mix one teaspoon of green tea powder to make green tea mochi.
Red bean paste mochi: Fill the mochi with red bean paste.
Just be creative! Experiment!

Finally got some time to do this post. There’s quite a gap in this post, I in this collection because I didn’t do any cooking that time because there’s people who cooked for me.

Left: 15/4/2011, lunch. Microwaved chicken wing marinated with salt and pepper (ignore the hair ;p) and iceberg lettuce with butter rice.

Right: 14/4/2011, dinner. Butter rice with with Heinz Big’ n Chunky Flaming Chicken served with iceberg salad.

Left: 16/4/2011, lunch. Sweet chilli tuna stir fried with French bean and Carrot rice.

Right: 16/4/2011, dinner. Fried rice with bok choy and carrot. The seasoning for the fried rice was garlic, soy and honey sauce.

Left: 18/4/2011, lunch. Fried noodle with sweet chili tuna and red and green capsicum.

Right: 19/4/2011, dinner. Leftover taco from dinner the other night. I didn’t cook, it was my friend who bought the taco set and just added in beef. I had it with iceberg salad. Anyway… I modified the leftover for my next day dinner.

Left: 20/4/2011, dinner. Heated up the taco filling leftover and dump in my rice. Mixed them well in the pot and served hot. Quite nice.

Right: 21/4/2011, lunch. Noodle in seaweed soup with tomato and egg.

Left: 22/4/2011, lunch. Fried noodle with red and green capsicum and carrot. The sauce was garlic, soy and honey sauce. My microwaved chicken wings was overcooked ;p No idea how long and used too high heat and too long cooking time. Marinated with chicken stock, salt, pepper, garlic, soy and honey sauce.

Right: 26/4/2011, lunch. Stir fried vegetables with microwaved chicken wings. Same marinate used except this time not overcook ;p

Left: 28/4/2011, lunch. I got lazy, just did a quick one, white bread with blanched carrot and iceberg lettuce dressed with sweet chili and a cup of instant corn soup.

Right: 29/4/2011, lunch. Oriental fried rice, it’s just from the packet. I added in mixed vegetables only. I’ll have some posts about some of the ingredients I used some other time such as the canned food or instant rice mix and more.

Left: 30/4/2011, lunch. Noodle in seaweed soup with carrot and chicken meat.

Right: 1/5/2011, dinner. Leftover oriental fried rice and two slices of leftover Hot Mexican pizza. Apparently the rice was undercooked ;p I didn’t have enough water when cooking it hehehe…

There you go… More coming when I have the luxury of time. Exam in about 20 days. Done with my assignments. Now have to get into the mood of revision.

It’s been awhile. Not easy to compile it.

Left: 10/4/2011, lunch. Macaroni cheese with sliced chicken meat and diced capsicum.
Right: 10/4/2011, dinner. Porridge with egg, tomato, and carrot.

Left: 11/4/2011, lunch. Carrot rice served with stir fry chicken meat with French beans and diced capsicum.
Right: 11/4/2011, dinner. The carrot rice from lunch, added bok choy in.

Left: 12/4/2011, lunch. My not-so-successful French toast sandwich, the other side was kind of burnt ;p in between the breads was chicken meat. I smoked the whole apartment hahaha… Luckily didn’t trigger the smoke detector.
Right: 12/4/2011, dinner. Chicken soup noodle with bok choy.

Left: 13/4/2011, dinner. Fried rice, there’s chicken meat, carrot and Frech beans.
Right: 14/4/2011, lunch. Bread with Heinz Big’ n Chunky Flaming Chicken served with iceberg salad.

Continuation of what I had cooked…

Left: 4/4/2011, dinner. French beans fried with egg and plain rice.

Right: 5/4/2011, lunch. Carrot rice. Very simple, cooked everything in the rice cooker ;p The rice was flavoured with canola spread, salt, pepper, and garlic.

Left: 5/4/2011, dinner. The exact same rice for lunch. Fried it with French beans.

Right: 8/4/2011, lunch. Stir fried vegetables with pot stickers.

Left: 8/4/2011, dinner. Instant pasta added with chicken meat and French beans.

Right: 9/4/2011, lunch. Soup noodle with bok choy, tomato, and egg.

Left: 6/4/2011, dinner. Instant pasta with carrot and French beans.’

Right: 9/4/2011, dinner. Stir fry chicken with capsicum served with carrot rice.

More to come… Just realized I forgot to take some of the photos of the food I had cooked lately ;p oh well…