Saturday boy was I busy in the kitchen! Went to the market earlier and was home by 9.40am and got started cooking! The siblings wanted chicken fajitas so I quickly sliced the chicken meat and marinated (fajitas mix + paprika + black pepper + dried basil) before Junior & I went to the market.
But before that, Junior was busy helping me cook! On the menu for the day:
So on to the biryani! I was kind of eager to cook biryani when Husband first requested for it cos I can use up my leftover yoghurt. For the one pack of Shan's Sindhi Briyani, I used 1 kg of beef, and just as a note to self, follow all other ingredients on the box, but for the 25 small green chillis, reduce to 15 cili padi instead. I love Sindhi biryani. Very spicy and yummeh.
Here's my culinary protégé cutting up some tomatoes!
He saw the tomatoes beside the sink and took them, put in the strainer, took the spatula and cut them. Imitating mama I guess, and he was pretty engrossed doing so!
So after you cut the tomatoes (or put dents in them), fry! I only gave him the square container. All other utensils he took them out by himself.
After cooking the biryani and frying the fajitas (chicken with onions and bell peppers), I took a short break but just as I sat at the sofa, the little one came running to me with the whisk! He tried to pull me to the kitchen and this is what he did: open the larder...
So I quickly searched for a choc chip muffin recipe. He wasn't too pleased when I searched using my handphone, I guess he thought I wanted to play with the phone rather than bake with him. Found one simple one, and here's the recipe!
1 cup self raising flour
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup oil
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
vanilla
lotsa choc chips
Very simple, very quick. Makes exactly 12 muffins. I used the pan MIL gave me while clearing her cabinets. She had 2 of these 12 muffin pans and she doesn't bake anymore so I gladly took them. She has lots of baking stuff, even a Kenwood mixer, trays and measuring utensils but I have my own set too so I didn't take the rest. Hurhur.
Here are the golden muffins! Baked at 170 degrees for about 25 minutes.
Yummy moist cake! Glad I made just 12, won't be a burden to finish.
Here are some quickly snapped photos initially for instagram-collage purposes so yes they are ugly in their original picture. But here are the products of Saturday morning's cookout!
Chicken fajitas with onions and yellow & red bell peppers. Serve with wrap, lite sour cream, lettuce and diced tomatoes. Yummy!
Sindhi biryani before mixing them all up! Let the rice soak all those yummy gravy! Husband-approved, of course!
And last but not least, Junior's potato, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot and chicken soup! He loves potatoes so I cook him potatoes whenever I can. Plus they cook much faster than porridge!
Junior is missing his Nyai and Yayi a lot. It's amazing how much he tells us by not even talking. I'm not making stuff up, but if you're a parent you will know what your child is trying to tell you even when he's not saying a word. He wants to go see Kaabah again, and he wants to go to Nyai's house today cos he knows it's a routine to go alternate weeks. My mum told me to bring him to her house so he can play with his toys there. Gonna be almost 3 weeks more till they get home!
Junior made my heart melt: all those times spent baking and cooking with him paid off! He now is officially my little baker! I didn't want to bake anything, but he sorta forced me. How can I refuse when he took out the whisk and ladle and even the sugar!
But before that, Junior was busy helping me cook! On the menu for the day:
- Chicken Fajitas
- Sindhi Briyani (Shan mix)
- Potato Soup for Junior
So on to the biryani! I was kind of eager to cook biryani when Husband first requested for it cos I can use up my leftover yoghurt. For the one pack of Shan's Sindhi Briyani, I used 1 kg of beef, and just as a note to self, follow all other ingredients on the box, but for the 25 small green chillis, reduce to 15 cili padi instead. I love Sindhi biryani. Very spicy and yummeh.
Here's my culinary protégé cutting up some tomatoes!
He saw the tomatoes beside the sink and took them, put in the strainer, took the spatula and cut them. Imitating mama I guess, and he was pretty engrossed doing so!
So after you cut the tomatoes (or put dents in them), fry! I only gave him the square container. All other utensils he took them out by himself.
After cooking the biryani and frying the fajitas (chicken with onions and bell peppers), I took a short break but just as I sat at the sofa, the little one came running to me with the whisk! He tried to pull me to the kitchen and this is what he did: open the larder...
Take out the sugar...
Now the flour...
Let's bake mama!! Pleaaase!!
So I quickly searched for a choc chip muffin recipe. He wasn't too pleased when I searched using my handphone, I guess he thought I wanted to play with the phone rather than bake with him. Found one simple one, and here's the recipe!
1 cup self raising flour
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup oil
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
vanilla
lotsa choc chips
Very simple, very quick. Makes exactly 12 muffins. I used the pan MIL gave me while clearing her cabinets. She had 2 of these 12 muffin pans and she doesn't bake anymore so I gladly took them. She has lots of baking stuff, even a Kenwood mixer, trays and measuring utensils but I have my own set too so I didn't take the rest. Hurhur.
Here are the golden muffins! Baked at 170 degrees for about 25 minutes.
Yummy moist cake! Glad I made just 12, won't be a burden to finish.
Here are some quickly snapped photos initially for instagram-collage purposes so yes they are ugly in their original picture. But here are the products of Saturday morning's cookout!
Chicken fajitas with onions and yellow & red bell peppers. Serve with wrap, lite sour cream, lettuce and diced tomatoes. Yummy!
Sindhi biryani before mixing them all up! Let the rice soak all those yummy gravy! Husband-approved, of course!
And last but not least, Junior's potato, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot and chicken soup! He loves potatoes so I cook him potatoes whenever I can. Plus they cook much faster than porridge!
Junior is missing his Nyai and Yayi a lot. It's amazing how much he tells us by not even talking. I'm not making stuff up, but if you're a parent you will know what your child is trying to tell you even when he's not saying a word. He wants to go see Kaabah again, and he wants to go to Nyai's house today cos he knows it's a routine to go alternate weeks. My mum told me to bring him to her house so he can play with his toys there. Gonna be almost 3 weeks more till they get home!
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