Report of Saturday morning's cooking: double chocolate banana muffins, sayur asam jawa and fried chicken! Simple pleasures of food and finally one where there weren't leftovers. I need to manage my portions haha.
I was under the weather - and still is - so lunch was simple. I used a ready made paste from Serambi Botani for the sayur asam jawa I bought when I was in Bogor. I just added in corn, long beans, carrot, cabbage and loads of peanuts! LOVE peanuts :) The vegetables made the soup sweet and yummeh. I tried the soup before the vegetables were cooked, and it was yuck. Tasted too much of asam. Once the flavours from the nuts, carrots and corn blends together, it was just what I needed for my throat. Made a quick spice mix of ground cumin, coriander, paprika salt and pepper for the chicken marinade before frying them. Soup + fried chicken + hot rice = yummy homemade meal.
I made the double chocolate muffins earlier with Junior. I was craving for double choc muffins, and Husband wanted the addition of bananas so double choc banana muffins it was. With yoghurt of course! The best ingredient in any cake or muffin, makes it really moist!
I got the recipe from American Heritage Cooking, and here's my ingredient list:
1 ½ cups All Purpose Flour
½ cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder (Valrhona of course)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 egg, well beaten
½ cup yoghurt
1 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla essence
½ cup canola oil
1 ¼ cups mashed, ripened bananas (~3 large bananas)
Semi-sweet chocolate chips
Sift flour and cocoa powder into a large bowl, with the baking soda & baking powder. Add in the sugar and mix well.
In a separate bowl, mix the oil, yoghurt, mashed banana and beaten egg until incorporated.
Add the wet ingredients into the big bowl, and mix until incorporated. Yummy sticky chocolaty goo!
Bake for about 22-25 minutes at 170 degrees Celsius. I got 16 muffins!
I didn't take any photos of the muffins but I was really happy with the result! Very chocolaty, and the muffin didn't sink! Pretty, rounded hills with yummy crust ahhhh so gooood. Oh and did I mention my little helper contributed too? :)
Junior helped me lay out the muffin cups, and then helped himself to the chocolate chips!
My brother said I'm turning him into a girl: baking, going market. Haha. Men do stuff like that too! Besides he has got to help his mama! ;)
What I imagined weekends with children to be: baking together :) It'll get messy, a little unhygienic, but I love baking sessions like this. I wanna have a cookie making session too, maybe this week or so when my siblings are around.
My parents are going for Haj this Wednesday. I will terribly miss them. But one month does pass by quite quickly, hope it does. May Allah grant them Haji mabrur and ease their journey. They deserve a good one. I've invited, or rather, forced, my siblings to come to my house for lunch every Saturday.
I was under the weather - and still is - so lunch was simple. I used a ready made paste from Serambi Botani for the sayur asam jawa I bought when I was in Bogor. I just added in corn, long beans, carrot, cabbage and loads of peanuts! LOVE peanuts :) The vegetables made the soup sweet and yummeh. I tried the soup before the vegetables were cooked, and it was yuck. Tasted too much of asam. Once the flavours from the nuts, carrots and corn blends together, it was just what I needed for my throat. Made a quick spice mix of ground cumin, coriander, paprika salt and pepper for the chicken marinade before frying them. Soup + fried chicken + hot rice = yummy homemade meal.
I made the double chocolate muffins earlier with Junior. I was craving for double choc muffins, and Husband wanted the addition of bananas so double choc banana muffins it was. With yoghurt of course! The best ingredient in any cake or muffin, makes it really moist!
I got the recipe from American Heritage Cooking, and here's my ingredient list:
1 ½ cups All Purpose Flour
½ cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder (Valrhona of course)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 egg, well beaten
½ cup yoghurt
1 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla essence
½ cup canola oil
1 ¼ cups mashed, ripened bananas (~3 large bananas)
Semi-sweet chocolate chips
Sift flour and cocoa powder into a large bowl, with the baking soda & baking powder. Add in the sugar and mix well.
In a separate bowl, mix the oil, yoghurt, mashed banana and beaten egg until incorporated.
Add the wet ingredients into the big bowl, and mix until incorporated. Yummy sticky chocolaty goo!
Bake for about 22-25 minutes at 170 degrees Celsius. I got 16 muffins!
I didn't take any photos of the muffins but I was really happy with the result! Very chocolaty, and the muffin didn't sink! Pretty, rounded hills with yummy crust ahhhh so gooood. Oh and did I mention my little helper contributed too? :)
Junior helped me lay out the muffin cups, and then helped himself to the chocolate chips!
My brother said I'm turning him into a girl: baking, going market. Haha. Men do stuff like that too! Besides he has got to help his mama! ;)
What I imagined weekends with children to be: baking together :) It'll get messy, a little unhygienic, but I love baking sessions like this. I wanna have a cookie making session too, maybe this week or so when my siblings are around.
My parents are going for Haj this Wednesday. I will terribly miss them. But one month does pass by quite quickly, hope it does. May Allah grant them Haji mabrur and ease their journey. They deserve a good one. I've invited, or rather, forced, my siblings to come to my house for lunch every Saturday.
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