Chocolate Truffles

Chocolate Truffles

Sweet, sweet, sweet, ...

Roast Teriyaki Chicken

Roast Teriyaki Chicken

Grilled Fish Fillets

Grilled fish fillets

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate chips cookies

Fish Roll-ups in White Wine Sauce

Fish roll-ups in white wine sauce

Baked Potato

Baked Potato

Ingredients

4 Baking potatoes

Directions

1.          Preheat oven to 350F (175C).

2.          Wash and scrub the potatoes thoroughly.

3.          Wrap each potato with aluminum foil.  Prick the wrapped potato with a fork to prevent steam from building up inside and causing the potato to explode in oven.

4.          Bake for 1.5 hours. 

          

Souffle

Souffle

Pizza Rolls

Pizza roll, with mozzarella on top

Banana Cake

Banana cake

Pound Cake

Butter pound cake with walnut

Traditinal and original pound cake - it contains 1 pound each of butter, sugar, eggs and flour. And contains no salt, baking powder or artificial flavouring.

Roasted Herbed Pork Loin

Roasted herbed Pork Loin

Spinach-stuffed Chicken Breast

Spinach-stuffed chicken breast

Ingredients

4 pieces skinless, boneless chicken breast halves (pounded to 1/2 inch thick)

1/2 lb fresh spinach leaves

8 slices bacon

1 pinch ground black pepper

1/2 cup sour cream

1/2 cup shredded pepperjack cheese

4 cloves garlic, minced

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 375F (190C).
2. Place spinach in a large glass bowl.  Heat in the microwave for 3 minutes, stirring every minute or so, or until wilted.  Stir in sour cream, pepperjack cheese and garlic.
3. Lay the chicken breasts out on a clean surface.  Put some spinach mixture onto each one.  Roll up chicken to enclose the spinach.  Then wrap each chicken breast with two slices of bacon.  
4. Secure with toothpicks, and arrange in a shallow baking dish.
5. Bake uncovered for 35 minutes in the preheated oven.  Then increase heat to 425F (or 220C) and bake uncovered for additional 5-10 mins to brown the bacon.

Spinach-stuffed chicken breast

Home-fried Potatoes

Home-Fried Potatoes

Potatoes and paprika...

Grilled Pork Ribs

Grilled Pork ribs

Easy, delicious and foolproof.  Simply put all the things into the oven and wait.

Chicken Meat Kabob

Chicken Kabob

Caramel Custard

Caramel Custard

Panna Cotta with Fresh Strawberry Sauce

Panna Cotta with Fresh Strawberry Sauce

It is rich, creamy and smooth. Great for a dessert lover.

Parmesan-crumbed Baked Fish

Parmesan-crumbed baked fish

BBQ Pork (Guangdong style)

BBQ Pork

It is as tasteful as those bought from roast meat shop!

Sponge Cake

A universal cake base for various desserts...

Blueberry Cheese Pudding Cake

Blueberry Cheese Pudding Cake

Baked Pork Chop with Caramelized Onion

Baked Pork Chop with Caramelized Onion

Braised Pork Belly (Three Layer Pork)

Braised Pork Belly

The pork is very tender and tasteful, not greasy at all.

Sweet Dinner Rolls

Sweet bread rolls

Simple Raisin Scone

Simple Raisin Scones, just come out from the oven

Honey Salmon

The salmon will just melt in your mouth.  It is amazing!
The original recipe calls for maple syrup while I have replaced it with honey here.  Nonetheless, I believe maple syrup would create great taste as this too.

Honey Salmon

The salmon will just melt in your mouth.  It is amazing!

Easy and Quick Pizza

Quick Pizza

Chocolate Muffin

Chocolate Muffin

Bread Machine Roll

Bread roll with egg white wash on top

A perfect home-made breakfast, fresh from oven.

Banana Crumb Muffin

Banana Crumb Muffin

The cinnamon crust is the 'soul' of this muffin!  It makes it so different and tasteful, especially if you like sweet.

Japanese Cheesecake

Japanese Cheesecake

It melts in your mouth with full taste of cheese.

Rib Eye with Garlic

Ingredients

2 pieces (around 12 oz) rib eye (or any steak you like)

6-7 cloves garlic

Blueberry Cream Muffin

Blueberry cream muffin

For 12 muffins.

Ingredients

1/2 cup vegetable oil (olive oil)

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup sour cream

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup blueberries

Directions

1.     Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).  Line muffin cups with paper muffin liners.

2.     In a mixing bowl, beat eggs, gradually add sugar while beating.  

3.     Continue beating while slowly pouring in oil.

4.     Stir in vanilla.

5.     In a separate bowl, stir together flour, salt and baking soda.

6.     Stir dry ingredients into egg mixture alternately with sour cream.

7.     Gently fold in blueberries.  Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups.

8.     Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes.

9.     Cool in pan for 10 minutes.  Remove to a wire rack for cooling.

Variations 
Substitute blueberries with chocolate chips.  You will get an equally delicious chocolate muffin.  It's so easy to make as many varieties as you wish!  Here are my chocolate muffins.

Chocolate muffin

Remarks

I tried this recipe twice.  I used sour cream at the first time

At the second time, I have substituted the sour cream by fresh milk (because I had no sour cream in my fridge that time).  I have also slightly reduced the amount of oil and sugar because I thought it could be healthier.  Both create excellent taste.

I used dried organic blueberries for my muffin.  It's great.  However I also find that some similar recipes suggest using fresh blueberries.  I will definitely try it later. 

(many weeks later...)

I have repeated doing this many times, sometimes with fresh milk and sometimes with sour cream.  Sometimes I use fresh blueberries and sometimes I use dried ones.  Experiences tell me that I prefer sour cream more (though the fresh milk produces very good taste too).  

For using fresh blueberries, it tastes so good with the juicy berries, but make sure your blueberries are well 'protected' by the batter, as the juicy berries will 'burst' to a flow of berries juice like a blue river on the muffin summit!