Baking Bread using Rice Cooker Recipe!

Cheese, tomato, basil leave, ketchup sauce, black pepper - rice cooker bread recipe

Rice Cooker Bread Recipe - Before 1st fermentation

Rice Cooker Bread Recipe - After 1st fermentation

Recipe
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Rice-Cooker-Bread

I have always wanted to make this since I saw this in the anime Yakitate Rice Cooker Bread! It takes some times to make it but once its done, I gain the deep sense of satisfaction. My bread is gone in the same day between 2 people. Its so yummy and great fun. There is something magical about the bread making - my favorite part is to see the bread rise. Due to this magic moment, it inspire me to make more types of bread in the future!

I got the recipe from the link above.

Recipe and steps
A)
5 grams yeast (about 1.25 teaspoon)
1/4 cup water - water has to be at 110 - 120Fahrenheit

B)
350 grams flour (2.5 cups)
21 grams sugar (about 1.5 tbsp)
6.5 grams salt (about 1.5 tsp)
21 grams butter (about 1.5 tbsp)
30ml milk (1 oz.)
180 ml water (6 oz.)

About 5 hours

Mix A and leave it to stand for 10 minutes

Prepare B in a bowl. Once done add in A.
Knead the dough for about 8-10 minutes. If its too wet, you can add flour to the work surface.
Add butter to dough mixture till its fully absorb.

Allow to sit for an hour - Leave the dough at warm area or warm setting.
After 1 hour it will look like the 3rd picture on top. Dont punch the dough. Instead lift the dough up at about 50cm height and throw into your bowl with a certain force until it become like its original rise.
Allow to sit for another 1 hour. This is the second and final rise.
It will puff up and double in size.

Baking in the rice cooker
Every rice cooker is different
Mine is the normal rice cooker with porridge and rice function.
After 1 hour, the bottom look slightly burn but still edible. Flip the bread over and continue baking. Its suppose to take another hour but may be shorter depending on your machine. Mine is about 30-40 minutes on the other side.

My rice cooker will switch from cook to warm by itself. I have to monitor it closely. Every time it switch to warm, I had to press the cook function. Sometimes it allowed me to switch mode, sometimes it doesn't. Nevertheless, the bread was cook at the end. Thus next time when I make this again, I will flip the bread at 50minutes to prevent the burning.

Simple Overnight Oats (No cooking required)

Simple Overnight Oats Recipe

I like making this cause it is so simple, able to make in advance and involve no cooking. Best of all its healthy, versatile and you can make any type of combo you wanted! You can make it with basic ingredients or add all sort of toppings, nuts, healthy oil or dried fruit.

You just need to bear in mind the ratio.
1 cup of oats
1 cup of milk
1 cup of yogurt
Add honey to taste (optional)

Variation that you can add:
Fruits of your choice
Nuts
Flaxseed oil
Dried Fruit like dried apricot, raisin, cranberry

Just mix everything, store in a container of your choice and you can eat it the next day. This doesnt require cooking as the oats will soak up the liquid. I prefer to use Roll Oats. The honey is for those who fear the sourness in the yogurt. I notice that there are people who hate eating yogurt due to the sourness.


Thus far I have not store this more than a day as it wont stay in my fridge for long! This is a great way to start your day as it will be very filling and useful as a quick breakfast takeaway during work days. I store my overnight oats in those old glass jam containers when on the go.

I plan to make more of the home made yogurt on my own to avoid the store bought ones. I highly recommend making this.

Ice cream cone recipe

Home made cone, home made green tea ice cream and red bean

Simple Ice Cream Cone Recipe
I made this to complement with my home made ice cream. An ice cream cone machine is required for the cone making. I am not sure the outcome if you use oven to bake. This recipe will make a thick type of cone. You can shape it into a cone or shape it in a bowl when the cone is hot. It is best to use gloves when handling the cone directly as it can be very hot.

60gram sugar
60gram tepung gandum/wheat flour
2 egg
2 tablespoon corn oil

Mix all the ingredient together and pour into machine according to manufacturer instruction.

The cone is crispy and crunchy. I will make it again. I will also experiment by either putting more oil to water it down or add water or milk to see the difference in the future.

Avocado, Mango, Banana Fruit Juice

Avocado, Mango, Banana Fruit Juice

This is a great combo. And the main flavor is coming from the Avocado. I only started avocado recently and wasn't sure how to use or choose avocado. I once use unrip avocado and the skin is really hard to peel and unrip avocado tasted bitter.

How to - Avocado
Use avocado when they are ripe. Green colour skin is not ripe. Those ripe avocado are the brownish green colour type. It almost look "rotten" as the skin will be brownish with wrinkly skin.

Buying Avocado
If you want to buy avocado and use immediately, dont buy those bright/pretty green colour. Buy those that are brownish or brownish green and ugly. Press it and if it is a bit soft then it is good. If it is hard then means it is not ripe yet. Shake it and make sure there is no sound coming from the seed. If the seed come out, it means that avocado is over rip.

If you bought a green and unrip avocado, you can just leave it outside at room temperature till it turn brownish colour. Once the colour turn to your satisfaction, press it and if it is a bit soft then it is ready to eat. If you are not going to eat it immediately, store in the fridge as it will stop browning. Consume within days.

Recipe
A)
1 ripe Avocado
1 mango
1 banana

B) Low fat milk - eyeball to the consistency that you wanted

C)Ice cream - optional

Steps
Blend A finely. It will look like a thick paste, you may add the milk to the consistency that you wanted. You may add ice cream for the extra richness and flavor. If you want healthier option, then omit the ice cream.

Strawberry Passion Fruit Ice Cream Recipe

These days I have been engross with making Fruit Juice and making home made ice cream. It is interesting to combine certain combination of fruits to create interesting flavors.

I use Barmix mixer to blend all my fruits. I really love this mixer as it is easy to use and there is minimal cleaning. I like the outcome of it as it really blend well.

To give my strawberry ice cream the extra kick, I decide to add in a Passion Fruit.

Below are the steps. It is a super easy recipe. Almost like making fruit juice with addition of whip cream. The lime is usually use in fruit type of ice cream as it will maintain the "freshness" of the fruits. You will need an ice cream maker to churn the ice cream. If you do not have any passion fruit, you may omit it.

Strawberry Passion Fruit Ice Cream Recipe
A)
200g Strawberries - clean and hulled
1 orange - peel the skin and cut to smaller pcs
1 lime - squeeze it to get the juice
1 passion fruit
80g sugar - or to taste
225ml whole milk

B) Whipping cream - no need whip. just pour into mixture.

- Blend A) really well. Then add in B). Chill it preferably overnight or few hours in freezer before put into the ice cream maker.

Fluffly Pancake recipe

Just made this for the 1st time! It turn out so fluffly and beautiful. This recipe yield about 7 pcs of pancake in a 1/3 cup size.

A) Sieve
125g Flour
6g Baking powder
Pinch of salt

0.5g Baking soda

B)
35g Vegetable oil
175g Milk (or more if batter look dry)
1 Egg yolk

C) Beat hard peak
1 Egg white
10g Sugar

Direction
1. Put A and B together and mix well and lump free. (Much easier to use beater)
2. Fold C into AB mixture. (Use a big flat spatula or big spoon)
3. Scoop and cook in non stick pan. When you see buble on the pancake then turn the pancake.

Eat this with honey and a dollop of butter.

Seed of Love - Mother's Day and Father's Day Gift

 

Homemade granola cereal

Ingredient: honey, sunflower oil, rolled oat, almond, walnut, pumpkin seed, sunflower seed, flaxseed, wheat grain, brown sugar, salt, orange zest and orange juice.

May is a month of multiple celebration at my home. On top of being a mother's day, it is also my mum's and dad's birthday. I wanted to make something special for my precious parents who has treat me so well. While brainstorming, my requirement would have to be HEALTHY and homemade (hey, their daughter love to bake after all). Thus i thought of making a homemade cereal with full of healthy ingredients. With homemade cereal, i would be able to control the ingredient that I used and there will not be any added preservative. To make it extra special I wrote down the health benefit of all the ingredient to let them know how healthy they were and encourage them to eat it. And boy the research was an unexpected long list of health benefit. I was worried how i am going to fit in all the knowledge that i know. A last, i summarize as much as i can, break into 2 parts and paste at each bottle. Haha i know my writing is horrible, but I am sure my parents wont mind.

When i gave my mum this gift, being a typical loving mum, she say i should eat it too! I told her that you should eat it more, since I am very healthy thanks to all the home cook food that she + dad cook for me everyday. She just smiled.

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In a nutshell what i wrote on the bottle:
Health benefit
-Energy booster
-Boost immune system
-manufacture of new cells
-helps in relaxing the brain and promoting sleep
-regulate blood sugar level
-reduce bad cholesterol
-Good for brain
-regulate blood pressure
-Improved Bladder Function
-Depression Treatment
-detox the body
-keep the elasticity of veins and arteries, help to keep skin strong, elastic and beautiful,
-promote the production of healty bacteria in intestines


Disease
-Anti cancer and antioxidant
-prevent heart disease
 rheumatoid arthritis.
 asthma
 colon cancer
 muscle cramps
 Alzheimer
 Prostate
 Osteoporosis
 Kidney Stones
 stomach cancer
 breast cancer
 gallbladder disease
 anti breast cancer
 hemorrhoids
 hiatal hernia
 bone loss
-relief from constipation, respiratory disorders, cough, anemia, impotency, and diabetes.
-Natural Anti-Inflammatory - this makes it a serious source of relief for those who suffer from osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis
-Treatment of Parasites natural treatment for tapeworms and other parasites
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In my research, below is what i found out in the ingredient i used. This project not only benefit my parents, but I also learn new health information which also indirectly benefit me too. I research each of the ingredient and summarize the main points below for each of the ingredient.


1. Honey - energy booster, boost immune system and anti cancer

2. Sunflower oil - prevent heart diseases, provide energy, antioxidant, due to the presence of vitamin E in it. As an antioxidant, it neutralizes cancer causing free radicals. It has vitamin E which prevents rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and colon cancer. Folate or folic acid present in sunflower oil, helps the body in the manufacture of new cells. Magnesium helps in preventing muscle cramps, while tryptophan helps in relaxing the brain and promoting sleep by helping the body in the production of the neurotransmitter, serotonin.

3. Rolled oat
- help regulate blood sugar so that the individual is less likely to spikes in the body’s glucose level.
- reduce bad cholesterol
- excellent source of dietary fiber, iron, and thiamine,
- Rolled oats also have the advantage of possessing an antioxidant known as avenanthramides, which is very helpful in ridding the body of toxins that have built up over time.

4. Almond
-The health benefits of almonds include getting relief from constipation, respiratory disorders, cough, heart disorders, anemia, impotency, and diabetes. It also helps in hair care, skin care (psoriasis), and dental care.
- Good for brain, regulate cholesterol, good for heart, antioxidant, reduce risk of heart disease,regulate blood pressure, prevent cancer, protect again diabetes, prevent  constipation, boost energy, avoid Alzheimer

5.walnut
- Almost the same as almond

6. pumpkin seed
-Prostate Protection
They promote overall prostate health and alleviate the difficult urination associated with an enlarged prostate.

-Improved Bladder Function
In some studies, pumpkin seed extracts improved bladder function in animals.

-Depression Treatment
They contain L-tryptophan, a compound naturally effective against depression.

-Prevention of Osteoporosis
Because they are high in zinc, pumpkin seeds are a natural protector against osteoporosis. Low intake of zinc is linked to higher rates of osteoporosis.

-Natural Anti-Inflammatory
Pumpkin seeds effectively reduce inflammation without the side effects of anti-inflammatory drugs.

-Prevention of Kidney Stones
They prevent calcium oxalate kidney stone formation, according to studies.
Treatment of Parasites They are used in many cultures as a natural treatment for tapeworms and other parasites. Studies also show them to be effective against acute schistosomiasis, a parasite contracted from snails.

-Great Source of Magnesium
1/2 cup of pumpkin seeds contains 92% of your daily value of magnesium, a mineral in which most Americans are deficient.

-Lower Cholesterol
Pumpkin seeds contain phytosterols, compounds that that have been shown to reduce levels of LDL cholesterol.

-Cancer Prevention
The same phytosterols that lower cholesterol also protect against many cancers.

7. Sunflower seed
-rich in vitamin e (antioxidant - reduce risk of cancer, atherosclerosis, heart attack, and stroke. Vitamin E is also renowned for its anti-inflammatory properties, this makes it a serious source of relief for those who suffer from osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis)
- lower bad cholesterol
- relax muscle and nerve of the body
-detox the body
-boost immune system
-improve health of heart and brain
-alleviate depression
-help digestive system

8. Flaxseed - a superfood
-lower cholesterol/good for the heart
-prevent cancer

9. Wheat bran
-Wheat bran is used as a source of dietary fiber for preventing colon diseases (including cancer), stomach cancer, breast cancer, gallbladder disease, hemorrhoids and hiatal hernia. It is also used for treating constipation, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes.

How does it work?

Wheat bran helps constipation by speeding up the colon and increasing stool output and bowel frequency

10. Orange zest
-lower bad cholesterol lower fat found in blood and lower risk of heart attack, normalizing blood pressure, reduce bone loss, anti breast cancer, keep the elasticity of veins and arteries, help to keep skin strong, elastic and beautiful, control blood sugar and reduce the effect of blood sugar rising rapidly,lower bad cholesterol by helping to scrub cholesterol plaque from artery walls, act as natural appetite suppressant thus reduce the desire to overeat.promote the production of healthy bacteria in intestines

 My mother's day cake- Homemade Blueberry Cheesecake with Cream cheese icing

Beside making the cereal, i also made this mother's day cheesecake specially for mum!