Silver Needle Noodles (老鼠粉/銀針粉/米苔目)

After church, we went to our favourite HK style cafe for lunch. Mom ordered a stir fry silver needle noodles, she gave me a small bowl to tried. As I was eating the noodle, I know what we're going to have for dinner *hehe*

Tonight dinner is one of my favourite comfort food - homemade lao shu fen (Silver Needle Noodles).

Recipe adapted from ShoonYin Home Cooking 

Ingredients:

2 cups rice flour
1/4 cup tapioca flour
1/4 cup Potato starch
200 ml boiling water
175 ml water (room temperature)
2 tbsp oil

You will need a potato ricer:

Steps:

1. Mix rice flour, tapioca flour and potato starch together into a big bowl.
2. Add in boiling water. Mix well. Keep on stirring till it becomes a paste.
3. Add in normal water to cool down the paste.
4. Add in oil and knead to a smooth paste.

5. Boil water in a pot. Place a grater or an improvised coconut strainer or potato ricer as above picture on top.
6. Pour the rice paste on to the strainer and press . When the paste falls through the holes, it becomes rice noodles. 
7. Scope up immediately when the rice noodles float. Set aside to cool.

Happy Cooking!

let's jump for... mango ice cream!

My bb loves everything mango...from mango juice to mango pudding to mango cake and of cos mango ice cream!

The other day at the pool, instructor Derek was playing games with them, jump-in-the-water-when-you-hear-your favourite ice cream. Chocolate ice cream, everyone jumped except my bb. Vanilla ice cream, all the kids jumped but my bb. Strawberry ice cream, he is still not in the water. I whispered to the instructor, you gotta do mango ice cream...

M-A-N-G-O ice-cream, S.P.L.A.S.H!

This recipe is adapted from Michelle

Ingredients:

50g Sugar
400g Mango puree
90g Coffee mate
1 can of Evaporated milk


Steps:

1. Combine all the ingredients in a big bowl. Mix well.

2. Cover the bowl with cling wrap, freeze for 5 hours.

3. Remove from freezer, whisk the mixture until fluffy and double in size.

4. Pour the mixture in a container, keep it in the freezer overnight.

Enjoy!

summerlicious - chocolate ice cream make easy!

No ice cream maker, don't worry, I don't have one either. If you google, you will find many no machine needed ice cream recipes. I have been making ice cream without ice cream maker, every time it turned out very good - creamy and smooth, no one can tell the different :-> You would be surprise how easy it is to DIY ice cream. I love making my own ice cream, homemade ice cream is absolutely preservative and addictive free.

I saw this recipe from Carol. Recipe calls for very few ingredients - I love recipe make simple. You probably have all the ingredients sitting in your refrigerator right now. Let's give it a try before summer is over!

Enjoy!

Ingredients :
a.

150g whipping cream

15g caster sugar

b.

120g milk

30g caster sugar

7g corn starch

10g unsweetened cocoa powder


Steps:

1. Beat ingredient (a) until soft peaks form. Keep in refrigerator.
2. Combine milk, corn starch, sugar and sifted cocoa powder in a bowl.
3. Sit the bowl in hot water, whisk until the mixture become thicken. Set aside to cool.

4. When the chocolate mixture cool down, gently whisk again.

5. Combine the chilled cream with the chocolate mixture.

6. Keep in the freezer for at least 4 hours or overnight.