Happy Valentine's Day!

This is what I cooked on Valentine's day:)

Roast chicken ingredients
2 boneless breast
1 tbsp of honey
salt and pepper
few dashes of teriyaki sauce
1 tsp corn flour

1) Marinate the chicken breast will all the above ingredients and set aside for at least an hour.
2) Pre-heat over to 400 degree F. Line the baking pan with aluminium foil (for easy cleaning) and oil the base with some olive oil.
3) Roast the chicken breast for 45 minutes to an hour or until it is done.

Creamy Potato salad

1 1/2 pounds yellow-fleshed potatoes, scrubbed

1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved

2 tablespoons salted capers, well rinsed and drained

1/4 cup olive oil

1 (3.75 ounce) can sardines in olive oil

1/3 cup chopped flat-leaf

1 teaspoon dried oregano

1 boiled egg

Put the potatoes in a pot, cover with cold water by at least an inch, add a good pinch of salt, and bring to a boil. Cover partway, reduce the heat to medium, and cook until the potatoes are tender. Drain on a rack set in the sink and leave them there until cool enough to handle.Peel the potatoes and cut them into 1/3-inch cubes. Drop them into a mixing bowl, separating the cubes as you go. Add the tomatoes, onion, olives, capers and parsley. Toss gently. Crumble the oregano over the top, pour in the oil, and toss gently.

Transfer the salad to a large serving dish. Drain the sardines and blot them with paper towels, add boiled egg then arrange them over the salad. Let this sit for 30 minutes, and serve it at room temperature.

* can replace the olive oil with heinz salad cream hence it looks like this:

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Ingredients:

175g plain flour

150g rolled oats

1 tsp ground ginger

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

125g soft light brown sugar

50g raisins

1 medium egg lightly beaten

150ml vegetable oil

4 tsp milk

Preheat the overn to 200C before baking. Lightly oil a baking sheet.

Mix together the flour, oats, ground ginger, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, sugar and raisins in a large bowl. In another bowl, mix the egg, oil and milk together. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and pour the egg mixture. Mix the mixture together well with either a fork or wooden spoon to make a soft but not sticky dough. Place spoonfuls of the dough well apart on the oiled baking sheet and flatten the tops down slightly with the tines of the fork. Transfer the biscuits to the preheated oven and bake for 10-12 mins until golden.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients
140g butter
50g caster sugar
60g dark brown sugar
1 medium egg beaten
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
125g plain floor
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
150g plain milk chocolate chips

Preheat Oven to 180C 10mins before baking. Lightly butter the large baking sheet with 15g of the butter. Place the remaining butter and sugarin a food processor and blend until smooth. Add the egg and vanilla essence and blend briefly. If using a food processorm scrape out the mixture with a spatula and place the mixture into a large bowl. Sift the floor and bicarbonate of soda together, then fold into the creamed mixture. When the mixture is blended thoroughly, stir in the chocolate chips. Drop heaped teaspoons of the mixture onto the prepared baking sheets, spaced well apart, and bake the cookies in the preheated oven for 10-12mins until lightly golden.

White Chocolate walnut Cookies

Ingredients
140g butter
40g caster sugar
60g soft dark brown sugar
1 medium egg
125g plain flour
12 tsp bicarbonate of soda
few drops of vanilla essence
150g white chocolate
50g whole hazelnuts shelled

Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly butter several baking sheets with 15g butter. Place the remaining butter with both sugars with a wooden spoon or an electric mixer until soft and fluffy.
Beat the egg then gradually beat into the creamed mixture. Sift the flour and the bicarbonate of soda together, then carefully fold into the creamed mixture with a few drops of vanilla essence. Roughly chop the chocolate and hazelnuts into small pieces add to the bowl and gently stir into the mixture. Mix together lightly to blend. Spoon heaped teaspoons of the mixture onto the prepared baking sheets, bake the cookies for 10mins or until golden, remove from the oven and leave to cool for 1 min.

Chocolate cake

5 nos – eggs (whole eggs)
2 nos – egg yolk
170gm – sugar
115gm – soft flour
60gm – cocoa powder
20gm – corn flour
15gm – ovallette
30gm – melted unsalted butter

Ingredients for chocolate ganache:
250gm – dark chocolate covertures
250gm – president cream

Ingredient for filling;
250gm – apricot gel firm

Method:

Beat in eggs, egg yolk, sugar, soft flour, ovalette until creamy and fluffy
Then add in sieved cocoa powder
Lastly add in melted unsalted butter
Pour in a tin round mould (9 inch)
Bake at 180C temperature, 20-25 mins.
To make a ganache, place the president cream in small pot and boil it. Then add in the dark covertures, stir until well combines, set aside to cool
Cut 3 parts of the round sponge. Layered with apricot gel firm. Coat the cake with the chocolate ganache with spatula, refrigerate, cut to desired slice and served.

Yummy Egg tarts

Pastry
100g Sugar
1 Egg
175g Butter
350g Plain flour

Custard 3 Eggs
200ml Golden syrup
200ml Fresh Milk
200ml Water
2tsp Honey

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius
2. Pastry: Place sugar, egg and butter in mixer and beat until sugar is just dissolved. Add sifted plain flour and mix until dough holds together. press dough evenly to egg tarts mould. Bake at 180 degree Celsius for 8 mins, then remove and let cool.
3. Golden Syrup: Dissolve 140g sugar in 120ml water and bring to boil. Add 2 slices of lemon and let cool.
4. Custard: lightly beat eggs and egg yolks. Combine egg mixture with golden syrup, water, milk and honey. Mix well and strain. Pour into half baked pastry shells and bake at 170 degree Celsius until custard is set. To avoid burring custard, release some heat by briefly opening oven door halfway during baking. Keep egg tarts overnight in fridge will taste even better.