Chicken Betutu Recipe

Chicken Betutu
Very spicy chicken and spices recipe! I love it!

Ingredient:
Pureed Ingredients: 
5 pc candle nuts
1 tsp. coriander seeds
1 tsp. terasi (shrimp paste)
1 tsp. tumeric powder
1/2 cup thai pepper

Rough grounded Ingredients:
4 pc shallot or 1 red onion
1 Tbs. grounded garlic
1 tsp. ginger powder
1 tsp. galanga powder
1 lemon grass
1 tsp tumeric powder
1/2 cup thai pepper

2 lbs Chicken
1 cup water

How to make:
1. Heat 1 Tbs vegetable oil in a big pot. Throw in both pureed ingredients and grounded ingredients. 
2. Cook until it smells good
3. put in water in pot. wait until it boils
4. put in chicken
5. medium fire. cook chicken non covered for 40 minutes. stir occasionally to prevent burning.

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Excalibur Food Dehydrator Review

I have gotten the Excalibur Food Dehydrator a while back because I wanted to make fruit roll ups for my kids! It turned out to be one of the best investment to healthy eating I've ever made! yep!! Not only I can make fruit roll ups, dry fruits, and veggies, I can make my own yogurt and dry my own Almond flour (After making almond milk, I used the leftover nuts and dry it to make almond meal!)

So! I am very happy with the dehydrator! I got the 5 tray dehydrator as picture below.

Photo source www.excaliburdehydrator.com

Guess what? they have new colors coming in! I just went to their website and there was red, blue, pink (OH MY!), orange and white! I wish I can buy another one in PINK!!!! but, I can't hehe! 

Anyways, I have done many drying with my excalibur. I've dried fruit, veggies, made fruit leather/roll ups, pork jerky, yogurt, and the last one I just did well it is in the dehydrator as I am writing right now is the almond flour. (I made almond pancake sometime last week and it was HEAVEN!)

so, if one star being the worst and five star being the best, I give SIX star to the excalibur dehydrator!

The pros:

• It makes square fruit roll ups, so it is easy for me to cut and roll long pieces (many dehydrator comes in round shape, well making fruit roll up can be bit tricky then)
• Timer and automatic turn off! I love it! I can just go to sleep at night and find my fruit roll up, yogurt or whatever it is I am drying is done! I can just leave the house if I have to grab something and not worry about it over drying.
• I actually love it's black color, it matches everything in my kitchen (even though the pink on is sooo cute!)
• Adjustable Temperature (I love this feature because I can dry meat in a higher temp than I would fruit roll ups)

The Cons:

• I don't like it's cover, it is easy to come off but maybe that's what they needed (I find my 2 year old very curious, so sometimes he opens it up! and I don't like disturbing my yogurt in the making, changing the temperature when it is opened)
• I had to buy the sheet to make fruit roll ups, it doesn't come with the product. I would love to not spend extra $60 just for the sheets.

So there is my pros and cons about Excalibur Food Dehydrator! I love it and I think he price is worth it! Happy Drying!

Homemade Goldfish Crackers -- Recipe

My daughter loves goldfish crackers! A few nights ago I said, "why not make them?". So I decided, well I should make them with my Cheese Cookies Recipe (Cheese Kaastengels) and modify it. I tried making it once two nights ago but I messed up by making the goldfish too thick =(. Yes, the kids loved it and finished them all but it wasn't goldfish, it is more like cheese cookies. So, last night I did it one more time...and as I was getting them out of the oven and putting them in the box, my kids ate them so instead of getting two boxes of goldfish I ended up with only one but here it is...

Oh! I love how it turned out! The secret though, the thinner your goldfish are, the crispier they are.
I made mine with half wheat flour and half regular all purpose flour, so it's not 100% the healthiest goldfish but! at least it is half wheat haha! Are you ready? Drum rolls please.....

What you need:
1 Cup Flour
1 Egg White
12 Oz Cheddar Cheese / Parmesan Cheese whichever you like better
1/2 tsp Salt
3 Tbs Butter

How to make:
1. Pulse all ingredients in a food processor until they are all well mixed
2. Get all the dough out of the food processor and knead it until you can form a ball
3. Place dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes
4. Roll your dough as thin as possible and cut them up with little goldfish cookie cutter
5. Bake your goldfish at 350 degrees for 12 - 15 minutes depending how thin your goldfish are

I used my pasta roller to roll my dough because I want them to be really thin. You can use rolling pin for yours.

Oh, if you're interested, here is a link to my daughter's video tutorial of making cheese cookies
Cheese Cookies

Where do I get the cookie cutter? I got them from Kracie a Japanese DIY candy kit. You can search it on amazon "Kracie Gummy" you should be able to find it. I am not quite sure which one has the fish cutter in it but the one I liked is the one I got last time, I think the animal cutter is given randomly but good luck!!!

Chia Seeds Pudding Recipes

1. Chocolate Chia Seed Superfood Pudding by tasty-yummies.com

Chocolate Chia Seed Superfood Pudding -- Gluten-free and Vegan 

by tasty-yummies.com

I made mine with 2% cow milk and less chia seeds in my pudding but it turned out nice! 

here's mine....

2. Mango Chia Seeds Pudding by Ashleyneese.com

Mango Chia Seeds Pudding

by Ashleyneese.com

Gosh, I will try this recipe really soon! I love mango!! and look at it! it looks so heavenly!

3. Coconut Chia Seeds Pudding by popsugar.com

Coconut Chia Seeds Pudding by popsugar.com

Steamed Cupcake Recipe

No school today! yep! no school!!! Last night was scary though, we had so many tree limbs falling hitting cars, houses, etc. We didn't have power last night! Cold night! Anyway, because of my paranoid personality, I couldn't sleep last night so I did not feel too well but! I managed to make these easy steamed cupcakes! it is the healthier alternative of cupcakes.

Yummy! Growing up, I remember my mom always bought these from the small bakery in our neighborhood or she would buy it from those mobile bakery (yep, they were in bikes, cars, push cart, anything mobile you name it). I think making steamed cake is much easier than the traditional cake. Less ingredients too! so, here is what you need...

What you need:

2 Large Eggs

225 gr. Granulated Sugar

250 gr. All Purpose Flour

200 ml soda water (I used sprite, it gives the cupcake the sprite flavor)

Cocoa Powder or Food Coloring (I used food coloring this time)

How to make:

1. Using a mixer (high), mix ingredients together about 10 minutes. The batter should be white when it is done. 

2. Heat up your steamer. I recommend using the traditional steamer on your stove. The electric steamer is not as hot as regular old steamer. 

3. Steam for at least 15 minutes. Do not try to check on your cake until the 15 minutes is up. If you do, you will not get the nice flower kind of shape on top =D. 

good luck! I hope you love my recipe!!!

Yogurt Loaf Recipe

 

Who knew you can make bread with only 3 ingredients? I think yogurt loaf is healthier than regular loafs out there because of its ingredients. It doesn't have butter, sugar, nor does it have preservatives. Okay so here is the loaf I made, I made mine pink because it is Valentine's week!! hehe.

What you need:

3 Cups Self-Rising Flour

1 Cup Plain Yogurt

1 Large Egg (If you do not want to use eggs, you can just substitute it for another cup of plain yogurt)

How to make:

Pre-heat your oven at 350 Fahrenheit. 

Mix all your ingredients together until it forms a dough.

Place your dough in your choice of pan.

Bake for 45 minutes. 

Voila! Easy right? It took me 10 minutes to prep it all together. You can serve it with nutella, sugar, butter, sausage, anything really!!

My daughter LOVES it! My Son Oz, he loves it so much! You can see his face there when I took his picture.

okay, so here are some example of what I did with the loaf for Tasha's school lunch.

Yogurt nutella sandwich, xoxo cheese, carrot hearts, conversation hearts, strawberry heart, strawberry banana yogurt smoothie.