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Yesterday, my friend Lely sent me the pictures we took when she came over to my apt. On that day, I made low fat chocolate chip muffin. FYI, Lely loves chocolate. That’s one of my reasons to make chocolate chip muffin. Honestly, I do not really like muffin. It’s too big and so many calories in 1 muffin. But I had a craving for muffin on that day. So, I search the recipe that is low fat and healthy ingredients. After some adjustments, I made one. It’s so good. I gave some muffins to Lely. And she shared this to her friends. When I heard that, I was so embarrassed. I am not a pro at cooking yet! Nothing can be thrilled about yet. It turned out that her friends loved my muffins. They said it was not too sweet yet so tempting. I can’t stop eating it myself. Once you try, one is not enough. Then you want to take another one and another one J By the way, I bought the 24 pieces mini muffin tin. I like it that way. Regular size is too big for me. Mini is nice. It reminds me with a brownie bite. It looks like that. So, here’s the recipe!
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffin
(For 24 for mini servings)
Ingredients:
¾ cup all purpose flour 1 egg
1 ¾ cup quick cooking oats 4 tsp baking powder
1 ¼ cup skim milk 3 tbsp coffee (dissolved with 2 tbsp warm water)
¾ cup brown sugar 1 tsp vanilla
¾ cup semisweet chocolate chips 1 tsp salt
6 tbsp apple sauce 2 tbsp vegetable oil
Directions:
1. Combine oats and milk and allow to stand for 15 minutes
2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease each cup of one 24-cup muffin tin
3. Stir egg, oil, apple sauce, brown sugar, and semi sweet chocolate chips in different bowl. Add oaks and milk mixtures, and then stir until it blend together.
4. Combine flour, baking powder, vanilla and salt in one big bowl. Then add the oak mixture into the flour. Stir until just moist.
5. Fill each cup 2/3 full. Bake for 15-20 minutes (12-muffin tin takes 5 minutes longer to bake).
Today my older sister didn't have dinner at home. At first, I think to have elbow macaroni as dinner. But without my sister and her BF for dinner, it means it's only me and my youngest sister. Somehow, I have a taste of Omurice (Omelet Rice). Honestly I never try this but as I saw the picture on the recipe, it looks so good.
At first, I'm kind of questioning the ingredients. It's too simple. But it turns out really good. I can eat a lot of this. If I have kids, I will definitely prepare this for their lunch box. It's so fun yet so delicious. Love it and definitely I will make this often.
Omurice (Omelet Rice)
(for 2 servings)
Ingredients:
1/2 carrot, diced
1/2 onion, diced
1/2 red/green/yellow bell pepper, diced
80 gram smoked ham, diced
100 gram crab stick, diced
3 tbsp tomato sauce
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
4 eggs
2 cups steamed rice
1 tsp extra virgin oil (EVO)
Directions:
1. In a bowl, mix tomato sauce with Worcestershire sauce
2. Preheat the saucepan and add EVO
3. Add all diced ingredients and saute for 2 minutes. Then reduce the heat to half
4. Add the rice and mixed sauce. Stir it for another minute.
5. Turn off the heat.
6. Beat 2 eggs in a bowl and add a pinch of salt
7. Heat a frying pan and add some oil. Pour egg in the frying pan. Then spread the egg and make it thin round omelet
8. Repeat the step for another 2 eggs.
9. Place the omelet into a small deep bowl.
10. Then add the rice into the bowl. then wrap it with the rest of the omelet.
11. Place a plate on the top of the bowl and turn it upside down then remove the bowl.
12. Make a cross cut on the middle of omelet and add some tomato sauce on the top of it
After my chocolate chip muffins are gone, I don’t what we have for dessert. I need to have something sweet after dinner. As I was wondering what would I made, I noticed I have plenty bread I haven’t used. So, I decided to make easy bread pudding. I love bread pudding. Last bread pudding I made was too eggy. So, this time I will use less egg than before.
Bread Pudding
(for 12 servings)
Ingredients:
6 slices bread (white or wheat)
2 tbs butter, melted
3 eggs, beaten
2 cups milk
¾ cup sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla powder
Directions:
1. Break bread into small pieces into an 8 inch square baking pan
2. In the small saucepan, mix milk, butter, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla powder together with low heat until the sugar is dissolved (no need to wait until boiling)
3. Turn off the heat then add beaten eggs into the mix. Keep stirring
4. Add bread to the mix then stir.
5. Preheat oven to 350 degree F . Spray the baking sheet with butter/margarine
6. Pour out the mix into the baking sheet and into the oven for 30-45 minutes (until the top springs back when lightly tapped)
7. Serve it either cold or warm (I love it warm though!). Serve it also with vanilla ice cream (or anything you want) at the top of the pudding.
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Finally Monday is coming. I've planned to try a new recipe for dinner. This time is Lemon Garlic Tilapia with Home made Mashed Potato. Sounds fancy, right? It does! Even though this is my first trial, it turns out really good. My sisters really likes this. So, you may want to try this too :)
FYI...I really like tasty food. So, definitely I love garlic. So, if you do not like garlicky, just reduce the amount as you like.
Lemon Garlic Tilapia
(for 4 servings)
Ingredients:
4 Tilapia fillets
2 tbspoons lemon juice
3 tbspoons extra virgin oil/butter (melted)
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
salt and pepper as needed
2-3 tbspoons bread crumbs (as needed)
Directions:
1. Spray a baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.
2. Rinse Tilapia under cool water, pat dry with paper towels, then put it into the baking dish
3. Lightly rub salt and pepper into the fish and put it aside for 1 hour
4. In a saucepan, put EVO and garlic. Saute it until it becomes gold and smells good. Then, add lemon and parsley. Finally, put aside so it cools down.
5. Pour the sauteed sauce on the top of Tilapia. Then, marinate it few hours (the more you marinate it, the better it tastes. I marinate it overnight).
6. Preheat oven to 375 degree F. Then, bake it for 10 minutes.
7. Open the oven, sprinkle bread crumbs on the top on the fish and bake it for another 5 mins.
8. Serve this with Mashed potato and some veggies.
Home Made Mashed Potato
(for 6 servings)
Ingredients:
8 medium potatoes (red or white)
8 cloves garlic, peeled
4 tbspoons butter
1/2 cup fat-free milk, warmed
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup grated Parmesan Cheese
flaked herbs: Oregano, Parsley, thyme as needed
Directions:
1. Place potatoes and garlic in a large saucepan; cover with water. bring to a boil. Reduce the heat. Then cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
2. Drain the potatoes; peel (depends on type of potatoes) and mash.
3. Blend the garlic after the boiling the potatoes.
4. In the small saucepan, saute butter and garlic.
5. Put milk, sauteed butter and garlic, salt + pepper and Parmesan cheese into the mashed potatoes then stir.
6. Add flaked herbs as much as you like.
Last week, I felt so confused. I was thinking to buy a new camera. I had one before...ehm..not exactly mine actually. I got it from my sis. To be exact, my sister did not literally give it to me. It's for my whole family. But somehow, I am the one who takes care of it.
But, honestly speaking, I do not like my old camera. The picture is not bright and most importantly the battery is suck! It keeps giving me low battery sign even though I just charge it (Recently I just find out the life of battery for canon is only few years -- I had this camera since long time ago). Probably I could just buy a new battery. But I already do not like my camera. So, I decide to learn the detail of it by buying new camera.
Even though I felt clueless at the beginning, I began to learn how to choose the right camera. Thanks to Google, it gives me a lot of links to know about different kind of camera. I found this very interesting :) I think we should be thankful living in the country where internet connection is so fast. In my home country, Indonesia, internet connection is still slow.
Go back to my story. Finally I decide to choose Canon. Even though Canon's battery is not really good, but overall Canon is the best camera compared to others. Then, I narrow down my choices to Canon IXUS 850 IS or SD1000. In term of quality, I like SD850 better. It has image stabilizer and also better shape. SD850 IS also receives Gold from Readers’ Choice Award. The rating is 8.00/10.00. But the price is kind of expensive. The cheapest I got is $240 before tax plus shipping.
Canon SD 1000 is not bad either. Based on rating, this camera gets 7.8/10.00. Not far different than Canon IXUS 850. And the price is economical. After do a lot of thinking, finally I decided to buy Canon SD1000. Based on quality, the features are not much different than 850. Maybe it doesn’t have IS (Image Stabilizer) but it has face detector to help you to capture a picture. I think the price difference is not worth it for the rating difference. Overall, this is a good camera. It has 7.1 mega pixels; 3.00x zoom; face detector; and it’s also cheap!
Finally I bought my Canon SD 1000 around $176 in total last Friday. I am so happy. I can’t wait to use my new camera. Hurray!
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