Last week I went to my friend's potluck. I tried Frittata made by Wieke Sutrisno, it's my first time tasting and OMG .. it's so yummy. I managed to get the recipe from Wieke, Thank you for Wieke, you are the best ^^. Frittata is an Italian omelet that frequently features fillings such as meats, cheeses, and vegetables.

Ingredients:

• Ham/ Bacon/ Imitation crab/ Italian Sausage
• 8 Eggs
• 1/3 cups Parmesan Cheese
• 1/2 cups Milk
• Cilantro
• Salt and pepper

How To Prepare:

1. Mix eggs, Parmesan cheese, milk, cilantro (quantity depends on preference) and small slice of hams (or other meats). For the meat, you can add as many as you want.. but not too many else the taste of egg will gone.
   
2. prepare muffin pan sprayed with cooking oil, pour the mix on it.
3. Heat oven 370F and bake for 8-12 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center come out dry and clean.

Inspired by May House (Chinese cuisine in Ames IOWA) and Szechuan cuisine. I came up with pork dishes called Sa Cha pork with string bean.

the name Sa Cha is came from a sauce called Sa cha sauce or Barbecue sauce or paste made from soybean oil, shallots, chili, brill fish, and dried shrimp.






Ingredients:
300 gr Sliced Pork
100 gr string beans
1 1/2 tbs minced garlic
1 tbs cooking wine (rice wine)
1 tbs soy sauce
1 tbs Sa cha sauce/ Barbecue sauce
salt and pepper

How To:
Marinade pork with soy sauce.
Heat up vegetable oil and stir fry minced garlic until browned than add marinated pork stir fry until 1/2 done. Add Sa cha sauce, cooking wine and string bean then cook it until done. add salt and pepper, mix it well.

Cheesecake is a sweet, often cheese based dessert. My first cheesecake, since there's only chocolate on my fridge, I manage to bake chocolate cheesecake with melted and shredded chocolate added on top as decoration.

Ingredients:
Crusts: (ready made crust is available too)
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs / chocolate wafers/ Oreo
1/4 cup sugar
5 tbs melted butter

Filling:
2 blocks Cream Cheese (8oz / block)
3/4 cups sugar
3 tbs melted butter
2 eggs
Possible flavor: coffee, Kahlua, chocolate, Oreo, etc

How to prepare:
Mix the graham crackers and sugar, then add butter and mix with a fork until completely moistened. Press mixture into the bottom and up 1/3rd of the side of a 9-inch springform pan.
Refrigerate for 1 hour.
On a bowl, mix cream cheese, sugar, melted butter, eggs together. add desired flavoring then mix it well. pour on top of the crust.
bake with 350-375 F for 40 minutes.

There's not much about cooking or baking on this post, basically it's just an idea for desserts. First one is Roselle Tea which I just boil Roselle flower then add some sugar. Next is Strawberry Ice cream tart, which I use the left over crust from egg tart and put ice cream and strawberry on the top.

Ingredients:
Dried Roselle flower
rock candy

How To:
Boil water together with the Roselle flower for about 45 mins until the red color from the Roselle extracted. add some rock candy sugar to make it sweet. Serve it cold.



Ingredients:
for the crust same as egg tart.
200 gr flour
125 gr margarine
1/2 tbs sugar
1 egg yolk
Ice cream
strawberries

How to prepare:
Put all ingredients for the crust together and mix well with your hand. The texture should be slightly moist. Add more butter if it is too dry, or more flour, if the dough seems greasy. Shape dough into 1 1/2 inch balls, and press the balls into tart molds so that it covers the bottom, and goes up higher than the sides. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit, bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown. Let it cool down, put a scoop of ice cream and strawberry on top.

Pineapple fried rice is one of Thai cuisine. This dish is much less oily than Chinese fried rice, easy to prepare and cook. One of the way the dish differs from Chinese fried rice is that it is prepared with Thai Jasmine rice.

Ingredients:
3 cups cooked rice (preferably 1 day old)
1 cup diced Beef/ pork/ chicken/ salmon, etc
1 small can pineapple chunk
2 eggs
2-3 tbs peanut or vegetable oil
1-2 tbs chicken stock
2 shallot chopped finely
3 cloves minced garlic
1/2 onion
1/2 cup frozen peas
1 small carrot (opt)
2 tbs fish oil
2 tbs curry powder
sugar, salt and pepper

How to prepare:

1. In a cup, stir fish oil and curry powder.
   
2. heat up oil, add shallot and garlic then stir fry until fragrant.
   
3. crack eggs and stir around (like making scramble egg).
4. add carrot, peas, and the fish sauce mixed with curry powder.
5. add rice, pineapple chunks and gently stir fry to combine over medium high heat.
6. add onion when the dish almost done, so that u will get the crispiness of the onion.
   
7. add salt and pepper, chicken stock and adjust the taste. add little sugar to make it sweet.
   
8. serve on the plate, top with spring onion and coriander, Yum yum :)
   

My first update this year, Asian home style 2008 dish called BokChoi sukiyaki :p

Ingredients:
2 tbs vegetable oil
1/4 tsp sesame oil
2 cloves minced garlic
150 gram beef (thin sliced)
200 gram bok choi (Chinese vegetable)
1 tbs oyster sauce
1 tbs sukiyaki soy sauce (or Japanese soy sauce)
1/2 tsp salt
100 ml water
1/2 tsp corn/ tapioca starch

How to prepare:

1. Heat up vegetable oil and sesame oil.
2. Brown the garlic, add beef that already marinated with soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt, starch, pepper. Cook it until done add a little water and continue cook for awhile (it will thicken a little bit from the starch).
   
3. Boil water, put vegetable for a minute.
4. Put cooked vegetable on the plate and pour the meat on the top. Dinner is ready... ^^ serve while it warm.