Cabbage & Bacon Okonomiyaki

Ingredients: (Make 2 okonomiyaki)
For the batter
100g flour
60g Chinese yam, grated (I used 120g)
160cc milk (I used 180cc)
1/2 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt

Cabbage, shreded (u may put in additional vegetables like chives, spring onions and even kimchi)
6 pieces bacons
2 eggs

For the batter:

1. In a big bowl, pour in milk, mix in flour, baking powder and pinch of salt, mix til combine
2. Add in grated Chinese yam, mix til even
3. Rest for 30 minutes

For the okonomiyaki:

1. Lightly fry 3 pieces of bacons in a non stick pan
2. Meanwhile, mix 1/2 portion of vegetable, an egg and 1/2 portion of batter into a big bowl, mix well
3. Flip the bacons, then pour the vegetable mixture onto the half cooked bacons
4. Cook for about 3 minutes, carefully flip over the cake, continue cooking for another 3 minutes
5. Place cooked okonomiyaki on plate, drizzle with okonomiyaki sauce, mayo and sprinkle lots and lots of katsuobushi (bonito flakes) and aonori (nori flakes), serve.

Okonomiyaki Bento (190)

Cooked a real okonomiyaki this morning, with Chinese yam (aka huai shan, shan yao or nagaimo in Japanese).  I got the recipe from a manga which I don remember which, but I'll post it up later at the next posting.  Took about 15 minutes for the preparation, 1/2 hour for resting the batter, 15 minutes for cooking and 3 minutes to pack, a long process :p

Okonomiyaki, cucumber cubes and grass jelly cubes

Note of the day

Radish Cake & Sweet Potato Bento (189)

Bought 3 pieces of the radish cakes from SS3 nite market yesterday, I had 1 for breakfast, 1 for lunch and the remaining was put into the bento box for little girl.

Used about 10 minutes to pack the bento, time was used mainly on molding those sweet potatoes :p

6 pieces of cubed radish cakes, 6 pieces of sliced cucumbers, a few grape tomatoes, some rabbit & flower shaped sweet potatoes and a container of ketcup

Note of the day

Fried Potato with Onion & Bacon Bento (188)

Simply fried this potato cubes with diced onion and bacon, then sprinkled with cheese powder and dried parsley flakes. Used about 15 minutes for preparation and cooking, then additional 5 for the packing.

Contains of bento: fried potato with onion & bacon, fish steak (leftover from dinner last nite), grass jelly (bottom of pink cup), mango and a container of ketchup & mayo.

While having dinner...

LG: Mummy, why u don put in note for me now?

Me: I was lazy... Ok, I'll put in one for u 2moro, can I write a short note?

LG: No, I want it very long, like last time, ok, mummy?

Me: Ok, ok...

Meat Balls & Green Peas Pasta (187)

The pasta was cooked with Prego's Cheese & Herbs sauce, some leftover meat balls and baby green peas. Used about 15 minutes for the cooking and 5 minute to pack the bento.

Contains in bento, from left: meat balls & green peas pasta, 2 cheese cocktails, some cubed grass jelly, grapes and grape tomatoes.

Quadruple Chocolate Muffin

By adding a Kisses (dark chocolate) into the same batter from previous posting (the Triple Chocolate Muffin), I produced this lovely and most sinful Quadruple Chocolate Muffins.

These babies may look similar to the Triple Chocolate Muffins but each of them carrying a deadly bomb that will surely weak your knees

Little girl has declared this as the best muffin in the world!

Triple Chocolate Muffin

Warning, warning, warning..... Beware: this posting contains lots of chocolate & fat which may cause fattening! Read at your risk.

Little girl complained that I kept trying new muffins/cakes instead of baking her favorite chocolate chips muffins, therefore I promised to bake her a batch, not only chocolate chips but triple chocolate!

Actually, I googled and found the recipe here, however, I altered it so much that I am claiming it my own recipe now, hehehe.... hope the original recipe holder don mind :p

Ingredients

1 3/4 cup flour

3/4 cup chocolate chips

3/4 cup white chocolate chips

1/3 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup milo

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 egg

1 cup butter milk

? cup melt butter (I forgot to measure this, I think it was around 3/4 to 1 cup)

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp salt

1. Preheat oven to 190C
2. Mix chocolate chips with white chocolate chips, reserve 1/3 cup for later use
3. Sift flour, baking powder and baking soda
4. Mix in brown sugar, salt, milo and chocolate chips
5. In another bowl, beat egg, vanilla, butter milk and melt butter until well combine
6. Pour wet mixture into dry ingredients, fold lightly til just combine, do not over mix
7. Spoon batter into muffin cups til 3/4 full, sprinkle remaining chocolate chips (from the reserve 1/3 cup) on to each muffins
8. Bake for 20 minutes.

The silly me forgot to measure the melt butter, I just pour it directly into the egg mixture, then only I realized, but everything was too late, I had to proceed as I don wanna waste the ingredients. Sigh... these may surely causing a few extra inches or grams, I am definitely not jumping onto the scale for the next 1 week, that will save me from a foresee heart attack :p

I tell u, this baby is very moist, rich, chocolaty, oily, messy and sinful! Have it with a cup of warm milo, that will surely be a taste of heaven (or hell since it is sinful lol).

Ham Rosti Bento (186)

Took about 1/2 an hour to prepare this ham rosti, little girl had a piece for lunch and I put the remaining 2 pieces into the bento box.

2 pieces of ham rosti, some cucumber slices, each container contains mayo & ketchup

Note of the day

Halve Flowers Maki Bento (185)

Asked little girl yesterday, what will she like for bento: fried rice, sushi or veggie rice, she chose sushi and specifically mentioned the cucumber sushi. She also asked whether she may share with her friends, since sushi is so easy to make, I let her have a bigger bento to share with her fellow friends.

I was slow this morning, doing everything in slow motion, thus took me 45 minutes to complete the entire bento :p

Cucumber & furakake maki and corn sausage (bro bought from China) to form into 2 halve flowers. More cucumber sticks, corn sausage, a container of mayo and a tube of soy sauce squeeze into the remaining space

Grapes, yellow and red grape tomatoes

Note of the day

While little girl was having her lunch just now...

Me: Girl, do u like rice?

LG: * shaking her head * (mouth busy munching and she was reading her favorite "Weird Wildlife Sea Creatures" book)

Me: Then, do u like sushi?

LG: * nodding her head *

Hahaha.... funny girl, don like rice but adore sushi, aren't they the same?

Traffic Lights Bento (184)

This is another mix of leftover & speedy bento, just reheat the wantons (the last 2 after about 1 week) and fried chicken drummette (little girl had it leftover from dinner) in the toaster oven, meanwhile skewered the red, yellow grape tomatoes and cucumber into animal skewers. All ready in the box in about 10 minutes (plus heating time).

Do u notice the skewers of red, yellow grape tomatoes and the cucumber resemble the colors of traffic light, I didn't realize until little girl pointed it out to me, what a coincident :)

Were in a rush this afternoon, took only 1 pic and didn't write any note for little girl :p