Potato in Cheese Sauce

Another easy and fuss free meal that I whip up after a late night in the office.

Potato in Cheese Sauce 

Ingredients

1 clove of garlic 

1 potato (steamed and sliced)

1/2 cup fresh milk 

1 tbsp cheddar cheese 

1/2 tsp corn flour (for thickening)

1/4 tsp Basil leaves 

Pinch of black pepper 

Olive oil

Method 

Heat olive oil in a pan and add in garlic. Once it starts to fragrance, add in milk and potato and let it simmer for a while.

Add in cheddar , basil and pepper to taste and mix well.  If the sauce is too watery, stir in corn flour to thicken it.

Once the potato slices are well coated, serve warm.

Steam Banana Cake

Thanks to one of the mummies on my facebook group who shared this simple recipe. I reduced the sugar as I decided to use more bananas since I am trying to avoid sugar as much as possible.

Result was a simple delicious breakfast for the family. 

Steamed Banana Cake

Ingredients (makes 8 small cupcakes)

2 eggs

30g sugar 

3 bananas (about 250g)

150g self raising flour 

70g oil (I used canola)

1/8 tsp baking powder

1/4 Cinnamon powder

Method 

Sift flour, baking powder and cinnamon powder and set aside.

Whisk sugar and eggs, add in the mashed banana and mix well.

Gently fold in the dry ingredients and oil until it is well incorporated.  Do not overmix as that will cause the cake to collapse when steaming.

Pour batter into cups and steam for 12-15min at high heat Or until inserted skewers comes clean.

Cod fish cake

Baby's dinner of Cod Fish Cakes with broccoli. The texture is soft and the yam made it more creamy. The black pepper was a new introduction and I am glad that she accepted it.

Cod Fish Cakes

Ingredient

1 Cod fish (steam and flaked)

1 tbsp baby oat

1 Potato (steam and mashed)

Small chunk of Carrot (steam and mashed)

Small chunk of Yam (steam and mashed)

1/2 small onion

1 clove of Garlic

Some Spring onion 

1/8 tsp Black pepper

Pinch of Oregano

Method 

Mix all the ingredients in a blender and form into patties.

Bake the patties for 20 min at 180 degrees Or until brown . You can choose to pan fry too.

For this cod fish cake,  I intended it to be more mushy so the amount of baby oat is only 1 tbsp, you can choose to add more for a firm texture.

Fluffy Banana Oat Pancakes

Was cracking my brain as to what to prepare for both hubby and baby and decided to disguise healthy oats in a banana loaded batter. Hahahah,  that's one good way to make hubs eat healthy too! No sugar,  no oil,  no salt!

Fluffy Banana Oat Pancakes (makes 10 small pancakes)

Ingredients 

1 egg

2 ripe bananas 

2 tbsp fresh milk 

5 tbsp oat powder 

3 tbsp plain flour 

1/8 tsp baking powder 

1/4 tsp cinnamon powder

Pinch of nutmeg

Method

Put all the ingredients in a blender and mix well into a batter.

Scoop the batter and cook in a non stick pan at medium heat. Flip it to ensure even browning.

Serve with fruits or youghurt .

These are so yummy that I did not even top it with maple syrup for hubs.

  

Here's lil sunshine tearing up the pancakes into smaller bits without my help. My little girl is growing up so fast!

Homemade Pumpkin Noodle in Chicken Broth

What does one do when you have ample pumpkin puree?  Make pumpkin noodles! Ok, mine was more pumpkin shapes but you get the idea. Hehehe

This is an incredibly simple recipe which I found on the web and had to give it a go to see if it's really tasty enough and it is! 

Pumpkin Noodles in Chicken Broth 

Ingredients 

1 cup plain flour

1/4 cup pumpkin puree  

Chicken stock 

Vegetable of your choice ( I used baby spinach)

Method 

Mix plain flour and pumpkin puree and knead well into a dough.

With a rolling pin, flatten the dough to your desired thickness . Using a cookie cutter, cut out cute shapes for your LO ! If you prefer noodles, just cut them into strips.

Heat up the chicken stock and add in the pumpkin shapes/noodles and cook well. I needed mine to be really soft so it was cooked for almost 10 minutes. Add in the spinach and turn off the heat when it starts to wilt .

Serve warm.

Baby loves it and mummy is elated!!

French Toast Fingers

I woke up late this morning and had to whip up a quick brekkie before rushing off to work so French toast it shall be! Love the squishy squashy goodness. Baby loves it too! 

French Toast Fingers (serves 2)

Ingredients

1 egg

1/4 cup fresh milk

1/2 tsp vanilla extract 

2 slices of wholemeal bread 

Unsalted butter

Method 

Remove the crust off the bread and cut into fingers.

Mix egg,  vanilla and milk in a bowl and soak the fingers for 10 min.

Heat up some unsalted butter under medium heat and place the fingers in the pan, flipping it after 2-3 min to ensure both sides are browned.

Serve warm.

Look who is happy?can hardly see her eyes!

Salmon & Beetroot Oat Patties

I have always wanted to introduce beetroot to LO but the strong earthy scent makes it really challenging for her to accept so I decide to musk it with salmon and other veg in a pan fried patty. Who can resist yummy patties and I LOVE the colour !

Salmon & Beetroot Oat Patties

Ingredient (makes 8 small patties)

1 slice salmon 

1/2 potato 

1/2 cup baby oats/ blended rolled oats 

1/3 cup spinach (chopped)

1/3 cup beetroot (chopped)

1 egg

1/2 small onion 

1 small garlic

Parsley (optional)

Method 

Steam potato, beeteet, salmon till they are cooked.

Put all the ingredients into a food processor and blend it till your desired consistency.

I decided to blend the rolled oats as I wanted a smooth texture .

Form into patties and pan fry till it turns brown.

For the adults, I added salt and black pepper and it was pretty nice.