Meet the new Chef in town!

 

I am changing career again.

No regret, I swear!

Been practicing a lot lately.

I am a very persistent cook (too shy to call myself Chef ) nowadays .... since my weight gone down to 42 kg (end of October)

Here's the resolution: Eat more cheese!

But the main problem is I_don't_like_cheese. And on top of that, I used to have Irritable Bowel Syndrome which very allergic to cheese and other dairy products. But the last 1 year or so, I have slowly included cheese in my diet (mostly because of HerbMaster, he loves cheese so much ).

It started with cheese biscuits which I ate while holiday in England last year and has fallen inlove ever since; and Herb brought me stock of cheese biscuits when he visited me April this year. After that I tried feta cheese , which according to Herb is a 'young' cheese that is not too strong in taste. And I kind of like that feta cheese though - even though it's not Herb's favorite cheese; he likes blue cheese that smell like a sock that has not been washed for months! .The new finding was eating feta cheese with celery stick! It's yummy and crunchy, I feel like a rabbit! Last month I bought cream cheese (it's expensive!! ) - which has milder taste than cheese and started looking for recipes that using cream cheese.

My first try was Spinach Potato Galette . I have also found the crispy version of galette which I would like to try someday.

Then followed by Spinach Cream Cheese Quiche

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Ingredients: for the filling - cream cheese, spinach, egg, cayenne pepper, mustard, nutmeg, chives.

The 2nd try , I still used spinach but I have added prawn (that was sauteed in butter with onion) and left out the chives and mustard.

The 3rd time was yesterday when I cooked Salmon quiche. I used fresh salmon that I boiled for 10 minutes before turning it into salmon flakes. If you look at the picture, I still use spinach - not just because I like spinach, Herb and I has also discovered that spinach is one of the 12 food that can keep you look young and healthy.

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Since yesterday was a public holiday, I have also cooked my all time favorite Roasted fruit with Honey.

Yesterday I used persimmon, peach, red pear and plum.

Ingredients for the caramel: honey, sugar, cinnamon stick - if you don't like the taste of cinnamon, don't use cinnamon powder!, cloves, vanilla, orange zest and juice, bay leaf, black pepper (after cooking it the fourth time I discovered that it tastes better with more black pepper ) and nutmeg.

Cooking this roasted fruit is easy, but occasionally - like every 10-15 minutes - you need to bathe the fruit with the honey mixture. Not just the fruit taste better after being roasted, the whole house smell heaven while the fruit being roasted! (imagine the aroma of vanilla, orange zest and cinnamon - in fact you MUST NOT omit orange zest ! )

The other day I tried roasted pumpkin with mixed vegetables and shrimp. Did I tell you that I am a pumpkin eater I also like butternut squash - but it is not easy to find it in Malaysia and very expensive too.

So, having tell you my secrets ..... do I look like I have put on some weight? I am now almost 45 kg!

Note: If you have any home made recipes that you would like to share please feel free to do soo! Your contributions to me putting on weight are very much appreciated and will be fondly remembered!