Cooking Demo with Chef Kong's and Lock & Lock

On Saturday (22/4/2014), I joined an event that I knew from KEB (Kumpulan Emak Blogger): Cooking Demo with Chef Kong's and Lock & Lock, which held at Foodmart Gourmet Cilandak Town Square. Chef Kong's is a chef that usually seen at Metro TV on 8-11 Show. I motivated to join it because I want to see a chef's cooking demo and want to get Lock&Lock products free. Hihihi..

 The Cooking Demo

There were 3 recipes that was cooked by Chef, which are Chili Grilled Chicken, Ginger Fish, and Purple Sweet Potato Dorayaki. Here are the recipes:

1. Chili Grilled Chicken

Ingredients:
- Chicken (3)
- Green chili (200 gr)
- Garlic (20 gr)
- Onion (40 gr)
- Lemongrass (1 pcs)
- Lime leaves (5 pcs)
- Salt, pepper, and sugar

Put all the ingredients in a glassware, and then cook it in oven at temperature 200 C, for 15 minutes.

Ingredients for the condiment:
- Onion (5 pcs)
- Red cayenne pepper (10 pcs)
- Lemongrass (2 pcs)
- "Terasi"
- Orange limo
- Salt, pepper, and sugar

Puree all condiment ingredients and then cook in frying pan with a little cooking oil.

2. Ginger Fish

Ingredients:
- Fillet fish (1)
- Ginger (3 phalange)
- Garlic (3 pcs)
- Onion (3 pcs)
- Tomato (1 pcs)
- Sesame oil (1 teaspoon)
- Fish sauce (1 teaspoon)
- Salt, pepper, and sugar

Put all the ingredients in a glassware, and then cook it in oven at temperature 200 C, for 15 minutes.

3.  Purple Sweet Potato Dorayaki

Ingredients:
- Purple sweet potato flour (200 gr)
- Fluor (400 gr)
- Egg (4 pcs)
- Coconut milk (150 mL)
- Salt (1/2 teaspoon)
- Baking powder (1 teaspoon)
- Grated coconut (1/2 pcs)
- Sugar

Put all ingredients in a bowl, stir well. Take 1 tablespoon dough and cook it in frying pan with a little cooking oil or margarine.

Nyaaam! I taste it all hahaha.. And I got Lock&Lock plasticware too, 2 pieces and a big one! :)

Simple Cooking from Frozen Vegetables

I know, it's healthier to use fresh vegetables than frozen vegetables. But after I see the composition on the frozen vegetables package, it's safe! Because the composition is only the vegetables (carrot, corn, peas, and beans), not added by preservative or even salt and sugar. So I decide to cook using it and I find that those vegetables can be cooked in some recipes variation that relative simple. Yeay! Here they are:

1. Vegetable Soup

Slice onion and garlic, put in in a pan. Add water until boiling. Put frozen vegetables to the pan and then add salt, sugar, and pepper. You can also add meatball, sausage, quail eggs, macaroni, chicken, or fish fillet to the soup!

2. Vegetable Saute

Boil frozen vegetable in the water and then drain. Slice onion and garlic. Put cooking oil in the pan and then add onion and garlic. After that, put the cooked frozen vegetable, salt, sugar, and pepper. Stir well. You can also add meatball, sausage, or any other ingredients you want to add :)

3. Vegetable Omelet

Boil frozen vegetable in the water and then drain. Stir eggs in a bowl and then add salt, pepper, and the vegetable. Cook in a pan. Tadda! Your veggie omelet is done.

4. Vegetable Fried Rice

Boil frozen vegetable in the water and then drain. Slice onion and garlic. Put margarine in the pan and then add onion and garlic. Add egg to the pan and then stir. Add rice, vegetable, salt, and pepper. Stir well. It's done!

5. Vegetable "Bakwan"

Boil frozen vegetable in the water and then drain. Put flour in a bowl, add water and then stir. Put the vegetables in the bowl and add salt and pepper. Heat cooking oil in a pan fry, deep fry one spoon table vegetable dough in the oil. Do it until the dough is all over.

6. Vegetable "Risol"

Boil frozen vegetable in the water and then drain. Boil quail eggs and then peel the shell. Mix the vegetable and quail eggs until the eggs is delicate. Prepare spring roll skin, add one spoon table mixed vegetable and egg. Roll the spring roll skin and stick the border with egg white. Deep fry the "risol". Nyaaam :9

The Veggie "Risol"

Weekend Cheesy Cooking

Two recipes that I have tried on last weekend were dominated with cheese ingredient. Here they are:

1. Baked potato with 3C (chicken, carrot, and cheese)

First, make the cheese sauce:
Cook 1 table spoon margarine, 1 table spoon flour, 250 mL milk, 100 gr cheese (I use Quick Melt from Kraft), and a little bit pepper.
And then steam the potato.
After potato and the sauce are done, place them in metal bowl.
Put grinded chicken, grated carrot, and grated cheese at the top.
Bake in oven at 190 Celcius degree for 30 minutes.

*Recipe is taken from mommiesdaily.com and a little bit modified.

2. Cheesy Chicken Nugget

Ingredients:
500 gr grinded chicken
1 sheet tasteless bread, submerged in 100 mL milk until smashed
2 tablespoons tapioca flour
2 eggs, stir
100 gr grated cheese
50 gr Quick Melt cheese, slice dice
4 garlic, slice

Cooking spices:
pepper, nutmeg, salt, and sugar

Layer:
3 eggs, stir
Bread crumbs

How to make:

Mix all ingredients and cooking spices

Put in a loaf that has been spreaded by margarine

Steam until cooked, remove and chill it

Put out from the loaf, slice 

Put in eggs stir and then put in bread crumbs

Put in refrigerator for 1 hour before frying it

Notes:

Layered the steamer with cloth to avoid water drip to the nugget

Keep nugget in airtight container, store at freezer so it will durable

* Recipe is taken from Mom Eva Harliyanti at Homemade Healthy Baby Food with a little bit modify

Yummeh! :9

HHBF

From wanting to know more about baby food, it turns out to charity. Maybe that's the sentence that describes me and my activity this two weekends. 

In the beginning, I told by a friend about Facebook group that has many discussion and knowledge about baby food. The group name is Homemade Healthy Baby Food. Every single day I open it to know what food that I will cook tomorrow for my baby. There are a lot of recipes there, divided by age of baby and it's natural cooked and very healthy. Many files and photos you can read and see. And you can have discussion with other mommies also. It's like a treasure for me ;)

And than I courage myself to a little bit active on the group. Not only searching and copy the recipes, but also posting comments or photo about the result of my cooking. After the group wall is opened on Thursday and Saturday, I also courage myself to submit recipes to the group. And happily, other mommies response my post :D

On 12/1/2014, I decided to participate in HHBF member meeting TangSel area at Taman 2 BSD. At that meeting, every member who came was bringing own food and changing it to other members. It's called "potluck". Other member's food was so beautiful and yummy. There was cupcake, pudding, bread, brownies, and so on. Maybe only my food was so plain and not colorful hehehe..

My plain macaroni schotel

Me and my baby (that has turns to toddler)

In this month, flood happens in Jakarta and around. HHBF makes a charity for helping especially baby and kids to have healthy food. And then I join the charity. Last week I made rice with chicken and carrot, with boiled egg. Yesterday I made spaghetti with the sour-sweet sauce. Those foods are then delivered to ACT Ciputat.

Rice-chicken-carrots with boiled egg and banana

The spaghetti

Cooking some of food packages is about exhausted. But inside my heart I feel happy. I am grateful that my condition is much better than those flood victims.. and alhamdulillah I can make small help for them. Hopefully in the future, my baby also understands to always try to do kindness to others. Aamiin :)

In Love With Electric Oven

Now cooking is one of my hobby. I'm very excited doing it, from searching recipes, buying all ingredients, chopping, cooking, and of course eating it. Although most of my cooking is for my baby and actually it's still relative simple. Even no need adding sugar and salt for under one year. 

Now my baby is turn to toddler. And it's much trickier to now what she likes. More variation is needed to make her want to eat her food. One of variation that I have tried is cooking by electric oven. I think it's easier cooking by it since it can be left once you put the food inside it :)

Here is my electric oven:

I bought Cosmos Electric Oven at Carrefour Ciputat (IDR around 450k)

Recipes that I have tried is taken from Facebook Group "Homemade Healthy Baby Food". Below are the picture of them:

Simple cookies from bread and cheese

Baked rice with tiny sea fish (teri)

Potato pizza with chicken, carrot, and cheese topping

Ehmmm.. yummy :9