Rice and Coconut

Homemade sweet and sour sauce, you can use as tofu dipping sauce or stir fried sweet and sour tofu Simply just mixing all the sauce ingredients and simmer in low heat and thickened with cornstarch you can add red flakes pepper for slighly spicy if you like. Ingredients : - 1 block extra firm tofu /fried tofu/ cut in cube - 1/2 of fresh pineapple / peel and cut in cube - 2 sweet pepper/ cut in cube - 1/2 of yellow onion /slice - vegetable oil for fry for the sauce - 1/3 cup rice vinegar - 2 tbsp brown sugar - 1 Tbsp ketchup - 1 Tbsp soy sauce - 2 tsp cornstarch mixed with 2 teaspoon water ( Mix rice vinegar,brown sugar,ketchup and soy sauce together and bring to boil in the small pot and mix cornstarch with water and add to other ingredients and stir to thicken ) set aside preparation : Heat vegetable oil in the fry pan,fry tofu until slightly golden brown and drain tofu on plate with paper towel,set aside/ if use cooked tofu just cut in cube.

The combination pineapple and coconut it's just perfect on this pancakes, drizzle coconut cream or good coconut milk and salted caramel is a treat, slightly rich and sweet. Unlike regular pancake, I make it thinner and filled with chunk of pineapple and fold them to serve, and it can be served as a dessert too. Ingredients : serve 4 - 1 1/4 cup all purpose flour - 2 tbsp super fine sugar - 2 eggs - 1 3/4 cup coconut milk - 1 medium pineapple - peanut oil/ butter for grease pan - coconut cream to serve - toasted shredded coconut for garnish (  optional ) Preparation: - sift the flour and sugar into a bowl and make a well in the center - add eggs and coconut milk to the well and stir into the flour then whisk to a smooth bubbly batter - cut the fresh pineapple into chunks,set aside - heat a small amount of oil into nonstick  small skillet over high heat and pour in a little batter swirling to cover the pan - cook the pancake until

it's a simple mango pineapple salsa,fresh, sweet and sour at the same time,,,dip with Chips or serve with taco's or nachos !! Ingredients : - 1  ripe mango /peel and dice - 1/2 of fresh pineapples/ peel and dice - 1/4 cup thinly slice red onion - handful of cilantro/finely chop - 1 lemon /zest and juice - 1/2 tsp salt - 1/2 tbsp honey ( in a  salad bowl,mix diced mango,pineapple,red onion and cilantro together,add lemon zest and lemon juice,salt and honey mix it until combine )

This dinner recipe is very easy simple and ready in short time  especially if we have leftover cooked rice otherwise  it doesn't  take longtime to cook rice,I'm sure everyone have different method how to cook rice,mine is simple most of the time I cook jasmine rice or long grain rice in the rice cooker. By the way I bought this large fresh prawns in Costco is little bit cheaper than I got from other grocery store.  Ingredients for prawns : - 12 Large fresh prawns - 2 tbsp peppercorn chili oil - 1 tbsp lime juice - 1/2 tsp garlic powder - 1/2 tsp salt - 1/2 tsp paprika powder - pinch of black pepper - peeled the prawns just keep the tail on,set aside - in the small bowl mix all spice ingredients together,and whisk it pour in to fresh prawn - let marinated about 5 minutes or so,,, - heat flat pan grill on medium high temperature,and cook prawns about 2-3 minutes each side or until the color is looks perfectly change to brown/pink I don't want to over p

In my previous post  about a week ago I made peanut sauce for lettuce bowl salad for dinner with friends, and I still have leftover need to use up,so I use them for "salmon tempura salad " as a *tip* you can serve as appetizer menu,,,  Or serve as a dinner meal,,,,add fried tofu or tempeh is best :) Peanut sauce recipe are  Here for the salad you will need : - lettuce - English cucumber/ cut in strip - shredded carrot - thinly slice red onion Salmon tempura : - 1  fresh salmon fillet about 6 oz - canola/vegetable oil for fry - 1 cup tempura batter mix - 3/4 cup ice cold water preparation : Heat vegetable oil in medium high temperature about 350 Degree F cut  fresh salmon fillet into thin strips mix tempura batter mix with ice cold water and stir in mix quickly drop salmon strip into tempura batter mix,fry about 2 minutes each side or until golden brown and crispy drain tempura on paper towel ready to serve as topping into a salad mix

Ingredients : yield 16-18 muffins - 2 stick unsalted butter softened - 1 cup sugar - 4 eggs - 1+1/2 cup self rising flour - 1+ 1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut - 1/2 tsp pandan paste  Preparation : Preheat oven on 350 degree F beat butter and sugar until fluffy add egg one at a time add flour,coconut and pandan paste,just beat until all ingredients combine scoop in to muffin's cup,make about 18 -20 muffins ready to bake into the oven about 25 minutes or until insert tootpick come clean Add caption E N J O Y ,,,,

Have a great weekend everyone,,, If you like deviled eggs try this avocado devile egg recipe,it's easy and simple. Ingredients : - 5 hard boiled egg - 1 ripe Has avocado - 2 tbsp mayonnaise - 1 tbsp honey mustard - pinch of curry powder Preparation : Slice egg in half lenghtwise, remove egg yolk put in the small bowl. Cut avocado in half,dice really small mash egg yolk with fork,add mayonnaise,honey mustard,curry powder and dice avocado,slighty mash until all ingredients combine,spoon egg yoll avocado mixture  evenly into egg white,sprinkle with ground paprika if you like,, E N J O Y ,,,

This law carb pancakes made out of almond flour mixed with egg,almond milk and vegetable oil, serve with an experiment salted caramel cream sauce, can be serve with any pancake syrup you like or make simple sour cream maple sauce, if you get bored to use plain maple syrup for pancakes. Ingredients : serve for 2=6 pancakes - 1 cup almond flour - 1 egg - 1/2 cup almond milk - 1 Tbsp vegetable oil for the sauce : - 1/4 cup whipped cream - 1 Tbsp caramel sauce - 1 tsp salted caramel powder ( just fold them together until well mixed and ready to serve ) OR Simple sour cream maple sauce ( 2 Tbsp sour cream mix with 2 Tbsp maple syrup ) Preparation: Just combine all ingredients together until well mixed on low heat and  non stick flat grill pan/ non stick skillet, cook like regular pancakes,watch closely until pancakes bubble or lightly golden brown and flip them.