Cooking: Omelette

Haven't done a food post in a while and after this one it might be a while before I do another one as study is getting quite hectic at the moment.

Woke up today intending to do homework but ended up cooking an omelette for breakky instead of opting for dad's porridge.

Ingredients: An egg. Shredded ham/salami/whatever filling you would like. Grated cheese.

Method: Note: This is an asian omelette made a bit like a pancake.
Separate egg. Whist eggwhites to soft-stiff peaks(this makes the omelette fluffier). Add in egg yolk. Add in filling and cheese. Give it a quick whisk. Pour into pan as if making a pancake. Fry until golden then flip like pancake. Fry until other side is golden. Serve. I served with some mayo and a block of Laughing Cow cheese.

Made dinner on Friday but it was a bit of a disaster so I don't think I'll blog about it. Also made macarons on Saturday but that was a disaster as well. Macaron madness in our household at the moment.

I am quite excited as Dad bought a DSLR (Canon 550D)  =) Waiting for it to come now.

Cooking Brekky: Fried Rice

Morning started once again with laptop in bed. Looking through recipes and decided I wanted to have crepes for brekky. Found a recipe and went to make it. Cracked an egg whisked it, went to get milk to add in, AND THERE WAS NO MILK. Can't make crepes without milk so plan B. Saw rice in the fridge so made fried rice instead. Poured out half the egg to make scrambled eggs for the fried rice and mixed my rice into the other half. Probably going wtf, but if u mix in beaten egg into your rice before you cook it, your fried rice will be nice and golden and very eggy.

Egg, corn and capsicum, fish sauce, eggy rice.

Spring onion sauce from last night's dinner.

Yummy brekky.

姜葱蓉送饭=超正

Cooking Brekky: Toasted Cheese and Corn Sandwiches

Usual Saturday morning. Wake up, turn on laptop, read food blogs/sites in bed. Love Saturday mornings =) I was on The Kitchn where I came across, Toasted Cheese and Onion Sandwiches and instantly wanted one. However I realised that we don't have any onions left thanks to seafood pasta last night. Therefore decided to substitute onion with corn and chives (from the garden).

Ingredients:   (serves 1)

• 1-2tbsp of frozen corn
• 1-2tbsp of grated cheese
• 2 strips? of chives ripped into 1cm lengths (gives the onion flavour but just a hint, not a hit)
• black pepper (no need for salt as cheese is normally pretty salty)
• lemon/lime juice (optional) (cuts through the richness of the cheese, especially if you're using strong cheese like I did)
• 2 slices of bread

1. Boil some water to make coffee/tea and boil an extra 50ml for corn.

2. Put corn into a bowl and pour in enough boiling water to cover (don't want to eat frozen corn in your sandwich, gotta melt the ice and make it warm)

3. Pour out the water and mix in all the rest of the ingredients.

4. Put a slice of bread onto the sandwich press and scoop all the ingredients on top, cover with other slice of bread and sandwich press until toasted to your liking. Meanwhile make cup of coffee/tea and wash up all the bowls/graters whatever you used.

5. Eat with cup of coffee/tea.

Dead simple

Lesson learnt: Never use vintage cheese for toasted sandwiches, way too strong. But otherwise good taste of sweetness from the corn , saltiness from the cheese and the slight onion flavour from the chives.

Eat whilst reading the Jamie Oliver section of the Weekend liftout from the Herald Sun and the food section in the Good Weekend liftout from The Age. Jamie Oliver's pancakes with pancetta looked way nicer than my sandwich =(