Baking with Arsy: Banana, Cinnamon n' Choc chip Muffins

Sifted flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon

 Butter, bananas, egg and milk

Combine!

 Mix mix

Decided to sample a little... Popped a bit in the microwave

40 seconds and out of the microwave, all fluffy n dat !

 Line trays with cupcake liners!

In a seperate bowl, lets expirement a bit! Chuck in some of that batter, more milk and choc chips

Plop a spoon, add a choc chip circle thing, and another plop of batter on top of that

Do all the same for the rest of the 5

And top off with choc chip pieces

And out of the oven....

 Melted and looking beautiful!

 So pretty. Gorgeous colour

:D

Sliced in half

Oh hai melty goodness

Hehe, to improve I would definitely add more milk and more oil to replace butter!

Baking with Arsy: Almond Cookies

A few weeks ago I bought a kilo of almonds... What does one do with a kilo of almonds? My first thought, almond cookies!

It was a pretty productive morning. Got up at 9:30am, went for a jog, injured my shins, dragged my ass back home and made cookies.

First melted half a stick of butter

Gathered me ingredients!

 Sugar, butter, egg, almond essence, baking powder, salt and flour!

 Melted the butter

 Put in the sugar

 Flour, baking powder, egg, salt and essence

Put into boiling water for 2-3 minutes

 Left in cold water until cool to handle

 Peel em' babies up

 Feelin' abit exposed

 All nekkids

Divided up the dough into balls 

 Squash down with a fork *me thinking they won't expand any further*

 Chopped up almonds

 Embellished em

 Leftovers to nom

Egg white (big boo boo not to mix this with water.. you'll see....)

 Lathered in egg white

 Popped into the oven

Annd... out of the oven.... 

 The overloaded egg white turned into cooked egg white... lol whoops

 All fat and perty!

 Make em' perty on my $1 plate

 Prettiest colour!

Packed in a bag for my mate to bring along with em!

The almond cookies weren't too shabby. If I were to make some changes, I would put less butter and maybe oil? And definitely more almond essence... And toast the almond pieces instead!

Hehe, bye!

How to: Make SuperMi actually taste like the 'Mi Goreng Original'

So.... you've fallen for the trap. Coming across this amazing bargain at the grocers... No way! Mi goreng for that cheap? Not hesitating for a second, getting through the cash register, getting home, ripping the packet open, pouring all the ingredients in.... then realising..... This is not mi goreng! 

Taking a second look at the packet, 'Supermi'... What the hell is Supermi??!

This is what real migoreng looks like!

My sister had purchased the wrong mi goreng instant noodle packet and said that it tasted pretty bad. I told her, it can't be that bad! I'll try it. She warned me not to, but I proceeded to anyway. Being the migoreng instant noodle expert that I am, I'm pretty sure that I can make this taste good.

So come along with me on my journey to make this into a edible dish! -And you may just save a bit more, purchasing the alternative 'SuperMi' rather than the actual original, mouthwatering, MiGoreng simply by following my steps hehe.

Ripping open the packet and inspecting all the elements:

 Instant noodles and two sauce packets

Fine chili flakes/powder, Bumbu, Fried onion (which I forgot to add later.. I always forget!), 'Kecap' sauce and flavoured oil

  

Heat up some water in my $9 kettle

Soak up for 4 minutes

I tasted some of the Kecap sauce and it tasted really odd... Left a weird after taste, so, it was best if I only used a bit

Use the whole oil packet and half of the 'Kecap' sauce

 ...Now, make your own adjustments! 

Viet Sriracha sauce n Panda Oyster sauce

There's quite a few types of sriracha an oyster sauces... with slightly of different tastes.. If you want to be in the (Viet) game, you gotta specifically purchase these two above.

3/4 teaspoon oyster sauce

 As much chili as you desire, using viet sriracha sauce of course! I used (squeezed a bit more after this) 1/2 teaspoon, and half of the packet of chili powder that came with the noodles

 Mix it all up!

Then my secret method (top secret, cannot share.)

Theeen, chucked the noodles on my $2 mini pan from Kmart for 4 mins on high (which set my fire alarm off), steam a few beans and toss covered with salt and pepper on the same pan for 3 minutes and cook one egg. 

Voila!

-Oh, and don't forget the fried onions! (I did. Meep.)

Tasted just like migoreng.