Couscous recipe (10 min meal)

Before this, I never knew there was a food call couscous, I learn it from a TV show hosted by Jamie Oliver. Couscous (/ˈkʊskʊs/ or /ˈkuːskuːs/) is a traditional North African dish of semolina (granules of durum wheat) which is cooked by steaming. [1] It is actually something like rice as a staple food, you can serve with meat or vegetables. I am surprised by how fast it can be cooked. So I decided to give it a try. It is really easy and fast. So now I share it here with everybody, hope you will like it too.

Ingredient 

Couscous (I found it at Aeon big, I'm not sure other places carry this item or not)

Vegetable (Any vegetables, I use my left over vegetables.)

OR

Meat (Any meat, you can use any leftover stew, or you can make a new one)

Garlic 2 cloves

Lemon juice

Salt and Pepper

How easy is it?

1. Take the couscous, measure it according to the chart below:

1/2 cup          -serve 2 persons

1 cup             -serve 4 persons

The measurement is always correct. Pour the couscous into a bowl, add in the twice amount of the hot water into the couscous. eg: 1 cup of hot water into 1/2 cup of couscous. Add in 1 cloves of garlic, salt and pepper. Cover it up with a cover/lid or plate. Wait for 10 min.

2. Meanwhile, add the hot water into the rice cooker and put your leftover to steam. Well, since I don't have any leftover, so I make a new one. I steam the green beans with garlic, oyster sauce and a little bit of the soy sauce. 

3. Fluff the couscous with a fork after 10 minutes. Then serve with any dishes that you like.

There you go, my dinner for today. Opps! i add in 1 egg too when i steam the green bean. Yummy!

Rice cooker recipe

Since I'm not currently staying at my house, and all I got in this temporary house kitchen is a rice cooker. So I'm gonna use it to cook my dinner. Today I'm going to cook is a all in one pot dinner. Using only the rice cooker, simple ingredient, and you will have a complete balance meal. You will get the balance food pyramid in your dinner (Protein, greens and carbohydrate).

As usual here are the ingredients:

Rice
Spinach
Bean sprout
Pea shoots
Chicken fillet
2 eggs
Deep fried bean curd or we call Tou Fu Pok

Seasoning
Oyster sauce
Soy sauce
Salt
Pepper
Peanut oil or sesame oil


1. Marinate the chicken fillet with a little bit of oil, oyster sauce, soy sauce, salt and pepper. No measurement needed, just follow your instinct.

2. Pour 4-5 cups of water in the rice cooker, add in some salt & oil then bring it to boil. We need to cook the vegetable one by one, so any sequence will do. I boil the bean sprout, following by the pea shoot, last i put the spinach. When all the vegetable is ready, put it aside for later used.

3. Steam the chicken with the deep fried bean curd. I add in a little bit of water to make sure the bean curd has enough of the liquid to absorb. Steam it for about 10-15 minutes or as the chicken cooked.

4. Wash your pot, then is time to cook the rice. Depends on how much rice you want to eat, so you cook what ever quantity that you want. Just about 5 minutes before the rice cooked, put it all the vegetables and the chicken around the pot. Leave a space in the middle of the pot. Crack in 1 or 2 eggs in the middle, put the lid on and wait for the rice to be cooked. After the mode change to keep warm, let it set for awhile just to make sure the eggs are cooked. There you go a complete dinner for 2 or 3 persons. I prefer to eat the chicken separately so I didn't add them in.

Brown Sugar Body Scrub

It is time to pamper your skin with the scrub to exfoliate all the dead cells and encourage the new cell production. Usually the scrub in the market is quite expensive and it is not so natural. So what I do, i made myself a natural scrub. The ingredient is easy, and all you need to do is just mix it up. So here we go, the brown sugar body scrub.

Ingredient
1/2 cup of brown sugar (I don't have a measuring cup, so I use 8 tablespoons.)
3 tablespoons of oil (you can use any oil: olive, almond, coconut, baby oil etc.)
2 tablespoons of honey
A bit of the lemon zest or lemon juice.

I don't actually have a grater in my kitchen, so i go for the traditional way- chopped. Chop the lemon zest until you think it is small enough. I'm not using lemon juice as I don't want my scrub to be watery and my baby oil is with lavender scent. So i think lemon zest will be good enough. 

Next, all you need to do is mixing all the ingredients together, then your natural body scrub is ready to be used!

Then you keep the scrub in a proper container, with cap of course. It can be stored for 1 week, or if you keep it in the fridge it can actually last you longer. 

Unbake Cheese Cake Making

Today I'm trying to make an unbake cup cheese cake which I saw from Facebook. It is a non-baker, no measurement required recipe, and it ends up really great!

Here are the ingredients:

1. Tataru Cream Cheese (You can use any cream cheese)
2. Sweeten condensed milk about half of a tin (depends on how sweet you would like it to be)
3. Biscuit (it can be chipsmore, oreo, Marie etc.)

Steps:

1. Crush the biscuit to small pieces. If you like to have some crunchy biscuit when you eat it, you can leave some in the big chuck. Then set aside.
2. Cream cheese puts it at room temperature until soften. Mix with the Sweeten condensed milk until smooth. (For me, I don't have the mixer to mix it, so I use the fork instead. That's why it was not so smooth.)
3. Then you just have to put 1 layer of cheese, 1 layer of biscuit until your bowl full.
4. Put in the fridge for at least 6 hours for the cheese to set. 

* You can actually add in a lot of things that you like. For me, I just add a little bit of the Nestum oat on top of the cake because I like it. You can add in lemon juice, chocolate powder or other thing as your preference.

There you go, my tasty Cheese Cake.