Baked Mashed Potatoes with Chorizo & Cheese

Everything taste better with chorizo, right?
And surely, everything taste better with lots of cheese.
So this one's a no brainer.
SC loved it, he requested to just have a "taste" and ended up cleaning the ramekins.


Recipe
(yields 4 small ramekins)
- 2 large potatoes
- 4 tbsp butter
- lots of grated cheese (I think I used about 1 cup)
- as much sliced chorizo as you like (I used about 5 slices each ramekin)
- don't you hate how my recipe doesn't give accurate measurements? Me too.
Peel potatoes, cut into large chunks and boil until soft (you can bake them until soft, but I am impatient, boiling is much faster and for this recipe, I don't mind the moisture in the mashed potatoes), mash and mix in the butter bit by bit. Place mashed potatoes into ramekins, top with grated cheese and chorizo, broil in 250C oven until golden brown.

Serve, enjoy, and you'll end up with clean ramekins.

Fruity English Muffin Breakfast

I'm a huge savory girl, especially for breakfast. I just can't have sweet muffins for breakfast. No matter how sweet it will make my day...

So. I made these as the "dessert" of my breakfast. The savory version's the one with smoked salmon & cream cheese.

Don't you love English muffins? They're wonderfully chewy and even more delicious when buttered and toasted!

Even when I do sweet version, it needs to have a bit of savory touch, so here we go.. the vulgar shot!

What's in this sinful breakfast?
"Recipe"
Butter and toast English muffins, slather generously with peanut butter, add hazelnut spread (e.g. Nutella), add fresh berries (I used strawberries and blueberries), dust a bit of icing sugar, and serve. I like mine with black coffee or unsweetened tea.

I still have more English muffin combos... please bear with me ^_^
I bought a pack and there are only 3 of us, so we had to eat them a few days straight. Not that we're complaining. We love English muffins!

Easy Breakfast - Smoked Salmon & Cream Cheese Open Sandwich

I love weekend breakfasts! Simply going downstairs to a neighborhood eatery to have some classic Hong Kong all-day breakfast, or a Chinese resto for dimsums, or congee with a side of steamed rice rolls. In Hong Kong, we are spoilt with choices! What do I love to eat at home for breakfast, though? Well, my favorite would be instant noodles ^_^' I know... it's unhealthy and everything. It's my guilty pleasure. This week, I feel like something different. So I made this simple treat. It cheers me up after a hard work week :)

I don't think I should call this a recipe. Just sharing how I put this together.
- English muffins (you can replace this with your favorite bread)
- Olive oil for toasting
- Smoked salmon
- Lime juice (or lemon)
- Cream cheese
- Fresh Coriander
Drizzle English muffins with olive oil and toast on a frying pan until browned. Slather cream cheese generously, add a piece of smoked salmon, drizzle with a bit of lime or lemon juice, sprinkle with chopped fresh coriander. I had mine with a cup of earl grey.

Weekend bliss!

Yummy Street Food in Istanbul

OMG OMG OMG! Where the heck have I been?
I've been to a few places, and work has been absolutely MAD!
Anyway, let's not talk about work right now...

This is one of the few places I've been recently, Turkey. I've been to two cities, Istanbul and Izmir. They are absolutely AMAZING! The country's at its most gorgeous when I was there. Blue sky, perfect weather, flowers everywhere (like literally, EVERYWHERE!), awesome people, majorly cute boys, and of course, yummy yummy food!


I don't normally love candies, but this one's very lemony... and...


...it's sold by such a hunk, I just had to try!


Awesome breads and pastry everywhere. Putting myself on a low carb diet would've been absurd!


Grilled chestnuts and corn. I had the grilled corn while waiting in line to visit Aya Sofya.


And of course, we had to try kebab!
Everyone's so friendly in Istanbul, the shop owner insisted that we posed with him shaving off yummy grilled meat. I LOVE IT!


Absolutely yummy! We bought watermelon from a street vendor too and it's so dang sweet!


Juicy meat, fragrant rice, tasty condiments... heaven!


Sour cherry juice. I regret not trying...


WOW! I've never seen so many baklava in my life!


The charming gentleman who owns the baklava shop also insisted that we posed with him. Adorable!


I tried the chocolate and pistachio baklava.
Melt-in-mouth!


Polished everything off with Turkish apple tea.
What an amazing day!

And gosh I miss blogging!!!

Super Cheesy Baked Egg with Broccoli

Cheesy is pretty much what I am all about. I kinda overdid this a bit. Well a lot. The amount of grated cheese I added to this thing was ridiculous, but hey... the block of cheese was gonna expired soon, I had no choice right? Plus, there's never too much cheese in my book ^_^

So this was one of my last low carb breakfast before I went on a chain of business trip. I'll surely go back home and make this easy treat again.

Recipe
(served just me ^_*)
- 1 egg, beaten
- a dash of cream
- lots of grated cheese (like a tiny mountain of it), I used cheddar, but if you had a bit of mozzarella to go with it, it'd be nice too
- a handful of chopped broccoli (just used some leftover, a handful of frozen peas would be nice too)
- a bit of pepper
Preheat oven to 200C, throw everything, except a bit of grated cheese to put on top, bake until golden brown and fluffy. Serve with chilli sauce or tabasco.

And I got slimmer a bit eating this sinful thing? Howww?