Popinjay's Food Adventures

I am finally updating my blog again after almost a month!  I made this dish a couple of nights ago and it was goooooood. I followed Maangchi's  recipe and her youtube channel is really worth watching! She makes Korean food seem easy to make that I've bookmarked quite a lot to try soon (hopefully)!

Presenting my very own beef curry recipe!! *See recipe below* Beef Curry Beef curry ft. Roti Paratha Beef Curry ft. Chickpeas Ingredients: - 1/2 onion - 2 garlic cloves - 1 star anise - 1/4 cup oil - water - ~150g beef slices - 2 tomatoes (cut into wedges) - 7 tbsp Garam Masala (can add more or less) - pinch of salt & sugar - 2 tbsp tomato sauce (or tomato puree) - a pinch of cinnamon powder or 1 cinnamon stick - 1 large carrot (chopped) - 1 red chili (sliced thinly) - 1 green chili (sliced thinly) - 1/4 cup coconut milk (add more for thicker curry) Heat oil in a wok. While waiting for oil to heat up, slice the onion and garlic. When the oil is heated, add in the onion, garlic and cook until fragrant. Then add in the star anise and cinnamon stick. Add in the garam masala. Stir and cook for a few minutes, then add in water, tomato wedges, and tomato sauce and continue stirring until mixed well.  Add the carrots in fo...

The recipe doesn't include mushrooms but I wanted to add them because it sounded extra nicer. And it's great with pasta too! I had this chicken with wholewheat fusilli.  Click here   for the recipe!  YUUUUUUUUMMMMM

Introducing the Salmon Teriyaki Spaghetti  (with a side of tender-stem broccoli) This  homemade teriyaki sauce is seriously worth making.  I made the pasta with only three ingredients . - sesame oil - soy sauce - green chili (thinly sliced) The steps are simple: - boil pasta and drain after  - mix pasta with a bit of sesame oil and soy sauce (no exact measurements but I'd suggest starting with a few tbsps of each) - add in the chili, mix, and done!

I found this simple homemade teriyaki sauce recipe and I thought hmm why not right? It tastes just like teriyaki sauce you get in restaurants and the ingredients needed are pretty much the basics!!  So my dish consists of salmon teriyaki , quinoa , and garlic long beans .  Click   here  for the teriyaki sauce recipe. Overall I'd say the sauce recipe is definitely a keeper!

 Level up for my salsa gameee. Hahaha. The combination of sweet-ish mango with my usual salsa recipe I think is sooo much better! Mango Salsa recipe: - Half red onion (diced) - 1 green chili pepper - 1 mango - cilantro or basil leaves  - 2 tomatoes (diced) - half a lime - 2 tbsp olive oil  The steps are very easy. All that needs to be done is preparing the ingredients and then just mix them together!  Dinner (pictured above):  - mango salsa - quinoa - prawns - avocado

The perfect meal to end another tiring week of classes. 

Today's simple lunch.  Toasted bread, mashed avocado, prawns, cucumber.

Yes that's right, guys!!! Banana crumble!!!! When you have leftover crumble and overripe bananas, make banana crumble! This dessert is super duper easy and so so so so yummy. I kid you not.  All you have to do is:  1) Slice bananas 2) Lightly sprinkle bananas with brown sugar and cinnamon 3) Top it all with crumble (link to recipe below) 4) Bakeee!!! And tadaaaaa. Serve with custard and best enjoy it hot! Crumble recipe: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/applecrumble_2971

I still need practice in the whole chicken department and I guess from the looks of it it's pretty obvious! Hahaha. I have a habit of cooking my chicken for a bit longer than necessary for reasons I'm not even entirely sure of (-_-) ( (-_-) because no emoji available haha!) So this dish is basically justtt: - Honey garlic chicken - Button mushrooms - Potato pancakes The recipe I followed for the chicken marinade:  http://www.food.com/recipe/honey-garlic-chicken-thighs-462563

Ahhh yessss, POTATO PANCAKESSS! When you've forgotten to defrost your beef or chicken and you have potatoes then you're in luck!! This recipe is super easy and it's potatoes + pancakes whaaat. Must try!!! *Recipe adapted from http://nycityeats.com/wordpress/5457/cheddar-potato-pancakes-secret-recipe-club/ *

No mixer + busy schedule + desperate to bake??? Worry no moreeee!!! This German Apple Cake recipe is so simple (no mixer required!) and moist and yummy and pretty. I paired this cake with hot custard and I added crumble because why not rightt? Extra extra extra yummy. So perfect with hot custard This recipe was adapted from http://www.food.com/recipe/german-apple-cake-16883  As for the crumble, I got the recipe from http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/applecrumble_2971

After 1 year of wanting to combine both beef and broccoli together!!!  Got this recipe from http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/broccoli_beef/   The only difference I made was omitting wine from the recipe.

....with quinoa! This mushroom chicken dish actually goes well with quinoa!  Who would've thought rightt (not me lol). A very simple yet satisfying meal. Ingredients: - 1 Chicken breast - Black pepper - Ginger (~2 tsp thinly sliced) - Enoki mushrooms - Shiitake mushrooms - Soy sauce (~3 tbsp) - Sesame oil (~2 tsp) - A pinch of salt  - Garlic (sliced thinly) - 1 cup Quinoa - A few tablespoons oil  Prepare quinoa first. To cook quinoa, for every 1 cup of quinoa, add 2 cups water. I cooked mine in the rice cooker.  Heat oil in a wok. While waiting for oil to heat up, clean chicken and cut into smaller pieces. When the oil is heated, add the garlic and fry until it is fragrant and it turns slightly brown. Add the chicken and black pepper into the wok and cook for about 5 minutes. Add shiitake mushrooms and stir occasionally for a few minutes. Add the soy sauce, sesame oil, salt and ginger.  Add enoki mushroom ...

Prawn and Egg Fried Rice Sweet Potatoes  Cucumber + Avocado Salad Simple but yummy.

Recently came across a 2 ingredient pancake recipe and I just had to try it out! Just 2 ingredients, guys!!!  Ingredients: - 1 medium banana - 2 large eggs So just mash the banana well and make sure there aren't any big lumps and then whisk in the eggs!  And then cook them!  Oh and you can also add anything you like such as chocolate chips, nuts, etc etc. I had mine with peanut butter & honey. Yum! ......and I added some Maltesers in as well... Hehe

Chicken and Cucumber salad for dinner yummy yummy!