20 March 2011

Boring Sunday.
Early in the morning mom pack McD breakfast using the voucher.
Yum Yum.
But is fattening-.-

Anyway I'm in a chef mood today.
Wanna cook.
Wait for hubby boy to bring over olive oil.
Cause my house don't have olive oil.
When hubby boy arrive, start getting down to business.
I'm going to make Wasabi & Roast Beef Toasts.
Due to I'm a buddhist, we can't eat beef at home.
Therefore I've substitute beef to bacon :)

Ta~Ra
This is the outcome :)

If you're interested to know how to do it.
It's very simple.
Basically what you need are:

• 1 French loaf, thinly sliced
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• ⅓ cup mayonnaise
• 2 tsps wasabi paste
• 400g thinly sliced roast beef / bacon
  
  *TIPS: You can roast the beef/bacon yourself - allow 15-20 minutes, per 500g, in a 200° C oven. Or you can buy cooked beef/bacon from the supermarket.
  
  *TIPS: To make your beef/bacon to roll nicely, you can use a toothpick to hold it nicely before you put it in the oven to roast it.
  
  
  

When you had prepare all this ingredients, therefore, let's start for our cooking lesson :)

1. Preheat oven at 180°C.
2. Brush bread slices with oil. Then place them in a single layer on an oven tray. Bake for 8-10 minutes, until lightly golden. Set aside to cool.
3. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix together mayonnaise and wasabi.
4. Just before serving, top each bread slice with a dollop of mayo mix and a piece of beef/bacon.
   

Is so simple right?
Now let's go down to the other cooking lesson.
Baby Potatoes with Bacon Bits.

Ta~Ra
I know it looks abit messy, but hey, I'm not a professional chef ok-.-

So the ingredients we need are:

• 12 small potatoes (or you can base on how many people you are preparing for)
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• Sprinkle of salt
• 1 cup of creme fraiche (available at Cold Storage)
  
• ¼ cup lemon juice
• 50g bacon bits (available in Jusco)

Step by step now we go :

1. Preheat oven at 200°C. Line an oven tray with baking paper.
2. Cut a slice from the base of each potato half so it sits flat. Place on a tray, brush with oil and season with salt.
3. Bake for 15-20 minutes, until tender and lightly golden. Then gently scoop out 1 teaspoon of flesh from each potato half and set aside for other use.
4. In a jug, whisk creme fraiche and lemon juice together.
5. Spoon 1 heaped teaspoon of creme fraiche mix into each potato half. Top with bacon bits.
   

*TIPS:

• Due to I don't have time to shop for the creme fraiche(substitute the sauce with wasabi and mayonnaise) , baking paper and lemon, in the end, i throw all the potatoes in a big pot and just boil it.
  
  
• When its flesh starting to become soft and tender, I cut each of the potatoes into half and mix it with the mayonnaise and wasabi (extra from the wasabi and roast beef rolls). Finally top it with the bacon bits.
  
  
• It tasted just wonderful :)
  
  
  
  *By the way, my family loves to eat wasabi, therefore, they can accept the tastes, if your family don't really like the wasabi taste, you can either follow back using all the original ingredients, or if you simply do not have time, just use mayonnaise as the sauce :)

HAPPY COOKING :)