Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Frozen meals



Over the last year or so I've been making some meals and freezing them to eat later, I usually use them for weekday lunches when I get home feeling hot and tired around lunch time. One of the meals I freeze is meat and veg with a peanut sauce. I fry garlic and onion then add coconut milk. After that I add peanut butter and/or peanut powder (I make it by pounding cooked peanuts). At the end I add some other seasoning- salt, pepper, sugar, chili sauce, fish sauce etc.



Another meal is tuna and veg in a cheese sauce. The sauce is basically thicken milk with cheese and other seasoning.

Beer Bread

Last week I was excited cos I just got some wholemeal flour from a fellow expat (I normally buy white flour at the market, so its exciting to have something different). I wanted to make bread but I didn't have any yeast left, so I found this recipe instead.

3 and 3/4 cup of self raising flour (I used some white, some wholemeal and added baking powder as its not SR)
2 teaspoons of salt
2 teaspoons of sugar
a can of beer (they say 375ml, but i used 330ml)
Mix, knead lightly. Put in loaf tin, cook around 200 c for about 50 min
Turn out on to a wire rack to cool.