Saturday boy was I busy in the kitchen! Went to the market earlier and was home by 9.40am and got started cooking! The siblings wanted chicken fajitas so I quickly sliced the chicken meat and marinated (fajitas mix + paprika + black pepper + dried basil) before Junior & I went to the market.
Junior made my heart melt: all those times spent baking and cooking with him paid off! He now is officially my little baker! I didn't want to bake anything, but he sorta forced me. How can I refuse when he took out the whisk and ladle and even the sugar!
But before that, Junior was busy helping me cook! On the menu for the day:
Chicken Fajitas
Sindhi Briyani (Shan mix)
Potato Soup for Junior
Potato soup is really simple. Peel & cut potatoes, boil and add cauliflower, broccoli, carrots and fish/chicken cubes in and cook together. I throw in a teeny bit of salt, and some dried basil. It's even yummy for adults!
So on to the biryani! I was kind of eager to cook biryani when Husband first requested for it cos I can use up my leftover yoghurt. For the one pack of Shan's Sindhi Briyani, I used 1 kg of beef, and just as a note to self, follow all other ingredients on the box, but for the 25 small green chillis, reduce to 15 cili padi instead. I love Sindhi biryani. Very spicy and yummeh.
Here's my culinary protégé cutting up some tomatoes!
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He saw the tomatoes beside the sink and took them, put in the strainer, took the spatula and cut them. Imitating mama I guess, and he was pretty engrossed doing so!
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So after you cut the tomatoes (or put dents in them), fry! I only gave him the square container. All other utensils he took them out by himself.
After cooking the biryani and frying the fajitas (chicken with onions and bell peppers), I took a short break but just as I sat at the sofa, the little one came running to me with the whisk! He tried to pull me to the kitchen and this is what he did: open the larder...
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Take out the sugar...
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Now the flour...
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Let's bake mama!! Pleaaase!!
So I quickly searched for a choc chip muffin recipe. He wasn't too pleased when I searched using my handphone, I guess he thought I wanted to play with the phone rather than bake with him. Found one simple one, and here's the recipe!
1 cup self raising flour
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup oil
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
vanilla
lotsa choc chips
Very simple, very quick. Makes exactly 12 muffins. I used the pan MIL gave me while clearing her cabinets. She had 2 of these 12 muffin pans and she doesn't bake anymore so I gladly took them. She has lots of baking stuff, even a Kenwood mixer, trays and measuring utensils but I have my own set too so I didn't take the rest. Hurhur.
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Here are the golden muffins! Baked at 170 degrees for about 25 minutes.
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Yummy moist cake! Glad I made just 12, won't be a burden to finish.
Here are some quickly snapped photos initially for instagram-collage purposes so yes they are ugly in their original picture. But here are the products of Saturday morning's cookout!
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Chicken fajitas with onions and yellow & red bell peppers. Serve with wrap, lite sour cream, lettuce and diced tomatoes. Yummy!
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Sindhi biryani before mixing them all up! Let the rice soak all those yummy gravy! Husband-approved, of course!
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And last but not least, Junior's potato, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot and chicken soup! He loves potatoes so I cook him potatoes whenever I can. Plus they cook much faster than porridge!
Junior is missing his Nyai and Yayi a lot. It's amazing how much he tells us by not even talking. I'm not making stuff up, but if you're a parent you will know what your child is trying to tell you even when he's not saying a word. He wants to go see Kaabah again, and he wants to go to Nyai's house today cos he knows it's a routine to go alternate weeks. My mum told me to bring him to her house so he can play with his toys there. Gonna be almost 3 weeks more till they get home!
"Little Baker & Cook"
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