Turnip with pork ribs and dried clams + wolfberry soup

Whenever I boil turnip soup, I usually will but the slim type or turnip. Rather than the big size of turnip. And I love the turnip that still attach with the leaves. Normally I will wash and clean it and cooked together with the soup. Since I cannot find the dried octopus in my pantry, I substitute it with dried clams that we bought from Pulau Pangkor.

INGREDIENTS FOR TURNIP WITH PORK RIBS AND DRIED CLAMS + WOLFBERRY SOUP

500 gm - Pork Ribs
2 medium pieces - Turnip ( I use the organic turnip)
Some Dried Clams
Some Wolfberry/ Goji
2 pieces - Medium Red Dates
Water - Enough to cover all the ingredients
Salt

METHOD FOR COOKING TURNIP WITH PORK RIBS AND DRIED CLAMS + WOLFBERRY SOUP

1. In a hot boiling pot, blanched the pork ribs for 8 minutes. Rinse and drain the water and set aside.
2. Peel the skin of the turnip and cut into pieces. (This also apply with the turnip leaves) Wash and set aside.
3. Wash the dried clams for several times Soak the clams for 10 minutes.
4. Wash the red dates and wolf berry and set aside.
5. In a big pot, fill in water, pork ribs, turnip, turnip leaves, dried clams and red dates. Cook in high heat and after boiling, switch to medium heat and cook for 2.5 to 3 hours.
9. Add wolfberry and salt before serving.

TURNIP WITH PORK RIBS AND DRIED CLAMS + WOLFBERRY SOUP

This soup is very tasty and easy to prepare. This is the first time I use dried clams to cook this soup. Which makes the soup tastes more favourable and sweet.

Banana Walnut Cake 香蕉核桃蛋糕

Whenever I came across any recipe that I think is a well keeper, I will just write down in a paper. Then the list became longer and longer. Today, I am going to blog about Banana Walnut Cake but I am not too sure where did I get the recipe from as I did not jog down the website. Not sure why I did not do that when I am writing down the recipe. Perhaps, I was in a hurry? Anyway, thanks for the kindly baker who shared the recipe. The following as below:

INGREDIENTS FOR BANANA WALNUT CAKE

100g - Butter

90g - Brown Sugar

2 pieces - Egg (lightly beaten with vanilla extract)

1 teaspoon - Vanilla Extract
320 gm - Mashed Ripe Bananas + 1 tbsp - Lemon Juice
125 ml - Plain Yogurt

100g - Cake Flour
90gm - Plain Flour

1tsp - Baking Soda

1 tsp - Cinnamon Powder
Coarsely Chopped Walnut

METHOD FOR BANANA WALNUT CAKE

1. Pre - heat the oven at 175C.

2. Line paper for the loaf tin. Then set aside.

3. Sift the cake flour, plain flour, Cinnamon powder and baking soda. Then set aside.

4. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy with a electric hand mixer.

5. Beat in the egg mixture in 3 times till well blended.
6. Beat in the mashed banana and yogurt till well blended.
7. Fold in the sieved ingredients, in 3 times.

8. Pour the half batter into the prepared loaf tin.  Sprinkle some walnuts and then pour the rest of the mixture and top with walnuts.

9. Bake at oven for 50 minutes or until a cake tester came out clean. If top browns too quickly, cover with aluminium.

8. Remove from the oven and set aside.

Banana Walnut Cake 香蕉核桃蛋糕

Dried Longan and Kidney Bean Soup 红豆龙眼汤

Actually, I don't really cook much of the Chinese desserts often. This is one of the day where I feel like having some red bean soup. So I decided to try the following recipe: 

INGREDIENTS FOR DRIED LONGAN AD KIDNEY BEAN SOUP

1 1/2 cup - Kidney Bean

1 piece - Dried Orange Peel
1/2 Cup - Dried Longan
3 pieces - Pandan Leaves

Some Rock Sugar (according to your taste buds)

Water (I usually will fill half of my pot with water)

METHOD OF COOKING DRIED LONGAN AD KIDNEY BEAN SOUP

1. Wash the kidney bean for few times and soak it overnight and set aside.

2. Wash the dried longan for few times and soak it for 30 minutes.
3. Wash the dried orange peel and set aside.

4. Discard the water from kidney bean and dried longan. Set aside.

5. Over high heat, bring the water and pandan leaves to boil.

6. Add kidney bean, dried longan and orange peel in the pot.  Cover and reduce to medium - low heat and simmer till the kidney bean are soft.

7. Add the rock sugar, then served.

Dried Longan and Kidney Bean Soup 红豆龙眼汤

Shark Fin Melon Soup with Corns

During one of our holiday trip to Cameron Highland in Pahang, we bought one shark fin melon and some sweet corns. It's been quite a long time that I did not cook shark fin melon soup. I remembered that I always cooked this soup when my princess is small. This soup is very sweet and tasty that came from shark fin melon and sweet corn. And off course with the helps of candied dates and pork ribs as well. I also added in some sweet almonds and bitter almonds that my mum bought me long time ago.

INGREDIENTS FOR SHARK FIN MELON SOUP WITH CORNS

500 gm - Pork Ribs
1/2 size of Medium Shark Fin Melon
2 pieces - Sweet Corn
2 pieces - Candied Dates
20 gm - Sweet Almonds
20 gm - Bitter Almonds
Water - Enough to cover all the ingredients
Salt

METHOD FOR COOKING SHARK FIN MELON SOUP WITH CORNS

1. Remove the sweet corns from the sweet corn cob. Maintain the sweet corn cob. Wash and set aside.
2. In a hot boiling pot, blanched the pork ribs for 8 minutes. Rinse and drain the water and set aside.
3. Wash the  sweet almonds and bitter almonds and set aside.
4. Peel of the skin of the shark fin melon and cut into cubes. I remove the seeds from the shark fin melon as well.
5. In a big pot, fill in water, pork ribs, sweet corn, shark fin melon, sweet corn cob, sweet almonds, bitter almonds and candied dates. Cook in high heat and after boiling, switch to medium heat and cook for 2.5 to 3 hours.
6. Add salt before serving.

Shark Fin Melon Soup with Corns