PapaCheong's Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

2 Cups Flour (For best results, I use Bake King's Top Flour)
A pinch of salt
1/2 Tsp baking soda
150g Salted Butter, softened
2/3 Cup Brown Sugar
1/2 Cup Castor Sugar
2 Tsp Vanilla Essence
1 Egg
200g Chocolate Chips

Method

1. Combine the flour, salt, and baking soda, and set aside. (This will be called dry ingredients)

2. Cream butter and sugars. 

3. Add vanilla and the egg and mix to combine. 

4. Add the dry ingredients and stir to combine. 

5. Mix in the chocolate chips. 

6. Scoop by ice-cream scoop or tablespoonfuls onto a cookie sheet and bake at 200 Degrees C for 15 min.

7. Enjoy!

*My wife said these cookies taste just like those sold at Subway!

Rösti with Cheese Sausage and Sour Cream

Ingredient

2 medium Russet Potatoes, shredded

2 Cheese Sausages (NTUC Cheese Sausage taste Good)

1 Tbsp Sour Cream

Salt

Cooking Oil

Method

1. Boil a pot of water, add in salt and boil shredded potatoes for 5 mins
2. Drain and squeeze dry from moisture
3. Heat up non-stick pan on medium heat and add 2 tbsp of oil

4. Gather enough shredded potatoes and sprinkle all over the pan to form a potato patty

5. On medium heat, leave it untouched for 8 mins

6. Flip over, and fry for another 8 mins

7. In a seperate pan, grill your sausages for 5 mins

8. Once Rösti is done, plate them with 2 sausages
9. Scoop a Tbsp of Sour Cream on the side

10. Enjoy!

Lazy Lunch of Baked Yellow Courgette, Cheese Sausage and Egg

Ingredients

2 Cheese Sausage

1 Yellow Courgette, Cut to thick pieces

1 Egg

Salt and Pepper

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Method

1. Crack 1 Egg into a Ramekin, season with pepper and Olive Oil.

2. Arrange sausage and courgette in a pan, Drizzle Olive Oil over them.

3. Sprinkle salt and pepper over them to taste.

4. Pre heat oven to 180 degrees C

5. Bake for 20 mins

6. Enjoy!

Mushroom and Spinach Quiche

Ingredients

4 eggs

1 bunch or packet of Spinach, chopped

10 Mushrooms (Any type you fancy), Chopped into 1cm cubes

4 sheets of Spring Roll (Popiah) skin

2 cloves Garlic, minced

Block of Parmesan Cheese

Salt and Pepper

Oil

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200 Degrees C

2. Heat up a pan and add oil

3. When oil is warmed through, add in minced Garlic.

4. Stri Fry mushrooms till brown and soft

5. Add in Spinach and fry till cooked

6. Remove from heat, set aside

7. In a Pie Pan, Lay the Spring Roll skin in alternate positioning 90degrees to prevent the egg liquid to seep 

through

8. Scoop the mushrooms and spinach into the pan

9. Beat the 4 eggs and pour into the pan

10. Shave generous shavings of Parmesan Cheese on top (Up to your choice)

11. Bake in oven for 30 mins

12. Enjoy!

Avocado, Cherry Tomatoes and Yoghurt Salad

Ingredients

1 Avocado

10 Cherry Tomatoes

150ml Plain Yoghurt

Method

1. Cut, peel and chop up an avocado

2. Cut cherry tomatoes into half

3. Mix avocado and cherry tomatoes in a mixing bowl

4. Add in Yoghurt

5. Mix well

6. Enjoy!

Roast Potato With Parsley

Ingredients

5 Large Potatoes, washed with skin on
4 - 5 Sprigs Parsley
Generous lugs of Olive Oil
Sea Salt
Black Pepper

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 200˚C.
2. Boil the potatoes with 1 tsp of salt for 5 mins. Drain and cut the potatoes into quarters or leave whole if smaller.
3.  Arrange the potatoes in a baking tray and scatter Parsley over them. Then drizzle the olive oil and sprinkle some sea salt and black pepper.

4. Roast the potatoes for 50 mins until the potatoes turn crispy and the flesh are tender.

5. Enjoy!

Mango Muffin

Ingredients

250g Mango (I use Thai Rainbow Mango as they are in season)

165g Castor Sugar

215g Butter

4 Eggs

1/2 Tsp Baking Powder

230g Self Raising Flour

Method

1. Slice and mash the mango. Set aside.

2. Beat butter and sugar together till light and fluffy

3. Add Eggs and continue whisking

4. Fold in sifted flour and baking powder into the wet mixture until evenly mixed.

5. Add in mango and mix well

6. Pre-heat oven to 180 Degrees C

7. Scoop mixture into muffin cups, up to the half way mark

8. Bake for 25 mins

9. Enjoy!

(Makes 12)