Light Mac & Cheese pasta

This is another Sneaky Chef’s recipe. Very easy & fun to prepare. In fact, it’s so easy, Hayden help made this dish.
End result – a very cheesy dish, definitely a kid’s fav!

• 1½cup evaporated skim milk
• ¼cup white puree
• 113g white cheddar
• 2 tbsp Parmesan cheese
• 1 tbsp unsalted butter
• ½tsp honey mustard (I omitted this)

*Cook all over low heat.
Then add 4 cups of cooked elbows/small pasta & stir to combine well. Serve hot.

Layered Focaccia loaf - Jamie Oliver's

Another Jamie Oliver’s recipe – Layered Focaccia
End result – a very cheesy loaf! Hubby find it too salty & advised me not to let Hayden try. So in d end, I had to freeze it up & had it for my BF for 1wk. But I loved it! D herbs really give it a very fresh unique taste. it might not look good (cause I replaced 1cup flour w/raw wheatgrem), but good enough for me.

• 1 basic bread recipe **
• 170g parmesan cheese, grated
• 200g fontina/cheddar, grated
• 140g mild gorgonzola cheese, crumbled
• 2 handful rockets
• 1 handful fresh marjoram, leaves picked
• Olive oil

**(30g yeast + 30g honey + 625ml warm water + 1 kg strong bread flour + 30g salt)
Put basic bread ingredients into bread maker & select dough function.
Roll out & fold/tuck rest of d ingredients into d dough after 1st prove.
Rub top with little olive oil & rip over some fresh sage/thyme.
Allow 2nd prove.
Bake in preheated oven @ 180c 25mins.
Let it sit for 25 mins be4 eating.

Tangy Buttermilk Cheese loaf

Needed to finish up d bal cheddar cheese so I decided on this recipe to try. Yield a really moist loaf & taste good even on its own.

• 1 1/8 cup Buttermilk
• ¾ cup extra sharp cheddar (grated)
• 1½ tsp sugar
• 1½ tsp salt
• 1½ tsp yeast
• 3 cup bread flour
  

Lemon cream cheese bread

Realised there’s still some cream cheese filling left in d fridge & decided to finish it up tonite for d yogurt bread. Also trying to finish up bal lemon zest & grated cheddar cheese, thus, all these r gg into d bread. At 1st, dough was quite wet so I added 1tbsp bread flour. Then, I realised dough didn’t rise well during d 1st proof in d ABM. 15mins into d 2nd proof phase, again, didn’t raise well. Was thinking of switching off d ABM & giving it more time to proof, but decided against it due to d fact that it’s alrdy 11pm now. So with fingers crossing, I went back to check again when it’s 10mins into baking phase & it has raise very nicely! Phew!

So now it’s tasting time. With so many weird additional, am really not sure how it will turn out. But end result is actually ok. Cant really taste d cream cheese but definitely smell very lemony & d cheddar cheese is a great add-on too.

Ingredients

• 2 cups bread flour
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• ½tsp salt
• ½tsp yeast
• 100g cream cheese filling
• 60g fresh milk
• 1 large egg
• 30g butter
• 1 lemon zest (optional)
• ¼ cup grated cheddar cheese (optional)

Put all ingredients into ABM in order suggested by manufacturer. Select basic 500g loaf bread cycle & light crust setting.

Blueberry Cheddar Cheese Pancakes

Having problem getting Hayden to eat again. Not sure if this is part of his growing process or what.. sigh.. Usually, he will drink a bottle of milk when he wakes up in d morning but today, after asking for d bottle, he actually didnt want to drink it. So last min, I rushed to d kitchen to check what I have in d fridge for a quick bf recipe & saw d cheddar cheese. That's when I remembered I had BH's Blueberry Cheddar Cheese pancakes recipe on my to-dos so here goes.
End result - very light & fluffy indeed! & as usually, since Hayden hate to c 'black' thingy in his food, I opt out blueberry from his spoon of batter. I only put 1 tbsp of batter for each of his pancakes & he ate 5 pieces! GREAT! Surprisingly both hubby & MIL preferred it w/o d blueberry too!

Due to d rush, I have modified d recipe abit.

• ½ cup flour
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• Pinch of salt & cinnamon
• 1½ tbsp sugar
• ½ cup cheddar cheese
• 1 small pkt milk (ard 110g)
• 1 egg (lightly beaten)
• 1 tbsp butter (melted, or oil)
• ¼ cup blueberries (I used frozen)

1. Put all ingredients into a big mixing bowl & whisked them together.
2. Heat up d pan & spoon batter into pan.
3. Cook till both surface is golden brown.

Cheese loaf 汤种芝士面包

d 1st attempt with d water roux starter (65°C湯種) was not as good as expected, likely because I modified a 'normal' recipe instead of using a ‘proper’ water roux starter recipe. So I went in search again for a proper recipe in order to use up d bal water roux starter & decided on this cheese roll from Angie's blog. But instead of making it into rolls, I just put everything into d ABM for a loaf. And according to d original recipe, I have enough of water roux starter to make 2 loafs so 1 dough goes into d freezer for future lazy-day baking.

End result – a very soft & bouncy loaf!

In d past, I always have problem trying to cut d bread into thin/even slices across. So most time, I press down too firm on 1 end & d loaf usually takes a while to bounce back or didn’t bounce back at all. As for this cheese loaf, it actually bounces back almost immediately after I released my hands! Very NICE!
However, it does not keep as well as d Hokkaido Milky bread cause it's a bit harden on d 3rd day. Cant wait to try out d bal frozen dough to c if freezing d dough changes any texture at all.

Wholemeal Cheesy bread

Run out of bread flour, thus, I thot I try out d Cheesy Buttermilk bread recipe using wholemeal flour instead.

• 3 cups bread flour (replaced w/ wholemeal wheat flour)
• 1 1/8 cups buttermilk
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 3/4 cup grated chedder
• 1 1/2 tsp yeast

It turn out heavy even though I have increased d milk by 3tbsp cause it looks quite dry after 5mins of kneading in d bread machine. Taste not as good as using bread flour but at least Hayden took 2 slices!

Cheezy Bread

Cheezy bread turn out looking spoty but taste Great!

• 1cup fresh milk
• 1/8cup butter
• 1tsp salt
• 2tbsp sugar
• 3/4cup grated cheddar
• 3cup bread flour
• 1.5tsp yeast

Select normal bread w/light setting