Meat pie!

Hello Hello Hello!!
How's everyone doing?
This post will be my interpretation of a meat pie that I have made many times before.
I found this recipe in one of my recipe book which I started writing last year when i thought of starting a blog but was too busy..

Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 large brown onion, finely chopped
• 500g lean beef mince
• 1 carrot,grated
• 1 tablespoon cornflour
• 3/4 cup beef stock
• 3/4 cup tomato sauce
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon barbecue sauce
• 2 sheets frozen, ready-rolled shortcrust pastry, thawed

• Method:

  1. Heat oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. 
  2. Add onion and the carrot and cook for 3 minutes or until soft.
  3. Then add the mince and cook for 4 minutes, till brown.
  4. Mix cornflour and 1 tablespoon of stock to form a paste in a bowl then add the remaining stock.
  5. Next,add the stock and sauces to mince. Bring to the boil and reduce the heat to medium-low.
  6. Let it simmer for 8 minutes or until thick and allow it to cool.
  7. Preheat the oven to 220°C. Place a baking tray into oven and grease 4 x 8cm base measurement pie pans or muffin pans.
  8. Cut 4 x 15cm circles from the shortcrust pastry. Use it to line the bases and the sides of pans. Fill it with mince. Then brush the rims with water and season with salt and pepper.
  9. Place pies onto hot tray. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden
• Optional:
• Ingredients:
• 2 sheets frozen puff pastry, thawed
• 1 egg, beaten
• 
  
• Method:

1. Cut 4 x 15cm circles from the puff pastry and place it over the meat. Press to seal and trim. Next brush the top with egg.
2. Place pies onto hot tray. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden

ENJOY!!!

Lots of Love,

Ade
=D
<3
p.s. I am apologise for the quality of the picture and how the pie looks as I couldn't find any recent ones so I had to use the one that I could find which was the first one I made last year.

Seriously, I apologise. I will promise to update the picture once I make these again.

Milo cupcakes..=)

So,I wanted to bake something but I couldn't think of anything yummy so I gave up then I wanted a cup of milo so I thought of making milo cupcakes..
Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup self raising flour
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons milo
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk

Method:
1. Add flour,sugar and milo into a mixing bowl. Mix till evenly mixed through.
2. Add butter,vanilla extract,eggs and milk into the dry mixture. Mix till well combined and mixture is smooth.
3. Get a cupcake tray or whatever shape you want it to be and pour into the tray.
4. Bake in a 180 degree celcius fan-forced oven till it firms up and slightly brown for 25 minutes(cupcake).
5. Enjoy!! =)

<3 Ade
P.s. I had butterscotch as an "icing"!

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Chocolate chip cookies

Hey everyone!!
I'm back..I apologise for not posting up something for so long..
Well,the story behind this recipe is basically..I haven't baked anything in AGES so I couldn't stand it anymore and I thought of cookies right away..
I was a lil cheeky and a lil rebellious cause I wasn't suppose to be baking anything at all and I was suppose to be studying for an exam in November..
I manage to do it cause dad was asleep but I had to work extra quick to make the dough and put them on baking paper..I did all these in my room giving my dad the impression of me studying but I clearly wasn't.
Anyway,I've always loved Choc chip cookies..they are my favourites and I am very proud of this recipe cause its one of my own that I have tried and tested for awhile..
Enough talking and let's get cooking..
Ingredients:
125 grams of butter or margerine
1/2 of a cup of brown sugar
1/3 of a cup of caster sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
1 and a half cup of self raising flour
3/4 chocolate chip
Note: I had excess chocolate Easter eggs from Easter so I used them up
Method:
1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees celcius.
2. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
3. Mix in vanilla essence and egg.
4. Sift the flour into the bowl and stir in full combined.
5. Add in chocolate chips.
6. Place teaspoons of the mixture on a greased baking tray or a lined baking tray.
7. Bake for 15 minutes if till golden brown.
You now have yummy cookies to munch on..
Lots of love,
Ade the young learner..
=)

Leave comments and tell me what you think..
Thanks for reading!
Hope you had fun making them as much as I did..
Also,I'm sorry I don't have pictures for this post but I'll put them on once I make these cookies again..
The reason I don't have pictures is cause the kids I was babysitting..stole the cookies as they were cooling so I have none..I'm sorry..

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Apple and pear pancakes

Woke up one Saturday and I felt like pancakes so this is it.

Ingredients:
1 cup plain flour
1 cup milk
1 egg
1 diced Apple
1 diced pear
A pinch of salt

Method:
1. Add flour and egg into a medium sized bowl.
2. Stir while gradually adding milk.
3. Mix till well combined and then a pinch of salt.
4. Combine the apple and pear to the mixture.
5. Medium heat,grease the pan, pour a decent size amount of batter and cook it off..
6. Cook both sides till golden brown and you are ready to eat.

<3 Ade

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Ade's Fried rice

Hey everyone,its ade and I'm back with another recipe. I made this fried rice cause I had extra rice but then when I wanted the other ingredients,I couldn't find any so I grabbed whatever I could find in the fridge and the pantry and went with it..
So here we go,

Ingredients:
2 cups cooked rice
1 diced carrots
2 sliced sausages / frankfurts
3 diced bacon (I used shoulder cut)
1 diced large brown onion
1 cup chicken stock
1 lightly beaten egg
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon sweet soy sauce
1 tablespoon of sugar

Method:
1. Add oil,just to cover the pan.
2. Sweat off the carrots and onions. Then add the bacon and the sausages with a third of a cup of chicken stock to the pan.
3.Allow stock to evaporate and remove from heat.
4. Add more oil to fry of egg. Then once all cooked add in the carrots, onions,bacon and sausages back in.
5. Add rice and stir all ingredients together..
6. Once all combined add the rest of the stock to the pan and allow it to just evaporate..
Mix it throughout the process to make sure no rice is stuck at the bottom of the pan.
7. Next put in the soy sauce,sugar and the sweet soy sauce mix it well into the rice..
Should have even brown colour all over..
8. Add salt and pepper to taste to your liking of course.
<3 Ade

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Orange and lemon lemonade-first recipe!

Ingredients:
3 lemons
1 large Orange
2 cup water
7 Tbspn sugar

Method:
1. Juice the lemons and oranges.
2. Boil the water and add 3 tablespoons of sugar and stir till dissolve.
3. Add the juice into the sugar water and stir again until all combined. Optional: if you do not want pulp in your juice,pass it through a sieve.
4. Taste and adjust the sweetness to your liking..
Allow it to cool and there you go, you got yourself some Orange and lemon lemonade..
<3 Ade

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What is this?

Hi, I would just want to give an intro to this blog and what I am doing with this..
But before I get started on that..I am going to give you an intro of myself..so here it goes...
My name is Adelene Chen,I'm 16 and still in highschool..
I live in Orange,New South Wales with my dad..
I was originally from Malaysia but I migrated here on Nov 2009 and has been here since..
I've always loved being in the kitchen..
Eventho both my parents have never taught me anything about cooking,I managed to learn the basics and some really yummy dishes from my maid that our family had for 11 years back in Malaysia.
She was the start of my passion for cooking..When I look back now,I'm glad I had meet her..
Food to me is family and all heart..
It also amazes me how different individual things when cooked and combined changes the senses of your body..
It is a lil bit of science as well..experimentation and making stuff look pretty..
I am planning to be a pastry chef like Adriano Zumbo(who I actually take as my idol) or a chef in general as my future career..
So,that the end about me...now to this mysterious blog that you might have already figured out what its for..
I created this blog to post foods I have experimented or cooked whilst being in Australia..
I got this idea from a friend of mine..who supports me in whatever I do..which I am thankful for..=)
Now I think I wrote too much so I'll be ending this block of death and hope you enjoy what I put out on this blog or maybe try it sometime..support me if you please..click follow or share when I am good enough for your standards..
Thank you and I shall write soon..
<3 Ade.
=D

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