Simple Pancakes

Wow! I'm overwhelmed by the responses from my last post. Thank you so much for all the support and encouragement! Like one of my friends said, receiving this hate mail might not be a bad thing after all. One thing for sure, it showed that I do have people out there who cares about me and like what I'm doing. :) I have received a few more emails from the same person but I choose to send it to the junk box. Hopefully, he or she will stop sending me emails when there is no response from me. To those who had spend time send me emails and posting your comments here and in my chat box, sorry I have not response but do know that I'm truly grateful for your comforting words. I'm not very good with words. So, it's just thank you, thank you and more thank yous. Thank you so much for everything! :) Okay, this is for someone who likes me too (you do, right?) :P She works for a local kids magazine and she dropped me an email to check if I would be interested to do food feature for them. Aww ... what an honour! Thank you, Karin! :) I would love to help if I could and if I have the time. Hopefully, I didn't mess it up. :P She wanted something that kids can do on their own or with a little help from an adult and this is for mummy dearest on Mother's Day. I thought the very versatile, pancake, will be good idea. It can be served with anything! Just syrup and or butter. With Ice-cream and chocolate sauce. Yums! For the healthy one, with fruits, like what I did. ;) For the very local ones, sandwiched with red bean paste or kaya. I can go on and on. Kids nowadays are very creative. They will come out with their own creation to please mummy. I bet mummy will be touched to be served with any breakfast made by her children. But I bet she will be even more proud and impressed if the kitchen is cleaned up after that. LOL Ingredients:

• 140g Plain Flour
• 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
• 1/4 teaspoon Salt
• 40g Sugar
• 1 Egg, beaten
• 240ml Fresh Milk
• 30g Unsalted Butter, melted
• Icing Sugar
• Strawberries, top removed

How to do it:

1. Put flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a large bowl.
2. Mix well.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk egg, milk and butter together.
4. Pour the all of the egg mixture into the flour mixture.
5. Whisk till combined.
6. Heat a non-stick pan. If using a regular pan, brush it with some butter.
7. When the pan is hot, turn to low heat.
8. Pour some batter to the pan. Amount to pour depends on how big you want the pancake to be.
9. When batter starts to bubbles, flip over to cook on the other side.
10. Remove when pancake is slightly brown.
11. Repeat till all batter are used up.
12. To assemble, place a few pancake together.
13. Use a cookie cutter or a glass to cut a hole in the middle.
14. Remove the circle pancake.
15. Place strawberries in the hole of the pancake.
16. Dust with icing sugar.
17. Serve with additional syrup if you like.

Note: The cut-out pancakes can be use to make sandwich using peanut butter, jam, cheese, etc, as fillings.

Chicken Soup with Pear 雪梨鸡汤

Okay, before I feed you with some nourishing soup, I have something to tell you. Somebody out there hates me.

Yap, I received a long hate mail a couple of weeks ago. Basically, the person hates me and wants me to close my blog. Apparently, he/she says my blog is a waste of space in blogsphere. He/she doesn't understand what I'm writing and looking at what I cooked makes him/her vomit (may he/she happened to have food poisoning), blah, blah, blah, and the list goes on .

I'm a stay-at-home-mum who only started learning cooking when my elder son was slightly over 2 years old, that's about 4 years ago. I never mentioned anything about me able to cook like an expert. Nobody says anything about having to writing beautifully when you blog either. He/she must have really high standards for food blogs. :P

Oh! One more thing! I didn't create a few hundred emails to subscribed to my own blog if this is what he/she meant when he/she said I fake my own readership. And I have never forced anyone to subscribe to my blog too. Did I force you to subscribe?

So, dear "wokkingmum sucks" (that's what he/she signed off as), I'm sorry to disappoint you, this blog will not be closed even it makes you vomit; as least my family didn't. I'll continue to blog even nobody (except me) understands what I'm writing or nobody continues to visit this blog. It was meant as a cooking reference for myself when I first started it anyway. So it just back to square one even if it happens, no worries! :P

Okay, not that I need one but having a nourishing soup now is not a bad idea either. ;)

Ingredients:

• 1 Whole Chicken
• 200g Lean Pork
• 1 large Chinese Pear 雪梨 (round with brown skin)
• 5 Dried Figs 无花果
• 20g Chinese Almond 南杏
• 10g Apricot kernel 北杏
• 1.8 litre Water
• Salt to taste

How to do it:

1. Blanch chicken.
2. Skin, core and cut pear into pieces.
3. Add all ingredients except salt together.
4. Bring to a boil before reducing heat to a simmer.
5. Continue to cook for at least 2 hours.
6. Season with salt.
7. Serve.