Donuts to go with coffee or tea!

I bought a fantastic book on baking bread, the title is "The World of Bread" by Alex Goh baking class. "Popular" bookstores carry the book, cost around $14. The ingredients are simple and instructions easy to follow. Today I decided to make donuts.

Ingredients
(A)
150g Bread flour
100g Plain flour
10g Milk powder
30g Sugar
5g Salt
1/4 tbsp baking powder
2 tsp yeast

(B)
1 Egg yolk
150ml cold water

(C)
25g Shortening

Chocolate Topping
50g chocolate
15ml milk
Roast almonds slices

Method
1)Mix (A) until well blended then add (B), knead to form a dough.
2)Add (C) to knead into a smooth dough.
3)Leave the dough to prove for 45 mins under a wet cloth.
4)Mould the dough into a ball and leave it for another 15mins.
5)Roll the dough out into 10mm thickness.
6)Use a doughnut cutter to cut out individual donuts.
7)Put the donuts onto lightly floured tray under wet cloth. Leave for 35mins.
8)Heat the oil and fry the donuts till slighly browned.
9)If you want sugared donuts, coat with fine sugar when it is still hot.
10)If you like chocolate coated ones, melt the chocolate by double boiling method, coat the top of the donut then sprinkle the almonds slices on top.

Healthy lunch

Had disappeared for a long time, really busy at work, and felt rather tired after doing alot of baking recently. :) Dotter had to do a healthy lunch with my help as a project over the long National Day weekend, so she did the planning and managed to come up with a healthy and yet delicious dish.

Ingredients

Broccoli washed and cut into smaller pieces
Carrot julienned
Fishball 6 pieces halved
Mushrooms 4 pieces chopped
1 tbsp oil from fried onion
Egg white from an egg (optional)
2 tbsp soya sauce











1)Arrange the broccoli in the outermost ring.


2)Next place the carrots in the middle of the plate.







3)Place the fishball in a ring on top of the carrots.







4)Next add the chopped mushroom right in the middle.
5)Drizzle onion oil and soya sauce on the ingredients.
6)The ingredients are now ready for steaming.
7)Steam the ingredients for 10mins.

8)Add the egg white on top of the fishball and mushrooms and steam for another 5mins.


9)Remove from steamer and the dish is ready.