Flavour Fest at Hunter Valley Garden, Sunday 13.06.2010

Today we went to Flavour Fest at Hunter Valley Garden

This Flavour Fest was held since yesterday until tomorrow.

First we have to get in on a quite a long queue

 At the entrance we were "welcome" by

a group of 4 beautiful Mammas

they called themselves

"Red Hot Chilli Mammas"

reminds me of a band called

"Red Hot Chilli Peppers"

Then we have to buy tokens
to taste wine and beer

Lots of Food Stalls

not only selling food but also

wine, jams, relishes, chutneys, cookies, cupcakes, etc.

We tried 2 pcs of Empanadas here

A$4.- each, yummy!

Ethiea coffee

Lucky we got to see Janelle Bloom today.

She cooked chicken green curry and I don't remember

the other dish is sweets.

Tips from Janelle Bloom which are very useful:

1. trim off excess fat from chicken, trans fat is not good for you,

it will clogged your artery.

2. when you use wok to cook, seasoned your wok.

Apply oil on your wok, heat it on stove, once it's hot,

switch off the stove.  Pour refined salt, use kitchen tissue

(carefully not to burn your hands) rub the wok.

You will see black mark on the kitchen tissue.

Repeat this 4 times before you use it at the first time.

3. when you do stir fry, prepare all ingredients because

once you start the wok, everything will be going fast.

4. when you do stir fry, let you wok heat first without oil.

If you put oil in a wok and heat it, the oil will be hot first.

If you heat the wok first, the food won't stick on the wok.

5. if you have to stir fry lot of chicken pieces, do it in batches.

So chicken will be sealed immediately and

not stir frying in its own juice.

6. for green curry, don't shake the can of coconut milk/cream,

because you need the top layer which is thicker first,

then the rest.

7. green curry is the most spicy one.

Red and Yellow curry is much less spicy.

8. To clean wooden chopping board,
run it under warm water,
then make a paste (mix bi-carb soda and water),
smear the paste on chopping board surface,
leave it for few minutes
sometimes you will see the color changed to darken,
that because it absorb the impurities from the chopping board.
Then clean it properly under running hot water,
and let it dry under the sun.

Hope those tips will be useful for you, too
(^_^)

I got a glass of Rose Martini from this stand.

It's nice :-)

This is the scene inside Beer and Wine tasting stall.

Janelle in action with Chris.

I recognized him from Ready Steady Cook.

Yummy pasta!

Chicken Ravioli with Mushroom Sauce

for $14.- really worth it look at the portion size

this is when we already ate half of it.

The Jitter Bugs show for kids

These plants looks like cauliflowers for me hahaha...

Red Hot Chilli Mammas singing "Red Red Wine"

as a goodbye song

Traffic jam when we are about to leave

the Chapel on the way out / entry

too bad the picture is dark

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Prawns and Vegetable Fritters

Prawns and Vegetable Fritters

Ingredients:

200 grams of prawns

Bean Sprouts, 100 gr of finely chopped cabbage,

1 grated carrot, 1 cup of sweet corn kernels

4 lime leaves, chopped finely, discard the stalk

2 spring onions, chopped finely

1 cup plain flour

1/2 cup rice flour

1 tbsp of curry powder

1 tsp coriander powder

1/2 tsp turmeric powder

1 cube of "OXO" chicken stock

salt and pepper

1 egg

1 can of coconut milk

1 clove of garlic, minced

1 shallot, minced

Method:

Mix well flour, spices, spring onions, lime leaves,

garlic and shallots

Make dwell in the middle

Pour coconut milk

and mix well with fork

Add 1 egg, mix well

Add water, enough to get the correct consistency of batter

Prepare oil in a pan first with high heat, once oil hot

lower the heat to medium.

Fry fritter and top it with prawns.

Fry both side until mixture cooked.

Serve with red bird eye chilis.

Oyster Sauce Fried Rice

Oyster Sauce Fried Rice

Ingredients:

2 plates of overnight rice

1/2 brown onion, finely chopped

100 gr of cabbage, finely chopped

1 tbsp of sambal oelek / chili paste

1 spring onion, finely chopped

2 tbsp of fish sauce

2 tbsp of oyster sauce

pepper

2 tbsp rice bran oil


Method:
Heat oil in a pan, add onion and garlic, sautee for 1 minute.
Then add sambal oelek, sautee until onion translucent.
Add rice, cabbage, fish sauce, oyster sauce.
Mix well until cabbage cooked.
Last add spring onion, mix well and switch off the stove.

Ready to serve.


Yummmoooooo....!!!

Mix Fried Rice and Rice Noodles

Mix Fried Rice and Rice Noodles

I had about 1 plate of overnight rice.  Also had rice noodles in the pantry.

So I decided to make mix fried rice with rice noodles.

Ingredients:

2 garlic, minced

200 gr of minced turkey

1 plate of overnight rice

1 package of dry rice noodles

100 gr of cabbage, finely chopped

1/3 package of bean sprouts

1 long red chilli, finely chopped

2 spring onions, finely chopped
2 eggs, beaten well

1 tbsp of oyster sauce

2 tbsp of light soy sauce

1 tbsp of sweet soya sauce

pepper

2 tbsp rice bran oil

Method:

Prepare rice noodle including instruction, set aside.

Heat oil in a pan, sautee garlic and chilli until fragrant.

Add minced turkey and sautee until color changed.

Add rice, rice noodle and cabbage.

Add oyster sauce, light and sweet soy sauce and pepper.

Mix well then add beaten eggs, spring onion and bean sprout.

Mix well again until eggs cooked and switch off the stove.

Ready to serve.

Minced Turkey, Japanese Tofu and Bean Sprouts

Minced Turkey, Japanese Tofu and Bean Sprouts

Ingredients:

300 gr of minced turkey

4 cloves of garlic, minced

120 gr of bean sprouts

1 block of Japanese Firm Tofu ("Morinaga" brand), cubed

Plain flour, as needed

1 tbsp of oyster sauce

1 tbsp of mirin seasoning

1 tsp of salt

pepper

Method:

Flour cubed tofu (just to cover the tofu and not a thick flour coating)

pan fry them with oil until golden, set aside.

Heat oil in a pan, add garlic and sautee until fragrant.

Add minced, sautee until color changed.

Add oyster sauce, mirin seasoning, salt and pepper.

Mix well, then add bean sprouts.

Sautee about 30 seconds.

Switch off the stove.

Garnish with spring onions.

YUM!!

Minced Turkey in Teriyaki Sauce

Minced Turkey (and Green Peas) in Teriyaki Sauce

Ingredients:

250 gr of minced turkey

5 cloves of garlic, minced

1 cup of green peas

1 red chilli, thinly chopped

2 spring onions, thinly sliced

1 tbsp of oyster sauce

3 tbsp of teriyaki sauce

1 tbsp of sugar

pepper

+/- 30 ml of water

Method:

Heat oil in a pan, add garlic and sautee until fragrant.

Add minced, sautee until color changed.

Add green peas, oyster sauce, teriyaki sauce, sugar, pepper, and water.

Mix well, sautee for 1 minute further.

Switch off the stove, add spring onion and mix well.

Easy ;-)  Enjoy :-)

Tempe Lemak

Tempe Lemak

I saw this on TV Program called
"A Guide to Food Lovers"
This recipe is actually for LAKSA LEMAK
But I didn't have enough ingredients at that time for Laksa
so I just make Tempe Lemak.

In that show, the restaurant owner didn't mention the measurement for each ingredient.

Here is the ingredients that I made for Tempe Lemak:
 
1 package of tempe, cubed
3 tbsp of rice bran oil
2 Brown onions, thinly sliced
1 knob of ginger, grated
2 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced
1 stalk of lemongrass, bruised
1 tsp of chilli powder
1 tsp of turmeric powder
1 tbsp of curry powder

275 ml (1 small can) of coconut milk
1/2 tsp of salt
 Fried shallots for garnish.

Method:

Heat oil in a pan, sautee onions pureed until soften.
Add garlic, ginger, lemongrass, chili powder, turmeric powder and curry powder.
Mix well until fragrant.
Add coconut milk, tempe and salt.
Lower the heat to low.
Simmer for about 10 minutes.

Switch off the stove, add fried shallots as garnish.

It was delicious!