Memories in the Cooking

Recently, I have been watching cooking shows featuring Nadia Hussein. I am very impressed that she shares my belief of making delicious food using simple and even short-cut methods. The creation of this dessert is inspired by her. Instead of buying expensive mooncakes during this mid-autumn festival, I am making Mooncake Pie!  Ingredients - 1kg packet of Mooncake filling from Phoon Huat. This year, I tried Osmanthus flavour and Durian flavour.  - 1 cup of melon seeds  - 1 cup of sunflower seeds  - stored-bought filo pastry or roti- prata  - golden syrup  Procedures: 1) In a mixing bowl, mix the Mooncake filling with melon seeds and sunflower seeds.  2) In a tart tin, place the pastry as the base. If using filo pastry, you have to brush oil on each layer of pastry.  3) Add the Mooncake filling.  4) Cover the filling with pastry again. Brush some oil on the pastry.  5) Bake at 180 degree celsius for 30 mins.  6) Drizzle generous amount of golden syrup on the pie. Serve. 

Elote is a yummy Spanish-Mexican side-dish. Ingredients: - 4-5 sweet corns, cut into 2-3 segments each  - vegetable oil  - salt  - 1/2 cup of mayonnaise  - 1 teaspoon of Cayenne pepper  - black pepper  - 1 tablespoon of Parmesan cheese  Procedures: 1) Brush some vegetable oil on the corn and sprinkle some salt on them. Bake them at 220 degree celsius at 15-20 mins (turn the corns at half-time).  2) In a mixing bowl, mix the mayonnaise, Cayenne pepper, black pepper and Parmesan cheese well. Brush the mix on each piece of corn. Serve.