Hawaiian Baked Rice

I found that the key to any of the baked rice is " The rice". Make sure the cooked rice is cooked with chicken stock ( homemade or Swanson brand is good), plus some butter n garlic , so nice.

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups uncooked rice
enough chicken stock to cook rice. If you dont have , use plain water is ok.
5 garlic cloves
1 can pineapple , diced
4-5 slices of ham, cut square
20 g butter
1 cup mushroom soup
shredded mozzarella cheese (150g) ( I obmit this)
shredded cheddar cheese (150g)
salt & pepper to taste

Method
1. wash n rinse the uncooked rice until clear.
2.In a heated sauce pan, melt the butter, and add in washed rice, add salt & Pepper, keep stir until the water is dried up. off fire.
3. Transfer the rice into rice cooker, add in sufficient stock , and cook. (note: dont put too much water to cook, because when pineapple is mixed in, the pineapple will have some juice , and mushroom soup is smear on, more liquid here)
4. When the rice is cooked, stir in pineapple and cut ham.
5. smear some mushroom soup on top, layer with cheese, follow by some pineapple n ham.
6. Baked the rice at 200C for 20 - 25 mins or until just slightly brown.


Butter melting..

Butter rice ..

Garlic Butter rice. More garlic if you like to enhance the flavour, next time I will sprinkle some garlic powder too!

smear some mushroom soup on top. make sure the soup is not too watery.

slurp!

Chicken and mushroom croquette

waa .. I feel so Happy I m back to blogging! I wake up at 8am this morning, quickly fried these croquettes, when I m finished, both my sisters came down already. They ate, They liked. ;) one of them said it tastes like nugget. ha ha

Ingredients
Butter 5 Tbsp
Plain flour 5 Tbsp
salt & pepper to taste
milk - 1 cup
Boiled chicken breast - 500g, diced
canned button mushroom - 1 can or less, halved
Dry breadcrumbs ( I used panko)
egg - 1, beaten.

Method
1. Boiled the chicken breast in pot of salted water about 20 mins. When its done, drop in the mushroom to blanch a bit. When the chicken is cool, cut into cubes.
2. Melt butter in a pan, stir in flour, salt and pepper, continue to stir and add in milk. Cook, stir over low heat until the mixture is smooth and Thick!. Off Fire. Mix in Chicken and Mushrooms.
3. Spread the mixture on a pan, cover and fridge for 2 hours or more. I put overnite, so it will be firm enough to cut round.
4. Use a round biscuit cutter, cut out the patties.
5. Coat the patties with eggs, then coat with breadcrumbs.
6. Heat up the oil, and fry the croquettes until golden brown. Serve immediately. Eat with Cuke! I mean cucumber, so it cool down ur body as well! ha ha ;)




Firm mixture before cut into round shapes. I prepare this 1 night before i cook. U dont have to do this, u can let it fridge for 2-3 hours. This is really firm, so is really easy to handle when you cut into round shape.


coated and naked croquette

Croquette coated with panko (breadcrumbs)

Frying time..

hA! golden brown chicken and mushroom croquette

see my previous Salmon Croquettes

Free Ringtone for Iphone (Custom-made)

I had some frustrations over how to create own ringtone from my favourite songs , without any paid ringtone maker! The following only apply for Window users, any MP3, songs from CD, as long as not songs purchased from Itunes.

Step 1: Open your ITune , music library, select the song u like to convert. Before proceed to Step 2, play the songs, mark down the starting & ending point of the song u like ( limit to 40seconds only)

Step 2: Right click the selected song, goto Option tab, change the " start time" and " Stop time". Clock OK.

Step 3: Right click the same song again, select "convert AAC versions".

Step 4: After that, you will see a same title's song of AAC version is right below the original song. How to differentiate? Just see one with shorter playtime. that's the one.

Step 5: If you find it hard to differentiate, point your mouse to the Title Bar, right click, select KIND.

Step 6: Here you go, MPEG version and AAC version. Now we want the AAC version.

Step 7: Select the AAC version, right click, select Show in Window Explorer.

Step 8: Here your converted ringtone in the folder.

Step 9: Goto window toolbar, select Tools, Folder Options


Step 10: Click View Tab, see the highlighted box ? " untick" the column! so that your files can see their extensions.

Step 11: Now, Right click the song in the folder, change the extension to m4r.

Step 12: Click YES.

Step 13: Now, select ur song and Drag it to your desktop! ( so that you can easily find it back later)

Step 14: Go back to your ITune. Select the Song tat we converted to AAC , and DELETE it.

Step 15: Click REMOVE.

Step 16: After delete, drag the ringtone we just located at Desktop back to Library! ( the blue ). Dont worry, the ITune will automatically allocate under ringtone section.

Step 17: See, under Library, RIngtone section, your file is there. Now ready to sync to your iphone.

Step 18: Before your sync, make sure your songs is listed under Devices, Ringtone as above. Then select and Sync! After that, goto your iphone, under "settings, sounds, ringtone, the songis locate at the most top part.