Home Bakes/ Cooking

Feeling lazy and need to whip up a quick meal? Try out the @helloYoRipe app for recipe ideas! There are 8 different collections in the app to fit your mood: Bored, Homesick, Netflix Marathon, Tired, Fancy, Cold, Local and Hungry.
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I found this fried rice recipe under "Netflix Marathon". It was really easy to follow. Explained it briefly to my in-law's helper, and she whipped it up for us in a jiffy. Swipe ⬅️ to find out more about the app!
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Everything starts with a feeling. 😊
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Was feeling <> and scrolling through the @HelloYoRipe app under the Moods Category when this recipe came by. Overall it was really quick and convenient. After marinating the fish, I took a quick shower and came back to bake this salmon steak in the oven. No down time and dinner was served in 30 minutes (including prep + cooking time).
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Loved the marinates btw, with light soy sauce, lemon, honey, ginger and garlic. 🐟 Swipe ⬅️ to find out more about the app!
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My in-law's helper is indeed a very fast learner. After watching me make sushi 🍣 a few days back, she made it on her own and I have to say it's way neater than mine! We had steamed salmon for dinner, so some of it was used to make this sushi. Who wants to try her sushi? 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️
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Bento Recipe:
🔸Omelette: Ingredients include eggs, @AyamBrandSG's sardines in black bean sauce, chopped onion, tomatoes, oil and pepper to taste. Fry all ingredients together. As the black bean sauce can be a little salty, you may cut down on the salt.
🔸Salmon sushi: Ingredients include sushi rice, dried seaweed and salmon flakes. Place seaweed on sushi mat, followed by rice and then salmon on top. Wrap tightly. Cut into into bite-sized pieces using a sharp knife.
🔸Bento box: Line one row of sushi at the side. On the other end, place the bread (I usually like those with wholemeal or grains) to form the base, then add the omelette and cheese above. Cover with another bread slice. Lastly, add cherry tomatoes to fill up the gaps.
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Submit your entry too for Ayam Brand's latest contest! Most creative bento wins a 3D2N staycation in Shangri-La Singapore! Just post a picture of your bento made using their sardines (in 120g tin) and tag @AyamBrandSG + #AyamBrandBento. Contest runs till 20 Oct 2019. More info available at @AyamBrandSG or http://bit.ly/AyamBrandSG. 😏
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So tomorrow is the start of Term 4! Decided to do something special and also submit an entry for @AyamBrandSG's Sardine Bento Box Contest. Can you see the 2 teddy buddies 🐻🐻 sleeping on their cheese pillow 🧀, hugging their sardine bolsters 🐟, and covered snuggly by their bread crust blankets? 😋
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Featuring Ayam Brand's sardines and tuna, this bento box is nutrition-packed with carbos (bread and sushi rice), proteins (sardines, tuna, egg) and fruits (strawberries). Ooh and veggie too (if seaweed counts 😅). The sardine tin was easy to open, and I like the range of flavors available (e.g. with black bean sauce, teriyaki sauce, olive oil and chilli).
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Recipe:
🔸 Tuna sushi: Ingredients are sushi rice, dried seaweed, Ayam Brand's Omega-3 Tuna (150g) and light mayonnaise. Place seaweed on sushi mat and rice on top. Wrap tightly. Cut into into sushi rolls. Spoon the mayo-tuna mix on top of the sushi.
🔸Bento box: Place the bread on the bento box to form the base, then add the various ingredients - cheese, egg, Ayam Brand's Sardines in Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Peppercorn (120g) - above. Lastly, add the hard boiled egg, sushi and fruits to fill up the gaps.
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Ayam Brand's 120g Sardines can be purchased from @RedmartCom and major supermarket stores. Submit your contest entry too, and stand a chance to win 3D2N staycation in Shangri-La Singapore in the “Themed Family Suite” worth $3000! Contest runs till 20 Oct 2019.
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I needed to prepare dinner and YoRipe (@HelloYoRipe), a new recipe app, gave me this inspiration - Tuna and Cherry Tomato Pasta! 😉
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Though I switched the buckwheat in the original recipe for normal pasta, the recipe was overall super easy. One of the best things I like about this app is how easily I can key in the servings I need to cook and the ingredient proportions are automatically updated. And being a Singapore-based app, there are various local recipes too, e.g. there are 5 laksa-inspired dishes.🥘
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Download YoRipe from App Store or Google Play and let me know how you find it. Swipe ⬅️ for more pics. 👍
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Here's a jelly cake made by my in-laws' helper! I had suggested that she could consider replacing water with green tea but she creatively made this double-layered jelly instead.
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The top was made of pure green tea, while the bottom was the usual osmanthus wolfberry one. I think she's pretty talented, don't you agree? 😉
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As some of you already know, I have been baking my own mooncakes for several years already. To push the boundaries a little further this year, I decided to bake ondeh ondeh inspired ones. Ondeh ondeh, a type of Peranakan kueh, is one of my most favourite local desserts, as I love how the gula melaka playfully squirts into my mouth as I bite into them.

In these fusion mooncakes, I make use of the various ingredients of the ondeh ondeh, such as gula melaka, desiccated coconut, pandan (pandan coconut paste from @KCTSoya) etc. Whilst this mooncake will look closest to the original kueh in snowskin form, I decided to have them baked as I am wary about the (unhealthy) shortening used in snowskin mooncakes.
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Do you prefer mooncakes in traditional or fusion form? View my IG Stories "Bake Mooncakes" for videos and follow the link on my bio for my airfryer recipe! 🥮
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Here's a jelly cake made by my in-laws' helper! I had suggested that she could consider replacing water with green tea but she creatively made this double-layered jelly instead.
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The top was made of pure green tea, while the bottom was the usual osmanthus wolfberry one. I think she's pretty talented, don't you agree? 😉
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#thehedgehogknows #homemade #osmanthus #jelly #homebakesg #sghomebaker

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Though I switched the buckwheat for normal pasta, the recipe was overall super easy. One of the best things I like about this app is how easily I can key in the servings I need to cook and the ingredient proportions are automatically updated. And being a Singapore-based app, there are various local recipes too, e.g. there are 5 laksa-inspired dishes!
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Download YoRipe from Appstore or Google Play too and let me know how you find it. Swipe ⬅️ for more pics. 👍
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Had too many ingredients in my kitchen and whipped up a quick cake! This was very moist and @KelloggSingapore's granola offered a nice crunch! 😍
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Adapted from one of my most popular airfryer cake recipes: https://thehedgehogknows.blogspot.com/2015/02/banana-cake-using-air-fryer.html. Have a great Sunday! 😆
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This is what happens when inspiration hits and you can't shake it off - a weekday night bake after work! 😆
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Baked this cake using 3-in-1 @ChaTraMueSG Thai milk tea (as close as I can get to the real thing!) and @AyamBrandSG coconut milk. Though I could cut down on the sugar and the tea aroma could be stronger, I really liked the soft cake texture and slightly crispy sides. 😜
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Don't think anyone would have guessed it was baked in the airfyer hee hee. Swipe ⬅️ for more pics and video.
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The weekend means it's time to bake again! Here's my Apple and Hazelnut Cake 🍏🎂 baked in my airfryer using what I had in the kitchen. Adapted from @the.italian.hob's Pear and Almond Cake recipe.
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Couldn't help but have it warm right away though it was almost midnight, and paired it with @icecreamcookieco's acai ice cream. The cake was so moist. Definitely worth those supper calories!
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