10 minutes Microwave Chocolate cake

I have been craving for chocolate cake for days and almost pick up the car key and drive to bakery a couple of times!

It gets so bad yesterday night that I finally gave in and made this simple, quick microwave cake.

I got similar recipe years back from a auntie in India, I did modified a little to suite my taste and to make it a little moist this time ... it is very nice !!

【黑椒炒乌冬面】Stir Fried Black Pepper Udon

黑椒乌冬面是马来西亚大排档里经常可以吃到的一道面食，是喜欢炒粉的朋友可以一试的一道美食。

This stir fry Udon is one of the common noodle you could order from typical Malaysia street food stall (Dai Pai Dong), a good way to cook Udon noodle.

Coriander Chutney (Dhania Chutney)

This green chutney is a very versatile and useful chutney at home, I always prepared some and fridge it up. It could use to serve together with any Indian snacks like pakora, samosa, vadas, pav and even as condiments to go with sandwich.

Zucchini Cake 【西葫芦蛋糕】

I planted a few zucchini plants this year but they didn't do too well, and yield only 2 zucchini by far, as it is getting colder and the plants starts getting yellow, so I decided to pull them up and clean up the garden... and to my surprise, I found two rather big zucchini hidden underneath the plants!

My friend posted zucchini cake not long ago on facebook and I was really tempted to try the recipe as it sounded healthy and yummy... but have no heart to buy the zucchini from the shop. Here I am with two fresh, homegrown zucchini, I am just about to waste no time and make this cake!

As I was trying to come up with a good recipe, the internet search engine shows many recipes that are closely representing pound cake recipe, not much of a pound cake person as I am...

I decided to make it my way... and here it comes, moist, fluffy, and healthy Zucchini Cake!

今年因为好奇，买了几棵葫芦瓜苗回来让我妈种，长得不是很好，收了两根就不再结果了，我妈回国之后我也没去理它。天气渐渐凉了，我就想着把那几棵葫芦瓜拔了整理一下院子。才发现瓜藤下居然还隐藏着两个不小的瓜呢！

收了这两根葫芦瓜就想着要怎么做，正好这阵子一直想着要吃蛋糕，又看见网友Venus在FB上上了的Zuchinni蛋糕照片，就决定跟着做一次。

网上搜了一堆食谱，发现都类似Pound cake的配方，高卡不说口感也比较结实，不是我喜欢的类型。于是就在打发鸡蛋的基础上做了这个西葫芦蛋糕。味道还真的很好呢！

科普了一下：

西葫蘆--櫛瓜
Zucchini，學名：Cucurbita pepo），又稱北瓜、櫛瓜或夏南瓜，香港稱為翠玉瓜，葫蘆科南瓜屬植物。可以食用。
科： 葫蘆科 Cucurbitaceae

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Aloo Mangodi （Sundried Lentil Drops with Potato)

Mangodi is a type of sun dried grinned lentil with spices originally from the state of Rajasthan in India, a very unique cooking ingredient.

I am guessing that it was created mainly because of the dry weather at the region and lack of fresh vegetables and food source during some of the months in the state, that caused the people there to think of ways to preserve food when it was available, often time drying the food and pickled them is the ways to go ...

Rasgulla （without Pressure Cooker）

I made Rasgulla before using the pressure cooker, it turned out well, but I keep thinking of how rasgulla was made before pressure cooker was even invented!

So I came across one of the recipe long back using just normal heavy bottom cookware, I could not recall the exact recipe now, but I really wanted to try the cooking method..

I was also at the opinion that a good rasgulla lies with how well the cheese/paneer is kneaded.... so I put my thought to practice and use a stand mixer to knead the paneer this time. It works so well and gives me soft and spongy cheese balls in much shorter time ! I am definitely delighted!

【燕麦葡萄干曲奇饼】Oatmeal Raisin Cookie

之前回娘家两个月，家里的另外一个人居然一连买了两大盒的燕麦又不吃。

昨晚被肚子里的小子踢得受不了，睡不着觉就深夜烤了这个曲奇饼。可以下午茶吃，还消耗了不少的燕麦。

I have two boxes of old fashioned oatmeal sitting in the pantry for quite some times. Since we are all not a big fans of oatmeal porridge. I decided to turn it into some delicious cookie.

Old Cucumber Soup （老黄瓜汤）

The cucumber mum and I planted this year was not growing well at all. So I decided to let it grow into old cucumber, I love old cucumber soup and never find this old cucumber at the local Asian supermarket here.

This old cucumber soup is said to be good for reducing heat in the body and help prevent dryness in autumn season...

Tomato Chutney

I will normally prepare this chutney for snacks like samosa, Kati roll, spring roll or pakora, it goes very well even for grill sandwich too!

A good use of tomatoes when it is growing too much too fast in the garden!