Red Yeast buns ( Walnuts, Sultanas, Cinnnamon)

Soft and fluffy rich red yeast rice buns..

Black glutinous rice bread

You get a beautiful color bread!

Rice bread

We often have left over rice from dinner, instead of wasting it I now used it to make bread. I replaced water to light milk and a little more honey to replace sugar.  It gives me milky beautiful strong honey flavour hence not overpowering the aroma of the rice.  It has an interesting texture as it is chewy, you just don't feel like you are eating a slice of bread but a slice of cake!
The bread is absolutely yummy, no regrets.

Wholemeal rolls

Sometimes I shape the dough into buns so my children can have some varieties of what I've made for them, they like it that way.  I try to roll lots of seeds and grains onto the top to "trick" them to eat, that's the way I do it.

Korean / Japanese Soba Cold Noodle

We had a very light and simple meal of soba noodles for dinner tonight.  It is still Winter here but cold Soba noodle is still good for us.  I think, this meal would be really refreshing to have in Summertime. Anyway, my children love it so much, I saw them happily slurping all the way through dinner.



For ingredients here,

I prefer to quick fry these thin sliced beef...

                                                               Soba Noodle

Soba sauce 

I prefer Radish Kimchi to Cabbage Kimchi...

Very yummy braised  Burdock, glad I bought it!

Soba noodle is made of buckwheat, a very healthy grain.  When I was browsing at the grocery shop, I saw some "Burdock" with soya sauce.  It looked very interesting and yummy so I thought it may go well with the noodles.  I bought it home without any idea what it actually was until I googled and found out that it is actually a kind of herb plant for blood purification.  It tasted really good, I'm glad I added it in!

 I have never eaten Soba noodle even though I have had Korean food many times.  Great for lazy nights in and when you don't have a big appetite for meals.


I think it can be up to your own imagination how you would like to create the noodle,  as for me its the first time making it for the family, I just used ingredients that I thought my family may like it. Yeah, I will definitely improvise it the next time I make it again.

Ingredients ( my own way?)

1.   Soba noodle
2.   Thin sliced cucumber
3.   Radish Kimchi
4.   Spring onions ( cut into very thin slices)
5.   Burdock
6.   Soba sauce
7.   Sesame paste ( I used tahini)
8.   Shabu Shabu sliced beef



Methods:

1.   Cook noodle in boiling water with a little salt for 3 to 5 minutes until soft.
2.   Rinse and drain cold water to prevent sticking.
3.   Transfer noodle to a bowl of ice cubes to chill the noodle.  Drain well.
3.   Place ingredients on top of the noodle,  add in soba sauce and sesame paste to your taste and mix well.
4.   Enjoy!