Roast chicken with warm tomato salad

Ingredients
One chicken - butterflied

Lime, chili, salt chicken mixture

Cherry tomatoes

Baby spinach

Garlic

Onion

Pine nuts

Butterfly the chicken by cutting into half the breast bone of the chicken. Spread it open and spread the chicken mixture together with olive oil. Make sure you evenly spread it, including under its skin. Put it in a roasting tray together with onions and garlic (don't peel off the skin). Add couple of lugs of olive oil to coat the garlic and onion. Put it in an oven of 230Celcius for about an hour or till golden.

For the salad, mix cherry tomatoes and olive oil, salt pepper and roast it in oven for 5 minutes. Then add it with baby spinach, pan toasted pine nuts and balsamic vinegrette.

Once the chicken is cooked, let it rest a while before serving together with it's lovely sauce.

Here's a lovely breakfast full of nutrition and tasty too..

Ingredients

Muesli (or any type of cereals - preferably with nuts, raisins in addition to the grains)

Low fat yoghurt - flavored with chunks of fruits

Dried or fresh fruits - apricot slices, blueberries or even banana

Get a bowl or a glass. Fill it with muesli then add different layers of yoghurt, fruits, yoghurt and more muesli. Finish it with some nuts or even honey, jam!

Kerabu Prawn Mee Hoon

Ingredients

Prawns

Eggs

Mee hoon (rice noodles)

Lemon grass, shallots, red chilli

lime juice, soy sauce, sugar

Laksa, mint and lime leaves

Soak the noodles in warm water till soft. Remove and drain. Put aside while you prepare the kerabu mixture. Fry the prawns in a bit of olive oil, put aside once cooked. Scramble the eggs and pan fry, slice it thinly.

In a bowl big enough to mix all together, add the soy sauce, sugar, lime juice, leaves (laksa, lime & mint). Stir well. Put the mee hoon into the bowl, mix well before adding crunched peanuts, deep fried shallots and the prawns. Use soy sauce, lime juice and sugar to balanced out the sweet, salty and sourness flavors.

Served immediately with some chopped parsley.

Big Breakfast!

Long queues at the restaurant for Sunday brunch? Well, make your very own with simple yet delicious ingredients

Ingredients (serves 2)

2 large eggs

Chorizo sausage

Bacon (6 slices)

Button mushrooms (6)

Vine ripened cherry tomatoes

Parmesan cheese

Slices of bread (toasted)

On a pan, heat up olive oil and a knob of butter. Once butter is melted, pour in the eggs. Cook till formed on one side, add in the cheese. Fold and cook for a bit before removing - ensuring the inside are still soft. Cook the rest - sausages, bacon, mushroom and cherry tomatoes. Season the mushroom with salt & pepper - cook till moisture can be seen. Cherry tomatoes - remove once skin is broken. Serve with warm toast!!

Pizza !

Here are 2 simple pizza toppings you can use for a quick delicious meal!

Ingredients

Pizza base (home made)

Parmesan, mozarella cheese

Chorizo pizza!

Chorizo sausages (sliced)

Basil leaves

Cherry tomatoes

Olives

Seafood pizza!

Tiger prawns

Green peas

Garlic

Red Chili

Heat up the oven to 230 celcius. Spread tomato paste over the pizza base (leave the sides). Arrange the ingredients and place the cheese last. Place pizza on a rack at the top of the oven. Cook for 15 minutes!

Pan fried breaded fish fillet

If your kids love fish & chips, here's a healthier option which is pan fried vs. deep fried!

Ingredients

Any fish fillet

Bread crumbs

Herbs (thyme)
Egg

Potatoes

Peas

Prepare the bread crumbs mixture by mixing bread crumbs, salt, pepper and thyme. Place it on a place. Crack and egg and place in another plate. Prepare the fish by removing any bones and pat it dry. Season the fish with salt and pepper.

For the potatoes, cut it into quarters (skin removed) and parboil in pot of hot salted water. Once cooked, remove water and let it steam a bit. In a oven proof tray, add a glug of olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic bulbs. Pour in the potatoes and mix well. Place in the oven - top level at 200 Degrees. Roast till crispy.

Heat up olive oil in a non-stick pan. Take the fish, dip into the egg both sides and then coat with the bread mix evenly. Place on the non-stick pan till golden brown on both sides.

Serve with peas, a quarter of lemon and potatoes!

Guinness Lamb Pie!

Now, this may take in total 3 hours to make but believe me, it's worth the effort once you get it right!

Ingredients

1 can of Guinness beer

Lamb cutlets

Peas , Rosemary

1 spoon of flour, Onion, garlic

Carrot, Puff pastry

Parmesan cheese, butter

Prepare your lamb by cutting it into bite size. Remove all fat and skin. Season it with salt and pepper. In an oven proof pot, fry the carrots, onions, butter, garlic and rosemary. Once fragrant, add the lamb and fry a while before pouring in the Guinness (just enough to cover). Bring to boil and then place into the oven (200 Degrees). Cover it and cook for 2.5 hours (removing in after 1.5 hour to stir). Once the meat is tender, stir in the cheese.. remove it and let it rest.

Prepare your puff pastry (you can get this at any supermarket - frozen). Roll it on a flour dusted surface and then score it. Pour the filling into an ovenproof dish, till almost full and then cover it with the puff pastry. Do add egg wash before placing into the oven. Cook for 40 minutes till puff pastry is all fluff up and brown.

Serve with peas! Delicious!