22 Apr 2012

This week, I tried out a few baking dishes.

Roasted Chicken Thighs with Potatoes, Carrots and Broccoli and Mixed Hebs
Baked potato, eggplant, with bolognese sauce.
Pizza Pita
Pizza Bread
Baked Chicken Schnitzel

While baking is relatively easy, because everything is cooked in the oven, i find that the baking time can be quite long, and this means the electrical bill may be significant.

For the Baked potato, eggplant, with bolognese sauce, as it involves precooking, so while it's a nice treat once in a while, but usually, it would be easier and more efficient to skip the baking process. Also the cheese can be fattening if eaten too often.

The baked chicken schnitzel didn't taste that great. Maybe I need to add more salt and pepper to season, and I should add paprika powder. It took quite long to bake, and I was afraid it was not thoroughly cooked.

The pizza pita was nice, but the ingredients were not enough, as I was afraid that a thick layer might prevent it from cooking properly. Next time, I need to have more ingredients (2 layers?) and top with more cheese (denser, and should I add a thin layer before I add ingredients?). The Parmesan, Mozeralla and Cheddar mix cheese, seems to have a nicer browning effect than the Mozeralla cheese. The pack of 5 pita was only just nice for 2A2C, and not enough for us to include the helper.

I think the roasted chicken dish is the one most worthwhile baking dish, as it was a complete and wholesome meal, and the chicken can only be roasted to taste the best. With the potatoes and vegetables complementing, I think it's a great baking dish, that can be repeated often.

In future, I want to try the baked honey chicken wings, and since they'll be baked on the wire rack, I intend to use the high wire rack, and put a dish of vegetables (steamed ed 2-3min) and potatos (steamed 10min?) below, to bake at the same time. Can bake the pumpkin?

I'll also want to explore baking fish, since pan frying fish is quite difficult. Since fish cooks faster, if baking together with vegetables, the vegetables will need to be pre steamed longer prior to baking.

Moving on, I would like to try more steamed, braised and stewed dishes.
-Steamed Chicken with herbs
-Steamed fish
-Steamed tofu and prawn minced meat balls

-Braised udon noodles

-Stewed Chicken, Mushroom, Potato and Carrots
-Stewed cabbage, carrot, minced meat and beancurd sheets