30 bakes in 2013
So at the beginning of last year I really tried putting up at least one cake/baked good each week, I REALLY tried and I did it for a few months then…………..i fell of that wagon sad…. VERY sad. So at the end of the year I decided that it would be great if I could challenge my self and make a cake each week but I felt that it was a tad ambitious of me to say I will bake 52 cakes different things this year. I Therefore decided to settle on 30, I think that is a workable number. So below are the baked goods I would like to make (in no particular order) and links to the recipes. I will add on to the list as the year progresses as I am sure I will find other things that I would love to bake and I will also tell you of my progress and of course post on all the bakes I manage to bake. wish me luck I NEED IT HAPPY BAKING
- Too Much Chocolate Cake
- Dark Chocolate and Rasberry Buttercream Cake with Ganache Drizzle
- Double Dark Chocolate Cake with Black Velvet Icing
- Salted Caramel Six Layer Chocolate Cake
- Sweet Potato Cake with Molasses ButterCream
- Oreo Cake
- Beetroot Brownies
- Japanese Cheese Cake
- Mini Cakes
- Ultimate S’mores cake
- Mango Bread
- Carrot Shaped Cupcakes
- Two Ingredient Pumpkin Brownies
- Healthy Yellow Cake with Sugar-Free Buttercream
- Pineapple Angel Food Cake
- Strawberry Cupcakes + Strawberry Buttercream
- Scottish Shortbread
- Zucchini & Banana Muffin Recipe
- Tunnel of Fudge Bundt Cake
- Stuffed Cheese Buns
- *Flourless* Fudge Choc Chip Cookies
- Chocolate-Chocolate Chip + Bacon Cookies
- Pancakes and Bacon cake
- Leopard Print Cake
- Steamed Ginger Pudding
- Oreo Cookie in a Cupcake
- Bacon Cinnamon Rolls
- Basketball Cake
- Snickerdoodle Bread
- Sweet Potato Corn Bread
- Peanut Butter and Nutella cake
- Bacon and Cheddar Scones
- Strawberry Cream Cheese Bread
- Snickers Brownies
- Frosted Oreo Brownies
- 2 minute Chocolate & Salted Caramel Mug Cake
Pork Stir Fried with Sugar Snap Peas
I love pork and all its products but unfortunately its not that healthy. Now I have been seeing sugar snap peas in many recipes out there and I had never tried making these neither have I ever eaten them so last time I was at City Park Market I asked around for them. Turns out they are a lot like snow peas only that they have larger “peas” inside them so they are not as flat. So I bought a small bunch of them and when I was making pork I decided to add them in so as to make the meal healthier 🙂
I enjoyed the flavour of the pork, slightly hot and sweet and the peas were nice. Different but tasty. I think they mostly take the flavour of whatever it is you have cooked. I hope you will like it. Oooh I adopted this recipe from the Gatronomes Guide and the Haffington post. HAPPY COOKING!!
Ingredients
- 500 grams lean pork steak, cut into thin strips
- 400grams sugar snap peas
- 4 spring onions cut into 2 centimetre pieces
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 2 teaspoons minced ginger
- 1 small red chilli
- 1 small bunch of dhania
- cornstarch or all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar or honey
- 1 teaspoon fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon oyster sauce
- 1 teaspoon of oil
- ¼ cup orange juice
Instructions
Place pork, salt, pepper and a dash of fish sauce in a bowl to stand for 5-10mins
In another small bowl combine the orange juice, soy sauce, fish sauce, oyster sauce and sugar
Toss the pork in cornstarch and salt.
Heat two tablespoons of oil till hot and add the pork cook for 2 mins undisturbed then stir till browned and cooked through. Remove and set aside.
Add 1 tablespoon of oil to the same pan, add the sugar snap peas, spring onions and cook for 3 mins, add the garlic, ginger and chillies. Cook for 1 min
Stir Fry Pork with Sugar Snap peas
Add pork, then pour sauce and stir well. Let the sauce reduce and thicken for about two minutes. Add the dhania/ coriander leaves and stir through
Serve. had mine with coconut rice……..it was HAPPY EATING indeed.
If you do not have the fish and oyster sauce you can increase the amount of soy sauce but the flavour is not quite the same