30 bakes in 2013

salted-Caramel-Cake

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

  1. Too Much Chocolate Cake 
  2. Dark Chocolate and Rasberry Buttercream Cake with Ganache Drizzle
  3. Double Dark Chocolate Cake with Black Velvet Icing
  4. Salted Caramel Six Layer Chocolate Cake 
  5. Sweet Potato Cake with Molasses ButterCream
  6. Oreo Cake
  7. Beetroot Brownies
  8. Japanese Cheese Cake 
  9. Mini Cakes
  10. Ultimate S’mores cake 
  11. Mango Bread 
  12. Carrot Shaped Cupcakes 
  13. Two Ingredient Pumpkin Brownies 
  14. Healthy Yellow Cake with Sugar-Free Buttercream
  15. Pineapple Angel Food Cake 
  16. Strawberry Cupcakes + Strawberry Buttercream
  17. Scottish Shortbread
  18. Zucchini & Banana Muffin Recipe
  19. Tunnel of Fudge Bundt Cake
  20. Stuffed Cheese Buns 
  21. *Flourless* Fudge Choc Chip Cookies
  22. Chocolate-Chocolate Chip + Bacon Cookies
  23. Pancakes and Bacon cake
  24. Leopard Print Cake
  25. Steamed Ginger Pudding
  26. Oreo Cookie in a Cupcake
  27. Bacon Cinnamon Rolls
  28. Basketball Cake
  29. Snickerdoodle Bread
  30. Sweet Potato Corn Bread
  31. Peanut Butter and Nutella cake
  32. Bacon and Cheddar Scones
  33. Strawberry Cream Cheese Bread
  34. Snickers Brownies
  35. Frosted Oreo Brownies
  36. 2 minute Chocolate & Salted Caramel Mug Cake

Pork Stir Fried with Sugar Snap Peas

Stir fried pork 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!!

 

Pork Stir Fried with Sugar Snap Peas

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

Yield: 4

Ingredients

  1. 500 grams lean pork steak, cut into thin strips
  2. 400grams sugar snap peas
  3. 4 spring onions cut into 2 centimetre pieces
  4. 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  5. 2 teaspoons minced ginger
  6. 1 small red chilli
  7. 1 small bunch of dhania
  8. cornstarch or all purpose flour
  9. For the sauce
  10. 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  11. 1 tablespoon brown sugar or honey
  12. 1 teaspoon fish sauce
  13. 1 teaspoon oyster sauce
  14. 1 teaspoon of oil
  15. 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

https://www.themothershipvillage.com/pork-stir-fried-with-sugar-snap-peas/