No-Frills Recipes ... cooking, baking & excerpts on travel

This recipe is very similar to the Orange Cake with Oil which I posted a while ago.  The difference is that I mixed lemon juice with orange juice and thrown in some plumped dried cranberries for good measure.  If totally lemon juice is used the taste will be very sour, so by mixing with a higher ratio of orange juice, there is a balance between sweetness and tartness.  This moist cake can be served as a dessert or for breakfast or as a snack. Lemon Orange Cranberry cake with oil Ingredients 3 'L' eggs 150 gm caster sugar 150 ml oil 50 ml lemon juice 100 ml orange juice 220 gm plain flour 2 tsp baking powder zest from 1 lemon a pinch of salt 40 gm dried cranberries, plumped in a black Tea, for extra flavour. Method Sift the flour with baking powder, salt, set aside. Soak the dried cranberries in a hot tea for about 5 mins.  Strain and pat dry.  Sprinkle on some of the flour from above. In a mixing bowl, mix the lemon zest with sugar using a ball whisk till well combined. Break i

  This soup is not only delicious, it's nourishing as well.  It can be served on its own or with some vermicelli, noodles or a hot bowl of white rice with a vegetable on the side.  An easy one pot meal especially on a wet and rainy day. Cordycep Flower and Mushroom Chicken Soup   ~   蟲草花冬菇鸡湯 Ingredients 350 gm free range chicken drumsticks 12 seedless red dates 8 dried scallops  8 shitake mushrooms 8 gm dried cordycep flowers 1 Tbsp goji berries 1 lt water 3 ginger slices Salt to taste Method Rinse the dried scallops, cordycep flowers, set aside. Soak the shitake mushrooms till soft, cut off the stem.  Set aside. Blanch the drumsticks in hot water with the ginger slices for about 5 minutes. Rinse the drumsticks in water.   In a pot of 1 lt water, add in the drumsticks, red dates, cordycep flowers and bring to a boil.  Then turn on to low heat and after half hour, add in the dried scallops.  Continue to simmer for about an hour. Rinse the goji berries and add in about 10 mins. befor