Saturday Cooking Playdate :)

I love cooking and I love to cook for my family and friends too. Combined with hanging out with girlfriends, getting a cooking playdate is better. After loads of rescheduling, me and Yarra finally set the date for a saturday afternoon cooking playdate, with Agie too :)

Here are the foods and drink:

We just realized...it's all green and yellow (the food) :)

First I made "Lemon Mint Juice". 

All you need:

- Put 100-150gr of sugar into the blender...and put 40gr of mint leaves...then put 350ml water and 6 lemons (juiced/squashed).

- Blend until mint leaves are evenly chopped. After finished, put in a cold glass or just put it in the refrigerate for 15 minutes. Put some mint leaves on top...then you can drink it. It's sooooo freshhhh and nyummy :)

Then Yarra made "Salad with Mint leaves and Deviled egg"

You need, lettuce, mint leaves, onions, baby tomatoes, eggs, lemon, olive oil and some herbs, just mix everything. For the deviled egg, you seperate the egg yolk first from the white egg, mix the egg yolk with mayonaise, salt, pepper, thyme and oregano...

Then you put back the finished egg yolk mixture into the white egg again with a plastic wrap for cupcake icing, so you can decorate the egg as if the egg yolk is the icing :)

For the dressing...olive oil, salt, pepper, oregano, ,thyme, garlic. Just mix it :)

And then I made "Boiled Chicken Breast with Asparagus and Sweet Potatoes and thick White Sauce" for main course :)

- First, set the oven to 180C.

- So all you need is basicly just chicken breast, asparagus....you boiled them (in a separate bowl). 

- I combined white and orange sweet potatoes. I  love the orange more, but hey I  just love to combine colorfull food, especially with their own natural colors :) Then you cut the sweet potatoes lengthwise and put it in a pan, drizzle some olive oil, salt and pepper...then you put it into the oven for about 30 minutes.

- While waiting, you can make the white sauce. In a small saucepan over medium heat, you melt 20gr of butter. Add 10gr of flour, stir until the butter and flour are well combined. Then pour 180ml of milk into the mixture, stirring constantly as it thickens. Add some parmesan, salt and pepper too. Add more milk depending on desired consistency.

White sauce with sweet potatoes? It turned out nyummmyyyy :)

Then for dessert...Yarra made "Lemon pudding with Lemon zests"

You need:

Juice and grated zest of 2 lemmons

300gr coaster sugar

60gr melted butter

375 ml milk

25 gr flour

3 large eggs, seperated

- Set the oven to 180C. 

- Beat together the lemon zest and juice, then sugar, butter, milk, flour, and egg yolks until you have a smooth batter.

- Whisk the egg whites until they form soft peaks and then gently fold into the batter.

- Pour the mixture into the prepared pudding moulds and then sit them in a roasting pan. Pour enough hot water into the tray to come half way up the side of the pudding moulds.

- Bake for 30-35minutes, or until the tops are nicely golden and risen.

- Serve immediately as they are or with pouring cream.

It was a great cooking playdate and everybody's happy! Hopefully we can do this again next month and hopefully more girlfriends will join the next session. More food is better right? :D So if you like to cook, you can try these recipes or you can share your recipe and let us try it. Or we can make it together, sharing is caring :) 

Oh, thanks to Echa, I got the lettuces, mint leaves and white sweet potatoes from YUM's organic farm. Got my self some lettuces, mint leaves, white sweet potatoes, leeks, mint leaves, kaylan and pakchoy (just like in the picture) only for Rp.55.000,- Go check it.

 More pics here from Yarra.

Cheers!! :)