~ Milk Cooler

A simple blend of ice and milk to bring down the heat! It's kind of queer to me, for I felt as though I was drinking beaten egg whites!

~ Rainbow Peanut Congee

Taken from:
Highlanders International

Description:
Brown rice porridge mix and peanuts~

Ingredients:

1 sachet (60g) Highlanders Rainbow Congee, or any brown rice mix

1/4 C white rice

1 can (120g drained) braised peanuts

750 ml water

Handful of red dates

Directions

1) Place rice, peanuts, and dates into the water in a saucepan and bring to boil.
2) Simmer for 10 - 15 min, or till grains are cooked. Serve =)

Remarks:
Hey, where's the rainbow colours of my rainbow congee? Well, sometimes we have to perceive things beyond what is written. For those curious, the term "rainbow congee" stems from the fact that the mix is made from 8 different ingredients (I thought the rainbow only has 7 colours?) - brown rice, mung beans, barley, buckwheat, pumpkin seeds, black glutinous rice, mushrooms and seaweed; and it's marketed as a form of "healthy rice".

Despite the plethora of ingredients added inside, the congee apparently only sports one obvious taste, that is brown rice. What happened to all the other ingredients? Perhaps they have only been added in minute amounts to justify the name of the product =p Combining one spoonful of congee with peanuts definitely enhanced the taste. I think that it would be better to cook the congee with chicken or any meat, which makes a world of difference to the taste (and appealed to me during the taste-before-you-buy session).

Next time around, I shall use the mix to make a sweet chinese soup dessert, that is red bean with brown rice paste. Sounds good? Of course!

Oh do you know what this signals?:

The durian season's coming! AHHHHH!!! ^ ^

~ Chocolate Banana Milkshake

Soon it'll be "Creating Jiffy Smoothies for Breakfast in Mum's Kitchen"!

1 tbsp cocoa, 1 banana, 31 g (1 packet) of milk powder, 1/2 C water, 1 C ice.

~ Carrot Banana Milkshake

Wow I can't believe that I'm so busy with life nowadays that I do not have the time and energy to whip up some nice dishes to have =( Here's a quick smoothie - 2 carrots,1 banana,1/2 C cold milk and 1/2 C ice.

~ Carrot-Sweetened Chocolate Oatmeal Drink

Since I've been consuming too much refined sugar lately, I've tried substituting those with natural unrefined sugars to cut down on my intake. I figured that a carrot seem to be the perfect solution to sweeten that 1 tbsp of bitter cocoa and 1 cup cold oatmeal with milk!

~ "Wholesome" Guacamole

Go wild with mashed avocados! Add anything you fancy into this creamy green mess!

I made mine with 1/2 avocado, 1 plum,3 strawberries, 1 tsp pollen and 1 tsp flaxseed.