Baked Eggs with Cheese

I came across this TikTok's Baked Egg recipe reading a newsletter from Martha Stewart.

According to Martha, you need: 

-a baking dish
-12 eggs
-feta cheese or any soft, spreadable cheese, such as, cheddar or Gruyère
-salt, pepper and any other seasonings

After baking it in the oven at 400°F for 15 to 20 minutes, mash the cheese and eggs together to create a scramble. You can then sprinkle chopped chives or chili flakes on top of the mixture as garnish.  You can then scoop the mixture out to roll it in a wrap to eat or serve it with your regular toast, bacon, tomatoes and avocado or other seasonal fruits.

Martha shared that the optional ingredients you can add to flavor this dish are:

-mushrooms
-onions
-spinach or peppers. 

You can learn to cook with the above optional ingredients by watching this video I found on YouTube.

Here is another variation I found on YouTube.  The cook added dry tomatoes, onions a handful of fresh herbs as garnish.

Cooking with Sengkuang

 Sengkuang (yam bean) is also a weekly buy because my girl loves eating it.

I can only cook it when my bike shop is closed as it takes time to prepare. As sengkuang can also be used to sweeten soup, I usually cut out a few pieces to store in the freezer. 

This is how it looks like cooked with
-garlic oil
-salt
-soya sauce
-pepper

As you cook it, the sengkuang will soften and its juice will drip into the sauce. Turn the fire down low to simmer still the sengkuang is tender enough to eat. Add water if the sauce dries up. Leftover sengkuang can be made into popiah by rolling the ingredient in spring roll pastry. 

I do not discard the leftover sauce from this dish as it can be used to flavour rice or porridge. The spring rolls can be deep fried but I prefer to use the air fryer.

If you have the time, you can even make your own wraps.

I will also share with you the traditional way for cooking this yam bean dish which I found on Huang Kitchen.  This is also the way my mother-in-law taught me to cook it.  She also added dried shredded squid, which she soaked in water to clean and soften.  This is then added to the fried dried prawns to fry before the yam bean is added.  I started cooking it without the seafood products when my husband was down with Graves disease and should avoid eating them. You can see the adaptations I have made to it from this chart.

Are you experimenting with making beeswax wrap?

Most DIY instructions I read use 100% cotton fabric to make the wrap.  The reason is, if you use stretchable material like cut outs from your old t-shirt, the beeswax may not able to coat the surface fully or the wax may crack once you stretch the finished product.

I read from the instruction posted at Apartment Therapy that “the best options for fabric are something about the thickness of a bed sheet with a very tight weave”. So you can consider using your used bedsheet to make beeswax wrap.



From that article I discovered how partially waxed wraps can be saved by using the beeswax beads or pellets and parchment paper method. You can sprinkle a small amount of wax beads on those areas that did not get waxed, place a parchment paper over un-waxed side of the fabric and iron over it.

So, now I know, there are actually other ways to making beeswax wrap.  You can also learn the methods and how to use your wraps by watching this video.



Another discovery I made is that you can even make Beeless Vegan Food Wraps!  You use carnauba wax or candelilla wax flakes with jojoba oil as shown in this video.