Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream

Ingredient

• 500g ripe strawberries
• 150g sugar
• 2 tbsp water
• 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 2-3 tbsp fresh lemon juice
• 300ml whipping cream

Method

1. Rinse strawberries and pat dry. Halve and remove stems.
2. To make syrup, blend 75g of the strawberries with 50g of the sugar and the water until smooth. Simmer for 2-3 minutes over medium-low heat until syrupy, then cool. Stir in balsamic vinegar.
3. Blend the remaining strawberries and sugar with lemon juice until coarsely pureed.
4. Whip cream and fold into strawberry puree in 2 additions.
5. Spoon strawberry ice cream into a pan alternately drizzle some syrup over it then follow by ice cream again, repeat process until complete.
6. Cover with foil and freeze at least 4 hours.

Chilli Sweet Potato Leaves

My sister-in-law has given a bottle of homemade chilli paste. This morning went to supermarket seeing the sweet potatoe leaves so fresh and remember the bottle of chilli paste sitting in the fridge, so decide to use it to stir fried this dish for my lunch! the result...SHIOK! chilli and sweet potatoe leaves is a perfect match...

Ingredient for Homemade Chilli Paste

• bunch of dried chilli, wash n soak with lukewarm water, remove seeds if do not want too spicy
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 small pc turmeric
• 10 small red onions

Method

• Grind the ingredient according to the above sequence if u are lazy to pound by hand.
• Heat oil in wok, stir fry until fragrance.
• Cool completely before storing in air-tight container, can keep for 1 week.
• For longer storing duration, freeze in small cubes, use as desired.

Ingredient for Chilli Sweet Potatoe Leaves

• 1/2 kg Sweet Potatoe Leaves
• 5 pcs garlic, chopped
• 2 tbsp dried shrimps, soaked and chopped
• 2 tbps oil
• 2 tbsp chilli paste
• soy sauce to taste

Method

1. Heat up oil in wok, saute garlic and dried shrimps until frangrance.
2. Add in chilli paste, stir briefly.
3. Add in sweet potatoe leaves, stir quickly on high flame.
4. Add soy sauce to taste.