Thai steamed fish with ginger

Hey again.. 

Just realised I also didn't share a steamed fish recipe.. Ram bought a steamer recently (as i mentioned, he's big on a healthy diet at the moment) so I wanted to make something really yummy with steamed fish.. so here goes. I used a steamer for this but I'm sure you can try it in a rice cooker (they usually give the holey container with the rice cooker right, u cud make this in that container when cooking rice) or some form of steaming contraption (like a pot full of water with a colander on top or something? )

Ingredients: 

2 small fish fillets (i guess you could try it with any fish, i used tilapia)

2 tbsp soy sauce

some sesame oil

green (spring) onions

coriander leaves and stems

red chillies

a lot of finely shredded ginger

salt

Method: 

- Wash the fillets and rub some salt into them

- Cut coriander stems and green onion stems into around 2'' long pieces

- Divide the ginger, coriander and green onions into 2 parts; place the first (use only coriander stems in this) part on the bottom of the plate/dish you're making the fish in

- put the fish on top, add the sauces

- put remaining ginger, coriander leaves, onions and chillies on top

steam for about 20mins.. 

It was so yummy! I could eat the ginger pieces too since they weren't really pungent or anything.. Totally addicted to this now. 

Carrot & Pineapple Cake with Walnuts

Hey girls, 

It's been way too long since I put in something useful for our blog so here goes the recipe for the cake I made for Ram's b'day. I basically hunted for a not-too-complicated recipe that was reasonably healthy too (Ram's big eating healthy at the moment) so found this recipe which, with a few changes, came out yummy! :)

Cake: 

2 cups granulated sugar (i used raw sugar)

11/3 cups veggie oil (i used olive)

3 XL eggs 

1tsp vanilla 

21/2 cups all purpose flour 

2 tsp ground cinnamon (optional, i didn't have any so didn't add any but tasted just fine)

2tsp baking soda

1/2tsp salt

1 cup chopped walnuts

1 cup grated carrots

1/2 cup finely diced fresh pineapple (guess you can try crushed tinned too?)

Frosting: 

50-60g cream cheese (i used fat-free, used half of a 113g pot) at room temperature

200g unsalted butter at room temperature

1tsp vanilla 

some finely diced pineapple (optional)

confectioners sugar (i added according to taste)

Directions:

- Butter up and set aside 2 x 8inch round cake tins, preheat oven to 300F

- Beat sugar, oil, eggs in a bowl till light yellow and add vanilla essence

- In a separate bowl, mix 21/2 cups flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt

- Add these dry ingredients to the wet ingredients in batches

- Toss walnuts in a tablespoon of flour

- Fold in carrots and pineapple 

- Add walnuts to the batter and mix well 

- Divide the batter into the two pans, bake for 60min

Frosting

- Mix cream cheese, butter, vanilla until just combined.

- Add sugar and pineapple and mix till smooth

I used the frosting to layer the cake as well as as the final topping. Overall, it came out pretty yummy and didnt' taste overly sweet or anything. 

:)