Quick Dinner Recipes

Jippee! TheSkinnyCook is back in Malaysia

Tom Yum Soup

See also my Tom Yum Soup Recipe

Sotong (squid that is), prawn, chicken, chilies, veggies, lime, sugar…. all that in a little bowl as if you are in Thailand, yet I am back in Malaysia

Ok, why I love to be back in Malaysia:

• to be in my darlings’ arms
• because it is hot (see previous)
• to go eat out
• to go eat out again
• to go and eat out again…
• and still my budget is not busted!!!!!

Little comparison: dinner for 2 in a European restaurant: 50 Euros and half of the time not knowing which restaurant is good, you end up with a mediocre meal. Dinner for 2 in a Malaysian restaurant: 10 Euros and yummies (ok, it always helps if you have friends recommending you where the good Malaysian restaurants are).

Why I love to be back in Malaysia? Because in 1 place I can eat Thai, Chinese, Malaysian and Indian food to just name a few!

Malaysia is food paradise and cheaper than neighbour Singapore.

So I will add some of my favorite places soon, in case you want to visit Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and need some Malaysian food tips.

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This recipe is featured from the Ashley’s Big Secrets Blog

This chocolate truffles recipe is brought to you by Ashley. This culinary diva shares one of her favorite recipe ideas: "faking it in the kitchen". Her chocolates prove that modest people make the best chocolates…

Chocolate truffles are a simply delectable treat that are usually purchased at high end chocolate boutiques for an arm and a leg but are very classy. When your guests hear that you’ve made chocolate truffles yourself following Ashley’s chocolate truffles recipe, Ashley promises that your guests will be in total awe of your kitchen goddess status

How did Ashley come up with this chocolate recipe? You can find a truffle recipe in almost every gourmet cookbook, but Ashley combined several chocolate truffle recipes, added her own advice and tips from trial and error to give you the world’s best (and easiest) chocolate truffle recipe.

Chocolate truffles ingredients

• 8 ounce (about 230gr) semi-sweet baker’s chocolate
• 16oz. (1 bag) (about 460gr) chocolate or white chocolate chips
• 3 tablespoons very heavy whipping cream
• 1tablespoon of your favorite liqueur. (Ashley’s favorite is Kahlua. Yet Mint or almond extract works well too.)

Chocolate truffles preparation

From the Ashley’s Big Secrets Blog

1. In a large pan half filled with water, place a smaller, heat-safe bowl. (au bain-Marie). The stove should be at about medium. Add the baker’s chocolate to the smaller bowl and stir occasionally until it’s completely melted. Add the whipping cream and stir completely, then add the liqueur or extract and mix well. Take it away from heat immediately.
2. Place the bowl with the chocolate in the freezer for 40 minutes or an hour, until the chocolate is firmed up enough to be malleable and keep it’s shape. Roll the chocolate into 1 tablespoon balls, put them on wax paper.
3. What you’ve just created is "ganache" or "chocolate truffle filling". Some people just leave it at that: ganache is delicious! You can roll it in powdered sugar or chopped nuts and still make a big hit. However, for a true chocolate truffle, the next step is so easy and fun I’ve never successfully avoided it. (ganache can also be made far in advance and kept in an air tight container in the freezer until you’re ready to use it.)
4. Put the ganache in the freezer and let it firm up for 20 minutes. Take about 3/4 cup of the chocolate or white chocolate and microwave it in a small bowl in 30 second intervals. Between intervals, stir vigorously. Chocolate is only tricky to work with if you forget that it can burn and will keep it’s chocolate chip shape as its melting. Stirring chocolate vigorously between micro-waving will help it break up and not burn. Using smaller quantities at a time will help, too. It usually takes three 30 second intervals to get the chocolate smooth.
5. Take the ganache out of the freezer and one by one, drop it in the melted chocolate. To make sure it’s coated completely, use 2 forks to ‘juggle’ it. That’s it! Place your truffles on wax paper and wait until they firm up- usually 4 or 5 hours. You’ll want to leave them at room temperature: if you stick them in the fridge they’ll get that gross white stuff on the surface.
6. I like to dip my truffles in milk chocolate and then melt and color white chocolate and splash it over for my truffles as an added accent. The chocolate truffles from the photo above show green truffles made for St. Patrick’s Day!

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Yet the real quick dinner recipes come from the stay at home moms who mostly even don’t make time to post quick dinner recipes as they are busy multitasking their own lives, the life of their kids and their hubby. Like Chesca, originally from the Philippines featuring TheSkinnyCooks’ Quick Dinner Recipes:

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