long beans with pork in shrimp paste (虾米辣）

I LOVE this dish, but my mum never made this. I just learn it by trial and error, and it turn out to be deliciously tasty. I always have extra serving of rice. WARNING: this can be extremely HOT.

serve 2
ingredients
50gm pork fillet
500gm of long beans
30gm of shrimps
7 cloves of garlic
5 chilli padi, remove the seeds to reduce spiciness.
cooking oil

shrimp paste
1. soak shrimps in hot water, to soften it and reduce the saltiness
2. chopped garlic and chillies
3. using mortar and pestle/blender to mix shrimps, garlic and chilli into a paste
4. heat frying pan with 3 tbp cooking oil and fried the paste until fragrance, set aside when done

cooking the long beans and pork
1. cut the long beans into ~5cm length
2. slice pork fillet into thin strips
3. cook long beans in frying pan for 5 mins
4. add in the pork and shrimp paste and cook till done.

serve with rice.

scones (chocolate chips)

time to try baking something else besides cookies and muffins.
I didn't have a cookie cutter, so the scones didn't raise as good as it should be.

makes 20pcs.
ingredients:
3 cup flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
4 tsp baking powder
170gm butter, cubed
3 eggs
1./2 cup of soya milk
1 cup of chocolate chips
1 tbp grated orange zest

preheat oven to 220degC, bake for 12 mins

1. Sift flour, sugar, salt, baking powder in a big bowl.
2. put butter into dry mixture and make it into coarse crumbs
3. beat eggs with milk in another bowl and stir them into dry mixture along with chocolate chips and orange zest
4. shape dough with lightly floured hands into round shape and put them on baking tray.
5. ready to bake.