Rojoy's Kitchen

Another tasty sweet I prepare for the family.  You can use the basic recipe to make muffin and just add your favorite fruit instead for blueberry.  Its up to what you're in the mood to make.

INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
1 cup fresh blueberries
1/2 cup white sugar
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup butter, cubed
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

DIRECTIONS:

1.Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).  Grease muffin cups or line with muffin liners.

2.Combine 1 1/2 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, salt and baking powder. Place vegetable oil into a 1 cup measuring cup; add the egg and enough milk to fill the cup. Mix this with flour mixture. Fold in blueberries. Fill muffin cups right to the top, and sprinkle with crumb topping mixture.

3.To Make Crumb Topping: Mix together 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup flour, 1/4 cup butter, and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon. Mix with fork, and sprinkle over muffins before baking.4.Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until done.

One of my kids favorite breakfast is corn muffin.




Ingredients:

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar1 cup medium cornmeal
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 cups whole milk
1/2 pound unsalted butter, melted and cooled
2 extra-large eggs

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.

In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix the flour, sugar, cornmeal, baking powder, and salt.

In a separate bowl, combine the milk, melted butter, and eggs.

 With the mixer on the lowest speed, pour the wet ingredients into the dry ones and stir until they are just blended.

Spoon the batter into the paper liners, filling each one to the top.

 Bake for 30 minutes, until the tops are crisp and a toothpick comes out clean.

Cool slightly and remove from the pan.

Having a growing kids is getting expensive.  Buying pizza getting expensive because we are buying not only 2 pizza but we are buying 3 pizza.  So I was start making our own pizza.  Now I am thinking to make pizza from the scratch.  So I found this basic pizza dough.  It is a recipe by Emerill Lagasse.

Serves:1 large pizza crust or 2 medium pizza crusts

Ingredients:

1 cup warm (110 degrees F) water
1 (1/4-ounce) envelope active dry yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon plus
 1 1/2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
3 cups bleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, combine the water, yeast, sugar, and 1 tablespoon oil and stir to combine.

2. Let sit until the mixture is foamy, about 5 minutes.

3. Add 1 1/2 cups of the flour and the salt, mixing by hand until it is all incorporated and the mixture is smooth.

4. Continue adding the flour, 1/4 cup at a time, working the dough after each addition, until all the flour is incorporated but the dough is still slightly sticky.

5. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth but still slightly tacky, 3 to 5 minutes.

6. Oil a large mixing bowl with the remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil.

7. Place the dough in the bowl and turn to oil all sides.

8. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set in a warm, draft-free place until nearly doubled in size, 1 to 1 1/2 hours.

9. Use as directed.

Ingrefients:

3/4 warm water
1 3/4 tbsp sugar (added to yeast misture)
1/2 cup sugar (added to flour mixture)
1 pouch dry yeast
3 cups flour
1 tbsp baking powder
3 tbsp butter

Directions:

1.  Place warm water in a bowl then add the yeast and sugar and mix well.Leave the mixture for 10 to 15 minutes.

2.  In a mixing bowl, put-in the flour, baking powder, shortening (or lard), and the yeast-sugar-water mixture then mix well (bubbles should have formed on top by then).

3.  Knead the combined mixture until the texture of the dough becomes fine. Let the doughrise by setting it aside for at least an hour (place in the mixing bowl and cover the top ).

4.  Knead the dough again. Roll  into in the size you want.  Do it crisscross.

5. Dough is now ready to fry.  Enjoy!

Note: For every cup of all purpose flour,  remove two tablespoons of the flour and add in two tablespoons of corn starch.

Combine the ingredients in a sifter. Sift together four times. (I like to sift it into one bowl, scoop it out, and sift it back into the same bowl.) And store in a tight container. 

Instead buying of cake flour... this is what I do. 

Last December I went to New York with my mom and some friends.  While we were there we took the opportunity to go to Red ribbons A Filipino famous bakery goods.  I bought Mango cake I know my family loves.  This gives me an idea to bake it myself to save money.  Lucky me i did find a simple recipe.  I baked it once and it was very tastey.  even it calls for cake flour.  because i don't want to spend so much money I
made my own cake flour.  And it works.  The mango chiffon cake came out good and my family approved it. The only thing I did not do was the frost.  You can do how you want your cake.  But to me without the frost the cake still good.



Here are the ingredients and directions.

Ingredients:

• cake flour - 2 cups, sifted
• granulated sugar - 3/4 cup
• baking powder - 1 Tablespoon
• egg whites - 7
• cream of tartar - 1/2 teaspoon
• granulated sugar - 3/4 cup
• egg yolks - 7
• corn oil - 1/2 cup
• mango juice - 3/4 cup (canned or bottled juice is fine)
• lemon flavoring - 1 teaspoon
• fresh mango - 1 cup cut in cubes, from a whole mango
• butter - 1 cup, softened
• heavy cream - 1/4 cup
• mango nectar - 1/4 cup (canned or bottled juice is fine), for cake icing
• confectioners' sugar - 3 cups
• lemon flavoring - 1 teaspoon, for cake icing
• golden yellow food color - 1/4 teaspoon (optional)
• fresh mango - 1 piece, peeled, pitted, sliced in strips, for cake decoration

Instructions:

Another cold day in New England. October but outside is white. This is the 1st time for 11 years of living here in US that it snow before thanksgiving even before holloween. I decided to bake a carrot cake but the girls requested for pumpkin pie. This is the 1st time for me baking pumpkin pie. Hope they will like it. Let you know what the outcome but here is the recipe I followed.


Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 cups pumpkin puree, canned or fresh
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• pinch nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 cup evaporated milk, undiluted
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 unbaked pastry shell (9-inch)whipped cream or whipped topping, for garnish.

1. Combine pumpkin, sugar, salt, spices, and flour in a medium mixing bowl. 
2. Add eggs; mix well. 
3. Add evaporated milk, water, and vanilla; mix well.
4.  Pour into pastry-lined pie pan. 
5. Bake at 400° for 15 minutes; reduce heat to 350° and bake about 35 minutes longer, or until center is set.

Got this recipe from my coworker.
Made to my family one Friday night. They all loved it. YES another recipe added to my cook it again list and to my recipe book.


3 c. flour
1 c. sugar
1 c. oil
2 tbsp. water
1 egg
1/2 tsp. salt
(No baking powder is correct)

FILLING:

2-3 lb. apples, peeled
1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 c. chopped nuts
Put flour in a bowl. Add sugar and salt. Add water, oil and egg; mix with pastry blender until mixture forms crumbs. Cover bottom of a greased 9 x 13 inch pan with 1/2 of the crumb mixture.
Prepare filling by grating the apples on the coarse side of the grater. Mix with sugar, cinnamon and nuts. Spread filling over the crumbs in the pan and then cover with the remaining crumbs. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.