Braised Red Cabbage with Chinese Roasted Pork

Seasonal red cabbage with a little oriental touch.

Portion for: 2-3 people
Cooking time: 30 minutes

What you need?
1/2 small Red Cabbage (chopped)
200g Cantonese Roasted Pork "Siu Yuk" (chopped into about 1.5cm width)
1 ripe Peckam Pear (peeled, cored, chopped)
1 Carrot (peeled, chopped)

1 medium Onion (peeled, finely chopped)
1 knob of Butter
1 1/2tbsp Apple Vinegar
Salt, Black Pepper, Sugar to taste
1/4 cup Water
Some Walnuts (chopped)

How to cook?
1 Melt butter in a large pot, add onion and pear. Cook and stir until onion turns soft and caramelised with pear.
2 Add in carrot and red cabbage, season with pepper and salt.
3 Stir in vinegar, sugar and water. Add in roasted pork. Cover pot and cook for another 20 minutes until cabbage are soft enough.
4 Mix in walnut and serve warm.

Banana Chocolate Loaf

This makes a great loaf in a 21cm x 11cm loaf tin. It tastes great warm with Vanilla Ice Cream :-)

What you need?
2 large ripe Bananas (mashed)
1/2 cup Sugar
1 Egg
50g Butter (softened, cut to smaller chunks)
1/2tsp Cinnamon Powder
1 1/2 cup Self-raising Flour (sieved)
1tbsp Milk
100g Dark Cooking Chocolate (chopped) (or 2tbsp Nutella)
1/2 cup Walnut (chopped)

How to cook?
1 Mix all ingredients together except Walnut and Chocolate.
2 Gently mix in Chocolate and half of the Walnut.
3 Pour cake mix into lined loaf tin.
4 Sprinkle with the remaining Walnut.
5 Bake in 180°C oven for approximately 50 minutes.