Steam Cabbage Prawn with Tung Choi (冬菜)

Tung Choi , the preserved cabbage / green mustard according to Wikipedia. Very tasty , an extra flavour to the whole bowl of soup / noodle If Tung Choi is added. I remembered whenever mum ask me to cook mustard green with egg soup

( 青菜汤) , I will put a lot of " Tung Choi" , and mum will always say

" Ah Tng, are we eating 青菜 or 冬菜 here?

So yeah I do not have any leftover broth at home! I need to steam these again leftover cabbage in the fridge, I need something ' flavourful' and I only can think of "tung choi", instead of salt!

Ingredients

some chinese cabbage (China's one sweeter")

some prawns

4 clove minced garlic

pinch of salt

2T cooking oil

1 ~ 1/2 cup water ( depends how many cabbage u have)

1 T of Tong Choi

Method

a. Heat up the steamer.

b.Use a deep bowl , so when cooked, there's room for the soup.

c. Cut the back of prawn horizontally, then slice vertical for the top part. Stuff with minced garlic & salt. Cut the cabbage into Half from the center.

d. Arrange the cabbage at the bottom, and prawns on top. Drizzle with oil & put some water . Sprinkle some Tong Choi at the bottom and steam for 15 mins ~ 18 mins.

These cabbage very savory sweet with lots of prawn flavour! and most important...Tung Choi ! slurp! serve with bowl of white rice.

Congratulations to Azizan & Allysha dear - Final

he he he ... Here we come ! Sisters behind our princess Creamy~

We ! ready for the race

Ha! The guys! were forced to bind into our so called "agreement"! (lolz)

Twinkle Twinkle Little stars, I bet their head full of 'stars" after lifting up + singing along

Much regrets! should have cut the banana into 2cm!!!! let them have closer contact

= Dinner time =

me & chu ~ eee.... I am very much missed the moment we sneak into Deli Corner around 4pm!!!! kekekekkeke

steph & I . Hey you just put a 'burden' on my left shoulder! heavy little thing! *wink*

Congratulations to Azizan & Allysha dear - 1st Round

This is my first time witnessed such a very nice and elegant wedding~ my dearest kawan creamy panda ! Let me put up some highlights of the day , then to be continued on this coming Saturday!

Very angel feel 's wedding gown~! so prettie!

ready for bersanding

hahaha, pic taken by mi-mi. Now I realise! I should have brought my sis along!!! really hard to take pic without her... I mean pics with ME inside!!

Bunga Rampai ~ (Pandan leaves + Bougainvillea Flower + Air Mata Duyung)

Tapak Sireh ~ (Beras Kuning (yellow rice) + Bunga Rampai + Air Renjis (Blessing water) )

Creamy's wedding

he he he , I make another craft , this time by imitate one of her wedding photos.

I like sewing ! all inherit from mum's interest, I used to make my own patchwork school bags! I think better I start making all bags / household stuffs, so I can retire soon huh! and make my own business ;D

Ok, I need to pack my bags now, ready to attend creamy's 1st round celebrations at Sdk! hurray!

My humble collections ...

Fermented Tofu Pasta

White Fermented Tofu also known as Chinese Cheese! ;D and I called this pasta "Chinese Alfredo Pasta" ! I m using white fermented tofu to make sauce, with some cut chillies and garlic..

Few days back I flipped thru this recipe from a Taiwan cooking book, very innovative & interesting to me. and hey no doubt! it taste good! very creamy. I told my fren karen, she said no thanks, eyeww.. ;p

Use the white fermented tofu
Ingredients
150g pasta
100g minced meat
2 cubes white fermented tofu
3 cloves garlic, minced.
1 chillie, cut
1 green onion, cut
2 T cooking oil
2 T cooking wine
1/2 cup cooking stock
pinch of salt & sugar

Steps
a. Prepare a pot with some boiling water, cook the pasta
b. Heat up a cooking pan, drizzle with some oil, pan fry the meat.
c. When the meat turn brown, put in garlic, chillie, onion, mashed fermented tofu, stir a bit, put in stock & wine, sprinkle some salt & sugar .
d. Put in pasta and some blanched beans, continue stir until the sauce almost dry up.

Change !

*Reflection*

I have cooked fermented beancurd pasta! taste like Alfredo pasta, very delicious, I will post it very soon. Tata

Halo Lemon Cream for Christmas Holidays

Halo (a.k.a spun toffee) with Santa Hat


No Eggs, No Butter, No Gelatin (most importantly) - I tell u why.

So This is a yum cold dessert , so creamy with tangy tinge of lemon, bit of sweetness .. taste like yogurt !

I like the colour of spun sugar , golden caramel , so attractive ! so not easy to make. My 1st time of making this , so out of control! should really learn and practice how to spin" the toffee ! see my so called 'out of control' toffee !

I sprinkle more lemon zest before eating this. very yum! taste like lemon yogurt.

*Oh i like this recipe because no gelatin! I am not a gelatin person. but I like panna cotta. ( and not all panna cotta is good! too much gelatin will spoil) too much gelatin , i feel like eating fake dessert. U know if too much gelatin, when spoon to mouth, I need to make my 'panna cotta' melt in my mouth for a second, let my body temperature melts the cream before I can swallow! that is the moment I really dont like! very eyewwww ! but this recipe is not! really smoooth

Ingredients

2 cups whipping cream

80g (or less) sugar

2 T lemon zest

1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice

a. Place cream + sugar in a pot and heat it up for 3 minutes. Remove from heat.

b. Stir in lemon zest and lemon juice . ( notice the cream will thicken after the lemon juice). stir well.

c. pour in the ramekin and fridge for 3-4 hours. Serve cold.

Merry Christmas Everyone !

Merry Christmas!! We just had Xmas Lunch at our offices :)

Food at Banker's Club , KL

I like these ' small eat' ! that seriously kill my hunger! :D the fried wonton / mini spring roll were crunch & hot ! ;)


Hot plate~

Superior S F S

E I like the craving of this carrot !

very yummy crispy chicken

prawns

see another nice craving! this chinese pak choy were good!

INteresting Toilet Seat in my Hse

he he he he ... my '4' 党bought me a '4' 塔 , made me 鬼'4' 感 开心! kekeke

Thank you very much to my Creamy & her hubby & Creamy's dearest parents!!!!

This creamy! she knew I admire her 'NEMO" transparent toilet seat for long already! haha, now I have Dolphins at home ! HO HO HO! and Liangmama even said so that everymorning I can "think" of them when I'm in the toilet !

my Birthday cakes

I am a cake person! I m a ... vacuum cleaner for all cakes ;p Look at the first one, specially order by Susie, whom celebrates the same birthday like me! It's a "Dreamy Valley" cake from "Lembah Impian" resort. The lychee-look-alike on top were white chocolate.

Very creamy , smooth & light ! It's White & Dark Chocolate, something like Secret Recipe's Chocolate Indulgence. However, SR's not even 1/10 of this Superb " Dreamy Valley" cake!

This, many thanks to PP, Creamy, Glorina & Li man !!

This, Jello Cake ! Thanks Lorrine ! www.ganache-ganache.blogspot.com

my mum !!

mum: , wahh... how she makes so many heart shape inside the cake ?

me: =_= " It's strawberry mum!!!

sis: oh no! mum u cannot see is strawberry meh!?

Very 'heong" and yummy ! slurrrp ~

me & my Stone Pau

me & my sis were so ready for Ikea's 99 cent breakfast, take a cab early morning and ready for food. What I all expected was food like " scrambled eggs & sausages" at least? I don't ask for meatballs at 99Cent of course.... and so much to my disappointment, they served fried mee & Lotus Pao ( only these 2 items are at 99cent) - Malaysian's Ikea!!! ok fine... i m so hungry anyway , just eat what they served.

Get my sis to buy some lotus pao.. sis was sort of lured by Ikea's microwave service, which given a 'set' temperature at 30secs I guess.. and ... CAN IKEA PPL PLEASE PUT A SIGNAGE NEAR UR NICE MICROWAVE THAT NO PAO ARE ALLOWED TO PUT INSIDE? ;p BECAUSE! after you 'ding' ur pau inside, seriously It can break any of the glass outside the building! I call this pau ' deng-sei-gau' ( a bun that can throw a dog until death! )

so wasted..

p/s: of cuz I knew pao cannot put in microwave to Ding! But what about those ppl that did not know about this?

Stephanie & Jacky

To recap a bit from celebrations on 23 May 2009 , here's the grand celebration at Banker's Club, KL. A very relax and yet elegant wedding to have! Congratulations to J&S! They are one of my very 'yao yee hey' 's couple! A couple that really take care family & friends that around them.

ha~ this cake is yuM !

The purple theme - Banquet hall

I , actually loveee the setup of the table, very very beautiful

Kei Kei with her cute purple dress smiling at the camera~


oooo... can tell she is hungry already! nice face-cupcake given by the couple to all lovely kids & babies !


After the battle in the hotel
we ...

me & steph~

me & ang Pei ( ang pei's wedding )

me & Vanessa ( Vanessa's wedding)

me & Creamy (Cream's wedding ....coming soon)

me & Karen & Ron ( their wedding...coming soon )

Sweet Ending

Butter Smell Cake !

This is the cake, so far the first butter that made my bedroom full of butter smell! my shirt full of butter smell! my nostril full of butter smell! ( yes, I hate vs I love )
No doubt that Wood Dunn Butter Cake is really Good! the taste and the smell close to perrrfect! he he , Thanks to your recipe , "Old-Fashioned Butter Cake"


Baking in Action !
I always had this messy way of preparing cake! I had my Aunt to come help along.
A So not-well-planned baking session, until I need to rush to the closest supermarket to get a new measurement weight at 7:30pm !! I left my old one at Tmn Foh sang! argh!!!!



I like to see the ribbon way of batter..

Blame my oven. Burnt my bottom and brown my top ! yes ! really burnt! I slice them away , not only for photography session, also, no ones will eat tat charcoal black bottom !!!

Conclusion, very very deliciouss ! I can't stop myself !

Liverpool ! !! !

I have planned this cake for long, and luckily I have a trusted baker to make this for me! and I guess the 'ED' liked it very much! aye?

my trusted baker: www.ganache-ganache.blogspot.com

She has another design for Liverpool

When I loaded these photos, my seng seng boy!!! Here's the conversation

boy: Ah Tng, what is that?
me: Cake Cake loh..

boy: ohhh...cake cake...oh! " Lao Ying" cake !

me: =_="

He meant "Eagle Cake" ! which is quite true, he won't know what is Liverpool, but he can tell the Liver bird is an Eagle! ha ha ha ha, G!! tell D about this! I bet D is happy to hear that !!

seng seng boy with his headphones

Braised Pork with Egg

I really like this recipe , now it makes me feel that those braised pork eggs selling in shops are actually very easy to make. Many thanks to Lydia 's recipe.

My family quite sensitive with star anise, hence I only use 1 star anise and 1 cinnamon stick. I did not slice the red onion & garlic, I let it cook as a whole. I cut the meat into 3 big chunks, then only slice when serving. It tastes really good!

Ingredients (4-5 servings): recipe from Lydia

• 600gm - 800gm pork belly
• 2 head garlic, whole
• 3 bulb shallots, whole
• 1/4 cup dark soy sauce
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 star anises
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 2 tbsp cooking oil
• 3-4 cups hot water. ( I braised for 1 hour, after tat the sauce quite thick. Eventually I add 1 cup hot water to continue boil for another half an hour, and it turned out just nice)
• Salt to taste
• few hard-boiled eggs (optional)
  

Directions:

1. Wash & cut the pork.
2. Heat up the wok with cooking oil, add in garlic, shallot, sugar, cinnamon stick and star anise. Sauté for 1-2 minutes.
3. Add in pork and dark soy sauce. Stir fry until the sauce and juice from the pork is reduced.
4. I transfer the pork and everything and eggs into another pot and add in 4 cups water to stew for 1 hour. When it's ready to eat, add in 1 cup hot water and simmer for half an hour.

Mixed Grain Rice Balls

I don't wish to change the norm, I mean this pearl rice balls are originally make with white glutinious rice, However....I have tried my best to search for glutinous rice, again, my mum keep searching for me, can't find it, went to grocery store, they sell like 5kg! my goodness, I only need 70g ;p

I used mixed grains, mum said it is a bit hard, better use jasmine rice . whatever it is, I will keep this recipe , and to impress frens next time! quite yummy !

I took this recipe from Lydia Teh - my Kitchen , I changed a bit , I added some prawns for more springy texture.

Ingredients:

70g rice (mixed grain or glutinous) , soaked overnite for mixed grain

1 T cooking oil

100g minced pork / chicken

100g minced prawn , another 50g cut prawns for stuffing

1 stalk green onion , chopped

few cloves garlic , minced

few slices gingler, minced

1 T corn flour

1 T oyster sauce

1 T cooking wine

some black pepper

1 t sugar

Method

1. soak the rice with water and 1 T of cooking oil for at least 4 hours & above.

2. Mix all the sauce & minced garlic/ginger/chopped onion in a ball.

3. Mix both all the meat together and marinate well with [2] and put in fridge for 1 hour.

4. Roll each ball and stuff with some chopped prawn and put aside.

5. Cover each ball with rice.

6.Ready the steamer , and lay with some vege / baking paper on.

7. Steam at high fire for 30 minutes. In between, open the lid, sprinkle with some water on the balls.

Use a spoon to scoop the meat, roll it in 1 hand, then pad with some rice with another hand, then use 2 hands to shape in between the palms.

Cover the balls with rice.

After steam..

I will make another version with glutinous rice!

Out of Boredom.....

I lift up my sister with my finger!

ha ha ha ha ha .. I like this photo a lot ! my sister too tired, taking nap on sofa, while me & little sister busy snapping 'imaginary' photos~

I missed my cooking blog ! I will cook something quite soon.

Luzon Mango Cream Cake

Definitely "Rugi" (making loss) if to use Luzon mango ( check out here for more luzon mango stories) for mango cakes! the seeds are so much bigger than the meat. I m making this small 7" round cake, with 2 medium Luzon mangoes, and still not enough to cover the cake.

When mum eating this cake, she is so 'careful' with every bites she's swaping into mouth. and keep saying ooh luzon mong, must finish. ( in order words, she is more appreciating the mangoes than the cake! )

I realise there are 2 mango good for cakes. Luzon & another type, looks like Filipino mango, but is not! yellow skin, when it's really ripen, really yum yum with beautiful orangey meat !!I like tat more. somemore cheaper than Luzon. I got our Luzon from relatives.

I am still practicing my sponge cake. I want a very spongy, I am still thinking probably is the beat machine tat did the miracle! i.e... to invest a Kenwood or KitchenAid????? ARE MY BOSSES READING MY BLOG? That's my Christmas present!! ;p

Mandarin Orange Cream Cake

"Drying" mandarin oranges from Tin. * I m not sure if this is the way to drain off access water by placing on the kitchen paper*

I am quite busy for the past 2 weeks, really busy. I better post something up here before it goes history or before I go for next errand. I was understressed with both baking the cake + office works when I did it on last sunday, so tensed! so busy! The sponge cake failed in the 1st time early morning at 9am!!! and i need to quickly re-baked it, finally it's okay. I baked a simple sponge cake, sandwiched with single layer of cream only (Dairy whipping cream + sugar + vanilla esc), top with lemon cream and decorated with some mandarin oranges which I bought from TH months ago!


I tot of making some "tangy" cream to balance off the cream cake. Immediately I tot of this Lemon Cream. This time I managed to make it more 'firm', no more gooey like last time even after fridge. The trick is, to cook slightly longer in the pan !

*Cake for mum's birthday*

Mum commented the oranges are quite sour + the cream is even sour! ha ha ha, i use less sugar for cream.. and my sis & the little monkey boy like the cake! The monkey boy cleaned his plate with his tongue! u imagine.

Decor wise...errr forget about it, too greedy on the toppings ( no scrimp!) until almost fall off and the cream really melt fast when I pipe the side. hai, watever again,

Strawberry Mango Panna Cotta

so Hot in the afternoon, nice to have some cold panna cotta.

I was craving for panna cotta ! I was at Grazie Restaurant with collq the other day, so tempted with their Panna Cotta, but their Fantasia dì Maria & Tiramisu were more interesting though. E I wanted to learn their chocolate pudding! so nicee.. its like 20% pudding, 80% sauce! ( sounds really uncooked) but really yumm~~[ ha! I need to highlight here, when I introduced this to another fren, she came back and complained the choco pudding was 80% pudding, 20% sauce! aiks! inconsistency here! why?] and Tiramisu is good !

Back to my Panna Cotta.
When I finished blending the mango puree, ha! this is a mistake! among all the mangoes, only 1 was ripen! the rest was like half-ripen!! hence my mango colour not so orangy, and also, the taste a bit powdery! due to not fully ripen mangoes! After scope the mango puree into glass for freezing ... I realise I don't have gelatin ! ! argh! searching high & low, got myself almost half a pack of the gelatin left! errr...

Then come to blend my strawberry, again not much frozen berry left in fridge, so difficult to blend until really smooth with tat small amount ! errrr...

I think panna cotta goes well with citrus fruit / this strawberry ! It didnt go so well with mango.. dunno why, may be just my taste bud is different!

Recipe : Ganache's Panna Cotta with Strawberry Puree
* I replace vanilla bean with Vanilla ext.

*yum*

Happy Birthday To Dad

Totoro! This is the only cartoon character dad used to watch with us! The only cartoon he knows I guess, besides the famous Mr. Bean nowadays!
I like family birthday cake-cutting session. The moment when some kid can't wait to open the cake box , then while lighting up the candle, someone will start shouting switch off the FAN!! can't lite candle here... then the other will rush to kitchen ready for plates, and stack up the 5 plates with spoon, ready for cake-cutting! * I missed this after soooo many years.... * We havnt had this occassion for so long, so many years already.

Can u see my dad's teeth? ; )
This is a very good chocolate ganache cake, my baker's signature cake! lols
Cake order from http://www.ganache-ganache.blogspot.com

Home version Beaufort Fried Mee

Whenever dad says go eat Beaufort Fried Mee .. I will start mesmerizing on the heavy 'wok breath' from that plate of mee!! sooo yum !! and of cuz most kopitiam will use ' pork ' oil to cook it it until so tasty! sinful sinful !

1. Heat up the wok until really hot, until u can see the smoke coming out.

2. Throw in the mee and dont keep frying first, let the mee spread all over the wok surface, sit for 1 min then turn again , until u can see the 'burnt' on the mee. Repeat the same until u get the 'burnt' result u wanted. Dish up.

3. Dont wash the wok, as the wok still very hot, put some oil, throw in garlic, stir fry the meat until half cook, then throw in the vege. quickly fry . then make gravy and serve on the mee.

This is the second time I fried this mee at home. I realise using chicken meat to cook also very good!.

Thai Masak-Masak

I think this is the 4th time we get together, and cook ! Besides creamy whom I know this monster for LONG enough ;p We happened to meet these 2 gentlemen via internet ( I guess back to 6 ~ 7 10++ years ago at least, when those time really famous of ICQ Chatting) . They are paw paw and wah kon. Our leader - paw paw , always the one who led the group and call around for cooking session! the first time was 2001, 2003, then 2006, and now 2009 ! This time we had wah kon's beautiful wife - Ching , to prepare some Thai food for us ! which we wanted for so long and the most Proud-person of the night was surely - Wah kon ! everyone non stop raving about Ching's cooking.. how yum how sedap how good were the dishes, even better than some restaurant for sure!

Fried Wings with Tomato chillie sauce. ( This taste & look a like buffalo wings! )

Thai Glass Noodle Salad. I actually packed some for next day lunch with the sauce. and surprisingly the glass noodle still very springy and didnt go soggy even soaked in the sauce for overnite! Then later i found out, this superior quality of the glass noodle was from Thailand! can't get in kk! argh!!!

Green Curry Chicken! Can eat bowls of rice with this.

Long bean with minced beef & basil leave. something new to me

Kangkung with beanpaste! - another new item to me too!

in fact her tom yum soup is really good without ajinomoto, without salt ! all from scratch!Lemongrass , Lime leaves, tomatoes, seafood, etc.



our sweet ending of the night - Creamy's choco moose with vanilla ice-cream! ;> yum

Bloody Eyeballs

Lolz ! I like this drink ! both its name & the drink. I was at NewYorkNewYork, 1 Borneo last nite, suppose it is lychee stuffed with blueberry, then some soda drink with strawberry concentrate. Quite nice~ but instead of blueberry, they stuffed the lychee with leong fun! ( Glass jelly!)

May be I can make this for the upcoming Halloween ! Yipee !