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 !

Mango Strawberry Clafouti

Ha, I have mango given by aunty, unfinished frozen strawberries..

I am still off from work today. I was arranging my recipess into folders, while this.. this "Peach Blueberry Clafouti" looks good to me ! I mean why not I make this today!

The texture of this recipe is so yummy ! like yorkshire pudding, like dutch baby , very soft eggy springy texture. but no eggy smell.

It puff like a dome while in the oven, and start to shrink once it's out from the hot oven.

Recipe

2 cups mango cubes

1 cup strawberry

4-6 T sugar

3 large eggs

3/4 cup milk ( I used whipping cream)

3 T flour

1 t vanilla ext.

a. Preheat oven to 190C. Butter the baking dish.

b. combine the mango and strawberry with 2 T of sugar in a bowl and let macerate for about 15 minutes.

c. Whisk the remaining sugar and eggs together in a mixing bowl.

d. Add in milk/cream & vaniia ext.and whisk until combined.

e. Sift in flour and whisk until combined.

f. spread the fruit over the bottom of the dish. Pour the batter into the dish until just cover the fruit. not too much, it will over-fall when u back it.

g. Bake in the oven for 30-35 minus until the batter looks puffed and golden and is set in the center.
* I like to sprinkle some sugar on top when it's half way bake. *

Strawberry Crumble

Finally, I can have 3 days off from office. Sat, Sun, Mon . I can feel the freedom all over especially when I m eating the warm strawberry crumble. Little sweet buttery crumb with tinge of sour strawberry . I like the tiny bites of sugar in the crumb and the crispy feel.



These frozen strawberries are really beyond my "acid" level! I have to add spoonful of sugar to sweeten it a bit.

Ingredients
2 cups strawberries
2 T sugar
1 t corn flour + 1 T water

[crumb topping]
3/4 cup flour
3 T brown sugar
2 T white sugar
5 T butter, and more for butter the baking dish

a. preheat the oven to 190C
b. Slightly cook the strawberry for 1 minute with sugar, and stir in corn flour water to thicken the sauce.
c. Pour into individual baking dish ( I discard some of the sauce, not too much)
d.In a separate bowl, combine flour, sugar, mix well, rub in the butter into the flour until it forms crumbly mixture.
e. Place the crumb on top, bake for 5 - 10 minutes or until topping has lightly brown.
serve warm...with vanilla ice cream is the best !

mum would probably kill me if she sees this picture with her precious orchid been picked!

Ganache's Chicken Pie

I am really busy. I am understress learning some alien program at home for office purpose! Primavera's SureTrak is so pain-in-ass ! Currently we are upgrading from Microsoft Project to ST. ST is a project management program. Anyone using it now? share some tips?

Anyway, I am so busy to cook, but I still have time to eat chicken pie! he he he! I love my baker's chicken pie a lot! I think i been eating this for 1 month ! I have chicken pie, beef pie in fridge! I order some frozen pies from http://www.ganache-ganache.blogspot.com/ , bake it for breakfast or just any time I need some food to kill my hunger!

ok, tata for now, continue my ST.