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Chinese Chicken Roulade with glutinous rice ham & mushroom

2011-12-26T17:38:00.006+08:00

Golden Pillow - Deep fried Chicken Roudale with glutinous rice ham & mushroom

The moment i slice through the meat, I can hear the crisp sound!paper-thin skin! so excited! As I started to prepare this role from 9am until 1pm! so many hours of preparing, waiting and cooking. Anyway, I like this recipe, worth keeping it. The only thing i should do well is preparing the glutinous rice.. too long soaking hour, too much of water cooking. Original recipe calls for pork belly, i substituted with ham instead.

Basic ingredients - Dried shrimps, mushroom, ham, leek, minced garlic & ginger.

Stir Fry

Mix in the dry mixture into the cooked glutinous rice and stir well.

Deboned chicken leg.

Put some of the mixture, and wrap it with cling film. Make sure it is firm and tight.

Put the roll to steam for 15-20 mins. Let it completely before open the cling film.

Ingredients

1 cup glutinous rice, soak for 1 hour before cook

250 g ham

2 T dried shrimp, soak and diced it

2 dried shitake mushroom, slice it

2 slice ginger, minced it

3 cloves garlic, minced it

1 spring onion or 1 stick leek, sliced it

Seasoning

1/4 T rock sugar

1/4 t salt

1/4 cup light soy sauce

1 cup water

1 T rice wine

Steps

1. Cook the glutinous rice in a steamer. The water and rice percentage should be 0.9 : 1 , if rice is 100g, water should be 90g. Cook for 30 - 40 minutes.

2. Heat the wok with 2 T of oil, stir fry the garlic, ginger & onion. Add the rock sugar until it melts.

3. Add ham , dried shrimp & mushroom to stir fry.

4. Add in all the seasonings and let it simmer until dried up.

5. Off Fire. Mix everything together with cooked sticky rice and pour 1/4 t of sesame oil.

6. Marinate the chicken legs with salt & pepper.

7. Wrap some of the rice within the legs and wrap up with cling film. Steam for 20 mins

8. After the chicken legs cooked, let it completely cool before remove the cling firm and coat them with corn flour and deep fry until outside is golden colour.

9. Slice it and serve hot. serve with sweet chilli or ketchup.

Soup - Chinese Chives Egg & Prawn ball soup

2011-12-25T19:21:00.003+08:00

Holiday! We all love holidays ! I love famous cuisine publisher, they always got quality recipe published on mags ! Here's one from " Vegetable soup page 102-103" .

I love chinese chives, good for digestion and good for stomach. Does any one why houseflies always got attracted to chinese chives ?

Clean the prawn

Mince the prawn using back of cleaver , season with salt & pepper. Fridge it.

Clean the chives thoroughly, there are some hidden soil in between.

The other thing i like about chinese chives is, it is so cheap! one big bunch only RM 1 ~!

Ingredients - for 3 persons

300g prawns

1/4 bunch of chives

2 eggs

salt & pepper

a. clean the prawns,pat dry, mince it, season with salt & pepper.

b. Whisk the egg and combine with diced chinese chives

c. Heat up the wok, put 2 T of cooking oil, fry the omelette , pour in 2-3 bowl of water.

d. Drop in the prawn balls now , and let simmer for a while.

e. Season with salt or chinese stock. Server hot

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2012 ~!

2011-12-23T19:14:00.003+08:00

Merry Christmas people ! I started to ~~collect~~ BUY! ten cent coins from my colleague since last month in order to "construct" my metal tree. my metal tree for my si botak. So this is a RM 50 metal tree.

I am pretty sure this is a solid & strong metal tree. Every single coin is glued with "UHU-GUM"!

"HA!" Just to show you this was my birthday cake on 5th December! hehe, " Chicky-Egg" birthday! I bought a lot of cooking books these months, and shame to say I dint practice any of them! What am I doing with those books then ? HA! as my bedtime readings loh... :)

Steamed Pork with Salted Egg & Tofu

2011-09-28T16:50:00.002+08:00

This is another quick, easy meal to prepare, especially during lunch time.

Ingredients

70g minced pork

1 salted egg

1 pack soft white tofu ( I buy those from supermarket)

1 bunch green shallot

1 cup chicken soup ( if you dont have, nvm, use chicken cube)

1. Mix the chopped green shallot with pork, seasoned them with little bit of salt & pepper.

2. Put all tofu on the plate, meat in the middle, slightly make the edge higher, so the egg can stay still in middle

3. Drop the salted egg in , and follow by 1 cup chicken soup on tofu.

4. Steam for 10-15 mins.

(Tips, I think is better we pinch the egg-yolk slightly flat, so that it is fully cooked)

Peach Yogurt Jelly Mooncake

2011-09-10T09:41:00.003+08:00

caption: It's a dragon mold. I bought it from Consfood.

I m happy I experienced the 'process' of making a jelly mooncake. To whom who buy any jelly mooncake outisde, please finish it until the last bite! LOL! so hassel! so much patience have to put in! grr! Second thing is, have to ensure the consistency of both layers' texture! haha, u get what I mean? mine here, lol outside is soft but inside is quite hard! LOL! errr, I want both soft or both hard, HA HA! need more practice! nvm.. next year when I find other interesting recipes, then I will try :) I got this from a magazine " Oriental Cuisine, 107th Aug 2011, page 74-75. The original creation was "Strawberry Yoghurt Jelly Mooncake"

I dont think is nice to copy & paste their recipe here :) ( ya say me lazy! LOL)

Blend the fruits into puree until fine..

The 1st layer - the Filling. mixture of water, milk, yoghurt,agar agar powder, corn flour & peach.

Assemble process. Pour little bit of mixture into the mold until almost set ( but not fully set!!) otherwise later when u unmould, ur mooncake will split into 2! Lol. THen place the yoghurt filling into the center, follow by the remaining mixture, allow to set & unmould.

Bacon wrapped Okra

2011-09-07T11:06:00.003+08:00

Here you go, I was attracted by Terri's Okra & Belly Pork Rolls . Immediately I thought of, why not try bacon wrapped Okra. The reason is, SIGH! I hardly goto market to buy fresh belly pork, i dont even have mirin at home.. the fastest way is use frozen bacon, to wrap my fresh okra! :D

It tastes really good, not dried at all. One Bite on the roll, chewy on the bacon but crunch & fresh inside. (argh, whatever description).

I cook some garlic fried rice as well. Pretty easy, Lightly browned the garlic, dish up, use the same wok/pan, immediately put in the rice and throw in an egg and quickly stir n mix. Sprinkle some salt & Pepper. Finish up with fried garlic & cut shallot. Ready to serve.

Ingredients

1 pack of okra

1 pack of frozen bacon

Method

a) Blanch the okra until just cook. dont cut any ends. Leave it cool

b) Roll each okra generously with bacon! :)!!!! I use 2 bacons for each roll.

c) Use a pan, no need put cooking oil, just line up all the okra wrapped with bacons and cook. Constantly turn around to prevent burnt on each side. Dish up, slice half and ready to serve.

Meatballs!

2011-08-29T08:11:00.005+08:00

I have not been using my camera for almost, almost... 3 months. Dad's birthday on middle of August. I make sure the battery is charged one day b4 cake cutting ! When everyone is almost ready in front of the cake , my godness! my camera cannot on!! so panic! and so worried! grr! I have no choice but using phone camera to snap quickly .. ish.. Few days later i get my dad to check.. dad said it's just false alarm! U didnt charge ur battery properly! duh... so Karen says it's a sign, I better start blogging... lol :D

Here's Karen recipe.. quite good! very simple and less fuss.

Recipe

250g minced chicken

250g minced pork ( alternatively you may use 500g pork straight)

5 gloves of garlic, minced

1 egg

1/2 cup breadcrumbs

salt & pepper

Pasta sauce (my version, you can cook any type u like :)

3 gloves garlic, minced

half onion, minced

2 fresh tomatoes, cubes

salt & sugar

oregano spices

1 jar pasta sauce you can get from supermarket

1 tin tomato paste

notes: for 500 grams of meat, I can make 15 balls, about 4cm dia each after fried! Tips: make sure you roll ur meatballs about 5cm dia big before it is fried. it will shrink after fried.

1. One night before you cook, mix in all the meat, garlic,egg,breadcrumbs and salt pepper. Mix and cover well. fridge overnite. so that it is much easier to roll the next day.

2. Next day, roll up all the balls, pat with light corn flour and fried in hot oil. Dish up.

3. Cook the pasta sauce..and throw in the balls to simmer for 10 mins. Ready to eat

Golden meatballs!

Meatballs after simmer in sauce..

I mix half chicken half pork. The texture is still firm + bit moist. If you want your balls moist & tasty, recommend you to use minced pork with fats ! :D

Chocolate Enigma

2011-05-09T13:40:00.005+08:00

I spent quite a lot on the chocolate ingredients itself ! At least i m still happy with the ganache part, but not the cake ! I m just not satisfy with the ' colour' of the cake, any tips how to make ' darker' colour chocolate cake? plus next time I will use all the yolks, instead of 3 yolks 5 whites . Plus I would omit the choc chip, it is quite not necessary too.

Sis brought to office n share, they like it (probably hungry I suppose) , came home, ask me " Ah Tng my fren ask if you bake 1/2 kg for sale " .. err .. no la .. my cake is not up to standard yet la .. plus I m not selling cake one! next time I bake more & eat! :))

Ingredients ( Choc Chiffon with Ganache)

(a)

Valrhona Chocolate 100g

corn oil 10ml

(b)

3 yolks

sugar 20g

(c)

water 40ml ( I replaced with cream)

(d)

Cake flour 60g

Valrhona Cocoa powder 10g

baking power 1/2 tsp

(e)

5 Whites

40g sugar ( I reduced to 20g)

(f)

Choco chips 2 + 1/2 tbsp

chocolate ganache:

100g whipping cream

100g Valrhona Choco

Method

1. Sieve cake flour with cocoa powder & baking powder, put aside

2. preheat oven to 170C

3. Double boil to melt (A), stir still smooth

4. In another bowl, whisk (b) till pale in colour

5. Add in melted choco (A) mixture, add (c) stir still combine

6. Add in (D) , fold till mixture well-mixed, follow by adding in the choc- chips(F)
7. In another bowl, whisk whites (E) till frothy, add sugar. Whisk till peak

8. Fold the chocolate mixture into the whites, gently.

9. Pour batter into 7" cake pan

10. Baking time around 40mins

12: insert skewer to check if cake is done

13: overturn cake tin to cool cake, then unmould cake after cool.

15. Prepare choc ganache, double boil whip cream till boiling. Add in choc cubes, stir till choc melts.

16. Pour ganache ontop of the cool chiffon, ready to serve.

Minced meat with mushroom

2011-03-28T13:46:00.003+08:00

wah ... I did not updating my blog for quite some time already lah... Also, my sis must have missed my guinea pig food for long already! kekekekke

I cooked minced chicken with mushroom n egg.

so easy to cook, just need little bit of time to braise.

Ingredients

300g chicken, minced

3 big dried mushroom, cubed

3 eggs, boiled

1 whole bulb of garlic

2 shallot, minced

800ml water

3 T of cooking oil

marinates

2 T of oyster

2 T of light soya

1 T of dark soya

2 t of oil or sesame oil

1. minced the chicken, and marinate with the above for at least 1 hour.

2. Heat up the wok with oil, stir fry the shallot & garlic until fragrant. Cook the chicken minced, and break it into pieces.

3. pour half of the water n let it simmer a bit.

4. Now, transfer them into a deep small pot, with the remaining of the water, and drop the eggs inside.

5. Let it braise under medium fire for a bout 1 hour to 45, until the sauce reduce to thick consistency. ( you can add some corn flour water to thicken the sauce,after 1 to 45 minutes if you want)

serve with plain rice.

It tastes like pork knuckle sauce if we cook it longer.. may be next time i will add 1-2 slices of ginger into the sauce when cooking.

You might also like this Shallot Pork Sauce

Jake's charbroil steak, Starhill

2011-03-16T07:45:00.003+08:00

So we went to venture at one of their outlets at Starhill bukit bintang, it didnt turn out that good as compared to the branch at Medan Damansara . The Wagyu was (bad) really, the lamb is still yummy, the charbroil chicken was slightly bland .. and guess what! the salad was the best among the meat! ;) the scallop was good when eaten hot !

big Thank you to all my frens ♥♫, most important , the one who foot the bill ♥ :D

Happy Chap Goh Mei

2011-02-17T19:22:00.003+08:00

flower with pug card, a handmade card from si botak! I appreciate it very much ;)

Happy Chap Goh Mei ! Happy Chinese Valentine's Day ;) We went out for dinner on 14 Feb together... we listen to love songs while enjoying fireworks from the sky together... (actually we were stucked in front of traffic light, and penampang sky is full of blasting fireworks) . This year people are quite affordable in spending fireworks ,( like now my neighbour is playing heart-beating fireworks again! so annoying!) while festive celebration wasn't that good as compare to previous years. strange!

Si Botak's beloved froggie!!!

Dancing froggie with hairy legs! lol !

I tried this beaten egg (all mix) cuppies, taste wise was great, but I overlooked on the timing! was slightly over-baked, hence the texture quite dry! ha ha ha, need to try-again

Happy Chinese New Year 2011 :)

2011-02-10T16:28:00.004+08:00

Helo World! Happy Chinese New Year 2011 !

I hardly cook , taking photos nowadays. Here's some updates from me...

I cooked this during CNY. Instead of wrapping with pork, my mum !! when she about to take out the mince port from bag, she found out the meat has gone bad, got bad smell! grr, instead of mince pork with mince prawn, I just simply rolled with minced prawn.

my dad ate quite a few, I m not sure whether he really likes it, orr... he is just 'sayang' his oyster! ha ha ha

Recipe: please goto Terri's Dried Oyster Fatt Choi

si Botak & I

2011-01-03T16:01:00.000+08:00

Double Decker homemade grilleR

2010-12-27T11:01:00.004+08:00

I had a wonderful bbq event on christmas day at botak house! ke ke ke! . Look at how the griller was being setup!

Dried coconut shell & paper egg carton

charcoal & burning fuel

lite up the fire with newspaper

Wait until all coal turn into ashes, then we start grilling our food with the smoke ..

mini griller

He he .. Thank you to my darling botak & Helen for organising this event for my family! hehe

My Birthday :)

2010-12-09T15:05:00.003+08:00

I want to introduce you 2 dishes from Equitorial restaurant, Tanjung Aru . Like the above, I like it very much. It was Pomfret roll. It was too hungry to wolf down the food and forgotten to take a pic of the inside-roll !

Ah, Baked rice in crab shell. E! Do not order this! very oily..

Big Thank You to my cute collqs .. he he :)

my cute seng seng boy

my si-botak darling :)

Okra with Tomato Sauce

2010-11-22T12:49:00.004+08:00

My mum used to cook Okra (Ladies' fingers) by just blanch the vege, and top with dried shrimp. I felt so bored with it and so tasteless! I found the above recipe, Okra with tomato sauce taste is very appetizing and, something different too!

see my previous version of Okra with fried garlic borvil. That was the time when I m so crazy with Borvil, until even cooked Borvil pasta

Thanks to Food-4tots.com 's recipe. I adjusted a bit by adding some Plum sauce & oyster sauce in order to get rid of the ' tomato' green smell!

Ingredients

200g chicken breast ( about half of the medium chicken breast)

Okra, 6-8 sticks

2 large tomatoes, diced.

1/2 medium onion, chopped finely

Sauce

4 T tomato ketchup

1 T light soya sauce

1 T Oyster sauce

1 T plum sauce ( optional)

1 t sugar

Marinate

2 T light soya sauce

1 T corn flour

1 t sugar

Method

1. minced the chicken, marinate with light soya sauce, corn flour and sugar. Mix well. Cover well and Fridge it for at least half an hour.

2. For tomatoes, remove the stems, use the tip of knife to cut a very shallow " X" on the bottom. Drop the tomatoes into the boiling water for 1 minute and removing them quickly. Let it cool for a while, peel off the skin and chop finely. ( You can ignore this step by just chop the tomato finely with the skin)

3. Wash and rinse the okra. Boil some water in a pot/pan/ wok, seasons with some salt, and blanch the okra for 2 mins. Dish up.

4. Heat up the wok with oil, Add in minced chicken. Do not stir fry immediately. Let it cook with medium heat for a while until slightly browned. Turn it over and continue cook until browned. Reduce the heat to low, and start breaking up the minced chicken into small pieces.

5. Now add in onion at this stage, and fry . Add in tomatoes and mix well.

6. Add in enough seasonings and let it simmer a while. ( Adjust the taste to your likings. If it is too sour, add in sugar, if it is too sweet, add in more ketchup. If it is too dry, add little bit of water)

7. Pout it over the cooked okra and serve immediately.

Marinating...

"X" at the bottom

Remove the skin

Let the meat cook until slightly brown on one side, then flip to the other side.

Breaking up the meat into small pieces...

Soft Blueberry Swirl Mini Cheesecake

2010-11-18T10:30:00.005+08:00

(before bake)

I made these in order to finish-off my left over blueberry jam. (still I can't finish the jam, even after baked these! Grrrr).

This is a "Soft" type cheesecake, after I ate, I checked back the recipe, hey, no flour added! no wonder it's creamy soft. I prefer dense cheesecake. Haha, U will realise even meat, chicken meat, I like breast meat, because it is "rough" , not silky smooth like drumstick meat, which I totally object & dislike to it !

Recipe Please check this out : "6 Bittersweets"

Digestive biscuit ...

This method works well !

They were slightly puffed during baked.. they will return to normal when it's cool.

I have no idea why out of so many cupcakes, my darl ate the UNcooked one!!! and he said yucky after he finished the whole cup! ha ha ha

Blueberry cupcake with cream

2010-11-15T11:51:00.004+08:00

I like this blog a lot , very informative and beautiful cakes & bread .

I follow this one , with slight changes to the recipe .. ( to reduce the flour)

Ingredients

4 yolks

40g oil

15ml milk ( I replaced with cream)

50g blueberry jam

45g cake flour

25g corn flour

4 whites

1 tsp cream of tartar

40g sugar

200g dairy whipping cream

1/2 t brandy

( u can add more brandy if you like)

Method

1. Preheat oven at 160C. Shift the flour well

2. Whisk the eggyolks until light, add in oil, continue beat, add in blueberry jam and cream/milk.

3. add in flour in stages until well incorporated. ( Do not overmix).

4. Add in cream of tartar to the eggwhite, beat until fluffy, add in sugar in stages and continue beat until soft peak.

5. Pour the yolk batter into the eggwhite batter, fold well.

6. Pipe the batter into individual cups, and bake for 25 mins.

7.Let it cool , before you can pipe the cream inside.

8. While cooling the cupcake, chill the cream + bowl together.

9. I cut a square hole in the cupcake center, and pipe the cream into it. Fridge it

Yolk after mix in oil. Put in blueberry jam & cream.

Mix the flour well

Beat the eggwhite until fluffy ( the above pic).. then start adding in sugar.

Beat until soft peak

Cut a square hole in center.. I still wonder how come Carol can pipe so many cream in her cupcake without cutting any place!!

This is the LAST session I quite don't like about...washing & washing..should ask my vincent to help me!

Green Tea Chiffon Cake with Cream & Red Bean

2010-11-08T11:03:00.004+08:00

Green Tea Chiffon Cake with Cream & RedBeans

I found out, to retain the" moisture" in the chiffon cake, the eggwhite must not be over-beaten, It should be on soft peak. The baking time + temperature also another factor. Other than that, Oil added , and addition of cornflour also all key ingredients to cottony-moist-chiffon cake.

This time I baked with a tray of whitepapers soak with water on top of oven.. so this will prevent my top too brown or burnt b4 the cake is completely baked!.

Ingredients (this can fit in one 18cm + 5cm) or one 8inch

65g cake flour

5g corn flour

pinch of salt

5 egg yolks

20g caster sugar

40g vegetable oil

3 Tablespoon green tea powder

100ml hot fullcream milk

Eggwhites:

6 eggwhites

40g caster sugar

1/2 tsp cream of tartar

Method

a. Preheat oven to 170C. Dissolve green tea powder in hot milk. Let it cool down.

b. Sift cakeflour, corn flour ... then add in salt. put aside.

c. Whisk egg yolks + 20gram sugar until completely dissolved. Add in vegetable oil, greentea mixture and sift in cake flour stages by stages. Make sure to combine and stir well between adding each ingredient. Do not overmix.

d. Use electric mixer to beat eggwhites until SOFT peak form.

e. pour the eggyolk batter INTO the eggwhite batter and fold gently & lightly.

f. Transfer mixture to cake mould. Bake in preheat oven for 35-40 minutes. (Turn to 160C when u have put the cake inside to bake)

g. For cream, pour in 1 cup of dairy whipping cream, put some caster sugar to your liking.

(for me, I chill the cream together with the bowl in the fridge first, before i beat them)

( I realise the way I put in powder on the milk, cannot easily dissolve!! lots of lump that I need to melt one by one with Thumbs and sieve!! lots of work.. I think the correct way should be pour in the milk bit by bit into the powder! lol! ;D)

Green Tea Milk!

Beat the eggyolk + sugar until totally dissolve. ( normally i judge by seeing the eggyolk a bit pale)

The eggyolk after mix in vegetable oil ! slightly thicken.

Add in Green Tea milk

Eggwhite in SOFT peak.

Pour the eggyolk into eggwhite and fold gently.

Fold until fully incorporated.

Pour in the batter until 3/4 full

Hehe!

mini cake

I hate the red bean i bought from a place, where so cheap quality! not in full beans type! almost blended in paste! ( now i believe 1 cent 1 good) - chinese translation

Bye Bye Maritime World

2010-10-18T16:23:00.005+08:00

We had a farewell party on a tanker ship! (The Artist on the most left)

*greener pasture*

Thanks for the delicious meal !

A big Kiss to everyone! As a Thanks for these years in KASI~ I will miss you all

Soya Braised Duck

2010-10-18T10:01:00.012+08:00

How Lucky am I ! my aunt shares her 'secret recipe' with me! (Giggle) Thank you so much to Kylie's mum! This is my favourite home-cooked braised duck so far , is even better than some of those selling in the stall!

I am unable to provide the exact measurement of the ingredients used, well, even you get me to cook pasta, i dont really measure everything so detail! just throw in everything ! u get what i mean?

Ingredients

[Marinate overnight]

salt & pepper

3 Tablespoon five-spice powder

[raw duck]

1 raw duck, ( mum bought me 3kg!)

[spice]

7-8 shallot, minced

2-3 slices ginger , minced( Use galangal if you want)

1 stick cinnamon

2 starnise

4 -5 Tablespoon cooking oil

[sauce] - based on estimation!

3 T light soya

2 T dark soya

some sugar to taste

water , enough to cover 3/4 of the duck

1) Clean the duck, use fork to poke holes on the duck body. Marinate by rubbing salt & pepper, and five spice powder on it and inside the stomach! can even put more seasoning inside the stomach. Marinate Overnight for better result. Next Day, before cook, remember to chop its head, butt and nails!

2) Prepare the shallot, ginger, and garlic. Heat up the wok with oil.

3) Fry the starnise , cinnamon roll and ginger for 2 mins.

4) Stir in garlic and shallot now, and keep frying until fragrant. - 3 mins

5) Pour some water on the work , add in light soya and dark soya and let it simmer for 5 mins. ( remember not to make the sauce too salty! just have some ' brown' colour is enough, as our duck has been marinated with salts!

6) Put the duck in, make sure the water can cover 75% of the duck, if not enough, add more.. turn to high heat until the water is boiling for 10 mins. In between overturn the duck and continue boil.

7) Slowly turn to medium heat, cover with Lid . Simmer for 1.5 hours standard, or up to 1 hour 45 mins. We cook for 2 hours. ( Occasionally open the lid and turn the duck , to avoid sticking the bottom wok or burnt)

8) When the duck is cooked, take it out from wok, and let it cool aside before you hold the duck to chop! Dont throw the sauce! Heat up the wok, let the sauce slightly thicken itself. Then Drizzle the sauce on the duck and serve! :D

The main spices that make the duck so flavorful!

After marinate for overnite.. a 3kg duck. Remove its Head, Bottom and chop off the nails!

Heat up oil, fry the ginger, cinnamon stick and starnise

Throw in shallot and garlic

Pour in enough water

dark soya

light soya

Let it boil for few minutes before drop the duck in

Turn on high heat and boil for a while before close lid and simmer

One hour later ....

Almost ready!

Drizzle the sauce on it and serve !

Cheese, pear & kiwi fruit salad

2010-10-03T15:58:00.004+08:00

I am leaving my current company very soon. I still remember the day I prepared my resignation letter, so much tears I cried, so much pain I felt, at that moment, so...so much I didn't want to do this. I strongly believe I must move-forward, I must give a try, Chinese says, if you never try, you'll never know.

Ah so I tried out this recipe. The balsamic vinegar added were slightly too acidity. I might mix in some honey as suggested by pug next time.

Ingredients

3 kiwi fruit, peeled, cut cubes

2 pears, cut cubes (rinse with salt water/lemon water to prevent brownish)

200 g edam cheese / cheedar cheese, cut cubes

3 cups mixed salad

1/4 cup golden sultanas

Dressing

1/3 cup olive oil

3 T balsamic vinegar

salt & freshly ground black pepper.

1. Prepare the salad, combine all ingredients in a bowl.

2. In a separate bowl, whisk in the oil & vinegar.

3. Drizzle the dressing over the salad, toss well .

Sweetcorn Story

2010-09-13T15:46:00.002+08:00

Guess! I am the left or right

Our A day

2010-09-01T09:57:00.000+08:00

hehehe , picture says everything.

I only like the stuffed button mushroom. That is always my favourite.

Paella ~

Baked fish ~

I was quite disappointed with this.

Tiramisu. I will make my own soon... very soon

Monkey Little Cake

2010-08-12T14:53:00.005+08:00

Banana cupcake with cream cheese frosting. Oh, I like to do frosting simply using spoon, and spread the top, that's it. After all, it is just for eating ..

Original recipe from here .

I amended the recipe a bit, here it goes.

100gram cake flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 very ripe large bananas, peeled
1/2 cup sour cream OR, I used 1/2 cup yogurt + 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup sugar
125 gram butter, room temperature
2 medium eggs, separated.

1. Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350°F. Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in medium bowl to blend. Mash bananas with fork in another medium bowl until smooth. Mix sour cream and vanilla into bananas.

2. Using electric mixer, beat 1/2 portion of sugar (from the 1/2 cup) and butter in large bowl until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg yolks and beat until well blended. Mix in banana sour cream mixture and fold in flour. ( note: do not overmix, just fold until incorporated, dont keep stirring, keep string and overmix will cause ur cupcake very dense and hard)

3. Beat the eggwhite with cream of tartar until foam, slowly add in the remaining sugar until soft peak. Fold into the flour batter,

3. Bake cupcakes until tester inserted into center of each comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Transfer cupcakes to rack and let cool completely.

For frosting

4. Roast the almond in oven for 5 minutes until fragrant. Take out, let cool, crush it.

(notes: Must roast the almond before mix in the cream cheese. The aroma of the roasted almond was so nice, after blended with cream cheese! trust me)

5. Take out 200g cream cheese, in room temperature , beat with machine until fluffy, slowly add in powdered sugar . ( depends how sweet u like). Then mix in the crushed almond. Spread on each cupcake when it is completed cool and eat.

ha! how i wish I was eating this cupcake with cup of coffee from Epal Cafe, a newly opened Korean Cafe located at Satung Jaya. Nice Modern cafe

Rice with fried chicken and chicken A La King sauce

2010-07-21T08:09:00.004+08:00

I want to purchase a book shelf to put away all my recipe books that I collected. Each time I read a recipe, dog-ear that page, telling myself to cook- to cook ! after a week, I book-mark another page, reminding myself to cook- to cook, by end of the month, I have lots of 'to-be-cook_ed' soon recipe piling up!

so this chicken-a-la-king recipe adopted from Terri's was one of my last year 'wanted-to-cook' lists! and on very last minute, I twisted a bit, I made fried chicken instead , and served with a-la-king sauce.

Preparation - Chicken

1 whole chicken breast meat. ( can make 4 portion)

cut the meat of each side into half ( cut from middle , horizontally) so this is easier to fried and cooked faster before the meat goes dry n hard.

marinate with salt n pepper. ( I used the brand shown as follow, very good! taste like KFC after all)

4 Tablespoon corn flour

1 egg

Preparation - Sauce - Chicken A La King Recipe (adopted from Terri's)

1 green bell pepper , diced

1 carrot, diced

few button mushrooms, sliced

half medium brown onion, diced

3 Tablespoon plain flour

2 Tablespoon butter

2 Tablespoon cooking oil

2 cups chicken soup ( In case you don't have time or can't find one, use half cube of maggie stock, stir in 2 cups of hot plain water, it works!)

1 can Nestle reduced cream ( I used 1/2 cup of whipping cream only)

1 Tablespoon Sherry ( Aiks! when I type this recipe, then I realise i forgot about this!!! but, anyway, still taste good)

salt & pepper to taste

Method

1. Prepare the chicken breast. Cut the meat into half horizontally. so you will have 4 pieces. Slightly use the back of your knife to chop the meat, but not really cut on it. then marinate with salt & pepper, cover and put into fridge for at least 1 hour. and Take out the chicken 1/2 hour from fridge before fried. so it is in room temperate, easy to fried.

2. Prepare the vege, cut all vege into cubes.

3. Heat up the pan with oil for frying .

4.Crack 1 egg in a separate bowl, whisk it. Slowly dip the meat into the egg, and pad with corn flour. and put in pan for frying. Take about 1 min to until slightly golden brown. Dont fry to long, otherwise all the juice in the chicken breast will gone dry and the meat will be very dry n hard to chew!

5. Off fire, put the chicken on kitchen paper . Slice it when it is not so hot.

Now cook the sauce

1. Heat up a pot, add 1 T oil and fry the onions, not until brown! otherwise taste bitter. then Add in carrots and mushroom and 1 cup chicken soup, let it simmer, until the carrots half tender. When is ready, stir in green pepper. then off fire.

2. On a separate pot/pan, heat up the butter and 1 T oil, melt over low fire and add the flour and stir quickly!, after 30 seconds, then slowly whisk in 1 Cup of chicken soup and cream, keep stirring until combine, prevent lumps. IF you see big lumps, dont worrie, just Off the fire, use the whisk keep stirring until creamy. Then on fire again, add in the 1st pot of veges. Taste and season with salt & black pepper if necessary, then add the sherry, off fire.

3. Put the cream on chicken and serve with rice or noodle or bread.

This is the pepper I used to marinate my chicken! it is full with flavour! so after fried, both me n sis have the same thought, taste like kfc!

Vegetables in cube.

Done!

Ricotta & Keylime cuppies

2010-07-10T09:54:00.004+08:00

ah, I quite like recipe with keylime.. 'suon-gam' in hakka! the smell is so refreshing & appetizing when comes to cooking. ah..tom yum tom yum!

Kay's recipe rocks! But I wish to amend a bit next time I make it again.

Recipe

+ 4 tbsp all-purpose flour

1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup sugar (scant) - Highly recommend to reduce, perhaps to 2/3 cup
3 1/2 oz butter (salted)
5 tbsp Ricotta - I put 7 tbsp! in order to finish my tub of ricotta!
2 large eggs - I used 3 medium eggs
1 lime - I used 2 limes to make the zest, 3 limes 's juice. and still find it not so strong! need to put more juice & zest next time.

for method, Please click Kay's recipe, with picture illustration! very helpful

darling says ok, may be he don't even attempt to say Not nice in front of the Tiger! :D

Enjoy!

Bruschetta with seared scallop

2010-06-16T14:02:00.003+08:00

I came across Lorrine's bruschetta with seared scallop, wahh, so expertizing just from the picture itself! so ,quickly copy recipe from her and make one, and results: really easy, no fuss, good and delicious!

Ingredients (2 persons)
1 baguette (french loaf)
some butter for spread
some cherry tomatoes
1 small red onion
1T Balsamic vinegar ( I forgot I dont have this at home! so I substitute with lime juice & liquid aminos)
1 T olive oil
1/2 T fine sugar
salt & pepper to taste
6 big scallop

1. Dice the red onion very very fine, mix in balsamic vinegar, oil and sugar with the halve tomatoes. Put it aside to marinate a bit.
2. Slice the bread, spread some butter, and bake in oven at 170C for 5-7 mins.
3. while baking, heat up the cooking pan with little bit of oil for high heat. Throw in the seasoned scallop and keep tossing, until you see slightly burnt / char.
4. Off fire, put the scallop on each toast, top with tomatoes and drop some sauce on it too. eat!

cherry tomatoes , sweet

dollop of butter ! I did spread it nicely after picture is taken.

Char the scallop on hot pan.

my sis liked it and said : Ah Tng, you can sell $10 each! ..

What a crazy idea.

Deep Fried Potato Roll

2010-06-07T08:06:00.004+08:00

I got this recipe from Momofukufor2.com ! very nice and easy for a quick snack to munch! Like how she describes the roll, crisp outside, fluffy soft from the mashed potato and crunch in the green! ;D

Ingredients ( from momofukufor2.com)

6 slices of bread ( any type u like)

1 cup mashed potato ( about 2 medium size potato)

3 french beans, cut into half after blanch

salt and pepper to taste

1 egg yolk

a. Peel the potato, cut into cubes, boil in salted water for 15 minutes, when it's ready, throw in your french beans to blanch a bit, then drain.

b. Mash the potatoes, seasons with pepper ( the potato should have enough taste already since it's boiled with salted water)

c. cut the bread edge, and roll into paper thin or I describe as ham-thin flat!

d. brush the edge with egg yolk, put 1 tablespoon of mashpotato in the centre, drop half french bean , and roll it up.

e. press the 2 ends firm.

f. Heat up the oil in pan, throw in the rolls and turn it occasionally. Do it quick or else it will burn very fast. When it's well golden brown, transfer to a kitchen paper towels. Server when it's hot

Wash the potato and peel it.

Peel the skin and cut into cubes for boiling

After boiled, mash it with fork.

I like the colour of yolk!

Roll it flat

see, roll it as thin as the ham!

Brush the yolk around the edge. I use fingertips to brush(smear)

my working station ..

ready for deep fried!

Hawaiian Baked Rice

2010-05-16T13:32:00.004+08:00

I found that the key to any of the baked rice is " The rice". Make sure the cooked rice is cooked with chicken stock ( homemade or Swanson brand is good), plus some butter n garlic , so nice.

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups uncooked rice
enough chicken stock to cook rice. If you dont have , use plain water is ok.
5 garlic cloves
1 can pineapple , diced
4-5 slices of ham, cut square
20 g butter
1 cup mushroom soup
shredded mozzarella cheese (150g) ( I obmit this)
shredded cheddar cheese (150g)
salt & pepper to taste

Method
1. wash n rinse the uncooked rice until clear.
2.In a heated sauce pan, melt the butter, and add in washed rice, add salt & Pepper, keep stir until the water is dried up. off fire.
3. Transfer the rice into rice cooker, add in sufficient stock , and cook. (note: dont put too much water to cook, because when pineapple is mixed in, the pineapple will have some juice , and mushroom soup is smear on, more liquid here)
4. When the rice is cooked, stir in pineapple and cut ham.
5. smear some mushroom soup on top, layer with cheese, follow by some pineapple n ham.
6. Baked the rice at 200C for 20 - 25 mins or until just slightly brown.

Butter melting..

Butter rice ..

Garlic Butter rice. More garlic if you like to enhance the flavour, next time I will sprinkle some garlic powder too!

smear some mushroom soup on top. make sure the soup is not too watery.

slurp!

Chicken and mushroom croquette

2010-05-09T10:40:00.005+08:00

waa .. I feel so Happy I m back to blogging! I wake up at 8am this morning, quickly fried these croquettes, when I m finished, both my sisters came down already. They ate, They liked. ;) one of them said it tastes like nugget. ha ha

Ingredients
Butter 5 Tbsp
Plain flour 5 Tbsp
salt & pepper to taste
milk - 1 cup
Boiled chicken breast - 500g, diced
canned button mushroom - 1 can or less, halved
Dry breadcrumbs ( I used panko)
egg - 1, beaten.

Method
1. Boiled the chicken breast in pot of salted water about 20 mins. When its done, drop in the mushroom to blanch a bit. When the chicken is cool, cut into cubes.
2. Melt butter in a pan, stir in flour, salt and pepper, continue to stir and add in milk. Cook, stir over low heat until the mixture is smooth and Thick!. Off Fire. Mix in Chicken and Mushrooms.
3. Spread the mixture on a pan, cover and fridge for 2 hours or more. I put overnite, so it will be firm enough to cut round.
4. Use a round biscuit cutter, cut out the patties.
5. Coat the patties with eggs, then coat with breadcrumbs.
6. Heat up the oil, and fry the croquettes until golden brown. Serve immediately. Eat with Cuke! I mean cucumber, so it cool down ur body as well! ha ha ;)

Firm mixture before cut into round shapes. I prepare this 1 night before i cook. U dont have to do this, u can let it fridge for 2-3 hours. This is really firm, so is really easy to handle when you cut into round shape.

coated and naked croquette

Croquette coated with panko (breadcrumbs)

Frying time..

hA! golden brown chicken and mushroom croquette

see my previous Salmon Croquettes

Free Ringtone for Iphone (Custom-made)

2010-05-08T13:17:00.005+08:00

I had some frustrations over how to create own ringtone from my favourite songs , without any paid ringtone maker! The following only apply for Window users, any MP3, songs from CD, as long as not songs purchased from Itunes.

Step 1: Open your ITune , music library, select the song u like to convert. Before proceed to Step 2, play the songs, mark down the starting & ending point of the song u like ( limit to 40seconds only)

Step 2: Right click the selected song, goto Option tab, change the " start time" and " Stop time". Clock OK.

Step 3: Right click the same song again, select "convert AAC versions".

Step 4: After that, you will see a same title's song of AAC version is right below the original song. How to differentiate? Just see one with shorter playtime. that's the one.

Step 5: If you find it hard to differentiate, point your mouse to the Title Bar, right click, select KIND.

Step 6: Here you go, MPEG version and AAC version. Now we want the AAC version.

Step 7: Select the AAC version, right click, select Show in Window Explorer.

Step 8: Here your converted ringtone in the folder.

Step 9: Goto window toolbar, select Tools, Folder Options

Step 10: Click View Tab, see the highlighted box ? " untick" the column! so that your files can see their extensions.

Step 11: Now, Right click the song in the folder, change the extension to m4r.

Step 12: Click YES.

Step 13: Now, select ur song and Drag it to your desktop! ( so that you can easily find it back later)

Step 14: Go back to your ITune. Select the Song tat we converted to AAC , and DELETE it.

Step 15: Click REMOVE.

Step 16: After delete, drag the ringtone we just located at Desktop back to Library! ( the blue ). Dont worry, the ITune will automatically allocate under ringtone section.

Step 17: See, under Library, RIngtone section, your file is there. Now ready to sync to your iphone.

Step 18: Before your sync, make sure your songs is listed under Devices, Ringtone as above. Then select and Sync! After that, goto your iphone, under "settings, sounds, ringtone, the songis locate at the most top part.

St Patrick Day !

2010-03-18T19:26:00.005+08:00

my little seng seng boy surprised me with this picture! I am very happy with how he 'drew' me! I always like to see children's drawing, because that reveals what is their thinking, and what is their 'inside' world. Like this picture, luckily he drew me with a 'smiling' face!!!! ha ha ha, it shown, even I m quite fierce with him sometimes, I m still very sayang to him most times!

so in the picture, he drew a table with table lamp! ha ha ha, that is my bedroom dressing table with lamp attached.

and! the above photo was taken from my backyard ! my mum has Shamrock (alike) plant!!!! we have three-leaved plant in the house!! Happy St Patrick Day!

Newspaper Baking Method !

2010-03-14T13:26:00.004+08:00

This is Buttercake filled with CreamCheese. I finally found a method to prevent my cake from charcoal burnt on top, cracked on top . I lay some very wet newspaper on the most top of my oven, then bake. I can bake this cake for 1 hour 20 mins without single crack + burnt !

The original recipe is from this blog. I discard the crumbly topping. I opt for egg-white separate method, and it turn out so soft & moist ! The only thing is, the cream cheese in middle, looks curdle. was it from overbeaten ? but it still taste creamy smooth.

Here's my version.

cake

225 g salted butter ( 1 block)

1 cup sugar ( I reduced to 1/2 cup, & I used brown sugar)

2 eggs (separated)

1/4 cup sour cream ( I replaced with 1/4cup yogurt + 1/4 tsp baking soda)

200g cake flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 lemon's zest

1tsp cream of tartar

Filling

500g cream cheese

1 eggyolk

1 cup sugar ( I reduced to 1/2 cup, & I used brown sugar)

1 tsp vanilla

2 lemon's zest

a. Preheat the oven to 175C. Prepare the wet newspaper in a tray 1st. Put in the tray when you put in the cake. Sift the flour with baking powder, set aside. Grease the 18cm removable round tin.

b. Beat the "filling" 1st. Cream the cream cheese with sugar( HALF of 1/2, as the other half is used for eggwhite) , yolk, vanilla and zest, put aside.

c. Beat the butter & Sugar until fluffy, add in Yolks & sour cream, continue beat until smooth, add in flour. When add in the flour, the batter will be quite thick, but slowly, until just incorporated , do not over mix or else the cake will be very 'hard'.

d. In a separate bowl, beat the eggwhites with cream of tartar, then stir in the other 1/2 of the sugar until soft peak.

e. Mix in the eggyolk butter batter into the eggwhite, fold well.

f. Pour half butter batter into the base, middle filled with all cream cheese, then finish with the remaining butter batter. Bake for 1 hour 20 mins ( for 18cm round tin).. or until set.

yogurt after put in baking soda. That's how I replaced my sour cream.

Lemon zest

The "Filling" . Beated Cream Cheese.

The butter yolk batter before add-in egg white. I always like to see my yolk batter in 'thick' form, as this will tell that my cake will turn out soft soon! I dunno, I hate when my batter in very dilute form! bcuz the texture of the cake will surely taste like " steamed kuih!"

HA! Wet Newspaper on the baking tray. When I m baking with this tray of newspaper, I constantly fill in lots of water to prevent the newspaper from getting burnt, as the tray is on the most top of the oven.

Newspaper tray in oven.

After baked.

Purple Sweet Potato Chiffon Cake

2010-03-06T08:06:00.009+08:00

I have not baked a cake for the past 5 months! I was having doubt if I still remember the egg-white 'folding' method. Arh well, luckily the result proven that I still can manage the beating eggwhite + folding technique. Same goes to my Swimming lesson!! I still wonder If I m thrown to a pool, whether I know how to start moving my hands n legs or not! I've not in a pool for 6 years already, ever since I left my uni. not even had the chance to swim after 6 years, the reason behind, u see the pool here in kk, my godness , i probably want to blindfold myself when i put my head down the pool! dont want to see the dirty pool.

Ah Back to my cake, I like kokotaru's Purple sweet potato chiffon cake. I was quite amazed with the moisture and softness of the cake texture in her picture. I still find mine slightly overbaked if compare to hers! even I only baked at 20 mins! and again my oven always much 'hotter' than the others, I have switched to 160C , instead of 170C per recipe.

recipe: Click here .
I substitute 3tbs milk with 4 tsb cream + 1tsb water! , now I m thinking, actually if we to add coconut milk also nice!!
One thing about the chiffon here is, the eggwhite must be beat until soft peak only, to maintain the moisture...

This is a keeper.!

Sleep Vs Breakfast

2010-02-20T09:26:00.003+08:00

ah! Are you a person prefer extra 10 minutes of sleep than a sit-down morning meal?

Sleep or Breakfast ?!

me = my priority is always always FOOD 1st

Tell me yours!

Another round of dinner

2010-02-17T20:30:00.002+08:00

This time, a dinner for 14 persons! Each dish is put into 2 plates, so each table we have enuff of food to share! by the way, we have 2 tables here.

sweet & sour fish . " Oh, ketchup + sugar only.." shouted by K! hahahah,hey! is actually a jar of pickles with its syrup + ketchup + sugar , when the sauce is cooked, drizzle with some cooking oil !

my aunt's pork knuckles. this is good! kekeke.. I will grab the recipe one day, is cooked with cooking wine.

chicken wing + korean seafood Pattie. yummmm

Nam Yue Pai-Kuat. ( Red fermented tofu pork rib with wood ear)

roast duck from shop

Gong Xi Fatt Chai ! Happy 2010 ~

2010-02-14T20:07:00.006+08:00

Reunion dinner ..

my ah yee's yam pork! my ah yee (my mum's sis) based in Papar, so I was telling my mum, to get ah yee stays at our house , and teach me how to make this yam pork! so I can make $$$ during festive like CNY !!! I heard from auntie, in the market, ppl are selling RM 60 per bowl!! wow!!!! I MUST learn my ah yee's secret recipe!!

Mum's signature dish - soya prawn

Kailan vege with mushroom & abalone

my aunt's braised soya duck! superb!!

Steamed chicken

my aunt's braised sea cucumber with lots of treasure ........

sayur manis! haha, last minute given by mum's sis , so mum was saying better fried it now instead of keeping it in fridge.

So During 1st Day of Chinese New Year, mum will cook " Zhai Choi" for breakfast!

yum yum

Lion Dance! I was telling my mum luckily the 1st group is "lion" , instead of "Keh-lun"! ! u know the skinny lion that I don't quite welcome.

---more coming up---

Felt Goodies

2010-02-13T12:13:00.006+08:00

Making softies is my new passion. Here's my recent creations .. money pig & dancing bunnie. I got the ideas from Flickr page. Hehehe, my next project will be 3 cute puppies !

mum's decor! Happy Chinese New Year 2010~ Gong Xi Gong Xi !

Steam Cabbage Prawn with Tung Choi (冬菜)

2010-01-31T11:21:00.005+08:00

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

2010-01-24T10:13:00.004+08:00

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

2010-01-18T20:22:00.008+08:00

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

2010-01-13T11:07:00.003+08:00

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

2010-01-03T15:36:00.005+08:00

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 !

2010-01-03T13:21:00.003+08:00

*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

2009-12-25T17:17:00.003+08:00

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 !

2009-12-23T15:05:00.002+08:00

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

Food at Banker's Club , KL

2009-12-18T16:32:00.003+08:00

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

2009-12-16T19:29:00.004+08:00

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

2009-12-10T08:27:00.003+08:00

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

2009-11-29T18:07:00.003+08:00

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

2009-11-23T17:49:00.005+08:00

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 !

2009-11-13T20:32:00.005+08:00

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 ! !! !

2009-10-31T08:17:00.004+08:00

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

2009-10-12T17:00:00.000+08:00

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:

Wash & cut the pork.
Heat up the wok with cooking oil, add in garlic, shallot, sugar, cinnamon stick and star anise. Sauté for 1-2 minutes.
Add in pork and dark soy sauce. Stir fry until the sauce and juice from the pork is reduced.
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

2009-10-11T14:17:00.004+08:00

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.....

2009-09-27T22:12:00.002+08:00

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

2009-09-16T15:50:00.003+08:00

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

2009-09-08T18:57:00.002+08:00

"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

2009-08-31T15:21:00.005+08:00

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

2009-08-21T14:23:00.000+08:00

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

2009-08-19T11:25:00.002+08:00

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

2009-08-19T07:55:00.005+08:00

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

2009-08-12T18:58:00.003+08:00

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

2009-08-10T16:42:00.003+08:00

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

2009-08-08T12:47:00.003+08:00

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

2009-08-02T14:02:00.003+08:00

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.

Kitchen Closed for 7 days ++

2009-07-26T22:04:00.003+08:00

Take a Break, back on Sunday!
I have lots of recipes to bake/cook + eat
I don't have time to do it !

Lemon Cheese coated with Lemon Cream

2009-07-19T18:04:00.004+08:00

Citrus cake is always good. I need to finish the remaining 100g cream cheese in my fridge, so I baked a light lemon cheese cake with Lemon Cream. The lemon cream is really an icing on the cake. The cream is so smooth and lemony. Ha I need to check with my lemon cream sifu why my cream doesnt hold on its own even after fridge (i.e. not firm). I can't pipe into shapes, it wont hold, It will dissolve like a cream pool. That's why you see my cake can be coated so smooth like a carpet! ha ha ha

Recipe:

Cake ( adopted from perfect macha cheese cake, i halved them)

70g sugar
3 eggs (separated)
1/4 cream of tartar
30g butter
100g cheese - 120g
50ml milk
2 T lemon zest
30g cake flour
10g corn flour

1. preheat oven to 160C.
2. Put butter+cheese+milk in a bowl, using double boiler method, keep whisking until melted (creamy) and incorporated.
3. Mix in lemon zest, egg yolks and flour. stir well.
4. On a separate bowl, beat the eggwhites with cream of tartar until foamy, mix in sugar into 2 stages and continue to beat until soft peak.
5. Fold in the eggyolk batter into the eggwhite , and fold gently until fully mixed.
6. Bake at 160C for 50 ~ 55 mins bain marie

Lemon Cream : Recipe click here.

The lemon curd after cooked.

The lemon curd after whipped.

slurp~

Bintulu Korean Restaurant, Lintas

2009-07-17T14:39:00.007+08:00

me & Aunt went to 'explore' this new Korean Restaurant at Lintas. ( Above of the Corner Sang Yuk mien, opposite Salim). Oh well, this place has 2 dining areas, one with round tables on flat floor another is like this, with "underground" design, where more space for you can swing your legs! ha ha , nah, these seating section is mainly for Bulgogi .

we were served with some banchan (side dishes) - Kimchi, Kongjaban (Korean sweet beans) and another err... I dunno, some parboiled fern vege with sauce. all very nice.

Dolsot Bibimbap - we are so kampung , we requested them to make bull eye egg than served with raw one! this bibimbap is really good especially go with the chillie paste. the Chillie paste is very 'heong' (fragnant). This mixed rice is much better than Hi-Seoul in Likas.

I forgot the name, I think is Spicy Seafood Steamboat. Veeeeeeeery yummy! You can really taste the 'sweetness' of the soup despite the spicyness that really keeps my nose running the whole dinner ! lols, tissues are all around the table.

I will definitely come back for this restaurant. I think this is better than Hi-Seoul in Likas. And thanks to my Aunt's wallet ;p

Weekend Photos

2009-07-13T19:10:00.002+08:00

moreen & I

I didn't do any baking during the weekend. Instead I attended Cilla's wedding. my Darling cillA!! Darling Cilla married to a French, a very nice gentleman I ever seen ;)

I like this sweetie a lot ! look at her, ha ha ha , she will do that to her mouth when she's about to cry! ha ha

July Birthday Bash~

2009-07-08T14:45:00.002+08:00

I am the 'cake' coordinator for office monthly birthday partie.
This month, due to 5 persons in a month, I order a "calender" cake from my baker for them, all-in-1~ ha ha. They seem to like this idea!

Walnut Chiffon Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

2009-07-05T14:59:00.003+08:00

Today I make another chiffon cake aaagain. A Chiffon cake again. So addicited to chiffon cake, because it is so easy, just measure , whip up everything, pour into pan and bake. However, I m quite 'bored' with posting chiffon cake in here. I dress up this little CC with cream cheese frosting and crushed walnuts.

I m quite happy with the texture of this walnut cake. I like to 'tear off' the cake to see its texture than slicing it ! hahahah, eeee.... I m back to my 'witch' world ? Rip off the skin & chop the toenails. anyone remember ? ;p

This is indeed a 'fluffly' , 'cottony' Chiffon.

Credits to http://gracekitchencorner.blogspot.com/2009/03/troubleshooting-on-chiffon.html

I change the measurement a bit.

Ingredients

110g egg whites

1t cream of tartar

40g caster sugar

50g egg yolks

36g water

36g vegetable oil

55g cake flour

5g corn flour

100g walnut (Crushed it)

50g dried fruits

Frosting (sufficient for 17cm chiffon)

100g butter

150g cream cheese

1 T lemon juice

3T powdered sugar

Cake Method:

1. Preheat oven to 160C.

2. Cream eggyolk+sugar until fluffy pale. Add in water, oil, continue beat, add in flour & corn flour. mix well, put aside.

3. Beat the eggwhites with cream of tartar until foamy. Add in Sugar bit by bit. Whip until soft peak.

4. Put in eggyolk batter into eggwhite batter, and fold in gently, until fully incorporated.

5. Pour into the ungreased chiffon tin, and bake for 35 - 40 minutes. ( I baked at 35 mins). Everyone's oven varies here.

6. Turn the cake upside down, and let cool ( at least 1 hour)

Frosting Method:

1. Let the butter & cream cheese in room temperature.

2. Put them into a bowl and use machine to beat until fluffy.

3. Add in lemon juice + sugar, and mixture again. put back to fridge to cool a bit b4 cream the cake.

Green Tea Red Bean Cake

2009-06-28T14:33:00.005+08:00

This cake marks the history in my baking life! why ? ( I tell u later *)

I was quite obssessed with red beans , red bean bun, red bean soup, red bean pastry, ( I have a new - red bean tart, make soon) , and of cuz green tea with red bean cake.
I had an intention to pass this tin of red bean to my baker and make me a cake! just in case If anytime my sponge cake fails, I will not waste this red bean already, well anyway, I still need to try.

Again, I do not have any " cake decorating stand / revolving stand" in my house, do not bother to buy one either, too expensive as I only used it 1-2 times in a year. But today I need to use one! to help me out in creaming the cake. I think this is the only 'way' i can replace my cake revolving stand. Seng Seng's bicycle wheel! *

Hey, it works really! It turn around like the normal stand! I found it quite amused when I cream my cake on top of the wheel. and Now, even u have a real 'revolving stand', to help to spread the cream smoothly on a cake, need a lot of practice, and also again! I dont have the palette knife, aiks, whatever, i m not doing this for all times, just again 1-2 times in a year! I also realise, if you cannot make nice cream on the edge,or turn out unpresentable, argh, just finish off with lots of spinkles to cover up! ha haha

yum yum yum !

The green tea sponge cake turn out soft & fluffy. I m quite satisfy , as I did not scrimp on the red bean! lols!!!!

Ingredients ( 6" round cake)
cake flour 40g
green tea powder 5g
baking powder 1 t
corn flour 10g
olive oil 30g
milk 30g
egg yolk 50g
egg white 100g
cream of tartar 1 t
sugar 40g

[fillings]
some sweetenen cooked red bean
150g - 200g dairy cream
1 T powdered sugar
***** ( i cant figure out what is missing here)

[note: I m still not happy with the cream! I still think besides adding in sugar, there must be something to add in to make the cream tastier......like my baker's! ha ha, guess I need to continue pay more tuition fees here to break the code lols!!!!! G must be wanting to kill me ]

( Preheat oven at 180C)
1. Whisk the eggyolk with oil,milk and mix in flour, set aside.
2. Beat the eggwhite with cream of tartar until floamy, add in sugar , beat until soft peak.
3. Fold in step 1 into step 2 until incorporate.
4. bake at 180C for 20 mins

5. After baked, unmold the cake and over turn until completedly cool.
6. Carefully slice the cake.
7. Pour the dairy-cream in a bowl and fridge it at least 20 mins before whipped up.
8. After whipping the cream, spread on the cake, drop some red beans, cover with another layer of cream, and cover with the cake, repeat the same.
9. Fridge the cake for 1 hour.

Quicky

2009-06-27T10:50:00.003+08:00

sometimes I just need something quick and tasty~ How I wish all cakes all pastry all in a box, just 1 mix, poof! everything nicely presented on a plate. ok, my castle on the cloud has gone!

I wasnt that fancy about korean instant noodle before, not until this korean movie ( korean version of F4), this is really a powefuly dreamy drama! everything is so perfect! ha ha, even the instant noodle they were eating - are so yummy! There you go, I bought my noodle in a cup of the above same brand one day, and eat in the office! so perfect! and the soup so yummy ! and I went back to the korean store at Asia City, bought the same brand, but in package form. Slightly spicy but still yum! I still think the noodle in a cup one nicer!

Korean instant noodle. hot hot !

Mango Mille Crepe

2009-06-21T15:10:00.002+08:00

A Mille Crepe, A Thousand Thanks to dad for being so kind, so much considerations given, so everything to us~ ! Here's a mini 8 layer crepe ! ha ha, as opposed to a thousand layer ! mille means 'thousand' in french.

mum bought some apple mango from gaya street. 6 of them cost about RM 5. Being a bit 'high-spirit' today, I made some crepe, by sort of "play cheat" here. make 1 large sheet, cut into few pieces with cookie cutter, then spread with cream and mango, frozen it. Drizzle with some chocolate sauce & walnut. The crepe skin quite thick here, need more practice.

Crepe Ingredients
1/2 cup flour
1 egg
1/2 cup milk + 2 T milk
pinch of salt
1 T butter

Fillings
whipped cream
fresh mango

1. mix all the crepe ingredients together, make sure no lumps in the batter. I sieve the batter after mix.
2. heat up a pan, drop some butter / oil, pour the batter, make the crepe as thin as possible. ( really, need lots of practice + patience)
3. stack up the crepe, let cool.
4. Spread the crepe with some cream in middle, some mango on top, and repeat the same.
( I slice the mango with peeler, which helps a lot!)
5. make some chocolate sauce. I melt 2 T of chocolate chips in microwave, then mix 3-5 T of cream to dilute it, adjust it to your likings.

Chicken Cabbage Dumpling, AKA Chinese Ravioli

2009-06-20T17:12:00.004+08:00

I made some very basic & easy dumplings for next week breakfast.

Did you realise most "wo-tiah" or "sui-jiao" ( pan fried or boiled) dumplings in KK are filled with dark colour meat, which is quite flavourful, with lots of minced onion and Tung coi especially for Shan Tung style dumpling! Of cuz I like them, I m not complaining.
However When I had my dumplings in Brisbane, they were filled with cabbages! and were not bathed in "dark soya", but well-seasoned. My fren's aunty also made dumpling with lots of cabbages!
Well, I think when we eat dumpling, it should balance with lots of vege (fiber)considering pounds of meat and carbohydrate counts here ( the skin) !

Ingredients (makes 50)
120 g Cabbage
250g Chicken fillet (minced)
20g ginger ( minced)
1 bunch of green shallot

(I used soup tablespoon to measure)
1 T sesame oil
3T cooking oil
1 T light soya
1 T oyster sauce

1. cut the cabbage and green shallot into tiny pieces
2. minced the meat with cleaver ( not too fine) dont use blender, it gives different texture. Use cleaver to chop on board! haha
3. Mix everything in a big bowl, marinate for 30 minutes in fridge.
4. put 1 teaspoon of meat in the center of the dumpling skin ( I bought my skin from Recipe House, Damai) , wet the half edge of the skin with water, and close it firmly. Frozen them!

Mixture of vege, meat and seasonings.

I like the bites of ginger, so I slice it thinly, julienne it, and dice it !

Simply boil it with pot of hot water, until all dumpling floating on top. That's the sign of cooked. I like how the 'crunchiness' of the cabbage when I eat it.

Cheese Chiffon Cake ( CCC )

2009-06-18T13:51:00.004+08:00

I google quite a lot on Cheese Chiffon cake recipe ! non of them to my liking! Instead, I created my own cheese chiffon cake recipe! I modify from a Pandan chiffon cake tat I printed yesterday, it turned out fluffy , cottony , not dried. I wanted to pipe some lemon cream on top for decorations, again, no lemon, and I m so lazy go out to buy one!

Ingredients

3 egg yolks

30g castor sugar

75g cake flour

1 tbsp olive oil

2 tbsp lemon juice ( add some zest if u like)

120ml milk

120g cheddar cheese

3 egg white

30g castor sugar

1/2 tsp cream of tartar

Method

1. Prehead oven to 160C

2. Cut Cheddar cheese into cubes. Heat up the milk in a pan on slow fire. melt the cheese in the milk, keep stirring. Make sure dont cook on high fire, otherwise, cheese will cuddle up. Off fire and set aside to cool.

3. Cream the egg yolks with sugar until creamy pale. Then add in olive oil, milk, lemon juice. Mixed well and fold in the flour, set aside. ( I used hand-held mixer to beat)

4. Beat the eggwhites with cream of tartar until foamy, then add in sugar bit by bit until stiff.

5. FOR ME, I pour the eggyolk batter into the eggwhite in 1 go, and fold until incorporate.

6. Pour into a 18cm chiffon tin. Bake at 160C for 33 - 35 mins. ( everyone's oven varies here, mine is on the Hot side. so I turned to 160C. If built in oven, i guess 180?)

Cheddar cheese ..

Milk after cooked with cheddar cheese. I used a whisk to keep stirring until smooth after cooked.

egg white

Egg yolk batter into egg white

After pour into cake tin, hold the tube and side together, bang the pan on a table several times to release air bubbles in the batter. This will help to make a smooth surface, rather than use a spatula to spread smoothly.

Bob the builder

2009-06-14T19:06:00.005+08:00

BoB The Builder , Can We Fix it ? Yes We Can !~ ( I suppose that should be sing by my baker! lols)

Pretty aye ? The so great about "D" is, D can change the Bob standing position to right with his imagination ! ( Original drawing for BoB The Builder is standing on the left hand side of the truck, named Scoop)

The room was full of "oohs & aahs" when I opened the cake box ! Especially Seng seng boy! He screams !! He is so happy & excited with the ~~cake~~ drawings!

He said we are noisy when we sang birthday song for him ! notty!

Happy Birthday Seng Seng Boy ! He is 5 this year.

This is my dearest notty seng seng boy ! he is really "cute" with his words, sometimes.

You will be surprised why I'm the one helping him cutting cake!both parents are busy with 'snap snap snap"

I'm trying not to spoilt the precious Bob-The-Builder drawing, by cutting here and there to avoid ! ha ha

This little boy, after the first cut with the plastic knife, he actually "clean the knife with his tongue"!! he is licking clean the knife"! eyewww!!!! the crowd requested to wash the knife before the 2nd cut ! ha ha ha ! he likes the cream so much! until without our attention, he stole '3-mini-balls' ( pearl piped cream) on the cake! quickly pop into his mouth! he really really love the cream.

" 3-mini-balls" stolen by seng seng boy

My dad keep telling me this is ice-cream cake! and the whole crowd tot this is ice=cream cake! This was normal sponge cake sandwiched with mango & blueberry and dairy cream! It was the cream that tasted so much like ice-cream when it's still cold.

A rare concoction ! mango + blueberry. sounds odd, but it is really nice ! yum yum

my baker --> www.ganache-ganache.blogspot.com

Seng Seng mom told me this is the prettiest cake ever since his 1st birthday!

Tell me how you tackle such situationssss

2009-06-09T17:07:00.002+08:00

I need to get something out from my chest!

I feel really bad to put on blog, but seriously, i need consultations from everyone, gimme some advises on how to handle such situationsss . ( note: i put many sssss is because this is not the first time )

I have a grandma, a weirdo tat , make it this way, ungrateful creature at all !
I give a good example here: -
Last saturday, I organised a small dinner at Winner Hotel ( a restaurant in town tat you really need advance booking, otherwise, u do not have any seats at all, in order words, u can tell how famous it is.)
I have planned for this early dinner celebration ( due to next sat my cousin birthday, and i dont want to eat on actual day as lots of restaurant will be very pack) for Father's day. so I have booked the table and even pre-ordered the dishes. I put 5 persons for 6 dishes.

On Saturday morning, while we were having dim sum breakfast, I was suggesting to Dad, why not we invite Grandma too ? Dad happily said ok. But sis & mum not like it ( note: I get Grandma to join us, because I tot of this is a family gathering event, let her eat good food, enjoy a bit), eventhough I myself also not like Grandma, but, as a respect, I have to.

We order Yam pork (Kou-rou), fish maw soup, fried kai lan, steamed white pomfret Teochew style , fried prawns and crispy chicken. Overall the bill is at RM 130 ++ only.

This afternoon, I received a huge complaints from mum & sis tat, grandma 'bad-mouth' about us, the 4 of us, me, 2 sis, and mother, except father! ( grandma is the person tat only love her own sons, so she hardly complaint about her own sons, means my father)

1. She said we brought her to the lousiest restaurant !
2. she said we ordered the most yuckiest food at all!
3. she said we wasted money!
4. lastly, mum warn me not to invite grandma anymore! ( what a negative support here)

( I almost cried out when I hear the comment 1 & 2. because, the food are considered medium ranking food u see, as compared to we everyweekend brought her to eat at those cheap kopitiam..) She complained the soup is lousy! ( excuse me U grandma! the fish maw soup is Good!) and U make me feel embarassed when you dip my pomfret into tomato ketchup and eat!!!! are you telling the Chef in Winner hotel tat the food is tasteless?

She commented the yuckiest food, probably non of the dish she likes, because she only eat Sweet & sour food, which I hightly object to it! I feel really really hurt ! really really not nice!

THe most hurt here is, she even said to us during the dinner " The dish okay ah, not bad, somemore only 130++ )...now she said different things to other people !

Is this the beginning of the road I should learn how to go along ? Now I am thinking, what if one day my future Mother in Law is like that ?

Soft Butter cake

2009-06-06T14:39:00.007+08:00

* mini birthday cake *

Fluffy Cloud, Warming Breeze ...
Lately I have googled a number of butter cakes recipe. everyone describes their cake as " The best, The only " recipe they had. so many " the The the" , which one is the real good butter cake ?
I realise western cakes are more dense, less-fluffy, and rich. Asian ( not all, but mostly) prefer soft, fluffy( but not airy) , bit spongy will do.

I took a reicpe from Loving Baking 's yummy butter cake. I changed 70% of the recipe, it turned out really good. Here's my own version of "soft" butter cake.
Ingredients
125g salted butter
30g sugar ( use fine sugar)
1/2 tsp Vanilla essence ( I omitted this, I explain why**)
45g Egg yolk (estimated 3 yolks)
1 Tbps milk
80g Cake flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
80g eggwhite
1 T cream of tartar
30g Sugar ( use fine sugar)

** I omitted vanilla essence in this butter cake. I always find the aroma of the vanilla essence is too overpowering ! I can't smell my "butter" even if I only drop 1/4 teasppoon of vanilla. Sometimes I find vanilla essence a bit like cough syrup! anyway, that is my personal opinion only. And this cake has a nice buttery smell without vanilla essence added.
Method
1. Preheat oven to 170C. Grease 6" round cake tin , put aside.
2. Beat butter, sugar until light and creamy. Add in the yolk one at one time and continue beat until creamy, add in 1 T milk.
3. Fold in sieved cake flour and baking powder into the step 2.
4. Whisk egg white with cream of tartar, then add in sugar. Whisk until Soft peaks.
5. For me, I pour the creamed butter mixture Into the eggwhite in one go, and fold until fully incorporated.
6. Bake the cake for 38 minutres at 170C. ( I think everyone's oven temperature varies here, so always check with skewer or toothpick comes clean, then considered cooked)
7. Remove the cake from tin and let cool.

Ha ha , my top part slight burnt, sigh, what an oven! However, the texture of the cake is soft, slighty spongy eggy feel, and moist, when I say moist, it means it does not climb on ur throat where you need water to flush down!

my sis last minute require a cake for friends, she wanted me to make a card like this , but I told her due to time constraint, this mini buttercake will do ; )

Sandakan Trip

2009-06-02T19:54:00.005+08:00

We drove to Sandakan during the weekend for a 3Days 2Nights trip. I had some shopping spree in Sandakan ! I bought my tuna tin ayam brand ! which is really cheap! I bought 10 tins. I mean 3.90 as compared to 4.50 / 4.70 in KK, even just a few cents difference, well, at least I'm happy that my tuna are cheaper ! I bought some cheap nice imported Tops! I feel like I m staying at Brunei, but gooing down to Miri for weekend shopping.

After coming back from Sandakan, I decide to carry lots of celery and carrot stickss in my pocket anytime to remind me of 'detoxification' . A Strong word to remind myself that I had too much of prawns and pork during these short trip. my body is full of acidy now!

Here are some very distinctively good dishes I must bring to your attention, ur stomach's attention what I mean ;p

"Kam-Heong" fried prawn. Deep fried prawn with curry leave and cut cillies & Garlic. Very Good! The prawns are so fresh and big , and it is so crispy !

Dark soya Squid! Heavy Wok Breath and is tender to chew ! The sauce is the key taste here.

and the above 2 dishes u can eat at Jalan Sim Sim, The 8th Bridge. The good about this place is, U can pick your own fresh-catch seafood, and tell the chef how u want to be cooked. That's what we did.

Look at this pic. The left side where a lady with an apron, is an area of selling fresh-catch seafood ! so they are just next to each other. pick ur order, and find ur seat , ready to be served.

This is braised pork rib. In cantonese, is called " Qing-Haul" kuat. Very special name, very special meat to eat. ha ha ha

Deep Fried Prawn with Egg Yolk + Curry leave. Very Very Very nice.

These 2 dishes are from a shop named " Ga-Fan" restaurant, near IJM area.

I eat a lot, but I didnt take much photos, considering most pic are taken at nite, or during day time, relatives eating with us, u feel awkward when taking picture. Like the pork picture that I took, a guy which sitting at few tables away, immediately came and ask why taking photo? what is so special about the dish? U get what I mean???????????????????? I feel like telling him off don't be so Kampung !!!

Scones O-SCUN - Version III

2009-05-29T19:48:00.002+08:00

These are beautiful scones my aunt gave it to me . I shall eat it as snack for tomolo's journey! Oh, I'm away to Sandakan for the weekend ! Purpose: Pigging around
I realise these scone are quite 'flavourful', tasty, and moist. I can eat it on its own.

SO nice, until i get my aunt to gimme the recipe. Here it goes.

Fruit SconesIngredients
500g self-raising flour
125g slightly salted butter
125g caster sugar (reduced from here)
250ml milk
150g sultanas (or raisins)
12g baking powder
Large pinch salt

Method
Sieve the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
Rub in the butter until very fine crumbs.
Make a well in the centre of the mixture.
Dissolve the sugar in the mile and add to the mixture.
Mix the flour with the milky sugar.
Add the sultanas and ensure the ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
Place dough on a floured board.
Make a round roughly ¾ in / 2cm thick.
Using a scone cutter (about 2in / 5 cm) cut into rounds and place on a lightly greased baking sheet.
Lightly knead together the rest of the dough and continue cutting more scones to use up all the dough.
Brush the tops of the scones with a little milk.
Bake for 12-15 minutes in pre-heated oven (220C/425F) until well risen and golden.Cool on a wire rack and serve with butter (and jam and cream if you wish)

link: http://www.scotlands-enchanting-kingdom.com/best-scone-recipes.html

Please also see..

Scones O-Scun - Version II

Scones O-Scun - Version I

Garden Wedding

2009-05-23T22:21:00.005+08:00

Ha ! This humble little card explains all. "Garden Wedding" held at STAR. I made this card out of creamy's request! ;p This is an easy card. Buy ribbon, plastic diamond, beads, and ready-made roses, and glue everything on it.

Today is a memorable double celebrations for Jacky & Steph. Registration day + steph's birthday! I started to get worried when KK was raining since Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday! and Luckily not today! Today 's weather was excellent! so hot until I'm telling creamy, next time my wedding will be in "bikini" theme!

The only thing is, I feel so 'sakit hati' when I see how the waitress slice and cut the cake !They cut this lovely cake like chopping frozen meat! like I can cut it anyway I like. I really feel like going up and cut it myself ! I received lots of positive comments on the cake, they liked it, except, one telling me the cake is sweet! I think she meant the 'mango' is sweet! hahahaha, I considered tat was a good ones! I told baker to make the fruit as sweet as possible (by wrapping lots of newspaper to make the fruits really ripe)!

Ha I love the background of these photos, very green! and jackie shirt is very prettie! I'm looking forward to their wedding reception at Banker's Club Penthouse, KL in Nov !! Right Karen????

Choi Sum with Shallot meat sauce

2009-05-18T13:00:00.000+08:00

Here's a plate of vege that we quite like to eat. All you need is some sliced shallot and meat ( I used chicken breast).

Ingredients ( for 2 -3 persons)
1 bunch of Choi sum (mustard green)
1-2 shallot (sliced)
500g ~ 800g chicken meat / pork
2 T oyster sauce for marinate

sauce
1 T oyster sauce
1/2 t dark soya
1 t sugar
1 cup water

1 T corn flour
2T water

a. Clean the vege and cut into small sizes.

b. Mince the meat and marinate with 2 T oyster sauce for half an hour. Mix all the sauce and put aside. Mix the cornflour + water and put aside.

c. Heat up pot of water, drop 1 T of oil , few cloves of garlic and sprinkle some salt ( not necessary). Blanch the vege until cooked, but not too soft. * Add in garlic will somehow keep away the green smell.* U can drop in some slice ginger too, but I dont like the smell. Take out the vege and drain the excess water off.

d. In a pan, heat up 1 T of oil, fry the shallot until soften, put the meat and stir fry a bit. Add in the sauce and simmer a bit until the water almost dried up. Now thicken the sauce with cornflour water.

Green Tea Cheesecake

2009-05-17T16:23:00.003+08:00

This is a very easy-cheesy recipe whenever I 'm craving for cheesecake.

I wanted to bake a mocha chiffon , but what about greentea cheesecake? both my sis immediately gave me a Big Smile with Teeth over the mouth. ( this is how my boss called it "Crocodile smile")

Ha they liked this recipe a lot. Same goes to me. This is the 3rd time I baked the same recipe .

This time I increased the creamcheese to 280g ( original used 250g) . nice nice !

Original recipe : Perfect Macha Cheesecake

Sprinkle with black sesame & macha powder.

It is cotton soft. Now I am wonder, if it is nice if I eat it with red bean !

4 Seasons 1 Cake - Happy Mother's Day

2009-05-09T14:08:00.001+08:00

miniature 4 seasons

You have your own personal hairdresser, I have my very precious personal baker !
This time, I wanted a personalized cake. I found a miniature cake ! haha, so cute when u see it's actually turned into a Real cake for my mom.

Thanks to L & D. I like how D pipe the cream! ( In fact initially I didn't know how to tell L to follow exact how the miniature being piped, so thinking a pearl piping will be fine) To my surprise! D knows their customer well ;D!

It has Banana + Mango + Strawberry + Kiwi on Top and sandwiched with Mango + Strawberry . ( my baker's concoction! ) ha ha and pure dairy cream.

One day, I will bring mom to ready some Banana at home as snack in flight , then travel to Hong Kong eat cold Mango sago dessert ! .... visit Strawberry farm in USA and lastly to enjoy Kiwi sorbet in New Zealand ! Happy Mother's Day !

Verdict : Mum tells one of my fussiest sis that, Hey I m sure you like the cake, the cream tastes like Ice-cream ! and mum actually finish up all the cream ! ( mum is the type tat normally dont take any dairy products at all!) and, what's more, mum says the cake very 'heong' and 'hou sek' ;D

To see my 2008's Mother's Day Celebration ..

Random: Office Birthday Bash

2009-05-08T10:27:00.003+08:00

Spider racks go away !
I need more day offs, I need holidays !
Here's my monthly office birthday mini celebration. We normally will chip in some money, buy a cake, some coke if we have budget, and sing a song !

Ganache Chocolate cake with anti moist cocoa powder on top ! ;D
yum yum yum
Baker : www.ganache-ganache.blogspot.com

Stone Grill @ Mosaic , Hyatt

2009-05-01T14:23:00.004+08:00

These are overdue photos which taken a week ago, during creamy's celebration.
I am very exhausted for the pass few days, I don't feel to go into my kitchen at all ! everyday when I'm home, bathroom + bedroom are my favourite place ! ahead to have quick shower + sleep! so tired until i can sleep from 7 pm !!! until the next morning.

Here's a nice treat by creamy's ma ma & pa pa ( TQ TQ TQ) at Mosaic, we had rosemary grill chicken & stone grill salmon. Look at the Greens on the above ! Love it ! good balsamic sauce + fresh crisp green! Both Red pepper & Alfalfa are very sweet.

Sundried tomato bread I guess? I dunno, I didnt eat this, Uncle Alfred just love it soo much ! I'm sure it tastes so good until he will say , I havent had bread in ages !

We called it " Toyota" hash brown. ! Nice, crispy ! ( dont tell me Hyatt using RM 2 recycle oil here)

Rosemary grill chicken chop. The chicken!! where is the feedback form here?! I need to lodge a huge complain about the chicken! If you're hotelier from Hyatt, write me!

Ha, it's given a stone board & a cute apron !

you grill your own food, serve it with sauces . The fish taste fresh & hot ! not bad, can have second try on other meat ....

Nice Talk

2009-04-30T18:58:00.007+08:00

Ha, Thanks to T, for inviting us to such a very meaningful event ! We had discussion on Healthy Meal budget, and some cooking tips! The skyline ladies are very friendly & "warm" .

I m quite shocked with the Recycle oil at RM 2 sold to many restaurants (mamak store i m not surprised, but Restaurant?) ( and when U hint on tat restaurant where u had ur taro, I think I m able to guess out which one) and cook for the customers! Is not surprise if You're telling me restaurants using cheap oil / reuse the oil again and again, but recyle oil from fast food outlet ? I feel eeyew! to that extend I did not follow my parents eat out during sunday for that week!!( Effective huH! ha ha) I rather cook maggie at home.

We learned tips on cooking men tiao demo by Terri. err, I dont have to share the jokes here right? do I ? is about the burner..? ( Shhhss!)

I enjoyed listening to Terri as when she mentioned food like Cai Fan, I feel like I m a well-prepared student in the class! bcuz I cooked that recipe before! and I like it ! and When we were given Butter cake & Pandan chiffon cake for tea break, I m even thrill!! bcuz I baked that before too ! and Men tiao ! Was one of the food that I wanted to cook for long, but always can't get a better idea on how to "cut the noddle"... but now, seeing live-demo, I should be able to catch some tips.

and ! for those who r on budget or dont even own a egg-beater machine, see this! beat the egg whites just using Whisks ! it gives almost the same results = stiff ! To test the stiffness... Lift up your bowl! like how Terri did, it wont fall though~

Happy Birthday To Creamy

2009-04-26T17:05:00.008+08:00

2009

2007

First of all, Happy Birthday to my Big Creamy ! she is... panda lah in short;p I cannot resists from not posting our picture 2 years ago. Panda used to have curly bomb hair! While I m with my long hair. Time flies so fast!! and when I look at our Rumba picture taken in 2008! I was like, isnt it that picture we just took 2 weeks ago only ? argh!

2008

Last year we pig-out at Rumba, Le Meridien

for creamy birthday celebration. This year! we went to Man Tian Xia at Api-Api Centre ( located at the back of MAA building) .

We had mixed roast , vege & pork with salted fish.

The place is very clean & I guess the price is quite reasonable too.

We still need to find place to kill our sweet tooth! We met up with creamy's parents at Mosaic. ( ah! another post on Mosaic newly launched stone grill menu)

Left: Ice-Latte Roma Right: Ice cream tower!

I had this, thinking of kill 2 birds with 1 stone! I can have my coffee+ ice cream at the same time! very nice ice latte with vanilla ice cream

Creamy's fav mango ice cream with mint choco chips! *nice*

I had an order from baker , mango cake ! special request on top filled with mango cubes in heart shape.

Then I made a card for creamy panda!

Kiasu leh!

Random Cakes photo

2009-04-25T09:20:00.002+08:00

I didn't do much baking/ cooking lately. To avoid seeing chicken-feet (previous post) showing up on the 1st paragraph ;p I almost forgot I kept these photo with me long ago!

There are cakes from sweet daily again. ha ha. I still like their cakes! Being "good-looking" cakes and I feel so happy whenever it's on my plate! I like to see all kind of beautiful things, dont you ?

This Sweet-potato mousse cake is something light, with a mixture of grated sweet potato in the cream.

Chocolate layer! I like the topping! needless to say, a very rich choco.

Lamb Shepherd Pie

2009-04-12T14:16:00.005+08:00

Lamb Shepherd Pie.

Story begins like this. I wanted to make Beef burger, so I get sis to buy some minced beef from Consfood. When she got home, she brought me a 700g of minced Lamb at RM 17.90 !!!! so expensive ! I 'm like...errr why lamb ? ( sis said: because beef out of stock) what can I do with lamb ? ok deal, I decided to make Lamb-burger then.
How funny, I cant get a good Burger Bun with a dome shape and in cocoa brown colour ! we can't find it, other than those 6 or 4 normal sweet bun packed in a bag sell in bakery shop, which I hate. Can't find good bun = no good burger~!

[ Sample of bun that I want to find. Pic by Yusheng]

Lastly, I used Terri's A Very Very Good Cottage Pie recipe. She put double "very" to describe the food, while I give this recipe tripe "very" good !
Very satisfied with the pie. One thing I like about this is the meat filling not much of cheap mixed vege like peas/carrots which sort of distracted from enjoying my steak-pie. Lols

I steamed the potatoes for 20 minutes. Steaming will retain its nutrition ?

I guess this recipe gives a good bolognese sauce too.

lining tomatoes slice on top ...

Now I know...

cottage pie = beef

Shepherd pie = lamb / mutton

chicken??

Butter Chocolate Chips Cupcake

2009-04-08T20:17:00.005+08:00

I heart cupcakes, all cakes.
I want to share some bored stories here.
Two years back when I just started my blog, every Saturday & Sunday I will be do all baking, cooking. And my mum will be like " Again, dont waste $ and time on baking lah " and my sis will be like ee I dont like all the cakes .No one support me, being busy in the kitchen !
Two weeks back, my 2 sis says, ... Ah Tng, my friends want to order the cheese cake lah .. my secretary says the cake is nice .etc etc..
Tonite, when I baked these cupcake, I was searching my muffin tin ! ( my kitchen very messy, things all around) my mum actually helped me to find where's the baking tin during her cooking hours !! Mum never grummy anymore when I bake during her dinner hours ...I mean I occupied her kitchen for baking during her time.
After baked, mum says Tomolo I will take some for sis to school. I feel happy, because no more complaints from them !

Recipe
Cake flour 150g
Baking power 1/2 t
Butter 150g
sugar 150g ( reduced to 120g)
Egg 3 nos.
milk 60g
Grated lemon skins
chocolate chips 60g

Steps
1. Preheat oven at 175C
2. Cream butter + sugar until fluffy, pale.
3. Add in Egg 1-by-1 at each time.
4. Stir in grated lemon skins and flour+baking power + milk.
5. Mix well until just incorporated. Dont overmix.
6. Fold in chocolate chips & scoop into cupcake paper mold.
7. Bake at 175C for 15-18 mins.

Cake-texture of cupcake. Good for party!
Happy Easter Everyone !

Sweet Daily

2009-04-04T18:11:00.005+08:00

I have 'hope' with Sweet Daily after gulp down his Tiramisu! nice, very creamy smooth, soft moist cake. U would not feel like eating "cream+gelatin" , as I always had in most bakery & cafes, a cheap way to replace cheese ?

Their motto is :Transfat zero Bakery: No margarine, no shortening, no mass product, 100% butter & belgium Chocolate, Less sugar" Impressive for commercial bakery shop !

This mini slice of Tiramisu is at RM 7 . Quite pricely , but we called it " u paid what you get", and is worth it !

I think this bakery specialise in Cheese, Choco & butter cake only. no fancy cakes like greentea with red bean ( argh my fav ok!) , no strawberry shortcake ( argh again my fav!) , no cocktail / mango cake (argh, my fav).

They are giving baking classes too! I have to take leaves to attend their classes I guess!

I'm A mother of 2 !

2009-03-30T19:22:00.002+08:00

How nice if I am a mother of two now, and a wife follow hubby go golfcourse every Sunday!

"Bestfoodjunction.com" really make my day + this is absolutely the Joke of the year !

Denise^Chickyegg is a hot chick in town ! ;p A lass not to mess with ! not a mum yet. (Argh, that's someone 's blog with good photos & write up! )

I think I should put a small write-up on my column, bit to introduce myself, probably they can't find Who Am I column! my fault...my fault

and I felt thousand regrets that I should ask them to edit the post!!!

my old post

zero colouring pandan cake

2009-03-29T17:44:00.004+08:00

The Title itself has 2 Interpretation

First, no artificial pandan green colour is added to my chiffon cake.

Second, my chiffon cake turned out 'zero' pandan colour too! I , erm... I learned something from this cake.

a. Try not to use omega-eggs in making this cake, because the strong orange yolk tint my pandan green away!

b. Must squeeze as much as green-extract from the fresh pandan leave as possible, not like me, I m too lazy, due to I dont have a pestle&mortar! (mum has broke hers!) and I am , doing a silly job in extracting the Green!! ( look at the picture). I put my leaves into the blender, then I lightly cook the leaves with the coconut milk, then trying hard to sieve them. A very tiring job and yet the results not so good! Next must get a pestle&mortar.

c. Now , I can tell that 101% those pandan cake selling in the stores are using artificial colour. It is really not easy to get a nice-green colour from a fresh leaves, so T u done a good job ! urs are really beautiful!

I replaced the coconut powder&milk with tin coconut milk. Again I realise use fresh coconut milk will be better.

The cake turned out soft & moist (moisture than my previous greenTea chiffon cake) despite in pale colour!

I baked at 160C for 50 minutes only instead of an hour. my oven is on the 'hotter' side... so have to reduce a bit, otherwise, the whole cake will be dry ! ( see, I learn another tips here)

Please click at Terri's recipe

School Bazaar, KIS

2009-03-29T10:36:00.006+08:00

It was a great experience to visit the Kinabalu International School Bazaar on 28 Mar 09!

" Which one is nice ? "
I asked that Qn to the 4 young girls , and... I only remember the four children pointing at the samne chocolate muffins + CJ told me the cookies are good too!

After I paid, the little sweet english girl says " This chocolate muffins are really good" with her thumbs up!
hahaha, look at them! they're so cute !
and I guess the kids never tell lies, the choco M are excellent ! very soft & moist *wink*

Other than that, The burgers are good! good at value too ;D and I love the lagsane! I even asked if I can ask for take-away (with pvc container)! ha ha, the lady reluctantly says "OKAY, but not environmental friendly though".
I had two big slices of that! haha, I like it so much and u wont feel greasy-oily-puke-feeling after a slice! that's because they only layer the cheese on the most top of the pasta! ( ha! I learnt the tips now) as compared to the usual u eat in the restaurant, after the 3rd serving, u feel "errrr" stop.
and they used mince beef,tomatoes,mushroom, carrots! erm! I must make this one day.

Well, the bazaar sells lots of 2nd hand books & hand made jewellery! I bought one from a Korean Lady. very prettyee ;p

L, did you see the 2 kids on Tarzan custome ? haha, I forgot to take they pic, so beautiful ! ha ha

Green Tea Chiffon Cake with ..... ?

2009-03-22T21:57:00.006+08:00

.....with chocolate chips.

The original recipe calls for cooked sweeten red beans. I can't get my red beans on Sunday especially. I got my 1st new 9" chiffon tin from Home & Garden at $15.90 (discounted price from $21.90 ) . and this is also the first time my chiffon cake done successfully. I used to make chiffon cake in a normal cake tin, and it always failed me. Looks like the tube-pan does the trick! or I used Pillsbury Softasilk flour ? ha ha ha (crapz)

Ingredients
[A]
6 egg yolk
20g sugar
2g salt
3 T honey
3 T olive oil
3 T milk
125g cake flour
1 T Green tea powder
1 t 北海道奶香粉 ( I dont think I can get here, and I replaced with 1 teaspoon of milk powder)
3 T choco chips ( or cooked sweeten red bean)

[B]
6 egg white
1 t cream of tartar
50g sugar ( original calls for 70g, becaused I used choco chips, so reduced to 50g)

Steps
1. preheat the oven to 190C
2. Beat the eggyolk+sugar+salt until pale, mix in honey , and continue to beat until pale.
3. In a separate bowl, mix in milk + oil, and divide into 3 times , slowly whisk into Step 2.
4. Sieve the cake flour+green tea powder+milk powder , set aside.
5. Divide 2 times, slowly stir in the sieved flour into Step 3. Fold in the choco chips.
6. Beat the ingredients [B] until soft peak.
7. Fold in the eggwhite into the mixture 5. and pour into the tube pan.
8. Bake at 160C at 45-48 minutes (notes. every oven varies here, so take extra care on the cake after 45 mins and above).

Tips: Do not grease the tube pan. Turn upside down like the picture shown after bake. so the cake wont sink on itself to the bottom.

Joke : I was overly worried the batter will leak from the loose pan, so I ~~wrapped~~ protected with layer of aluminium foil. haha, looks like baby diapers!! ( The fact is, after I checked, the batter never leak! :D )

Turn it upside down until completely cool. Use a knife to run though the side and middle.

Coffee Cheesecake

2009-03-11T15:28:00.005+08:00

I met Ganache at Pelangi! ha ha ha small world ? If we meet T, then can go for Coffee break already . how nice.
I made a twist from Macha Cheesecake
I substitute the green powder to 2 tablespoon of coffee powder. stir in the milk, and work along with the same recipe, method. results, I wanted to name this cake as "perfect coffee cheesecake" already. I still think the coffee powder not strong enough! should have buy different type of coffee, or add more !
I used Pillsbury softasilk cake flour. quite expensive as compared to the others. RM 12.95. but, my cake really soft as silk, but again when I recall, the previous macha cheesecake with normal cakeflour also soft as silk leh..

The cake was just nice after 1 hour 10 mins 160C of bain marie (lolz). I am so worried it get wet / uncooked / whatever / crack on top. ! ha! surprisingly no crack !! I m so happy again