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Fried Mee Siam

2010-10-23T12:18:00.002+08:00

Ever since Edna's party, I been thinking of this dish. Our caterer had this fried mee siam on their menu. Its was too yummy. But I did not have enough time to eat since I got far too many guests!

Decided to cook it this weekend to satisfy my cravings!

Fried Mee Siam

I love this new brand of mee hoon that I accidentally discovered!

Fish Slice Mee Sua

2010-09-25T12:15:00.000+08:00

We are due to visit 1 of our friend and their new born later today. Edna is napping. I haven got an idea what to have for brunch. we went to Giant last night and spent some $200 on grocery... imagine its at Giant and im spending that much! and most of the food stuff belongs to Edna! It prob will last her 1 week. The fish is a killer.. i think fish alone was like $50 bucks! I bought her the cream snapper which she had eaten some time back. I try to stock up more since now i dont frequent Isetan so often as I drive to school. I encounter some days where i got no food for her and need to run down to get her some meat.

Anyway, since the fridge is filled up with her grocery, I took some of it and transform it to our food!

I marinated the fish with some sesame oil, pepper and soy sauce. and cook it with the vege stock made from the play cheat method aka stock cube. Add some chinese spinach... thats our brunch!

Mentaiko Lobster Pasta

2010-09-24T19:02:00.000+08:00

edna is sick of her asparagus I think.. so is she to her french beans...

Dear wanna wat lobster, while I want my mentaiko...

Everything adds up and it turned into this dish =)

The lobster was good! the meat was really firm n nice. I will def buy it again when I have my Xmas party!

Mentaiko Lobster Pasta

ANyhow Pasta

2010-09-19T21:14:00.000+08:00

Lina been a great help to me for the past week ever since she came!!!! She kept my house nearly dust/dirt free!!! Unfortunately the lil one been trying to b difficult and refuse to let Lina go near her... Lina was all the more patient and loving to her... hoping to ease my load off at least for the next 2 weeks.

I did not ask her to cook our meals since I guess she got plenty of other thing to do. But she loves to help me out in the kitchen. She helped me to minced a pack of garlic so that I can fry them. With it, I cook pasta again. Emptying the fridge of the mushroom n bacons.. that was our lunch for today! She love it! And said will cook for me if she got a chance =)

Salmon Sashimi Don

2010-09-18T22:18:00.000+08:00

I was facebooking the other day when KC said he got the salmon roes to give away. His client had given him 1 whole kg of these! I was more than happy when he shared this with me.

All i need to do is to buy some salmon sashimi and make it a complete meal!

Salmon Don

I cook the sushi rice, drizzled some sesame oil over the rice for the fragrance. topped with the salmon roes n sashimi slices... it was a good meal after the girl went to bed! we ate in peace!!!! I avoided eating in her presence since she is not allow to take raw food!

KL style Hokkien Mee wanna be

2010-09-16T19:05:00.000+08:00

Whenever we go back to KL, we never fail to order this dish esp at the chinatown area. The pork lard is the magic in this dish. I was too lazy to do the lard.. So I skipped that which leaves me to loads of regret! it doesnt taste the same at all! i would say the noodles taste good... esp its the flat thick noodles like what you have for the lor mee... but I want my pork ard *sniff sniff*

Hokkien mee

Ee Fu Noodles with yellow Chives

2010-09-11T23:08:00.002+08:00

Believe it anot.. this dish was on my to do list for over 2 years! 1st i cant find the yellow chives..then I got preg.. now finally!!! I can cook this.. but I ran out of razor clams!

J's recipe that i took from his blog hehe... taste good!

Xavier loves it so much he refuse to share with us!

As usual.. 1 portion was saved for my lunch... I need lunch nowadays since I need plenty of energy to burnt off when I play with Edna

Lazy Sunday Fried beehoon

2010-09-04T21:56:00.002+08:00

Mum passed me some canned food as well as beehoon and other dry goods.

She also made some har bee hiam which is rare since she doesnt like to cook.

I wanted to utilise the pack of mushroom she gotten for us from her holiday trip since my pantry is bursting with all these! The best way is to cook everything together...

dear loves beehoon.. so does my greedy sis.. so it makes great sense that i cook this for lunch.. I had a portion saved for myself for lunch tomorrow!

Fried beehoon with canned pork legs

Green Radish Soup

2010-08-25T21:52:00.003+08:00

For some funny reason I tot I wanna drink the HK style 老火汤. I miss the 茶餐厅 soup badly. I rem some ppl said that the soup consist of the 3 carrot. So i thought I give it a try. Too bad it din taste as good as i thought.. guess its about time to fly over to HK again

Green Radish Soup

Oxtail Soup

2010-08-20T21:47:00.000+08:00

Its the same recipe as my Oxtail stew except that I ran out of potato.. so it was a soup instead... Edna was fighting to have her share! she knows whats good stuff!

Oxtail soup

I used up the remaining of the carrot, celery which I bought to make some stock for her the other day in this soup. Stock is a treat for her since usually her porridge is cook with just water. I dont believe in giving her tasty soup.. what happen if she decides she only want tasty stuff??

Spaghetti with Zucchini

2010-08-14T21:42:00.003+08:00

The fridge was near empty and I was starving... So I stole Edna's grocery as usual. she had her zucchini in her porridge yesterday and she cant fin the whole veg herself... makes sense that i eat it up! The mushroom are part of her food list too not forgetting the bell pepper. Only the bacon belongs to me! =D

I simmered the zucchini for quite a while and pour in cooking sake to get some sauce for the dish... totally heavenly!

Spaghetti with Zucchini

Bobo Cha Cha

2010-08-12T21:37:00.000+08:00

One of my HOT fav among the asian dessert. I adores anything with coconut milk =p

I saw the tapioca cube on sale.. i was too lazy to make and every one at home love to eat this... imagine i have to cook with 2 pack of the tapioca cubes and jus 1 portion of yam n sweet potatoes!

No complains from the big kids after eating this. they were all too full to move... muahhaaaa

I overcooked the yam =( cos i forgot bout it when the lil missy was whining away in the afternoon.

Bobo Chacha

Fry Marrow with Tang Hoon

2010-08-06T21:34:00.003+08:00

This is my mother favourite to cook dish for us when we were young.. we hated this for some funny reason. Now that we are grown up.. we miss it!!!

I bought 1 marrow from the market last week. Since I am eating alone as usual, i tot adding some mince meat will be nice thou usually its done with dry shrimps and eggs

I was still hungry after eating a whole plate of this with rice.. guess I need more meat!

Fry Marrow with tang hoon, minced meat and shrimps

Old Cucumber Soup

2010-08-05T21:31:00.000+08:00

Its a home alone day again with a toddler... I cant think of anything to cook to feed myself. Decided that a pot of soup will be good... I can cook porridge with it for Edna, feed myself... and the hubby can have soup when he is back from school at night....

Same old method of cooking... Edna managed to have pork ribs for her lunch n dinner! and she absolutely love it. For a 13 month old toddler, its truely amazing how she can eat pork ribs! I must say I cooked the ribs till its super soft(off the bones kind).

Fun to see her smack lips after eating =D Thats my girl!

Old Cucumber soup

Mentaiko Prawn Pasta

2010-08-03T21:23:00.000+08:00

Isetan supermarket had became our new hang out ever since edna started school. After class I usually feed her lunch and shop around after that. Before we go home we will pop by Isetan. For her to look at toys then to the supermart. I love to do grocery there since you can buy loads of stuff which an usual supermart do not offer.

I saw the mentaiko at the sashimi counter. Its a kind of fish roe, marinated to be spicy n slight saltish. I have eaten mentaiko lobster pasta, mentaiko tofu in the restaurants and love it... So I cant help but buy a pack of it. It doesnt come cheap.. cost about $14 for 4 small sac of roe...

I bought some tiger prawns as well.

Butterfly-ed them and stuff them with a mixture of the mentaiko and cheese. Pop them into the toaster to grill till cook and serve with the pasta that I had whipped up... quick n easy... no mess!!!

Mentaiko Pasta

The prawns bursting with the mentaiko filling

Citrus Butter Cake

2010-08-02T09:00:00.002+08:00

Yet another play date at my place. Today we got Juen, Timmy and Kaelem over! Of cos they cant eat this.. its for the mummies!

Gina ate quite a bit... So I think its must be really good =D

Its not too oily, but soft and fluffy. I allowed Edna to eat a lil since she need to learn how to eat our food soon since she is more than 13 months now.

I baked in a too big a pan.. so it gotten quite low.. but its still yummy.

Best eaten over night!

Citrus Butter Cake

Simple pasta topped w crispy garlic..

2010-07-15T22:55:00.003+08:00

Pasta is my life saving meals... I just need to steal some vege from my girl's stash of grocery and I can make a meal out of it.

Dear is on course this days.. I barely have enough time to cook anything for myself. So usually I will cook pasta while the lil one is sleeping.

Deep fried garlic is a must have for such simple pasta since it gives loads of flavor to the bland n plain dish.

Just need to make loads of this garlic with my Ikea mincer and fry them. store them in air tight container after it cools down.

Lor Mai Gai

2010-07-15T19:43:00.003+08:00

I been busy lately.. school holiday is the reason! there is no school! and so I been going out too much with my lil fella.. not forgetting last month was also her birthday month. I had a good time celebrating for her. Also we were away for a trip. Her 3rd passport therapy!

I went to starnet to buy the foil bowls when we came back to SG.. all for this dish...

Today we had a play date at home again. i did the lor mai gai last night.. re steam it again this morning before the kids and mummies came. NICE! except that i will want to use chicken thigh meat in future.. my family doesnt seem to like fillets. Did I say that my girl ate up quite a bit of the lor mai gai..

매운닭구이 Chicken Marinated with go chu jang

2010-05-18T14:40:00.000+08:00

J was telling me bout this dish... basically she wants to used up the remaining of the Gochujang she got for her rice cake... I gave it a try since I need some new stuff from the kitchen!

But i think the marinate is a bit too sweet for my liking.. need to alter it a little in future!

we finish everything anyway!

I think this is a gd dish for bbq!

Ho See Fa Sang Chok with Conpoy

2010-05-12T12:32:00.000+08:00

Life with a baby at home needs a lot of energy. I need to cook her meals separately. if possible I try to cook everything at 1 go. Porridge is a good option. I usually cook my girl's porridge in the pressure cooker(double boil method to avoid burnt). today my pressure cooker gets to rest =)

I cook the plain porridge with conpoy 1st, fried the wanton skin for garnishing. When the porridge is about done, I scoop out my girl's portion and cook it further on stove w the necessary ingredient like fish n etc. I added the ho see aka dried oyster and braised peanuts at this point to the main pot of porridge. I love my rice cooker... it doesnt serve its purpose as rice cooker, instead as a porridge cooker cos it always give me the HK style porridge! Thick n smooth!

Ho See Fa Sang Chok with Conpoy

Steam Pork Ribs with Black Bean Garlic Sauce

2010-05-02T00:26:00.000+08:00

My sis came over the other day and i got her to help me buy dried diced black bean to steam the ribs HK style, but she got me the black bean garlic sauce instead =S

I dont really like this sauce as it seems bit too strong .. but I cant let it go to waste.. So i steam the ribs anyway!

its certainly not like the HK style steam pork ribs that we eat at the dim sum restaurant. but nonetheless it taste good... So long as the ribs is steam till so soft that it will drop off the bones.. the people in the house will eat it!

Thanx to my pressure cooker to achieve the effect!

Steam Pork rib withe black bean sauce

p/s: I added some chili slices to lift the taste of the sauce.

Grilled Turmeric Chicken

2010-04-25T12:21:00.000+08:00

My fav turmeric chicken!

Another regular int his blog. Since the previous photos were rather unappetizing, it makes sense for me to repost this again!

It still taste as good as ever. This time round i squeezed some lime over it... Not to mention after I grilled it in the oven, I grilled it again over the stove. Time to use my grill pan more often yeahhhh

Grilled Turmeric Chicken

Ingredients:

Chicken pieces

turmeric powder 2tsp

salt to taste

ginger juice ( i use the minced ginger as well) 1 tablespoon

Method:

just mix everything well and let it marinate for at least half an hour, grill till cook. I turn on the fan mode in the oven at the last 5 mins to crisp the skin.

Tom Yum Soup (AGAIN)

2010-04-12T17:35:00.000+08:00

This dish needs little introduction in my blog.. I cook it ever so often that sometimes i give the post a miss.

This is just to keep the blog alive! =D

Tom Yum Soup

I still enjoy taking food photos thou... when i got the time!

Vietnamese Beef Pho

2010-04-10T21:15:00.000+08:00

I rem when i was few months pregnant, dear brought me to our favourite vietnamese restaurant at Siglap, I ordered the usual Pho... to my horror half way after I ate, i went to the ladies and.... I rem it was the most horrible experience of morning sickness I ever had. I shall not go into that!

Now, 10 mths after i have given birth, it seems almost impossible to go to that restaurant since they prob have nothg much to offer on the menu for a 10 month old. So I can only dream bout it or DIY at home.

Not the 1st time I do it anywat, and here goes.

Thanx J for the recipe again!

Vietnamese Beef Pho

Cabbage Rice (AGAIN)

2010-04-04T18:58:00.000+08:00

I haven got much time to blog long post nowadays since time is precious!

On days when I have to choose between resting or eating, I choose to rest! Its pretty tiring to bring 1 baby out to school and cook for her not forgetting playing and reading with her... yes a 10 mth old kids now need to be read to almost every day (like 2 to 3 times a day!)

One of the easiest to cook 1 pot meal. So I have been making this very often especially when my girl's friends and mummies come over for playdate. Since the ingredients are very versatile, I just need to clear my fridge and there I got a pot of nice and fluffy cabbage rice!

I added some deep fried sakura shrimp to the pot of rice to cook together! Smells good!

Shoyu Ramen with Hanjuku Egg

2010-04-01T12:07:00.001+08:00

Wanted to do this Hanjuku egg for the longest time.. finally time permits when the lil one was sleeping!

Rather easy to make except that we need to watch the timing for the egg. I bought the pack of ramen from Isetan otw home from school last week. The ramen rocks!!!!! The rich broth and q q ramen goes all too well with the egg. No wonder my lil girl want to have more!

Huai Shan Pao Sheng Chicken Soup

2010-03-26T13:55:00.002+08:00

I have loads of tonics pdts in my fridge since we bought quite a fair bit when I was preg... Bought so much that I literally forgot what I have.. diggign thru.. I thinkt his is the easiest to get rid.. pao sheng...

Saw some fresh huai shan at Carrefour yesterday when I was out shopping w the lil fella since she was super cranky n sticky to me due to her cold. And I tot its good to add this into her porridge too.. Definitely 1 whole huai shan is too much for her.. So some shall go to the papa and mummy's tummy...

And here goes...

Huai Shan Pao Sheng Chicken Soup

Fusion Pasta

2010-03-24T20:55:00.002+08:00

My blogging mood is back =p

Did another quick n easy (not as quick as the steak thou) dinner...
Had a bottle of 4 cheese sauce fr M&S.. and to clear my freezer.... I boiled the scallops, fried the white bait.. as well as use some flying fish roe... cleared my bottle of pasta as well! How nice!!!

Here I got a 4 cheese fusioned pasta!

Steak

2010-03-22T20:37:00.000+08:00

I know I been MIA. Tpp busy w the lil one that I barely have time to blog.. I been baking for orders thou. And not forgetting cooking.
Saw some ribeye at the supermart yesterday and tot its a good idea to cook steak since I have not cook steak for quite a long while. And I have some brown sauce mix in the fridge which I got from Swiss butchery few weeks back while doing my grocery there.

Just have to season the steak w some salt n pepper

Placed it on the grill pan..

Let it sizzle on 2 min per side...

and here we get the steak done..

probably nxt rnd I shall just grill it for 1 min 30 sec since the dear one said its a bit too cooked for his liking. He prefers somethg bloody *faint*

Cheesecake

2009-09-17T14:10:00.002+08:00

If u notice.. I have been baking cheese related stuff... oh well.. I was too greedy..bought too much cream cheese.. it will be a pity if I throw them away whenthey expired.. so keeping my finger cross that my lil noise box will cooperate w me when i need to bake my stuff....
With another 2 block of cheese to clear.. and I haven got much time left.. I saw Bakerela recipe and tot its easy =) and thus.. here goes...
I cut down the sugar fr 1.5 cup to 1 cup thou and I omitted the sugar in the crust.
Bare cheesecake are boring.. no time for decor? oh well... I topped it with physalis which I got the other day.. its 1 of my favourite fruits =) I think some people call it gooseberry?
At least it looks good on the cheesecake yea..

Classic Cheesecake

Oh yes... the cheesecake arent exactly yellowish in colour. cos I use mix berries yoghurt in it instead of sourcream.. and I forgot myvanila pods int he cake mixture.. I added 2 pods into the crust thou ...~happiness~

thank you lil noise box for cooperating thou mummyhave to split the whole baking process to 2.. crush the biscuit 1st... then aft she nap again and I start baking hehe.. and here Im having it as brunch... the cake is a tit sweet to mi thou despite the sugar reduction.. I wonder why..

Happy 7th Anniversary

2009-09-08T11:17:00.002+08:00

Its our 7th wedding Anni...

this year I haven got much time to do a pretty cake as comparable to last yr..

With the assembly of my new toys I acquired over the last few months I got my butt down to do some decor for 3 nites after my lil noise box have gone to bed...

I resorted to using ready made fondant as it save me a lil time... yes...every second counts now

Baked a Lime Tea Cake as its firm enuff to be covered with fondant.

Used my script lettering set for the wordings... tough job!

Cake was dusted with pearl dust for the final finishing....

And used my new flower mould for the roses....

After I added gold dust on it =)

Happy Anniversary... May we have many more 7 years to come...

Steam Glutinuous Rice Wine Chicken

2009-09-02T12:50:00.002+08:00

My dinner for yesterday!
Its a relatively simple dish... yes.. I need to cook simple dish now that my lil noise box.. or rather muscial box as some friends called is around... I need to do every swift n fast...
Since I have half a chicken left in the freezer n I do seriously need to clear the stash to store other stuff... I tot it be nice to try this out.. oh yes I got 5 bottle of rice wine in fridge to clear as well!!!
Wats even easier is that.. I even have frozen diced spring onions, minced and julianned ginger in the freezer! yea.. this is my post confinement stuff haaa.. loads to clear manz...

Strangely while this dish uses almost the same ingredients as the yellow wine chicken .. it sure taste different.. The Yellow wine chicken is good for cooking mee sua soup while tis is good for going with rice =)

Heres the very simple recipe....
Ingredients:
Chicken, chopped in small pieces
half to 1 cup of glut rice wine (I added 1 cup so I get more gravy for the rice)
2 teaspoon of sesame oil
salt to taste
minced ginger
julianned gigner (my preference to get some ginger bites)
cornflour

Method:
Mix everythg together n steam for 20 mins.
Garnish with spring onions and serve hot..

I use my pressure cooker to steam so the chicken will b softer

Steam Glutinous Rice Wine chicken

Nxt time round I shall add some black fungus as well =)

Cherry Streusel Tart

2009-08-10T22:52:00.004+08:00

I been back to bake something once in awhile.. thou I admit that I been lazy in posting up the pics...
Thanx to myself for setting up the strict routine.. I have some me time for myself even thou there is a lil fellow bugging ard at home... *grin*

The other day NTUC was having a promotion on cherry... for 2 box.. it only cost $5!! I told myself by hook or by crook I will buy even if it means eating it just as it is...

But I have no idea what I want to do with it =(
the onli thg I have done w cherries r blackforest cake and I definitely no time to make any since its quite tedious...

Suggestions poured in.. cherry cheesecake, tarts, chocolate cakes etc...

I decided to do a cherry tart... the challenge for me is to make the filling since I have never done cherry filling from scratch.. J gave mi some agaration on the steps to do it.. and I tweak it a bit more.. by using amaretto as well as kirsh to cook it.

I used my lemon bar recipe for the tart shell..

After baking it.. I tot it looks bare.. and decided I shall add on streusel topping =)

Heres how the tart look like

Cherry Streusel Tart

A pity the tart mold was a bit too big.. so my filling was kind of miserable.. .but it sure tasted too!!!! esp w the topping =)
Dear added that if its eaten with icecream it will be even better.. hee =)

In any case before my Preg brain strikes... I am documenting down the rough guide on hw I did the cherry filling as well as topping... all by eye power only...

Filling:
cherry, pitted
sugar to taste
corn starch
lemon juice 3tsp
kirsch
amaretto
almond extract, optional

Method:
1. Sprinkle sugar and corn starch over cherry .. add in the remaining and bring to boil in low fire till thicken.. off the fire n let cool..

Topping:
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
cinamon powder
1/2 cup butter

Method:
Mix well till crumble n sprinkle on top of the tart filling.

I used my fav William sonamas tart shell recipe =)

Tart Shell:
155g plain flour
30g icing sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1tsp grated lemon zest
125g cold butter, cubed

Method:
1. Sift dry ingredient together, add in butter and blend till crumbly.
2. Press mixture evenly on a tart mould measuring 13 inch by 4 inch (I had use mini tart mould instead)
3. Bake at 180 degree for 25 mins or till golden.

Lil Miss Baker

2009-07-29T11:31:00.002+08:00

Introducing lil Miss Baker to everyone here... *applause*

She's the reason for why I been missing in action here... busy coaching her how to bake n cook haha...

Will be back soon...

Scallop & Clam Rice

2009-06-21T19:00:00.004+08:00

After sampling what the lady insisted that I try at Isetan while doing grocery shoping... hehe...
I bought this 2 packs of Japanese scallops and clams...
it can be use to cook with rice.. porridge, soup n etc...

I have cooked it a couple of times..usualy for my home alone meal...
Today i decided it shall go sth beyong jus clams and scallops =) after tasting the rice at Sun Moon Dining.

Adding the usual sake, and shoyu to the rice with sesame oil n seed... I also added some konnyaku strips... pickled ginger as well as mix vege for a more balanced diet...
I just need to boil everythg over the stove just like how I usualy cook my rice.

Heres how it look like after its done...

Japanese Scallop n Clam Rice

Toss it a little to make sure everythg is even...
The rice is brownish... and flavourful!
The konnyaku gives a diff kind of bite to the rice... and the pickled ginger is refreshing =)

Spotted the clams n scallops??

All done under 15 mins... EASY MEAL!

Blue Berry Muffin

2009-05-28T12:30:00.003+08:00

I been on a baking craze.. Baking like 2 items a day for the past week... Most of the time is either to test out recipes... and of cos to feed myself LOL.. not forgetting that I need to clear my pantry n freezer...

Been on lazy mode so no pics.. until today =p

Did blueberry muffins... with cinammon powder added..
Saw the recipe at Daily delicious and tot its worth giving a try!
Oh well.. no regrets hee...

Pardon me for the blurry pic.. my hand been very shaky recently... weak weak weak! and my micron lens is very sensitive to movement...sigh.. But good muffins makes mi day!!!

2 more box of blueberries to clear!!! I saw an strussel muffin or some sort on Daily's site.. mayb I shall give it a try hehe

Hazel Birthday Cuppies

2009-05-28T12:02:00.002+08:00

Mei had requested me to bake a cake for Hazel birthday party on sunday.
However due to many reasons... I couldnt do it for her..
so instead... she asked for cupcakes for the sch mini celebration instead

The little birthday girl who made decision of red n pink theme.. and I suggested little happy faces with the kids name on each individual...

Oh yes..chocolate cupcakes was requested.. Im sure kids love chocolate dun they?

For a GF of mine

2009-05-22T16:51:00.003+08:00

I have been thinking of doing something for A's bday since very long ago but somethg will always crop up and I cant baked the bday cake.. This yr she have her little boy who share the same birthday as her to celebrate the special hatch day. And I finally found no hiccups to baking her something.

A loves my bake.. and many of my bakes will have her share and I guess she will love this chocolate cupcakes too!

I made chocolate mint ganache for the topping.

As usual I try to practice my rose swirl.. and I think I got it already!!!

After buying my new toy for more than half a year finally I am using it...

My little inprint set!!!

Wishing A a blessed bday..

I did the cuppies today in advance for her so that she can share the cuppies in the CG

1 more new toy..

trying out my silicon mould I got eons ago... cos I am goign to buy more this weekend w my kakis!

Quite dainty yea??

Butter cake

2009-05-13T17:18:00.003+08:00

Over the years.. I been searching high n low for a good butter cake recipe..
1 that is not too dense... not too soft like cotton...
My benchmark for nice butter cake.. was set when I was young.. Big aunt will always visit us with a box of sliced butter cake she buy from the near by bakery at her place. The cake is always soft n fragrant...

Anyway... I saw Florence baked this butter cake and I told myself I must try since her recipe always work well for me.
This recipe calls for Golden churn butter.. and well I supose its realy good since it makes the cake v moist haha not forgetting... the whip cream plays a big part in it too...

After 1 hour of mixing, baking, washing up.. my cake is ready!!

Butter Cake

It sure looks dense... But dun get fooled!! Its soft too!! Not forgetting sinful haha... its not too sweet.. could taste a little salt in it too which is great!
I gt too hungry I ate 2 slice at 1 go for my tea break... Im gg to giv half to Agnes later on.. while reserving the rest for BF tomolo as well as to let dear have a piece (or 2?).

I have some left over cream.. and I guess I be baking this again pretty soon!!!

Sweetie Cuppies...

2009-05-10T13:11:00.003+08:00

May had ordered these cuppies form me for her cousin 21st bday... what a nice cousin =)

As Im busy n tired.. I could only do floral design. And she kindly obliged...

I try to do different design.. so that different tier of the cupcake stand have diff style...

Cereal Fried Rice

2009-05-05T19:25:00.002+08:00

Months ago we had our 1st encounter with Cereal Fried Rice at 1 of the restaurant at Vivo City.
Fragrant.. was the word to describe...
Oh yes.. expensive too! it barely filled my tummy.. or perhaps it was too yummy thats y....
Immediately we tot of DIY it at home...

Moons later.. finaly.... I did it!
Sloggish day for me today... after many chores.. finaly I got my butts down to do this for dinner

Not exactly the same as the one in restaurant I must say... but its still realy Yummy!
1 thing thou... I cooked it too early and left it till dinner time.. the cereal arent crispy any more..
*frown* but its still yummy hahahaaaaa im a glutton!!!!

Its similar to cooking cereal prawns I guess but the last time I cook cereal prawns was when I was still staying in KA LOL...

Anyway heres how I cooked it

Cereal Fried Rice

Ingredients:

50g Butter (can be slightly more)
3 Egg yolk
Curry leaves
Chili padi
Salt n sugar to taste
Frozen mix vegetable
Prawns/shrimps
Crabstick, cubed
Nestle Cereal
Rice
Fish Sauce to taste

Method:
1. Melt butter in pan, add in egg yolk n fry till fragrant.
2. Add in curry leaves n chili padi n fry till fragrant.
3. Add in prawns, crabstick as well as frozen vege.
4. Add in Cereal n fry till fragrant n crispy. Be careful not to burn the cereal.
5. Add salt n sugar to taste...
6. Add in cooked rice and add a dash of fish sauce or 2 for some flavour...

Serve immediately!
Else the cereal will lose its crispiness!!

Tsukune Meal

2009-03-18T19:12:00.002+08:00

I been busy spending money buying n buying stuff.. but yet haven got a chance to use them...
Finally I decided today I shall use 1 of my new toys... Bought the jap bento box(es) from CK Tangs some weeks ago with baking pal turn friend (end up she was late to pick her boy fr sch haha.. oops), and decided I shall grill some Tsukune balls since Dear also requested for Onigiri.

Was quite a task for me to do the Tsukune today thou it was relatively simple... Mor elike becos I haven got the sake n mirin at home and went all the way out just to buy all the ingredients..
Oh well.. for a start im not a Tsukune fan... cos I alwasy think the balls is way too mashy/soft for mi.. but anyway.. try lar.. n see how... hehe

Spent a little time rolling the minced meat into balls, boiling them... skewering them on my metal skewers... and grilling them... Oh yes I used my new grill pan to grill these too! so I am using like 2 new toys today... Thanx to my pal who help me lug it back when she saw it..

I had a hard time getting the whitish chicken ball turn brown... I keep brushing the gravy over it but it doesnt seem to turn brown like Tori Q ones... finaly I decided to jus pour everyth gont he pan and let it simmer...adding water in between when the gravy was about to dry up. Bubbling in the process.. i think it works! YIPEE! But I tink I prob will make double portion fo this gravy nxt rnd as I think I din have enuff of it to ge the shiny on my Tsukune..

Aft a long time (I think 45 mins) finaly I got everythg done to what I wanted... including grilling some snow peas n carrots as well... Phew...

And here goes

Tsukune

As usual.. i still find it a bit too mashy for me haa.. freezing the remaining Tsukune as life savign device when i am hungry...

Then here comes my onigiri...
At my usual marketing day at Isetan last week, this lady was selling the rice mix.. which of cos I bought 1 pack to try... Its a bit like those furikake.. but its the wet version... contains carrot, lotus roots and mushroom... din get to sample it there.. but the lady was kind of nice n friendly and so I tot just buy a pack to try...

I mix them up with sushi rice and make them into onigiri as requested...

Onigiri

Oh well.. it does taste good... I tink I love it LOL... Forgot to sprinkle on the sesame and nori thou... Yummm

好事发财

2009-01-25T13:02:00.002+08:00

Its Chinese New Year eve today.
The tradition of having reunion dinner as usual.
As usual, Im tasked to prepare dinner for this BIG day.

One of the MUST have dish as requested by my family will be this dish.. which we named it "好事发财"

The name came about as I used dried oyster which the cantonese call it 'ho si' as well as black moss which is known as 'fa cai'
Putting them together means good luck with prosperity.
of cos dried mushroom is 1 of the key ingredient for this dish

We went down to Chinatown, jostling with the crowd.. and I saw this stalls ellign pretty nice looking shitake mushroom. The lady claimed its japanese shitake which is gorwn in Japan.. not china.
With 2 sizes to choose from.. I choose the smaller ones despite she claim the bigger ones taste better.
Reason being, the past years I used the large mushroom and the kids at home find it a chore to chew n bite... yes they r a bunch of lazy kids LOL
so so.. here I go using the smaller mushroom.. and they r sure tender.

Due to my old and aging memory.. probably my brain is shrinking too(good idea huh? so I have lesser to tink n remember) I kind of forget how I actualy braised this dish for the past years..

So today heres how I did it.

Ingredients
Dry mushroom (washed n soaked over night)
Dry oyster (washed n soak in hot water for 20 mins)
Dry scallop (washed n soaked in hot water for 20 mins)
Some ginger juice
Oyster sauce to taste(this is saltish)
Abalone sauce to taste(this is sweet)
Black soy sauce for colour
Black Moss

Method
1. Heat up a teaspoon of oil.. stir fry the mushroom briefly then add in the ginger juice. The juice get rid of the smell from the mushroom
2. Add in some of the water used to soak the oyster and scallop. If u are braising ti over the stove u probably need more of the water.. I am using pressure cooker and so i dun need so much.
3. Bring to boil, and let pressure build up and let it depressurised.
4. Add in oyster n scallop as well as oyster sauce and abalone sauce. If water dries up, add in more of the water fr the mushroom.
5. Add some dark sauce to make the dark colour u prefer.
6. Bring to boil and up the pressure again before u off the fire. Do not boil for too long as it makes the oyster too soft as u need to boil it again later.
7. After depressurise.. add in more water if needed.
8. Put in the black moss and bring to boil..

And thats what you get

好事发财

May everyone have a Happy and Prosperous New Year !
Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Ox Tart

2009-01-24T21:08:00.003+08:00

Hey Folks

It been moons since my last post.. ..
weak health.. busy schedule... and of cos laziness have deterred me from posting...
But I know I MUST post this at least.. thou its not a new thing... BECAUSE its CHINESE NEW YEAR

For the year of the Ox... I will be having 2 cows at home...

And my bakes?
What else but Pineapple Tarts

Wishing everyone A Happy Niu Year..

BULL RUN this year!!!

Huat Ahhhh !!!

p/s: I be back in action pretty soon =)

Fulfilling dinner

2008-10-20T19:01:00.002+08:00

I been too busy to post anythg...
Finally I decided somethg must be done before the blog get dusty again...

Simple meals..

I bought some organic jap tofu the other day... for the hot hot weather.. this is good!

Cold tofu with pork floss

Just use a little oyster sauce.. add in some mirin and bring to boil.
Pour it over the cold tofu and let chill till u are ready to eat... top with pork floss and spring onions. Other variations includes century eggs =)

Then for a soup.. I did Pig tail soup.. Pig tail.. high in collagen.. thats extremely good for our skin =)

Dear wouldnt like the tail I know.. so I added in ribs for him...
I play cheat... I added veggie cube to the 2 litre of water use for boiling the meat...
After cookin in the pressure cooking for 20 mins.. and leavign it to release pressure slowly.. at the very end.. adding 4 tomatoes to boil n softene before serving... YUMMY!

Pig Tail Tomato soup

Little Prints

2008-10-13T19:37:00.000+08:00

I got a pretty nice gift which I have been hunting for for the past 5 months...
Thanx to my pal who managed to find the brand name of it.. and the other pal who managed to get hold of it for us....

I was asked to make cupcakes with name in prints but I just cant find the set to do it... well ... now I can ~grin~

This is how small the whole set is...

Now... Im crazily spreeing this set for the rest of my baking kakis... heehee
If onli this comes in chinese n korean lettering.. how cool will it be...

Italian Roast Chicken

2008-09-30T22:56:00.003+08:00

I know I prob will have no time to cook.. no energy too.. and I am right... So it makes good cow sense that I buy the chicken from the mart and baked it for dinner.

Right after I came back from the airport.. I sprinkled some oregano on the bird... chucked the whole thg into the oven... .. half way I switch it to fan mode to give it a nice colour, and in between I added some baby potatoes to bake.. and lastly some cubed zuchinni I got in the fridge... After an hour and a half...

Heres what I got...

Italian Roast Chicken

I added some fresh yellow cherry tomatoes to make it a balance diet.. of cos the zuchinni helps too...

I am surprised tat my chicken turns out evenly browned today... in fact it looks more than perfect... at least to me... and it taste great...

With the leftovers... I am anticipating I will make some grilled chicken wrap/sandwiches next =)

Happy Anniversary

2008-09-08T00:00:00.005+08:00

Finally its D day... I panick when I realised I need to do more than I thought... and I even tot of not doing this cake altogether... but no.. no way.... last yr the same thing happen.. and I miss making the cake, I dont think I want to miss it again. Moreover I haven got any gift and so this cake shall be the gift from me...

No inspirations of what to design the cake with until I chanced upon Su's blog. She did a very pretty cake and after much consideration.. I try to copy the flowers she did.. not much luck thou... So I touch up the flowers according to what I think it will turn out to be..

Heres my Lovely
cake.

The flowers was my imagined sakura aka cherry blossom... whether it looks liek the real thing anot.. I dun care haa.. cos this the best I could get..
I would have love to put more flowers... but my lethagic mood been hanging ard for the longest time.. and with the earlier cakes to do.. I onli manage so far...

A close up of some flowers...

I try to make the petals as thin as possible and it seems very fragile... I keep my finger cross while waiting for them to dry... thankfully.. non broke! haa

Meddling with my edible dust for the pollen in the middle.. then some gold n pearl dust for shimmer..

Again this is a black forest cake... somethg both of us like and also I use the remaining of half a cake from the previous cake to put the heart together... I cant wait to eat it... but... I must go for my French food 1st... hee

Happy 6th Anniversary to Us...
May our dreams come true....

Thank you Dear for the lovely Nikon D60 lens kit. ... Muackz

For a Mummy again

2008-09-07T00:00:00.002+08:00

At the same time of Shaun's order.. I had this order as well.. its another 1 of my regular's request. I couldnt turn her down... Luckily she decided to have a sweet sweet theme... and since its for mummy... I tot I will do sth similar to Serene's cake...

R have tasted all my cakes. I think the next will be durian haha... this time round.. she req for my ever popular black forest cake.
It a huge cake... more than 1.5kg. I use 1 1/2 10 inch cake in all and near 2 big can of cherry.

I was at Sunlik the other day and I thought since Im doing such a big cake I can give the other brand of whipping cream a try.. of cos I bought my usual P&W...
It seems like its a right choice to try this new cream... its super duper easy to spread... with no fuss or mess.. unlike P&W that needs quite a bit of attention... and its very white in colour.. not off white.. Looks like I will b stocking more of this cream in future...

Its a rectangular cake.. initialy i wanted to do it as landscape.. then I thought a portrait one will be good.. and thus..

Black Forest Cake

S for Shaun

2008-09-06T22:42:00.002+08:00

Some weeks back. Mei from States got me to do another cake for her. I was kind of held up with orders n programs for the week she wanted the cake that I gotto reject her. But she was willign to accomodate my timing.. so very well =) I accepted the order. Its for her nephew Shaun.
She haven got any idea what design she wants. Shaun plays the violin. But since time is tight.. I can never get a violin out for her.... and so.. she asked for a letter "S" cake.

To cut out the cake into an "S" shape will means thr is alot of wastage of cakes from the sculpting So.. the other alternative will be drawing the letter "S"...

A very simple cake...

Chocolate Fudge cake

Stuffed Foccacia with Ham and Cheese

2008-08-31T11:31:00.003+08:00

The lure of making this bread came many weeks ago when I was shown the pretty pic at Dailydelicious that comes with recipe..

It looks simple enuff as a bread recipe... and its healthy... using only olive oil...

But seeing the recipe that uses 500g of bread flour, it means I definitely need to share with more than 1 friend.. and it means I can only make it on sunday morning before I leave for my game.

Aft many weeks, finaly today is the day. I sacrifice my weekend sleep-in habit to do this..

While the nonbaker will probably think its no different from ham n cheese sandwich, to me its special.. since the cheese n ham will stick to the foccacia since they all r bake together.

It takes about an hour or so to rise the dough after using the machine to knead the dough for 10 mins. No bread machine involved!

After slicing my cheddar into slices... I assembled them and its ready to bake... How easy...

Wrapping them up in greaseproof paper that makes it looks store bought.. its ready for delivery!

Look at the melting cheese..doesnt it seems to tell u to come n eat it fast??

Stuffed Foccacia with Ham and Cheese

Recipe:

500g bread flour

7g sugar

7g salt

7 g active yeast

275g water

50ml olive oil

Ham and cheese for stuffing

Parsley for garnishing

Method:

1. Mix dry ingredients well, add in olive oil and water and knead till smooth(10 mins)

2. Leave the dough in an oiled bowl and let it rest. Proof till double in size or 1 1/2 hour.

3. Divide dough into 2.. Roll 1 dough flat and place in baking pan.

4. Lined it with the ham n cheese...

5. Roll the other piece of dough.. and put over the filling. crimping the sides with the top and bottom dough to make sure nothg leaks out!

6. Let rest for another 30 mins.

7. Bake at preheated oven of 220degrees for about 22 mins(my own timing).

8. Serve warm!

All In 1

2008-08-30T21:08:00.002+08:00

I saw this recipe a few weeks back.. and thought I will really want to try it. Becos, it uses almost all the condiments I have in my fridge.

Today being a day's out.. under the sun, I was too shack to cook anythg elaborate, and we r too lazy to go out for dinner. So it shall be the day to cook this =)

Spicy Minced Pork with Long Beans I call that. I used doubajang as well as gochujang for this dish. I was quite worried how it will turn out as dear did not like the previous doubanjiang minced pork wrap. I also added carrot since I have got some left int he fridge.

Keeping my finger cross.. Luckily, he say it taste ok.. to him ok means good since he have got high expectation on his own taste..

We polished off everythg plus a soup..

Spicy Minced Pork with Long Beans

Ingredients:

long beans, diced

carrot, diced

Minced pork

garlic, chopped

grated ginger juice (about 1 tablespoon)

gochujang, (approximate 1 1/2 table spoon)

doubanjang. (1 tablespoon)

sugar to taste

dash of cooking wine

dash of soy sauce

Sesame as garnishing

Method:

1. Fry the diced beans and carrot till almost cooked. (long beans must b cooked well otherwise u will b biting some squeaky veggie causing the funny sensation in ur mouth). Set aside

2. Fry the garlic n ginger

3. Add in minced pork and fry till cooked.

4. Add in the gochujang and doubanjiang and stir to coat evenly.

5. add in the rest of the seasonings, and stir well...

6. Garnish with sesame seeds before serve.

XO Fried Rice

2008-08-26T20:29:00.003+08:00

Its the yummy XO sauce night..
I have got 25kg of rice to clear and so I think I prob will be cooking alot of rice dishes these days... before the weevils appear...

I had this XO fried rice that time while shopping w the prince... and I ordered this at the HK cafe... it was realy good except that the price was really a put off.... and barely filling.

I ran out of mix vege.. and so I buy some long beans instead since I have got carrots to clear.. not a bad idea to cook this dish as I managed to clear 1 pc of lap cheong in my fridge as well...

Scrambling 2 eggs 1st, follow by the vege and lapcheing, then the crabstick and the XO sauce... with the rice last... I added some dashes of pepper and also some fish sauce... the result??

XO Fried Rice...

LOVELY.... Did u see the streak of scallop fr the XO sauce?
Bet I will make this again... not before I stock up on my XO sauce -)

A Cake for a young Mum

2008-08-25T15:01:00.002+08:00

Its Serene's Birthday.. nothg different except that this year she have got little prince Xavier to fight blowing out the candles w her haha... so I thought perhaps I should do a slighly matured theme for her.
I was stuck with orders over the weekend...that the big prob... everytime when I need to do cakes for family or personal reason... I will be stuck with orders by others.. haiz and its too paiseh to reject sometime...

I thought prob cupcake will be more of a better choice.. but I think she had cupcake last yr... and Im too reluctant to repeat the same thingy again. Cakes flavour r limited since there is a couple of cakes she doest eat.. and no alcohol either.. haiz... I decided on black forest, despite the fact I know I will not like the cake without the kirsch.. haiz.. too bad...

I frosted the cake before I left for my class this morning, so it was rather chop chop one.. and I forgot to cover my bowl of cream as I was rushing out.. end up.. the cream sort of dry up... and my pipe looks a tit too dryy... or is it I been too used to butter cream?

I try to mimick poppy flowers ont he cake.. Not too sure if I managed to do it well enuff until L msn me and say it looks like poppy.. haha guess I did it =).. I kind of visualised the flower on my perfume bottle hahaa...

Hope the birthday girl will like this...

Pho Bo

2008-08-24T22:49:00.002+08:00

One of our favourite cuisine is Vietnamese cuisine.

Becos we love the smell of fish sauce.. the smell of basil... and of cos beef...

Couple of weeks back.. my regular "food supplier" cooked this and gave me some... it was similar to the restaurant type except its slightly mild in taste.. I chomp them down all the same and promised I will cook it again soon...

Today after the AHM... and range... we had lunch w the kids at CP.. and tinking bout dinner sucks. the weather is bad... we cant go much places.. After narrowing down from cooking hokkien mee n etc.. finaly I decided to cook Pho for today since I got another pack of kway teow in the chiller.

Easy stock.. since I use beef cube which is rarely seen in the mart... Kind soul got it for mi from giants... hehe

I was quite ok with the soup thou I know for sure its rather different from the shops one.. this is v light... I added more fish sauce than stated to get the smell... hee..

I use some beef as well as beef ball... cook the beef last... to 70% cook so that it doesnt turn too rubbery aft that.. and pour over the piping hot soup before serving...
The beansprouts are also cook till about 70% cooked.. so that it got a little raw taste.. hehe

Pho Bo

Dear say its yummy but he also added that its diff from outside ones.. sigh.. looks like I got more to experiemnt.. but at least nice lar! hehe

Korean Eat Out

2008-08-23T23:00:00.005+08:00

We went to Novea to stock up some energy gel ahead for tomorrow AHM, and so we decided perhaps we should try the Korean food at Square 2.
There is a total of 2 restaurant and 1 korean outlet selling korean delicacy... It did nto take us long to decide which to go... Dear decided on Han Sang (한성) Korean Family Restaurant.

They have 2 diff sitting.. 1 for ala carte food and the other for BBQ.. The old folks were with us today and we decided we should give BBQ a miss since they might not want oily food.

Settling down and deciding what to order for them since its their 1st time to K cuisine... Its actualy quite easy to order for them haa... a ginseng chicken for 1.. and another dish for the other makes the dinner easy... Easier than their fav Jap I guess...
I had a hard time deciding what I want for myself instead!

Oh well here goes...
The starter...

Its actualy some kind of kidney beans marinated... and i tink thats mashed pumpkin n potato followed by the anchovy. .. its yummy... weird that they din giv kimchi thou.. I want my kimchi!

Here is another appetiser I ordered...

Kimchi Pancake

Mum had this

Samgay Tang... aka Ginseng chicken soup

And for Dad

Grilled Mackerel

And Dear's...

Beef Rib Soup...

It seems like he order beef rib soup everywhere he goes!!!! I really must learn how to do this!

Accompanying the fish dish and the soup was the hot stone rice...

See the topping of sweet potato, carrot n pumpkim?

At the end of the meal, the residue of the rice bites were stuck on the stone bowl.. the lady boss kindly came over n told us in korea, people will put in some plain water intot he bowl.. let steep for a few mins then scrap out the yumy rice to eat... obviouly the 2 men did that!

And fo rmyself.. it seems like there was a lack of choice of food for me... Havign high expectation of food.. I did not dare just point to any on the menu.

BiBimbap

Yes that was what I choose.. Only good bibimbap goes into my tummy.. those lousy foodcourt ones never made it successfully into mytummy haha.. and obviously today;s bibimbap finaly makes the mark... =)

The Lady Boss gave us free dessert.. I tink most korean restaurant offer free dessert. No? That was what I encounter thou...

Home Made Rice Cake Ball

Actualy the 4 gluttonny us chomp down the dessert the moment it was serve..until the last ball was left then I scream that I haven snap a pic haa.. dad laugh... and dear showed the last of the ball.. slightly saltish.. yummy!!!!

I doubt I will go bk to this restaurant thou.. cos they dun serve kimchi as much... Back to Ju Shing Jung... LOL

Ben10

2008-08-23T13:59:00.003+08:00

I never knew what is Ben10 until I saw that bento box haha.. din know its such a popular program for kids.

A mummy ask me to do a Ben10 cake for her dear son.. An icing image one.. She chose a chocolate cake.. Oh well.. its a simple n yummy cake =)

Ben10

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"A" sms-ed me today to tell me the cake was well received. she said the cream was melt in the mouth ...
so glad to hear that..hope I got chance to do her bb full mth cake hehe

Cup-cakes

2008-08-23T01:17:00.002+08:00

A young lady email me for these cupcake orders. Thou its only 12 pieces..but still it make me happie making them... I admitI been feeling lazy lately and rejected quite a bit of orders.. I just dont want to do things tat I have no mood to... else it will not turn out nice...

She had requested for roses for her bf...

And fairies for her pals... what a sweet friend =)

I got 1 more cake to rush for tomorrow.. I brave my Zz monster this aftnoon trying to do 1 part...

Got 2 challenging orders coming up ahead... and its at the priod I dread most... I notice everytime I got somethg major to celebrate I will be stuck with order... it din happened just once or twice.. it happen at every celebration... haiz... I am bucking myself up to be more hardworking.. year end is busy time for me...

Fish Beehoon

2008-08-19T20:15:00.003+08:00

A healthy meal we always like is fish beehoon. Be it fish head, or just fried fish meat. Due to rising food price, and inflation, the hawkers selling these have greatly reduce the portion of fish n other food stuff AFTER rising the price of the food items. It puts us off since int he 1st place such meals are not exactly filling.. with a smaller portion now.. it never quite fill our tummy.

Thats why I started to cook more often then ever. Whats more.. I can add more ingredient...

I have some threadfin fish head in freezer waiting to be clear.. and I been making papaya fish soup for the past few months for confinement.. It occurs to me..the sweet swwet soup in fact could be used in fish beehoon dish... Thou the commercial one are a little on the salty side... but I decided to give it a try anyway. Finaly i managed to get some fish fillet fr the mart. I got some garouper fish fillet... it cost me a whopping $14 for 2 pcs.. *GASP*... well well ok... if that makes a wonderful dinner.. why not??

Unfortunately.. NTUC dun sell sole fish.. I thought it will make the stock better.

I was rummaging thru my ever so filled up fridge.. and I managed to find 1 last piece of sole fish... YAY!

I deep fry the fish and use half incooking the soup, blendng the other half into powder.

Cooking the soup was a breeze.. just pan fry the fish head with some ginger.. add in water, red dates as well as papaya and let simmer for half an hour.. the soup is slightly whitish. Salt is added to bring out the sweetness... Yes salt.. strange.. but salt makes wonder when it comes to bringing out other flavours.

I lightly marinated the fish with some salt n pepper and shao xing wine, coat it with tapioca flouur and fry them till cooked.

Before I serve.. I blanched some veggies and tomato... added some evapourated milk into the soup.. and top it with the fish as well as many spring onions not forgetting the powder sole fish... It makes a great meal.... The fish taste great.. slightly sweet with firm meat.. I guess I did the right thing on cooking this for dinner tonight.

Beef Horfun

2008-08-18T19:54:00.002+08:00

My 1st encounter with this dish was at Geylang. The super famous one. The beef is so smooth that even my sis like it....

Then came the Changi one recently but most of the tiem I will eat the beef with crispy noodle or pork ribs noodle.

Both uses the salted black diced beans to cook with the Changi one using more.

Today I had wanted to make fish beehoon. Went with the kind soul to NTUC.. but alas.. no red snapper fillet.. or rather no fish fillet of any kind is available.. guess mister fishermen did not work last night lar...

Since I had a pack of stir fry beef in the freezer.. I thought maybe I should try to mimick beef hor fun instead.

Kind Soul searched for the recipe for mi... since I haven got my recipe in hand.. So thankful hee...

Beef Horfun

I must say its nice thou its a little different from the hawker stalls one. The beef was too soft.. so soft that ehhh I can dont bother to chew... I wonder why... at 1st I was still worried that it will b too tough.. hee.. I used kailan for the veggie part to make it a balance meal.. Nxt round I will used bitter gourd.. I tink thats what's missing hehe

The amount of hor fun I did was almost enuff for 4 pax.. but we polished it off all the same..

Dear love it I guess..otherwise he wouldnt have asked from the beginningif I have any left in the kitchen.

Aston

2008-08-17T14:20:00.002+08:00

We went to Aston last night for dinner since we will pop by Chinese Swimming Club after that... Since it been having great reviews on their steak which happen to be our fav meat, i quicly make reservation.. It seem slike they have got 2 branch at Joochiat. 1 doesnt take reservtion. and of cos I choose the one that takes. We passed by the one that doesnt need reservation... the queue was crazy.. no way am I gg to stand by the road side waiting in that manner.
Parking was a breeze since we opt for the per entry parking.. more ex.. but faster.

On our order was a shrimp cocktail, I had wanted to order their portebello mushroom as well but I got a feeling I cant finish the food and so.... no mushroom for me!

Shrimp Cocktail

Its crunchy and well.. plain..
the salad came w a dressing of a mixtureof perhaps ketchup n something else... cant make out what is it.. bt definitely will experiment it out at home...

Dear got himself a prime ribs which by standard should be v nice. The steak should be tender and juicy.. The exorbitant price helps when he decided to order that since it makes no cow sense if somethg so ex doesnt taste good rite?

I had a 10 oz ribeye. and we add on a side dish of potato skin each.

Potato Skin With Bacon Bits

We love our steak medium rare and so that was our request
While we are serve bread with the appetiser... we waited patiently... but my patience seem to run out... after a good 40 mins, finally the steak came...

10 oz Ribeye

The ribeye is realy a huge serving I must say... I have never ever been unable to finish any steak.. for once.. I cant fin this... some what the taste wasnt realy there .. so the large mass of meat din help ...

Heres how we like our beef to b done.. with raw bloody center...

Dears rib wasnt as good.. it seem more medium well instead of medium rare.. and the taste is a bit off... even the sauce doesnt help in lifting the taste
Not forgetting it was actualy quite tough to chew... needless to say dear din enjoy his steak...
No way he is going back there again I guess.... He would rather I cook them at home... looks like its another dine out that gone wrong

Bread Talks

2008-08-16T15:37:00.004+08:00

Its sports day as usual for tomorrow and I racked thru my brain thinking what to bake or cook as usual.. we r hook on eating by the poolside now hehe.

Since I froze some cook otah leftover during the recent BBQ session.. I thought otah bun will be nice... and I do want to try out a new recipe posted by Mrs Kuo... and so...

Silly me.. I onli defrosted 6 otah... I duno why.. but somehow I thought enuff tomake jus 6 bunx..actualy its enuff for 10... oh well... here comes other flavour.. ham n cheese will be perfect for the kids tomorrow...

My Bread Talk

This recipe actualy uses the 中种 dough method.. which involves a starter dough mix into the basic dough ... its something I have not tried but I have heard of review saying that bread that uses starter dough yield a softer bread which is exactly what my family wants... they all like bo gay.. need soft bread... and outside soft bread will probably be loaded with bread improver which is some chemicals.. So I am game to give this a try.

It seems rather easy except that I need to do the starter 1st. I used the breadmaker to do the starter dough since it needs proofing. When mixing the basic with the starter dough, I use my mixer instead of the breadmaker.. Afterall I bought this mixer cos of its power to knead bread and so its just a good excuse to use both the breadmaker as well as the mixer rite... just need to do some extra washing.

Final Proofing takes me onli 45 mins.. not 90 mins as instructed.. and I bake it for a full 15mins at 190 degree...
The bread felt a little hard once out of the oven.. I was worried... but 10 mins later when it cooled down... oh well... let the picture do the talking...

Ham & Cheese Bread

Otah Bread
I topped the bun with some japanese 5 spice chilli mix for the spicy taste.

The bread was soooo soft n fluffy.. I think I can fool my sisters that this are fr the bakery indeed.
I had 1 bread each while I blog... can u imagine how good it is? I got a feeling I will make these again tomolo... this time w more otah LOL..

Thank You Mrs Kuo for the recipe... =)

Perhaps next on my list, I shall try 汤种 method which also is said to give fluffy n soft bread texture.. lets wait till next week and we see how... Prob we can do Breadtalk alike pork floss bread.... since I am dying to try out the transparent mayo too

Bread Talks....

Penang Re-visited

2008-08-15T23:10:00.003+08:00

When people talk bout penang... I think of their laksa... afterall thats my favourite...
I can eat it at least once a day when I go to Penang....
The core ingredient apart from the gravy, is actualy the shrimppaste.. it certainly give the soup a very different flavour when its added to it prior before eating.

I haven had a decent bowl of laksa for 8 mth.. the last time I had a bowl to satisfy my craving... it was really lousy..so tats not counted. Dear said he wun mind flying up to Penang with me to eat the laksa.. but its a bit exegerating right?
Anyway we did buy some Penang Laksa premix back to SG... but the thg was I forgot bout the famous shrimp paste... and after so many months I haven go tmy butt down to making the laksa... until this fateful day where I can no longer tolerate the craving..

Using the play cheat method of canned sardine in tomato sauce... I used 2 canned instead of 1 since I was worried the soup will b diluted. . also I did not use the specific amt of water.. I used less than required. .. I was told to drain off the tomato sauce .. just add in the sardine..but aft tasting.. I tot sth is missing.. so I decided to add in the sauce.. oh well... it did wonder....

Less than an hour later... I got what I wanted... Penang Laksa... I had 2 bowls of the soup with the sardines before dinner.. that shows how much I love this yummy dish...

Penang Laksa

Using the thick beehoon, I topped off the dish with some many many slices of onions, chop pineapple, mint leaves, not forgetting the shrimp paste.. it provide us with a satisfying meal.
Althou I doesnt like pineaple, but in this dish the pineapple give the nice sweetish taste in the spicy n sour gravy. So its a definite must have..

This premix is so good and ingredients are so easily available anywhere in the world. I cant resist but send my gf in Sweden a pack to try... yes jus a pack in case the custom confiscate it hee

If the Oxtail Soup is fit for the King... then I guess this must be fit for the Queen then... hee

Oxtail Stew

2008-08-13T21:48:00.003+08:00

Pigtail is one of my fav porky parts almong my dishes... i like them in my har mee as ell as in bak ku teh...

Oxtail.. however.. doesnt havemuch influence in my life.. Maybe for a start I wasnt brought p with beef in my life.. i onli started having beef 7 years ago while on my attachment in Korea..

The other day we went to Werner's Oven.. and dear had ox tail stew.. he enjoyed it thoroughly. but its freaking ex.. cost near $20 ... but he loves it.. and he asked if I know hw to do it...
Ok.. I dont want to disapoint him.. so I say I will try..
Seeing some beef tail on offer at Market Place.. I thought it will be nice to make him some to try...
Obviously I have no idea how to go about doing it.. thanx to Josh.. he gave me a rough idea what goes into the stew.. and well.. there I go..

As I was cutting up onions, garlic, carrot and potato.. I realised I used up my tomato paste ... darn... I ran down to buy..lucky the mart is jus 2 mins away... ...

After 45 mins of boiling in the PC... then let it sit till it depressurised... finaly dinner was done... its the 1st tiem I had cook that long on a PC.. since I am very mindful of whether the oxtail is soft n tender enuff anot... Mister bo gay will spit all out if its too tough...

Well.. the verdict..
I made it! YAY!!!!

Oxtail Stew

And before I forget how I did this.. let mi briefly jot it down.. all by eye power onli

1 pack of oxtail
1 big onion, diced
some garlic, chopped
carrots, diced
3 potato, halved
1 can of tomato puree
1 can of tomato
4 bay leaves
some dry thyme
1 beef cube
1cup red wine
some water
dash of pepper

Method:

1. lightly fry the ox tail... set aside
2. add in onion, garlic, carrot and fry till light brown
3. add in the ox tail...
4. pour in both can of tomato and add in the beef cube
5. add water.. a little more doesnt hurt cos u gg to stew it for quite a while...
6. add 1 potato and bay leaves... add in wine
7. cook on pressure cooker for at least 1/2 hour to 45 mins, then off fire and let it depressurised.
8. open lid, by now..the gravy is v thick cos the potato all disintegrated.. I choose to do this step cos I do not want to do a roux.
9. add in the remainder potato boil for further 15 min.
10. I added brocolli at the end to maek sure we had some veggie in the diet... add pepper before serving.
Serve warm with bread.

this may not be the proper method of doing a stew..but nonetheless it taste good... yum yum..

Needless to say... all was gone..

Happy Birthday To Singapore

2008-08-09T23:31:00.003+08:00

Its National Day.. a big day for all of us.. our dear country is now officialy 43 year old.. still young.. with a long road ahead...

I had invited some friends over for a mini party as usual... We planned a picnic to watch fireworks but end up we chg our mind and tink its a lucky thing we did chg our mind becos its raining out there!!!

I am tasked to prepare the food of cos... while Angie bought the wine n cheese... I did some oven bake chicken wings which tasted almost like fried ones.. some fusion salad... and a siemmai look alike dish... well shall we call it Singapore Siewmai since its our dear Singapore Birthday....

J showed me a photo of the siew mai.. and she tot its a good idea for lunch.. and well I thought its a good way to make up for the starch dish during party.... the different thing bout this siewmai is no minced pork is used. its all rice.. glutinous rice to be exact. The pic showed a green pea as topping... but I thought I want it to realy look like siew mai.. and its a birthday party.. we need something red red right? so well I use some cavier since I always have them in my fridge ...

Here goes

Singapore Siew Mai

Its pretty easy to make.. just need to steam the glu rice, then pan fry soem ingredients which U have in fridge.. I use lap cheong, mushroom n dry shrimps... oyster sauce, pepper and soy sauce is used to give it some taste...

Wrap it up with wanton skin, top with the cavier or anythg u wish.. I brush the siew mai with some oil after that as I intend to let it chill till when I need then steam them. the oil will help to keep the wanton skin moist and not dry and hard.

Steam for 10 mins and serve warm.... it was a good choice to use cavier..becos my guest realy thought these r the real siewmai =)

Oh yes.. I did a durian cake too... but no photos since its a regular on my list liao.. and also I did not decor it a single bit.... its a botak durian cake LOL.... and well my dear sis ate soem too.. she haven touch durians for years but she realy give face.. and dear Angie..she had 2nd serving!! now I onli have 3 left meant to bring to the club tomorrow.... yummm

Happy Birthday Singapore =)

Onigiri again

2008-08-05T18:42:00.003+08:00

We ran out of idea for dinner again.. and I asked dear what e wants.. he say onigiri.. not a too good idea.. since I just pack all mybento stuff nicely n stashed it away... but no choice... big boy wants this for dinner LOL

I debone some drumlets, mariante w sesame seeds and teriyaki sauce.. lightly fry it with some spinach... for the onigiri filling.

The rice wasnt sticky enuff today.. guess not enuff water but they still hold up nicely. With some furikake mixed into the rice... in they go into the rice mould... I still find the round mould too big... seems like the filling cant go in much.. tsk tsk...

And yes. with my new toy.. the nori cutter... I punch out 2 pattern.. the star and the cute face...

Heres hw they look like...

Smiley Face Onigiri

oh yes.. I use the other round triangle mould too...

Starry Onigiri...

Im too tired to do other design.. so settle for this 2 1st.. hehe.. punching out the nori isnt easy in such humid weather....

Almondy Jelly

2008-08-03T21:52:00.002+08:00

I love the smell of almond... which my mum always describe it as the 'cockroach small'.. obviously she hates it.. im the true opp of her.. anythg she dislike.. I love them...

I rem having almond jelly when I was young at a hor fun restaurant in my old home. The smell of the almond floods the whole fridge... alongside with the jellys are of cos longans. A fruit which is never on my favourite list becos its always sweet.... I hardly want to touch longan ..unless its in the almond jelly... becos of the smell of the almond of cos.. and its diluted..not so sweet.

I been searching for almond jelly recipe thats is made from scratch with agar agar powder for months... finaly I stumbled upon rose recipe and decided to giv it a try.. no harm since i got loads of agar agar powder at home. And I can bring it to the pool side to nib while chatting w friends. Kids will like it too...

Oh my.. its real easy... I added extra Amaretto liqueur in the syrup.. Threw in some left over can peach which I used for fruit tarts earlier on to get some colours...

Almond Jelly

Heres how:
7g agar agar powder
4 cups water
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp almond essence
5tbsp evapourated milk

Method:
1. Bring water, agar agar powder to boil. Add in sugar. Stir till dissolve.
2. Add in milk n almomnd essence.
3. stir n pour to mould or bowl tolet cool n set.
4. cube the set jelly up to desire size, add in a can of longan and some water to dilute it.

Oh yes.. dont forget the amaretto if u love almond smell...

Muff-ins

2008-07-27T10:32:00.003+08:00

Muffin is always not on my to bake list.. since its original texture seems to be dense.. My family dislike dense cake. I rem my favourite blueberry muffin was at a cafe in Copenhagen, where we use to painstakingly take a 3 hour train ride thr and grab a few back home as comfort snack. I haven got to find a recipe that yield that fluffy n soft interior. It stays soft even in the fridge.

Anyway, this is my 2nd muffin making attempt if I remember correctly. With the 1st getting very lousy result.. it took me realy long before it came into my mind that I want to do it again... Thanx to Deb. I saw her showcasing her muffins n mentioned its very soft n moist.. and I thought with so much good review. it cant be that bad rite? Looking at the recipe.. it seems too easy to be true.. I was worried... lucky she gave me some tips over the phone and there I started baking yesterday morning for a trial batch. I did some with lemon filling and the rest with strawberry slices. Giving away all but 2 muffins to food taste ourselves. The result seems pretty good I must say. Dear even said its cupcake despite I told him its muffin.. cos I told him the difference between the texture of cupcake n muffin. 1 is light n soft while the other is rather dense.

With the good review.. I got out of bed earlier today to bake another batch. This time, with chocolate chip topping as well as blueberries since its the kids I am gg to feed.

Blueberry Muffin

Soft n fluffy

I tink the topping with fruit slices be it blueberries or strawberries seems a lack of something.. perhaps thr wasnt enuff tang... I would suggest jam in future... but still its yummy..
Afterall its the texture we are after.. hehe... goes well with some tea I guess

For the future I might jus considering lower the butter amount a little but thats about all.. its PERFECT..

생강차 Saenggang Cha

2008-07-26T23:26:00.000+08:00

생강차 (pronounced Saenggang Cha) its a traditional Korean tea. It literally mens raw ginger (生薑茶) tea in translation.

My 1st encounter with this was at Ju Shin Jung, a korean bbq specialty restaurant where we had our korean BBQ... after our meal we were served this as part of our dessert. I couldnt quite fig out whats in the tea at 1st except cinamon.. Well maybe it tasted too nice, that I thought it needs alot of ingredients. Which korean dish doesn't right?
Thanx to my hard work in my han gul... I managed to fig out alittle bout this tea.. I keep forgetting to try it out.. well ok.. im too chicken..cos it look too easy... LOL

Last week after our meal at Ju Shin Jung.. I was reminded again of this... and well... Dear is down with a little cold today and so I thought its a gd time to try this out... since cinamon is on the heaty side.. so is ginger...

Here I present to u

생강차

Its pretty easy to start with..

Heres how:

about 100g of raw ginger, skinned n slice

20g of cinamon ( I use normal cinamon as I do not have the korean ones)

1 litre of water

Honey to taste

pine nuts to decor (optional)

Put water, cinammon and ginger to boil for about 20 mins in pressure cooker and let it de-pressurised itself.

Stir in honey. and add some pinenuts as garnishing.

Serve hot/cold (we prefer it cold)

I prob was a little too generous with my cinamon.. it got a slight bitter taste.. bit tat can be corrected with more honey n water.

This tea is rather good for people down with cold, or indigestion.. No wonder onli the restaurant that have BBQ serves this. Cos we are always filled to the brim hee.. neeed some of this tea to digest the food.

If u are getting heaty or having fever, this drink is a definite nono. Its very strong ont he stomach and so I read that people with stomach ulcer cant drink this too..

I love this too much.. .I think this tea can replace the traditional red dates tea for confinement.. Since I react quite badly on red dates tea.. what do you think?

I finished my glass of 생강차 as I blog .. I can feel the warmth emitting from my tummy despite I drank the tea with ice.. its definitely comforting to me and my soul... shall I name it @My Soul Tea@

Cabbage Rice

2008-07-24T21:45:00.003+08:00

I have never heard of cabbage rice until recently.. many said its easy, simple and nutritious..

Garnered some tips here n thr.. I proceed with this 1 pot meal today since my fridge is almost emptied...

Oh yes..when I went to buyt eh cabbage.. I saw some silver fish.. >I tot that makes a nice topping on the rice if its not saltish enuff... good choice!

After like many moons... I finaly use my rice cooker again.. I always use the stove to cook rice since thr is onli 2 of us at home... luckily its still working fine hehe

Cabbage rice

After an hour.. my cabbage rice is ready.... it smell nice.. but i tink prob i did not realy add enuff seasoning so it was rather bland.. lucky for the silver fish topping...

Before I forget how I roughly did this meal.. let mi recap...

1. Brown some chopped garlic, add in mushroom and dry shrimps... fry till fragrant.
2. Add some pork or chicken pieces, add some pepper.. i notice pepper is v impt.. give the rice a peppery flavour which I like.. add a dash or 2 of cooking wine.
3. cut up the cabbge into large chunks.
4. Rinse the rice and put the usual amount of water req.. I made a mistake bout the water.. added a bit too much so my rice was quite mashy...
5. Spoon all the filling into the rice cooker, drizzle with some sesame oil and cook till done..
6. serve warm witht eh silver fish topping.. I think fried garlic will b nice too =)

dear suggested adding meat ball next time.. .. surely its a nice dish.. will do it again =) with more seasoning of cos ...

Time to dig in the remainder for supper ...

Cupcakes AGAIN

2008-07-20T23:01:00.002+08:00

I have done so much baking this week that I am getting blur... and dear asked today why do I have so much order this week.. ehhh.. how I know ah? haha

I have churn out at least 4 recipe of buttercream.. did like more than 6 recipes of cupcakes... running out of idea what design to do...
Luckily I got the mushroom to save me ...ewww... mushroom rocks! remind me of super mario...

Heres the cuppies for Pearlyn's best friend =)

Floral cuppies

My camera is still not back with me yet... .. all these are taken with my hp camera sicne I return my sis her camera already

Now... just as I thought I can stop baking.. seems like I cant... while im sick of buttercream, and sugar paste.. now.. I need to do fruit tarts... 100 or more.. ehh.. I still cant fig out how to transport them properly as yet.. I got a major catering to do aft next week... and the work starts now!.. gosh... the grocery list.. the baking procedure... logistic on how and when to do what... for 1 person to cater to 60.. I tink.... I think... realy i tink I can! hehe.. give mi some support yeah...
I just hope I no need to do any sugar paste for this catering... I am keeping finger crosssssss.

Meanwhile.. I have promised Audrey that we will have some home made food next weekend at the club after our golf session.. and so.. Im tinking of baking some muffins... lets see how it goes =) very soon its gonna be a weekly thgy at the club w our food hehe

Tiramisu

2008-07-19T22:58:00.002+08:00

A forum friend had requested for tiramisu as she had some cravings for it. Well.. its a good time for her to have tiramisu.. since she is yet to get preg.. once she is preg.. she cant eat tis anymore =)
am glad to take on this order...
the next happiest person isi caca.. cos she get to eat my extra tiramisu... not forgetting dear love it too.. and i am gg to share w my dear neighbourhood friends =)

Heres what I done for my friend

Tiramisu

I thought this design suits her best.. since she is prob int he mood for love... hehe

Princess Tricia

2008-07-17T15:39:00.006+08:00

No I did not disappear into thin air.. i beenf aithfuly cooking n baking but I dont have my camera with me all this while.. I cant snap a single pic...
forget bout the hp camera.. I tink it just make mi feel giddy hehe

Couple of weeks back, Serene's friend wanted some cupcakes for her girl, Tricia, 6th birthday party. The request was princess with flowers.
While I do not have a camera but I badly want to snap some pics.. thanx to Caca who lend it to mi hehe.. and of cos Kel who brought it over to mi late last nite.. thanx boy...

Heres what I managed to make

Tricia Princess Fantasy

My 1st timemoulding a 'princess'.. last rnd K helped me but I decided I should learn how to do it.. and hey.. its not that hard haha.. but K def did it better than me...

I like this.. thou its not v well made.

Using my new silicon veiner... I did tis flower

Whats a garden without butterfly rite?

P also asked me to do the cuppies for the class party. She tot about customising with names.. and so here goes..
Many thanx to KH who show mi sample of the little faces... else I probably dun dare to do such a design.. cos I can onli mould flowers hehe

We were busy writing the names that day while Xavier was busy fussing at his fav spot in the living room...
Many thanx to my pal L who lent me her edible marker hehe ( I dunno where did mine end up!)
And Kind soul lent me extra muffin pans.. else I prob will take 10 hours to bake hehe

Wallet Bursting Moments

2008-06-18T21:22:00.004+08:00

Im back! I know my blog is getting dusty, rusty, and mouldy.. but I been too busy to blog.. I just got back from a trip and finaly I tink I can post something food related but not edible... haha. Those non food related LOOTS will nt b here =p

Bento Box! something which I been secretly collecting. But this trip is exceptional.. cos I fill my spare luggage with all these treasures!

Here is an over view of some of them

Disney Bento Box

This 2 are 2 tier ones... Pooh n Mickey... best for baby Xavier when we go outing LOL

Popeye Bento Box

Heres Pop eye!! They have olive one but I did not buy since I dont like her haha... and this comes w divider and fork n sppon.. they got MANY style.. and I onli choose 1.. cos I got loads more in my luggage hehe

My Melody Bento Box

This is a gem.. for the price I got, it comes with divider as well! Regret no buy 1 more for my friend as I know bout princess too late LOL

Disney Bento box

this one comes w 2 round partion with cover so food dont spill and a longish one with cover. place the fork n spoon that comes with it, and cover with the main cover.. I like the smart design that coems w the inner cover to prevent spillage!

Ben 10 Bento box

They have 2 style for this. 1 tier and 2 tier. I bought the 2 tier one. Comes complete with fork, spoon n chopstick! and the bottom tier have a seperate cover which will nt dirty the bottom of the top tier. And yes a divider too! Love those that comes complete with utensil I got 2 of this in case any friends wan it for their boys

Heres1 a big one.. I wasnt too keen at 1st but Dear asked mi to buy.. and end up I regret not buying 2 more cos I wan to give 1 set to Jeremiah

Ben 10 Thermo set

Its a thermo set with 3 non leak container and a slot to put the fork n spoon holder. Food suposed to keep warm up to 6 hours Heres how it look inside

See the slot for the utensil holder? cool rite?

Dear say I went CRAZY over the box... I think he will freak out on shopping trip next time... we went with 1 bag and came back with 4...

When the Bear and the Pancake Meet

2008-05-31T14:06:00.002+08:00

I did this pancake few mth back when J gave me a pack of the mix.. and it was rather good except that We find it a bit dry.. but I was guessing I can jus add more milk...

So when i was grocery shopping weeks back, I grabbed a pack...

This morning I did breakfast hastily with this.. Added more milk. I actualy add milk till i tink the consistency is watery enuff to be poured into the mould unlike the previous time it was rather thick n gooey. Added in some vanila pods too

I got the bear silicon mould from Daiso in Feb.. Finaly I can perform the opening ceremony for it... Thats how bear n pancake meet!

Vanila Pancake

Its realy much softer n fluffier now... yumm.. we fin all w strawberry pregel, my vanila icecream as well as some frozen korean strawberry.

Inside of the pancake

Burgers

2008-05-29T18:50:00.003+08:00

Rice Burgers are 1 of the hot items in Mos Burger. needless to say its my fav too since I need alot of carbs everyday. Their rice burgers are hardly filling, Especialy I cannot take french fries that comes w the meal..

I thought it will be fun to make my own rice burger But nevre got to figure out how to make the rice patty... until I saw the mould at Daiso...

Dear doesnt like to eat rice, and the best way to make hime at rice is to go Jap. I'm quite successful thou, he have been asking for onigiri haha.. and so today's burger(he love burger) consist of rice... Gg to con him into eating rice again ~evil~

I started off with the filling and I thought of making herbal chicken thighs today. And it seems great to go along w some salad and the rice burger of cos. I onli grounded some dang gui then marinate the chicken with abalone sauce as well as some wolf berries.

Grilling it to perfection, I went off to settle the rice. Took me quite a while before I got the rice properly done the way I wanted. I couldnt figure out shld I have sticky rice or grainy ones thou of cos the sushi rice are obviously stickier than the thai rice.

Pressing the rice into the moulds, I thought the rice patty look too thick n huge.. (worrying if we can ever fin the burger), but hack lar.. jus do it... Ws kidn of scare the rice will b too bland so at the bottom patty I drizzled some of the gravy of the grilled chicken on it.

Topping it with a bit of jap fish floss since I was afraid it might look too dull..

Herbal chicken Rice Burger

The intial plan was jus to eat the burger off the plate... ~naive~
I forgot in Mos Burger, they serve with the wrapper, so the rice dont fall all over. So I decided to wrap it up too... with nori.

Quite a good idea..
In less than 10 mins.. we polished up the plate.. no mess. And its YUMMY...
oh ya..now I know why MB burger are never filling..the rice is not even half a portion of my usual one... tskkk

Dear asked: What other flavours next time?

LOL

French Vanilla Icecream

2008-05-28T16:21:00.003+08:00

Hijakcing K's kenwood i/c maker, I attempted the french vanila icecream. .While I have been making icecream without the aid of a ice cream maker since years ago, I think an icecream maker is an added bonus to the kitchen.. must hint to dear for the cuisineart one huh?

Anyway, I dont really know the difference between the french icecream and the usual one(I did not eat i/c when I was in France haha.. I think the difference lies in the amount of egg. This recipe calls for 8 yolks. And the result? Ultra creamy icecream.

I used 5 vanila pods. yes I am greedy.. I want it to taste the best. Cos the ice cream King at home will prefer it to b the best.. But I think I tempered the yolks wrongly, resulting in many millions of tiny egg custard in the mixture.. After much sieveing n etc.. I thought it still tasted eggy.. and so I proceeded to add my own homemade vanila extract. Thankfully after freezing over night in the fridge.. the eggy taste was gone.

French Vanila Ice cream

Dear gave a 8/10 for the icecream. When I asked himhw it tasted like... he pointed to my bottle of extract. So indeed, its vanila icecream....

Apple Crumble Pie

2008-05-27T22:45:00.000+08:00

last week I had Apple crumble at T3 Coffee club which is our favourite coffee joint... The miserable crumble makes mi feel miserable and after the lemon tart.. I begin to fall in love with its crust.. which is a very rare phenomenon since I dun like crusty stuff...

Was talking to my kaki bout apple crumble pie and we agree to do 1 each for exchg... at diff days of cos.. how on earth can we fin so much apple crumble in a day??

At CS we saw some pretty nice Granny Smith green apple.. and ok so there goes 8 apples in the basket along with my grocery..

I decided to use my almost new tart tin for this tart since I had onli used it once, and its removable bottom is fantastic for such tart not forgetting its height is realy good.. myother pie tin are too shallow.

As I sat in front of my computer waiting for the arrival of the egg todo the crust... suddenly I re-read my recipe and to my horror.. I dont need eggs for this recipe at all.. damnnn
I quickly run to the kitchen and got started... Originaly the recipe says use 4 apple but i think with the all so deep pie tin.. I need 6 .. end up I used up all 8... LOL

Doubling up my tart recipe for this.. and 1.5 times for the topping..
After much peeling and cutting of the apple...

Apple Crumble Pie

I think I prob have either over baked the pie, my apples arent crunchy.. or I have cooked it slightly too long.. nxt rnd I might just bake it w/o cooking.. Nonetheless we all love this... Dear suggested some vanila ice cream to go along with it... no prize for guessing what i did after baking this =)

Bye Bye to Coffee Club Apple Crumble...

Dinner for 2

2008-05-27T22:27:00.004+08:00

While out shopping with Xavier on Saturday at Vivo Giant.. I saw a huge sharkfin melon. I thought of making soup with it, since last week I have made soup like lotus root as well as old cucumber and run of of idea what other soup to make.. But its too big.. Luckily the lady agree to halve it for me...

As usual.. Getting my P-Cooker to work again.. yummy soup

I tried using some frozen spare ribs I got from cold stroage..surprisngly they are much better than those of NTUC.. its the prime ribs unlike the ntuc ones which are soup bone ribs.

Now we are a big fan of this brand of ribs.. hee

Just throw in a handful of red dates and also a honey date, not forgetting the sharkfin melon which have been rid of the seed n skin then boil for 20 mins and let the PC do the rest of the job..

Last time when mum cook shark fin melon she will use the tedious method of using a steamer to steam the melon 1st and take out the shark fin like meat from the melon.. but Im just too lazy...

Also I gave all my dry cuttle fish n etc a skip.. I just wan somethg light for dinner...

Sharkfin Melon Soup

The soup is indeed sweet n light.. very yummy

Then I need sth else to go w the soup since its probably not enuff to feed an ever growing me.. hehe..

With the fish paste I got, I used J method of cooking it w eggs. Just whisk up the egg, add inthe fish paste and used my fork to slice the paste up ... I pan fry them to satisfaction...

Like she say : chai tow kueh...

Oh.. I added some cilantro into the mixture too since we love that tate too...

Fish Paste Omelette

I kept some soup for tomolo so I can make noodles with it.. `giggle`...

Now I scratching head what soup for thurs... Helppppppp

XO Noodles with mini Abalone

2008-05-25T21:08:00.002+08:00

After making lunch today.. I was too lazy to even step out of the house to do any grocery, despite I know what I need to cook for the night. I got Dear to go out and buy the noodles I needed for the XO fried noodles which Joshie blog about.. It proves to be a big big mistake.. instead of the yee mee... he got mi some instant noodle alike dry noodles... grr.. no choice.. gotto eat that then...

Usingthe same method as mentioned, I replace the razor clams with mini abalone as I realise I ran out of that... And I got too much abalone to clear... Dear will be all too happie to eat them haha
Also I use leeks instead.. been sometime since I last cook with leeks... Together with the XO sauce.. yummy!

Xo Fried noodles with Mini Abalone

Now I got some left over abalones.. wondering what to cook for tomolo...

Lemon What??

2008-05-23T15:10:00.003+08:00

Lemon.. 1 of my favourite fruit/food. Cos I have no sweet tooth. =p
Yesterday I asked Dear to choose something for me to bake from my new William Sonamas cookie book which was my latest gift from J.
And he chose this. Not a bad idea.. since I have lemon in the fridge.. but he asked if I can do lychee bar instead..how weird.. I say >>> NO.

The smelting weather today isnt a good day to attempt this at all. The crust is too buttery.. that it melts in no time despite I minimised the handling of the dough with my hand. But I told myself I must bake this since I'm on off today... The recipe is easier than I thought except the crust part..
Tweaking the amount of sugar a little.. I realised.. I haven got a rectangular tart mould... How to have lemon BARS when the dun even look like bar?? I shuttled between my 2 cupboard.. cant decide to use the removable mini tart mould.. or the big tart mold... Finaly I decided they shall be made into lemon tarts instead.. I want to use the mini moulds since its been ages since I touch them..

After an hour... heres what I get..

Lemon Tarts

Lemon Tarts

As I bite into the tarts while blogging this entry.. Im hooked! I think I realy want to buy a rectangular tart mould now... yummm

Shark Fin Omelette

2008-05-22T21:08:00.004+08:00

U probably eaten this at wedding banquet for the starter dish. I rem its pretty salty..

Out marketing w J today... and we were talking bout crabmeat n sharkfin omelette when we saw them at the fridge.. I thought since I have many shark fin left.. why not give it a try...

Defrosting my fins, and using the fresh crab meat I gotten earlier, I did this for dinner.
For those instance.. I forgot how it shld taste like... grrr... my memory is failing.. and I did the omelette too thin I think.. While the crunch from the fins are visible.. I think its not realy that tasty.. Perhaps its becos I left out the msg...

Anyway... here goes..

Shark fin Omelette with CrabMeat

I have got more fins to clear.. looks like the best way is still shark fin soup...

Mushroom Creamy Pasta

2008-05-21T19:53:00.003+08:00

After a few night of asian dishes... its time for a change.. what else but the boring pasta.. I decided to do the sauce from scratch. we r not fans of tomato base pasta..and so it only means I must do the cream base one. With some pointers from wokking mum entry, I fig out I can use my non dairy cream as well since I have got plentiful of them in my fridge. Somehow the non dairy cream seems to b sweeter than I thought. I thought it tasted weird

Rummaging thru my fridge.. I found some half shelled scallops as well. and there they goes into the pasta as well. And mincing the garlic and deep fry them to crispy bits as toppings for the pasta... Thats about all..

Presenting to u

Mushroom Scallopini Pasta in Cream Sauce

Dear finished the whole serving with no complains. So i think I should pass the test =)

The garlic topping makes a big difference int he taste of the pasta.. Definitely more fragrant.. I made a large batch to keep so I can use them for my cooking =)

Oriental Lagsana

2008-05-21T14:20:00.004+08:00

Like I mentioned in the previous post, this week I am going to attempt another oriental theme food item

And who else can provide me with such interesting recipe other than Ginny? LOLz

Anyway, well.. 1st of all this recipe uses 2 thing I hate... 1, luncheon meat and 2, soda crackers. And becos I need to clear my pantry of the excess luncheon meat (I wasnt the one who buy them!) , I made my way to the mart to buy the crackers for this dish.. since Ginny made this for 1 of our tea party and I thought I dun mind making this just to clear stock.. My friends will HATE me cos now there is a shortage of lucheon meat in the market and here Im trying to use them up...

With some curry powder and my favourite onion... I did the filling and steam the whole lagsana in my 23cm sq pan..

Oriental Lagsana

I was rushing thru hoping I can finish cooling it by 1215 so that I can give some to my friends.. but I was too slow... I took more than half hour jus to prepare this.. So I gotto give her tomorrow instead. The chilli almost killed me! but I like.. HAHA

I had this for lunch just now.. Perhaps I really dislike luncheon meat... I find it very saltish.. thou the texture wasnt too bad.. I finished it all the same =) I think I can try to substitute it with minced meat or wat so ever nxt round.

Back in KA, I rem we had like 12 can of Luncheon meat @ home.. and I tink I only cooked a can.. the rest was all given away to our friends who were dying of withdrawal syndrome of no lucheong meat... I duno whats the big deal of eating lucheong meat.. its nothg but processed meat with loads of salt.. Cant think of the goodness in it at all.. and of cos I siam my way when I get inivited to our colleagues house when they have luncheon meat party... Bet they are pleased to have invited me cos I dun fight with them over this little 'treasure'.

Now... I have 1 more can of luncheon meat to clear..perhaps I should 'auction' it off... haha.. I know Im alien... I hate luncheon meat..

Onigiri

2008-05-19T21:20:00.003+08:00

We had a hard time thinking what to have for dinner.. Finally, Dear said he wanted the triangle rice... haa.. sounds like kiddy language huh.. well thanx to the bento stuff I purchase on friday w the girls. Onigiri thats it!

I cant tink of any filling apart from tuna.. until I decided to cook some vegie and meat and stuff them into the onigiri. Armed with some spinach and also some teriyaki pork.. I proceeded.

While this is my 2nd time trying to do bento.. I tink I added a bit too much water to the rice.. it was mashier than before.

Anyway, we had a great meal.. not forgetting a healthy one..

Onigiri

Dear asked for chuka hotate as well...

Chuka Hotate

He request I made such bentos for him to work nxt time... hehe.. so excited!!!

Sambal Belachan

2008-05-14T20:23:00.002+08:00

I dunno if I can call this sambal belechan.. I assume I can Since I did this to fry kang kong.

I dun realy dare to do belachan since the kitchen or rather the whole house will stink up...
But I am craving for spicy stuff thi sfew days and so... hehe

Pretty easy n yummy too...

Sambal Belachan

before I forget.. let me jot down the ingredients needed:

Ingredients
Handful of Dried shrimps, washed n soaked in water
½ inch pc of belacan
6-8 red chillies
1 onion
8 or more garlic cloves
Some oil

Method

1. Soak dried shrimps with water.
2. Blend together (or use a mortar & pestle) chilies, belacan, garlics and onion till a paste is form. Add in shrimp and blend for a while just to break it into pieces.
3. Heat oil and fry paste for 5 minutes or more until fragrant. Colour shld turn darker.
4. Let cool n used accordingly

I made extras to freeze so I can use it whenever I want...

More n More

2008-05-13T19:48:00.003+08:00

I was rummaging thru my freezer and I found a pack of duck leg.. ahh I must have forgotten bout it eversince I got it.. Roast duck came to my mine.. but hey.. there is 3 legs in thr.. and only 2 of us... I decided to make lor ark with 1 of it.

Half way thru... thinking 1 leg is not enuff for 2.. so I decided to add on 2 hard boil eggs...
Then thinkign thinking... aiya... I tink can cook kway chap.. *giggle* and so.. I added a pc of tau kwa and braised some peanuts as well...

Never ending?? ya u bet.. cos I end up making some chai buay as well

Duck Kway Chap with Tau Kwa and eggs

Braised Peanuts

Chai Buay

Serve with some kueh teow in spice soup garnished with loads os coriander... its yummy
While it doesnt taste like those selling outside, it definitely taste good.. at least we wallop everythg.

Now I got spare braised peanuts and chai buay... anytime I can eat it with porridge on a hot day...

Thanx to my PC for being able to make all this yummy... hehe

Oriental Bread Pudding

2008-05-13T19:32:00.003+08:00

While I was procastinating between to make the western bread pudding which I have never tried before, and this one here which Ginny had brought along for our party a few months back. Talking to pawpaw, askign ehr bout her BP... seems liek its such baby food stuff.. I really dun wan to try haha.. All will end up in the bin I know..

So here goes.. I tried my hands on this... I did not managed to achieve the pretty ones as Ginny did.. but nonetheless, it was yummy (of cos Ginny's one seems better leh).

Oriental Bread Pudding

I named it so because, initialy when I saw its original name, it never came to my mind that its yummy. Because of the pictures I saw.. gooey n yucky.. definitely not appetitsing. Thanx to Ginny and thus I decided to name it "Oriental Bread Pudding" since I also want to attempt her Oriental lagsana recipe.

It taste almost like yam kueh. and with the lao cheong and dry shrimps as filling cum topping.. Its definitely heavenly... And I made quite a fair bit so I can share w my friend =)

Har Mein

2008-05-10T14:29:00.002+08:00

I disappeared from the blogging world for quite a while, but I been actively working hard in kitchen. Just no time to blog since Im tired at the end of the day when I reached home.

Squeezing in some time to update the blog before it gets dusty, rusty... hee

Sudden tot of eating prawn mee 1 day, and knowing myself, Im such a fussy pot when it comes to te soup, and no thanx to the place I stay, there isnt a decent Har Mein. My fav one is supposedly the one at Geylang Lor 1, if not the one at Joo chiat. And here I decded to cook some har mein myself since I have enuff prawns head n shell to make the stock.. With a big pork bone in hand... and not forgetting my v trusted WMF pressure cooker. I managed to make a pot of yummy stock. Oh yes. I forgot to add, I added some korean chili powder to the stock too!

Normaly when I have Har Mein, I will ordered it w pork ribs since Im a carnivore.. I need meat to stay happy =p oh yes not forgetting pig tail too!! Now I regret not buying the pig tail when I sa it... haiz...

Anyway, heres my Mar Mein, top w some pork slices, fish cake, kang kong.. and prawns of cos!!!!

Har Mein

Thanx to dear for the new toy that I managed to cook the stock in such a short period of time.
Im definitely making full use of it if not working it to death HAa..

I have some left over stock which kind soul suggested me freezing them so I can cook w mee sua or instant noodle when Im hungry... GOOD IDEA!!

I decided to cook this becos, I had use a instant pack of har mein powder but it sadly disappoint me. Therefore, heres Jo's Har Mein!!

Cold Tofu

2008-04-28T21:25:00.003+08:00

For the raging hot weather... I decided to make somethg cold for dinner. I vaguely rem I saw a post of another blogger who made somethg similar, and the sauce is peanut butter sauce! Cool... I grabbed a huge bottle of peanut butter and came back to do this. The remaining shall go into peanut butter cookies(gt a gift of william sonamas cookie book to try out)? and char siew bao making!!!

Cold Tofu

Ingredients:
1 firm tofu
1 tablespoon or more peanut butter
some hot water
soy sauce to taste
1 century egg(more if u like)

Method:
1. Wash the tofu and chill.
2. Mix hot water with peanut butter and mix till combine. Add in soy sauce.
3. POur over tofu.
4. Top with century egg and spring oniongs or shallots.

Chill and serve cold!

Its to die for in this hot weather... needless to say, we polish everything off despite dear dont really like peanut butter.

Waffle Waffle

2008-04-24T15:57:00.003+08:00

Annie had posted a recipe for this waffle few days back.
Tempted to try but with no waffle maker.. I can only drool... A kind soul offered her waffle maker for mi to try.. In the event if its a good recipe or rather a recipe I like, I can go n buy the waffle maker...
If its not good enough I can save the $$...

And soo... I pull my tired body out of bed, preparing this, for my brunch...

Tadahh

Waffle with Cherries Topping

Here I have some nice fluffy waffle topped with cherries topping.. I reduced the sugar since Annie mention they are sweet on its own... with 5Tablespoon of sugar, I still find it sweet. Perhaps I will reduce to 3 next round =)

I did double recipe for the egg white sake since u neeed to whisk the egg white till stiff and my mixer is definitely too big for just 1 white... and im too tired to use arm power...
And I managed about 12 waffles. so 1 recipe yields 6. Meaning its just right for breakfast and supper for the 2 of us at home.

Meanwhile the kind soul who lent me the waffle maker get to taste this too... hehe

Dear gave the thumbs up for this waffle and gave the green light to buy 1 ... `grin`

Skipping my way to buy a waffle maker soon..

Disney Cupcakes

2008-04-20T19:13:00.003+08:00

I know I have to do some cuppies. But with no time in hand.. how to pipe and decor so many of them?
I almost did not want to make them since weariness in me been lingering in my tummy for days.

But I mustnt disappoint the birthday boy.
Took me some hours to get this done, carefuly painted b4 I go to sleep.
While its not my perfect cupcake, it certainly make alot of the little kids happie.

Disney Cuppies

I certainly need to rely on cutters for those cute stuff else I never be able to make them.. unlike my other peers who r so good w 3d figurines making...

Some1 ask why no kitty? well, haha its a birthday boy mahz =)

Fruitty Tarts

2008-04-20T19:07:00.003+08:00

I have to do 100 over tarts for the party. Andother near 100 for celebration giveaway.
Toiling in the kitchen for the whole day certainly is a must.

While I refuse to use those preserve cherries for the tart, I still needed some red to liven up the tarts. Thanks to the Comstock cherries which I always have faith and trust to.

Fruit Tarts

The cherry certainly do make them prettier.
At the party, the guest was asking the other where she got the tarts from.. how comehe miss it at the table...
Can see they franticaly searching for it. And in no time the 100s or so were gone. Im glad my effort did not go down the drain.

Some even ask to bring home, but Im so sorry to disappoint them. Good stuff will never have any left over hehehe

Nutella Swissroll

2008-03-29T00:31:00.001+08:00

While being away from the internet and blogging world most of the time for the past 3 weeks, I been actively cooking and baking. In fact I been so busy that I only have 4 hours of sleep everyday, and cooking and baking the rest of the time. No internet connection for myself even... that explains why the lack of post. Its so busy that I barely had time to take pic of the food esp so since they r my new creations.

I squeeze out enough time to bake this for Serene since she is craving for home baked cakes.
I dont know where did I find the courage to bake a swiss roll out of the crazy schedule. Especialy so since I worry very much it will break/crack after rolling.. anyway it was alritey!!!! So excited that I rather be late than to miss taking a pic of it =)

Nutella Swissroll

I used nutella since at least if its not fridge it will not spoil so easily. And obviously our dear Serene walloped all ~grin~

QQ Rice?

2008-03-22T21:04:00.005+08:00

QQ Rice was liek my daily staple when I was in Hong Kong. I can eat that for bf, lunch, dinner.
So when my Serene and I saw this QQ rice shop in Singapore, we are delighted.. Not for long thou... cos seems like we prefer the Hong Kong ones.

Actually If im not wrong, Q rice originated from Taiwan. So its actually a taiwanese snack.

Anyway, when I ask dear what he wants bento for work tomorrow, he say yes he want QQ rice... tsk.. obviously he doesnt know how good those in HK taste LOL...
So I decided to combine the idea of QQ rice into japanese style.

Rice ball it is... sound like Hainanese rice ball? Ya sort of...
Suzanna gave me the idea when we went shopping a few months back on this. And so here I come presenting my 1st batch of rice balls..

Oh yes.. I even have a cute rabbit egg to go with it.. Easter mood still!!! Thanx E for the cutie mould =)

QQ Rice

I added roasted chicken, fish floss, sesame and pickle radish in the center..

The inside

Dear loves the rice ball hehe... He ate 2 after dinner...I was kidding with him.. that Im putting the rice ball into my Hello Kitty Bento box for him to bring to work =p

Niku-Jaga

2008-03-22T20:44:00.003+08:00

I don't know if its the correct name for this dish. But I had it a couple of time in the japanese restaurant, and its nice.. Mildy sweet, and satisfying chewy beef with some tendon attached.

A forum friend share this recipe with us moons ago...
Obviously it took me many months before I finally get done with it.

Its an easy meal.. definitely suitable for me haa...
But I cant get nice beef today and so Dear said replace it with the pork shabu shabu. I guess it was kind of a mistake.. the pork was too soft.. Looks like we still need the trusty beef.
Other than that, it was pretty good.. and I added in 3 carrots so that I dont have to cook a veggie dishes.

Its almost salt free for this dish mainky becos I had used kelp stock for this and adding the onion n carrots help in sweentening the whole soup. Not forgetting a dash of korean cooking wine which is sweet.

Niku-Jaga

And I had prepare sushi rice to go with this dish since I got pletiful of pearl rice at home.

Its a 2 flavour rice with radish topping... yummy!

Moist Carrot cake for the Bunny

2008-03-21T16:16:00.003+08:00

Couple of weeks ago, PT asked if I will try out the recipe for her if she attends the class at Shermay's. Of cos!! Why not right? And so while I was away on my hols.. she happily went for the class.. When I met her, she even passed me all her newly acquired cookie cutters nudging me to try out the cute shapes. I dont know what I done to deserve such a friend like her hehe...

But as usual.. I put it off off and off... since dear did not express good impression onc arrot cake.

Finaly the other day K also tell mi bout the carrot cake. and I told myself.. I MUST bake them when I can find soemone to feed it with... and today is the day.. to feed the 'bunnies' haaa
Its easter.. give me some excuses to bake this since after the golf range practice I am gg to meet Angie n Alvin for dinner with Dear at the Seletar airport. They can be my guinea pig haha

With a little hiccup like overflowing batter out of the cupcake holder. I finaly got them all done... Considered for real long time before I finaly decided to post this. As I know my dear friends PT n K will be pleased to see what they motivated me to bake comes on screen.

Dear girls... Thank you for being generous in sharing. And I hope I did not disappoint u =)

Super Moist Carrot Cake

While I find it on a sweet side, the fragrance of the orange and spices really bring the taste of the whole cake to a different level. I will adjust the sugar accordingly in future. Surprisingly, Dear like this cake =)

Guess it will not be too long before I bake this again *wink*

Happy Easter Day

2008-03-21T15:55:00.002+08:00

Last night as we were shopping around the CS at Siglap Center, fiddling with the idea to roast a chicken anot for today...
Since its easter.. no chick.. chicken also can rite? Oki oki.. and so I bought a chicky home.

Since I stand by my rules that my roast chicken should alwasy be tender, even on the breast meat parts, I began the tenderising process despite I reached home near 1am. With the very standard tenderising agent, I did my job with a breeze.

For once I gave my favourite rosemary a miss for the marination. Instead, I chop up some lemon grass, stuff inth e whole lime, sprinkle some oregano all over together with some maltose n seasalt and let the chick sleep in the fridge over night.

Its Public Holiday, and so roasting the chicken after my baking was easy too.. didnt take up alot of time.. just stuff it with some carorts n onions to fulfil the daily veggie intake, pop it into the oven, set the timer and there goes...

The main plan was eat the everythg exceptthe breast meat which I wanna do a wrap with it over the weekend. and thus.. here is our juicy thighs.

Oriental Roast Chicken

Dear commented that its nice and juicy.. the skin is sweet and yummy.. just like what the restaurant serve.. bet this time round I hit it right on the nail =)

White Meat day

2008-03-20T19:43:00.000+08:00

I chance upon a pretty easy sambal recipe when J showed me a blog. And I thought I would love to make some of those sambal for grilling fish and seafood..

Since im never good with cooking fishes (I onli know how to cook cod, threadfin and stingray), wokking mum did a big help in stating she uses selar for this dish.

So therefore, It didnt take me too long to get into action...

Sambal Selar

I even made more of the chili paste to freeze =p

Asparagus is our favourite... and to make use of the left over bacon in the freezer, I cok them together.. rather yum I must say...

Bacon Asparagus

When I was at the mart.. I saw some fresh lala.. and since there isnt any red meat dishes, no harm having 1 more dish then..

With the most basic method of ginger, garlic and white wine...

Lala with White Wine Sauce

Of cos.. with such a light meal... Its no surprise we headed off for desert after that. Went to our favourite TCC at Siglap..

Half Past Six

2008-03-19T17:55:00.003+08:00

Nono.. its not the time... its my skill LOL

It been weeks since I thought I want to make sushi... eithre I haven got the japanese rice (I refuse to use thai rice) or I haven got the roe.. Finally today is the day.. and also to use my gadgets... hehe

Of cos California maki is 1 of my favourite.. apart from the usual sashimi.

Armed with some ripen avocado, crab meat, pickled radish and sakura denbu aka pinky fish floss, I began my adventure.

Its my 1st time after like errr 7 yrs since I did sushi.. I had some jitters. Since I am constantly under the stress of the Emperor asking why this why that..

I was struggling with the coating of the roe as I donno hw to coat them nicely.. ekkk Anyway.. with my half past 6 skill... hehe.. here I present my Califoria maki...

California Maki

Then comes the sushi.
With the Tako I had got...
Using the sushi gagdet I bought years ago... I managed to shape perfect rectangular sushi.
Topping it with some self mix wasabi which was super spicy... then again with my half past six slicing skill, I slice the tako up... n top it on the sushi...

Here I present the

Tako Sushi

I froze the remaining tako hoping to make takoyaki over the weekend =)