Cooking, Baking and Sewing projects

Happy Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day !

2010-02-01T19:02:00.000-08:00

Planning to prepare the following cookies for my beloved hubby for the upcoming CNY and Valentine's day. Hope he will love them :)
1) cornflakes
2) sesame seed
3) chocolate chips
4) nestum
5) fried chicken floss roll

Will let him vote how tasty they are after he has tasted them ^_^
Friends, you can get to try them when you come to visit my house during CNY too hehe

Hainanese Chicken Rice

2010-01-30T18:46:00.000-08:00

Broth
1 whole chicken (3.5 lbs, 1.8kg),
4” section of fresh ginger
1/4” slices
2 stalks green onions
1 teaspoon sesame oil

Season the inside and outside the chicken with salt and stuff the chicken with ginger and green onions. Put it in a big pot and fill with water to just cover by 1 inch. Bring the pot to a boil over high heat, then immediately turn the heat to low to keep a simmer. Cook for about 30 minutes more. When the chicken is cooked through, turn off the heat and remove the pot from the burner. Immediately transfer the chicken into a bath of ice water to cool. Rub the outside of the chicken with the sesame oil. Cut the chicken for serving.

To cook the Rice
2 tbsp vegetable oil
3 cloves garlic, finely minced
1” section of ginger, finely minced
2 cups long-grain uncooked rice
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon salt
Heat the oil and Fry garlic and ginger. Add in your drained rice and stir to coat, cook for 2 minutes. Add the sesame oil, mix well. Pour rice (after frying) into your rice cooker, add reserved broth and salt to the rice and cook in rice cooker.

First Sewing Project !

2010-01-03T16:25:00.001-08:00

A-line Skirts

Non-fried Popiah Roll

2009-10-21T02:16:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
3 eggs,add in 1/4 tsp salt,made into omelet ,shredded
1 jicima(sengkung or turnip) shredded
300 gm chicken shredded
250 gm small shrimp,shelled
2 tsp salt
2 tsp ground white pepper
1 tsp chicken stock granules
3 cloves chopped garlic
4 tbsp oil
1 Romanian / iceberg lettuce wash and drain
1/2 fried shallot
1 packet lumpai wrapper (spring roll wrapper) about 10 pieces (steam or heat up in microwave for 1 min)

Optional: fried bean curd and bean sprout

Sauce:1/4 cup tim-cheong (sweet beans sauce) or hoisin sauce or 5 tbsp chili sauce*optional

Recipes:
1.Heat skillet at medium heat,add in oil,then chopped garlic.Stir-fry garlic until lightly brown,then add in shredded chicken ,shrimp and divided half seasoning.Fry for 1-2 minutes,then dish out to a small bowl,set aside.
2.Use the same skillet fry jicima until soft and almost dry,then add in seasoning.Dish out and set aside.
3.Place 1 piece of popiah skin on a board or plate,brush 1 tbsp tim-cheong and 1 tsp chili sauce on the skin,then take 1/2 piece lettuce leaf and put on the brush popiah skin.2:Dish 1 tbsp filling or more onto the lettuce leaf,then add some shredded eggs,and fried shallot on top of the filling.
4.Roll up tightly,fold both end, cut into pieces and serve

Healthy Vegetarian Shepherd Pie

2009-10-13T22:57:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
4 russet baked potatoes peeled and cooked
2 teaspoons olive oil
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
1 cup of vegetable broth
3/4 cup milk
1 head broccoli, chopped or grated, stems
2 carrots, chopped or grated
2 celery ribs, chopped
1 teaspoon cornstarch plus 1 teaspoon flour

Steps:
Mash cooked potatoes with as much milk as you need to make them nice and creamy. Add some salt and pepper and a sprinkle of garlic powder.Heat the oil in a large pan and saute the garlic and onion over medium heat until soft and translucent. Add the broccoli, carrots, and celery and cook until veggies start to wilt.Add the broth and milk along with the cornstarch and flour. Let the mixture come to a boil, stirring frequently. Sauce will thicken up a bit. Season with salt and pepper if you need to. When all the vegetables are cooked, remove from heat.

Oil the a 8"x8" baking dish and spoon the vegetable mixture onto the bottom. Cover with the potatoes and smooth them down. Heat in oven for 10 minutes or so until top is slightly firm and onions are browned.

Ang Ku kueh

2009-10-13T18:28:00.000-07:00

Pastry skin:
500g glutinous rice powder
1 orange sweet potato peeled, steamed and mashed.
6 tbsp sugar
6 tbsp oil
200ml cold water
200 ml warm water
1 pc of pandan leaf

Filling:
300g split mung beans, soaked overnight
5 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp oil

To prepare filling,steam mung beans over boiling water for 30 minutes. Combined steamed mung beans and oil in a pan and stir continuously over a medium heat until beans and sugar form a smooth texture and does not stick to hand. Set aside to cool

To make the pastry skin:Combine all the ingredients together and adding a small amount of water each time to knead until a smooth dough is obtained. Form dough into balls to fit the size of the mould.

Flatten a piece of dough to ½ cm thick with hand and put a ball of filling in the centre and wrap the pastry skin around the filling to cover it completely. Roll it lightly in the palms to smoothen the surface. Dust the mould lightly with glutinous rice powder and press the ball into the mould. Dislodge the uncooked angku from the mould by tapping the side of the mould on the table. Place the Angku on a lightly greased pandan leaf and steam over medium heat for 10-15 minutes

Most wanted Laksa Recipe

2009-09-24T23:13:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 packet of Sarawak laksa paste (sambal)
1 tin of santan (coconut milk)
1 stalk of lemon grass
1 tsp belancan
Bee hoon
prawns
chicken meat
eggs
bean sprouts
cucumber
fish cake

Cook the laksa paste in 1.5 litres of water in a pot for half an hour (until it reduces to 1 litre of gravy). After it boils, filter and add coconut milk and lemon grass. To enhance the taste, add belancan paste or prawn paste.

Boil chicken meat and shred them. Fry the eggs in thin layers and cut them into narrow, long slices. Boil remaining ingredients such as bee hoon, prawns, and bean sprouts and put in separate dishes.

Put in bee hoon and other ingredients in a bowl and add in the gravy.
Serve with lime and sambal belacan.

Dim Sum Siew Mai

2009-09-24T18:49:00.000-07:00

My recent project is to make one of my favourite dim sum ie. steam siew mai.

500g minced chicken
5 mushroom soaked and chopped
5 water chestnuts
200g prawns chopped
Round shaped fresh wanton skin
Some green peas or carrot cubes (for garnish)

seasoning: 1tsp salt, 1tsp soya sauce, pepper, 1tsp corn flour, 1/2 tsp sesame oil

Mix all the above and place enough filling into the centre of the sheet of the wanton skin, gather the edge and shape it. Press a green pea and a small cube of carrot into the tops. Place dumpling in plate and steam over high heat for 10-15 mins till cooked. Serve warm with chili sauce.

Pan Mee Soup

2009-09-22T22:49:00.000-07:00

Made Pan Mee once before and am still adjusting the following recipes. Let me know if you have some good idea to improve the taste of the following recipe.

Noodle dough:300 gm all purpose flour, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 egg, 160 ml(2/3 cup) water (please adjust)

Method:
1. In a big mixing bowl, add your flour, Add your egg, half of your water, salt in.
2. Mix well. Be careful not to add to much water. Just start kneading slowly until you get a nice firm smooth dough. Leave for an hour before you cook it.

Assembly of pan mee
Halve the noodle dough and roll it to about one centimeters thick. Pick the dough up and start tearing it into ununiform pieces into the boiling pot of broth.

Meet sauce
Heat pan with 1tsp oil and the sesame oil (1/2 tsp), and add garlic. Saute the garlic until fragrant or until it turns slightly opaque and then add your mushroom. Add 250g minced chicken in and some pepper. Cook the chicken mince until most part of it are opaque. Add 3 tsp oyster sauce, 1/2 tsp dark soya sauce, in except water. Stir to mix well. Add 250ml water and let the sauce come to a boil. Let it simmer for about 10 minutes before taking it out of the heat into a bowl.

Soup
Add ikan bilis/chicken stock and water. Add pepper and salt to taste.
If you have some green veggies like bok choy or moni leaves or choi sim, you may add so now. Scoop the noodles and veggies up into a bowl and serve with a topping of meat sauce and fried anchioves.

Easy and Simple Lasagna

2009-09-19T23:20:00.000-07:00

I have used the following recipes and baked chicken lasagna twice already. The recipe gives a good taste. Must try :)

Serves: 2
4 pieces of Instant Lagsana
1 tsp oil
1 onion finely chopped
1 carrot finely chopped
1 clove of crushed garlic
250g mince chicken
1 tin of Hunt's lasagna sauce
1 tsp butter
1 tsp of plain flour
1 cup of mik
65g mozzarella cheese

Heat oil in a sacepan, add onion, garlic and carrot cook until soft. Add chicken mince, cook till brown. Stir in Hunt's lasagna sauce . Season with salt and pepper and nutmeg. Cover and cook gently for 20 minutes.

Cheese sauce.Melt butter in a separate saucepan, stir in flour and cook for 2 mins over gentle heat. Revmove from heat stir in milk. Return to heat stir until thick and smooth. Season with salt and pepper and add mozzarellla cheese, stirring over low heat until cheese melts.

Preheat oven to 180°C. Pour in meat sauce into lightly greased baking dish. Alternate layers of lasagna, meat and cheese sauces ending cheese sauce layer. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese bake in over for 35 to 40 mins.

Almond cookies

2009-09-10T19:47:00.000-07:00

170 gm. butter
110 gm. icing sugar
200 gm. plain flour
80 gm. cornflour
100 gm. toasted almond flakes
1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Method:

(1) Cream shortening with icing sugar till creamy.
(2) Add in almond extract andplain flour, cornflour then the roasted almond flakes.
(4) Chill in the fridge for 30 mins. then roll into 1 cm thick, cut with a cutter
(5) Bake at 170C for about 25 mins. till cooked and lightly brown.

Pandan Snow Skin Mooncake

2009-09-03T00:54:00.000-07:00

Very easy ! I can make 4 mini mooncakes in 10 mins time.

Ingredients for snow skin
100gm koh fun
70gm icing sugar
30gm shortening
1/2 tsp pandan paste
120 gm. pandan juice / iced water (blend water with 6 pieces of pandan leaves)

Filling:
red / green bean /custard paste

Method:
Sift Koh fun and icing sugar , rub shortening into flour, mix, gradually mix cold water till soft dough. Scale at 30gm each portion. Wrap the filling with skin pastry, place into dusted mooncake mould and press firmly. Chill in fridge then serve.

Doarayaki

2009-08-14T18:25:00.000-07:00

Dorayaki (makes 2)
1 egg
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup water
0.5 tablespoons honey
0.5 cups plain flour
1/2 cup azuki red bean paste
Combine the sugar and eggs, but don’t leave the mixture sitting around too long as it’ll cook the egg. Stir the baking soda into the water, and then mix it into the eggs. Add the honey and flour and mix well.
Heat a non-stick fry pan with a little oil, but ensure it is wiped out with a paper towel before cooking. This bit is important as if there is fat in the pan, it won’t allow the pancake to brown evenly.
Pour in enough batter to make a 10-12cm round pancake. Heat until the surface starts to bubble and the bottom is golden brown, about 1-2 minutes, and then flip and cook the other side until golden brown (about 1 minute).
When you have made two, sandwich them together with a a couple of tablespoons of red bean paste

Honeydew Sago Dessert

2009-08-12T01:27:00.000-07:00

Recipe I:

Ingredients:
1 honeydew melon (cut half)
1 cup sago (tapioca pearls)
½-1 cup sugar (depending on how sweet your honeydew is)
½ cup water
1 cup coconut milk

Method:
Put water and sugar into a small pot and boil till sugar dissolves to make a syrup. Cool.
Put a big pot of water to boil (to hold about 7 cups or more of water). When water comes to a boil, add sago to water and cook on med-high heat. Stir occasionally. About 8-10 minutes until translucent.
While sago is cooking, cut half the melon and buzz in your blender till smooth.
Dice the other half of the melon into small cubes.
When sago is done and rinse with cold water. Put the melon cubes and the melon juice together in a large bowl then add coconut milk followed by cooled sago. Pour in the sugar syrup.

Another recipe II

Ingredients
4 tablespoons of Sago (or Tapioca Pearls)
4 1/2 Cups of water
1 Can of Thin Coconut Milk
1 Pandan leaf (tied into a knot)
1/4 Cup of sugar (you can add more if you like it sweeter)
1/4 Rockmelon (cut up into small 1/2 cm cubes - can substitute this with watermelon)

Method:
Pour coconut milk into a saucepan, add the pandan leaf and bring to boil while adding in the sugar. Stir occasionally. Add 1/2 cup of water into the mixture and continue to simmer for an additional 5 minutes on low heat. Once coconut milk is cooled, refrigerate.
Boil sago with 4 cups of water for 5 minutes. Stir constantly so that the Sago won't stick to the bottom of the saucepan. If sago is cooked, it should look transparent. Run cold water over the over the sago for a couple of minutes.
Stir the sago into the coconut milk and continue to refridgerate. Cut up the Melon into small cubes and add into the sago & coconut milk mixture.

I used recipe II for the following watermelon sago dessert.

Finally Perfect Cornflakes cookies!

2009-08-05T21:54:00.001-07:00

After the third attempt for the cornflakes cookies, finally I received a few good comments :) I used back the cornflakes recipe I but played around with the flour this time. Now I can bake cornflakes cookies without referring to recipe anymore (I could remember all the steps and amount of ingredients, it's all stuck in my head now =P).

Does the photo make it look irresistable and deliciously yummy?

Crunchy Cornflakes Cookies (Recipe II)

2009-07-22T00:51:00.001-07:00

This is the second attempt for cornflakes cookies as my hubby mentioned previous recipe were not crunchy enough.

A – 100 gram butter, 80 grams caster sugar . Cream till white and fluffy.
B - 1 egg,1/2 tsp of vanilla essence.B eat egg with a fork and add vanilla. Add to the Part A above and mix well.
C -150 grams wheat flour, 15 grams custard powder (custard powder will give cookies more crunch and yellowish tinge), 30 grams Nestum cereal, 50 grams ground almond * i used wheat flour and is a bit hard..

D. Corn Flakes – About 50 grams, gently meshed

Mix all the above well (C). Add to the batter of Part A+ Part B. Use your hands to mix well and form a ball. If the batter is too wet and cannot form balls, add a bit of flour. If it is too dry, add a bit of water.

Form into tiny marble sizes and put into the cornflakes to coat the cookie. Put each ball into the individual paper cups. Bake for about 20 to 25 minutes.

Pandan Chiffon Cake

2009-07-21T23:16:00.000-07:00

Ingredients :
3 egg yolks
40 gm castor sugar
75 gm self raising flour sifted
1 tbsp olive oil
100 ml coconut milk
3-4 pandan leaves pounded with 4 tbsp water to get the pandan juice or 1 tsp pandan paste

3 egg white
40 gm sugar
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
Method :

1. Whisk egg yolks with sugar till creamy. Then add in olive oil, coconut milk and pandan paste. Mixed well and fold in the flour. Set aside.
2. Whisk egg white with sugar and cream of tartar till stiff.
3. Fold in egg yolks batter into the egg whites batter. Mixed well and pour into a chiffon cake pan. ( I used a 18 cm pan )
4. Bake at 180 DC for 40 minutes. Invert the cake pan over a cooling rack and let it cool completely. Once cooled use a sharp knife to separate the chiffon cake from the cake pan.

My first attempt: Project failed..

Crispy Pancakes.

2009-05-16T19:23:00.001-07:00

Nestum and cornflakes cookies (Recipe I)

2009-05-16T02:50:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
(A)120g butter/ margarine, 60g sugar, 1 egg yolk, 1tsp vanilla essence
(B) Sift Together 150g self raising flour, 1 tbsp custard powder
(C)Some crushed cornflakes for cornflakes cookies , Some nestum for nestum cookies

Methods:
1. Cream (A) till pale, light and fluffy. Fold in (B) and mix well.
2. Roll into small balls and coated with cornflakes or nestum. Place on greased tray or into small paper cups.
3. Bake in preheated oven 170 degree celcious until golden brown.

Tuna Mushroom Cottage Pie

2009-05-14T05:35:00.000-07:00

1 tin of Campbells cream mushroom soup
1 small tin of sweet corn drained
1 tin of tuna drained
2 large potatoes
2 tablespoon of milk
1 onion
4 oz of cheddar cheese
salt and pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 190c
Peel and boil potatoes , once cook mash with milk
chop onion and dry fry till turn brown
add onion to mash potatoes and mix
add two thirds of grated cheese to potato and mix thoroughly
Mix tuna , soup and corn together in bowl and transfer to an oven prood dish
add salt and pepper to taste
spoon mash potatoes on top of tuna mixture top with cheese and place in oven for 30 mins..

Homemade Pizza!

2009-05-07T21:21:00.001-07:00

2.5 cups of plain flour (250g)
1 tsp yeast
1 tsp salt
1 cup of water
2 tsp olive oil

Toppings: tomato sauce, tomatoes,chopped peppers, chop olives, chop pineapple and shredded mozzarella

Methods: In a bowl combine 1.5 cups of flour, yeast and salt. Pour hot water and oil into flour mixture. Mix remaining flour form into ball. On a lightly floured surface knead fough for 5 mins till smooth. Cut dough in half and let it rest for 10mins. Transfer to a lightly greased pizza pan. Spread tomato sauce over the base. Bake in 200c over for 10 to 15 mins till crust is golden brown cheese isbubbly. This recipe can make two 12inch pizza base.

Longan Jelly Dessert

2009-05-02T02:24:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
1 litre water
125gm sugar
1/2 packet of Swallow jelly powder
1/2 can of evaporate milk (eg. Ideal) / fresh milk
1/2 can of soya milk (using the evaporate milk can as measurement) * I made my own fresh soya milk
1 can of longan in syrup

Method:
Mix Swallow jelly powder and sugar into cooking pot.
Pour 1 litre of water into the mixture and boil over low heat. Don’t forget to add enough pandan leaves for the fragrant.
Stir occasionally till mixture dissolve and boiled. Turn heat off.
Pour 1/2 can of evaporate milk and 1/2 can of soya milk into solution.
Mix well and pour mixture into cups.

Once the jelly has set, scoop longan over jellies and distribute the syrup evenly.

Happy Valentine's Day!

2009-02-17T17:48:00.000-08:00

This is what I cooked on Valentine's day:)

Roast chicken ingredients
2 boneless breast
1 tbsp of honey
salt and pepper
few dashes of teriyaki sauce
1 tsp corn flour

1) Marinate the chicken breast will all the above ingredients and set aside for at least an hour.
2) Pre-heat over to 400 degree F. Line the baking pan with aluminium foil (for easy cleaning) and oil the base with some olive oil.
3) Roast the chicken breast for 45 minutes to an hour or until it is done.

Creamy Potato salad

2008-06-03T04:47:00.000-07:00

1 1/2 pounds yellow-fleshed potatoes, scrubbed

1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved

2 tablespoons salted capers, well rinsed and drained

1/4 cup olive oil

1 (3.75 ounce) can sardines in olive oil

1/3 cup chopped flat-leaf

1 teaspoon dried oregano

1 boiled egg

Put the potatoes in a pot, cover with cold water by at least an inch, add a good pinch of salt, and bring to a boil. Cover partway, reduce the heat to medium, and cook until the potatoes are tender. Drain on a rack set in the sink and leave them there until cool enough to handle.Peel the potatoes and cut them into 1/3-inch cubes. Drop them into a mixing bowl, separating the cubes as you go. Add the tomatoes, onion, olives, capers and parsley. Toss gently. Crumble the oregano over the top, pour in the oil, and toss gently.

Transfer the salad to a large serving dish. Drain the sardines and blot them with paper towels, add boiled egg then arrange them over the salad. Let this sit for 30 minutes, and serve it at room temperature.

* can replace the olive oil with heinz salad cream hence it looks like this:

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

2008-02-29T05:36:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

175g plain flour

150g rolled oats

1 tsp ground ginger

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

125g soft light brown sugar

50g raisins

1 medium egg lightly beaten

150ml vegetable oil

4 tsp milk

Preheat the overn to 200C before baking. Lightly oil a baking sheet.

Mix together the flour, oats, ground ginger, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, sugar and raisins in a large bowl. In another bowl, mix the egg, oil and milk together. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and pour the egg mixture. Mix the mixture together well with either a fork or wooden spoon to make a soft but not sticky dough. Place spoonfuls of the dough well apart on the oiled baking sheet and flatten the tops down slightly with the tines of the fork. Transfer the biscuits to the preheated oven and bake for 10-12 mins until golden.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

2008-02-13T16:57:00.001-08:00

Ingredients
140g butter
50g caster sugar
60g dark brown sugar
1 medium egg beaten
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
125g plain floor
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
150g plain milk chocolate chips

Preheat Oven to 180C 10mins before baking. Lightly butter the large baking sheet with 15g of the butter. Place the remaining butter and sugarin a food processor and blend until smooth. Add the egg and vanilla essence and blend briefly. If using a food processorm scrape out the mixture with a spatula and place the mixture into a large bowl. Sift the floor and bicarbonate of soda together, then fold into the creamed mixture. When the mixture is blended thoroughly, stir in the chocolate chips. Drop heaped teaspoons of the mixture onto the prepared baking sheets, spaced well apart, and bake the cookies in the preheated oven for 10-12mins until lightly golden.

White Chocolate walnut Cookies

2008-02-13T16:56:00.000-08:00

Ingredients
140g butter
40g caster sugar
60g soft dark brown sugar
1 medium egg
125g plain flour
12 tsp bicarbonate of soda
few drops of vanilla essence
150g white chocolate
50g whole hazelnuts shelled

Preheat the oven to 180C. Lightly butter several baking sheets with 15g butter. Place the remaining butter with both sugars with a wooden spoon or an electric mixer until soft and fluffy.
Beat the egg then gradually beat into the creamed mixture. Sift the flour and the bicarbonate of soda together, then carefully fold into the creamed mixture with a few drops of vanilla essence. Roughly chop the chocolate and hazelnuts into small pieces add to the bowl and gently stir into the mixture. Mix together lightly to blend. Spoon heaped teaspoons of the mixture onto the prepared baking sheets, bake the cookies for 10mins or until golden, remove from the oven and leave to cool for 1 min.

Chocolate cake

2008-02-04T05:33:00.000-08:00

5 nos – eggs (whole eggs)
2 nos – egg yolk
170gm – sugar
115gm – soft flour
60gm – cocoa powder
20gm – corn flour
15gm – ovallette
30gm – melted unsalted butter

Ingredients for chocolate ganache:
250gm – dark chocolate covertures
250gm – president cream

Ingredient for filling;
250gm – apricot gel firm

Method:

Beat in eggs, egg yolk, sugar, soft flour, ovalette until creamy and fluffy
Then add in sieved cocoa powder
Lastly add in melted unsalted butter
Pour in a tin round mould (9 inch)
Bake at 180C temperature, 20-25 mins.
To make a ganache, place the president cream in small pot and boil it. Then add in the dark covertures, stir until well combines, set aside to cool
Cut 3 parts of the round sponge. Layered with apricot gel firm. Coat the cake with the chocolate ganache with spatula, refrigerate, cut to desired slice and served.

Yummy Egg tarts

2008-02-03T07:03:00.000-08:00

Pastry
100g Sugar
1 Egg
175g Butter
350g Plain flour

Custard 3 Eggs
200ml Golden syrup
200ml Fresh Milk
200ml Water
2tsp Honey

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius
2. Pastry: Place sugar, egg and butter in mixer and beat until sugar is just dissolved. Add sifted plain flour and mix until dough holds together. press dough evenly to egg tarts mould. Bake at 180 degree Celsius for 8 mins, then remove and let cool.
3. Golden Syrup: Dissolve 140g sugar in 120ml water and bring to boil. Add 2 slices of lemon and let cool.
4. Custard: lightly beat eggs and egg yolks. Combine egg mixture with golden syrup, water, milk and honey. Mix well and strain. Pour into half baked pastry shells and bake at 170 degree Celsius until custard is set. To avoid burring custard, release some heat by briefly opening oven door halfway during baking. Keep egg tarts overnight in fridge will taste even better.

Chicken Floss Buns

2008-02-03T06:15:00.000-08:00

Ingredients

(A) 450g Bread flour, 120g Plain flour, 110g Sugar, 10g Salt, 20g Milk powder and 4tsps yeast
(B) 1 Egg and 200 ml Cold water
(C) 60g Butter

Mix A till well blended. Add B and knead to form a dough. Add C continue knead to form a smooth and elastic dough. Cover dough with clear firm and let it prove for 60 mins or till it doubles in size. Use finger is pressed into the dough. It should show a clear funger tio mark n dough should not sink.

Method:
1. Divide the dough into 60g portions. shape into balls and leave them for rest for 10mins.
2. Shape the dough into long shape and put them on a greased baking tray, leave it to prove for 45 mins.
3. Brush with egg wash and bake in the middle of the oven at 190 for 12 mins. When cool spread the mayonnaise on top of the buns
4. Coat the top with chicken floss.

Special Tuna Burger

2008-02-01T00:53:00.000-08:00

Salad: Add 125g of cream corn and 1 small avocado (chop) and tomato chop, juice of half lemon and salt to taste.

Method: Heat 1tsp of oil, stir fry 1 onion and 2 crush garlic for 2 mins. Remove and allow to cool. Combine 425g tuna in oil, drain and flaked, add in onion mixture, 1 cup breadcrumbs, 0.25g of coriander and 1 egg in large bowl. Shape mixture into 4 patties. Cook patties for 5 mins until golden brown. Place lettuce top with salad. Serve with chips.

Homemade Macaroni Salad

2008-01-31T22:49:00.000-08:00

In large bowl stir together mayonnaise, salad cream, salt and pepper until smooth. Add shell macaroni (cooked), smoked salmon, raisin and pineapple. Toss to coat well. Cover and chill. Add in the hard-cooked egg before serve.

My first baking class

2008-01-30T00:50:00.000-08:00

I'll be attending a cake baking workshop with Chef Sri Rohaya bte Hj Johari on this Saturday (2nd Feb 2008). For those who are interested to join, please refer to the following flyer. See you there!