Happy Birthday to Caca
I chop chop did a cake for Cacabirthday tomorrow.. not much of mood to play with the cream.. so did not decorate much...
the wordings are my 1st time try... so glad it turn out oki.. thou dont look too pro heh... but a good start..maybe monday i shall practice my piping
Happy Family
Think i should post this here again since i posted this in my other blog last time...
I call this Happy family.. cos they look so happy together in a set..
And I wish they have eeyore one as well too bad they dont.. they are very precious.. I haben use them yet.. 宝贝宝贝
Butter Cake
Spent whole day in kitchen on this 2 slab of thing.. after much tries..I settle on these.. Did a few recipe but they are either too sweet, dry or simply not successful...
Leelee's recipe...
thou i still like Judy's butter cake.. very soft...
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now 1 week later.. Pauline show me what she did with my butter cake for the SFF.. she decor it into a wedding cake.. cool
the inner part of the butter cake....
din expect it to look so nice heh...
1 more to my addition
Reena help me got these...
Mickey n Minnie cookie cutter...
I bought extras as gifts for my friends
Actualy there is also a chip and Dale design but i gave it a miss cos dun need so many ... pooh one still not used yet....
Another cake done...
This is for Yao yao birthday bash in school later...
From this
to this....
Finaly this...
phew.. took me quite a bit of time since im not very familiar with such things yet...
now finaly its ready for delivery...
nicely pack in a box...
finaly i can rest =)
Banana cake
My 1st ever banana cake... fantastic!! thank to Lucy and Edith..
top view.. decorated with sliced banana before baking to have a nice banana top
sliced view... wow... looks soft..
thou may not b as good as bollywood one but its a gd start i guess... .and the person who will be my guinea pig?? ANGIE!! tomolo must bring to her mum ask her mum pass to her...
yeah yeah.. banana cake.. nxt one coming up..butter cake...
My edible plants
Recently my craze for plants is back... in fact all the while i like to grow things.. just that I onli choose to grow edible thing... like chili, tomato, herbs...
I was growing from seeds most of the time now.. except for the pot of basil which Ester gave me in May, and 1 pot I bought from CS recently.. Rosemary that I got in end march ( i had 4 pots before that and all died cos they cant acclimatised..)... I grew some curry leaves from seeds as well...
Every morning whether i have to go work anot I wake up I go and stare at my plants next to my bedroom window.. my prized rosemary is there... thou the whole pot withered n died.. 1 sprig survived.. and its growing very well..hope it becume a bush soon.. thou i dunno when it becomes a bush where can I keep it... My baisl by Ester is there too along with my curry leaves... 1 already sporuted nicely after some advice from Aunty Carol.. cos Pauline gav eme 2 seeds to grow from.. 1 sprouted and turn black and died. I do not know why till i told aunty Carol..she told me was somemould problem cos spore too humid.. so the 2nd seed i grew it outside the window in a small pot..true enuff it sporuted nicely.. thank you auntry carol!!
Then Ester gave me 2 seeds too.. so i try to grow them again.. 1 sprouted after 2 weeks.. now its a tiny whiny shoot.. the other one im still waitin for it to take action.. dunno why so long no news... wait lor... and my purple chili is doing well at the platofrm now.. thanx to Pauline who gave me the seeds.
now here u see... my basil with purple flower!!! so happy... this is the one given to me by Ester...
and this is the one with green flower.. Bought it flowerless from CS fridge... its amazing...
this is my mini curry leaves.... hope it grow into a tree soon
Another new toy, the double 喜 cutter
This is one of my latest gadget... i haven got a chance to use yet... hope i can use it soon ... its so pretty..I saw it at Sia Huat... cost $40 over. frighten me off but lemming to buy so i went to the next shop to buy =)
My mixer which arrive.. haben got time to show it.. soon oki
Lucy's choco-o durian cake
Lucy my new friend had inspired me to make a cake like this... i never tot that chocolate can go so well with durian.. this is heavenly..when u bite in.. it taste as if the durian is bitter taste.. cos of the very good dark chocolate..just had a piece for breakfast
Finaly I managed to cook dinner for ourselves..
i bake, cook and chat whole day.. so tired after that...
chicken with wincarnis.. very good!!! tasted like chicken essence with sesame oil smell
instead of grilling it, i steam it so it got more juice.... added black fungus and also mushroom.. yummy..regret no put more mushroom
this is cod with miso... decided nxt time dun do this,, do salty for us.. and I liek the steam version with rice wine residue best!
they are also oily by nature.. i dun like the texture like this...
this is fried potato leaves..very good!!1 i added more fermented beancurd so the taste is more intense!! wow....
not forgetting my favourite brown rice.. my rice container empty and i never topup with white rice.. unles si use them to make rice wine...
brwon rice better fo rhealth..more filling.. i swear by it since last year
The day where 小巫见大巫
6th July is a special day..special additon to my home... a non living thing of cos... else it would not be penned in this blog...
The arrival of my Spar Mixer..
born as a 28kg baby... (sound like elephant uh?) I was so excited..but I was busy working no time to sayang it till yesterday where i sued it to make my sponge cake.. Its such a powerful darling that i keep over whiksing my egg white... shiok.. shiok.. tomolo try to make butter cake see how... banana cake also can.. then angie can be guinea pig on sunday...
oh ok.. enuff talking.. now let me show u the 2 babes in my kitchen
now i got the benefit of whiping the batter in 1 mixer.. and whipping egg white in anothe..speed things up and wash all together!! so happy
10 Things I Miss About My Mom's Cooking
well.. I been tagged by
Grace so im supposed to say what i miss bout my mum cooking... hmmm
1. soup... her old cucumber soup, water cress soup... all cantonese soup which uses long hours of brewing... very shiok.. not forgetting the very sinful ingredients that rises our BP... scallop, cuttlefish, dates etc..
2. steam pork ribs with tau cheong and chilli.
3. steam minced pork with salted fish.
4. steam fish worh mushroom etc.
5. fried ngo her.. (threadfin) which cost a bomb...
actualy i cant think of any more things... cos muma ctualy seldom cook... if u realise all these things all mostly steam... or is it all?? ya.. she dun like to cook.. we we grew up literaly with rice n soup.. cos the soup will have vege, meat all in 1... so maybe i should add on what i miss bout my late grandma food
6. lor ak.. stew duck... very good.. too bad i never gotto learn fr her and now shes gone
7. hgoh hiang... 1 of its kind in the world.. .very good..
8. bak ki.. this one i managed to learn during grandma's wake.. sad rite?
9. vegetable pancake... anotherlsot recipe now ...
10. fried leather jacket fish... very simple.. till now i still like.. another 1 is her deep fry tau gua.. one of grandpa's favourite when he was around...
Food is something we should respect. jsut like how we respect elders.. I hope everyone do the same..cook with ur heart ns oul.. serve with respect to whoever who eat it... even your worker.. others its just an insult to our own food..
This may not be about cooking... but sometime accident do happen and this is useful.. learn how to wrap ur own finger with plaster w/o it falling off after a while.
check this
link out.. Its on how to stick handyplast... very innovative and easy
芋泥 aka Orh Ni
Made these today...
Caca was jumping with joy... I ate 1 bowl too.. and reseved 1 bowl for Pauline.. tomorrow bring to office for her...
I think this is 1 of the easiest dessert to make ever.. and I dun even bother to fry them in oil and it still taste yummy.. guess using your heart to cook really matters
My baking toys
bought some wonderful thing on Thursday
Pooh Pooh Moon cake mould
Doraemon ones....
Mickey mouse too...
Gonna go get alot of cheap oil to soak these darlings... the aunty say must soak them in oil for protection..after that can wash with water no need scare it rot. Seems like a good idea... So I going to soak from now till Aug .. she say soak the longer the better leh.. so i got excuse not to touch them for long long time.... hee.... soon you get to see cute cute mooncakes
