Saturday, November 10, 2007

Mango Cake


So here's the mango cake that I baked yesterday and apparently almost nobody was interested in tasting them. We are having too much food, that could be one reason, because of the breakdown of our fridge. I cooked and baked and cooked and baked and we do not have enough people to consume them. Really should start passing them around....

We still have Buttermilk Coffee Cake, as my effort to finish up our buttermilk. We also had to work on our melting ice cream. Not only that, we also were served with Strawberry Slush as we do not want our strawberries to go wasted....



This is a glass of strawberry slush, not candle, ladies & gentlemen.

Friday, November 09, 2007

Misleading


Had you not known about it, you wouldn't have guessed that underneath its green skin, one can find bright yellow-orange sweet delicious flesh. We got a dozen of them from someone in Indonesia and we got ourselves a mango week this week. Mango everyday! Time to bake something with them.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Today's Special

I have been asked to prepare this dessert, sago with coconut milk, for quite a long time. I had to buy a new pack because I couldn't find the existing pack that I had bought earlier. As usual, only after I started cooking, I found the old one. How typical!!



Suddenly craving for this Pork Satay that mom used to make when I was small, I decided to go for it as well. I blended a couple of bird-eye chillis to spice the pork a little bit more. It's sweet, sour and spicy too.

Monday, November 05, 2007

Mini Borobudur


This Borubudur is in Shenzhen, Window of the World to be exact. Shenzhen is a sub-provincial city of Guangdong province in southern China, approximately an hour away from Hong Kong. Reportedly, Window of the World has around 130 reproductions of some famous structures, man-made or natural, around the world.

Niagara Falls and Eiffel Tower are there too.


Muar Wanton Mee



We were in Malaysia to attend a family matter last Sunday. Not having the satisfaction from our lunch in a restaurant nearby, Hg craved for his favorite wanton mee. Just our good fortune, a slot of car park was available immediately nearby the targeted stall.

Even though wanton mee is not exactly my thing, I was willing to give it a go. This is not bad at all for RM3.50 per bowl. The wanton soup was served in a different bowl.The stall seemed to be really popular over there. It was really crowded and the waiting time was probably 15-20 minutes or so, we were there around 2PM. They have many people working for the stall with one person does the main cooking and mixing. He prepared the noodles for maybe around 8 bowls at a time if necessary. The people sitting next to our table were no too happy that we got our food first as they arrived before us. Not our fault...... It could happen the other way around, it has happened many times before.

Simply Corn



Gorgeous.... couldn't resist the temptation to post this. I must post this. I got a couple of them from Carrefour.

In the Case of Ice Cream


Without any intention to have these many tubs of ice cream at one point in time, we still ended up with one shelf of the freezer, filled with loads of these tempting Ben & Jerry as well as Häagen-Dazs. We also finished a box of Nestle Crunch and left with one more box. We are well stocked indeed, I don't think we can clear them up within a month. But then again, with hungry teenagers being around, I will never know what exactly could happen....

Keep The Kitchen Smoking.....




It was an incredibly busy week indeed, somehow, I got so excited over preparing dishes after dishes on daily basis. I even attempted to broiled Black Cod with Miso Sauce ala Nobu and baked Ina Garten's Lemon Cake. I was quite pleased that both turned out pretty well.



In between, I also prepared Gado-gado, Indonesian vegetable salad with peanut sauce and shrimp crackers, it's always yummy.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

A Busy Day In The Kitchen

English Toffee, with chocolate and almond.


Tea Eggs, Chinese Styled.


Swedish Meatballs with mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce. Yum.....

Always A Favorite

Suddenly, there was an urge to bake a cake that is well liked by everyone, just to make sure that the cake would be consumed before it got bad. Even at 8 PM, we got the oven running.



To minimize the baking time, I opted for wider pan instead of my usual favorite Bundt pan. I used the usual 4-egg recipe.