Happy New Year to all my friends and may all your dreams come true.

Q's Rendang Chicken Nyonya Style

Ingredients

(A)

1 no     Chicken cut 12 to 16 pieces

220 ml Coconut Milk

2 pcs    Turmeric Leaf chopped fine

2 tbsp  Pounded Desiccated Coconut

3 nos    Potato cut 6 pieces

2 tbsp  Cooking Oil

Salt and Sugar to taste

(B) Blend

8 nos    Shallot

4 nos    Garlic

4 nos    Lemongrass

15 nos  Dry Chili

Method

1.      Heat oil in a wok.

2.      Fry in ingredients (B) and stir fried until fragrant

3.      Add in chicken, potatoes and pounded desiccated coconut. Mixed well

4.      Add in coconut milk and leave it to steamer

5.      Add in salt and sugar to taste

6.      Add in chopped turmeric leaf and mixed all

7.      Steamer until chicken is cook and the gravy is thick

8.      Serve hot



Recipes - Main Dish

Coming soon ..................................

Simple Dish #3

Today's brunch is Fried Kway Teow Penang style.

For dinner we're having, Crab cook with coconut milk and chilli padi, Ginger Chicken and Stir Fried Siew Pak Choy.

Housekeeping Day

While cleaning up the “treasure” in a long lost and found cabinet at the corner of the porch, I found my recipe book that is already more than 20 years old.

It brings back fond memories.  Hah………. Those were the days  :o)

Those days we have Big Sister Raisins which we can’t find it in the market anymore. 

Don’t go away as I’ll share with you some of the recipe in due cause.

Fried Tomyam Bee Hoon

Don't know what to cook.

In the end I whip-up this dish.  I call it Fried Tomyam Bee Hoon.  I guest my family is very hungry or the bee hoon really taste so good.  hehehe

Christmas Brunch @ Jusco

Aunty Wo Wo thanks for the gift and Merry Christmas. 

The kids love the watch.  Isn't it look nice on them? 

This Christmas we having our brunch at Jusco Arena and we can’t wait for our food to arrive.

Oops! Look at the time.  Got to go now, some last minute shopping to do and two Sugee Cake is waiting for me at home.

Got to finish bake the cake as there’s Christmas party to attend.

Sarah's Marble Cake

Who say baking is no fun.  You are wrong. Baking will be fun if you are daring enough to mix & match. This is what I always told my daughter.

On Tuesday she saw how I mix & match and transform it to the marble cake show on the left side of the photo. Yesterday as she so bored and nothing to do she apply the mix & match concept by baking her own version of Marble Cake as shown in the right top and bottom picture.  What you think about her cake.  Well what can I say. With immediate effect she can take over my duty of baking cakes.  Good job Sarah.

Here is Sarah’s recipe and do try it out.

Marble Cake (Orange Chocolate)

Ingredients

250 gm                  Butter

250 gm                  Blue key flour

200 gm                  Icing Sugar

5 no.                      Egg (Grad B)

1 tsp                      Baking powder

1 pkt                      Orange peel

50 gm                    Chocolate powder

Method

1.       Mixed butter and icing sugar till fluffy.

2.       Add egg one by one.

3.       Heat-up oven at 180°C for 15 minutes

4.       Add in flour

5.       Divide the mixture to 2 portion (3/4 and ¼)

6.       Add in the orange peel to the ¾ portion

7.       Pour into the grease cake tray.

8.       Add the chocolate powder into the ¼ portion

9.       Pour on the top of the ¾ portion

10.  Bake at 180°C for 40 minutes or test if it is done by inserting a satay skewer into the cake. It's done when the stick comes out clean.

Almond Cookies and Butter Cake by Sarah

Will you believe if I tell you that the cookies you looking at is bake by my daughter Sarah by herself. The Almond Cookies is crunchy.

Well ,………………………………… you let me know okay? 

This also bake by Sarah. It's Butter Cake and the taste & smell is nice. My friend and husband also say that her cake is nice with the smooth texture. 

To my niece and those of you girls that have yet to try your hand on any cooking or baking,  give it a thought.  If a nine years old child can do it by herself, why not you.

Happy cooking and baking.

Light Cheese Cake

To those who does not fancy cheese or can't stand the smell, can try this Light Cheese Cake.  It is really light and has a mild cheese smell.   Moreover, it is easy and fast to make. Even a nine years old child can do it. Why not you.

Give it a try and I’m sure you would love it.

Cheers.



Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday

Greetings.

Time flies very fast.  Today is already Wednesday which is 2 days (exclusive today) before Christmas.  

 What to cook what to eat on Christmas day.  Any one got suggestion? For sure I’m going to serve Semolina Cake for dessert.  But what will the main course be.  HA…………………….. Let’s do BBQ

Visit my blog on Boxing Day to see what I have install for you………………..

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday.

Simple Meal #2

Last week I share with you a Simple Meal #1 and this week the set is Curry Salted Fish Bone with Pineapple, Stir Fried Lala and Stir Fried Turmeric Squid with Long Bean.

Cake Semolina (Cake Sugee)

Hi there, continued from my earlier post.  Today I manage to bake three numbers of Cake Semolina or some call it Cake Sugee.  I stated at 8am and finish mixing the first stage of the baking around 9am. I'll continue stage two around 3pm and start baking after that.


Walla.  Have a bite of the Cake Semolina.  To my surprise this is a 1.5 kg cake or size of 8"x8"x3" and my selling price is RM80.

p/s: This round I can not take you into the cake as it is an order but in my next post I'm able to.



Have a slice of the Sugee cake.

Raya Open House 2010

My my my...... look,  my first raya open house with my new collegues.

I'm not in the photo and you know why?  B'cos,  I'm the photographer hehehe..................

Sarah's Birthday Party

This year Sarah's birthday clashes with her year end examination.  But it is not forgotten and she celebrate her belated birthday on 31/10/10.

It is so sad that her school friends did not turn up.  But this did not hamper her from enjoying herself with other friends.

What touches me is my colleagues and their family also came and joind us to celebrate Sarah's birthday eventhough it takes them hours to reach.

Dark Moist Chocolate Cake

Yeah................. it's Friday and tomorrow is my off day.
 

Before I get diverted, the cake on the right is origin from Sarawak. It taste marvelous but the person who bake it has change profession from a baker to a caterer.  She name’s the cake as Chocolate Layer cake and she sold it at RM80 per number.  After so many years searching high and low for the same cake in Kuala Lumpur, I eventually give-up. Until one day I try baking the Dark Moist Chocolate cake and to my surprise, it taste almost the same with the one I purchase from Sarawak.  Well, like the saying if you can't have it the second best also can.  So my version of the cake is what you see on the top photo.  I'm only charging RM40/kg. 

Chocolate Walnut Butter Cake

Are you craving for thick chocolate smell and crunchy walnut?  If the answer is YES, come and try the Chocolate Walnut cake that I just bake for a friend. You wouldn’t know how the taste would be until you sink your teeth into it.

It is not expensive………………..          

Only RM35/kg

Sugee Cake

Christmas just round the corner.  Why not try serving Sugee Cake instead of the traditional Mixed Fruits Cake. 

Allow me to introduce Sugee Cake to you.  Sugee Cake is made from Semolina flour instead of the normal flour, with 15 numbers of egg yolk and it has various type of ingredient add to it i.e. Raisin, Orange Peel, Preserved Winter Melon and Almond.  This cake is unique as it need at least 6 hours for the sugee flour and butter to sit before you add the rest of the ingredient in.

So I’m sure you’ll be able to figure out why it is so difficult to find it in the market.  Well, if you like to give it a try I would be glad to bake it for you.  It is only price at RM60 per kg (8”x8”).  I have two numbers to bake this Sunday and I will have a better photo to show you.

Just let me know if you would like to order……. He he he..

Simple Meal

Continued from my earlier post, this is my Fish Head Curry and Chicken Rendang with Pathra.

This will be our meal tonight.

Mee Goreng Basah

At time when you have no clue what to eat and you have your family members waiting patiently for you to whip up something.

Well..... in the end my daughter suggested fried mee.  So to the market I went to get all the ingredient to prepare this.  While browsing through the seafood counter, suddenly a fish head calling out to me "buy me... buy me .... I'm just out from the choping board"  In the end I brough the fish head for tonight dinner.

Wait and see how my fish head curry will look like...............

Sugarless Mixed Fruits Cake

Everyone love to eat mixed fruits cake for it's rich, moist and fruity. My aunty used to say it taste nicer if it is store longer in the frezeer.

But there is a group of people who unable to enjoy this rich, moist and fruity cake is because it is sweet.  My mother in-law fall into this group of people.  In order for her to able to enjoy this I remove the sugar contain from the cake.

Cream Cracker Mixed Fruits Cake

Hi there I would to share with all my friends and cake lovers out there. We can even replace the normal flour with cream crackers to bake a nice tasty cake.

This was introduce to me by the late company tea lady where I were attached in Penang during the 80's.  I missed her and her baking very much.

Anyway I finally got the measurement right and here it is my very own Cream Cracker Mixed Fruits Cake.

Tribute to her I hereby share the recipe with you. Do give it a try.

Ingredients

200 gm            Cream Crackers (Hup Seng)

50 gm              Blue key flour

200 ml             Corn Oil (Daisy)

150 gm            Icing Sugar

5 no.                Egg (Grad B)

1 tsp                Baking powder

150 gm            Mixed Fruits (Nona) 

Method

1.      Blend the Cream Cracker till it turn like flour.

2.      Heat-up oven at 160°C for 15 minutes

3.      Beat eggs and icing sugar till fluffy

4.      Add in flour and Mixed Fruits
5.      Pour in corn oil and mix till all evenly

6.      Pour into the grease cake tray

7.      Bake at 160°C for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. .

Note:
You can substitute the mix fruits with shredded carrots, or chopped prune or dried fruits to your liking.  It can also coated with cream cheese frosting.  Below are the Cream Cracker Carrot bake in various mixture.  Baking is always fun.  It is the matter of pick n mix.

Cream Cracker Carrot w Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream Cracker Carrot Walnut

Cream Cracker Carrot

Steam Wholemeal Sausage Roll

During my early days, I'm so happy when my dad brought back Pau for breakfast.  But to date we have varieties of Pau with various type of filling to choose from.  Each type of it can cost from range of RM1.50 to RM3.50 per number depending on the size and filling.  Since my children and I love to explore new mix n match cooking, we whip up this Steam Whole meal Sausage Roll. It's easy to made, take only less than an hour to prepare and it taste nice.  Give it a try. I'm sure you can also do it.