My Foodies

Yvonne's Bread

2011-11-14T17:28:00.000-08:00

Please dont get bored ya, another stock clearance activity, bread making. And I'm out of high protein (bread) flour, so I thought of just trying it out with the multipurpose and low protein flour. Search all over the internet and cant settle with one that I like and think could render a nice soft fluffy bread and hence, I used back Han Ker's Hokkaido Bread recipe and does a little modification to it.

So, the differences are:

substitute the 270g bread flour with left over of 11g bread flour, 100g flour and 159g low protein flour
yeast got approximate instead coz my weighing scale suddenly doesn't want to work, i guess it is somewhat 8g
tangzhong, i used milk instead of water and multipurpose flour instead of bread flour
and remember, i mentioned messed up measurement, sophie accidentally added water to my flour mixture, dont know how much, looks like approximately 10-15ml. and to dry tat up, i added roughly 50g of flour...
i added a little coco powder to half of the dough. so what i did was after the first rest, i cut the dough to two. one part of it, add bout 1 table spoon of coco powder and knead till the coco is even. then roll both piece of dough flat round (separately). placed the piece with coco on top and roll like the below (stole the photo from some one else's blog... hehehe, but lets give some acknowledgement, got this from a blog called Vivian Pan Kitchen). cut it to bout 1 inch pieces and leave to rest. but this time, instead of resting for an hour, it only took bout 15mins to get to double the size. Bake for 15mins at 180degree celcius.

And voila, I still get my soft and fluffy bread (actually, fluffier than the hokkaido bread on the next day).

Cheese Cookies

2011-11-13T16:39:00.000-08:00

Another fridge clearance activity, Cheese cookies. Got the original recipe from http://www.recipeeworld.com/cheese-cookies-recipe.html.

Its not those typical sweet cookies, but rather a savoury type. Done a little modification to it to fit my raw materials inventories. So I half the recipe and change some of the items.

Ingredients:

125 grams (4.4 oz) of low protein flour
100 grams (3.5 oz) butter
1 tablespoons cornstarch
30 grams (1.1 oz) no Edam cheese, uses a mix of parmesan powder and a slice of cheddar that is shredded
1 egg yolks
1/2 tablespoon powdered milk
1/8 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon fine salt

Topping:

20 grams (0.8 oz) no grated cheddar, uses parmesan powder again

Top Coating:

4 egg yolks, mix well (totally forgot tis part, so mine omitted tis step)

Directions:

Mix the flour, cornstarch, milk powder, fine salt and baking powder and stir well.
Enter the margarine, egg yolks and Edam cheese into the flour mixture, stir and knead briefly by hand until dough is formed that can be rolled.
Take a pinch of dough, form with two hands to form a long stem, wrap the dough to form a circle.
Put the dough which has been formed on a margarine-coated baking sheet. Brush the cookies surface with egg yolk as coating and sprinkle the top with grated cheddar cheese.
Bake dough in an oven with 160 degrees Celsius (320 degrees Fahrenheit) of temperature for 25 minutes or until the cookies dough is cooked and golden browned. Take them out, let cool.

Hokkaido Chiffon

2011-11-08T21:55:00.000-08:00

I'm now in the midst of trying to clear off all the food stock in the fridge and hence, had been baking quite often lately (clearing off all the flour), doubt the apartment in KL comes with oven for me to bake.

This time, instead of Hokkaido Bread, since I'm out of bread flour, I manage to get a recipe to help clear out the low protein flour that I have. The recipe is from http://jeroxie.com/addiction/10-2010-hokkaido-chiffon

This is when it is in the oven, raised all beautifully. As per the recipe, it should sink after that which it did just 2mins right out from the oven. It is soft and fluffy.

Then this is how it looks like after I pump in the cream and some extra at the top. I think it taste good by itself without the cream. So, if I'm gonna make again, will just omit the cream portion though it taste good but not with the cake.

Hokkaido Bread

2011-10-20T23:04:00.000-07:00

Another baking session, thanks to Han Ker's class (hope she doesnt mind that I share out her great recipe)..

I had a great time pounding and hitting the dough... good stress release..

As the second rest ask for certain warm temperature and yesterday was raining and rather cold, what I did was I placed the dough and tin on top of a pot of just boiled water to create the warm feeling... it takes bout 50mins to get to almost double it's size.

Scones

2011-10-12T06:37:00.000-07:00

Suddenly feel like resurrecting this blog and put up some recipes. Attended a baking class last Saturday and one of the item learnt is scones.

Just need to note that the instructor uses a gas oven and hence it is not as hot as electric oven, but of course it also depends to the type of oven u use.

Ingredients:

100g low protein flour

100g flour

8g soda powder

10g granulated sugar

80ml milk

100g butter

raisins and chopped chocolate (amount depending to how much u like, but roughly 3/4 cup)

Instructions:

1. Mix the raisins and chopped chocolate together.

2. Mix the first four ingredients together. Then use a mixer to blend in the butter (cut to small pieces, need to be cold). Texture should be like bread crumbs.

3. Add in the milk and combine the mixture till it sticks together. Divide to two, press it down. Add on the raisins and chopped chocolate on top of one piece and the top it with the 2nd half.

4. Wrapped the dough in cling wrap and chill it in the fridge for 30mins (or freezer for 10mins).

5. Roll the dough to bout 2cm thickness, use any shape cutters to cut it out.

6. Transfer the dough to the baking sheets (oiled with butter). Brushed some milk at the top of the dough.

7. Bake for 25mins (recipe says 30mins) at 180 degree Celsius. To check if cooked, it should be golden brown in color and when u poke a toothpick in, it should come out clean. :D

8. Remove from oven and cool it.

Bread Making and Cheese Crackers

2011-01-22T04:31:00.000-08:00

This blog had somewhat been left behind lately, lack of time. The same 24hrs split between work, taking care of the gal, housework, cook, sew (new found hobby) and relax...

Just a quick share of the recipes that I like lately. Crusty Cheese and Herb Pull apart introduced by Irene which I had so far rendered some modification to the contents, by rolling it into different shapes and filling it with pepperoni and cheese and tomatoes and cheese... taste good so far.

Here is the original look before any modification.

These are with tomatoes and cheese.

This is filled with pepperoni and cheese.

And since Sophie prefers crackers over cookies and cakes, I had been hunting for some really easy nice cheese crackers recipe. Tried another, but that aint so nice compared to this one here. Though mine didnt puff up or looks as good as the one in the pic from the recipe, it still taste good coz my gal was enjoying it while she was playing in her pool this afternoon with some 100+.. hehehe...

Mayb I dont have enough of cheese and butter coz I didnt really measure, but just use an estimate.. hehehe..

Yaki Onigiri

2010-10-13T05:48:00.000-07:00

Got the recipe from http://momofukufor2.com/2010/01/yaki-onigiri-recipe/

Ingredients
cooked Japanese rice (i dont have stock of this, I used bario rice)
water
soy sauce
oil

Directions
1. Shaped hot rice into desired onigiri shapes.
2. Grill in a lightly oiled medium-low pan until all sides form a crispy crust.
3. Brush all sides with soy sauce and re-fry all sides.

Steam Pork Bun

2010-09-18T21:57:00.000-07:00

For the dough recipe, click here. The recipe is rather different that it mixes all ingredients together before letting it raise... but it is a lot easier.. though not as nice as my mom's version, but still quite ok.

For the filling, I used some lean (plust bout 10% fat) pork (above the pork leg area), cut in big pieces, marinated with charsiew sauce, sesame oil, pepper and salt, cooked with sauteed shallots and some rice wine. After cooking, cut it to small pieces for filling use.

After filling the dough, leave it to raise and prepared the boiling water for steaming. Steam for 10mins.. done.

Butter Cheese Cake

2010-09-18T01:27:00.000-07:00

Just bought a new mould yesterday, hoping to bake some bear shaped cake for Sophie as she likes bear a lot. But I dont want those pure butter cake coz she dont like it. Took the recipe online and modified to my own liking.

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

220 gm butter (original recipe asked for 250g, but without cheese and chocolate)
40g cream cheese
10g of chopped cooking chocolate
180 gm castor sugar (original recipe asked for 230g)
4 eggs
250 self-raising flour (no self raising flour, so got to make on my own with baking powder & salt)
2 tsp vanilla essence
about 6 tbsp UHT milk

Heat oven to 180 deg C. Line cake tin, size about 8 inches in diameter. In a mixer, beat butter, cheese, chocolate and sugar till white and fluffy. Add in eggs one at a time, alternating with flour. Add vanilla essence to milk and mix in. Check the consistency of the batter. It should be of dropping consistency. If it stands peaking and hard, add more milk. Pour into baking tin and bake for about 50 mins.

Here is the outcome (of course some are in cup cakes form and those cupcakes come out flat.. so that will be good for edible image on top.. hehehehe..)

Pizza

2010-07-10T02:26:00.000-07:00

Weekend Meals

2010-06-28T20:53:00.000-07:00

The yummy Penang Laksa (or Asam Laksa)

And burger for snack:

Random Pics of Food

2010-06-22T22:04:00.000-07:00

Sirloin for birthday... to share with sophie. she ate the brocolli and mushroom...

Braised pork with mushroom

Sambal Sotong + Stir Fy Mushroom

2010-06-04T05:18:00.000-07:00

Ham Choy (Salted Vege) Taufu Soup

2010-06-03T21:09:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

1-2 blocks of soft silken Taufu (depend to how much taufu you want to have in your soup) - I use those fr the market small pieces one, not the box packet from supermarket
50g of salted vege (pre soaked in water) - cut to slices
3 cups of ikan bilis stock (add some ginger in it)
2pcs of sour plum
half a white promfret (lightly marinated with pepper and salt) - cut to bite pieces
few slices of squid
2 pieces of fresh shitake mushroom (sliced)
1 tomato (chopped to small pieces)
pepper for seasoning

Steps:

Bring the stock to boil.
Add in sour plum, salted vege, tomato and mushroom.
After about 2 mins, add in taufu, fish and squid.
Season with pepper before serving.

Choy Sum with Sesame Dressing

2010-05-16T22:31:00.000-07:00

Today's lunch

2010-04-14T21:25:00.000-07:00

Sausage and surimi not very healthy... but everything is cooked in office's microwave. Hehehe... flavored with some oyster sauce and sesame salad dressing.

Lasik

2010-04-03T00:45:00.000-07:00

Finally, today the operation/surgery was done after many months of anticipation and research. Went for my appointment today at 2pm after the sushi Zanmai lunch with a bunch of Mirian and x-Mirian friends.

As per described by Kenny Sia in his blog, everything is just the way that was described, except that I done it with Excelview in Midvalley instead of Optimax. The staff were nice, explained everything in detail and the surgery was fast and almost painless (a little pain coz they need to make my eye open big big...hahaha).

After changing, some eye drops for the eye to numb the cornea (not the flap). Then after few mins, to clean the flap with sterile liquid, then off to the bed. Focus on the blinking red light... lots of liquid into the eye then black off for a min coz the laser is in action, then the cornea flap up, some fireworks (burning smell), flapped back, lots of liquid again, done. Next eye same thing, then done.

The rest to come tomorrow.

Various Food

2010-02-23T19:44:00.000-08:00

Drunken prawn with herbal soup based...

Nothing special bout the fish, it is the dip. Pickled lime with fish sauce and fried ginger with garlic..

Baked chicken with cheese filling:

Char siew tar pao for CNY eve dinner:

CNY eve dinner:

Oatmeal Chicken

2010-02-18T17:47:00.000-08:00

Finally a post for my neglected myfoodies site... hehehe...

Had made some oatmeal chicken for dinner yesterday, taste kinda good.

Ingredients:
- 500g of chicken slices
- pinch of salt
- pinch of pepper
- 1 tablespoon of corn flour
- 1 tablespoon of soy sauce
- 1/2 tablespoon of 5 spice powder
- 1 teaspoon of sesame oil
- 5 tablespoon of oatmeal + dash of salt
- 3 tablespoon of olive oil

1. Marinate the chicken at least overnight with all ingredients except the oatmeal.
2. Coat the chicken with the oatmeal.
3. Heat up the pan with the olive oil and pan fry till both side is golden brown.
4. Serve and eat... hehehe...

Chicken Puff

2009-11-05T00:49:00.000-08:00

This is not the crispy type of puff, but is those fluffy and soft one.. just like dumpling. It was made with the failed dough for my pao... hubby says it taste good.

Flatten the dough, wrapped some marinated chicken fillet

The wasabi mayo sauce to go with it...

Pandan Chicken

2009-11-04T05:47:00.000-08:00

Gotten lots of pandan leave from the babysitter when she removed the pandan plant from her front garden... so, I make pandan chicken. However instead of deep frying it, I grill it.

Pre-marinate chicken with pepper, salt, oyster sauce and 5 spice powder. Marinate for at least 4hrs... wrapped with pandan leave and seal the end with toothpick.

Grill for 25mins... under high heat.

Baby Food

2009-10-23T19:16:00.000-07:00

Steam egg: contains fish paste, potato, carrot, egg and water.

Steam Cheesey Brinjal: contains cheese and minced pork.

Potato Rice Cake

2009-10-12T00:50:00.000-07:00

Sophie is such a fussy gal, she needs lots of variation to her food and they need to taste nice (to her standard of course). She has not been taking porridge for a while coz she refuse to eat them. So I had been giving her ABC rice or some time mashed potato, home made burger patties, etc...

Last week, I made potato rice cake for her... no fix measurement for the ingredients, all based on estimate and just dump in:

- a handful of steam potato
- 1 tablespoon of chopped carrot
- 1 tablespoon of chopped spring onions
- a handful of cooked rice
- 1 tablespoon of onions
- 1 tablespoon of minced pork
- 1 tablespoon of flour
- pinch of corn flour
- olive oil for frying

Mixed everything together in a blender. Heat up the pan with olive oil. Scooped with spoon, place it on the pan, press it down and once one side is cooked (after bout half a min), flip over. Ready to serve....

Curry Fish

2009-09-06T05:04:00.000-07:00

Sophie dares to take curry.. cant believe it.

Lor Mai Kai

2009-08-29T23:21:00.000-07:00

This is the second time I prepare lor mai kai is this is of course much easier than the first...

Chocolate Truffles

2009-08-29T05:13:00.000-07:00

Dont ask for recipe coz I dun have it... just agak agak mari punya... hehehe....

Chocolate, cream cheese, butter, sugar and milk...

Failed Coconut Candy

2009-08-24T00:00:00.000-07:00

Bought some grated coconut to "oil" the stainless steel pan and not sure what to do with the coconut. Instead of throwing it away since it is still edible... I thought of making candy with it.

But trying to be a little health concious, the sugar amount is insufficient to harden the thing... need to try again next time with more sugar.

Little Bread

2009-08-20T06:12:00.000-07:00

I attempted making small sizes bread last week so that Sophie can hold and eat them on her own. The bread taste good, but the skin is kinda hard.

Main ingredients are sweet potato yam (purple in color) and parmesan cheese powder.

Next time I will do a steam bake instead to get a softer skin.

Btw, daddy put the bread side by side like this and ask you guys to comment what comes to your mind.. hahaha....

Sushi King Miri

2009-08-10T05:46:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was the first time trying out the Miri outlet of Sushi King. To my colleague, that was their first encounter with Sushi King...

This is one of the most anticipated food outlet at this boring place, Miri... and the opening of Sushi King means less trip to Brunei for Jap food... and competition to the two existing lousy local restaurant, Nikko and Shiki.

Overall experience, kinda poor compared to the other Sushi King.. mayb becoz it is still very new and short of staff. There is no greetings like the other outlets when you get in the restaurant. It took them almost 5 mins before someone come get our orders and that is also after we asked for someone to come... all the tables are not clean up immediately, but only when there is new customer that walks in.

Food is ok. Crunchy salmon skin is not crunchy and the salmon slices are really thin... luckily the noodle tasted ok. Strong miso taste (but some others may not like it)

Roast Chicken with Potato

2009-07-26T07:14:00.000-07:00

No recipe, just some salt, pepper and sweet soy sauce for the chicken.... drizzle with olive oil.. that is all.
Sophie loves the potato and chicken...

Char Siu

2009-07-26T07:01:00.000-07:00

Hubby says he wants to eat char siu... so I tried. Tasted ok, but use the wrong part. So the meat tasted more like meat floss rather than char siu... next time need to use belly part. Fat fat la... remove after tat... otherwise will be too dry n hard...

Marinated pork slices:

Outcome:

Served with noodle and veg:

Millet with Sausages...

2009-07-18T08:04:00.000-07:00

My lunch on Friday...

Random Pic of Food

2009-07-18T07:14:00.000-07:00

Sour Fish Soup

Rib Stew with Mushroom and Dry Mussel

Bake Prawn

Roast Chicken with Turnip

2009-07-18T07:07:00.000-07:00

Glutinous Rice Fish Ball Soup

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

Ingredients:
- 3tablespoon of glutinous rice (soaked for at least 4hrs)
- 500g fish paste (I bought ready made)
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1/2 small onion (chopped)
- pinch of pepper
- 5 cups of water
- 1 teaspoon of miso paste
- 1 teaspoon of chopped chilli
- 1 teaspoon of fish sauce
- a dash of sesame oil

1. Mix soy sauce, onion, chilli, pepper and fish paste till even.
2. Formed to small ball shape.
3. Boil the water.
4. Coat the fish ball with the glutious rice. Add in to the boiling water.
5. Mix the fish sauce, sesame oil and miso paste in the serving bowl.
6. When all the balls float up, pour everything to the bowl. Ready to serve.

Prawn Noodle

2009-07-05T05:25:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

- 450g of prawn and shell (remove shell and head and keep aside for the soup), deveined
- sawi (no kangkung in my fridge), roughly 200g
- 4 pieces of dried lar mien (my mom got that from klang for us)
- 6 cups of water for the soup and another 6 cups to cook the noodle
- 1 tablespoon of cane sugar
- pinch of salt
- pinch of pepper
- 2 teaspoon of miso
- 1 tablespoon of sweet soy sauce
- half onion (chopped to small pieces)
- 1 tablespoon of oil
- 1 tablespoon of sambal (dont ask recipe coz I got this fr my mom and dunno how it was prepared..)
- one piece of ginger (roughly bout 3cm size)

Method:
1. Boil the shell with the water and ginger for about 5mins. Leave it for another 5mins and remove the shell. Add in sugar and miso.
2. Boil the water and add in the noodle. Turn off the fire once the water boil again and leave the noodle there.
3. Heat up the wok, add in oil and saute the onions. Add in the sambal, and fry till it is fragrant.
4. Drain the noodle and add in to the wok. Lightly stir it.
5. Add in the soup, sawi and sweet soy sauce. Cover the wok and let it boil.
6. Mix the prawn with pepper and salt. Pour in to the wok. Cover for bout 2mins.
7. Done, ready to serve.

* Excluding the preparation of the soup, it takes about 15mins to cook the dish.

Creamy Macaroni

2009-07-02T18:52:00.000-07:00

Last night, we had a very odd combo for dinner . We had creamy macaroni and ABC soup (including Sophie).

- Macaroni
- parmesan cheese
- mixed dried herbs (those use for pizza)
- cream cheese
- butter

Sophie's one with added stuff, she get potato and carrot from the ABC soup + some fresh milk, blend to small pieces.
She loves it and was busy biting while playing with her teething biscuit.

Baby's Porridge

2009-07-02T18:46:00.000-07:00

This is what mommy prepared for Sophie yesterday:

- broccoli
- carrot
- red bario rice
- sweet potato, yellow flesh, purple skin

Steam Prawn

2009-06-30T05:59:00.000-07:00

I prepared steam prawn on Sunday with egg and dong guai... taste nice.
Served with blanched kai lan and oyster sauce

Dino Pasta

2009-06-15T00:51:00.000-07:00

I cooked dino pasta for Sophie yesterday... and flavored it with anchovies powder. She ate all those with the powder and refuse to open her mouth for the rest... hahaha... maybe too tired biting already.

Sambal Squid

2009-06-14T00:56:00.000-07:00

I cooked sambal squid ytday for lunch with the balance of squid we have in the fridge....
yum2...

Tandoori Chicken

2009-06-13T20:39:00.000-07:00

Hubby cooked this for dinner yesterday, from ready made packet... hahaha...

Deep Fried Squid

2009-06-13T20:27:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
2 Squid , cut ring
3 tablespoon of flour
1 pinch of salt
1 pinch of pepper
1 teaspoon of curry powder
1 tablespoon of ice cold water
1 egg
enough oil to fry

Steps:
1. Add the egg to the cold water. Lightly beat it.
2. Mix flour, salt, pepper and curry powder in plastic bag.
3. Dip the squid in the egg and drop it into the plastic bag. Shake off excess powder and dip into preheated oil to fry.
4. Dish out when it is light golden brown.

Bread Maker back in Action

2009-06-07T03:17:00.000-07:00

I think since I was 7mths pregnant with Sophie, we kept aside the bread maker coz we were too lazy to make anything. And since daddy is up to bread again now (with his new sandwich maker), we decided to get it back to action so that we dont buy bread that is filled with preservatives.

Mommy googled for egg free recipe so that Sophie can eat them too....
We had oat bread that taste really nice (previously I dont use shortening, so it always tasted a bit like cake).

Not sure why is the shape like that... cant control neway, the machine that is doing the work.

Cheesy Tomato Egg

2009-06-06T20:30:00.000-07:00

Hubby has been cooking quite a lot lately. Yesterday, he was trying something new, Chessy Tomato Egg. Does not look quite good, but taste nice. Worth posting.

Luncheon Meat Claypot Rice

2009-06-06T19:58:00.000-07:00

Was just craving for luncheon meat, so went look for it when we were doing our grocery shopping. Realised most of them are China made with no details at all pertaining to the manufacturer other than a China made product printed on it.

Since the melanine issue, we try to stop consuming China made food, especially canned food.

Saw this brand SPAM, made in US but was selling at RM19 for a medium size can. Decided to pass. Then on the next day, we went to get some stuff from another shop and saw is selling at RM13 instead... saw bought a can of it.

Taste, not as good as the China made one, kinda salty too... but ok. At least I "feel" safer consuming it... hehehe....

I cooked the rice using the claypot, top it with fried luncheon meat and brinjal with onions (and lots of sauce). Sprinkle some dried wakame... (should at least give it a toast so that its crispy...).

Yum yum... but too much of the brinjal. Too greedy, used two instead of one... !!!

Dumpling

2009-05-27T04:54:00.000-07:00

Sophie's babysitter has given us this pillow dumpling.

Big Apple Donuts

2009-05-18T05:47:00.000-07:00

Finally the New Parkson is open and so far, that is the most "in" mall in Miri.... sad ya?
Anyway, Big Apple Donut is one of the new stores there... and coming soon will be Sushi King (yeah... finally it is here).

Bake Fishy Potato

2009-05-16T20:55:00.000-07:00

We had bake potato with fish paste yesterday:

Ingredients:

600g fish paste
1 black fungus, soaked and chopped finely
1 chinese mushroom, soaked and chopped finely
1 tablespoon of chopped carrot
a pinch of salt
a pinch of pepper
1 tablespoon of oyster sauce
1 tablespoon of corn flour
1 tablespoon of kicap manis (sweet soy sauce)
2 potato washed and sliced to 0.5cm thickness each
2 teaspoon of sesame oil

Steps:

Mixed all the ingredients (except for potato and sesame oil) evenly.
Spread the mixture on top of the potato and bake under 180 degree celcius heat for 15mins.
Take it out and drip one drop of sesame oil on each and put back in the oven (turn off the heat). Leave it for 5mins..

Beef Bake Rice

2009-05-16T04:55:00.000-07:00

Too dry... mayb not enough sauce and cheese to cover.

Drunken Taufu with Mushroom

2009-05-12T00:58:00.000-07:00

Uses home made wine for this...

Bake Fish with Slice Potato

2009-05-12T00:53:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I bake two slices of tengiri topped with sauteed shallots and lemon grass along with some slices of potato... taste good, will be even better if it is with olive oil (I uses sesame oil).

The lemongrass fragrant is wonderful, the potato is crispy. It is seasoned with salt, pepper and dried basil powder.

First bake the potato slices for 10mins (200 degree celcius) then add on the fish and bake for another 10mins... let it sit in the oven for another 5mins...

Claypot Dishes

2009-04-29T18:42:00.000-07:00

When my mom was here 3 weeks ago, she help me get a claypot. I cooked stem pork rib with mushroom (with dried longans, red dates, garlic and onion) and taufu fish soup.

Fried Spinach Fishball

2009-03-30T22:10:00.001-07:00

Saw this read made fish paste in the market and decided to get a pack of it instead of doing it on my own (no time for that now).

Ingredients:

500g fish paste (the market lady uses tenggiri)

a bunch of spinach (the stem, chopped to fine pieces, leaves to small pieces)

1 teaspoon of soy sauce

1 tablespoon of butter

1 tablespoon of mixed dried herbs (those u use for pizza)

dash of pepper for taste

1 tablespoon of corn flour

1 tablespoon of chopped chilli (for color purpose)

2 tablespoon of oil for frying

Mix the fish paste, soy sauce, butter, dried herbs, pepper, corn flour, chopped chilli and chopped spinach till even.

Take a tablespoon of the mixture and wrap the spinach leaves in it. Form it to a ball shape.

Heat the pan with oil, and pan fry the fish ball. I dont like deep fry, but if you do, you may try that.

*Photo will be posted later when I get my camera card out... hehehe...

Fried Spinach Fishball

2009-03-30T22:10:00.000-07:00

Vote for Sophie

2009-03-15T21:35:00.000-07:00

Uncles and aunties... grandma n grandpa... please go to this link to vote for me, thanks...

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Baby's First Solid - Rice Cereal

2009-03-14T05:50:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

Water 1 cup
Rice 1/4 cup (can prepare extra for next cooking) - I use Bario rice

Preparations:

Wash rice and then pan fry till dry.
Blend in the blender till powdery or as fine as possible.
If you are using pressure cooker, mix 1/4cup of rice powder with 1 cup of water and cook for 2mins. But if you are cooking it manually, boil the water, add in the rice and simmer till rice is cook.
If the mixture is not smooth enough, blend again in food processor.

Can be stored in freezer for no more than 72hours....

Nescafe Rib

2009-02-23T22:15:00.000-08:00

I havent been cooking "properly" lately since I need to do just quick cook (need to attend to my little sweetheart). But last week, since we invited some friends over, I prepare this Nescafe Rib (no pics coz it just look like normal black soy sauce pork rib dish only).

Ingredients

4 teaspoon of Nescafe Gold (u can try normal, but I dont have stock at home)
2 tablespoon of brown sugar
1 cup of milk (use only 1/4 cup for marinate)
1/8 teaspoon of salt
a pinch of pepper
1/2 tablespoon of corn flour
1/2 cup of water
1 tablespoon of chopped shallot
oil to saute
700g of pork rib (chopped to bite size)

Marinate the pork rib with all the ingredients other than water, shallot and oil for at least 4hrs.
Saute shallot till slightly golden.
Add in pork ribs and pan fry both the side.
Add in the balance of milk and water.
Use low fire to cook till the sauce caramelised and coat the ribs.
Ready to serve.

Banana Pistachio Cheese Cake

2008-09-01T06:31:00.001-07:00

Hubby had been making noise that he wants cheese cake... so tried making one today. Still cant make a proper base, though this is better than the previous one I attempted with my mom...

Added pistachio as substitute for candy bars and added banana to add flavor... taste kinda ok, except the cheese is insufficient. Will top up on the next attempt.

Cup Cakes

2008-08-29T05:37:00.000-07:00

Finally got back my blender today, so get to make cupcake that I had wanted to make a while back... chocolate chip cup cakes.... only tested the small one, crispy at the top...

Zaika, The Northern Indian Cuisine

2008-08-24T22:28:00.000-07:00

Went to Zaika for dinner again last Sat for a fellow friend's farewell (she is going back to KL for good).

This time, I have my phone with me, so managed to snap some pics, but having problem loading the deco... only some of the food (after we ate part of it... hehehe).

Chocolate Tong Yuen

2008-08-18T06:40:00.000-07:00

In the mood for some tong yuen... so made some chocolate tong yuen, served in red bean soup... yum yum

Dry Curry Okra and Drop Egg Potato Soup with Fish Cake

2008-08-18T06:33:00.000-07:00

Tonight's dinner...

Mee Huen Kueh

2008-08-17T02:42:00.001-07:00

Feel like eating mee huen kueh yesterday so boil some ikan bilis soup, top it up with fish cake and fish ball....

Had mine served with some dried chilli...

Pork Chop Dinner & Bitter Gourd Soup

2008-08-17T02:35:00.000-07:00

Water Gourd Steam Soup

2008-08-17T01:48:00.000-07:00

A colleague gave us one piece of gourd (found in the internet that it is known as water gourd or dried gourd or long gourd, chinese called it wu lou) which I was not sure what to do with it... and since he proposed that I make steam soup with it, I tried it out today....

Cut the top away, scooped the content out and add in part of the content back (cut to cube), 2 pieces of pork rib, 2 pieces of carrot cube, one dried scallop, 1 sweet date and a handful of wolfberry. No salt is added...

Steam double boil style for 1hr at low fire... yummmy.

Soup Noodle with Stuffed Bitter Gourd

2008-08-10T03:27:00.000-07:00

The start of my lonely days... so, the amount is just for me alone....

Bought a piece of bitter gourd and instead of just frying it like that, I googled for some innovative way of cooking it. The normal recipe called for stuff fish or prawn paste, but since I dont have any supply of any, I used minced pork instead.

Ingredients:

Half a bitter gourd, cut sideway one inch thick, removed the middle part and rub with salt. Leave for 10mins.
2 tablespoons of minced meat, marinate with a pinch of salt, pepper, 1 teaspoon of sweet yellow bean paste, 1 teaspoon soy sauce and 2 teaspoons of corn flour.
1.5 cup of water
1 piece of dry noodle (pre cooked lightly with boiling water)
2 teaspoon of miso paste
2 slices of tamarind
one bunch of vege (any type that you like)
one small egg
1 teaspoon of fried garlic
a little oil for frying

Washed of the salt from the bitter gourd. Stuffed the minced meat in the bitter gourd.
Heat up the oil and fry both side of the meat stuffed in bitter gourd.
Add in water after both side of the meat on the bitter gourd is golden brown. Add in tamarind and leave water to boil for about 2 mins.
Add in miso paste and stir till even. Then add in vege.
Add the noodle and hit the egg on top of the noodle. Leave it to boil for a min (or till egg is cook).
Done, served (remove the tamarind before serving).

Chapati with Curry Potato & Pork

2008-08-10T00:27:00.001-07:00

Attempted chapati making today.... tasted quite good (and hubby says taste quite like the one from the shop... hehehe):

Chapati

Ingredients:

1/2 cup flour
1/4 + 1/2 tablespoon luke warm water
pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon of oil
1 teaspoon of flour

Mix the first three ingredients till even and form a soft dough.
Leave the dough to sit for at least 10mins.
Add in the oil and knead the dough. Divide to four portions.
Sprinkle some flour on the board. Flatten the dough on the board till very very thin.
Heat the pan hot. Place the dough on the pan to cook. Cook each side about 40seconds (or till it turn brownish just like the one you had from the shop). Flip and cook the other side. Once done, dish out and cook the next piece.

Curry Potato & Pork

Ingredients:

1/2 onion chopped to small pieces
1 semi cooked potato, skin peeled, and cubed
3 tablespoon of minced pork marinated with salt, pepper and curry powder
1 tablespoon of mixed indian herbs
1 tablespoon of oil
1 tablespoon of chilli paste
2 tablespoon of water
1 tablespoon of evaporated milk
pinch of salt and pepper

Heat up oil and saute onion for a min.
Add in the mixed indian herbs and saute till fragant.
Add in the minced pork and fry for a min before adding in the potato.
Add in water and simmer till all water almost get evaporated.
Add in the evaporated milk, season with salt and pepper. Cook for another 2 mins. Ready to be served.

Food Pic

2008-08-01T01:01:00.000-07:00

Had been very lazy with my update recently... only pictures.

Sweet and sour fish

Roast potato with chicken and carrot

Black pepper pork

Potato with pork

Brinjal fried with okra and french bean

Vege pork burger served on top of rice crackers

Pork Rib Stew Yam

2008-06-18T06:28:00.000-07:00

Supposed to use fatty pork, but since we dont like fat, so used pork rib instead.

Blanched vege

Nutrient Packed Porridge

2008-06-16T03:36:00.000-07:00

Had this really nutrient packed porridge for dinner today, tomoto, mushroom, fishball, egg, cranberry bean, black beans and crispy fried garlic (tipu a bit, use microwave).

Served with coriander fish (no chicken)... taste so so... hubby said too strong coriander taste, while I think I prefer plain bake fish... hehehe...

Weekend Meals

2008-06-08T00:27:00.000-07:00

Fishball Noodle

Pineapple Fried Rice

Tuna Fried Bread (slightly modified version of the prawn fried bread thought by teacher in the secondary school)

Later Fish Maw Radish Soup

Simit 2nd Attempt

2008-06-03T03:03:00.000-07:00

Tried making simit again, and this time, its a lot better than the first time, looks and taste more like the one we had in Turkey.

Fish Cake Pizza

2008-06-03T01:40:00.000-07:00

Hubby had been asking me to make pizza for him for quite some time, but I was just lazy. Since its public holiday here in Miri for the past two days and I had gotten the ingredients, here we are, having fish cake pizza for super early dinner (5pm)...hehehe...

Gotten the recipe for the Dough from this Easy Pizza Dough Recipe website:

1 cup of warm water (105F)

3 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour

2 tablespoons of olive oil

2 teaspoons of honey

1 teaspoon of salt

1 teaspoon of yeast

Mix the water, yeast, honey and salt and leave it for 10mins. Later pour the mixture over the flour and olive oil and mix till you get a dough. Leave it to sit for 30mins, covered. Then punch off the air, knead and let it sit for another for another 30mins.

Divide the dough to two portion (made two pieces, and if u prefer thinner crust, can make up to three), and flatten it to the shape of the crust you like. If you prefer it thinner, just make sure u role it really thin (it will get a little big after baking). Use the fork to poke holes all over it.

Spread some tomato sauce + mayo over it. Start laying the other ingredients on it. I used dried chinese mushroom, fishcake, pineapple, onions, crabstick, and some sesame seed + mixed herbs. Bake at 200 degree Celsius for 20 mins, and take it out to add cheese (dont have mozzarrella, so uses cheddar instead). Bake for another 5mins.... Done, ready to serve.

Simit

2008-05-31T06:23:00.001-07:00

Simit is a bread like food, from Turkey. Tasted kinda nice, that's why wanted to try making.

The one I made doesnt taste like the one we had in Turkey, but rather like biscuit. It is still nice and at one go I took a few.. hehehe....

Next time, will make it thicker and include yeast, coz the original recipe I got from the internet just now was without yeast, so it never get to "grow".

Semi Vegetarian Fried Beehoon

2008-05-25T05:06:00.000-07:00

Semi Vegetarian fried beehoon... served with crispy ikan bilis (not deep fried, just microwaved)...

Spaghetti with Fried Golden Mushroom

2008-05-25T05:01:00.000-07:00

Simple and tasty... at least I dont need to deep fried the golden mushroom, less oily, but will be crispy if deep fried.

Sushi

2008-05-25T04:56:00.000-07:00

The failed sushi making attempt last week... hehehe....

Stuffed Boiled Egg

2008-05-19T01:11:00.000-07:00

We had fried beehoon sometime back and I made this Stuffed Boiled Egg to go with it...

Ingredients:

2 hard boiled egg (halved, keep only one egg yolk)
2 teaspoon of minced meat
1/2 teaspoon of chopped chillis
1 shallot (chopped)
1/2 teaspoon of cheddar cheese (chopped to small pieces)
Few drops of soya sauce
A pinch of pepper

Steps:

Mixed all the ingredients (minus egg white) till even.
Scooped the mixture to the egg white (fill in the yolk space).
Bake for 5mins under 250 degree celcius. But if u prefer a soft top, steam it instead.

Soya Sauce Roast Chicken

2008-05-19T00:56:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

1pc of chicken drumstick chopped to small pieces
5 cloves of garlic
2 tablespoon of soy sauce
2 teaspoon of sesame oil
1 teaspoon of pepper
1 pinch of mixed herbs
1 tablespoon of oyster sauce
1 tablespoon of curry powder

Steps:

Mixed everything except for garlic.
Marinate for 20mins.
Roast with garlic for 15mins under 250 degree celcius heat.

My Failed Pao

2008-05-18T04:29:00.000-07:00

Attempted to make pao last weekend, but failed in the making... hehehe....

But still edible, just the skin is not fluffy and nice look like the one make by mummy.

Buttery Spicy Macaroni + ABC Chicken Soup

2008-05-18T04:10:00.000-07:00

Had a very funny odd combo dinner few days back, buttery spicy macaroni + ABC Chicken Soup...

I mixed 3 tablespoon of evaporated milk, 1 tablespoon of butter, 1 tablespoon of chopped chilli, 2pcs of chopped shallot, 1 tablespoon of fish sauce, 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce, 1 tablespoon of thai smoke fish paste chilli and 1 tablespoon of thai chilli sauce.

Pistachio Cake

2008-05-18T03:08:00.000-07:00

Saw in the Asian Food Channel, Sugar, Pistachio Cream Cake. But since I dont like cream stuff, I decided to change the recipe a little to make a normal cake. To make it better, I bake this using the bread maker instead of normal oven...

1.5 cups of grounded pistachio
2 tablespoon of sugar (original recipe is 1 cup)
4 egg yolks
1 cup of flour
1 egg white
1 teaspoon of salt (shud reduce coz too salty)
1/2 cup of milk
4/5 of a butter

Throw everything in the bread maker, process like normal bread... and voila, done. Taste kinda nice.... but would be better if the pistachio is less fine.

Triagular Deep Fried Wanton

2008-05-18T02:57:00.000-07:00

Healthy Dinner - another stock clearance meal

2008-04-28T04:00:00.000-07:00

Felt so bad that I have not been updating my food blog for a very very very long time. Since I cooked something colorful and meatless, so just use it to update la...

Steam okra with crispy garlic and dried shrimp + oyster sauce, pepper and 1 teaspoon of soy sauce:

Egg soup with dried mussels, dried scallop, mushroom, tomato, carrot, capsicum with no flavoring...

Shortbread Attempt

2007-12-18T05:40:00.000-08:00

Not posting any recipe, just pics. Never check the stuff in the oven so kinda failed, bit of burnt... hehehe...

These are the total damage one:

Stir Fry Pork with Preserved Beancurd

2007-12-14T20:54:00.001-08:00

50g pork, lean meat and cubed

1/2 teaspoon of soy sauce - marinate

1/2 teaspoon of oyster sauce - marinate

pinch of pepper - marinate

1 cubed of preserved spicy beancurd

1/2 teaspoon of oil

Marinate the pork over night.

Heat up the oil and add in the pork plus marinate.

Cover the pan/wok and let it cook for 5 mins.

DIsh it on a small bowl and mix it with the beancurd till all cubes are evenly covered with the beancurd.

Served with rice and french beans.

http://www.grouprecipes.com/30580/stir-fry-pork-with-preserved-beancurd.html

Sabotage on My Group Recipe

2007-12-14T20:50:00.000-08:00

The first thing this morning, I saw some mails blasting around commenting on my Spicy Fish recipe on GroupRecipe.com.... was not informed of the problem, but realised some left some nasty comments for me and everyone talking bout it without updating me what has happen. Worse part, the picture of the food is gone...

Later I realised that some idiots had sabotage my recipe by changing my fish to a naked lady... sexy huh? Too bad it was removed already by the moderator so I no chance of seeing it.

Bake Herbal Chicken with Glutinious Rice

2007-12-13T05:12:00.000-08:00

1 cup of glutinous rice - soaked for at least 4hrs (best if over 8hrs to reduce cooking time)

4 pieces of chinese red dates

a bunch of ginseng root

1 tablespoon of wolfberries

2 cups of water (if soaked overnight, only need 1/2 cup)

1 whole chicken thigh + drumstick

1 tablespoon of oyster sauce - marinate

one pinch of salt & pepper - marinate

1 tablespoon of Benedict Dom (its a alcohol) - marinate

1 tablepoon of Hoi Sin Sauce - marinate

1 tablespoon of pomfret fish sauce - marinate

Soaked the rice for at least 4hrs. Marinate the chicken for the same time.

Prepare a piece of big size heavy duty aluminium foil.

Place the rice on the middle aluminium foil. Place all the herbal ingredients on top of the rice. Place the chicken on top and pour all the sauce over the chicken.

Fold the aluminium foil side up. Pour the water to soak the rice.

Cover up everything and bake at 190 degree celcius for 1 hr, or till the water dry up.

Bake Herbal Chicken With Glutinious Rice @ Group Recipes

Sesame Pork Chop

2007-12-12T05:43:00.001-08:00

4 slices of pork chop (pounded)

1 teaspoon of oyster sauce - marinate

pinch of salt and pepper - marinate

1 teaspoon of maggie seasoning sauce - marinate

2 teaspoon of corn flour - marinate

4 tablespoon of sesame seed

2 tablespoon of oil

Marinate the pork chop for at least 40mins.

Cover each piece properly with sesame seed.

Heat up the oil and fry the pork chop. Turn after 2 mins. When it is done, serve.

Sesame Pork Chop @ Group Recipes

5 Spice Taufu

2007-12-11T05:14:00.001-08:00

Does not taste so nice, maybe coz I didnt deep fry the taufu first.

3 pieces of hard taufu (cut to long slices)

4 tablespoon of 5 spice powder

1 teaspoon of salt

4 tablespoon of oil

2 cubes of spicy preserved beancurd

5 tablespoon of water

1 pinch of pepper

3 tablespoon of chopped coriander

Cover the taufu with 5 spice powder. Marinate for 40mins.

Heat up the oil. Pan fry the taufu (all 4 sides).

Dish up and lay them on the plate.

Mix the water to the balance of the 5 spice powder, salt, pepper and spicy preserved beancurd.

Pour it over the pan and let it boil till it thickens. Pour over the taufu.

Sprinkle the chopped coriander over the taufu.

http://www.grouprecipes.com/30034/5-spice-taufu.html

Failed Mini Cheese Cake

2007-12-10T05:51:00.000-08:00

It does not looks nice, and there is some crack especially at the top, but it taste not bad. Had prepared this actually for hubby's birthday...

I made total four mini cheese cake with the below recipe.

120g Philadelphia cheese
2 tablespoon of brown sugar
6 pieces of McVities biscuit, crunched to coarse powder
4 tablespoon of melted butter
4 pieces of mini mould aluminium foil

Steps:

Mix the biscuit with butter. Separate it to four portion.
Based the aluminium foil with the biscuit. Make sure it is pressed it hard so that the biscuit remain together.
Bake it for 5mins at 180 degree celcius.
Blend the sugar and cheese till smooth.
Spread it on top of the biscuit.
Leave it to cool in the fridge.

Golden Garlic Fried Rice

2007-12-10T05:30:00.000-08:00

2 cups of cooked rice

4 tablespoon of thinly sliced garlic

2 tablespoon of olive oil

1 egg

1/8 teaspoon of salt

Heat the oil, add in the garlic.

Fry till golden, add in the rice and fry for 2 mins.

Leave a hole in the middle and beat the egg to it.

Cover the egg with rice. Stir after 30 seconds and mix well till the egg coat almost all the rice.

Constantly stir till the rice is dry and can pop on the wok.

Ready to serve.

Golden Fried Rice @ Group Recipes

Fragant Bake Fish

2007-12-10T05:03:00.000-08:00

With Flash

Without flash

150g of fish (I dont know the name of the fish, but its a oily fish, the tail part)

Pinch of salt

Pinch of pepper

1 tablespoon of teriyaki sauce

1 tablespoon of olive oil

1 inch of lemongrass, slice thinly

2 tablespoon of shallot chopped coarsely

1 tablespoon of garlic chopped coarsely

1 teaspoon of pomfret fish sauce

Pinch of salt

Rub the fish all over with the pepper, salt and teriyaki sauce.

Bake it at 190 degree celcius for 30mins.

Heat up the oil and saute lemongrass and shallot till fragant.

Add in garlic and fry till it is almost golden.

Add in salt and fish sauce. Turn off the fire.

Serve it on top of the fish.

Fragant Bake Fish @ Group Recipes

Pineapple Curry Pork Rib

2007-12-07T20:21:00.000-08:00

Marination

Without the flash

Ingredients:

5 shallots (cut to slices) - A

4 cloves of garlic (cut to slices) - A

1 inch of lemon grass (cut to slices) - A

8 pieces of dried chilli (seeds removed) - A

1 tablespoon of pomfret fish sauce - for marinate

2 tablespoon of hoi sin sauce - for marinate

1 tablespoon of maggi seasoning sauce - for marinate

1 tablespoon of curry powder - for marinate

2 tablespoon of corn flour - for marinate

1 teaspoon of salt - for marinate

1/8 teaspoon of pepper - for marinate

250g of pork rib (wash cleanly)

1.5 cups of water.

12 cubes of pineapple (can type) with 2 tablespoon of the sweet brine

10 pieces of curry leaves (wash clean and dry)

2 tablespoon of peanut oil

1 cup of chopped parsley.

Steps:

Blend all the A ingredients and pour in to a mixing bowl.

Add in all the marinate ingredients to it.

Add in the pork rib and mix evenly till all pork is covered with the marinate. Marinate for at least 4 hrs (I have mine for 6).

Heat the oil and saute the curry leaves till fragant.

Stir in the pork with all the marinate ingredients.

Stir fry to seal the juice pork and add in water after few mins.

Leave it to cook at low fire for about 35mins.

Pour in the pineapple and the sweet brine and stir. Cook for another 10mins.

Add in the parsley and off the fire. Stir the parsley evenly. Dish and served.

http://www.grouprecipes.com/29634/pineapple-curry-pork-rib.html

Fried Rice

2007-12-06T06:00:00.000-08:00

Cant remember the contect of the dish (poor memory), served with chicken boxing (ta pau from office)

Vegetarian Pork Rib

2007-12-06T05:38:00.001-08:00

Without flash

1 packet of vegetarian pork rib

2 teaspoon of salted preserved beans

2 tablespoon of oil

a dash of pepper

Fry the vegetarian pork rib with the oil till fragrant or for about 7mins.

Add in the salted preserved beans and fry for a min. Add in the pepper, dish and served.

Decorate parsley.

Vegetarian Pork Rib @ Group Recipes

Spicy Mayo Dip

2007-12-04T03:55:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

2 teaspoon of mayonaisse
1 teaspoon of teriyaki sauce
1 teaspoon of thai smoked fish chilli paste

Steps:

Mix all ingredients till the mixture get smooth.

Pear Drink

2007-11-28T03:59:00.000-08:00

Had been coughing and coughing for so long and the throat is filled with phlegm, so decided to do something soothing my throat, but was too lazy to do double boil. So, this is really simple.

Boil 2.5 glass of water. Add in kei chei (wolfberry), one medium size rock sugar to taste and red dates. Cut the pear to cube pieces. Add it in the water, boil for bout 5mins.

All in all, only required less than 10mins to get this done...

2007-11-28T03:53:00.000-08:00

Spaghetti with fried lettuce, tomoto, and onion, served with mixed cream cheese, mixed herbs and parsley.