Bread Making and Cheese Crackers

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

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

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

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

Weekend Meals

The yummy Penang Laksa (or Asam Laksa)




And burger for snack:

Random Pics of Food

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


Braised pork with mushroom