Sesame Balls

Want to get a munch on something for tea? This is what you can do very easily at home.

Ingredients
Red bean paste (optional)
Raw sesame seeds
Glutinous rice flour
Sugar

Method
1. Add some sugar to the glutinous rice flour.
2. Add water and make into a dough.
3. Prepare some little balls with the dough.
4. Make a few balls with the red bean paste.
5. Wrap the red paste with the little dough.
6. Roll little balls onto a bowl of sesame seed to cover up the surface.
7. Deep fried the balls.

Delicious Pork Chop

A very simple must-try recipe. I used pork (not sure if it taste the same as on chicken or beef)
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Ingredients:
Pork chop slice (just tell the pork seller in the market and they will tenderdize it for you)
Marinate: soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, black pepper (optional)

Method:
1. Marinate the meat over night.
2. Lightly pan fried on low fire

Tips: You only need to pan fried for a short while if you prefer a tender chop.

Orange Chiffon Cake

This is my 2nd time trying to bake a chiffon cake. And yahoo…manage to do it successfully this time (using recipe from Alicia).

Ingredients
A- 6 egg whites, 1T cream of tartar, 4oz castor sugar (takde castor, so i blend normal sugar)
B- 6 yolks, 6T sunquick, 6T oil, 4oz self-raising flour

Method
1. Cream B well in one direction
2. Beat A until stiff (high speed). Slowly add in sugar once egg white formy. Must ensure container very clean.
3. Fold B into A slowly, making sure the mixture does not collapse.
4. Bake in preheated oven (+ chiffon tin) at 160C for 30mins till lightly brown. Change to 180C and bake till golden brown.

Special Melting Moments

My little helper and I did a simple baking last week.

Ingredients:
200g margerine (I uses Planta)
80g icing sugar sifted
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/4 tsp sugar

120 self-raising flour, sifted
120g corn-flour, sifted

Method:
1. Cream butter, icing sugar, vanilla essence and salt till just combined.
2. Add both sifted flours and mix into a soft-dough.
3. Spoon mixture into piping bag with star nozzle.
4. Pipe them into a shape of a rossette.
5. Bake in pre-heated oven at 170C (20mins) till light golden brown.
6. Cool on rack, sprinkle some icing sugar on top.

Tips: You can also ignore step 3&4. Instead just spoon them onto the tray and top them with honey star for decor.

Sweet Potato dessert

This is really easy to cook.

Ingredients: red sweet potato, purple sweet potato, sago, sugar and pandan leaves.

Method:
1. Bring water in pan to boil.
2. Add in knotted pandan leaves, sweet potato cubes.
3. When sweet potato soften, add sugar and pour in sago.
4. Make sure continue keep on stirring. Otherwise sago will be in clumps.
5. Once sago turns transparent, it is ready to eat.

I cooked this during the weekends, but ended up had to feed the drain. My funny story is posted in Demoments.

Lor Mai Kai (Glutinuous Chicken Rice)

Ingredients
Rice -1kg pulut (glutinuous rice), 4T oil, 1T dark soy, 1T salt
Marinated Chicken -2 pcs chicken thights (deboned and slice thinly), 1T dark soy sauce, Ginger sauce (1 thumbsize), 1T cooking wine, 1t butterfly powder, 1/2t salt, 1 sugar
Others -2 lap cheong, 10 soaked black mushroom, 1t sugar, 1/2 salt (slice and marinate)

Method
1. Clean and soak pulut with water just enough to cover (10mins). Add to taste and steam for about 15mins.
2. Arrange marinated chicken and other ingredients onto bottom of bowl. Add in pulut.
3. Steam for 30mins.

*Instead of steaming the pulut, you can also stir fried to fragant. Then only add to bowl to steam.

Marbled Choc Cheese cake

Although chocolate has never been my favourite, this recipe looks tempting due to the cream cheese it used. And true enough, it taste fantastic (especially when it just came out from the hot oven!)

Ingredients A: 180g butter, 20g cocoa powder, 180g castor sugar, 3 eggs, 120g self-raising flour.

Ingredients B: 250g cream cheese, 60g castor sugar, 1tsp vanilla, 1 egg, 1/2 cup water.

Method
1. Melt butter in saucepan. Slowly add in all ingredients A.
2. Pour into tin and bake at 170C for 15mins (half cooked).
3. Mix ingredients B together and beat well.
4. Pour over a A and swirl thru with a knife to create marbled effect.
5. Continue to bake till golden brown (~25mins).

Pretty muffins

*The measurement was estimated when I did this muffin so my muffins texture was quite hard. It does look very pretty, isn't it?

Ingredients: Self raising flour, egg, vanilla essence, majerin, castor sugar, grated cheddar cheese, water, heartshapes toppings

Method
1. Beat marjerin, castor sugar and then add in egg.
2. Fold in water and flour.
3. Pour into cups and bake at preheated oven at 180 celsius for 25mins.

The Loaf Langkawi

During our last visit to Langkawi, we make sure that we visit this bakery or bistro, a joint venture of our ex-Prime Minister with a Japanese baker. The Loaf is situated at Telaga Harbour, near to Marina Bay. There are a row of very nice restaurants along the deck of the harbour. Price is a bit on the high side.



Just some tea, cakes and pastries, guess how much our meal goes to? Almost 100 bucks! However I must admit their cheese sandwich is really good.