Tuesday, September 29, 2009

food fest Q3 09 aka "How to lose weight laah, you tell me??"

My dad stayed over a few weekends ago and as you usual it was food fiesta time again... How to lose weight laah you tell me?? We bought some stuff from the pasar Ramadan and Lp made some stuff as well… LP made pork ribs Seasoned with soy and slowly cooked in the claypot for 2-3 hours

Its black because of the soy sauce…. Moist, sweet and tender flesh just slipping off from the bone. We’ll definitely do a grilled version if we ever get the BBQ up.

She also made a puff pastry with tuna filling topped with cut tomatoes and chillies. Very light scrumptious and definitely a good breakfast food I was actually quite disappointed this year with the fare from the pasar ramadan. Nothing that I bought tasted nice, not even remotely mediocre… And to make matters worse, our adventure to “karrukudi “ was just such a big letdown.. the briani rice was just plain bland and wet. And I’m never going back there again.

On the bright side, I found a place that sells better briani rice. Its from a nasi kander shop called tajuddin in queen street. And where is queen street? Well, it right there next to kings street and china street.. :-) (Googlemap it laah) Its only cost $3 for the rice which is quite a huge portion and $4 for a huge piece of chicken. The rice was very fluffy and it was very nicely spiced. Overall, it was so much better than the one we had at karrikudi for this one i could taste the spices, cinnamon, onions, cardamon, star aneis...etc... Mee goreng from the stall in front of the pulau tikus “mata-keng” . my personal all time favourite.

Mee goreng was as usual quite good but my dad commented that the mee rebus was not as good anymore.. also, I never buy from the Bangkok lane stall … I actually cant remember why its on my “banned” list..

And last but not least, not forgetting bran who had his porridge… hehehe…

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Hari Raya Cupcakes

Initially we wanted to buy chocolates for our Muslim frens during Raya open house. Then I thought why dont I bake some cupcakes... it is home made. Had to make do with 2 icing tips that I have on hand. Misplaced 2 tips. Sigh. So typical me. I am thinking of getting the box with 26 tips... coz I cant do much with 2 tips - limit my creativity nia... hahahahah
I mixed a few colors for the icing... green (as the official hari raya color), pink and purple. The green did not turn out to my liking. So end up.... masuk perut Ryan and Ed.
Few months back I bought this nice cupcake box. Cute leh. To all my Muslim frens, Selamat Hari Raya!

Thursday, September 17, 2009

no baking for the past 3 weeks

did not bake for the past 3 weeks coz my right thumb hurt going to bake tomorrow.. baking a chocolate cake for a good friend as raya gift

Tuesday, September 1, 2009