Lau Nuah Curry Mee

This is the best curry mee ever! Those who had tasted it will say the same. It is call Madam's Curry Mee. The lady in black is the chef. The main ingredient is the chilly. I call it Lau Nuah Curry Mee, best in Pg and also JB :)

Elmo & Floral Cupcakes Designs

I made these last year when icing mania strike :) I got excited when Lyn brought back cupcakes with floral decoration previous year and I vowed to make some myself hence my experiment on icing begins.

My first attempt was for Ry’s birthday party at his kindy. We asked him what kind of cake he wanted and he said ELMO. Thank God I asked him weeks before the party which bought me time to google it out. It took me 3 long hrs just to do the icing. 2nd attempt was for Kim, Tee Boo and Nora’s birthday party at the office. I wasn’t very good with wordings hence I only make alphabets K, N & T to represent their name. Smart leh :) 3rd attempt was much better. I made them for Ry’s and Jane’s birthday party at my mum’s place. The result was really good.

Orange Cupcakes

Cupcakes are easy to make. Anyone can make this...of coz not the extravaganza recipe lah. I normally make orange cupcakes using those orange that is not edible. Not edible here means too sour lah... not rotten orange.

The recipe is ingrain in my head. Here you go.

Ingredient: 250gm self raising flour 1 block of butter (250g) 220gm self caster sugar (i reduce it to 210 from 250g) 4 eggs Orange juice (from 2 oranges) Orang rind (from the oranges) 1 teaspoon of baking powder (i dunno i just add this, some told me that you do not need it when using self raising flour... tak tau lah)

Note: The cakes shown in the pictures are those bake without baking powder using normal flour as I wanted to see what happen w/o baking powder...experiment mah. Note 2: See the recipe is so easy... everything is 250g. How can one forget?

Method: 1. Mix and blend the sugar and egg till soft. Add in the egg (one at the time, beats me why we do that).

2. Add in the orange juice and rind. Continue mixing. Add in flour and baking powder (few spoons at one time), mix. 3. Pour into cupcakes mould and bake. Remember to preheat the oven. Bake at 180C for about 10 to 15 mins depending on the type our your oven.

Bottomline bake till it is brown outside. You can take it out and test it by using toothpick (clean one) and poke it into the cake. If the pick comes out dry and clean, your cake is done. Simple right?

Chocolate Eclairs

Pour some melted cadbury chocolate and I got this.

Cream Puffs

My 1st attempt at cream puffs. Guess I will be making more till I got the type of cream I want. Next time I am going to pipe the cream into the puffs. First batch went flat after it was out from the oven and I found out that it was because I did not bake it long enough. I wonder why the recipe stated that we shud keep the oven door ajar after 7 mins of baking.

It is fun to make the puffs.

Got the recipe from http://livingtastefully.weebly.com/2/post/2008/08/daring-bakers-challenge-clairs-by-pierre-herm.html

The recipe (how I made it)

Puff dough

1/2 cup whole milk

1/2 cup water

125g unsalted butter cut into pieces

1/4 teaspoon sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup rose flour

5 large eggs, at room temperature

1. Bring the milk, water, butter, sugar and salt to the boil in a pot

2. Add flour once mixture is boiling and continue stirring with wooden spoon. The dough will come together

3. Transfer the dough into a mixing bowl and add the eggs gradually 1 at a time

4. Pour into piping bag and pipe out the shape as desire (remember to pipe into baking sheet or parchment to avoid it sticking to the tray or pan)

5. Bake at 190C for aproximately 15 - 20mins (till it is brown). I did not let the oven door ajar like stated in the recipe... (mayb this is the reason why my 1st batch went flat).

Cream

1. Follow the recipe ( I did not do anything different)

Moist Chocolate Cake - my standard

I have a very high standard for chocolate cake. I wud only eat moist chocolate cake and the moisture must be really moist! So I am now in my quest looking for the best moist chocolate recipe. To date I have tried 4 recipes and so far only 1 met my expectations. Last night I made one which called for 1 cup of stout. Well, it turn out to be good but still not what I want. Hopefully I will find the recipe soon else it will be chocolate cake week after week...LOL.

Meatballs with carrots & mushrooms

As usual we had leftover minced meat and since Ed loves meatballs, I quickly whipped up a batch. Its actually very fast to make and it took me around 30minutes from start to finish. As usual, I'm not one for frying food with oil so the meatballs were baked in the oven instead. Its healthier, ok...!! So, today's recipe is : Meatballs with carrots and mushrooms Ingredients: 250g minced meat Half a carrot shredded 5 shitake mushrooms sliced 2 tablespoons soy sauce 2 teaspoons chicken stock powder 1 tablespoon corn flour as binding agent Method: 1. Preheat oven to 180C degrees 2. Put meat in a bowl. With your hands blend the meat, carrot, mushrooms, soy sauce, and chicken stock powder. 3. Add in the corn flour and continue blending with your hands. 4. Shape mixture into balls. Makes around 9 meatballs 5. Place in baking pan and bake for about 12-15 minutes. Serve hot and enjoy.