simple corned-beef sandwich

Step #1:- Toast the bread

Step #2:- Grill the corned beef Step #3:- Slice the onions (1 onion is enough)

3 condiments that I normally use, Mustard, chili sauce and pepper

Step #4:- Putting it all together.

Butter the toast

Layer with chilli sauce on one slice of toast and mustard on the other.

Put the corned beef on the chilli slice.

Sprinkle the pepper on the mustard slice.

Layer the sliced onions on top of the corned beef.

Put the sandwich together

and serve…

Chiffon Cake & Me

Chiffon cake and me has come a long way. These are the attempts:

1. Cake was not spongy. It raised. Taste good.
2. Cake still not spongy.
3. Spongy but did not rise well.
4. Cake fell down from tin when it was inverted. It end up in the dustbin.
5. Cracked on the surface and did not rise properly.
6. Deflated after taking out from oven.

I have not given up yet. Picture of attempt # 6.

1/2 boiled eggs and toast

One of my favorite food is eggs.. Fried, boiled omelet-d or best of all, ½ boiled. I love ½ boiled eggs. This is another food I can eat everyday but i know that it would kill me, so its max of 3eggs a week… but then really, who’s counting..? :- ) I have fond memories of my mum and aunt preparing these eggs every Sunday morning for breakfast. I’ve always like dipping the eggs with toasted bread and even with eu-char-koay and roti canai. Anyway, I digress… It was the weekend and we were looking for a quick fix. So elpea took out the trusty yellow ½ boil egg maker, plunked in some eggs, put in the boiling water and then we just waited till it was done..~15minutes I guess Oh yea, in the meantime she also toasted the bread, and buttered the toast. We didn’t have regular bread so it was the orange loaf from continental bakery. Whatever was available..!! Eggs ( 2 or more).. they must not be too runny and the yolk must not to hard as well

Toast, put 2slices of bread into the toaster and wait for them to jump.. our toaster is a bit screwy so you’ll see our toast slightly burnt. After that butter the toast lightly, or heavily, which ever you prefer. Some times I use garlic butter which works quite nice as well.

Finally, add a dash of ground pepper and a few drops of lea & perrins

and … TA DAAAAH.. ready to serve…

Yummy, 1/2 boiled eggs with buttered toast.

krispy kreme galore

So here they are.. Fresh from KL.. the Krispy Kreme Donuts have finally arrived.. The 1st shop is in the Berjaya Times Square mall in KL and I hear they plan to expand to open another 19 more stores all around the country. Well, we’ll see.

Anyway, my sis bought me 2 boxes of Krispy Kreme Donuts.. (God bless her kind heart and I’m sure her place in heaven is booked..) And Yes.. that’s 2 dozen donuts…

And YES..!!!!, that’s 24 donuts..

She got me a dozen assorted

and another dozen of glazed.

There are basically 2 types of doughnuts: The normal yeast raised doughnut and the “cake” doughnut. Both taste excellent but both are SUPER-sweet… and I mean "Diabetes-inducing-SUPA-DUPA-SWEET"..!! and my tolerance level for sugar is quite high. I think the donuts are 90% sugar and 10% dough.. I actually went looking for water after eating donut#2…

The Original glazed was very light and the glaze sort of melts in your mouth. I didn’t really like that. Elpea like it though. But we both agreed that it would be quite nice just plain without any glaze at all. The Glazed chocolate cake was not as heavy as the ones from dunkindonuts. Its much lighter, less crumblier and quite moist. I didn’t quite like it this way though. Overall, i like the Chocolate iced kreme filled the best.

The rest were basically the same donut but with alternate toppings : Glazed cruller, Chocolate sprinkles, Chocolate iced glazed, Chocolate iced cake, Powdered strawberry filled, Almond, Hershey bits, etc..... So whats my verdict? You definitely cannot find a better yeast raised doughnut than the above. Bonus points for the lightness and texture of the doughnut itself. BUT, its just a tad too sweet.

On the other hand, if I had to choose a “cake’ donut, I would still go for the ones at dunkindonuts. This one is just my personal preference.

So sis, the next time you come back, you know what to do laah..

Sandwich Maker

Ed's mum gave us a sandwich maker few years back. We rarely use it. Yesterday was one of those days where we wanted a light dinner and the sandwich maker came into picture. This was our dinner. Simple yet delicious.We had the egg mayo for fillings and Ry had strawberries with choc syrup.

Tried a few variations ... sambal heh bi & peanut butter. Both taste good.

aw, nuts...

My sis sent this picture to me to taunt me. 5more days to go before I get my own dozen.. Yes, DOZEN…… & I’m NOT sharing..!!!! :-) My sis has been given very specific instructions “Come back with donuts or don’t come back at all..” :-D

instant pho

Lp’s boss bought this really nice instant noodle from Vietnam. It’s basically like the local flat noodles (koay teow) but in slightly thinner strips. The noodles come in beef and chicken flavors. I prefer the beef though.

It’s also very easy to prep as well: Take out noodles and put in bowl. Dump in all the soup flavoring, oil, and dried ingredients and pour in ~400ml of boiling water. Cover bowl with plate and let rest for 3minutes. Serve.

I’m hooked. I’ve got 3 more packets left. Will savor them slowly.

 

By the way, the best pho (dry/soup Vietnamese noodle) that I had was in San Diego. We actually did try some before in the Vietnamese restaurant here but it just doesn’t compare. Lp agrees with me as well.