Fried Shallot

Mom's special fried shallots.

Keep it in an air-tight container it could last a very long time.

Curry Puff 2

The curry puff I made the other day was not crispy and it turn soft very quicky. I just got to try it out again until I know what went wrong. I guess I got the answer now. I have added too much water to the dough and made the dough too soft. I reduced the water and made a harder dough today and I get the crispness that I want.

Mee goreng

My daughter cooked me this mee goreng that she learns at school. My niece who was a form 5 student at the same secondary school told me that this will be the one and only cooking that my daughter will be doing throughout her 3 years of lower secondary school. I really cannot understand what happened in schools nowadays.




I was a homescience student during my lower secondary school years and I had so much fun cooking and sewing during my homescience classes. I remembered we have cooking classes at least once a month and I learnt so much from all those practical cooking lessons.




But nowadays teachers seems to prefer to confine students to the classroom to just go thru theory instead of practical. Come on teachers, cooking and sewing should be hands on.






I was surprised that the mee goreng tasted quite good.

Curry puff

Curry puff, a favourite all time snack. It's sold at breakfast as well as afternoon tea. I love the one that was sold at one of the kopitiam near my house and my daughter is crazy over it too. I went back to the kopitiam a few times already hoping to get the curry puffs but never had any luck. The curry puffs were all snatched up almost as soon as it arrived.

I told my daughter I will try to made some for her and so I did. It was not as tasty as the one sold at the kopitiam but it's edible... lols...

My brother said the curry stuffing lack the fragrance of the curry leaves and suggested that I add some curry leaves next time.

Mooncake

My first time making mooncake. I got the recipe from the internet. I bought the low sugar lotus paste from the store. I was glad I don't have to cook the lotus paste myself, maybe next time I will try to cook the lotus paste myself but since I am just trying it out the very first time so I just use the one I bought from the store.

Achar

I loved mum's achar so much that I just got to get her to teach me how to cook it. I tried making the chilli paste myself but it just doesn't taste the same as mum's so I got her to made me some chilli paste.

The ingredients: long beans, carrots, cucumbers, round cabbage, pineapple, sesame seeds and grounded groundnuts.

Chill it before serve. Taste really good. Mum even said that mine was better than hers, lols..

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It's really easy to made. Preparation time is less than 5 mins and baking time is 15 mins.

Seafood pizza

Baked my daugther and myself some seafood pizza for lunch today.

For 250gm of flour I get 2 x 8" pizza. It was too much for the 2 of us.

I have put too much toppings on the pizza so it was a bit heavy on the top. I definitely have to reduce the toppings next time.



I have shrimps, crab sticks, tuna flakes, pineapples, tomatoes, capsicum, onions and button mushroom for the toppings.

Fondant cake decoration

See my 3rd cake decoration..... a speedy improvement comparing to the previous two times right?



ha ha ha.... the decoration is real but the cake is not.

I was really curious to know what is fondant and so I attended fondant cake decoration class today. It was really interesting and fun to learn about fondant and gum paste and what you are able to do with it. I still needs lots of practices and I just can't wait to do it on a real cake and see how's the result. A big thank you to Teacher Yasmin Sanusi.

Yummy Bak Chang 肉粽

My mother learned to cook bak-chang because I love to eat bak-chang when I was young. I remember her learning from our neighbour's MIL and the neighbour's kids will complaint that she is spoiling all their leaves.
But she never give up, she took some leaves home and continue to practice with the uncooked rice.

Mum's bak chang is simply delicious. All my friends who have tasted it loves it.

Two years back I kept some frozen in the freezer for more than one year but it was still good and yummy.

My mother puts mushrooms, chestnuts, oysters, salty egg and porks in her bak chang. Below are some photos of the bak chang she recently made.

Eating one is simply not enough.