A Pepper's Love

Cornflakes Butter Cookies

2012-02-02T09:00:00.000+08:00

Ingredients

250 gm pure butter

1 egg

1 egg yolk

350 gm self raising flour

180 gm Castor sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

250 - 300 gm corn flakes (use hand to crush corn flakes)

Method:-

1. Cream butter with sugar till creamy & fluffy. Add in egg,egg yolk & vanilla bit by bit.

2. Fold in the flour, knead into a dough. Rest for 15-30 minute

3.Roll the dough into small rund balls and wat them into cornflakes. Top with one small cherry.

4.Preheat oven to 200C. Bake in oven for 15-20 minute.

BENTO # 61 - Chicken Nugget

2012-02-01T07:10:00.001+08:00

Served with papaya pickle & white rice

Mixed fruits & Corn Flake

2012-01-31T10:00:00.001+08:00

90g butter + 80g castor sugar + 2 tsp honey = Mixed & cook in loe heat
60g mixed fruits + 60g almond slices 4 cups corn flakes Add all ingredients. Mix well into melt butterHelping hands by my 3 kids. CNY goodies Scoop into small papper cups. Bake in perheated oven at 180C for 5 minute

BENTO #60 - CNY ASSORTED COOKIES BENTO

2012-01-30T11:51:00.003+08:00

Home made Pinapple Tart, Corn Flake Butter Cookies, Almond slice Butter Cookies & Chocolate Butter Cookies. Recipe will be post later during this CNY.
Back to school after CNY weekend

German Almond Crisp

2012-01-27T20:47:00.002+08:00

Yong's reunion dinner - Dragon "Lou Sang"

2012-01-22T23:31:00.012+08:00

This year my creation (with hubby) for the year of the dragon - "Dragon Lou Sang" - Mary's

Assorted mushroom with broccoli - Mary's

Coconut & ros jelly with peach - Mary's

Steamed prawn - Cat'sFried Crab - Aggie'sRoasted duck - Cat'sSweet & sour pork leg - Lan'sStuff mushrrom & egg choon kian - Ying'sAssorted vegetabable - Jenny'sFried oyster - Jenny'sSteamed corn chicken - Aggie'sRice wine with assorted mushroom - Jenny'sSteamed fish - Lan's

Walnut brownies compliment from Mei Wan

Yong's family - Lou LOONG Sang!

BENTO #59 - FRIED RICE WITH CHICKEN

2012-01-17T09:00:00.001+08:00

Served with carrot & Cheese (Flower) & lettuce

BENTO# 58 - MILO SANDWICH

2012-01-13T11:00:00.003+08:00

Served with candy jelly , sesame candy & mandarin orange

BENTO#57 - ROTI PLATA WITH CHICKEN, ONION & CHEESE

2012-01-11T10:00:00.000+08:00

Served with lettuce, boiled potato (inside the cute egg mould) & watermelon

Wan Wan's Surprise 20th Birthday

2012-01-07T21:08:00.011+08:00

My 1st Pavlova as requested by my big princess for her 20th birthday.
Doesn't seem that successful though but it tasted good.

So, I made another cake for her. Sponge cake topping with fresh cream, manggo & kiwi fruit

Gifts from Alan Gifts from Kieran Gifts from Angie, Bryan, Valentine & Aaron

BENTO #56 - Smoked Chicken Breast Roll - Bread Maki

2012-01-06T07:34:00.006+08:00

Smoked Chicken Breast Roll - Maki Bread served with cucumber, carrot, guava and french fries

Bought from KL Pavilion - Supermarket

BENTO #55 - Roasted Chicken Ring Bun

2012-01-05T06:58:00.004+08:00

Miss my BENTO? Back to school and here I'm start my bentoing.

Roasted Chickeing Ring Bun served with papaya+ radish pickle, chololate cheese tart ,chicken sausage & hash brown.

Roasted chicken ring

Yan Yan's surprise 18th Birthday

2011-12-31T13:18:00.018+08:00

Cheddar Cheese Cake with compliment from Mei Wan

Chocolate Moist Cake with compliment by Cassandra's mum

Gift from meGift from Zaidah

Gift from Emery, Landy & Darren

Christmas Gift From Japan - Beautiful Mirror

2011-12-26T08:00:00.002+08:00

Beautiful handmade fancy mirror done by my hosted japanese child 2010 - Riko's mum.Christmas gift to our famaily

Thank you & have a blessed Christmas

My 48th Birthday at Genting

2011-12-21T08:00:00.005+08:00

Done by my Do Re Me with rice deco. Very creative & unique surprise from them.

Another surprise from my Do Re Me + my niece (Yeng Peng) at Genting. They searched for a cake at the best price (RM 18.00 only) at Genting. Love the cake & all your thoughts.
Keep it up!

This year birthday gift from my sister.

Bought myself a ceramic watch. Love in first sight!

Steamed Crab with Glutinuos Rice in Lotus Leaf

2011-12-10T21:32:00.008+08:00

Prepared:-

1.Pour the glutinous rice into a mixing bowl. Add enough water in the bowl to cover the rice. Soak 4-6 hours.The longer the rice is soaked, the easier it is to cook.

2.Add the glutinous rice at about 1 to 1 1/2 cups more water than the rice. Add some chicken stock & a few Chinese dry mushroom (soak and slice) in the tray.

3.Lay a wire mesh rack over a steamer to cook the glutinous rice for 20 minutes.

4. Next, soften the lotus leaf, bring to boil and soak in cold water. Rinse & dry & ready to use

5. Remove the rice tray from the steamer and transfer the glutinous rice into the lotus leaf .

6.Place the crabs on top the glutinous rice + add bit of salt & few slice of ginger and bring to steam for another 15 minutes. Allow the glutinous rice to set for 10 minutes before removing it from the steamer.

HOMEMADE FRESH SOYABEAN MILK

2011-11-30T14:06:00.009+08:00

Soak overnight 500g soyabean. Wash and rinse the beans several times till the water clean.

Better if let the water drip till next day. (Picture shown)

Put 3 cup soyabean + 7 cup water into blender

Blend for 2-3 min till milky

Pour into a clean white cloth (Bag form)

Squeeze and strain out the soyabean milk

Soyabean pulp (Okara)

Pour the filter soyabean milk into large pot and add 3-5 slice of ginger & 5-8 pandan leaves.

Stir slowly the soyabean milk constantly and bring to a boil, so as to avoid burning the milk.

Add sugar to your taste. (Forgot to take picture, replace next time. LOL)

OKARA (Soya Beans) BROWNIES

2011-11-28T08:00:00.003+08:00

Recipe adapted from Sotong Cooks

Ingredients:
4 Eggs
2 cups Brown sugar
3/4 cup, packed well-squeezed Okara (soybean pulp from making soymilk)
4 oz (1/2 cup) melted Butter
1/4 cup Water
2 teaspoons Vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup plain white flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts, pecans, or other favorite nuts)

Method:

Preheat the oven to 150C.

In a mixing bowl, beat eggs together with brown sugar until thick and foamy. Add vanilla, water, melted butter and okara. Combine well.

In another bowl, mix together the cocoa powder, flour, salt and baking powder. Sift into the wet mixture. Fold and stir briefly, just to blend. Do this in batches. Fold in the nuts.

Scrape the batter into the cupcake liners until almost full and bake for about 30-35 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.

CLAYPOT RICE

2011-11-25T19:00:00.006+08:00

This clay pot rice is a one pot rice meal. It has been quite some time since the last time I cook this dish. . Usually I would use a clay pot but instead of using a clay pot today, I used my non stick pan to prepared this dinner.

Good meal. "GOCHISO SAMADESHITA" (Thanks for the meal).

Ingredients

600-700g chicken breast, cut into big chunks

1 cup water

3 tablespoon oyster sauce

10 Dried chestnut- boiled to cook till soft

4-5 tablespoon dark caramel soy sauce

2 tablespoon sesame oil

1 teaspoon white pepper

4 lap cheong (Chinese-style sausage)

6 dry mushrooms (soak in water till soft)

3-4 tablespoon rice wine

2 cube chicken stock

4 cups jasmine rice + 3 3/4 cup water

4-5 slice of ginger root

Directions

Combine the chicken breast with oyster sauce, dark caramel soy sauce, the sesame oil, wine and pepper in a mixing bowl.Mix them well and marinate at least 10-30 minutes.

Slice the Chinese sausages and set aside.

Slice the mushrooms in quarter size and set aside.

Wash the rice with water until the water comes out nearly clear; drain completely. Combine the rice and 3 3/4 cup of water & chicken stock in a non-stick pan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low;

Combine mushroom and Chinese sausage into the chicken mixture. Add the chicken mixture on top the rice and allow to simmer covered for 10-15 minutes with the heat on. and remove from the heat; allow to sit covered until the rice is completely tender, 15 to 20 minutes.

Served hot.

NOTE: Last time, I ever put all the ingredients into the rice cooker to cook this dish. When you're lazy, you want everything fast & easy. But still come out ok lah!

CAESAR SALAD

2011-11-24T20:23:00.005+08:00

Recipe adapted from Table for 2 or more

250gm romaine lettuce (1 large head, organic)
2 hard boiled eggs
1 cup croutons
1 Tbsp grated Parmesan

Dressing
2 Tbsp mayonnaise
½ Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
Small pinch salt
Wasabi (as much as u like)
Black pepper

1. Wash and drain lettuce well. Shake off excess water. Tear into small pieces.
2. Combine ingredients for dressing and taste, adjust if needed.
3. Put lettuce into a big bowl. pour dressing on and toss to coat each piece of lettuce thinly with the dressing.
4. Put dressed lettuce into serving dish, top with croutons, slices of hard boiled eggs and lastly sprinkle cheese over (Opps..I forgot the cheese too).
5. Serve immediately.

Breakfast for My Princess G

2011-11-21T08:05:00.005+08:00

My princess Geraldine 1st Day STMP Exam. God Blessed & Good Luck in your STPM

BENTO#54 - Pita Bread with Chicken

2011-11-09T07:31:00.002+08:00

Served with lettuce, smoked cheese, water melon & grapes

BENTO#53 - CHICKEN NUGGETS RICE

2011-11-08T07:01:00.003+08:00

Served with rice, broccoli, muffin & apple

Roll Chicken with Asparagus& Cheese

2011-11-04T11:14:00.002+08:00

BENTO#52 - Fried Rice with Egg

2011-11-03T07:55:00.004+08:00

Served with potato,prawn & apple salad

BENTO# 51 - Smoked Cheese & Egg Sandwich

2011-11-02T07:12:00.004+08:00

Served with Resberry Jelly, Grape & chocolate.

BENTO #50 - Fried Mee

2011-11-01T06:56:00.000+08:00

Served with fried egg & watermelon & Kuih "Hiong Kou"

BANTO #49 - French Toast (Cow)

2011-10-31T10:07:00.003+08:00

French toast (Cow) served with fried eggs, grapes & cherry tomato, boil potato & chocolate.

New Zealand Trip - Auckland - Foods - 6-28 Oct 2011 - Part 7

2011-10-26T10:00:00.003+08:00

Thanks to jenny for a wonderful dim sum lunch at Grand Harbour Chinese Restaurant
Steamed pork rib with black bean

Prawn Cheong Fun

Chicken feet

Siew Mai

Vegatable with soya sauce

Chicken glutinous rice

Rainbow jelly

Deep fried squid

Jenny's home cooking - Oxtail soup

Fried spinach with garlic

Fresh button mushroom with cream muschroom sauce

Steam salmon fish with black bean

Dragon's Gourment - Smoked cold noodle was so yummy & tasty

Prawn salad

Beef Salad

Tomato spaghetti

New Zealand Trip - Auckland - Queenstown 12-17 Oct 2011 - Part 6

2011-10-21T17:58:00.019+08:00

Auckland - Queenstown - Auckland by Jetstar @NZ 189 .00 (return ticket)

Bumbles backpackers - Strongly recomended to stay here, surrounded by beautiful senery, clean, nice location (3 min walking distance to town area) & resonable rate. Cost NZ 29.00 p/bed on dorm & NZ 62.00 p/room on double room Frist 2 nights - Dorm (lucky nobody sharing with us, so we have the whole room for ourself) & 3 nights - Double room at Bumbles backpackers. Enjoy our own cooking at Bumbles backpackers, Queenstown.
Join Kiwi Discovery day trip to Milford Sound cost NZ 189.00 per personOn the way to milford sound - waterfall Stop over at Te Anau - On the way to Milford Sound Milford Sound - Beautiful fiord in Fiordland National Park On the way to milford Sound - view from west portal of Homer tunnel On Milford Sound cruise - too bad weather was not so good. Queenstown cityQueenstown airport - Departure back to Auckland. If I come to New Zealand, Queenstown is so beautiful and a definite must to visit again.

New Zealand Trip - Auckland - Foods- Part 5

2011-10-19T13:09:00.009+08:00

Fried Choi Sum - home cooking
White fungus with red dart (sweet) -home cooking
Fried bacon rice noodle - home cooking
Toast with bacon & cheese - home cooking

Ham sandwich Dinner at home

Mixed fruits

Japanese foods - Chicken rice with salad cost NZ 5.00 ( RM 12.50)

Salmon with avacado maki cost NZ 7.80 per pkt (RM 19.50)

Thank you Jenny & Danny & family for the nice Dim Sum breakfast

Pumkin Man tau

New Zealand Trip - Auckland - Foods - Part 4

2011-10-18T13:00:00.005+08:00

Fried Dau Miu (pea shoots) with garlic (Dish 1) Fresh Oyster with garlic & glass noodles (Cellophane Noodles) - Dish 2
Deep-fried Chicken Stuffed with Prawn Paste - Dish 3
Total cost for dinner for Dish 1,2,3 - NZ 78.00 (RM 195.00)Sweet pea with celery - Dish 1A
Braissed lamb - Dish 2A Steamed fish with soya sauce - Dish 3A All these fishes caught by Danny.

New Zealand Trip - Auckland - Part 3

2011-10-17T11:40:00.008+08:00

Fullers ferry - Depart from Half Moon Bay to Auckland City - cost NZ 7.40 p/p per /wayQueens Wharf viewViaduck Event Centre

Wynyard Crossing

New Zealand Trip 06-28 oct 2011 - Part 2

2011-10-10T06:00:00.005+08:00

Thanks to Jenny & Danny & family for thier kind hospitality during our visit in NZ Thier beautiful home at sunderland, Half Moon Bay, NZ Living room Beautiful view from the living room balcony - left side

View from living room balcony - right sideKitchen & dinning areaView from staircaseGames area Living areaCozy sitting area Jenny's office - My favourite area - Comfy massage chair

Damian's pet - "Tai pei" & "Sai Pei"

Jenny's mum house House at Pakuranga area
House at Highland Park area

New Zealand Trip - Part 1

2011-10-09T16:43:00.006+08:00

Brunei Airport - Waiting for boarding to Auckland "Kia ora"

Dinner at Pong Pong Cafe and Restaurant

ON VACATION.

2011-10-07T06:00:00.000+08:00

Will be away on a holiday for a month.
wont be cooking much for the month of October.

i'll try to post something up during my holiday.

BENTO#48 - Chicken Sausage Roll Sandwich

2011-10-06T09:00:00.004+08:00

Served with mix fruits (pear, strawberry, kiwi) , hard boil egg & fried hash potato.

BENTO#47 - Rice with Pork Egg Roll

2011-10-05T07:19:00.004+08:00

Served with, cucumber, carrot, strawberry & mini moon cake (from Korea)

BENTO#46 - Pasta with Tomato Sauce

2011-10-04T08:38:00.005+08:00

BOY, best of luck in you PMR exam!

Served with boil potato, carrot, jelly candy & kiwi fruit.

Pasta served with tomato sauce (button mushroom+ chicken sausage+onion) & cheese

BENTO#45 - Rice with Pork Chop

2011-10-03T08:44:00.003+08:00

Served with Guava Jelly, broccoli, carrot & cherry tomato

BENTO#44 - Rice with Soya Chicken & Mixed Vegetable

2011-09-30T08:01:00.003+08:00

BENTO#43 - Pumpkin Bread with Ham & Egg Sandwich

2011-09-29T07:37:00.006+08:00

Served with nori seaweed sheets, cherry tomato, baby corn & rice candy

BENTO#42 - Bun (Char Siew) & Sponge Cake

2011-09-28T08:19:00.004+08:00

Served with apple , chocolate & cherry tomato

Purpple Sweet Potato Rose Bun (Man Tau)

2011-09-24T07:00:00.011+08:00

My sister assisted me in making this cute man tau.

Before & after steamed

Thanks to Wendy for sharing at http://wendyinkk.blogspot.com/2011/08/purple-sweet-potato-rose-mantou

Recipe from Wendyywy

Purple Sweet Potato Rose Mantou
250gm steamed purple sweet potato
200gm water
500gm pau flour
1 tsp baking powder
100gm sugar
50gm shortening/Crisco
1/4 tsp salt
11gm instant yeast

1. Mash sweet potato, or blitz sweet potato with almost all the water to get a fine paste. Purple varieties tend to be firmer than orange ones.
2. With balance of water, mix with yeast.
3. Combine everything except shortening and mix to form a dough.
4. Put in shortening and knead until dough is smooth. Add slightly more flour is dough is way too sticky to handle. If the dough is sticky but can retain its form, like not slacking down, just continue to knead, the gluten just hasn’t form, there’s no need to add extra flour.
5. Cover and let dough proof until double, about 1 hour.
6. Punch down dough and knead for 1-2 minutes.
7. Divide dough into 50gm ( I use 100g) portions and form as you wish. For rose bud formation method, please read instructions below.
8. Cover and let the formed dough proof until doubled for another 45 minutes.
9. Steam on high heat for 12 minutes.

Rose Shaped Buns.
1. Make small dough balls of 15 gm (for me 16-17 gm) each.
2. Flatten each ball and roll out flat.
3. With fingers, press the sides of the circle to make them flatter and to create ripples (unevenness) .
4. Arrange 6 pieces of flattened dough, half stacking on top of each other.
5. Start rolling from the first piece on the bottom.
6. With a chopstick, saw the roll, it will roll while you saw, creating a fatter center than the sides. Eventually it will break into 2.
7. Place rose buds upright on a piece of paper.
8. Let buns rise to double and steam on high heat for 12 minutes.

*Tip : Flatten out enough dough balls for one round of steaming before flattening out the rest. Keep dough in fridge to prevent over proofing while you slowly form the rose buds. And keep the formed rose buds in the fridge(covered) to slow down the 2nd proofing while you shape. This method does take time to complete.

BENTO#41 - Purple Sweet Potato Rose Bun (Man Tau)

2011-09-23T07:21:00.007+08:00

Purple sweet potato rose bun served with chicken sausage & tomato + grapes

Octopus chicken sausage

BENTO#40 - Beef Burger

2011-09-22T07:29:00.004+08:00

BEEF BURGER with tomato, lettuce and cheese. Served with jelly & french fries.

BENTO#39 - Rice with Mushroom, Ham & Baby Corn/Carrot

2011-09-21T09:55:00.002+08:00

BENTO # 38 - Rice with Luncheon Meat & Eggs + French Bean

2011-09-20T10:11:00.010+08:00

White rice with Luncheon Meat & Eggs + french bean. Served with jelly candy, apple & baby carrot & baby corn.

BENTO#37 - Pasta with Bolognese Sauce

2011-09-19T09:34:00.005+08:00

INGREDIENTS:

5 tbs cooking oil
2 large onion, finely chopped
1 can of button mushroom (cut into slice)
1 tsp dry oregano (more to taste) or 1 tsp fresh
1 can (big) tomatoes purees
600g chicken or beef, minced
1 tsp salt or chicken stock to taste

METHOD:

Heat the oil. Add the chopped onion over medium heat until just translucent.
ADD the minced chicken/beef to cooking pot, breaking it up with a fork. Add salt to taste, stir until cook.
ADD the button mushroom, tomato purees and the oregano, salt and stir thoroughly.
Served with pasta (Cook for 5-8 min- put pasta in boiling water with 1 tbs salt till pasta soft)

BENTO# 36 - Noodles Pancake with Bacon & Cheese

2011-09-14T12:10:00.011+08:00

Served with apple & potato.

Thanks to Wendy for sharing her wonderful dish at http://wendyinkk.blogspot.com/2010/12/noodle-pancake.html

from Wendy's recipe

Noodles Pancake - Ingredient

2 packs Instant noodles of choice
100gm bacon (or chicken) or sausage
1 small carrot, grated
2 sprigs of spring onion, sliced
4 eggs
2 slices of cheddar cheese, chopped
1 pack of noodle seasonings(from the pack)
Cooking oil or butter

1. Boil a saucepan of water and cook noodles until they just loosen up, no need to be soft. Drain. Snip noodles to shorter lengths (just chop the noodles a few times, or use scissors and snip snip snip)
2. In a pan, fry bacon on medium heat until golden. Dish up.
3. Divide bacon, carrot and spring onions into 2 parts.
4. Combine one piece of noodle with half the bacon, carrots and spring onion. Put in chopped cheese, ½ tsp of seasoning and 2 eggs. Mix it all around.
5. Heat pan and put in oil or butter.
6. Pour the noodle mixture into pan and cook on medium low heat. Cover the lid.
7. When the egg in the middle looks cooked and the sides are golden, flip noodle pancake and cover and cook again until golden.
8. Repeat step 4-7 with the other piece of noodle
9. Serve warm with sweet chili sauce or any other sauces you prefer. I could just eat it like that.

BENTO #35 - BREAD MAKI with Chicken & Eggs & Strawberry Jam

2011-09-14T08:30:00.005+08:00

Assorted bread maki - Eggs+Cucumber+ Carrot, Chicken+Lettuce+ Carrot & Strawberry Jam.

Served with Boil potato & Kiwi & Manggo fruits.

BENTO# 34 - PITA BREAD with Chicken, Pinapple & Mozzarela Cheese

2011-09-13T10:47:00.008+08:00

Ingredient - Mozzarella cheese, tomato puree, pita bread, pineapple cube & chicken breast
(cut in dice & add salt & pepper) Fried till cook in medium fire.

Fill the pita bread pocket with tomato puree, chicken dice & pineapple.
Finally add mozzarella cheese & bake for 5 min on 180C.

Served with Papaya & Cucumber pickles.

BENTO # 33 - Fried Mee & Lemon Chicken

2011-09-12T07:54:00.005+08:00

Served with egg, strawberry & manggo.

Butter Cupcake

2011-09-11T10:35:00.001+08:00

TOFU BALL

2011-09-10T10:15:00.005+08:00

Ingredients
1 box bean curd
100g shrimp
2 Chinese mushroom
1 spring onion
3-4 slice of breads

Seasonings
Some pepper
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp cornstarch
1 egg

METHOD
1. Cut the bread to the dice shape.
2.Finely chop the mushroom, shrimp and spring onion.
3. Mix tofu with ingredients 2 and seasoning.
4.Deep fry till golden brown.

BENTO #32 - TOFU (Beancurd) BALL

2011-09-09T09:37:00.008+08:00

Tofu ball recipe will be posted tomorrow.

Served with coconut pudding with strawberry, jack fruitsPotato wedges with tomato sauce

BENTO #31 - Chicken Floss Pocket Sandwich

2011-09-08T07:33:00.007+08:00

Served with carrot & cucumber +thousand island salad cream, cheese slice (Teddy bear) & mieji Yan Yan-chocolate biscuit snack.

BENTO # 30 - Chicken Sausage Sandwich

2011-09-07T08:37:00.009+08:00

Chicken sausage sandwich with tomato, cucumber, carrot & lettuce Served with strawberry Jelly, french fries with cheese, tomato, mustard & myonnaise sauce.

BENTO# 29 - Pasta with Cream Cheese & Bacon , Chicken, Mushroom & Onion

2011-09-06T10:10:00.006+08:00

Served with apple & butter cup cake.

BENTO #28 - Fried Rice With Chicken

2011-09-05T07:33:00.005+08:00

After 1 week Raya holidays, back to school. Today bento, fried rice with chicken, bean, carrot & wrap with egg white sheet. Served with strawberry and honey dew & chocolate

CHICKEN CURRY WITH POTATOES

2011-08-31T22:20:00.002+08:00

Ingredients:

1 whole chicken (cut into chunks about 1 1/2 inches)
5-6 potatoes, peeled, chopped into chunks (Deep fried)
4-6 big onion, peeled and blend
2 tablespoons oil for stir-frying
1 packet of curry paste (A1 brand from supermarket)
1/2 kg tick coconut milk
2 teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoon salt or fish sauce , or to taste
10-15 pieces curry leaves
Ground coriander, optional

Preparation:

Heat a wok or deep-sided frying pan over medium-high heat. Add 2 tablespoons oil to the heated wok. When the oil is hot, add the onion. Stir fly until the onion is softened and translucent. Add the curry paste and stir-fry until fragrant.

Add the chicken and stir-fry for about 5 minutes so that the chicken is coated with the curry paste.

Add the coconut milk, sugar, curry leaves, salt or fish sauce. Cover and simmer over low heat for about 15 - 20 minutes, making sure the chicken is cooked. Add the potatoes and stir for a minute.

Taste the curried chicken and adjust the seasoning if desired. Sprinkle the ground coriander over top.

Cheese Tart

2011-08-26T10:00:00.000+08:00

Cheese Tarts

Dough

400g flour (Shifted)
225g butter (Chill)
2 tbs Castor sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 cup cold water.

Cream Cheese
250g Cream Cheese
80g Sugar
3 Yolks
50g Whipping cream
1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
2tbsp Corn Flour
*some blueberry or strawberry jam for filling & topping

Instructions

To make the tart skin - combine the sugar, salt and flour in a bowl. Cut in butter and add water until the dough starts to come together. Wrap in plastic, then refrigerate for 30 minutes

1.Greese all mould with butter before use. Divide pastry into small portion and shape into mould.

2.Half bake the tarts in preheated oven at 180deg C for about 10-15 minutes.

3To make cream cheese filling, beat cream cheese and caster sugar until soft and smooth. Add in the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Stir in the remaining ingredients.

Spoon some filling (blueberry) into half-baked tarts. Top with some cream cheese.

Top a little blueberry on cream cheese and use a toothpick to draw marble pattern on it. Bake in oven at 180deg C for another 10-15minutes.

BENTO #27 RAISIN BREAD PUDDING#2

2011-08-25T08:00:00.010+08:00

Served with jelly candy, apple, fresh cream & cherry.Recipe refer BENTO #17 - Raisin Bread Pudding

BENTO#26 - FRENCH TOAST

2011-08-24T10:42:00.003+08:00

Served with honey, cerries tomatoes, jelly candy, kiwi & dragon fruits

BENTO #25 - Fried Rice with Egg, Pork & Carrot

2011-08-23T07:50:00.006+08:00

Served with smashed potatoes & strawberry
& dragon fruit & cucumber

BENTO# 24 - Chicken Nuggets Sandwich

2011-08-22T07:48:00.005+08:00

Served with pandan jelly, jelly beans, tomatoes & star fruits.

Family Trip to Papar

2011-08-21T20:19:00.008+08:00

First experience by railway from Tanjung Aru to Papar

Offer at RM 2.80 per person for return(Normal RM 1.85 per way)

Public toilet - Look clean & impressive

Abandon cats

Birds nest along old shop ceiling

Tamu ground

Breakfast

Potluck - Yong's Family

2011-08-20T20:09:00.000+08:00

Mary's Curry ChickenMary's - Thai saladMary's - Fried baby Kai LanYing's - Stew sea cucumber with mushroomYing's - Beef rendangLan's - Steamed fishLan's - Steamed fishLan's - Satay
Aggie's - Steamed Corn ChickenAggie's - Fried PopiaJenny's - Nyoya ChickenJenny's - SaladCatherine's - Thai saladCatherine's - Soya sauce chickenFresh Lime from Harrington GardenMary's - Cheese tartMei's - Caramel Cake
Mei's - Pavlova Cake Aggie's - Pandan JellyYong's family group photo

BENTO#23 - Cheese Sausage & Turkey Ham Stitch Sandwich

2011-08-18T22:36:00.013+08:00

I got home from the office yesterday and I was happy and excited when my daughter ran out telling me that I've received a parcel. It was a gift from Lai Chen 3rd giveaway prize all the way from Indonesia! http://www.mybentolicious.com/2011/07/winners-of-giveaways.html Thank you very much Lai Chen for the gift. :) I can't wait to use it right away and make pretty bento for my children.

Served with sweet corn, sweet potato (purple butterfly), Sweet potato Jelly (Stitch shape) & Potato spiral.

Once again thanks to Lia Chen for this extra gift. Lovely & I like it very much.

BENTO#22 - Garlic Chicken with Honey

2011-08-18T07:25:00.002+08:00

Served with white rice,baby corn, carrot, cucumber + grape & mango

BENTO# 21- Snack

2011-08-17T20:00:00.000+08:00

Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) - Day 6

2011-08-17T08:19:00.003+08:00

Breakfast at hotelCoconut / Pineapple mini pie cost only 0.50 per each

Caramel with ice coffee cost only RM 1.00 per plate with 2 caramels. MUST to try.

Hung Kei Restaurant - Liver porridge & Prawn "Wan Tun"

Vietnamese lifestyle

BENTO #20 - Fried Noodle (Lu Shi Fun) with egg

2011-08-16T08:49:00.003+08:00

Served with Apple, Prawn cocktail & Nougat.

BENTO # 19 - Chicken sausage with hard boiled egg

2011-08-15T09:36:00.001+08:00

Served with sweet potato, jackfrutis & cherry

Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) - Day 5 (31 July 2011)

2011-08-14T08:00:00.006+08:00

Pork rib soup cost 30,000 VND (RM4.50) near Gai Huy Hotel. Recommended - rearlly yummy!
Recommended - Pho Hung Restaurant

Beef stew served with French bread - Compliment by Mr Tomy(owner of Pho Hung Restaurant)

Ben Thanh Market

Municipal Post Office

Reunification Palace

Norte Dame Cathedral

Town Hall

Opera House

Durian Cupcake

2011-08-13T13:01:00.006+08:00

Thanks to Lia Chen for sharing her recipe Bloglicious

(Ingredients)

150 gr cake flour, sifted
150 gr unsalted butter, room temperature
150 gr castor sugar, divided by 2 (@ 75 gr)
200 gr durian flesh, mashed with a back of the fork
100 gr durian flesh for spread, mashed with a back of the fork
20 gr milk powder
6 egg yolks
4 egg whites

(Directions)

Preheat oven to 180C or 160C (fan).

Prepare 30 mini cupcakes cups and arrange them on the top of the baking pan.

Put the butter and the half portion (75gr) of sugar in a mixing bowl, beat it with an electric mixer until soft and creamy.

Add egg yolk one by one until mix well.

Add sifted flour, durian flesh, milk powder and mix well.

Put white eggs in a another clean mixing bowl, beat it with an electric mixer until egg whites are foamy. Then add the half portion (75gr) of sugar, continue beating until egg whites become glossy with stiff peaks.

Add egg white mixture into the other mixture and fold in lightly with spatula until incorporate completely.

Pour the batter into a large piping bag, pipe batter into prepared mini cupcakes cups.

Bake for about 20 minutes or until the toothpick inserted come out clean.

Cool on a wire rack.

Put durian spread on the top just before serving it.

Coffee Jelly with Fresh Cream

2011-08-12T20:33:00.001+08:00

Ingredients

Jelly powder - 2 tbsp

Nescafe Classic (Instant Coffee) - 10 grams

Water - 5 cups + Sugar - 1 1/4 cups

Place all into a pot & bring to a boil & stirring constantly. Pour into small mould/cup and let it cool & set. Served cold with fresh cream.

BENTO #18 - Snack

2011-08-12T09:32:00.000+08:00

Suppose off for bentoing today but since I just bought this 3 cute mini container yesterday, I just filled with some snack for my kids.

BENTO# 17 - Raisins Bread Pudding

2011-08-11T20:30:00.000+08:00

Served with Swiss Roll & Cherry

Ingredients

3 cups milk
3 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoons vanilla (optional)
1 teaspoons ground cinnamon (optional)
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup raisins
280g or 7-8 slices bread cut cubed or torn
4 eggs, beaten

Directions

Preheat oven to 170 degrees C or 350 degrees F.

In a large saucepan, add milk, butter, vanilla, cinnamonm, brown sugar, rum and raisins and heat until warm. Simmer and stir until sugar dissolves.

Into a large bowl add the cubed bread and pour in the hot milk mixture. Let sit for 30 minutes so the bread absorbs the milk.

Add the beaten eggs to the bread and milk mixture and stir. Pour bread pudding into a buttered baking pan and bake for 35-45 minutes.

BENTO#16- Fried Nestum Chicken

2011-08-10T07:42:00.004+08:00

Served with white rice, baby carrot + raisin, sweet corn, cucumber & jelly beans

Utensil - flower shape rice mould, sausage cutter (for baby carrot) to & star cutter (for cucumber)

BENTO#15 - Turkey Ham, Egg & Cheese sandwiched

2011-08-09T07:47:00.006+08:00

Served with grapes, apple (star), cherry & 1 packet of green peas & jelly candy

BENTO #14 - Fried Mee

2011-08-08T07:36:00.004+08:00

Seerved with sweet potatos (Teddy Bear) + sweet corn, + apple & raising.

Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) - Day 4 ( 30 Jul 2011)

2011-08-07T08:00:00.003+08:00

Check-in to new hotel located near Ben Thanh Market
- Gia Huy Hotel cost US 33.00 per room night

Breakfast - Heong Liang Hotel - Pork porridge

- Fish cake noodle soup - Toast with boiled egg

Recommended this restaurant near Hoang Liang Hotel. Cheap & good foods served here. Beef roll served with assorted mint's leaves cost 20,000 VND (RM 3.00)

Grill pork with rice noodle served with fish sauce & mint's leaves cost 35,000 VND (RM 5.00)

Cost 40,000 VND (RM 6.00 per plate - 6 pcs) Guarantee satisfaction.

Kelvin's 15th B'day

2011-08-06T21:00:00.006+08:00

Lime cake done by Mei WanMy boy turn 15th this year & we celebrate at Uncle Nicholas's house -Potluck

Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) - Day 3 (29 Jul 2011)

2011-08-06T07:00:00.001+08:00

Trip to Mekong Delta full day tour cost us only US 13 per person - recommended this tour.

Welcome fruits upon arrival

Met new friends from Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan and France

Make Coconut candy

Friendly python

Longan cost 30,000 VND (RM 4.50 per kg)Simple lunch provided - Pork chop rice served with mix vegetableNice 2**Heong Liang Hotel - friendly staff
Mini buffet breakfast -Fried noodle

- Beef ball soup (Soup very yummy) - Dry Keow Teow with bean sprouts served with fish sauce

Dinner - Kampung Chicken noodle soup - real good & cost only 30,000 VND (RM 4.50)

Restaurant Loong Huy near Heong Liang Hotel - recommended dish

Giant pancake cost 750,000 VND ( RM 10.00) - must try

BENTO#13 - Roti Canai with Cheese & Onions

2011-08-05T11:33:00.006+08:00

Served with Kiwi, Apple, Tomato & Jelly Candy

BENTO #12 - Mini Tuna Sandwich + Cheese & Chocolate Cheese Cake

2011-08-04T16:36:00.003+08:00

Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) - Day 2

2011-07-28T10:00:00.004+08:00

BBQ pork

Selling rice dumpling with banana filling.

Selling fruits

Steamed "Kampung Chicken" selling in supermarket.
The way they fold the chicken look so impressive!
At Supermarket

KFC soft ice cream cost only 5,000 VND (RM 0.70)

Raw papaya with beef pancreas & mints leaves served with fish sauce.

Vietnam Spring Roll cost 3,000 VND (RM 0.50) per pcs.

Lamb kebab cost only 17,000 VND ( RM 2.50)

Selling fresh pork meats.
Pure sugar cane juice mixed with lime cost only 7,000 VND (RM 1.00). Very sweet & "Kau Kau"

Vetnam - Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) - Day 1

2011-07-27T23:23:00.001+08:00

20,000 Dong (1 US) - Glutinous Rice with coconut

HOANG LIANG HOTEL - Good, clean & recommended to stay here with reasonable rate 25.00 -30.00 US per room night with breakfast.

BENTO BOX#11 - Nutella & Milo sandwich

2011-07-27T05:30:00.002+08:00

BENTO BOX # 10 - Bake potatos with cheese & salami

2011-07-26T08:36:00.006+08:00

Hubby's Hainan Breakfast

BENTO BOX #9 - Fried galic rice, salmon, egg

2011-07-25T08:54:00.003+08:00

BENTO BOX #8 - Hard boiled egg, sausages, mashed potatos

2011-07-22T19:39:00.007+08:00

Peach tart compliment by my niece.

BNETO BOX #7 - Maki (Egg,cucumber & Crab stick)

2011-07-21T10:08:00.006+08:00

Ingredients:
3 cups Japanese rice
3 1/4 cups water
1/3 cup rice vinegar
3 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt

Preparation:

Put the rice in a large bowl and wash it with cold water. Repeat washing until the water becomes almost clear.

Drain the rice in a colander and set aside for 30 minutes.

Place the rice in rice cooker and add water. Let the rice soak in the water at least 30 minutes.

Start the cooker. When rice is cooked, let it steam for about 15 minutes.
Prepare sushi vinegar by mixing rice vinegar, sugar, and salt in a sauce pan. Put the pan on low heat and heat until the sugar dissolves. Cool the vinegar mixture.
Spread the hot steamed rice into a large plate or a large bowl. Please use a non-metallic bowl to prevent any interaction with rice vinegar. It's best to use a wooden bowl called sushi-oke. Sprinkle the vinegar mixture over the rice and fold the rice by shamoji (rice spatula) quickly. Be careful not to smash the rice.

To cool and remove the moisture of the rice well, use a fan as you mix sushi rice. This will give sushi rice a shiny look. It's best to use sushi rice right away.

BENTO BOX #6 - Jacket potatos with Salami & Cheese

2011-07-20T11:16:00.010+08:00

Bento Box #5 - Eggs & Milo sandwiches

2011-07-19T09:31:00.006+08:00

My hubby breakfast

Bento Box 4 - Golden Fish Chips with rice

2011-07-18T12:52:00.003+08:00

Mashed Potato

2011-07-16T09:00:00.000+08:00

BENTO BOX 3 - Club Sandwiches (Egg/Bacon/Cheese)

2011-07-15T08:44:00.006+08:00

BENTO BOX 2 - NUGGETS & BOILED POTATO

2011-07-14T09:32:00.005+08:00