Kari Kambing

This curry remind me of parties i attended to in various celebration. It seems to be a big favourite for young and old. best serve with rice or bread

here is the recipe:
1kg goat meat/lamb, cut into pieces
2 brown onion
7 cloves of garlic
6 kaffir lime leaves
6 large red chille
10 candle nut
2 tsp tumeric powder
2 lemon grass
6 Indonesian bay leave
3 tbsp cooking oil
1 litre hot water
1 tin of 250 ml coconut milk
salt and pepper to taste

blendered onion, garlic, candle nut and chilli until formed paste
heat oil in wok, and saute paste until fragrant.
then browned the meat in this mix
pour in hot water, simmer until meat is soft
put coconut milk, cook for 5 min and remove
  

Ongol Ongol

This is an old time fav, brings back childhood memory of mum making it, though the shape is normally round, as it was scooped with spoon before rolled into coconut.
I have looked into various recipes, and choose this one to try. It has right combination of water/flour.

For those that like very chewy texture, this is the recipe.
Ingredient:
A. 130g tapioca flour
     300 ml water

B  150 g palm sugar
     100ml water  
     1pandan leave  

C  Dessicated coconut and a pinch of salt
   

Melt palm sugar with 100 ml of water and pandan leave on stove.
You should ended up with 200 ml of melted palm sugar- strain to get rid of any sandy bits

Mixed tapioca flour with 300 ml of water. Take 3 table spoon of this mixture and pour it into piping hot palm sugar, stir quickly ,to get a thick mixture.

pour in the rest of tapioca mixture and steam it for 40 minutes or until its transparant.

when it has cooled down, cut into slices and roll into coconut.

Indonesian Sponge cake with Cheddar cheese

Its probably one of those thing that is an aquired taste. some swear by it,.. others kinda hmm.

The sponge cake is normally iced with combination of cream cheese, normal cream and icing sugar top with shredded cheddar cheese.

I have made it without icing as to cut down on calories intake, but according to my faithful food taster, its not the real thing. The cake definitely need to be done with complete icing and cheese...ooppsss.

I forgot which food blog I got the recipe from, but more or less its the following ingredient.

10 yolk, 3 egg white
100g sugar
cake flour 120g, corn flour 15 g, milk powder 15 g
25 ml milk
50 g butter
1 table spoon of shredded cheese- melt these 3 ingredient under low heat, then keep warm -
bake 170c for 30 min in 9 inch round tin

Genoise Cupcake

Dont you just love the flat surface of these cupcake? They are so ready to be dress up with all sorts of icing and sugar paste.  Though the texture is a bit dry and could do with filling of cream and some sort of jams.. yumm........ 

Basil and Sausages are best friend

                                                           
  This is one of the best herb for all year round planting.

It flower in spring, with this light blue colour splashes all over places. Excellent cover from weeds.

Best of all, sausage roll would never smell like sausage roll without this herbs.

a pinch of nutmeg, a few sprays of basil.. my mind has wondered of to heavenly smell of freshly bake sausage roll with very crispy flake pastry on the outside and soft flavoursome filling.
Come to think of it, i have not make sausage roll for a long time. All this talk is making me really hunger and it is yet afternoon tea time.

Chinese Vegetable- Tong Ho

I was trying to set up Compos heaps and part of the stuff that goes in was the left over bits from Tang Ho vegetables.

Some weeks later I noticed the stems are actually looking really fresh. Upon pulling it out from the ground, there were a lot of roots growing out of it. So I decided to plant them in the pot and guess what, this beautiful flowers are the result.

They look like daisy... its so nice. the other plant with a slightly different shape leaves have white and yellow petals. Even if you dont like Tang Ho, it still made an attractive plant.

So,.. now what is the recipe to cook this delicious vegetables,.. from stirfry  to soup?

Genoise Sponge Cake

Hooray.. success story on first goes, which is a bit unusual. So used to fail attempt, the result of the cake comes as a surprise. Though the deco could do with improvement.

I have watch you tube on how to cover cake with icing and it look deadly easy. But guess what?

try to roll the icing on board, it stick like super glue. tried to roll it on baking paper, it sticks as well..

If you really wanted to learn how to become a patient person, try icing a piece of cake.

My god there are temptation to just be aggresive and destroy the whole thing.

anyway,.. the end result is this. a very nice cake, though had to throw away most of the icing, as they are use for deco purposes, even though they are good to eat as no chemical was used, but its so sweet...

Not according to husband, which I have to use watchful eye and stopped him from eating this sweet coating..though I believed he managed to sneak a few in between time when i blink.

Cupcake

I can never get sick of looking at cupcake.. here we go again. Made another batch, just so i can look at it... hehehe... na, just kidding. this was for party last weekend.

Halooo... Its spring time

What is there not to be happy about.  Plenty of sunshine, nice cool breeze and plenty of flower...

here are the pics from my garden for you

Buttermilk Chocolate cake

I am trying to make a healthy Chocolate with minimum butter. I have tweak this recipe to

160 ml butter milk

40 g butter

2 tbl rice bran oil

3 tbl coco powder

6 eggs

125g cake flour

1tsp baking powder

vanilla

Instead of a fluffy cake, it turned out like a ant nest, i wonder if it would be possible at all to bake a healthy, skinny chocolate cake that one can eat fairy often.

What Flower is this?

This is such a beautiful flower. I wonder if this is Camelia???

I have tried to plant camelia many times, but so far they all died on me, hmm black thumb!!!

Cookie Cutter from Ikea

What a cutie,.. make these cookies from ikea cookie cutter for fund raising

                                     

Got this Sunbeam Cafe Series mixer from hubby a couple months a go .

I would really love to have kitchenaid instead, but its so pricey.

Anyway, this is not a bad machine, its great for making bread, though i think the instruction should be a little clear of how to put on the attachment. Its no rocket science, but I had a hard time fiqure out which of the two attachment go to the right hole.

anyway, I have mostly use it for making bread, It is still most convenient to use my hand held mixer for making cake. may be I am old fashion or old habit die hard. but i have been using the hand held mixer all of my life, its so simple and easy. Couldnt wait for summer time, Its so quick to make bread, as for now it took forever to have the dough rise.