Royal Icing & Fondant

I love cookies especially chocolate chips cookies. But it is boring to always hv only one type of cookies. Many times I wanted to try baking other types of cookies like those with different colors royal icing. However, whenever I see those baked by fervent food bloggers or sold at bakery shop, yes no doubt they look dainty n nice, but looking at the icing and colors loaded on the cookies, I defer my plan to bake cookies with royal icing. Because I don't want to eat in chemicals and sugar. Same goes to cakes with fondant. I am really scared to bite on fondant cakes. It makes my teeth hvg that kind of cracking feeling.

1 Bee Hoon and 2 desserts 一咸两甜

Its been awhile again since I last blogged.  Just plain lazy .... :-/

Last week I fried some Pig Trotters Bee Hoon for my DH as he likes to eat this kind of bee hoon. Furthermore, I made 2 different desserts, as I am a "dessert" person ...hehe ;-P

 

  

Raspberry Flavoured Cheesecake Bars & Nonya Mee Siam

It's been a while since I last updated my blog.  Now at last , the school holidays have started, I can once again engage myself in blogging.

I have not been doing cheesecake for quite some time.  Upon the request of my new neighbour, Aunty M, I made this Raspberry Flavoured Cheesecake Bars.  In return, Aunt M cooked for me one of my favourite Nonya food, Mee Siam. Well, it's not so much of returning a favour but Aunt M is such a good cook that eversince I knew her, she has been cooking good and delicious food for my hubby and me. I count myself so blessed to have her as my neighbour.  Thank you Aunt M :-)

Gula Melaka Sago (Sago pudding with palm sugar)

 

Gula Melaka (palm sugar) Sago Pudding  @ Honey & Soy Food Adventures
makes 6 puddings

150g small sago pearls (soak in water for 30 mins, then drain)
200g gula melaka

200ml natural coconut cream

Bring a large pan of water to the boil and add sago when water is boiling. Stir frequently to avoid the sago sticking to the bottom of the pan.

Turn off the heat when the sago floats to the top. The centres of the sago should be just translucent as the heat retained will cook the sago through.

Pour out half the water (the sago would have fallen to the bottom by now) and rinse with cold water a couple of times to remove the starch.

Spoon the sago into moulds and chill in the fridge until set (about 0.5 to 1 hour).

Melt the gula melaka in a small saucepan with a little water over very low heat until dissolved. Set aside to cool. Mix the coconut cream and coconut milk and set aside.

To serve the puddings, place 1 set sago pudding in a bowl. Eat with as much gula melaka and coconut milk/cream as you like!


Gula Melaka (palm sugar)



          

Sago Pearls (Tapioca Pearls)



Is Dinner Time Again :-)

Mango Ginger Chicken Drumblets with Black Sauce Ginger Noodles.

Ginger, ginger and more ginger. Yes, I LOVE ginger.  I love the aroma of ginger and the spiciness of it. I inherit such love for ginger from my dear mum. She likes to cook with ginger, be it shredded, sliced or pureed. Just love it.

Hence, during this dinner, I used lots of ginger. :-) You may not be able to see the ginger very much, except the drumblets, because it was under my noodles!  And when I gave the noodles a good stir, the noodles was full of ginger aroma. Wow!

My Curry Chicken

I am a curry lover, all types of curry in fact.
Hence, you will see in my blog, more than often, the post on curry. :-P
Two days ago, I cooked curry again, my favourite Curry Chicken.
Of course, there must be potatoes, cooked till soften,
nearly melt in the mouth kind.
I added lemon grass, to give the curry a beautiful aroma.
This is my Curry and I savoured it with French loaf, a nice combination.
After dipping the bread in the curry, and then eat it, the after-effect is:
"Oh, I'm on cloud 9." :-)

My new baking tool

I bought this SEVERIN (German brand) mixer sometime in January this year from Courts at Causeway Point. I leave it at Courts for nearly 2 months before I carried it back home. Till now I have not used it yet.  Today I just took it out and washed it clean and hopefully to use it soonest. :-P   This mixer comes with an in-built blender and a socket that can insert a meat mincer (must buy separately). I didn't buy the meat mincer because I can buy meat from the meat stall and ask the butcher to mince it for me, so why trouble myself? :-)

This is my new built-in 57 litres oven from Mayer. It is made in Italy. I bought it during the Singapre Great Sales few months ago. It was quite a deal considering its capacity.  It cost me less than S$600. It is easy to clean too. I hope to use it more often.

Black Sesame Tuna Sandwich

In fact, I did a sandwich for dinner sometime last month but forgot to post it here. Here are the pictures. I just mixed the canned tuna with some mayo & black pepper together sprinkled some black sesame seeds, and eat it with cherry tomatoes and lettuce. Simple & tasty.