God's Greatest Gift

I think pandan leaves are one of God's greatest gifts to man!It's like the coolest plant lar! You can use it in savoury dishes or desserts. You can even use it as a 'cupboard freshener' to chase the cockroaches away! Where can you find such stuff man! Chicken rice, nasi lemak, curries, tong sui, red bean soup... you name it... pandan can do it!Maybe cos i'm southeast asain, so i'm really into this fragrant green plant.

Made some pandan muffins on labour day. I used a recipe from Aunt Yochana again. However, i decided to give it a little twist. Instead of putting macadamia nuts into the muffin, i scooped at teaspoon of kaya in between the batter and baked it. Came out really good!! Smelling nice and all. But i tot i could have added some more kaya, nevertheless, i love the pandany and coconuty fragrence. Jeannie, Seng and pig pig had some too!!



They came out with the 'star' shape on top of the muffins cos the kaya broke through as the muffin was rising and created a sort of shape. Really cool.



Emmmmmmmm... will definately try again. with more kaya and coconut milk.

Strawberry Siao!

Okie okie, i've got the strawberry craze. But don't you love them? They are so cute and colourful. Bright red with a burst of green at the top. Emmm... and have you eaten the korean ones?? They are like HEAVEN lar!!!!


Okie, so i bot another pack of strawberries(USA) and made this wonderful muffin that i saw on Sweet Decadence. Easy peasy. This time, i really did it the muffin way. I didn't cream the sugar with butter but instead followed the instructions to put the wet ingredients together and later the dry ones. The sprinkle of sugar on the top was just nice cos it mixed with the sour strawberries.


Yummm it was really fragrent when i took it out of the oven. Popped one into my mouth as soon as i could. The strawberries retained their flavour and the sugar gives the top a nice caramlised look. Sweet!

Noodles Oodles

If you have read last Sunday's Lifestyle, you would have seen the 50 different ways to cook instant noodles. Well, piggy being a great fan of instant noodles insisted that i try some of the recipes. Okie, so i made this Mushroom noodles with hot sauce. But cos piggy dosen't take spicy stuff, i decided to replace the hot sauce with oyster sauce and throw in some chicken meat. Well, it tasted really good. Could have done with more mushrooms though. Slurp!



One of piggy, one for angie and one for me!


Yummie.. will definately cook this again! Easy peasy, just fry the chicken, mushrooms, capsicum, beansprouts with garlic. Add soya sauce and oyster sauce, pop in the boiled nooodles and stir. Then add some shallots and spring onions.

Keep Moving Forward

Okie.. i named this post the name as well, you'll find out soon.
Set out to make my much awaited Heart Jelly Cheesecake. See, it's supposed to be a normal cheesecake with jelly on top of it. If you go to Aunt Yochana's blog, you'll see a very very well done cake.
It was a pretty easy cake to make.No baking required, so not much fuss. All went well until i started putting the jelly on. I did not wait for the cheese to set before putting it on so well, it kinda spilled over. And it didn't help that i used a spring form pan (so geh kiang). I wanted to throw the whole thing away when i tot of the movie 'Meet the Robinsons'. If you haven't watched it... go.. very very good. So i tot, nope! I shall make the best of it. I have spent so much money so i try and make it as good as i can. So i took out some of the water, swirled the jelly into the cheese and hid the strawberries inside. Popped it back into the fridge and crossed my fingers.

Later in the evening, i was supposed to cook for piggy. Wanted to try out a version of his favourite Din Tai Fund fried rice. Used 4 eggs, pork shreds, lotsa garlic and spring onions. I tot it'll be good but............ the very first step of cooking the rice was all wrong!!!! I added too much water!!!!!!!! arghhhhhhhhh.... it turned out to be fried porridge lar!!! Siannnnnnnnnnn.. But piggy was very nice, he ate everything i gave him and said it was nice and he liked it. So sweet rite?! Again, i remembered the slogon for the movie 'Keep Moving Forward!' and decided that i shall try it again!!!



Doesn't look too bad rite?? But taste wise... emmmmmmmmmm....

Okie.. back to the cheesecake. Fingers still crossed, i took out the cake and sliced a piece and well well well... it wasn't so bad!! the cake part was a little too stiff though, maybe because of the jelly. But piggy liked the crust. Even my mom liked it!!! She seldom eats such stuff. Take a look!


Not bad rite?? heh heh

So folks!! Don't give up on something cos you've failed!! Dosen't matter man, just keep moving forward!! Yeah!!

Mini CupCakes

Saw this recipe in the Sunday Times on Sunday and wanted to make it straight away. It was an interesting recipe where there was no creaming needed, only the melting of butter with water and coco powder. It was really easy to make but taste wise, alright only. Next time i make this, i'll put real chocolate in to melt with the butter instead of water, might bring out a more chocolatey flavour. It was pretty cute though cos it was so small...



All the cupcakes fitted nicely on the tray



Smaller than my palm!!