Evergreen Cake/Kek Lapis

The so-called green,green cake

Butter Cake

Perhaps the most easiest cake to do is this butter cake.It was a cake for the beginner.I remembered me making this cake for the very first time when I was just in my teenage years.The recipe were very easy to remember.I do not have to take out my book to follow.It was just in my head.My siblings called this the old fashioned English cake.

INGREDIENTS;

250g butter
230g sugar
230g flour sifted
5 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoon milk(optional)

Method:

1)Sieve the flour and baking powder together in a plate.
2)Beat the butter and sugar together until it turns fluffy.Add the eggs,one at a time slowly.
3)Add in the vanilla.If milk is used,add in also.
4)Fold in the sifted flour until thoroughly mix.
5)Pour into a baking tray and baked in a preheated oven at 180°C for 45 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.Cool on a wire rack before cutting.Served with tea or coffee.

Rojak

Rojak

Rojak,Rojak.Besides making the ABC ais kachang,my daughter and I also made this special salad called Rojak.Our Rojak consists of cucumber,sengkuang(turnip),pineapple and fried beancurd.Added to it are peanuts and the Rojak sauce.This is enough to make us feel satisfied.Something that we can do by ourself at home.

 

The mixed Rojak

Rojak usually goes with ice kachang

The Rojak sauce we bought from the supermarket.And the colourful ais kachang.

Ice kachang/ABC Special

This feeling is so good!ABC special on a hot,sunny day.This specialty dessert is very popular in Malaysia and Singapore.I made this at home last Saturday and Sunday,along with my daughter.

What we 'd added:cincau,red beans,sweet corn,cincaluk,cocktail,agar-agar and tiny small pearls.We then used a big commercial blender to blend the ice cubes.We don't have an ice shaver machine at home,but we are planning to buy one soon.Evaporated milk,gula apong,sugar syrup and cherry cordial were added to the top.We made the perfect ais kachang that day.It was very cooling.My daughter was very happy that she can make her own ABC Special at home.

my daughter made this one

red bean cendol also make by my daughter
by the way,my daughter is 11 years old

I can't make an exact recipe for this one.You can add anything you want.You can also shave the ice and make it tall like a mountain.For us here,we put 1 tablespoon each for everything.
Here are the things that we bought and used:

Oh!I forgot to mention one thing.It's not in the picture.It's the pearl sago.

Put this according to how sweet you want,but not too sweet

Last of all,add in gula melaka or gula apong or brown sugar in and you are on your way to a tasty ice kachang.Instead of evaporated milk,coconut santan is a substitute.It is more tastier,more fragrance.

Have fun!Enjoy!

3 Layered Tea

3 Layer Tea

Goodness!I can't really see a three layered!My tea wasn't black enough.Nevertheless,the taste was the same as you drink in any drink shop or coffee house.I should have gone out to buy a black or red tea to make my three layered tea.The weather was so hot yesterday and I was lazy to go anywhere except bringing my children to school and back from school.I have only left one tea bag from Lipton.I guess I must have put in too much water for only a tea bag.This is so as to let everyone in my family have an equal share of the tea.My son always called for this drink whenever he was in the eatery shop.This time,I took a turn in making it at home for him.It's not that difficult to make.Some people use gula melaka,but I used gula apong.I wondered these two are the same or not.

Here is how:

30ml gula apong

30ml evaporated milk

some ice cubes

tea

First pour the gula apong into the glass,then put in the ice cubes,then the evaporated milk and lastly,fill up the top with tea.That's it!Enjoy your 3 Layered Tea.

Celebrating moon cake festival

 It's that time of the year again,where the chinese people celebrated the mid-autumn festival.That is also called the moon cake festival.Moon cake festival falls on the 15th day on the 8th month of the Lunar Calendar.However,in these modern age,I don't get to see many people hanging lanterns around their houses anymore.Youngsters today,went out to a special place instead, to have fun with playing the lanterns.One special place that I know of is the "friendship park" in Kuching here.If you live in Sarawak,Malaysia,you will know which place I'm talking about.

People of all walks of life came here to hang lanterns on the trees.The trees are being decorated with colourful lanterns.It was a beautiful night.I met my old friends here.

Perhaps, the most interesting thing of all is the sky lanterns,also known as Gu Ming Teng,in chinese.The night sky were filled with this orange lanterns.Some people say this is a wish lantern.Make a wish before flying it high in the sky.I was scared out of wits of these sky thing.The flame was so big,and I feel danger coming in,like the wind gonna blow the thing down and burned a whole house,but it never happen.It's just my imagination!Still,people got to play it in a proper way!

From far,it looks like stars shining from above the sky,but no kidding,it was actually the sky lanterns.

The night before,I had it celebrated at home.It was the second time I did it at home.The very first time was a very long time ago when my kids were still small.It was at my old house.This year,I decided to do it once again to lighten the mood of everyone.I bought quite a lot of mooncakes.

This chocolate mooncake are not so nice.I prefer the lotus paste

This blog was posted late because I cleaned my whole house.

Celebrated on the 19th day of september,2013
Posted on today,26th september,2013

How time flies!

claypot tofu

Claypot Tofu
Today,I learned how to cook this simple meal.
Ingredients:
3 japanese tofu (sliced diagonally)
A)
5 young corns
1/2 carrot(sliced thinly)
4 florets cauliflower
4 florets brocoli
3 dry mushrooms(soaked)

2 slice of thin ginger
1 clove garlic

2 tbspoon corn flour + 1 tbsp water mix

1/4 cup water
B)
1 tsp plum sauce
1 tbsp salt
1 tsp maggi seasoning

Method:
Deep-fry the tofu until brown.Take it out from the kuali.Set aside.
Fry the garlic and ginger in a claypot until fragrant. Pour the water in.
Add in (A)Stir.Add in the tofu.
Next add in (B)
When cooked,add in the corn flour.Stir and dish it out. Enjoy!

Note: I cooked this according to my taste.You can cook your own taste.

thieves break-in

26th August,2013,Monday- Thieves broke into my home and stole 2 laptops,1 netbook and an ipad..My wedding ring was also stolen along with my family passports and bankbooks.They even took away a windows 7 softwares.Anger suppressing me.My most valuable item was my wedding rings.How unlucky indeed!I kept getting unlucky these days.One of the laptop,belong to my nephew.His laptop was under repaired at my home at that time.Luckily,his was easily replaced by his own father,but not for us.There are many more things that they took and who knows there are some more which I haven't found out yet.Thieves are getting smarter these days.They even robbed in the day time.Mine happened in the night.We don't have any security alarms or CCTV.I just wish I had a dog,a very fierce one.The television was on at that time,when we went out but the thieves still knew that nobody was at home.So,how did the thieves know that there's nobody at home?They must have spy on us.Luckily,no one was at home at that time or else they might have harm us.We all went out for a birthday party with my niece.
Now,everyday,I'm in fear.I couldn't sleep peacefully!Therefore,I felt very sleepy everyday..
I just can't own anything.Not even up to two months!I doze off too while trying to edit my blog!

Red Yeast Rice Chicken

1.5 kg chicken

a small piece of ginger(extract juice)

1 small garlic

1 tablespoon light soya sauce

1 tablespoon salt

2 tablespoon rice wine

4 tablespoon red yeast rice

3 tablespoon cooking oil/sesame oil

Heat up oil in a wok.Put the garlic in till fragrant.

Throw the red rice yeast in and the chicken.

Pour the light soya sauce,salt and ginger juice in.Stir .Cover.

Lastly, pour the rice wine in.cover again for a few more minutes until done.

Serve warm with rice.

Note:I don't know how other people cook it,but I cooked it this way.I'm not a Foochow.I heard that this is a Foochow dish. One way or the other,it is still delicious.

Basic Angel Cake

Finally,I made an angel cake.With so many egg whites left from making kek lapis the other day,I had to think of what to do before I threw it into the bin and waste away.I found a recipe and made this simple basic angel cake.Adapted from the book-1001 Classic Recipes From around The World

Actually,this cake was supposed to use a tube pan but I don't have one,so I just used a 9" round pan instead.

 Basic Angel Cake:
1 cup all purpose flour
2 tbsp cornstarch
11/2 cups superfine sugar
10 large egg whites
11/4 tsp cream of tartar
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp almond extract
confectioner's sugar to dust(I skipped)

Preheat oven to 325°F.Set out a 10 inch tube pan with a removable bottom.Sift the flour and cornstarch into a large bowl.Stir in 1/2 cup superfine sugar.Beat the egg whites,cream of tartar and salt in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until frothy.With mixer at high speed,gradually beat in the remaining 1 cup sugar,beating until stiff peaks form.Add the vanilla and almond extracts.Use a large rubber spatula to gradually fold in the dry ingredients.

Orange Layer Cake

Adapted from the book Y3K

I kept eating this cake.It was a little sweet/Perhaps I should less the condensed milk or sugar next time.My husband kept eating this too.It was nice!nice! and yum!yam!,but look at the egg yolks.Health conscious people are advised not to eat this a lot.

Ingredients:

A) 350g butter,60g castor sugar

     1/2 can sweetened condensed milk(194g)

     1/2 can kaya(150g)

B) 18 egg yolks,1 tbsp cake emulsifier(ovalette)

C)  140g Hong Kong flour/superfine flour

D)  3 tbsps orange jam, 1 tsp orange essence

      1 tsp orange colouring

Method:

1.Beat ingredients (A) till light and fluffy.

2.In a separate bowl,beat ingredient (B) till creamy.

3.Fold no.(1) and no.(2) together.

4.Mix in ingredients (C) and divide cake mixture into two portions.To the first portion,add in      ingredient(D) and let the second portion natural.

5.Grease and line an 8 inches square baking tin.Scoop 1 ladle of orange coloured cake mixture into cake tin.Level it and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degree celcius on the upper shelf.Check before five minutes is up for the first few layers as different ovens have different heat.Remove whole cake tin.

6.Place a piece of parchment paper on top of baked surface.Use a metal flattener ,press surface all over to remove trapped air bubbles.

7.Scoop in one ladle of uncoloured cake mixture,level it and bake for about 5 minutes.

8.Continue to alternate the two mixtures till ingredients are used up.

Instead of metal flattener ,I used the base of a flat glass.

The Wet Kitchen

My husband is expanding our back kitchen.It will take some time to finished because he is doing the work all by himself.No hurry cos we still got a dry kitchen.While he is busy with the renovation,I ,on the other hand is cooking for dinner.

What did I cook?Here is what I've cooked.Nothing special.

Brinjal

Kachangma with rice

Mix Vegetable Tofu

It was a lazy Sunday evening,but I cooked my dinner well!