Fried Radish-Yam Cake

I love this triangle-shaped kueh all through my childhood and adult years till now.One of my favourite local fritters.Some are shaped in square.

My children also love to eat this kueh.Whenever they see stalls selling,they will point at it
and ask to buy.

Ingredients:

150g radish-shredded

150g yam-shredded

30g dried prawns

1 clove garlic

Seasoning:

salt/sugar to taste

some dash of white pepper

oil


Batter:

1 cup rice flour

1/2 cup water plus 1 cup hot boiling water

Method For cooking:

1.Heat up 2 tbsps cooking oil.Fry the dried prawns and garlic.

2.Add in the radish and yam.Cook until softened.Dish up and set aside.

Method For The Batter:

1. In a bowl,mix rice flour with 1/2 cup of water.Add the seasonings in.Stir to a smooth 
    paste.

2.In a pot of hot boiling water,pour the flour batter in to mix until it thickens.

3.Now,mix the batter to the radish and yam.Mix well.

4.Brush baking tray with some oil.Pour the mixture in spreading with the back of a spoon.

5.Steam in the wok of boiling water at medium heat for 20 minutes until cook.

6.Take out and leave to cool.When it is already cooled,cut into triangle or square shape.

7.If you want to dip-fried,pour enough oil into the wok so that you can dip-fried the batter.

8.For not so crispy type,just use a few tablespoons of oil in a non-stick pan and fry the batter
   until it turns brown,turning on both sides.
    

If you only fry it with little oil,it will become like the picture above.

Honey Ginger Drink

Try this ginger with honey drink.Drink it either hot or cold.
You can also go with cinnamon stick-that is,honey,ginger and cinnamon if you don't mind the taste of the cinnamon 
which is I don't like.I only go for honey and ginger.Honey acts as a sweetener to the ginger which in turn taste nice and palatable.

Honey and ginger has some health benefits.
Google up and you will know.I'm not going to talk long over a recipe post.

Instructions:

Place the ginger in a cup,(a few slices about 4).If cinnamon stick is use,add it together with the ginger.

Pour hot boiling water full into the cup.Let it sit for 15 minutes.Then add in honey to taste,1-2 tablespoon.

Add some ice cubes if prefer to drink cold.

How To Make Roselle Drink

This is roselle drinks.Last week I went to the night market and this red,beautiful fruits caught my attention.I then ask the woman selling this to confirm whether this is roselle and she said yes.I was told by the woman that it can be made into juice and jam and many other uses.
To find out more,read here: 
https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/food/features/2015/04/12/roselle-makes-you-feel-blooming-marvellous/

I've ever heard of roselle but don't know much about it except that it can be made into drinks and a relative of mine had once grown plenty at her backyard.
Happily,I bought the roselle back and immediately went to the kitchen to cook.The woman told me to de-seed first,that is take the seed out from the red calyx and boil only the calyx with a pot of water and add in some sugar for sweetness and taste.

Above is a short clip showing how I made my roselle juice.

Ingredients:

25 roselle(calyx)

1400 ml of water

5 tbsps castor sugar

Instructions:

1.After deseed,boil the calyces(roselle) in a pot of water.

2.Add in sugar and continue boiling for 30 minutes.The water will turned red.

3.Leave to cool and chilled in the fridge.After chilling,the drinks will taste nicer.

Ermm......It taste like ribena.

Baked Kuih Bingka Ubi kayu/Tapioca Cake/Cassava Cake

Everyone said this is the easiest local cake to do and I had to agree more. It's all mix and bake.

The hard skin are peel off,washed clean of any dirt,then using a grater to grate,then when 

the grating is done,mix all the ingredients in a big bowl,place on a baking pan, and bring to the oven

to bake.there is also a steamed version to this cake.Both are very nice.

Ingredients:

520g tapioca,grated

170g coarse sugar

120g thick coconut milk

1 egg

50g melted butter

1/2 tsp salt

Method:

1. Peel the tapioca skin off.Wash the tapioca clean removing any dirt.

2.  Grate the tapioca using a grater.

3. Mix all the ingredients in a mixing bowl until well-combined.

4. Pour into the greased  baking loaf or lined with a banana leaf brush with oil.

5. Bake in the pre-heated oven top and low heat at 190°C for 45-50 minutes until brown and cooked.

6. Leave to cool then cut to pieces and eat warm preferable with hot tea.

Matcha Chipsmore Cookies

 I have nothing much to say about this.just the love of matcha green tea and chocolate chips,so combine together to form matcha chocolate chips cookies.

 This is a treat for my daughter who loves matcha more than me and she loves chipsmore cookies when she was a little girl.

Ingredeints:

226g Unsalted Butter(room temperature)

120g Caster sugar

60g Milk

30g Egg Yolk(2 eggs)

240g Cake Flour

1 tbsp matcha powder

Methods:

Beat the butter until smooth.Add in the sugar and milk.Beat at medium speed until fluffy.

Add in the egg yolk and continue beating.

Add in the sifted flour and gently fold in using spatula to mix thoroughly.

Then add in the matcha powder.Mix well.

Take small dough.Make round shapeLightly flatten it and put chocolate chips on the top.

Arrange on lined baking tray.Bake in oven 170°C for 15 mins or until baked.Cool on wire rack.Store in air-tight container.

German Cookies-Dog Shaped

Dog Shaped Cookies-The year Of The Dog-2018

Cutie Cutie doggies

This recipe was from Baking Tai Tai. http://www.bakingtaitai.com/2014/06/german-butter-cookies.html 

I double the recipe and shaped in the form of dogs since it's the year of the dog.I saw pictures of this cute lovely doggies posted on facebook and also seen the cookies being sold by some cookies seller.At first,I weren't thinking of making because it's going to be a tedious job.That was until I went to buy some baking needs that the cashier recommended me.She thought that I was going to make some dog cookies when she saw my koko crunch

and chocolate chips on the counter.My daughter had wanted to buy the koko crunch home to eat.The cashier kept telling me that the koko crunch was way too big for making the dog's ears.Feeling blur,she show me a card with dogs pictures and recipe on it.Finally,I understood what she meant.Though I have seen people posted on facebook,I weren't too keen in knowing what they uses to make the nose,eyes and ears.This cashier made me feel interested.Why not since I have the koko crunch and chocolate chips,I can just add in two more things,that is the love for the tongue and chocolate rice for the eyes.You can do without the tongue.It's optional.On the cashier's advised,I changed the koko crunch into smaller one.My daughter won't be eating that much.The rest would be for me to make dogs 

cookies.Feeling excited I went home to bake.

At first I made this types, then  I changed to bigger ears because I see it more cutier and lovelier.

This is also my first time baking with potato starch.

This german cookies are very soft.

Ingredients:

250g unsalted butter(I prefer salted,so I used)

80g icing sugar

2 tbsps vanilla

250g potato starch

160g plain flour/all purpose flour

Methods:

1. In a mixing bowl,use electric mixer to beat butter and icing sugar till creamy.Add in vanilla

and continue beating till well combined.

2.Add in sifted potato starch and plain flour with a spatula to form a soft dough.

3.Make small balls and tiny balls for the nose attachments.Then attach the koko crunch as 

ears,the chocolate chips as nose,the love as the tongue,and chocolate chips as the eyes.

4.After all done,bake in oven 150°C,fan forced with top and bottom heat.Bake for 15-20 minutes,but your oven temperature may varies.(know your own oven).

5.Let the cookies to cool on the baking tray first to prevent breakage before transferring to wire rack to further cool.

Love Pineapple Tarts

With love from Pineapple tarts 2018

Chinese New Year is round the corner.Every year I made pineapple tarts.This year I sealed my pineapple tarts with love.

This recipe below is just great for making the roll and closed pineapple tarts.

It's just a random recipe for every year from:https://cocomintt.blogspot.my/2014/01/pineapple-tarts-for-chinese-new-year.html

226 grams butter

3 tbsp sugar

11/2 tsp salt

1 egg yolk

21/2 cups flour(330g)

2 tbsp milk powder

2 tbsp corn flour

21/2 tsp custard powder 

1 tsp vanilla essence

Method:

Beat butter with sugar until fluffy.Then add in egg yolk.Mix the flour,corn flour,custard flour,milk powder and salt together.Then add to the butter mixture.Add in the vanilla essence and beat again evenly. Make into dough and roll,then shape with cutter.Fill the pineapple jam.Bake in a preheated oven,180°C until cooked.

With love from pineapple tarts 2018

Chocolate-Filled Buns

This is my simply chocolate-filled buns.Recipe is the same as the Braided Bread-https://cocomintt.blogspot.my/2017/08/braided-bread.html

by http://mymindpatch.blogspot.my/2015/03/sugar-twister-bread.html

I only stuff the chocolate fillings in from store bought and turned into a flower buns.I was  craving for chocolate buns at that time and hence decided to make a quick one with this recipe.

I have sprinkle too much seasame seeds.Pardon me,I have too much sesame seeds left.It should be put in the middle but as you can see I've put it everywhere.

Use a knife or scissor to cut into petals.

My Uber Experiences

Previously,I talk about grabcar experiences.Now I'm going to talk about uber experiences.

Going back to Kuala Lumpur,I uses Uber a lot instead of grabcar.The reason why I changed to Uber is because Uber have got a lot of promotions and promo code for me.Using the promo code,I can have discounts or even sometimes free ride depending on my distance.The month was November and in 2017.I used grabcar too but not so often compared to my previous visit to Kuala Lumpur.
Wherever and whichever is cheaper,I used.Easy say!
Some of the Uber drivers are very good and friendly,but a few not so.The good and friendly one will
ask you whether the aircon is cold enough for us and have a friendly chat with you all along and the unfriendly and lazy one will just keep driving and complain that you didn't show the exact direction that you going to,and there was a man who dropped me and my family a farther distant away from the shopping mall that we had to walk under the hot sun till we reach the front shopping mall.This guy I gave him only one star.Most drivers I gave four to five stars.
Malaysia is a very hot country,but most uber and grabcars aircon are not on strong enough.They only turned on to 2 the maximum.
I noticed that there are many women drivers.Sometimes in one day I can have three women drivers.
Considering how arkward I was sitting with strangers,women drivers just suit me.
One night,there was a lady driver who call first to ask where I was going.Why does she ask when it's already written  the destination on the uber app?Anyway,this driver call to confirm where I was heading to.She thought I wanted to go to the airport.I told her it wasn't airport and she ask me to cancel my booking which I didn't.I wouldn't want uber to charge me which is not my fault.In the end she cancel it herself.A few minutes later,I got a message from uber charging me RM5.I then submit ticket to complain to uber.Then uber drop the charges which is fair.

Uber on the other hands,compare to grabcar don't charge toll fees.It's all included.so,it's fix price.Grabcar charges you toll fees which is not included yet.We already know how much uber charges us while we were sitted inside the car,but we don't know how much grabcar is going to charge us until we arrived at our destinations.Once the car stop,you ask them how much and you waited till they count and tell you how much.So,will you use uber or grabcar?It all depends on you.

Crispy Banana Fritters

Pisang Goreng 

Last night,I made some crispy banana fritters.I bought two bananas but only one is ripe.

I've made and blog before my pisang goreng or banana fritters.

Check it up here:https://cocomintt.blogspot.my/2014/07/fried-banana-frittersgoreng-pisang.html

This time I want no eggs,butter or milk added but something more plain and adding some custard powder is what I like so that my banana fritters will have a nice yellow colour.At first,I wanted to add in coconut cream but then I decided not to because I have already decided to make it plain but crispy.

I used pisang rajah-the longer and bigger type of bananas for making fritters.The riper the better it is to me in making fritters.You can also use any other types of cooking bananas that you know of.

Ingredients:

about 422g of ripe pisang rajah

100g rice flour

1 tbsp custard powder

11/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp sugar(optional)

1/2 tsp salt

100ml water

1 tbsp oil(or margarine)

Method:

Mix together rice flour,custard powder,baking powder and salt(sugar if sugar is use) together in a bowl.

Add oil and water in to mix.Mix thoroughly and smoothly with a spatula.

Cut the banana diagonally into pieces.

In a cooking pot,heat up oil.

Dip the banana pieces into the batter.When the oil has got smoke,deep-fried the banana.

When it turns golden,take the fritters out dripping any excess oil on an absorbent papers or put on the cooling rack with a tray underneath to collect the oil.

Serve warm.Makes 16  thin pieces.8 for thick pieces. 

My Nikon D5300 Camera Was Stolen

Today,I got very very sad, angry,disappointed and heartbroken.My Nikon DSLR5300 was taken and stolen away from inside my car.I guess it was my stupid mistake for not locking the car and not taking the camera with me.The same goes to my daughter who is with me to the nearest supermarket to buy something.It was my fault and therefore I got very very annoyed and very very frustrated.

A year ago,I had bought this camera for the family to use and partly for my two sons to use in the school when they needed to shoot videos for their projects.Cameras are very costly but I have to buy,else they don't have camera to use.

Now,my Nikon D5300 camera is gone.How sad and furious I am.It will probadly took years for me to buy another good camera.Don't dare to buy another one.

Please do not be like me to leave your precious belongings behind in the car.There are some nasty thieves around.You can never take it back or can you?

.

Or shall I buy again?

Flower Buns

Dough:

21/2 cups all purpose flour

3 tbsps. granulated sugar

1/2 tsp fine salt

1 tbsp. dry yeast

3/4 cup warm milk

1 large egg,beaten

3 tbsp. butter at room temperature

Extra flour as needed

Some cut spring onions for garnishing

Make the dough :

1. In a mixing bowl put flour, make 3 wells. Add into each well : sugar, salt, yeast. Stir sugar and yeast first then stir together using a wooden spoon.
2. Pour warm milk and beaten egg (minus 2 tbsp). Stir until combined.
3. Add soft butter, continue stirring until well blended into a smooth sticky dough.
4. Put the dough into greased bowl. Cover with cling wrap and put in warm place for about an hour.
An hour later the dough will be very soft and hollow. When you pull the dough, it will show the hollows all around.
Sprinkle with extra flour  and start folding with finger tips (not kneading). Sprinkle more flour as needed but not too much.
5. Dust work table with flour before put the dough. Flatten the dough with hand. Cut into 16 pieces.
6. Shape the dough into balls. Sprinkle with flour to prevent sticking.
7. Flatten or press the dough with fingers, brush with butter. Put on  some green onions on top.Fold into a half-moon,brush with butter again, then gather both corners creating a flower petal.
Repeat the method until finished.
8. Arrange on a greased round pie baking pan. Cover with loose cling wrap for 30 minutes. Let rise.
9. Brush beaten egg on top.
Bake at 175°C pre-heated oven, for 30 minutes until golden brown and blooming.
Let stay in the pan for 10 minutes. Serve with hot soup .