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I bought a packet of 500 g blueberry muffin mix flour and I was thinking, it was similar to the bread mix that I bought previously (I meant, instant..). But after doing some reading, I found that it’s just a flour, with additional ’small chunks’ of blueberry, so by using this mix flour, I don’t have to think of buying the blueberries anymore for it’s already in the flour. :)So, how to use the flour? I search through the net (also through a book that I just bought ) and I had a feeling that this recipe from About.com can be used to make muffins. So, with a little changes, here’s the recipe to bake blueberry muffins Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour } sieved
• 2¼ cups pastry flour (muffin mix flour)
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 Tbsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 cup whole milk ( I used low fat milk )
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract (honestly, I don’t have vanilla extract, so I used vanilla essence instead)
• 1 large egg (I used 2 medium eggs)
• 4 oz butter (½ stick) or shortening (4 oz = 113 g)

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 400° F or 204°C.
2. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt.
3. Unwrap the butter and heat it in the microwave, in a microwave-safe bowl, for about a minute, until it’s thoroughly melted. Set it aside at room temperature to cool, but don’t let it solidify again.
4. Beat the eggs in a separate bowl and then add the sugar, milk and vanilla to the eggs.
5. Thoroughly grease and flour a muffin pan (or use paper muffin liners).
6. Pour a tiny bit of the melted butter into the egg-vanilla-milk mixture and stir it in. Repeat 3-4 more times, adding a slightly larger amount of the liquid butter each time until it is all incorporated.
7. Gently pour the batter into the prepared muffin pan and bake immediately.
8. Bake 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.

IMPORTANT: Don’t add hot melted butter to the egg mixture as the heat from the butter would cook the egg, and that’s not what you want to do! 

 

 

 

I bought this wholemeal bread mix at Bake With Yen’s shop last time. Just want to have a shot The bread mix cost me around RM 3.20 and another RM 1 for a packet of yeast. So, let’s do it!! (^^,)

Ingredients :

• (A) 600 g Wholemeal Bread Mix
• (B) 11 g instant yeast (1 packet)
• (C) 360 ml cold water
• (D) 20 g butter or margarine

Method :

1. Use a dough hook to mix ingredients A, B and C together for 2 minutes.
2. Add in D and knead until dough is well developed.
3. Rest dough for 10 minutes.
4. Divide dough into 3 loaves of 370 g each (but I used the small packet for easy storage )
5. Let dough rise till double in size.
6. Bake at 220?C for 30 minutes.

My lil baby loves this S, I always make sure that it will always be inside our refrigerator. Her favourite is the strawberry flavour, but I made 2 flavours for her, one is her favourite, and the other one is the sweet corn flavour. And, lucky for me coz she loved both :)I used instant Fruit Bean Curd Pudding Powder and the steps were so easy to follow.  So, here’s the steps :

Method :

1. Boil 3000 ml of water, add 100 gm sugar and 1 can of evaporated milk.
2. After boiling, turn off the flame.
3. Pour in Fruit Bean Curd Pudding Powder. Stir for 5 minutes.
4. Add fruit sugar (also in the packet) and mix well.
5. Pour into moulds.
6. Set in refrigerator.

I always buy dried mee for my family, instead of buying mee kuning. This is because, each time when I eat mee kuning, I can taste or smell the ingredients used to make the mee (soda ash and sodium silicate) so since then, I decided not to use mee kuning anymore.

So for tonight’s dinner, I decided to cook Mi Bandung and it turned out quite nice But for those who want a lil bit of spicy taste, you can have it with cili padi like I did

Main Ingredients :

• Half pack of Vit’s Mi Kering (Dried Mee) } blanched
• 4 eggs  } boiled
• 300 g fresh prawns (headless) } boiled
• 250 g  green vegetables
• 1 tbs tomato puree
• 3 tomatoes } skinless and pounded
• 3 tbs cooking oil (I used olive oil)
• 400 g chicken breast
• 1 L water
• 4 tbs dried shrimp  } soaked 
• 3 tbs corn flour + 9 tbs water
• 1 cube chicken stock
  

Set A  Ingredients (Pounded) :

• 2 shallots
• 1/2 inch of ginger
• 3 cloves garlics

Method :

1. Boiled chicken breast with 500 ml water. Once done, set aside and leave the flesh to cool before you can cut up the flesh into thin slices.
2. In another pot, boiled the headless prawn. Once done, set aside.
3. Heat oil and add in the Set A ingredients together with dried shrimp that has been soaked. Fry till fragrant.
4. Add in pounded tomatoes, tomato puree and chicken stock (from 500ml water that has been used to boil the chicken). Leave to boil.
5. Upon boiling, add vegetables and corn flour mixture. Add seasoning to taste ( I used only 1 cube of chicken stock instead of 2 cubes)
6. Let it cook for a while and remove from heat.
7. Dish the noodle into a serving bowl and pour the hot soup on top.
8. Garnish with fried onion.

Notes : 

1. I boiled the eggs separately instead of adding the eggs into the soup.
2. I did not add chillies inside for I’m cooking this for my daughter as well. So, if you wish to have a spicy Mee Bandung, you can add in chillies @ chillie paste together with the Set A ingredients.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha to all

We celebrated Hari Raya Korban (again) in KL, but this year, we did not go to any of our friends or family’s house, for I had stomachache and both of us (me and hubby) are having muscle cramp after the skytrex adventure’s activities that we had a day before

But still, Raya is Raya, so at 10 a.m, I started to cook for lunch. It has been a while we did not have Roti Jala so I decided to make roti jala. FYI, this going to be my very first time and I can’t think of how the “presentation”  should be but more towards how to do the lace

After my 4th attempt to get the correct way of doing the lace, finally I managed to get a nice Roti Jala (as for the first timer) and served that with Chicken Curry to the whole family for Raya dishes. I’m so proud of myself..hahaha..

Anyway, for those who would like to try, here’s the recipe inwhich I grabbed this recipe from MamaFami Photoblog. Thanks Mama

Ingredients :

• 200 g multi-purpose flour } sifted
• 2 eggs                                     } medium size
• 1/2 cup of fresh milk (or coconut milk)
• 60 g margerine                    } melted
• a pinch of salt
• 1/2 ts yellow colouring

Method :

1. Place flour, eggs and fresh milk  in a blender. I used up to no.2 to make sure it is well blended.
2. Pour the melted margerine (I heated the margerine using the microwave), salt and colouring. Continue to blend the mixture.
3. Pour through a sieve and let the batter rest for at least 1/2 hour. (While waiting for this, I continue to prepare and cooked my Chicken Curry.)
4. Heat a flat pan, grease lightly with a piece of kitchen paper (I used A4 paper ).
5. Using the mould, make a lace pattern on the pan. ( I had problems with my mould at first, so I decided to make the holes a bit more bigger by using a knife. Luckily, it turns out fine after that )
6. Leave for few minutes till done.
7. Continue till all the batter is used up.

Have you heard about Ayam Penyet or also known as “Smashed Chicken” @ “Flattened Chicken”? I heard from the radio while driving my car one day to the office, and the DJ was saying about Ayam Penyet and how tasty it was. Apparently, she had that delicious food in Singapore, but when I searched through google, I noticed that Ayam Penyet is actually a food from Indonesia..hmm???

Anyway, after been waiting for so long, we managed to go and try the famous Ayam Penyet at one of the shop at The Curve, Mutiara Damansara last night. Once we entered the shop and chose our seats, the waiter came and gave us a pencil, one menu for each of us and a piece of  paper to write down our menu. Then, by using that menu list, we have go to the counter ourselves to place the order and pay the bills. Once you have paid the amount, they will give you a table number with a picture of  cute chick.. and later their waiters will served the food to you.

Last night, we have ordered a bowl of Rawon (Javanese Beef Soup - RM 6.90), 2 bowl of rice (RM 1.90 each), 1 basket of crackers (RM 1.90), Flattened Fried Chicken (RM 7.90 for hubby) and Wings Penyet (for me - RM 5.90). For our beverages, hubby have ordered Jus Alpukat (Avocado Juice - RM 7.90) and I ordered Jus Jeruk (Orange Juice - RM 3.50).

Hmm.. what can I say about the food?? The food were nice and tasty. Infact, I like the crispy chicken, for they served it with sambal, tempe and tauhu, also few slices of cucumber and cabbage. But, if i think of having Ayamas or KFC product with a bowl of rice, I think the taste would be similar.. I really can’t tell what’s the differences are, but one thing for sure, I LOVE the avocado juice!

I think we need to have 2nd opinion or 2nd trial at another Ayam Penyet shop. Or, if you guys have tasted and know the difference, do let me know

This year, I did not really celebrate my birthday for I had lost my handphone on the day itself.. I cried the whole day, can’t believed someone would want to steal my ‘cheap’ handphone. And, the saddest part was, there are several things that I have not backed up such as pictures of Azwa wearing tudung for the first time and her first singing of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” song.

Hubby celebrated my birthday a day after and Angah celebrated my birthday with a cake (specially requested by me ) a week after. Anyway, thanks to everyone for trying to cheer me up Special thanks to hubby for the treat at Jonny’s Putrajaya and thanks to my sis, Angah for the wonderful and delicious cheesecake with lemon sauce

And, that was on April. On August, we had a surprised party (not so called party, actually) for Hubby on his birthday. A week before, I already bought a box of Devil’s Food chocholate moist to bake hubby’s birthday cake. Since I can’t go back and forth to my sis place, so I have asked my sis to bake the cake for me. The day itself, my sis and I (with a lil help from Azwa and Aqilah) started to do the finishing. I really wanted to do the design, but it did not turn out as I wish it should be.. but at least, I managed to see the surprised face of my hubby when I brought out the cake..

In this picture, on the left side is my cheesecake with lemon sauce and on the right hand side is my own designed cake for my hubby

If you want the cheesecake recipe or if you would like to order the cake, you can contact my sis @ sws2111@yahoo.com (updated!)

I LOVE ketupat palas (also known as glutinous rice cube), especially made by my mom (^^,) It is made by glutinous rice, cooked with coconut milk and wrapped in a triangle shape using palas leaves. If you have a friend in the North side of Malaysia, you might have heard about this type of ketupat, but if you don’t, no worries for it is now available in the shopping mall (instant).

Anyway, back to my raya story. For this year, I don’t think I had enough ketupat palas for I can’t get rid the taste and the smell out from my mind! As far as I can remember, I only had 3 pcs of ketupat during raya and no more ketupat after that.. sigh..and sigh! I was thinking to bring back few pieces of ketupat palas to KL but the day when we went back to KL, I totally forgot about it! What a pity…..:(

So at first, I decided to make my own ketupat, but first of all, I have to SEARCH for the leaves. The leaf name is Palas and I never seen any Palas leaves in KL..Hmm..not easy to find, I think. So, when my friend told me about the instant Ketupat Palas, I can’t help myself not to go to the shopping mall and buy them! I bought 1 packet only, but it consist of 16 small packs of ketupat.

So now, what I need to do is to follow the 3 simple steps at the back of the package. And the result?? Hmm… not like what I always had, but enough to indulge me and help me to get rid of my craving

Anyone would like to try?? Don’t forget to let me know what do you think of this instant Ketupat, ya!!

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all my readers, those who are visible and invisible Sorry for the delay Raya wish, but hey.. Aidiladha is next to come so, let’s make it a Double-Celebration Wish, shall we?

So friends, here’s a card for you. This card was designed by my sis, and she actually designed ‘things’ like flyers, paper bags and other things as well for her customers. You can go to her fotopages to view her products.

And…not to forget, our family picture, taken on 1st Syawal 1429H.

 So, how’s your raya this year??

Last year, we went to go to Cameron Highland for a holiday. The first reason why we (or me, personally) is because I have not been there, and the second reason is because I would like to try fresh and hot vegetables soup because a friend of mine told me that the vege soup at the top there is the most delicious soup ever!

So, we went there on the 21 Dec 2007 until 23 Dec 2007. It was a 3 days and 2 nights stay, and we even bought ourselves a map so that we won’t miss any single interesting place in CH. But then on the  2nd day,  we realised that 3 days is just not enough, so we want to extend our vacation but unfortunately, the hotel’s rooms were fully booked! -sigh-

Anyway, if you can read BM you are invited to go to my daughter’s fotopages by clicking at this link and have a read on our experiences for that 3-day vacation at CH. For those who can’t, I will try my best to translate the story for you

So friends, if you wish to go for a holiday (school holiday is already started!!) and if you wish to go to a place where you can relax while enjoying yourself, choose CH for it is a place for you to relax!