Pandan Chiffon Cake

This must be the best chiffon cake I've ever baked in terms of the texture, aroma and taste! While it's just a normal plain old pandan flavour cake, I love its simplicity. I used real pandan juice, so the cake didn't turn out that green. This time I added some coconut powder too, so the smell alone makes you want to have a piece while the cake was still in the oven.

This cake is for my hubby as we celebrated our 3rd year anniversary (it has been 3 years since the day we 'pak toh'). I wanted to bake him a cake but I don't want to make it something too heavy since his birthday is just a few weeks away, so we can save such cake for the birthday.

Lesson from this bake: if you bake with love, it taste better :) Haha....

Piggy Jello

Aren't these cute??? I just knew I had to get them when I saw it in Daiso :) There's nothing special about the jello since it's the normal instant ones you can get in any supermarket, but I just want to show you these cute little piggies ;p

Lunch_30Jan10

Another backdated post....;p

For lunch, we had a simple stir fried lettuce, carrot and radish soup and pumpkin with mushroom in bean paste.

Carrot & Radish Soup

Ingredients:

Carrot

Radish

Onion

Chicken

Water

Salt

Method:

1. Boil water and pour in everything (except salt).

2. Cook for at least 2 hours.

3. Season with salt.

Pumpkin with Mushroom in Bean Paste

Ingredients:

Pumpkin (cut into cubes)

Chinese Mushroom (soaked till soft and cut into cubes)

Dried Shrimp (chopped)

Bean Paste

Garlic

Oil

Water

Method:

1. Heat oil and saute garlic.

2. Add in dried shrimp and bean paste and stir fry till fragrant.

3. Add in mushroom and stir fry for 1min.

4. Add in pumpkin. Stir fry for another min.

5. Add water. Cook till pumpkin is soft.

6. Goes well with rice!

Stir Fried TomYam Ladies Fingers

This was an experimental dish simply because I didn't have any chili at home ;p It turned out quite well and very easy to do. Good if you'te lazy to cook :)

Ingredients:

Ladies Fingers (sliced thinly)

Garlic

Dried Shrimp (chopped)

TomYam Paste

Salt

Oil

Water

Method:
1. Heat oil in wok and saute garlic.
2. Add in dried shrimps and tomyam paste. Stir fry till fragrant.
3. Add in ladies fingers. Season with a little salt.
4. Stir fry for 2min.
5. Add a little water, and continue to stir fry until the ladies fingers are cooked (I like it soft, so usually will cook for a longer time).
6. Dish up when done.

Long Bean Omelet

One of my favourite omelet...

Ingredients:

Garlic

Long Beans

Eggs (beaten with some pepper and salt)

Salt

Oil

Method:

1. Heat a little oil and saute garlic.

2. Add in long beans and stir fry for 2min.

3.Season with some salt.

4. Spread the long beans over the pan/wok. Pour the egg mixture over it.

5. Let it cook till the edge of the egg looks cooked, then turn over.

6. Dish up when both sides are cooked.

(Gigantic) Almond Cookies

I made these right before CNY and since I was so tired after work, I made these really big. Saves time ma.... It's the same recipe as the peanut cookies, just substitute peanut with almond and increase oil to 120ml.

Chicken with Preserved Black Beans (Tau See)

Ingredients:

Chicken (cut into medium sized pieces)

Onion

Garlic
Ginger

Preserved Black Beans (Tau See)

Salt

Water

Oil

Method:

1. Heat oil and saute garlic, ginger and onion.

2. Add in tau see and stir fry till fragrant.

3. Add in chicken and stir fry for 1-2min.

4. Season with a little salt (do not add too much as tau see is salty).

5. Pour in some water and cook till chicken is tender.

6. Serve with rice.

Peanut Cookies

For this year's Chinese New Year, I made 4 types of cookies (crazy??); pineapple tart, almond cookies, peanut cookies and cornflakes cookies. Of the 4, pineapple tarts and the peanut cookies are favourites. I made some for in laws, my family and also friends. It was too bad that right before CNY was a busy period at work, otherwise I think I would have tried out more recipes :)

Here's to share with you a very simple and nice peanut cookies recipe.

These were nicely packed for friends :)

Ingredients:
Ground Roasted Peanut (120gm)
Plain Flour (180gm)
Baking Soda (1 tsp)
Baking Powder (1 tsp)
Caster Sugar (120gm)
Oil (110ml)
Egg Yolk - beaten (1)

Preheat oven at 170C.


Method:
1. Mix everything together except the egg yolk in a big bowl.
2. Take some of the mixture and form into small round shape.
3. Place it onto a lined baking tray.
4. Repeat until dough is finished. Glaze with egg yolk.
5. Bake for 15-20min.
6. Store in container when cooled.