Cooking and Baking with MaeJJ

14 days Low-Carb Diet

2012-02-07T20:06:00.001+08:00

This is a 1^st day of my low-carb diet program with a group ofFacebook friends. For 14 days to stop taking carbohydrate and sugar, we onlytake protein and fat, and this week it’s also the week I suppose to don’t takemeat (vegetarian) but still want to start to go on diet plan with them.

Thinking of what food I should take no meat and no carbohydrate, I onlycan think about salad and hardboiled egg. My fridge got fresh white jellyfungus and dried black jelly fungus. I soak both in boiled water and add slicetomato, onion, and coriander.

To make yum/Thai salad, I put fresh chilli and garlic into mortar and pounda bit, add a bit of fish sauce and lime juice, normally I will add a bit of sugar but because thistime can’t take sugar, so I need to cut it down. Stir into my salad and mixwell, eat with hardboiled egg.

This is my plane to eat a day >>>
Day 1/14

Breakfast: black coffee

Lunch: black and white jelly fungus salad + dragon fruit
Dinner: bitter god soup + fried vegetables

Day 2/14

Breakfast: black coffee + upside down egg

Lunch: fried cabbage + 1 small guava

Dinner: cabbage soup + fried Tofu with egg

(No photo)

Day 3/14

Breakfast: black coffee + hard-boiled egg

Lunch: egg soup + steam bean spout
Between meal: 1 small guava

Dinner: bean spout sour soup with hard-boiled egg

Day 4/14 - After the 3rd day, my weight had gone down 0.7 kg and my waistline had reduce by 1/2 inch. wowwww It's fantastic!

Breakfast: black coffee + omelet

Lunch: cabbage soup
Between meal: 1 small guava

Dinner: fried bean spout with tofu

Day 5/14
Breakfast: black coffee

Lunch: mince pork soup
Dinner: grill pork with steam vegetable

Day 6/14 - during day time drink a lot of water, I drank every day about 1.5-2 liter a day.

Breakfast: black coffee + grill fish fillet

Lunch: beef soup
Between meal: 1 small guava

Dinner: beef soup

Day 7/14 - Today my weight had gone down 0.5 kg and my waistline had reduce another 1/2 inch.
Total of weight lost in 7 days is 1.2 kg, waistline is 1 inch ;-) ..... still got 7 more day to go! cheer!

Breakfast: black coffee + grill pork, 1 up side down egg and 2 slice of ham

Lunch: fried cabbage with pork
Between meal: 1 small dragon fruit

Dinner: 3 small grill chicken drum stick and vegetable

Gooseberry

2012-02-05T00:04:00.001+08:00

Gooseberry is believed to be one of the strongest revitalizing agents that man is aware of. Gooseberry is a fruit which is extremely rich in vitamin C. In fact, a gooseberry contains twice as much vitamin C as an orange. Gooseberry should be consumed in its raw form to get the complete benefit of vitamin C.

Apart from its high content of Vitamin C, Gooseberry is rich in fiber content and low in sugar. It also contains other minerals such as Phosphorus, Carotene, Iron, Vitamin B complex as well as Calcium. Thus, it is a perfect fruit that can be consumed every day

read more Unknown Secrets of Gooseberry

Spongecake with Cream Cheese

2012-01-31T12:55:00.000+08:00

Made this cupcakes, just for celebrate my daughter's posting result. She can get in to NgeeAnn Polytechnic as her choice. A joy of mother, that can see your own child had successful as her expected. I hope she can cope for study in her course, I always support you dear!

The cake is a sponge cake as usual recipe I always made it and cream cheese is a simple as my own test. I had beat cream cheese til soft and smooth, then add whipping cream and icing sugar, beat all until light fluffy. Put it in the piping bag and piping for decorate.

let celebrate ........ cheer!

Thick Crust Pizza

2012-01-30T22:18:00.000+08:00

Thick crust pizza.

2 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 tsp yeast,
2 tbsp evaporated milk
1 tbsp sugar
1- 1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
1/2 cup warm water
1/4 tsp salt

Mix everything into a mixer or food processor, mix the flour until the dough hold together. Then roll out the dough about 1 cm thick and the size of the diameter, it depends on the size of pan used. Leave the dough to rise about 30-45 minutes. Then add the pizza ingredients as you like. Bake at 230 ° c for 20-25 minutes or until cooked.

Egg Tart

2012-01-30T11:54:00.003+08:00

The egg tart or egg custard tart is a kind of custard tart pastry commonly found in Hong Kong and other Asian countries, which consists of an outer pastry crust that is filled with egg custard and baked.

It is listed at number 16 on World's 50 most delicious foodscomplied by CNN Go in 2011

Ingredient

1 sheet ofready puff pastry
All-purposeflour for dusting
190 ml milk
2 eggs
3 tbsp sugar

Method

1. Beat eggswith milk, sugar, and stir well to combine and filter to make it smooth, setaside.

2. Turn theoven to 180 degrees C.

3. Roll puffpastry dough to a sheet of 3 mm as well as the dusting of flour slightly. Usingfork to make pierce the dough, then use the normal cut a circle about 3 ½inches, brush off any excess flour.

4 Press the cutdough into a muffin tin or cups,

5. Pour thecustard mixture into all the dough.

6. Bake inthe oven for about 30 minutes, when it cooked the egg will puffy. Bring it out fromoven and later it will be a bit shrinking.

7. Removethe pastry out of muffin mould and leave it to cool on wire rack.

Simple Tiramisu by me

2012-01-29T22:17:00.001+08:00

Got some a whipped cream leftover since new year and just got the idea to make Tiramisu. A simplified version of my own Tiramisu. I just need a whipped cream, lady finger, coffee liqueur or Kahlua and a bit of cocoa powder, that's it! so I can get a nice and simple Tiramisu as I want hahaha.

cheer!!

Home Made Orange Marmalade

2012-01-28T14:54:00.001+08:00

Chinese New Year always have a lot of oranges at home. This year my hubby bought a lot of oranges. I need to do something before it's rotten. My hubby said to me, if it's a lot why don't I make Marmalade for him, because he like it. Since last year I have not make it, so I did it for him ;-)

Raw material

Select the 5-6 oranges as fresh skin and large size
Sugar 60% as the total weight of the orange shell and flesh. For example if the total weight of orange shell and flesh is 500 grams, the sugar must be 300 grams.

How to do it.

Peel the orange shell, then slice thinly and sprinkle salt in warm water and rinse it 3 times to make it less bitter.
Take only orange pulp and juice, peel away the flesh around them add the shell and weigh to get the total weight. Add in the sugar (as 60%).
Bring to a boil in low heat until the yam a bit thick. Do not boil/make it too thick because when the yam is cold, It will be hard and dry more than ever. Leave to cool and pack in the bottles

Ps, If you like Marmalade a bit sour, you can add the lemon or Concentrate Orange juice as you like.

Steam fish fillet with spicy Thai sauce

2012-01-28T12:45:00.000+08:00

Toman Fish or The Giant Snakehead is known in Thai language as Pla Chado (ปลาชะโด). I like eat this fish and cook as curry, deep fried or steam. The meat is soft and testy.

I had slide a thin fillet, then bring to boiled/steam until cook. Then topped with a Thai spicy sauce or 'Nam Yum' and eat with fresh vegetable.

Happy New Year - 龔喜發財 - Gōng Xǐ Fā Cái

2012-01-24T19:19:00.000+08:00

WISHING YOU LUCK AND WEALTH

IN THE YEAR OF DRAGON

2012 is the year of the Dragon. It takes place every twelve years in Chinese zodiac.

The year of the dragon is said to be a very prosperous year for the people of China.

It is said that anyone born in this year will be healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Chinese New Year Foods

Stewed Chicken Mushroom

Fried Mee Sau

Fried Vegetable with Angle Hair (Fat Choy)

Chinese New Year Snack; Pineapple Tart, Kueh Bangkit, Peanut Cookies and Almond Cookies

Sponge Cake Foi Thong

2012-01-24T18:23:00.000+08:00

For the recipe Spongcake Foi Thong

Chinese Cookies - Pineapple Tart

2012-01-19T23:07:00.001+08:00

Pineapple Tart (Open) 40 pcs/pack

Pineapple Tart (Closed) 50 pcs/pack

Pineapple Tart (Closed) 70 pcs/pack

Strawberry Cream Cake

2012-01-14T22:31:00.000+08:00

The recipe for the cake is Vanilla Sponge Cake with strawberry sauce & whipping cream

Chinese Almond Cookies

2012-01-06T21:38:00.004+08:00

Chinese Almond Cookies
Ingredients

3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
1 egg
1 teaspoon almond extract
Almond slide for decorate

Directions

Sift flour, sugar, baking soda and salt together into a bowl. Cut in the butter and shortening until mixture resembles cornmeal.
Add egg and almond extract, mix well. Using a ice cream scoop to scoop the dough into a balls. Set them 2 inches apart on an greased cookie sheet.
Place an almond on top of each cookie and press down to flatten slightly.
Bake in a pre-heated 325 F/165 C oven for 15-18 minutes. Cool on rack.

Thai Version
คุกกี้อัลมอนด์

แป้ง Selt Raisin 3 ถ้วย หรือใช้แป้งเอนกประสงค์ 3 ถ้วย +ผงฟู 1 ชช
น้ำตาลทรายป่น 1 ถ้วย
เบกกิ้งโซดา 1/2 ชช
เนยเค็ม 1 ถ้วย / 200 กรัม (ถ้าใช้เนยจืด เพิ่มเกลือ 1/2 ชช)
เนยขาว 1/2 ถ้วย / 93 กรัม
อัลมอนด์บด 1/2 ถ้วย
อัลมอนด์สับ 1/2 ถ้วย (ใช้แบบสีขาวไม่มีเปลือกสับ)
กลิ่นอัลมอนด์ 1 ชช (ถ้าชอบกลิ่นอัลมอนด์ใช้ 2 ชช)
ไข่ไก่ตีพอแตก 1 ฟอง
เม็ดอัลมอนด์ผ่าครึ่ง สำหรับแต่งหน้า

วิธีทำ

เปิดเตาอบที่อุณหภูมิ 350 F และเตรียมถาดอบ รองกระดาษ
ผสมแป้ง น้ำตาล เกลือ (ถ้าใช้เนยจืด) โซดา, อัลมอนด์ป่น เข้ากันในโถหรือชามผสม ใส่เนยสด และเนยขาว ลงในชามแป้ง แล้วใช้มือหรือส้อม บี้เนยกับแป้งให้เป็นเม็ดร่วนเหมือนขนมปังป่น (หรือถ้าจะใช้ food processor ช่วยในการผสมก็ไม่ผิดกติกาค่ะ)
ตีไข่ไก่พอแตก ผสมกลิ่นอัลมอนด์ลงไปพร้อมกันเลย แล้วเทลงในชามผสม นวดให้เข้ากัน จากนั้นก็ใส่อัลมอนด์สับ ผสมให้เข้ากันดี นำส่วนผสมที่ได้แช่ตู้เย็นประมาณ 15 นาที
ใช้ที่ตักไอศครีม ตักส่วนผสม วางในถาดอบที่รองกระดาษ ห่างกันหน่อย เพราะเวลาอบคุ๊กกี้จะขยายตัวอีก แปะเม็ดอัลมอนด์ และกดให้คุกกี้แผ่ออกนิดหน่อย
นำเข้าอบที่ไฟ 350F นาน 10-15 นาที ขึ้นอยู่กับเตาอบของแต่ละคนน่ะค่ะ อบถาดแรก ต้องคอยจ้องหน่อยค่ะ

เพิ่มเติม
*บางสูตรเค้าใช้ไข่แดงทาหน้าก่อนอบค่ะ แต่ที่ทำไม่ได้ทาค่ะ
*อัลมอนด์สำหรับแปะหน้าคุ๊กกี้ จะใช้แบบไหนก็ได้ แบบสับ,แบบไสลด์ หรือแบบเม็ด ขึ้นอยู่กับความชอบของเราค่ะ
*ถ้าอยากได้เครื่องเยอะ ก็ผสมอัลมอนด์สับเพิ่มลงไปได้จากสูตรได้ เพิ่มความกรุบเวลาที่เราเคี้ยวเจออัลมอนด์

Cornflakes Cookie - คุ๊กกี้คอร์นแฟลก Pineapple Tart - พายสับปะรด

Happy New Year 2012

2011-12-31T21:49:00.003+08:00

The old year had said goodbye...

It's time to welcome 2012!

So here's wishing you a great year

Filled with happiness & good cheer!

Brownie Cake with Chocolate Fudge

2011-12-31T17:39:00.001+08:00

New Year for my hubby's company dinner. It's a Brownie cake with Chocolate fudge. For the fudge's recipe you can see from this post Double Chocolate Fudge Cake and for the Brownies recipe I got from my Thai forum as Brownie Cake

After cut off a cake to make a cake to be neat, the remainder of cake, I has put it in the cup and topping with whipping cream and did a decorating with Strawberry, it's become our dessert too ;-)

I have made 3 layer cake and between cake layer I put Chocolate fudge. Actually my 1st plan is also put it on top too, but because of choc fudge was not enough, then I have to change to use whipping cream on top of the cake.

Caramel Custard & Whipping Cream Custard

2011-12-28T19:55:00.000+08:00

Caramel Custard

Whipping Cream Custard

Always Multi-Grain Bread

2011-12-06T20:26:00.002+08:00

Multi-grain Bread

250 g bread flour
200 g wholemeal flour
1/2 cup multi-grain
1-1/2 tsp active dry yeast
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
260 ml cold milk
50 g veg oil

For Bread machine; put everything into the bread machine according to you machine instruction and set to "bake" program and let it work until it done.

If you prefer to use the bread maker to make a dough and take out to bake in your oven, then please follow below instruction.

1. Put everything into the bread machine and set to “dough” program and let it work until finish about 1½ hours.

2. Take the dough out from bread machine and roll it up like swiss roll and place it, seam side down, into the greased loaf pan. Leave the dough to proof for 1½ hours or until it’s 2½ times of original size.

3. Heat oven at 230C and put the bread to bake for 25 min. to prevent the bread get it brown too much, cover with a piece of foil or switch to bottom element.

Tau Sa Piah - ขนมเปี๊ยะไส้ถั่ว

2011-12-06T15:23:00.002+08:00

ส่วนผสมแป้งชั้นนอก น้ำหนัก (กรัม) สูตรตวง

แป้งสาลีตราบัวแดง 250 กรัม / 2-½ ถ้วยตวง
แป้งสาลีอเนกประสงค์ตราว่าว 175 กรัม / 1-¾ ถ้วยตวง
ไอซิ่ง 20 กรัม / 2 ช้อนโต๊ะ
น้ำมัน 150 กรัม / ¾ ถ้วยตวง
น้ำเย็น 180 กรัม / ¾ ถ้วยตวง

ส่วนผสมแป้งชั้นใน

แป้งสาลีตราบัวแดง 150 กรัม / 1-½ ถ้วยตวง

แป้งสาลีอเนกประสงค์ตราว่าว 125 กรัม / 1-¼ ถ้วยตวง

น้ำมัน 100 กรัม / ½ ถ้วยตวง

ส่วนผสมไส้ถั่วกวน

ถั่วเขียวเลาะเปลือก 500 กรัม / 2-½ ถ้วยตวง
น้ำตาลทราย 500 กรัม / 2- ½ ถ้วยตวง
น้ำมันพืช 100 กรัม / ½ ถ้วยตวง
เกลือแกง ½ ช้อนชา
ไข่แดงเค็ม

วิธีทำไส้ถั่วกวน

ถั่วเขียวเลาะเปลือกแช่น้ำร้อน 1 – 1 ½ ชั่วโมง
นำไปนึ่งไฟแรง นาน 30 นาที
บดถั่วให้ละเอียด โดยเติมน้ำเล็กน้อยให้บดได้
นำถั่วบด ใส่น้ำมัน กวนจนเริ่มแห้ง ใส่น้ำตาลทราย เกลือ กวนต่อจนแห้ง พักให้เย็น ปั้นเป็นก้อนขนาด 1 นิ้ว นำไปอบควันเทียน

วิธีทำแป้งชั้นนอก; ร่อนแป้งแล้วตวงตามส่วน ใส่ไอซิ่ง น้ำมัน น้ำเย็น นวดให้แป้งเนียนนุ่ม พักแป้งไว้อย่างน้อย 30 นาที แบ่งเป็น 20 ก้อน เท่าๆ กัน

วิธีทำแป้งชั้นใน; ร่อนแป้งแล้วตวงตามส่วน ใส่น้ำมัน ลงนวดให้เข้ากันจนแป้งนุ่ม เนียน พักแป้งไว้อย่างน้อย 30 นาที แบ่งเป็น 20 ก้อน เท่าๆ กัน

วิธีคลึงแป้ง

นำแป้งชั้นนอกที่แบ่งไว้ แผ่ออกหุ้มแป้งชั้นในให้มิด

คลึงแบบเดียวกับการทำกระหรี่พั๊ฟ ตัดแป้งเป็น 4 ส่วนเท่าๆกัน นำมาหุ้มไส้ ห่อให้กลม เรียงในถาดอบที่ทาเนยขาวไว้ ทำไข่แดงผิวหน้า แต้มสีแดง

อบอุณหภูมิ 180C นาน 20 – 25 นาที ขนมสุกวางพักบนตะแกรงให้เย็น นำไปอบควันเทียนให้หอม

**** อย่าเพิ่งทานนะคะ เค้าให้เก็บไว้หนึ่งคืนค่อยทานค่ะ ขนมจะนุ่มขึ้น ******

ขอบคุณสูตรจากน้อง P - คนช่างกินช่างทำ

Strew Pork Rips

2011-11-29T15:30:00.001+08:00

Angled Gourd

2011-11-29T13:23:00.000+08:00

Fried and Soup Angle Gourd

Zucchini or Angel Goud is a vegetable that did not have many vitamins, but there are a lot of minerals. zucchini meat only limit hexagon 1 to 24 mg of phosphorus and other minerals help strengthen bones and teeth. Iron helps build blood.

We are usually cooked Angel Gourd, fried with egg or make vegetable soup.

Roti Prata

2011-11-29T12:48:00.001+08:00

Roti prata is a fried flour-based pancake that is cooked over a flat grill. It is usually served with a vegetable or meat based curry and is sold all over Singapore in food centres.

Prata is also commonly cooked (upon request) with cheese, onion, banana, red bean, chocolate, mushroom or egg. It is listed at number 45 on World's 50 most delicious foods readers' poll complied by CNN Go in 2011.[1]

Martabak or murtabak, is a stuffed pancake or pan-fried bread which is commonly and usually includes minced mutton, along with garlic, egg and onion, and is eaten with curry sauce.

Murtabak also usually includes mutton in Yemen. In Indonesia, particularly Jakarta, it is called "martabak", and has two versions: a sweet one, and a savory one. Vegetarian murtabaks exist too, and can be found around Singapore's "Little India" neighborhood, among other places.

Photo by MaeJJ

Banana Cake

2011-11-23T15:57:00.000+08:00

1) Ingredient
350 g ripe bananas
175 g sugar
50 g palm sugar
1 tsp salt

2) Ingredient
1 egg
125 g milk ( I use Chocolate Mike, that why my cake look a bit dark)
1/2 tbsp vinegar/lime juice

3) Ingredient
275 g cake flour
1-1/2 tsp banking powder
1-1/2 tsp banking soda

4) Ingredient
125 g cooking oil

Method
1. Pour the 1st ingredient mixture into a mixing bowl beat about 5 minutes.
2.Add 2nd ingredient mixture into the 1st and beat another 3 mins.
3. Sift flour, baking powder and baking soda together and add into the mix and continues beat another 3 mins.
4. Add vegetable oil and continues beat another 4 mins.
5. Leave the mixture for about 20 minutes, and spoon drops into a paper cups almost full or cake tin.
6. Bake in the oven at temperature 200 c about 10-15 mins or until it done.

Note: today I use the tin/loaf and I baked for 35 mins.

Recipe in Thai version เค้กกล้วยหอม

Fruit Salad, Mango Salad

2011-11-21T22:49:00.000+08:00

Fruits Salad Thai style, like Papaya Salad but change it to be Fruits - Green Apple, Tangerine, Carrot and Tomato. You can use any kind of fruits as you like.

Mango Salad also make like Papaya Salad or Som Tum, but today I made it not too spicy because this is for my daughter. she can't eat too spicy. I bought green mango from Thai Supermarket in Golden Mine. It's very sour and nice to make this salad.

Sago & Sweet Corn in Coconut Milk - สาคูข้าวโพดหวาน

2011-11-21T21:57:00.000+08:00

Sago and Sweet corn in coconut milk,ขนมสาคูเปียก ข้าวโพดหวาน เป็นขนมไทยที่ทำง่ายอีกแล้ว ปกติเป็นคนชอบทำอะไรง่ายๆอยู่ตลอด ถ้าทำง่าย ทำเร็ว แล้วมีคนกินก็จะชอบทำ แต่ปกติจะทำแล้วกินเองคนเดียวหรือไม่ก็คุณสามีช่วยกิน วันนี้ก็อีกเมนูหนึ่งที่ชอบกินและชอบมาก ทำเองไม่หวานมากเพราะเราควบคุมความหวานของเราได้อยู่แล้ว ถ้าไปซื้อเค้าอาจจะไม่อร่อยเท่าทำเอง ฮ่าๆๆๆๆ

ก็ไม่ได้ยากอะไร ต้มสาคูให้สุกใส แล้วค่อยใส่น้ำตาลลงไป, เกลือนิดหน่อย เติมกะทิลงไป ตั้งไฟคนจนน้ำตาลละลายก็ยกลง ตักเสริฟได้เลย ทานได้ทั้งร้อนและเย็นค่ะ

Krong Kraeng Kheaw - ครองแครงแก้วสามสี

2011-11-21T21:47:00.000+08:00

ครองแครงแก้วสามสี ทำจากแป้งถั่วเขียว ผสมกับน้ำอุ่นๆ นวดให้แป้งนุ่ม ปั้นเป็นก้อนกลมขนาดพอดี นำไปคลึงบนไม้คลึงครองแครง ออกมาเป็นตัวหนอนกลมดี๊กเชียว อิอิอิ.... จากนั้นก็นำไปต้มในน้ำเดือด จนแป้งสุกหรือลอยตัวขึ้นมา จักมาใส่ชามน้ำเย็น เพื่อให้ตัวแป้งใสขึ้นอีก ...แล้วก็หันไปเตรียมน้ำกะทิ ด้วยการผสมกะทิกับน้ำตาลและเกลือนิดหน่อย คนให้น้ำตาลละลาย ตั้งไฟพอเดือดแล้วใส่ตัวครองแครงลงไป ต้มจนเดือดอีกครั้งยกลง เวลาจะทานก็ตักใส่ถ้วย แล้วดรยก้วยงาขาว งาดำที่ถั่วแล้วลงไป ...รับทานได้ทั้งร้อนและเย็น ตามความชอบ

TaoPab Shrimp Coconut - ถั่วแปบไส้เค็ม

2011-11-21T21:34:00.001+08:00

มีถั่วแปบแบบหวานไปแล้ว ก็ต้องมีแบบเค็มตามมา ไหนๆก็ทำแล้วทั้งนี้ แป้งเหลือจากทำถั่วแปบแบบหวาน ส่วนมะพร้าวก้เหลือจากทำข้าวเหนียหน้ากุ้ง เลยเอามาทำ "ถั่วแปบไส้เค็ม" กินซะเลยไม่เสียเที่ยวและเสียของ ถั่วแปบไส้เค็ม ทำไม่ยาก (อีกแล้ว) ตัวแป้งก็เหมือนถั่วแปบ นำมาห่อกับหน้ากุ้งเป้นไส้ จะทานออกรสเค็มมากกว่าหวาน ทานคู่กับผักชีเป็นอาหารว่างๆไทยๆอีกชนิดหนึ่ง

YaoPab Mung Bean - ขนมถั่วแปบใบเตย

2011-11-21T21:25:00.002+08:00

อยากกินถั่วแปบมานานแล้ว แต่ไม่ค่อยอยากทำเพราะขี้เกียจ วันนี้คุ้ยๆของในตู้ มีทั้งแป้งข้าวเหนียว, ถั่วเขียว, งาขาว, งาดำ, มะพร้าวขูดแช่แข็ง... ของมีครบทุกอย่าง ขาดอย่างเดียวคือความขยัน วันนี้สลัดตัวขี้เกียจออกหน่อยแล้วกัน ทำในสิ่งที่อยากกินซะหน่อยซีเรา อ่านสูตรแล้ว ใช้แป้งไม่ถึงถ้วย แล้วยังคิดว่ากินคนเดียวอีก แต่ที่ไนได้ ทำออกมาแล้วได้มาตั้ง 10 กว่าตัว เลยต้องแบ่งกันกับลูกสาว เพราะลูกชายไม่ชอบกินขนมแบบนี้ กินกันอิ่มจนถึงเย็นเลย

วิธีทำก็แสนจะง่าย ใช้แป้งข้าวเหนียว นวดกับน้ำกะทิอุ่นๆ + น้ำใบเตย(ถ้าต้องการสีเขียว ถ้าชอบสีแดงหรือสีส้มก็ใช้สีผสมอาหารหรือสีจากผักผลไม้ได้ เช่น สีส้ม จากน้ำแครอท, สีม่วงหรือสีฟ้า จากน้ำดอกอัญชัน)

นวดจนนิ่ม แล้วปั้นเป็นแผ่นๆ เอาไปต้มสุก แล้วเอามาห่อไส้ถั่วทองที่เรานึ่งจนสุกนิ่ม ผสมเกลือลงไปในถั่วนิดหน่อย แล้วนำมาคลุกกับมะพร้าว โรยด้วยถั่วทองอีกนิดหน่อย ตัดใส่จาน โรยน้ำผสมที่ผสมงาดำ งาขาวไว้แล้ว ...จากนั้นก็ใช้ส้อมจิ้มขึ้นมา (ถ้าปากเล็กหรือปากนางเอกก็ตัดครึ่งซะหน่อย) อ้าปาก ใส่ขนมเข้าไป เสร็จ...

Glutinous Rice with Shrimp Coconut

2011-11-21T21:04:00.001+08:00

Glutinous Rice with Shrimp Coconut
Ingredients:

1 cup glutinous rice
1 cup coconut cream
½ cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt

Preparation: If you want the method how to cook glutinous rice by microwave, you can see from this http://maejj2.blogspot.com/2008/03/glutinous-rice-with-shrim-topping.html.

Wash sticky rice or glutinous rice and soak overnight. Next morning then steam it, until cook
Dissolve sugar and salt in the coconut cream and heat, stirring to prevent lumps. When coconut cream is boil, remove from the heat and set ¼ cup aside to be use when serving.
Place the sticky-rice into the container with a tightly fitting lid, pour in the coconut cream stir well, cover and set aside for a 60 mins to allow the coconut cream to mingle with the rice thoroughly.

Shrimp Coconut for Topping:
Ingredient

100 grams finely chopped shrimp
50 grams or ½ cup grated coconut
½ teaspoon finely chopped coriander root
½ teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoon cooking oil
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon finely chopped kaffir lime leaves

Preparation:

Chop shrimp and coconut together.
Pound pepper and coriander root in mortar until ground and mixed thoroughly, fry in the oil until fragrant, then add shrimp,coconut, add a little yellow or orange coloring and fry until done.
Add salt and sugar, remove for the heat and sprinkle with kaffir lime leaves.
Add remaining coconut cream earlier over the rice before adding toppings.

Make a Rose from Gumpaste

2011-11-21T16:27:00.000+08:00

Thank you for my teacher Ms Aina Lau, she tough my how to make a rose from gumpaste.

Make Sakura Flower from gumpaste

2011-11-15T16:34:00.000+08:00

Morning Glory Gumpaste

2011-11-08T16:39:00.000+08:00

Rice Krispies Bars

2011-11-07T17:33:00.000+08:00

Rice Krispies Bar

Recipe adapted from; http://hiddenponies.wordpress.com/tag/rice-krispies/

1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 tbsp butter
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 cups Rice Krispies cereal
3/4 cup chopped peanuts
1/3 cup oats (optional)
2 tbsp flax seed (optional)

Topping:

3 tbsp peanut butter
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions:

Lightly grease 9×13″ pan.
In saucepan, heat corn syrup, margarine, brown sugar, peanut butter and chocolate chips.
Remove from heat and stir in cereal, nuts and any additions. Press mixture into pan.
For the topping, gently heat peanut butter and chocolate chips in a saucepan or the microwave.
When melted, blend well and spread over base.
Refrigerate until firm, then cut into squares.

Coffee Sponge Cupcake with Butter Cream Coffee

2011-10-23T19:03:00.000+08:00

Coffee Sponge Cupcake with Butter Cream Coffee

Coconuts Bread with Coffee

2011-10-10T19:20:00.000+08:00

เริ่มเช้าวันใหม่ ด้วยขนมปังมะพร้าว พร้อมกาแฟร้อนๆ หอมกรุ่น อากาศตอนเช้าจะร้อนมาก แต่เดี๋ยวพอบ่ายแก่ๆ ก็จะเริ่มมีฝนตก อากาศเริ่มเย็นสบายจนถึงตอนกลางคืน ช่วงนี้จะเป็นแบบนี้ทุกวัน แต่ตอนเช้านี้จะร้อนเอามากๆ วันนี้ก็เป็นอีกวันที่ตื่นมา ทำงานบ้านเรียบร้อยแล้ว ก็มานั่งหน้าคอม อ่านข่าวน้ำท่วมบ้าง ข่าวเกี๋ยวกับการเมืองไทยบ้าง บางทีอ่านมากก็ทำให้เครียดได้เช่น เพราะไม่ชอบและไม่เห็นด้วยกับหลายๆสิ่งหลายๆอย่างที่คณะรัฐบาลไทยชชุดนี้ เฮ้ออออ... หันมาทำขนม ทำอาหารกินดีกว่า อย่าไปหมกหมุ่นเรื่องการเมืองมากเกินไป คนอย่างเราคงไม่มีอำนาจไปหยุดหรือห้ามเค้าได้ อิอิอิ

Sweet Cup Cake

2011-10-10T12:49:00.004+08:00

Mince Pork Paneang

2011-09-26T15:56:00.003+08:00

Ingredient

500 grams mince pork
2 tbsp cooking oil or olive oil
50 grams paneang chilli paste (can find in a packet at supermarket)
1 tbsp sugar
2 tsp fish sauce
20 grams corn flour
kuffir lime leave, chopped

For the paneang sauce

2 tbsp olive oil/cooking oil
30 grams paneang chilli paste
250 cc of coconut milk
1 tsp fish sauce
2 tsp sugar

Method

Mix mince pork with chilli paste, sugar, fish sauce, oil, corn flour and kuffir lime leave.
Make into ball and deep fried until cook and set aside in the plate.
Make the sauce by mix all ingredient in a saucepan and put on low heat until fragrance.
Remove from the heat and pour over the mice pork and serve while it's hot.

Thai Lortchong or Thai Chendol

2011-09-26T12:48:00.004+08:00

Thai Lortchong (in Singapore call Cendol or Chendol) is a dark green pulpy dish of rice flour worms with coconut milk and palm sugar. It used to be served without ice. Lortchong as Thai desserts have been around since ancient times. It has a sweet taste of palm sugar and fragrance of coconut milk and pandan leave. We used to eat with boiled taro, cooked black sticky or a cantaloupe.

The recipe I got recommended from my friend whose stay oversea, and not so difficult to make. That was I tried to made it today.

1/4 cup of mung bean flour

1-1/4 cup of green color - make from pandan leave juice.

1-1/2 cup coconut milk

1/2 cup palm sugar

pinch of salt

Mix flour and green water together and put on the low heat, stir until the flour is a brilliant and dark green color. Spoon the flour into the Lortchong can press and then press flour through the holes and put into the cool water.

for coconut milk, mix coconut, palm sugar and salt to a small pot. Put on low heat and stir until the palm sugar dissolve, take down from the heat, let it's cool down.

If you not eating right now, you can keep the Lortchong in the water like this, when you want to eat it you just use colander and take it out from water and then add coconut milk.

Cranberry Bread

2011-09-26T11:45:00.000+08:00

Cranberry Bread

The recipe I adapted from http://southernfood.about.com

Recipe

1 cup lukewarm water (if the dough too dry can add more water, I add about 1 teaspoon)
2 tablespoons olive oil/canola oil
3 cups bread flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
3/4 cup coarsely chopped dried cranberries

Put all ingredient into bread Machine and set programe as dough. Bring in out to the floured surface table and shape as you like and rest the dough for 1 hrs or until double size. Put into the preheat oven 200 C for 25-30 min or until bread golden brown. Take out and let it cool.

SweeT SixTeen

2011-09-23T21:48:00.000+08:00

I made this fondant cake for my daughter coming 16th birthday.

The flower made from gum paste, I had learn from Bangkok last trip.

This is my first time to made fondant cake. which is I never learn before just to see from internet and fondant book.

Coconuts Bread - ขนมปังมะพร้าว

2011-09-20T19:07:00.001+08:00

Coconut Bread

Chicken Lemongrass

2011-09-16T14:57:00.000+08:00

This is can be a healthy dish, it's delicious and desirable for everyone in my family. Lemongrass is also thought to have numerous health benefits. I used chicken to marinate with oyster sauce, sugar, fish sauce, mass garlic and pepper for 1-2 hrs, deep fried chicken til done. Then pound the lemongrass thoroughly and deep fried to a crisp, also fried kaffir lime leave for garnish.

Fired Bean Curd (Tofu) Thai Salad

2011-09-14T14:24:00.000+08:00

Fried Tofu Thai Salad

A simple dish and not so difficult to make, you can find any vegetable you have in your fridge. Deep fired the whole bean curd and cut small piece. Put on top of vegetable and topping with Thai sweet and sour sauce, add some roasted peanut, that all for my lunch ;-)

Blueberry Crumble with Vanilla Sauce

2011-09-12T00:08:00.000+08:00

Moon Cake with Durian and Lotus Paste

2011-09-09T21:40:00.001+08:00

Mooncake

Pastry

300g Hong Kong flour or plain flour
240g golden syrup
40g peanut oil
2 tsp alkaline water (you can do without this but it means that you have to leave the baked moon cakes for a few days to let it nature) or you can use 1/2 tsp baking soda with 2 tsp of water.
1 kg durian paste (I use 500 g durian paste and 500 g lotus paste and mix together)
200 g melon seed

1. Mix all the ingredients together and leave for about 1/2 an hour.

2. If you have a moon cake mould, stuff the pastry into the mould until full. Turn out the pastry and weigh it.

3. Next, you divide the weight of the pastry by half. If let's say the total weight of the pastry is 60 g, then portion your pastry into 30g each. Roll into balls and put aside.

4. Next, weigh your paste into also 30 g portion. Also roll into balls.

5. Take a ball of pastry. Flatten with your palm. Put a ball f bean paste in the centre and pinch the pastry to cover the paste. Then put the pastry into the mold to shape. Knock it out.

6. Bake for about 5 min at 200C. Then take it out to glaze with egg wash and bake for another 10 min or until golden brown.

Butter Cream Rose

2011-09-08T16:05:00.000+08:00

Blueberry & Chocolate Blondies.

2011-09-02T21:18:00.001+08:00

I have been introduced of this recipe from my friend in facebook.She shared the recipe for me and to others friends for trying to make it. AfterI had made it and I found that, my family like it very much.

This blondies cake looks like a brownie. It was sweet and increases the sweetness of the cake by using fresh fruit. Therefore, we should use fruit with a sweet and sour, it will be compatible as well. e.g. raspberry, blueberry, strawberry or cranberry.

You can serve it with juice, tea or coffee.

Butter Cake with Tea/Coffee

2011-09-02T18:23:00.001+08:00

I have problems every time I made a butter cake. Do not know why. Every time I make this cake. Cake has a crumbly texture or wet. I have consulted, or ask my friends. That they have made this cake as well. But they will do it better than me!

Some friends told me that because I beat the butter not fluffy enought as it should be and some people think it's because of my oven, may be the heat in the oven is not constantly, that a result of my cake came out like this.

Nuts Brownie

2011-09-02T17:48:00.001+08:00

Nuts Brownie topped with sweetened condensed milk.
It's because I use the unsweetened chocolate, that's why my brownie had taste a little bitter for my kids, but they still can eat it.

Made some change of sweetened condensed milk to vanilla caramel sauce. It makes my brownies have delicious as well.

Chicken Sausage Roll

2011-09-02T17:25:00.003+08:00

Breakfast for my kids, it's chicken sausage wrapped in a roti topped with ketchup and mustard.
It's easy and simple dish.

Banoffee Pie

2011-09-01T23:33:00.000+08:00

Recipe Banoffee Pie http://maejj2.blogspot.com/2008/10/banoffee-pie.html

Nonya Kaya

2011-08-09T11:08:00.020+08:00

Nonya Kaya, I got this recipe from here Xiauying Blogspot /Nonya Kaya

Gula Maleka

Caramelized Onion Bread

2011-08-06T21:28:00.001+08:00

Caramelized Onion Bread

Adapted recipe from http://www.foodbuzz.com/recipes/3715788-caramelized-onion-bread

Caramelized Onion หรือส่วนผสมของหัวหอม

หัวหอมใหญ่สับหรือหั่นบาง ๆ 1 หัว
ต้นหอมหั่นท่อนสั้น 1-2 ต้น
น้ำมันมะกอก 2 ช้อนโต๊ะ
เกลือ

วิธีทำ

ตั้งกระทะใส่น้ำมัน พอกะทะร้อน ใส่หัวหอมและต้นหอมลงไปผัดประมาณ 5 นาทีหรือจนนุ่ม ลดความร้อนปานกลางปรุงรสด้วยเกลือ ผัดจนเป็นสีน้ำตาลทอง พักไว้ให้เย็น

โดว์ขนมปัง

แป้งขนมปัง 4 ถ้วย (วันนี้มลใช้แป้งขนมปังขาว 3 ถ้วย แป้งโฮลวีท 1 ถ้วย)
เกลือ 1 ช้อนชา
ยีสต์สด 25 กรัม (ยีสต์แห้ง 2-1/2 ชช หรือ 10 กรัม)
ต้นหอมซอย 1 ต้น
น้ำอุ่น 300 มล.

ในชามผสมขนาดใหญ่ ผสมแป้งกับเกลือ ละลายยีสต์สดในน้ำและผสมลงในส่วนผสมแป้ง ทุกอย่างผสมกันแล้วใส่หัวหอมคาราเมลไรซ์ที่ผัดไว้แล้วลงในแป้ง นวดจนแป้งเนียนไม่ติดด้านข้างขอบโถ คลุมด้วยผ้าหรือพลาสติคแรปแล้วพักแป้งประมาณ 1 ชั่วโมง ที่อุณหภูมิห้องเพื่อ ให้แป้งขึ้นสองเท่า
เปิดเตาอบที่ 240C (470F) 30 นาทีก่อนอบ ตักแป้ง 1 ช้อนโต๊ะโรยลงถาดอบหรือพิมพ์ แล้วใส่หรือวางแป้งโดว์ในถาด จากนั้นทิ้งไว้จนกว่าเตาอบร้อน โรยเกลือและต้นหอมสับด้านบนอีกครั้งหนึ่งก่อนนำเข้าอบ
วางหม้อหรือชามเปล่าในเตาอบประมาณ 10 นาทีก่อนที่จะอบ พอเราจะนำขนมปังเข้าเตาอบ, ให้ใส่น้ำร้อนลงในชามที่วางไว้ เป็นการเพิ่มไอน้ำในเตาอบ อบประมาณ 25-30 นาที หรือจนกระทั่งขนมปังสุกเหลือง นำขนมปังออกจากเตาอบและวางพักให้เย็นบนตะแกรง

Khanom Jeen Nam Ya

2011-08-02T16:31:00.027+08:00

Ingredients:

4 shallot, cut up coarsely
1 garlic bulbs
1 tsp sliced galangal
1 tbsp sliced lemon grass
1/2 cup minced krachai
2 dried chillies, seeds removed
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp shrimp paste
1/2 cup water

Place all the above in a pot and simmer over low heat until soft, Remove from heat, rinse the soup and set a side, take the boiled ingredient and place in mortar and pound to get the fine paste.

Bring the soup boil and add the coconut milk, when it's boiled add the paste into the pot and simmer for 30-45 mins. Add a bit of salt or fish sauce, a bit of sugar and test as you like. Continues simmer until the soup become thick or like gravy.

Prepare to cook rice stick/rice noddle by boil it in the boiling water until it cook, place the rice noddle in the plate and pour the gravy on it, eat with fresh veges as you like and hard boil egg.

Kaya Cookies

2011-08-01T23:01:00.000+08:00

The original recipe from here http://Passioncookery.wordpress.com/

Thanks for sharing the recipe.

I use Kaya, which I bought from NTUC supermarket

I find the dough was to soft, I need to add more flour from the recipe. I have added about 1/2 cup and still a bit soft.

The test was not too sweet and I think is to little of Kaya, I thing next time when I make I'll add more Kaya.

Baguette

2011-07-28T17:40:00.001+08:00

Make starter

1^st day at night

200 g cold water

200 g AP flour or bread flour

1.5 g of yeast

- Mix everything together and wrap with plastic film, put in refrigerate for 10 hours and then remove from fridge and put it at room temperature for 2 hours

2^nd day morning

150 g cold water

300 g AP flour or bread flour

7.5 g yeast

15 g of salt

Put all ingredient except salt into bread maker with the starter and knead for 7 minutes, then put in a salt.
Put the dough in the container with oil inside and keep the dough rest for three-hour by cover with a lid or plastic wrap, After 1 hour make folding the dough back and forth. Do the same again after 90 minute and 120 minute to achieve a bubble in the dough.
When the dough rise is due, make into the size as you want and let the dough rise for 20 minutes before forming a baguette.
Preheat to 275 C, and make dough into forming baguette and place on the baking tray then leave the dough to rise for 45 minutes or until doubled.
Place the baguette into the oven, reduce oven temperature to 250 C, then put a blow of ice cubes in the oven and bake about 20 minutes or until the color is brown. Open the oven panel for the last 20-30 minute to make the baguette crust is crispier.

Thank you my friend Sana, whose share a nice and wonderful recipe with me.

Making Cattleya Orchid

2011-07-28T16:41:00.000+08:00

Pollen

Petal Mouth

Petal left and right side

Petal behind

Assembled to form a flower. first put the petal mouth and then follow by the petal left and right side then put the last one is petal behind.

Assembled

Yum Dok Ka Jon - Cowslip Creeper Salad

2011-07-20T21:42:00.000+08:00

Yum Dok Ka Jon / Cowslip Creeper Salad

Chocolate Mousse Cake for 17th BD

2011-07-19T14:18:00.001+08:00

Chocolate Mousse Cake for my son 17th Birthday

For a cake recipe Vanilla Sponge Cake
For the chocolate mousse Chocolate Mousse

Gum Paste Roses for Cake Decoration 2

2011-07-19T13:42:00.002+08:00

All these flower use hand roll, and then will get a small flower, you can use to decorate a cake or cupcake

Gum Paste Roses for Cake Decoration

2011-07-19T13:37:00.003+08:00

This trip to Bangkok only two weeks, and I had the opportunity to learn how to make gum paste flowers from my teachers, her name is Aina. Actually she teaches people to make flower from the clay or its call “clay flowers”, but for me I would like to know how to make flower from gum paste so, I can use this gum paste flower to decorate my cake in the future. Before I’m going back this trip, I have arranged the date with her for me to come and learn. She so kind and agree to teach me in short time. I’m so grad and appreciate of her teaching.

1^st day she taught me how to make roses with gum paste, and the other small flower, 2^nd day she taught to make peonies and 3^rd day was orchids. I only went to learn with her for three days because I don’t have much time for this trip, she taught me a lot of thing, very details and easy to understand.

I have known her on the facebook and she taught me and people who interesting about gum paste on the facebook too. She taught me in personally and make sure I understand and know how to do it. She would show me and let me did follow her step by step.

After I had learnt and more understand how to make it. I realized it I was done wrong as before, when I tried to make a roes at home and did not the correct way to assembly to form a rose flower. I had seen her video and her photo before but still did it wrong ;-(

I notice it more easily when I saw my teacher show me real making or when I did it together with her. I also can practise with her, whenever I had problem during making flower, I can ask her or she would tell me whether I did it correctly, if wrong she would explained again until I understand or until I do correctly.

These all the gum past flowers, I had learned from her so far.

I would like take this opportunity to THANK YOU to my teacher so much for taught me, I very appreciate that.

Peanut butter and Chocolate Brownies.

2011-07-07T18:23:00.001+08:00

This is a very nice Peanut Butter Brownies. I got this recipe from my friend "Daowasan or P'Jen". She email the recipe to me and I have to try it, because my family love to eat what ever you make from peanutbutter ;-)

It's came out a very fantastic and wonderful brownie. I'm have to "Thanks" to P"Jen, who share with me for this recipe. Thank you so much P'Jen, you make me and my family getting bigger size now hahaha

Ingredient

150 g dark chocolate,shopped
100 g butter, cut into small pieces.
215 g powdered sugar.
75 g all purpose flour or plain flour.
2 tbsp cocoa powder.
2 eggs.
200 g creamy peanut butter.

How to do it.

Preheat a 160°C oven. Line a 16 * 26 cm tin with greaseproof paper and grease.
Melt the butter and chocolate over the double boil pot and stir constantly. Set a side to cool.
Mix flour, sugar and cocoa in a bowl and set aside.
Add the melted chocolate into the flour, add eggs and mix it, and don't over-mix. Pour into the prepared tin and spread evenly.
Drop spoonfuls of peanut butter over the mixture. Use knife or other sharp rake, swirl the mixtures to a marble.
Bake at temperature 160°C for 35-40 minutes or use a toothpick insert and come out a bit sticky.
Take out and leave it cool, then turn out when it cool and cut into square for serving.

Crispy Omelette

2011-06-19T07:42:00.000+08:00

Crispy Omelette

One day I was watching the video from youtube and saw this dish, its look interesting and wanted to try it. I don’t like when I saw he uses a lot of oil to fried omelette, but if you use a little oil the omelette will not crispy. I tried to use less oil and omelette was not so crispy like him, but still nice and crispy a bit more than normal omelette.

Just too fried omelette but the different from normal omelette when you pour the egg into the oil, you need to pour through a sieve to make the egg a line and fried until crispy.

Fried Minced Pork with Basil Leaves

2011-06-19T07:25:00.000+08:00

Simple and easy fried rice, this is my most favorite dish call Khao Phad Kra Prao – Basil Leaves Fried Rice. Basil leaves or Holy Basil leaves we use the make an aroma or garnish for dish. We use most all the time for curry and spicy stir fired, the aroma of basil leave also can reduce the smell of meat too, e.g. fish, beef or seafood.

My favorite dish today was stir fried minced pork with basil leaves. This dish very simple for prepared by put chilli, garlic and black pepper into mortar and pound a bit, then bring to fried in a wok till fragrance add mint pork, add soy sauce, sugar and a bit of dark soy sauce, basil leaves and cut fresh chilli, then fried until pork were cook and take to put on top of the rice or you if you prefer to be Fried rice then put the rice into the wok and fried together. Serve with cut cucumber.

Ingredients

(For 4 persons)

500 gm minced pork

4-5 chilli

5-6 clove of garlic

½ tsp black pepper

1 tbsp soy sauce or fish salt

1 tbsp oyster sauce

1 tsp dark soy sauce

1 tsp sugar

1 fresh chilli cut

½ cup or more if you like basil leaves

Sardine Fish Salad

2011-06-19T06:49:00.000+08:00

I use to eat the sardine fish often when I was study Agriculture College (nearly 30^th year ago) and I stay in the doom, because my college was far from my home town about 60-70 km. Every 1-2 weeks or some time month I had to go back to my home town to visit my mum and she would give me monthly allowance.

I and my room maid always bought Sardine Can or Instant Noodle and keep in the room, just in case some time we have not enough allowance for the whole month. We use to prepare Sardine fish as salad (Yum) or Tom Yum Sardine.

Till now I still like to eat Sardine fish once in a while. Like today I have made a Yum Sardine Fish. I cut the chilli a small piece and slide a shallot, lime, a bit of sugar and fish sauce mix all together and add a basil leave and vegetable.

Braised Five-spice Pork Belly

2011-06-10T15:11:00.000+08:00

Braised Five-spice Pork Belly

Now it's easy for me to make Braised Five-spice Pork Belly dish. I has brought Sia's Spice Packet from supermarket to make it and this five spice powder you no need to add so much thing into it, it's already got the test. It so easy for me just add dark soy sauce and sweet soy sauce that all and after that I can get a nice braised pork belly.

Yummy!!!

Ingredients:

500 kg pork belly, sliced
5 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tbsp sweet soy sauce
1 packet SIA's meat five spice powder
3-4 cups of water
5 clove garlic
4-5 hard boiled eggs, shelled

Preparations:

1. Mix SIA five spice powder with water, add garlic and bring to boil simmer.

2. Add the pork slices, and boil in high fire, add the dark and sweet soy sauce.

3. Cover and cook gently over a low heat for 40 minutes, add hard boiled eggs and continues simmer until meat is tender.

Gum Paste Flower

2011-06-01T19:26:00.003+08:00

A flowers made from gum paste.

Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcake

2011-06-01T15:29:00.004+08:00

Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcake

Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcake
Adapted from : http://zestycook.com

Ingredients

Cream Cheese Topping

8 Oz. Cream Cheese
1 Egg
1/3 Cup Sugar
1/2 Tsp. Salt
1 Cup Chocolate Chips

Dry Batter

1 1/2 Cup Flour
1 Cup White Sugar
1/4 Cup Cocoa
1 Tsp. Baking Soda
1/2 Tsp. Salt

Liquid Items

1 Cup Water
1/3 Cup Canola Oil
1 Tsp. White Vinegar
1 Tsp. Vanilla

Method

1. Preheat oven to 350F prepare a cupcake.
2. Stir the cream cheese to a creamy, smooth consistency and then add egg, sugar and salt and stir until smooth consistency and sir in the chocolate chips.
3. Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl, and set aside.
4. Combine liquid ingredients in another bowl. Stir in liquid into dry ingredients and mix well, be sure not to over mix.
5. Spoon chocolate mixture into a paper cupcake 1/2 for my cupcake dia size 2" then top each cake with a tablespoon of the cream cheese mixture.
6. Bake for 20-25 minutes.

Chocolate Cupcake

2011-05-18T18:50:00.002+08:00

Chocolate Cupcake

Fried Mee Tai Bak

2011-05-10T15:12:00.070+08:00

Fried Mee Tai Bak

Ingredients;

500g mee tai mak
200g Chy Sim or beansprouts
1 fishcake
2 eggs
2 clove garlic, minced
Oil for frying
1 tsp light soy sauce
1 tsp dark soy sauce
1/2 tsp sugar
1 tsp oyster sauce
pinch of salt

Preparation;

Rinse & drain mee tai mak.
Cut fishcake into strips.
Oiled the wok, scrambled eggs & remove.
Fry garlic till fragrant, add mee tai bak, vegetable, fried eggs, salt, sugar, dark and sweet soy sauce, continue to fry for a min till done and serve.

Fried Noodle

Make you own Mayonnaise

2011-05-10T15:12:00.067+08:00

Use 2 eggs yolk

1 cup of Olive oil or Canola oil

Beat egg yolk, sugar and white vinegar until sugar dissolve

ps. sugar and vinegar I not measuring but I use to estimate myself by testing while I'm beating.

After the sugar dissolve it, slowly pour the oil and continues beat and don't stop, until the cream become thicker.

Put in the clean and sterilized container and keep the fridge.

You can eat with salad or sandwich.

Fried Tang Hoon with Seafood Sauce

2011-05-10T15:12:00.027+08:00

Ingredients;

200g Tang Hoon or Vermicelli
50g Kang Kong (morning glory) cut into 1" length
50g cabbage, cut slide
100g slid pork, or seafood mix
2 eggs
2 clove garlic, minced
Oil for frying
1 tsp light soy sauce
2 tbsp seafood sauce
1/2 tsp sugar
1 tsp oyster sauce

Preparation;

Soak tang hoon in water until soft and drained.
Oiled the wok, scrambled eggs & remove.
Fry garlic till fragrant, add meat and fried till cook and vegetable, fried eggs, salt, sugar, and all sauce, continue to fry for a min and then add tang hoon, and stir fried till all combine and serve.

Happy Mothers Day

2011-05-09T11:19:00.000+08:00

Mothers Day Cake for myself. It's a last minute to decide to made a cake for Mothers Day ;-) The weather was too hot in Singapore, and make me lazy to do baking. Now a day I can't stand the heat, which it made me no mood to do anything.

It's just to make my kids happy and enjoy dinner with the cake, then I decided to bake a simple cake for them. On the mothers day I have not cook too, coz my kids were expected something special, like order in either PIZZA or KFC. Since long time they have not eat KFC so, let order it ;-)

I still love the make vanilla sponge cake as usual recipe, coz I like the texture it's soft and fluffy. If you like to try this sponge cake, you can find my recipe for Vanilla Sponge Cake in my blog.

Vanilla Sponge Cupcake

2011-04-29T10:45:00.002+08:00

I like the make this vanilla sponge often because the recipe was simple and the result of texture came was fantastic. Today I made cupcake topping with whipping cream.

Vanilla sponge cupcake recipe

120 g caster sugar
120 g flour (I using self raising flour)
4 eggs (grade B) at room temperature
10 g sponge stabilizer or ovallette
20 g water
20 g vegetable oil (sunflower, canola, or corn oil)
1 tsp vanilla (you can use vanilla pod or pure vanilla essence)

Method:

Place sugar, flour, eggs, ovallette, water and vanilla in a mixing bowl.
Beat at high speed till creamy for about 5-7 mins.
Lower the speed and pour the oil over the batter and mix well.
Pour into a cupcake tin lined with paper cup.
Bake in a preheated oven at 170 C for 15-20 mins or until the cupcake cook.
Remove for the oven and let it cool and decorate the topping

Orange Sponge Cake

2011-04-14T10:18:00.000+08:00

Orange Sponge Cake

Basic Sponge Cake

Ingredients:

4 eggs
100 gm cake flour
100 gm caster sugar
12 gm spongecake stabliser
25 gm milk
90 gm melted butter

Methods:

Put all the ingredients except the melted butter into a mixing bowl
Beat everything on high for at least 7-10 mins until ribbon stage.This will be the right constituency for your batter. Add in melted butter at this stage and mix in thoroughly.
Line some baking paper into 9 inch cake tin. Pour batter in the baking tray and bake it in a preheated oven at 190C for about 20-30 minutes or until the cake it's done.

Take out and leave the cake cool for 5 minutes and then turn over the cake into wire rack or plate and let the cake is complete cool. Cut and serve with coffee or tea.

Orange Sauce for Topping

200 gm water
100 gm orange juice
70 gm Sunquick Orange Concentrate
120 gm sugar
24 gm mung been flour
20 gm butter

Method

Mix all ingredient except butter, mix well and bring to boil in low heat.
Stir constantly until the sauce thick and bring out from fire. Add butter and stir until butter melt and still stir to make the sauce cool.
Poor the sauce over on top of the cake and let the sauce flow to a side by itself. Let cool or put in the fridge.

Thai Mango Sticky Rice Dessert

2011-04-12T11:25:00.000+08:00

Thai Mango Sticky Sweet Rice Dessert (Khao Niaow Ma Muang) is my favourite dessert. It's look like easy to make but I all fail to make it nice! This dessert starts with Steam Glutinous rice (also call sticky rice) and soak in a sweet coconut (coconut milk mix with sugar) then topped with slices of fresh mango. If you like mango you're going to love this very simple but tropical dessert. Yummm!

Ingredients

500 gm good quality glutinous rice
1 tsp salt
500 gm white grated coconut or coconut cream 3/4 cup, coconut milk 2-1/4 cup
200-300 gm sugar

Method

Clean the rice, picking out any grains of non-glutinous rice that may be mixed in, then soak the rice overnight, or at least 3 hours.
Drain the rice, place in a steamer tray lined with cheesecloth, and steam about 20-30 mins after the water has begun boil.
Mix 1 cup warm water with coconut and squeeze out 2-1/4 cups coconut milk.
Dissolve salt and sugar in the coconut milk in the big bowl or big container and stir until sugar it melt and set 1/2 cup aside to be used when serving.
When rice is done, pour the rice into the bowl of coconut milk and cover for a while to allow the coconut milk to mingle with the rice thoroughly. When serving spoon some of the coconut milk set aside earlier over the rice and place the ripe mango.

Takoyaki

2011-03-19T14:51:00.001+08:00

Takoyaki

3 Style Healthy Bread

2011-03-14T14:46:00.002+08:00

Walnut Bread

Multi-grain Bread

Hokkaido Milk Bread

click photo to enlarge

Fish Hor Fun (Flat Rice Noodle)

2011-03-10T14:52:00.003+08:00

I love to eat flat rice noodle, I can eat the whole day or everyday by either fried, steam or soup.Today I made it for myself lunch was Fish Hor Fun and I fried egg and add into it. I just made it my style ;-)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

2011-02-15T13:09:00.002+08:00

Happy Valentine's Day with the people you love

Made Roses from Chocolate Icing just for fun ;-)

Strawberry Tart

2011-02-13T13:32:00.001+08:00

Thank you to The Littleteochew for sharing her wonderful recipe again after I tried her pineapple tart for CNY. My tart still not perfect as original, It's too thick. Also another mistake after I press the dough into the tart mold and I forgot to chill, I was bring to bake straight away. I though because of this point make my tart the outside not look delicate as original, but I'm still happy with this tart, it's came out a delicious and my family like it.

CORN FLAKES BARS

2011-02-11T18:00:00.002+08:00

Cornflakes Bars

I made these cookie bars on the Chinese New Year Day for all my relatives gathered at my house. We agree one family have to bring one dish to eat together. I have prepared food was a chicken soup and Chinese sausage fried rice, the dessert is cornflakes bar.

The cornflakes bar I made, I got the recipe from the Nestle, I added extra cashew nuts and chocolate ganaze for topping, it came out a bit too sweet, but still they can eat all, especially my children they love it. It’s crunchy, crisp and delicious. I am glad that my relatives like this dessert. Beside of these cornflakes bars I also had bake pineapple tart and cookies for them too.

Corn Flakes Bars
Ingredients

1-1/2 cups corn flakes, lightly crushed
1 cup NESTUM cereal drink
1 cup dessicated coconut
50 g caster Sugar
150 g butter
1/4 cup honey

Preparation

Combine corn flakes, cereal drink, coconut and sugar; set aside
Melt butter and stir in honey.
Add in corn flakes mixture and mix well.
Spread mixture in lightly greased Swiss roll or shallow baking pan.
Bake in preheated 180C oven for 15 minutes
Take out and cut into bars or square. If desired you can spread over with melted chocolate, cashew nut (crushed) and dessicated coconut (optional).

My Carving

2011-02-06T00:23:00.001+08:00

Fruits and vegetables carve, by using a colorful fresh fruits and vegetables. Carving fruits and vegetable is not difficult, if you have true intentions. The first thing you should have is pointed knife and always a knife is sharpening, because knife sharp will make a carved fruits and vegetables came out nice and beautiful. Carved fruits and vegetables made the dish look beautiful and also can be eaten more easily.

The Arts of work indicate that the culture lives of Thai people. This is becoming a reputation to the world. It is the art of carving fruit and vegetables. It is a work of art work ritual food catering, to exhibit a lack of faint is to show how beautiful fruit carving.

Carving the small roses from Pumpkin

I had learned craving from my Thai friend, she’s so kind to teach me how to carve just for basic and after that you need to practice yourself more often. Since then I have no time to practice again, but every time when I see this photo I had made last time I always told myself must practice again.

Thank you to my friend who taught me how to carved

Banana Chocolate Cake

2011-01-30T17:45:00.004+08:00

My daughter asked me to make a cake for her to bring to the Church on Sunday. I thought I would make Banana Chocolate Cake because I though that is a simple, but I was wrong, actually it not as easy as I though.
Ganaze (chocolate sauce) I made was a bit liquid. When poured onto the cake, it will flow into the bottom of the cake, look not so good and the side of the cake. I have to use clear plastic sheet to wrap around the cake to prevent the sauce does not flow or cake can stand nicely hahaha. Then the top of the cake I decorated with fresh Strawberry as shown.

After the cake has been completed once, but my daughter says that's might not enough, so I decided to make vanilla cupcakes and topping with butter-cream and blue berry sauce.

Vanilla Cupcake with Buttercream and Cherry Sauce

The pink butter-cream recipes, I has found from the Wilton cake decoration book, and the white butter-cream recipe, I has recommended by my friend (Mam-Tiara from bloggang.)

Vanilla Cupcake with Pink Buttercream

After my daughter returned from a party and told me that her friends said the cake was beautiful decorated and delicious mouthwatering.

Buttercream Icing Recipe from Wilton Basic Cake Decoration Book

1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening

1/2 cup butter or margarine

1 teaspoon Wilton Clear Vanilla Extract

4 cups sifted confectioners sugar

2 tablespoon milk

Keep Icing covered with a damp cloth until ready to use. For best results, keep icing bowl in refrigerator when not use. Refrigerated in an airtight container, this icing can be stored for 2 weeks. Re-whip before using.

For Chocolate Buttercream Icing:

Add 3 oz melted unsweetened chocolate and 1 tablespoon more milk to Buttercream icing recipe.

Khanom Thien - Steam Rice Cake

2011-01-24T16:45:00.002+08:00

Mass Mung Bean, fired with shallot, garlic, pepper and salt.

Rice flour mix with sugar and add bit of coconut milk (if you find the flour it's too dry)

Fill the bean inside the flour and make into the ball shape, soak in cooking oil before you wrap.

Banana leave clean and cut oral shape and wrap it.

Wrap in this Pyramid shape and steam for 35-40 mins.

Khanom Phing - Coconut Creamy Cookies

2011-01-23T16:25:00.003+08:00

Coconut Creamy Cookies or Khanom Phing made from tapioca flour and sugar. Then baked until crispy creamy and yellow. Khanom Phing in the past will be sweet. The seductive aroma, brown and will melt in your mouth when eaten immediately. Traditionally, Kha-Nhom Phing is contained in a small glass and use to gift on New Year.

I remember when I was a little girl, I saw my neighbour bake this dessert without oven. They’re used a charcoal on top and bottom. I still remember the test of this cookies, it’s sweet and creamy. I eat a lot during my olden day until I don't really like to eat it now and I never think of making this cookies, first of all I don't like it, 2nd thing this cookies in

Thailand

are so common and you can find it every where in the market.

In Singapore they do have this dessert too and they call Kueh Bangkit, is a Penang Nyonya cookie and it is an all time favorite in Penang. And become to Singapore and

Malaysia

culture to include this cookie in New Year Festivals.

This time again my friends asked me to make and my family also like it too. I also had a Thai Dessert Book Recipe but I still do searched some recipe from internet too and found the recipe from Aunty Yochana, seem the recipe is similar with our Thai style, so I use her recipe and adapted a bit in the method, and the cookies came out was nice, even not melted in your mouth but everybody said well done.

I would like to thank you to Aunty Yochana for sharing a wonderful recipe.

Ingredient;

- 500 gm tapioca flour

- 220 gm sugar

- 250 gm coconut cream

- 3 egg yolks

- Pandan leaves – cut into piece

Method (I has adapted from Aunty Yachana as my book)

1. Dry fry flour with pandan leaves over low heat. Sieve flour and remove pandan leaves and let it cool.

2. Mix coconut cream with sugar and put over the low-mid heat, stir until the sugar and coconut cream become thicker. Remove from the heat and leave aside to cool down.

3. Add egg yolks into the coconut cream and stir well.

4. Pour a coconut mixture into the flour and mix till pliable dough.

5. Leave the dough 2-3 hour or overnight (to make the mixture got into the flour)

6. Roll out and cut it or shape the dough like small ball as I did, or you can shape what ever you like.

7. Place on the baking try, bake at 160C for 15-20 mins. Cookies should be whitish in colour.

8. Pack into the air tight container to prevent cookies will be soft.

I has tried to make this shape as Kueh Bangkit Singapore style but I forgot about the red dot on top of cookies ;-)

Pineapple Tart

2011-01-22T21:00:00.002+08:00

Every year before Chinese New Year, I'll bake pineapple tart and cookies just for us, friends and relative. Last week my friends calls and want to order the pineapple tart and cornflake cookies. So I need to make some extra for the order ;-) This time I decide to make a different pineapple tart from what I had made before.

The recipe from The Little Teochew and I would like to this opportunity to thank her for sharing a wonderful recipe and her experience.

Ingredient
- 400g plain flour
- 50g corn flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 280g cold, unsalted butter (do not allow it to soften)
- 3 egg yolks, beaten
- 3 tbsp cold water
- 6 tbsp icing sugar
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- For glaze, mix 1 egg yolk + 1 tbsp water

1. Sift flour and icing sugar together, add butter and your finger rub the butter into flour until the look like bread scrums, but my one doesn’t look like bread scrum, I don’t know why??

2. Then beat together egg, clod water and vanilla, add into butter mixture with your finger tips.

4. Form into the dough and chill it about 10-20 min.

5.Roll the dough as thick about 0.50 cm and use the pineapple tart cutter to cut.

6. Cut all the dough and neatly arrange on the baking tray.

7. Once you arrange the shell onto the tray glaze them (the entire surface), then place the pre roll pineapple on top and bake at 160C for 15-20 mins.

At first tray I bake 20 mins and the bottom part is burning, so the second tray I bake only 15 mins it’s was good and nice color too.

Packing for delivery ;-)

My Clown Cup Cakes

2011-01-20T17:00:00.003+08:00

Clowns Cupcakes, got these ideas from Wilton cake decoration book, and several years ago, had Thai friend taught me a clown piping, so I took these idea to decorate the clown cupcakes to be submitted fancy cupcakes in my own web board at http://maejj.pantown.com. Just for fun in our group activity. I’m made vanilla cupcakes and use the butter cream icing from Wilton’s recipe.

I use the Buttercream Icing's recipe from Wilton Cake decoration book.

Buttercream Icing Recipe from Wilton Basic Cake Decoration Book

1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 teaspoon Wilton Clear Vanilla Extract
4 cups sifted confectioners sugar
2 tablespoon milk

Cream butter and shortening with electric mixer. Add vanilla. Gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape side and bottom of bowl often. When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry. Add milk and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. (make 3 cups)

Keep Icing covered with a damp cloth until ready to use. For best results, keep icing bowl in refrigerator when not use. Refrigerated in an airtight container, this icing can be stored for 2 weeks. Re-whip before using.

For Chocolate Buttercream Icing:
Add 3 oz melted unsweetened chocolate and 1 tablespoon more milk to Buttercream icing recipe.

Eat Seafood at Bangsan Beach

2011-01-10T13:10:00.002+08:00

I went to Bangsan to visit my brother and his family. We come hear must eat seafood at the beach but this time we didn't eat much because my car had problem so I worried about how to repair and can go back to Bangkok. It's spoil my appetite ;-(

Tempura - this dish disappointed me, 3 prawn was 30 baht, after we eat we found the prawn so tiny small, it's look big because it's cover with thick flour!

Crispy Young Crabs, nice to chew all hahahaha

Fried Pork, for kids

Steam Crabs this is the best, they gave us fresh crab and sweet, this plate was 200 baht (1/2 kg)

Squid Salad, so so not ready fantastic as I expected.

All my nephew, the two big boys, they're stay in Bangsan but the small one went with me and he so happy to just went to beach.

Happy New Year 2011

2011-01-01T00:12:00.001+08:00

Keep the smile,

Leave the tear,

Think of joy,

Forget the fear,

Hold the laugh,

Leave the pain,

Be joyous ,

Coz its new year!

Club Sandwich

2010-12-28T00:35:00.002+08:00

After came back from Bangkok for holiday trip, but my kids still had a school holiday. They were sleep late at night and weak up late nearly every day, it’s easy for me to just prepare a brunch for them.

I make simple and easy for them; I got only ham, cheese and vegetable to make a simple club sandwich hahaha.

Ingredients

6-8 slices of bread, crusts on
150-200g ham sliced
salt and freshly milled black pepper
1/4 of an Iceberg lettuce, chopped very finely
4 tbsp mayonnaise
3-5 sheet of milk chesses

Prepare

Toast the bread and keep warm.
Mix the iceberg and mayonnaise together.(you can add salt and pepper into it)
Spoon on a little lettuce and mayonnaise on a piece of toast, top with sliced ham and chesses. Lay on the other slice of toast. Repeat until all ingredients are used.
Cut into triangles and skewer with frilly cocktail sticks and serve immediately

Photo by: MaeJJ

Christmas Light on Orchard Road

2010-12-26T17:39:00.007+08:00

Christmas light along the Orchard Road, every year all the Department store, shopping mall, restaurant, office building and a shop along the these road will do the light decorated for Christmas and New Year.

On 25 Nov this road will close and only people can walk in. On the Christmas Day was rain day and night but still have people walk and take a photo. I went their too but its on 26^th Nov, I though may not have so many people, but I was wrong, still many people go their for shopping and take photo. I went alone because no one of my family wants to go with me ;-(

I took NEL train to Dhoby Ghaut and from there I just walk along the road up to Orchard Road. I spent more than 2 hours to take a photo and walk back to the train station and back home. My leg was much tried but worth it because I can take some nice photo.

Travel and Eat with family (3)

2010-12-22T16:48:00.007+08:00

This's a trip to Nakornnayok with family and had lunch along the load. Just a simple dishes in a small restaurant.
And here is my travel photo http://maejj.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post.html

Thai style Fish Cake

Fried Chicken with salt

Crispy Fried Morning Glory

Dripping Sauce for crispy morning glory

After check in to the resort and dinner time, we eat around the resort and we found this restaurant quite interesting and we got try it. some dish got fantastic and we like it.

This dish call "Kung Yok" they make the prawn is green color (green color made from pandan leave by squeezed to get the juice and soak the prawn into it to make the prawn is green color) Then deep fried prawn and serving on the basket which it made from shaded yam form into the basket and deep fried again. This dish was so creative many things to prepare.

After put the fried prawn into the basket and topping with mayonnaise, and served for the basket you can eat too.

Egg Condo is the name of omelet, this restaurant made it fantastic dish, it’s omelet but they made it so high and thick than normal one. At first when I looked at it, I thought inside must be hollow but when we take some piece and not as what I thought. (as below photo)

Fried Vegetable

Next day, we still stay at Nakhonnayok one more day and this time we had lunch at the resort restaurant coz my hubby want to join run groups there too. The food here was not as nice as we expected, we’re only order simple fried rice, but I'm so disappointed. A food was not so good (may be only me) and service also slow.

Seafood Fried Rice

Spicy Seafood with Rice

Salmon Steak

waiting and waiting .....