Steamed Carrot Cake

Been very busy recently so had not been cooking much. Told myself that I must find some time to make something this weekend. Was hesitating whether to make soon kuek or luo buo gao. In the end, made carrot cake.

Ready for steaming

After Steaming

Fried some to eat 1st.

Chicken Chop in Mushroom Sauce

Hubby wanted to eat spaghetti. Since I was busy with the spring cleaning today, agreed to prepare a simple dinner.. No need much preparation.

I am a rice person so dun really fancy spaghetti.

November Cooking

Mixed Vege

Soya Sauce Chicken

ABC Soup

Fried Tau Gey

Hor Fun

Mee Rebus

Butter Cake

Cupcakes without decoration

Chocolate Chip cookies

Sweet & Sour Fish

Sichuan Cai Soup

Curry Chicken

Mini Buffet cum Big Feast at Home

It has been a long time since I cooked a decent meal for hubby. Since he had class and my parents are not free to meet, I stay at home to do some cooking lor. 2 of us only but there are 5 dishes. haha.. So I think its appropriate to treat this as a mini buffet. This buffet was done 2 weeks ago.

Sambal Long Beans

Long Beans with eggs

ABC Soup

Steamed Fish

Seafood Tofu

Seafood Tofu

Got this recipe from Sandra's multiply.

Mini Buffet cum Big feast at home

Egg with long beans and prawns

Sambal Hae Bee Long Beans

Seafood Tofu

Steamed Fish

ABC soup

Seafood Tofu

Thanks Sandra for sharing this nice recipe with us.

Ingredients:
1 egg
1 tube of tofu (mashed)
100g minced meat
5 prawns (minced)
3 tsp corn flour
Seasoning:
pepper
salt
sesame oil
1) Mix all together

2) Steamed in a tray

3) Cut them and deep fried them.

Yong Tau Hoo

I went to Smith Street Market for lunch as my colleagues want to buy the yong tau hoo from the market. I decided to get some yong tau hoo to have a healthy and cheap dinner.

Yong Tau Hoo $2.30
Broccoli $1.00
Mee Pok $0.60

$3.90 for 2 pax

Final Baking for CNY

With CNY just 3 days away, I finally finished baking the last batch of cookies. Love the cashew nut cookies and decided to bake more of these. Quite satisfied with what I had achieved this year. Managed to bake 4 different types of cookies. The only regret is no pineapple tarts. :(

Gong Xi Fa Cai

CNY Baking Part IV-Cornflakes cookies

CNY Baking Part III-Cashew Nut Cookies

CNY baking Part II-Sugi Cookies

Baked these on Tuesday. Was introduced to this recipe by Sharon . Thank you, Sharon.

CNY baking-Peanut cookies

Yippee.. I am back in action. Started my CNY baking liao.
Before Baking




After baking

Purple Award

Thanks to Hooi Kiang for awarding me this award.

Wah.. 2nd award within 2 days. Thanks Hk and Judy for making my day. hehe..

Now on to Jo http://karlsfoodie.blogspot.com for setting up IK

Rocking Girl Award

My msn kiaki, Judy aka Malc's mummy had passed this award to me. I am rather surprised with this award as I have been very quiet at my blog. So paiseh to receive this reward. Thanks Judy.

I shall pass this award to

Sharon http://bozogemok.blogspot.com/
Annie http://soann.blogspot.com/
Eunice http://afreshbeginning.wordpress.com/
Meizhen-A bride to be. http://sushibento.blogspot.com/

Bak Chang

Today is an eventful day. Hb won movie tickets at Surf's Up at the new AMK hub Cathay. The show was at 10 am and we need to wake up early to collect at 9.30. After show, went out lunch with my family for father's day celebration.
Got home around 5 and finally I started to make the bak chang myself for the 1st time. Of coz, I had called my grandma in M'sia for tips on preparing the ingredients yesterday. hehe...

Yesterday

Washed and soaked the leaves.Marinated the meat.Cooked the mushrooms, chestnuts and dried oysters.

Today

Soaked the rice this morning.Fried the hae bee and rice.Start wrapping and cooked them for 2 hours. Yeah.. can eat liao.

Before cooking.

Cooking in process

After cooking,

Ready for eating

Chocolate Chip Muffins by Nigella

Got this recipe from http://lovefood.14.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?p=18056#18056

Mee Goreng for breakfast

I have a packet of Prima paste which I bought during sale at Carrefour. But I do not have fresh noodles in my fridge. So I used instant noodles instead.

Claypot Rice for lunch

Surprisingly, I had claypot rice for dinner again. Went to Clementi Blk 328 for dinner with the volunteers.

Earlier posts

Made these last month but forgot to post.
Made chicken char siew. Cooked mee pok and mee gia.

Sambal Hae Bee french beans

Sausage Rolls

TOTM for May on NK

The TOTM for this month is vegetables. So I cooked a lot of vege dishes today. Moreover, I have not cooked for so long. hehe..
Lunch
French Beans

Spinach with salted egg and egg. ran out of century eggs

Sliced fish with ginger and spring onions.

Fried tau gey

Watercress with chicken soup

Dinner
Mui Fun for myself

Hokkien Mee for Hubby

1st feast after our wedding.

The TOTM at NK is eggs so I thought of making these eggs dishes today with other dishes as well.
Its my first attempt in making these eggs dishes. Verdict fm hb are as follow:

Potatoes Eggs

Verdict: Potatoes a bit too bland and not firm enough. There were some whereby the eggs are separated from the potatoes.

Before frying

After frying and the cutting

Egg Roll with fish paste

Verdict: Nice but should have added some cut chilli or spring onion in the fish paste so that they will look more colourful. Maybe I should get some seaweed also. Maybe, can shallow fry them after steaming and cutting.

Before steaming and after cutting

Sambal Quail Eggs

Verdict: Too much onions and not spicy enough.

Sliced Fish Soup

Sambal Kangkong with hae bee

Soya sauce chicken with shredded ginger. Forgot to take this earlier. By the time I took this pic, already more than half are gone. :P

Dinner

I have not been cooking for a long time as was busy preparing for wedding. Finally, I have time to come home after work to make dinner. Here they go.... Sweet & Sour Fish AND China chye sim. But I think the chye sim are too old liao so a bit tough. Not much ingredients left in the fridge so no other ingredients (pinapple, cucumber, capsicum) to fry the sweet & sour fish. But they turned out nice too... I am amazed that we can finished all.. haha..

Peanut Cookies

Yeah... My 1st batch of CNY cookies is out. Supposed to bake for my buddies. But last min, we cant meet each other tomorrow. End up in my office lor. heehee..

Dinner tonight.

Fried Beansprouts with salted fish

Sambal kangkong

Dishes made this week

fried Tanghoon

Shredded Chicken Mee Kia

Claypot tofu with rice

Seldom cook this week so only a few dishes...

Hawaiian Pizza

Today, decided to take out my breadmaker to make the dough again before it dies or become white elephant. haha...

Before baking

After baking

Closer look

1st batch of cookies in 2007

Closer look....

M & M Cookies

Baked some cookies to give away to neighbours and friend.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Baked these cookies for tmr year end party.

Prata with curry chicken

Had some chicken leftover from yesterday. So decided to cook curry chicken and fry the prata for dinner tonight. So nice to have this on cold weather.

Chicken Claypot Rice

Chicken Claypot Rice

Lotus Root with Chicken soup. My favourite soup.

Bak Kut Teh

Went back to my parents' house for lunch and cooked these....
Bak Kut Teh

Curry Vege

Claypot Tofu

Cornflakes cookies

I wanted to bake cornflakes cookies. Josh suggested this method of melting chocolate is much more simpler. Initially, I heard of this method. Its just that I have not tried double boiling before. Fearing that it will be difficult. After Josh's explanation, I decided to give it a try and here they are... I love them....

Packed these cookies with my chocolate chip cookies to give to colleagues for xmas. Hope you all enjoy them and do not mind the home made cookies. :)

Curry Chicken

Saw the Prima Curry Chicken Mix on sale at NTUC the other day. So bought one packet to try.
Actually sort of cooked this chicken curry thru "cheating" hehe....

Fried Bee Hoon

This morning, I woke up super early to make breakfast for colleagues. Main reason is to thank Eunice for her help & advice for the past 3 weeks. Tomorrow is supposed to be her last day of work. In order to help me with some discussion, she cancelled her leave next wed.
I fried Bee Hoon and cooked chicken porridge. Did not take the picture of the porridge.

Tom Yam Bee Hoon

Tom Yam Bee Hoon Soup

Assam Fish

Dinner tonight

Chicken Rice

Initially, thought that I wont be able to cook chicken rice because no pandan leave. Josh suggested me to buy from supermarket. Told him it will be late when I reach home. Indeed., it was already 8 plus when we have our dinner. However, my craving for chicken rice for dinner is too strong.

Hokkien Mee

Fried Hokkien mee for dinner

Breakfast 21.10.06

A very sinful breakfast.......

Pizza

Thanks to Aunt Del for the recipe and Tina Jie for the tips. I managed to make the pizza tonight. I prepared the dough in advance using my breadmaker.

Chicken Dumpling with Yee Mee

Left office on time today to go for a swim. By the time I reached home, the haze seemed to get worse and decided not to go swimming. Did not plan to cook initially. Still got dumpling skin leftover in the fridge. So just made do with what I have in the fridge.

Chicken Dumpling with Yee Mee

Feast of the month

Whip up another feast today. Isaac is going back to India end of the month and going to UK to work. Moreover, his wife will be going back to India first on 16th so we decided to invite them over for dinner tonight. At the same time, hubby also invited some ex colleagues over for dinner. The dishes are almost the same. I really wanted to make something different. Seemed like hubby only know to order these few dishes for gatherings. haiz... Initially, wanted to make pizza but realised I do not have cornmeal. Then decided to make the no baked cheesecake since I have cheese in the fridge. After preparing biscuits base, realised I do not know to how fix the mixer. So cant make cheesecake also. :(
Chicken Rice

Spaghetti

Sweet & Sour Fish

Chicken Dumpling Soup & Prawn in sambal chilli with egg

Marinated Guava as appetizer & Mango Pudding as dessert

Snowskin Mooncake part 2

Made the 2nd batch of mooncakes... Thanks Josh once again!

Snowskin Mooncake

Made the snowskin mooncake tonight. Went to choose and try gowns for the photos shooting in the afternoon and then went Bugis Junction for dinner. Actually, was too tired liao. But I already bought the ingredients last sat. If I dun make some today, I afraid I cant finish them by Friday.

This year, decided to stick to snowskin mooncake using Josh's recipe. Last year, I failed to bake the mooncakes and the ingredients ended up in the rubbish bin. Such a big waste. :( But I do not know what happen this year also. Many cracks in the mooncakes and so uneven. So sad.. Maybe will try making them tomorrow or Wednesday.

Fried sambal Tanghoon

Cooked "teochew" style porridge to go with sambal tang hoon & xiao bai cai for breakfast
Fried Sambal Tanghoon

Coleslaw

With Tina's tips, I decided to make some coleslaw to go with the spaghetti and baked chicken.


It also had been so long I baked cripsy chicken. Yeah. turned out better than previous times. Best of all, no oil was used. :)


Made 1 plate of spaghetti to share also. Seemed like we had a heavy dinner tonight. *guilty*

Claypot Vegetables Yi Mee

No more kuay teow when I went to market during lunch time. But had a nice lunch instead. :) Still feel like cooking one dish meal for tonight dinner. Decided to use my new claypot and cook Yi Mee with all the vegetables I have. Though no meat, it cannot be considered as a vegetarian dish as I put shallots and egg. I only cooked one piece of Yi Mian out of the whole packet. We still have problem finishing this claypot. Think I add too much vege & tau pok.

Chocolate Mousse cake

Today, went to Josh house to collect the mixer and also learnt how to make the cake from him. When I saw his posts days ago, I like it very much and am sure my hubby will like it. So decided to learn from him at the same time. hehe...

Today is really a fruitful day for me @ Josh place, received a mixer, learnt the cake method, saw his flowers and plants, had seafood pasta made by Josh and I even had the chance to bring back the cake. Thanks, Josh!!!

Fried Vegetarian Egg Noodles

There is 1/2 pack of egg noodles in the cabinet leftover. Decided to make a simple dinner with cabbage & carrot.

Dinner

Chicken cubes with potatoes

Beans with carrot

Spaghetti

Ever since I started to work in the new job, today is the 1st time I experienced heavy rain after work. It had been almost a month already. Wanted to cook porridge again. I thought having porridge on a rainy day will be quite nice. BUT when I reached home, I feel like cooking spaghetti. Haiz.. This is me. Always change my mind. haha... In the end, spaghetti for dinner.
I have cabbage & carrot in the fridge and a bottle of salad cream bought by hubby. Feel like making coleslaw for him as he asked me whether I know how to make coleslaw. Frankly speaking, I do not know. haha... I was brought up in a kitchen with chinese cooking. No western cooking. I learnt how to cook spaghetti on my bintan trip. Josh taught me how to make it before. However, I did not take down the notes. I just cut the vege and put in the salad cream and little bit of salt. Taste very funny. Think I am wrong to use the salad cream. Must go and check with my shi fu later. haha :P


These are what I made for dinner 2 days ago.

Cauliflower with carrot and mushroom.

Sambal hae bee with baby kai lan

Tiramisu

Today, he bought back a cake made by inmates that he ordered few days ago. He will be posted out in Sep so decided to order the cake back for me to try. Otherwise, no chance to try liao. Verdict: Soft and not too sweet.

Teochew style porridge

I had lost voice for a few days. Finally, I regained back my voice today. But the cough still persists. Had no choice but to see the doctor again for the cough. Decided to cook something very simple but our favourite for dinner tonight after seeing the doctor. Moreover, he will be home late too after his table tennis game.

Stir fried Baby Kai Lan

French beans with carrot.

Yes and No

The cake is out. The verdict is successful and unsuccessful.

Yes, the cakes are out. No waste of the ingredients.















No, there is a crack on the loaf cake again.















If the cake top portion can be like the bottom too.... So even.....

Lunch for my family

Thinking this is a super late post. Cant remember exactly was it 3 weeks ago or 1 month ago that I made this lunch.

Curry Vegetables














Braised Chicken wings















Overall

Sigh.. and sigh...

The pooh play room had been shut down temporary for operations. However, her hands are so itchy today and wanted to bake a cake for her new colleagues. Guess what? After I put in the sugar and butter into the bowl, the cake mixer is not responding at all. It is down.... Sob.. sob... There are 250gm butter and 200gm of sugar. I really do not wish to see them ending up in the rubbish bin. It is such a big waste if I throw them away. Went over to my neighbour & see whether I can borrow one from them. BUT they do not bake so no electric mixer to lend.

Tried online at MSN but no advisor is around to assist me. I decided to use the newly purchased wire whisk and beat them manually. I remembered I beating something manually during sec school days. Its baking in the oven now. Don't know how the texture will be like. Its very tiring to beat them manually. HOPE it will turn out well.

Anyway, the master agreed to get the pooh play room a new toy. hehe... A good excuse for me to buy something. Been thinking of the mixer from KitchenAid all along. But I do not think I will get it this time round. Unlike Josh, I will not make very good use of this mixer. He can play with that toy better than me. Moreover, its so expensive. Better don't waste money. I will just get one normal electric mixer.

Too lazy or too busy??? haha...

Been too busy or too lazy to post? I also dunno. My dear hubby is on diet prog now so the pooh play room have to be shut down for operations coz no one to be my guinea pig liao. haha.. But I wanted to make something today. Will see how later. hehe...

Dinner tonight.

Been talking to Solo and Josh on what should I cook.

By the time I post up all these pictures, too tired already. No going to write a lot...going to zzzz...







The carrot cake for them to pack home

Baking time

He is trying to rush out one report so we cannot go out today. After finishing the housework in the morning. Went online and met Josh and Judy there. Discussing what should we do today. Josh wanted to go Daiso @ IMM. I decided to bake something for my colleagues to eat since I am leaving in 2 weeks' time. Initially, wanted to bake cookies and cake today. By the time I reached home, its already 5 plus. Decided to bake the butter cake 1st. It took me almost an hour to finish baking the loaf cake. After the baking and dinner, sianz already. hehe.. so no cookies.

Sambal vegetarian bee hoon for dinner tonight

Breakfast yesterday

Needed to go and visit someone at TTSH. So decided to cook some porridge. At the same time, can also asked my parents over for porridge but got mum to buy you tiao. hehe

Lunch today

When my father bought breakfast over for me this morning, he commented that he has not tasted my cooking for quite some time and wanted to come over for lunch. So asked parents, brother and SIL to come over for lunch. Think this is the 1st time that 6 of us are having lunch together at my place. oops...

Mixed Vegetables

Sliced Fish Soup

Fried Soya sauce chicken with ginger

Fried Bee Hoon

The pooh play room in action on 24 June 06

Another late post again. BUT it's not my fault. Do not know what's wrong with the memory card last night. Simply cannot find the memory card's data in the PC. Today, tried to slot in the memory card and it works. Yeah..

Ok. Yesterday, spent the morning playing in the pooh play room. hehe..

Breakfast

Wanton mee soup with prawn

Lunch

Finally, they had the chance to come over the makan session liao. been so busy since I shifted in that I had no chance or time to invite them over for makan. haha.. Sorry for the long wait, pals-(the poly group work :gang" cum "daughters" with their boyfriend and husband). wow.. We have known each other for so long liao. Sorry, no reveal of number of years here.

The overall food

Mee Goreng

Sweeet and sour fish

Chicken Rice

Dark soya sauce prawn with chilli

Chicken Dumpling Soup

Sambal Chicken with Tau Kwa

Decided to cook dinner tonight. With the half chicken in the fridge, decided to fry with sambal chilli and tau kwa. 1st attempt of frying chicken with sambal chilli and taukwa. Verdict: Nice but bit oily.

A sinful Dinner

Yesterday, decided to try to fry some crispy chicken wings since I have some left overs from the other day. Agar agar mixed some rice flour with corn starch. verdict was crispy but not fragrant enough. maybe I should add in some 5 spices powder or I should marinate them longer.

Grilled chicken wing with Spaghetti

It had been been so long since I post up something here. Here it goes.....

Char siew sauce grilled chicken wing


Oyster sauce grilled chicken wing

Fish soup bee hoon

This was what we had for dinner on one of the days last week. Another late post again. keke...

Chocolate Chip Cookies

When Newstead had finished set up the PC, it was still so early. Never cooked dinner as we just finished lunch @ 4. Decided to have "opening ceremony" of the Ariston Oven. keke...

After going thru the ingredients I had at home, decided to bake my favourite Chocolate Chip Cookies for my colleagues to eat since this friday is my last day at work.

Here It Goes

Still baking in there.....

The 1st batch of baking from Pooh play Room

1st housewarming

Invited colleagues and bosses for dinner last night. These are what I prepared for them. Sorry, the photos are not taken well as I took the photos after they started. Very typical chinese dishes. Not salad or cake. I like the NK gathering at Edith's place. A well mixture of both chinese and western dishes.

Curry Vegetables & Fried Bee Hoon


Hainanese Chicken Rice that I learnt from my maternal grandfather



Hakka Yong Tau Hoo that I learn from my paternal grandmother.



There are tau pok with the fillings, tau kwa with filling and mushrooms with fillings. This dish can be quite time consuming. Need to cook the soup base for a long time to get the sweetness. The fillings also have to be marinated before they can be filled in the tau pok, tau kwa and mushrooms. After that, still have to shallow fry them before adding them into the soup. Now, I missed the charcoal stove at my parents house. Think the soup tasted nicer with that type of heat.

Sweet & Sour Fish & Prawns

beside the sweet and sour fish is the chicken nuggets. Can you see?

Mee Goreng

This mee goreng was fried at last minute. After my colleagues, nothing much was left. So fried this for my brother and father. Luckily, still have noodles in my fridge leftover from morning. Fried mee goreng in the morning for him to bring to his office for lunch. So rare that I am on leave so can make something for him to have home cooked lunch.

Fruit cocktail jelly



This time, I used a different type of mix compared the previous the one made for V day. This mixture is softer but nicer. hehe... Made a total of 48 pieces and all are gone. Yipee....

2 large pizza ordered from Pelican. Hawaiian and Chicken Classic

Valentine's Day 06

This is our 1st V'day since we were married. As we had shifted into the new house, cannot make any surprise this year. He will knows what I wanted to do before the actual day itself. But still came up with something much simpler. hehe..

Fruit cocktail jelly



This is nothing much & easy avail everywhere. But still my 1st time baking a bread specially for him.