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My first oven

chinnee — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:55:23 +0000

After YEARS of waiting……

I got the Faber 40L conventional oven, my very first oven for my baking *HOORAAYY*!!

I have done so much comparison between Elba, Faber, Cornell and even Hanabishi. Each of them (above 30L) has almost similar features such as Turbo Fan, 4 power setting, adjustable temperature to 250C degree, 60min timer. The only differences between them are:

* Elba (Has an inner light but the construction looks flimsy)
Faber (Nice solid built up but it comes without inner cooking light)
Cornell( Solid oven but I don’t like the design)
Hanabishi (Solid oven. Too bad it comes without Rotisserie function)

Now my hands are very itchy wanting to bake now. See, crazy or not, sleep and eat also no time, wanna bake some more! *Am lining up plans now for my CNY cookies and tarts* Surely the Fentraphen will sells good after the festive season, WAKAKAKA!!!

Slim Mama

chinnee — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:03:48 +0000

Kids are really funny. Although I look as big as a bear now (as compare to the slim of me in my wedding photo), my girl still loves me tremendously. Kid does has a pure heart. However sometimes she does complain that I look fat and tell me that she want a slimmer Mama I think I better do something to my huge belly before it is too late. Seeing the effective result, probably I need to order Phentermine to see if it helps.

Cheaper does not mean good

chinnee — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:25:47 +0000

Nowadays there are so many things which are made in China. Even most of the home furniture and electrical appliance are coming from China due to cheaper manufacturing cost. However although cheaper, the quality might not be as good as expected. For instant, we have been changing our light fixtures as they burn easily. Still spend the same in long run, hahaha…

Greens for little ones

chinnee — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:09:46 +0000

I hardly have a chance to use the bento kits that I bought recently. Although I am not decorating my girl’s food, I am happy that she is now learning to eat some greens. She could take most of the vegetables with soft leaves. Her favourite is the spinach. So from time to time, I will introduce some new vege to her, hoping that she would slowly love vege. Green beans are in fact good for little children. Shall check out some new easy green bean recipes since my boys are going to start on solid too, soon.

Need a bigger pot now

chinnee — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:42:20 +0000

Since I need to drink lots of soup frequently to increase my breast milk, I need to boil soup almost daily. At the moment, the biggest pot that I have for soup boiling can only cater for a meal. Surprisingly, yesterday hubby suggest that we buy another bigger pot so that we can cook more. Can you imagine how trilled I was at his suggestion (since he seldom like to buy cookware) ?

Any suggestion of good cookware? Probably I need to browse through the Myson offers since I am getting a paella pan as well.

Yam Cake (Wu Tau Kou)

chinneeq — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:57:36 +0000

My family, especially my father has always love yam cake. And since Aunty Kuan (QiQi’s baby sitter) has good experience of making such kuih, I decided to get to be my teacher. After getting the ingredients, we start off this morning at 10am.

Ingredients

1 yam, cubed

5 cloves garlics

(A) Mix Well

1 packet blended rice flour

2 tbsp tapioca flour

Water

Seasoning – salt, 5 spieces powder, sugar to taste

Garnishing – shallot crisp, dried prawns crips

Method

Heat oil and sauté shallots and dried prawns (separately) till crisp. Dish out and set aside.

Saute garlic with remaining oil, add in yam and stir-fry till fragrant. Mix in water and bring to boil.

Add in mixture (A), cook batter becomes thick. Pour out batter into a greased tray to steam (30minutes).

Once yam cake is cooled, add garnishing and serve with your favourite sauce (I use sweet black sauce from the market).

Guess what’s the taste like ? Haha….of course it is YUMMY!! (with full supervision from a teacher). Do look out for my next project, which will be LOH MAI KAI (Glutinous Chicken Rice).

Butter cake

chinneeq — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:13:35 +0000

Ingredients: 250g butter, 100g castor sugar, 4 fresh eggs, 250g self raising flour, and 1/2tsp vanilla essence.

Friday is my baking day again Today I decided to bake just a plain butter cake. 2nd time baking is definitely more easier, more faster as I know what to prepare and do, and less mess too, hehehe…..In my experience, I find that butter cake has got more coarse texture as compare to cheese cake (my first project last friday). However towards the end, only i realized that I have forgotten to sieve the flour Therefore my nanny suggest that I mix the mixture into more fluffy so that it will be more “light”. Well, after 45mins baking in the microwave, my cake came out just fine.

My First Bake (Crunchy Cheese Cake)

chinneeq — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:07:23 +0000

Since young, I have great interest with everything to do with food (from preparing to eating). My mum wasn’t very much of a good cook, though I must admit I still love and miss her cooking (my childhood taste) nowadays. I have always love my grandma’s cooking, but I din have the chance to learn from her as she always finds that I was a nuisance in the kitchen when I tried to help (most probaly at that time I was too young to handle fire

Now I have got all the time in the world to learn and experience. Hence , I decided to learn to bake. Picking up a good local baking book, and some ingredients (gosh, they are expensive !!), i decided to do a cheese cake. Thanks to my nanny, who has offered me to do my experiement in her house as she has all the baking accessories one needs.

With a high enthusiam to bake, we decided to start up this morning. Well, after a whole mad morning, with QiQi fancying eating on with my beaten up butter, we managed to bake a butter cake, with lots of cheddar cheese as topping and this is how it looks like. My first cheese cake.