Chilli Crabs

My father in law bought some live crabs from the supermarket, so i cooked chilli crabs.

Deep Fried Baby Squid

My mum & me deep fried this baby squid, we got to deep fry for quite a long time before the baby squid gets crispy. But its very nice, my family loves to eat this baby squid.

Happy Father's Day !!

Happy Father's Day Papa !! I made this durian cake for my father. I put a lot of durians inside. My hubby drove me all the way to Geylang to buy the durians. Every one loves this cake, yummy !!! :)

A cut up slice

Pork Chop

I made this pork chop. I sandwich with cheese & ham then coated it with eggs & bread crumbs.

Vegetarian Bee Hoon

Today my Mum cooked vegetarian Bee Hoon for our lunch. Its very nice, she adds carrot, french beans, dried mushrooms. Thanks Mum for cooking a delicious lunch for us :)

Dinner at Ricciotti

On Saturday night, we went out for dinner at Ricciotti with Puay Siang & Lye Yoong. It is recommended by our friend Puay Siang. Ricciotti serves good Italian food & lots of delicious desserts. We had a Riciotti Salad, Tonnarelli Pasta & Salmone Pizza. After that we had dessert. Every dessert looks so good until we had a hard time choosing which one should we get. So in the end we settled for this 4 desserts. The Crostata was so cute, its really look like a "tree". Thanks Puay Siang & Lye Yoong for a good time of makan together !! :)

Crostata - Fresh exotic fruit chocolate tartlets

Cannoli - Tube chocolate pastry stuffed with ricotta cheese, citrus fruits and pistachio nuts
Diplomatica - Puff pastry and sponge cake layered with hazelnut custard and chocolate

3 scoops of Gelato - passion fruit sorbet, lemon sorbet & pistachio

Ngoh Hiang

Made ngoh hiang today for the first time. Thankfully it turn out well. My hubby loves it.

Ingredients :

300g minced pork

150 prawns, shelled, deveined & diced finely

2 black fungus, soaked till soft, cut thinly

6 water chestnut, coarsley chopped

4 shallots, chopped finely

1 stalk spring onion, chopped finely

1 egg

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp five spice powder

pepper

1.5 tbsp cornflour

8 sheet of beancurd skin, each piece cut into 15cm x 25 cm (wipe with a damp cloth to remove access salt)

1 tbsp cornflour mix with 1.5 tbsp water (to seal the ngoh hiang)

Method:

-Mix all the ingredients together except the cornflour till well mix, then add in the cornflour.Meat mixture should not be too wet.

-Place abt 2 tbsp of the mixture on the beancurd skin

-Fold in the sides then roll up, seal the edges with the cornflour mixture

-Placed rolled ngoh hiang on greased metal plates, then steam for abt 10 to 15 mins.

-When cooked, transfer to another plate, cos the metal plate will be quite wet.

- Leave to cool *

-Deep fry the ngoh hiong.

*Can freeze the ngoh hiang

Cha Siew

I roast this Cha Siew. I used the lee kum kee sauce to season the pork. Delicious. The whole kitchen smells very nice.

Kueh Dadar

My friend Tsu Yee & her mum, Aunty Pheck Har made this Kueh Dadar. The skin is thin & nice, filling is also good, not too sweet. Thanks Tsu Yee & Aunty Pheck Har for sharing with us the delicious Kueh Dadar :)

Strawberry Jam

My friend Tsu Yee made this strawberry jam. Its so good, not to sweet and you can see the strawberries !! Thanks Tsu Yee for sharing this delicious jam with us.

Cheesecakes

Me & my friend Vivien went to do a hands on cheesecake class. We did 3 different cheesecakes. Black Forest Cheesecake, Strawberry Cheesecake & Boston Cheesecake.

Black Forest Cheesecake

Black Forest Cheesecake (slice up)

Strawberry Cheesecake

Boston Cheesecake

Boston Cheesecake (slice up)

Tea Towel

My mum's friend Aunty Bee Jin made this tea towel for us, its really a surprised !! Its really so nice & cute :) Tks Aunty Bee Jin. Great job !!

Lunch Gathering

My Mum's friend came over to her place for fellowship lunch. We had a good time of fellowship. We cook some dishes for them to try.

Rojak Penganten. Mum puts pineapple, apple, cucumber, lettuce, carrot & cauliflower topped with fried belinjo.

Mum cook this soup, she put carrot, sausage, red beans, potato, linguini.

Teriyaki chicken wings. My friend Elizabeth Er taught me how to make this dish. Its very nice. Tks Elizabeth :)

Strawberry hearts jelly

Banana chiffon cake

Lemon Passionfruit Curd

I saw this recipe in the sunday's newspaper life page & i got quite a lot of passion fruit in my fridge, so i decided to try it out. Its got a nice refreshing taste and a bit of sour taste because of the lemon, but you can add more sugar if you like it to be sweeter. I eat it for breakfast with my toast.

Lemon Passionfruit Curd ready to be be eaten.

Cooking the lemon & passionfruit over a pot of water.

Ingredients :
6 Passionfruit
6 Lemon (zest the skin)
450g Sugar
250g Cold Unsalted Butter (cut into smaller pieces)
8 eggs

Method :
1) Zest the lemon using fine grater or microplane grater, set aside, then juice the lemons, you should get about 250ml of lemon juice.
2) Bring a pot of water to simmer, then sit a glass or metal bowl over the pot, making sure the bowl does not come into contact with the water.
3) Add the lemon juice, lemon zest, butter and sugar into the bowl.
4) Stir the mixture with a wooden spoon until the sugar and butter has melted.
5)Add the passionfruit pulp in and stir.
6) Crack the eggs into a bowl and use a folk to break the yolks, the use a strainer to strain the eggs into the curd mixture, continue to stir.
7) After 20 mins or so, the curd will start to thicken, keep stirring the mixture, when it coats the back of the spoon, it is ready.
8) Take the bowl off the pot, and spoon the curd into clean glass jar, cover when completely cooled.

Banana Chiffon Cake

I got aome banana left and its going to be quite ripe, so i decided to make banana chiffon cake.

Cake out of the pan.

Tofu Cheesecake

My friend Adaline made this tofu cheesecake. Its so good & the texture is very smooth & light. Thanks Adaline for sharing your delicious cheesecake with us.

Ready to be served. Yummy :)

Durian Puffs

Finally i made durian puffs, its been a long time since i last made it. Lots of durian filling inside. Yummy :)


Puffs out of the oven, in the cooling process.

Chocolate Banana Cake

My friend ask me to make a chocolate banana cake for her hubby's birthday. :) Happy Birthday !! :)

I made extra chocolate sponge, so that i can make smaller one for ourselves to eat. Here is a cut up slice of the the smaller one. :)

Oreo Muffins & Banana Muffins

Seems like i am in a muffin season. I made another batch of muffins. This time i added oreo for some & banana for the rest.

Pierre Herme's Materclass

Last week I attended Pierre Herme's culinary master class during the world gourmet summit. He taught us 2 desserts. First one was called Révélation ~ tomato puff pastry, tomato and strawberry compote, mascarpone olive oil cream and pieces of dried olive
Next was the Tarte Mogador ~ sugar dough tart shell filled with milk chocolate and passion fruit ganache, roasted pineapple, flourless chocolate cake.

Assorted Muffins

I made some muffins today. There's blueberry, banana, cheese, coffee. I think the banana muffins are the most popular ones.

Muffins just out of the oven.

Black Pepper Beef with Linguini

I cook this black pepper beef with linguini for for my family. I have some crab stick in the fridge, so i just add it in. U can also add some seafood and omit the beef. I used the lee kum kee black pepper sauce.

Pumpkin Kueh

I made this pumpkin cake last week. Its similar to the yam kueh that i posted earlier on.

Ready to be sliced up :)

Lemon Chicken

The lemon sauce added to the fried chicken can be quite refreshing.

Home Made Fish Cake

We like to make our own fishcake at home. It looks quite similar to the previous post on mashed tou kan with prawns.