CNY Dinner !!

We invited our friends Alan, Grace, Francine, Tim, Melissa and Mag over for dinner. Its also Grace daughter's Francine birthday and its Valentine's day too !!  These are the dishes that i cooked. My friends took the photos for me. I am glad that everyone enjoyed the dinner and fellowship !! 

Old cucumber soup

Yakitori and chinese spinach with braised mushroom

Steam fish with dou su

My Melody cake for the birthday girl !! 

CNY Cookies

Here are my cookies that i made this year. Clockwise from top left: pineapple tarts, corn flakes cookies, pineapple tarts, tom yum cookies, nasi lemak cookies, caramel alomnds (centre).

CNY 2013 !!

Happy Chinese New Year to all !! These are some of the dishes that i cooked. I didnt have time to take every dish.


Crispy roast pork



Yakitori



Chinese spinach with abalone and braised mushroom



Mermaid fish with eggplant



Brocoli with carrot

Caramel Nuts Roll And Warabi Mochi

Belina and me went to learn how to make caramel nuts roll cake and warabi mochi. Its really very nice. We got to make caramel almonds, then when its cooled, we chopped it up. Before putting the chopped caramel nuts into the cake, we kept eating it !! So addictive.... 

Caramel nuts roll





Caramel nuts slice




Warabi mochi



Nama Chocolate

I made nama chocolate. Its dark chocolate with griottines cherries. Yum !!

Cute Cookie !!

My friend Angela came bk from US for a holiday. She made a cookie for me. Oh..... its SOOOO Cute !!! Tks Angela !!! 

Christmas Tree Cookie

I made a Christmas tree cookie !! All edible !!! Blessed Christmas !!! 

Dessert Class

I went for a desseet class recently. We made orange butter cake, matcha mousse and japanese roasted green tea jelly and toufu shiratama rice dumpling with hoji cha honey syrup. Its all very nice !!!

Orange butter cake

Matcha mousse

Roasted green tea jelly with milk dumpling

Calpico Kanteen jelly

I made calpico kanten jelly with griottines cherries and strawberries. Delicious ! 

Strawberry Shortcake Roll Cake

I made a strawberry roll cake some time back after learning from Chef Aki. at Shermay's. I really love the texture. Its very soft and nice.

Blueberry Toufu Cheesecake

Its my sister in law and brother in law birthdays ! I decided to make a blueberry toufu cheesecake in cups instead of the usual cake like cheesecake. Happy Birthdays to Hoy Chin and Jason !!!

Panda Bread

I made panda bread using Perfect Panda website. Cant resist, its so cute !! But mine came out not so nice, the eyes kind of drop a bit, ear too. I will definitely try again soon.

Pork Roll and Adegashi Toufu

I cooked pork roll with shiso leave and adegashi for my parents. Yummy !! 

Pork roll with shiso leave

Adegashi toufu

Pork Roll Set

After my japanese class, I practiced my dishes that i learned at home. I cooked pork breaded pork roll with shiso leave and preserved plum, chawanmushi and agedashi  toufu. My hubby loves it very much !! 

Pork roll set

Chawanmushi

Agedashi toufu

Fig Tart

My friend Tsu Yee bought me a rectangular tart pan from Lemon Zest Shanghai. I really love it very much. Today i suppose to make strawberry tart, but when i went to the supermarket, i could not find any strawberries, but i found fresh fig instead !! I was so happy to see the fig. Tks Tsu Yee for the pan and i hope you like the fig tart I made for you !! 

Hello Kitty Jelly !!

I made a hello kitty jelly !! I really love it, its so cute. Now i cant bear to cut it and eat it...

Pork Roll With Shiso Leave And Preserved Plum

I went to learn japanese cooking fm Chef Aki. We cooked deep fried pork roll with shiso leave and preserved plum, chawanmushi, agedashi toufu and miso soup. Its really delicious !! 

Pork roll set

Close up of the pork roll

Adedashi toufu

Chawanmushi

Snowskin Mooncakes !!

Keisia and me made out last batch of snowskin mooncakes last Fri. We made green tea, lavender lotus, yam, hong kong milk tea, durian lotus, champagne and brandy truffle. 

More Piglets !!!

Our friends Nellis and Lai Mui came over to make more piglet mooncakes together. Together with Keisia and myself, we the 4 gals made piglets !! So fun to bake together !!! 

Lai Mui, Elizabeth, Nellis. Keisia taking photo for us. 

Front view

Back view

Baked piggy

2nd tray of piglets. See an Owl on the left side !
Owl done by Lai Mui !! 

Back view 

Mooncakes with tea after all the hard work ! 

Snowskin Mooncakes

I made snowskin mooncakes. The flavours are green tea, peach, lotus with cranberry, milk tea, champagne and brandy truffle.

Green tea snowskin with green tea paste

Apple snowskn with peach 

Top: white lotus with cranberry
Bottom: Gryphon hanami tea snowskin with milk tea 

Left: Chanpagne truffle
Right: Brandy truffle

Cross section of champagne and brandy truffle