Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Multi-Seed Brown Bread (Richard Bertinet)




Lovely healthy bread, quick and easy to make. Toasting the bread will give a beautiful crusty texture all over.

Monday, December 28, 2015

Gluten-Free Chocolate Buckwheat Biscotti (healthy version)


As said, cut them 1/2 inch thick for second bake. Too thin can fall apart as the texture is slightly crumbly. I find when I dip it in coffee and it shows out the chocolate flavour.

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Cucumber Dumplings



Cucumber for making dumplings here, great combination with dried shrimps. Flavour is good.

Black- and- Blue Berry Pie


This is not really sweet at all, go with cream or ice cream would be perfect.  My kids had it with Bailey ice-cream and it tasted really good!

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Gingery Sugar Buns ( Tangzhong)



Rich aromatic ginger combining with dark brown sugar. Soft and fluffy bread texture.                        

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Kuih Talam 2


This is my improved Kuih Talam. My last Kuih Talam 1 was ruined with quite a bit of condensation during steaming. With the same recipe, Coconut milk is used instead of coconut cream, tasted much lighter and smooth.

Cornmeal Biscotti (2)


I am always craving for cornmeal and biscotti. This is a good one too.
Cornmeal biscotti (1).

Radish Meat Dumplings


After some practice, I finally can make thinner skins which my family likes, though the original dumplings should be thicker. I actually used another half batch of filling for this thin texture.

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Dan Lepard's Bay Custart Tart ( Dan Lepard)


Very delicious tart, infused with bay leaves. The recipe uses a deep muffin tray which delivers eight tarts. Please refer to original link for instructions.
For mine, I made it into four tarts on four pie dish of  3.5cm deep, 7.5cm round (base) pie tins. With a litte extra crust I made two mini jam tarts.

Lo Mai Gai In a Bowl ( steamed sticky rice)


Glutinous rice are steamed only once in this recipe, texture of the grain is perfect, not soggy nor dry.
Sauces were well-balanced with the rice, all absorbed fully into the rice during the frying process.

Make lots if you like since they can be frozen so well, just steam it up again to eat. Steaming helps to fluff up the hardened rice again, forget about using a microwave, trust me :)

Duo Colour Dumplings


I have been practicing how to make dumplings for the past two weeks,  This experiment has proved to me that dumplings can also be made with a good texture even if you don't use potato starch.


Dan Lepard's Aussie Apple Scrolls (Dan Lepard)



This is what we always get to see at the local bakery here, very soft and fluffy tasty buns.