Broccoli tofu

I added some Enokitake mushroom for extra vegetable and taste.














Broccoli
Tofu
Enokitake mushroom
Garlic
Ginger
Chilli
Oil
Soy sauce
Corn starch (Optional)

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1. Cut broccoli into small pieces. Bring a saucepan of water bring to boil and cook the broccoli.
2. Heat oil, saute garlic and ginger to brown.
3. Add Enokitake mushroom and soy sauce, cook to half cook.
4. Add tofu and water, cover and simmer.
5. Add cooked broccoli and chilli, stir and mix, add corn starch.

-All done-

Tiramisu

Tiramisu, 'Italian dessert,with the meaning of pick me up'










2 Tablespoons ground espresso coffee
250ml boiling water
125ml Masala
250g Sponge finger biscuit
300ml Thicked cream
40g Icing sugar
500g Mascarpone cheese
2 Tablespoons Marsala
2 Tablespoons cocoa powder

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1. Combine coffee and water in plunger, stand for 2 minutes before plunging. Combine coffee mixture & marsala, cook for 10 minutes.
2.Place half the biscuit in mould, drizzle with half the coffee mixture.
3.Beat the cream & sifter icing sugar in a small bowl until soft peaks form. Fold in and combined mascarpone cheese and extra marsala.
4.Spread half the cream mixture over the biscuits. Submerge remaining biscuits, one in a time, in the coffee mixture. Place over cream layer. Top with remaining cream mixture. Place over cream layer. Top with remaining cream mixture. Cover, refrigerate 3 hours. Dust with cocoa powder.

Very good dessert to make for you love ones. Also suitable for any occasion such as Christmas, Valentine's or New Year.

`Mince pork tofu

If you like a little spicy food, this is a pretty great dish to eat with rice or noodle.


I suppose to sprinkle spring onion on top, but unfortunately I didn't buy any spring onion.










Tofu - 1
Pork mince - 120g
Chopped Ginger - Trace
Chopped Garlic - Trace
Chopped Mini red chilli - 3 (can be reduce or added more for personal spiciness)
Chopped Spring onion - 1
Corn flour - Trace (For corn starch, can be optional)
Soy sauce - 2 tablespoons
Salt - Trace
Oil - Trace


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1.Heat oil in pan, add ginger and garlic. Saute it to brown, add pork mince with soy sauce and salt.
2.Cook the pork mince and add tofu with a bit of water, cover to cook till water thicken.
3.Add chilli, stir well and add corn starch, simmer and cook for 1 minute.
4. Place in bowl, sprinkle spring onion.

-All done-

`24112013 Summer - Melbourne

Happy Sunday :)

First of all I hope everyone enjoy their Sunday no matter was with family, at work or with friends.
Today in Melbourne, another pretty cool summer. Windy and a bit of cold.

I spent my morning in Victoria Market, did some groceries shopping. Walk around, look around. Was pretty crowded in market. After done with shopping I came home and start clearing up the groceries that I brought.

Did a little cooking. Cooked a pork rib soup. With carrots, potato and corn. And I am done with today's cooking. Clean eating, having soup the whole day.

After shower, as usual watch some movie, read some articles and yes I am here up on Blogger.

Hope for a warm day coming soon.
Enjoy your night everyone. I will see you soon.

Fruit tart

Basically you just have to make the tart base and prepare the pastry cream (filling) just like profiteroles pastry cream.Click here. Then top with any fruits that you like.














I was in a rush so the lime was very thick. It is suppose to be thinner sliced and candied for garnish.











Sweet shortcrust pastry (Tart base)
200g Unsalted butter
100g Caster Sugar
50g (1) Egg
300g Plain Flour
Pinch of salt.

This recipe makes about 650g of the pastry dough.

`Pastry (Tart)
1.Cream the butter and sugar lightly.
2.Add egg and continue creaming until absorbed.
3.Carefully fold in flour and salt, mixing only until combined. (The dough will be very sticky)
4. Wrap with greaseproof paper/ cling wrap, chill in fridge for 15 minutes.
5. Roll the dough out to about 5mm and line on mould.*
6. Use a fork and pop some holes on the lined dough.
7. Blind bake about 10-15 minutes or until cooked at 180 degree Celsius.*
8. Allow to cool.

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Splash some flour if dough is too sticky to work with.
Blind bake needs some rice or blind bake beans on the dough so that tart comes out flat.

`Pastry cream
Please click on the link above that say [Click here] for reference

` Assemble
1.Fill pastry cream in piping bag with star nozzle. Pipe into tart. (Photo shows at the bottom)

2.Line fruits over one by one overlapping each other.

(Goes from other layer to inner layer)













3.Glaze with apricot glaze, and all done :)

Custard Profiteroles

Choux Pastry (Profiteroles)
Water 120ml 
Butter 40g
Salt Trace
Flour 80g
Eggs 2

Pastry Cream (Custard Filling)
Flour 30g
Sugar 80g
Egg yolk 2
Milk 300ml
Vanilla essence trace

`Choux pastry
1. Sift the flour. Bring water, butter and salt to boiling point in a saucepan.
2. Add the flour and mix together with a wooden spatula.
3. Continue to cook this panada until the mixture leaves the sides of pan (Do not overcook)
4. Remove from stove, work in eggs one at a time to achieve a smooth, semi-liquid paste.
5. Fill the mixture into a piping bag and pipe as required.
~I used Macaroon Mat as based so every mixture pipe is the same size.
6. Space regularly and evenly to ensure even cooking. Brush with egg yolk.
7. Bake at 200 degree Celsius for 18 minutes, allow to cool.

`Pastry cream
1. Sift flour in to basin, add the egg yolk, sugar and 10% of milk and mix well.
2. Bring the rest of milk to the boil in a saucepan.
3. Pour the milk into the flour mixture, mix well and pour it back to saucepan.
4. Return to stove and bring to boil. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring continuously to cook the flour.
5. Pour into basin and add vanilla essence.
6. Cover with buttered greaseproof paper to prevent a skin foaming.

`Assemble
1. Cut the profiteroles in to half.
2. Pipe small amount of pastry cream.
3. Cover with the top of profiteroles.
4. Sift some icing sugar on profiteroles.

-All done- :) 

`22112013 Summer - Melbourne

Another few months past again is been awhile since my last update. Recently have been busy with lots of stuff, but seriously to be honest, ask me about where did I spend my time I would still say I have no idea.

Towards the end of November, we are 5 weeks away from Christmas. What are your plans?
I am staying in Melbourne again. Needed to do some school stuff. And yes I decided to further my studies.

Weather in Melbourne been really bad, cold and hot, hot and back to cold. Hardly could take care of health issue and hay fever is the issue. I hope everyone do take care and I look forward to see everyone :)

`August 2013, Melbourne winter

It's been awhile since my last update. But I realize there's so much things to do after all. One blink, it's August. I wonder what I did the whole year. Was busy everywhere, went back Malaysia, went Gold coast and everything. Been seriously, I am not happy at all.

There's lot of things bothering me, but how? I can only face it. Felt really bad last week. Been spending way too much. Daddy is the person getting the trouble anyways. I think it's time for me to get back to work. Tho I am busy with studies somehow but I think I can't live the way I am now.

I am not happy, spending and no income isn't what I should have. Hopefully things get over and I'll feel better.

No where I could speck up my unhappiness, I guess writing here its my way to forget unhappiness temporary. Well, good night world.

Bacon and Cheese Avocado Croissants

Inside look.

Outside look.










Ingredients
Croissants,
Avocado,
Bacon,
Cheese,
Nuttelex (Margarine)

On a pan, cook bacon to well done. Set aside to cool. Cut croissant into half, spread margarine on it. Top bacon and cheese on top then avocado on the side. Close with the other half of croissant and is done :)


Very easy and you can make it the night before, keep in fridge for next day's breakfast.

Currants chocolate chips muffins

Ingredients
125g butter
140g sugar
1teaspoon vanilla essence
2 eggs
300g self-raising flour
125ml fresh orange juice


Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius, line twelve 80ml muffin moulds.
Beat butter, sugar and vanilla essence in a large bowl until pale and creamy. Add eggs gradually. Fold in orange juice and flour.
Spoon into mounds to about 2/4 full then add currents and chocolate chips. Then spoon to about 3/4 full. Top with chocolate chips, this is optional.
Bake about 20-25 minutes till cook.
Dust with cocoa powder. [ Personally I did was top with Toblerone chocolate  by sticking them with melted white chocolate and dust with cocoa powder to finish. ]


Hope you guys like it :)

Vichyssoise (Potato & Leek soup)

Ingredients
25g butter
2 leeks
1 onion
150g potatoes
750ml white chicken stock
125ml fresh cream
1 tablespoon chives


Slice leeks (white part) and onion thinly. Melt butter, sweat leeks and onion until tender. Peel & dices potatoes. Add potatoes & white stock to stock pot and season lightly. Bring to boil, simmer 20minutes. Puree and strain into saucepan / clean pot. Re-boil and whisk in fresh cream. Cool in  refrigerator for 3 hours if serve cold. Chive to be garnish on top to serve.

Chicken pasta with salad

Chicken pasta
Put the required amount of fettuccine in boiling water and set aside ones is cooked.
Slice chicken in to small slice and dice some onion. Oil in saucepan, sweat onion in the saucepan and cook the chicken, ones chicken is ready, set aside and pour tomato paste in to the saucepan. Ones is ready, add the chicken in and the cooked fettuccine, stir to combine and pasta is ready.

Salad
Wash the salad leaves and set aside for later use. Dice avocado and cut smoked salmon into small pieces.  Season the salad leaves with a bit of olive oil and balsamic vinegar, place on the plate and top with avocado, smoked salmon and olive.


Dinner is ready :)

Melbourne 010413

Happy April fool :)

Awake early morning, made breakfast and finish up some assignments ending. Refreshed, reborn :P

Wondering what have been everyone been?

I have been everywhere around so haven't get to update my blog for really long long time. Recently I have travel to Sydney and around Melbourne area. A year to go, isn't it I should have fun to the most before I leave?

Morning everyone, first day of April, hope you enjoy your day.

12022013 Melbourne Summer

Morning all~

Finally, I am getting better :) My voice is 60% recovered. Flu, 40% recovered. I am considering very happy! Anyway So soon is 12 of Feb already. And my brother is arriving soon. Is very different feeling cause is the first year that I have someone visiting me in here, Melbourne.

Hope everything will be smooth as go and I'll be fully recover soon. Time to back track my work as well. School work, work and my gym schedule. Getting sick I have gain quite a lot. But I realize I need to gym more as to keep my body fit. If not I am just so same, get sick easily.

Anyway, I am going out to get some sun. See yea.

Hello 2013 :)

Hello 2013 :)
As usual I never been updating my blog. Mainly I lost my computer time so didn't really get to touch my blog.
First of all is already February 2013. Happy new year and happy Chinese new year.I hope everyone have a good start and all the best.
I had a bad one, I have been really sick the last week. I am just hoping to recover soon.

As nothing much different. Been busy with school. After my school break off for Christmas and New Year break, I have been busy with work. Yes, no lie, I am working at the Langham Hotel Melbourne Pastry Kitchen. I am learning the max I could and hopefully the experience I get will help much in my future career. I am very unstable as yet cause I don't think I'll take pastry chef as my career as I am still very business women type but I'll see how I go with my hospitality management class.

I am trying hard, learning and I am still searching for my motivation, my passion. Some what I lost my motivation somewhere. Hope someday I'll find it back soon.

Well, this update ends here for now. Take care :)

11/5/2012 - Melbourne winter.

It has been really long time since my last update. Sorry guys~ I was pretty busy but not too sure what i was busy with.
I am doing my term 2 of TAFE. Mainly study more about pastry which thats what i want to. Anyway i do update on facebook a lot. And I upload pictures of food I made. So you guys can check up facebook more than here.
Melbourne now is pretty much in Winter. Cold and windy as usual. That pretty much means I am gonna be like last year. But hope for the best, I never be like last year.

Lets jump of from weather and all. Got to pretty much tell you guys my life.

I have been though pretty much stupid stuff last 2 months. And getting out of it now. Those stuff made me pretty much stress out and wanted to run away so much. But time passes everything is getting better. So hopefully everything will be better by end of this month.
Life is pretty busy as well. I have been studying a lot and working a lot. So is really sort of working and study life now. No more play hard, party hard life. But I enjoy my life now. Cause I have people that always support me, always take care of me, always help me up.

Working life,
Pretty much different than school life. Cause you pretty much got to think a lot, remember a lot and be careful on what you say. Somehow, works give me a big big support on study. Work keeps my life working and I pretty much don't skip school now.

Study life,
Easy study life makes me happier : ) I realize I don't like high school and I enjoy my study life now with all the assignments and research. I was skipping a few classes beginning of term 1, but now, I skip nothing. So is a pretty good change yea?

Anyway whatever it is in your life now,
I hope everyone enjoy life. I am staying over in Melbourne for this whole year. So hopefully I'll see you guys end of this year. I'll update more whenever I have time or feel like  : )

24/1/2012

At times you wouldn't realize what is more important for your life. Sometimes what you think is the most important will change after something happen. And I guess this is life. Decision make up life and life changes decision. Does this make sense? Anyway if you have a dream or an ambition, go for it. Don't wait, you might just lost your chances. Well, put away those complicated mind. Yesterday, I went back to my grandma's house. Was meant to be today but we suddenly decide to visit yesterday. Was very fun and there was so many relative that I have not meet up for a long time. Before my family and I vist, I made some muffins and Chinese 'far gao'. The muffins went a bit weird look but the fa gao look very nice. Just a bit more better improve needed for the fa gao as the middle part was a bit wet. Grandma was very happy but she look very tired to me. I think because she have been very busy for the whole day. Grandpa was still the same, and my dad actually spent whole night charting with him, which is good. Then we had dinner and chatting and all. We came back home around 10pm and arrive about 11pm. I finish my day just by making muffins,fa gao and visit my grandma. Little schedule but fun day =)

22/1/12

Happy Chinese new year everyone! Wish you all a prosperous year and wishes come true! Right now I am stil in Malaysia, being a girl having a great life eating all good food and gaining weight :S Anyway I haven't got official letter from the school yet which is very slow and I hope I can get it tomorrow. Also I haven't buy a flight ticket yet, I might not have a ticket back so, well just don't know what to do now without the letter. Chinese new year is up, what are your plans? I will be visiting my grands on on Tuesday so I will bake some muffins and chinese 'fa gao' which is Chinese style cake, steamed not bake tomorrow and bring them to my grandma. My family is not the very very tradition family, like I mean we don't follow up all the cultural. We only follow some.Today we had the family dinner which is Chinese family have it together the whole family before the new year come,perhaps I guess should call it 'new year's eve dinner'. Then parents give us red packets as a good start for the kid for the upcoming year ahead. And young ones like me will get red packets from elder sister or brother too. So long the ones are married are usually the ones having to give the red packets. Right,I will update the recipes and my day at my grandma's house soon =)

11/1/12

It has really been awhile since my last update. I had been really busy with house security stuff and so. Last sundaynmy family and I went out for dinner and our house got rob in. We were out for only 30 minutes at round 8pm and this happened. It's kind of hard to think that they can rob in within 30minutes. Also they came in from the window with a very very smal hole. But anyway thank god there is no one home so no one got hurt. Everyone do take care of your safety and be aware of who is around you and so. We got stuff stolen and damn thing my laptop got stolen. I revived the iPad I ordered last Friday since there was an offer. But sadly my laptop is gone. My mum said 'old one go and new ones come' so well I should feel balance yea? Then next up I should update what I did the last few days. I was kind of a housewife when my mum was not home. I prepared breakfast and dinner also I bake muffins and cookies for breakfasts. Then I clean up my house and exercise actively most of the time before Sunday. After rob case happened, I was up and not sleep for 32 hours as I couldn't believe and calm down myself about my laptop was stolen. The day after mostly we got alarm, CCTV and so update and check ups. And I handy remember when, my house got two kittens. There were new born like probably 1-2 weeks and was left around my dad's company. My bro took it back and we are thinking to feed them until they are a bit grown up. Photos will be up soon if I am not that busy this few days and surprisely my dog is having lots of fun with this 2 little kittens. Today mainly I did nothing the whole day and consider sleep most of the time. Although I had kind of bad start for 2012 I still hope everyone take care and be happy. Chinese new year is coming up in two weeks I think. Happy new year and have a prosperous for this year ahead. Also very importantly, be healthy.

06/01/2012 -Active day

Today it's a very active day for me as I feel really energetic after exercise and working stuffs at home.

I start off my day today about 6.10 in the morning. I made breakfast for my dad, bro and sis-in-law since my mum is not home. I warm up leftover pizza for my sis-in-law and my bro and I scrambled eggs for my dad since he's not feeling well for pizza. Then there is coffee for sure, for my dad and bro. Boost their energy a bit before having a long working day. Then I cook soy-milk. Hmm or I should say I made soy-milk?Anyway is freshly homemade soy-milk for three of them to bring for work.

After dad and bro left to work,I did the laundry then wash the dishes and I did housework. I vacuumed whole of my house. Wait I meant the whole of 1st-storey. Then I started with my exercise. First up, 30minutes of running/jogging. Then I did 100times of skipping rope. Was meant to do 1600 times and above to see good result but it's too hard too keep up as I haven't been exercising that much lately.

Then I had my shower, hang up clothes that I washed in the morning and then I did brownies. I used the easy recipes which is the 'Nano brownies pack' They mix everything together. So what you need is 2 eggs, a little bit of oil and water. All instructions are clearly stated on the box.

And it's all done. Breakfast for tomorrow =)