(PART 2) Marathon cooking during my two day off! (Day 2 Oct 19)

Day 2 and I am off to a shooting start!
 

Garlic bread for breakfast. Decide to make garlic paste and spread over bread followed by toasting! Delicious yummy breakfast~!

 Banana Muffin. I love the banana muffin made last week! Every one who ate it love it too. Since it was such a hit, I decide to make it again this week! This round i forget to melt the butter and surprisingly the muffin turn out better as there is less liquid. Dad say my muffin this round is better than last round! 

I went a little wild and experimented on the topping. 

-Crush almond, almond nibs, and chocolate/white chip (best combo)

-Nestum, Hershey chocolate kisses and honey (too sweet due to the honey - wont try again)

-Oats, Hershey chocolate kisses and honey (better than nestum but still too sweet due to the honey - wont try again)

-Just drizzle honey on top. Disaster as the muffin could not rise (definitely wont try again!)

-Heshey kisses and almond nibs. (Nice but Hershey a bit too sweet. Wont be buying anymore Hershey kisses!)

 

 Banana muffin! Hershey kisses and almond nibs. Aren't they beautiful?

 The hit. Crush Almonds, almond nibs and chocolate/white chips

Chocolate Chip Cookies. My chocolate chip cookies fail miserably as its too sweet. I bought the wrong type of Chocolate chip but decide to still make them. Next time must buy semi sweet chocolate chip!

For dinner i made Sambal Sotong, Vege and Rice. Funny part of the process is that I manage to cook all nicely except the rice! While washing vege I smell something was burning. Feeling strange that my kuali fire is off, i turn and realize that the smell was coming from my rice! (We use a manual method of cooking rice and we dont use rice cooker) When i open the pot, too late the whole rice has burn and the bottom has turn charcoal black. Throw and make second round of rice while eyeing the fire this time.

Dinner time! Making the rempah for the Sambal Sotong!

Delicious Peranakan Sambal Prawn and Sotong combination! Second time making Sambal sotong/prawn. Finally succeeded! A bit salty to my taste but my dad totally love it! He said he crave for more!

 I feel hungry just looking at the picture!

How to make sambal prawn and sambal sotong (Squid) click here!

 Vege to match my dinner

I begin first half of day by making garlic bread and banana muffin. I clean the dishes, rested and continued making chocolate chip cookies,  Sambal Sotong and Sambal Prawn, vege and rice. Later half of the day I was in a hurry to cook everything. While baking the cookies i multitask between making sambal, cleaning prawn and sotong, cleaning vege, prepare ingredient and rice so that I can serve dinner on time. Needless to say the state of the kitchen was like a tornado has just pass thru it. It was a huge mess! You can see all my kitchen utensils on display! After eating, I started washing everything vigorously. So tired at the end of the day~

Looking at all the pictures. I was rather amaze that I made so many type of cooking. 9 types of food in 2 days. I have covered breakfast, dessert, making yogurt from scratch and main course. From western dessert, chinese food and peranakan food. Hem...so what should i make next? Hem...I wanted to try making fish and chips! Kacang cream cake is definitely in my agenda. Or how about researching and making Chocolate Molten Lava cake or brownies to match with my ice cream?

Marathon cooking during my 2 day off! (Day 1 Oct 18)

(PART 1) Marathon cooking during my two day off! (Day 1 Oct 18)

During my day off, I have tonnes of idea of what to make. Manage to make almost all of them except peanut cream cake as I have chosen to make cheese cake! Was rather hyper in making food cos i have the kitchen all to myself especially on the second day~ Also I bought a new toy: Elba Stand Mixer ESMB_9972DG at a Home Fair in JB for RM799. I might write a post of the mixer since I couldn't find a review about it in the net.

The problem about making a lot of food is that; I love making them, but I need to find people to eat them all up! So far my parents are wowed by my Sambal Sotong/Prawn and also the banana muffin. Dad even say my cooking is better than his. High praise coming from him when he usually ate silently. He even come and ask how i cook the sambal. Never would I imagine I would be the one telling my parents how i made things since i usually look up to them on cooking. Previously when i start to cook they were a bit apprehensive to eat for some reason. Looks like they are more receptive now. Though they still seems to avoid if they have never eaten before or if its fattening.

Day 1

 

Breakfast Parfait.. I was inspired by DonnaHay website. It is actually Raspberry yogurt with honey and cornflakes. I followed the ingredient but I did not really follow the measurement given as I was just mixing them the way I like it. First time I use Raspberry and the smell is amazing! Now I know why so many western dessert chooses Raspberry fruit of all fruit! I use frozen Raspberry fruit bought from Cold storage.

Making yogurt from scratch at night. I remember the last time i made yogurt from scratch was when I was a little kid. I love to pour as much milk powder as possible into the cup. Make it really thick so that I can get really thick yogurt. My parent bought the yogurt starter from the market to get these babies growing. How to make yogurt and Rasberry yogurt above (click this link)

Making Mian Fen Kuih for lunch or rather early tea time. Was making cheese cake during the day. By the time i start and finish this mian fen kuih its almost tea time! I love putting tonnes of ingredient in. My main ingredient is home made meat ball (either pork/beef/fish), cengkul manis, tomato and egg! This round I also add in fish ball and fried ikan bilis. The secret of making a good Mian fen kuih is to make the soup really tasty and knead the mian fen kuih into really thin slices.

Cheese cake! I am trying to improve my cheese cake. Its the same recipe but not sure why the cake always come out differently each time! This round I read some useful tips about making a great cheese cake. With the same recipe I just change the way the cheese cake is cook. By covering it with alluminium foil and by putting the pan into a bigger pan. Pour boiling hot water into the bigger pan. This encourage even cooking. Further not to overbeat to avoid cake cracking.

My beautiful cheese cake! Due to the new method i notice: 

1. The cheese cake does not rise. The cheese cake look flat. 

2. The side will stick to the pan. So need to use a knife to slowly remove the side. I only did that the next day. The correct way is to do that after its cook. To prevent cracking should the cake retract.

3. No cracking!

 Yummy show time!

At the end of day one, I made Rasberry Yogurt with Cornflakes, Making yogurt from scratch, Mian fen kuih and Cheese cake!

Continue my day 2 in a different post! Read on!