Selamat Pengantin Baru Ujang..!
Chronicling my love affair with food.. Life is uncertain, so eat dessert first...!
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Hantaran for Ujang...
Selamat Pengantin Baru Ujang..!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Something floral...
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Classics Italian Breads...
Friday, April 22, 2011
Long live cupcakes...
Vanilla cuppies topped with vanilla-choc-orange buttercream ...fruit tartlets.. ...sausage & cheese puff ...
...more photos to follow....
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Give-away contest...
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Die Hard Chelsea Fan
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Chocolate Mud Cake
Chocolate Mud Cake /
250 gm chocolate (125 gm dark chocolate and 125 gm milk chocolate) / 250 gm butter (if using unsalted butter, and 1/4 teaspoon salt with the butter) / 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules/powder / 3/4 cup water / 2 cups plus 2 tablespoon plain flour / 1/4 cup plus 2 teaspoon cocoa powder / 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda / 2 1/2 cups caster sugar / 4 large eggs / 2 table spoon vegetable oil 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 cup butter milk (if you do not have buttermilk, you can substitue it with: 1 table spoon vinegar add to 1/2 cup fresh milk - leave it for 5 mins)
Ganache: 150 gm milk chocolate / 150 gm dark chocolate / 1/3 cup thicken cream
Ganache:
Place chocolate and cream ina medium heavy-based saucepan over very low heat. Stir frequently, and remove from heat when chocolate has just melted and mixture is smooth. If necessary, allow ganache to cool slighly a room temperature to obtain a spreadable consistency.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Rosemary, Chive and Thyme Potato Bread
Then it occured to me that I've made bread before, so why not add rosemary to the bread? And, heck, while I'm at it, why not throw in some other tater toppings like sour cream, fried sliced sausages & onions, and other herbs like chive and thyme and have a full-on Baked Potato Bread..!
By the time I had second thoughts about it, all of the ingredients were mixed together. But you know what? It turned out excellent, the perfect accompaniment to a bowl of hot mushroom soup on a rainy day! Enough blabbing - on to the recipe!
Rosemary, Chive & Thyme Potato Bread
½ cup mashed potatoes
3-4 cups all purpose flour
¾ cup lukewarm water
½ cup sour cream
2 teaspoon instant yeast (dry yeast)
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup sausages (thinly sliced and fried)
½ cup big onion (thinly sliced and fried)
¼ cup chopped fresh rosemary
¼ cup chopped chive
Few sprigs of thyme
Method:
Fry the thinly sliced sausages and onions together until golden brown, remove them from heat. Mixed the mashed potatoes, yeast, salt, and 2 cups of the flour together in a large mixing bowl of an electric mixer. Add the sour cream, water, rosemary, chive and thyme and fried sausages & onion, and mix together until all ingredients are combined. I also mixed in the oil from the fried sausages/onions, which there was about a table spoon of in the pan, because it improves the flavour of the loaf. At this point, you'll have a very wet, sticky mess, probably more of a batter than dough. Add additional flour or a handful at a time and mix or knead it in.
Enjoy..!