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Pizza dough

8g yeast/ 2 teaspoon
1 teaspoon caster sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 cups of plain flour (115g darab 2)
2 tablespoon of olive oil
180 ml (3/4cups) of warm water


Mix warm water, yeast sugar and salt into a bowl. Stir well with fork. Cover with plastic wrap set aside for 5 minutes. Preferably in a warm place.


Sift flour nto the same bowl, add oil, mix well with spoon. Knead dough - 10 minutes



Placed dough into oiled bowl, cover with plastic wrap and a tea towel. Leaave for 30 minutes. Give dough a punch, knead.



200 degree celcius. 10-15 minutes.



Btw, recipe from karen cheng.

Roast Chicken Recipe

I have a bad habit of collecting cute notebooks of all sizes. Everytime i buy it i would imagine that i write travel journal, poem, recipe etc. But nope. I only did my travel journal for only 1 paragraph, no poem at all and my favourite recipes are everywhere. The fridge, under my bed, drawers and it got lost along the way. So this will be like a virtual future references for me and there's no harm in sharing it!

Oriental Roast Chicken with Sage and Roasted Vegetables

To blend:

2 inches of ginger

5 cloves of garlic

zest from 1 lemon

1 tbs dark soy sauce

1 tbs light soy sauce

1/2 tbs balsamic vinegar

1 tbs sesame oil

2 tbs honey

1/2 tbs of chinese 5 spice powder

1 whole chicken

1 handful of sage

5 carrots cut into halves

5 potatoes cut into wedges

5 leeks chopped roughly

some olive oil'salt and black pepper to taste

Method

Rub all the blended ingredients on the chicken, Make sure yuo rub inside as well. Marinate for 2 hours.

Preheat oven to 250 celcius. place chicken in roasting pan. season it with salt pepper and sage. put some sage leaves under the skin of chicken too. season carrots, potatoes, leeks with salt pepper and olive oil.]

Put the chicken in the oven and turn the heat down to 150 celcius.

After half and hour, add the carrots potatoes leeks into the roasting pan.

Roast for a futher 1 hour. Once you stab the thight with aknife and juice runs clear, chicken is ready.

Recipe provided by Cold Storage.

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Carefree, quirky and beautiful. MPDG. The dream girl of everyone. My impossible quest to be one was doomed during the first step. First, i can never pull off a pair of blue eyes. You know, my face is 100% asian. Quirky? Me? More like complicated and weird. Carefree? Yeah. I married. (Gasp!) Have a kid (Gasp!!) (No offence but i do love my family.) So no carefree, fun, easy, no strings attached MPDG. It's more like bottles, diapers and sleepless nights.

Oh Zooey, I should have known you earlier. But how long can it last, right? Once the wrinkle started to sprung out on your face, you'll be more like Manic Unpixie Horror Old Lady.

But a girl can still dream. Giggle.

Want some pizza? Nyom nyom

Rise and shine

I remember the first time i was learning to make a pizza dough, i was seventeen and i was young. It was a lot of work. Kneading kneading punch punch. I was thinking that maybe it would be easier if i just BUY it from Pizza Hut. But nothing beats a homemade pizza. Nothing.

Chocolate Almond Drops

200gm of chocolate
250gm of sliced almonds
butter (not included in the actual recipe but who am i to resist God's invention)

Toast almonds with butter for about 5 minutes. Set aside. Melt the chocolate. Double boil of course. Add a little bit of butter. Mix the almonds. Let it cool for about 10 minutes. Carefully do the same thing as the picture below and put it inside the fridge for about 30 minutes until fim.

Enjoy!! Angel drops made from heaven. Mmmh........

Almond Biscotti

Last friday, i was supposed to go to the libraby and also do some grocery shopping. But it turns out that i was destined to do some other things- rushed to the hospital to send an office mate due to have her baby. Congrats! By 11pm, i already bought all that was needed and start preparing this delicious biscotti. I managed to finished all the baking and cleaning by 4am. T_T

Anyway, i always have a love hate relationship with cookies. I never had the patience and preserverance to bake cookies. It's a different matter with muffins and cakes because it's so easy. The last time i baked cookies is 10 years ago!! Chef Wan's butter cookies.

My hands in the cookie jar.....

Waiting for it to cool down.

This recipe is from Flavours Magazine.

3 Grade A eggs

1 egg white

150g castor sugar

1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt

1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

1/8 teaspoon of almond extract

Combine flour mixture

300g plain flour

2 teaspoon of baking powder

60g ground almond- toasted

400g whole almond with skin- toasted

1 egg white beaten with a pinch of salt- gloss.

Technique

Beat eggs, egg white, sugar, salt in electric mixer until creamy

add vanilla and almond extract

Add combine flour mixture with flat beater on low speed- sticky dough

shape dough into logs

line with a non stick parchment- don't forget the gloss

160 degree celcius 20-25 minutes

cool before slicing- diagonally 1cm thick

then arrange in a tray

baked it for the second time 150 degree celcius 25 minutes

turning halfway until crispy.

Important tips

- pan toasted almond until frangrant for 5 minutes

- don't over mix

- the best flour to use is cookie flour- Malayan Flour Mills Red Rose.

- Bake logs 5cm apart

Good Luck and ciao!!

OMG THIS PLACE IS DUSTY!!

Sweet treats!!

Star Anise seen through a glass



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The whole collection!!

I grilled some chicken for my family during the new year's eve. But i chose to eat some simple herbal chicken soup and ham choi. Bliss.

Crash and burn chicken

I love delicious late night supper

Wild wild west again

The curse of the Big Bad Wolf Sale. Some are on the floor.

Guilty pleasure

Illuminating table

KLCC ya all!!

home made onde-onde

Ok bye. Wanna play my sony playstation.