Spagetti Bolognese my way

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Tuesday 28 July 2009 11:40 am
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Sick of eating the same thing during lunch, nasi lemak, WhereElse Delights mostly. So decided to make something that is meaty and nutritious 🙂 Bought 2 pack of cherry tomatoes.
Cut quite a bit of onion, sweat it out in little bit of oil(best to use olive oil)
Bought lean australian mince beef, about RM12 for 500g. lean is good, so that the bolognese won’t be oily.
cook the beef with onion till meat loses its pink colour, throw in halves cherry tomatoes.
simmer in medium fire, at this point, the color is not really appetising, i was expecting red color sauce, but instead the meat in swimming in its own brownish juice. Bolognese sauce usually requires tomato paste/canned tomatoes, i didn’t put any. Fortunately the taste is ok. I did put in canned button mushroom towards the end of the cooking process.
My breakfast and lunch. Yum~

 

Recipe: Lemon Olive Oil Cake

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Monday 20 July 2009 9:58 am
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Recipe taken from Serious Eats – Lemon Olive Oil Cake. 4 eggs.
Beat the egg + sugar(recipe specified 1 cup sugar, which is about 180g, but i used only 130g of caster sugar), beat till it become pale in color and sugar melted.
result after beating sugar + 4 eggs for 5 minutes
add in 3/4 cup of yoghurt, bought this from local indian shop, homemade by them(i think). this package should be around 3/4 cup?! hehe
lemon rind from 3 lemons, remember not to grate the white part of lemon skin, else it will taste bitter.
drizzle in olive oil, make sure it is a small and steady stream, so that an an emulsion can be created. Recipe specified the success of this cake depends wholely on how good the olive oil is, but here i am using a really cheap olive oil from Cold Storage house brand – First choice, using extra virgin olive oil will prolly yield better result.
the flour mixture(superfine flour/Pau flour + baking powder + soda + salt) which been sifted 3 times.
mix the flour into liquid ingredient
continue mixing till it is well combined and not too mix too much for cake else glutens form will result in tough cake.
Bake at 160 Celcius (325F) for 40-45 minutes
Taste like a light butter cake, the lemon flavor is subtle, not as strong as i would like. Crumb is light, not bad.

 

Citrus Yoghurt Muffin

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Thursday 2 July 2009 11:39 am
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Another lazy day at home, tried this citrusy muffin recipe from Babe in the City – KL. I don’t have much affinity to muffin, same as bread, those i made usually turn out half good and it is no wonder that muffin is also called quick bread. Didn’t really like this, nonetheless can’t really blame the recipe, as i didn’t zest the orange rind, but instead cut it off with bare knife, thus there is traces of whitish orange skin which can taste bitter, and i “diced” the orange rind, it is not a very fine rind, too rough i guess. Also, i used only orange rind, instead of orange + lime + lemon.
Finished product, still in the fridge…
baked one swiss roll, sold it to colleague for RM8, don’t like selling as can’t earn much baking 1 swiss roll eh. 😛
Krispy Kreme second outlet in Malaysia – Mid Valley Megamall, Malaysia is too saturated with sweet doughnuts, heard Krispy’s is sickening sweet but good texture… gotta try one someday.

 

How to make Swiss Roll

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Thursday 25 June 2009 10:52 am
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Recipe taken from hsling, written in chinese. Above is sifted flour (superfine flour/Pau flour + corn flour) and liquid mixture(egg yolk, yoghurt, canola oil)
Mix up the above dry and wet ingredients together till it become smooth
on the other hand, bet up the egg white, above is 4 egg white, i am using large egg.
beat it till it become frothy, about 1 minute
add in sugar
continue beating, about 4 minuts till it become stiff and glossy, one way to determine is when you hold the mixing bowl upside down, the meringue won’t flow down. Remember not to continue beating once it reach this stage, else the stiff structure will be broken down and it will be back to liquid(i never tried this before, that is what i heard :P)
take half of the meringue and lightly mix it into the flour-yoghurt-etc mixture.
The flour-yogurt-etc mixture is well mixed with half of the meringue
Now, mix both mixture by folding. Folding is an essential technique for cake making. Unfortunately i didn’t take any photo to show you folding action, it is essentially bringing the spatula to the bottom of the mixture by “slicing” the spatula from the side of the bowl, and then bring up the mixture from bottom to the top. Good folding technique ensure the cake turn out soft and well-risen.
well incorporated
ready to be bake, level the cake that the middle is just slightly lower than the side, as cake usually rise more in the middle.
finished baking
flip the cake over on top of another baking sheet, peel of the baking sheet
this is the only jam available in my house- thick apricot jam by St Dalfour.
Spread jam thinly on top(remember to roll this cake while it is still warm, as cake won’t roll well after cool)
roll it up, the brownish skin stick to the bottom baking sheet, so here is my naked swiss roll… haha
cross section, very yummy and soft. Highly Recommended, unlike the previous Cheese Slice Cake i made which recipe is from the same site-hsling.

 

Cheese Slice Cake

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Thursday 11 June 2009 10:49 am
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Went to Kepong Brem Mall’s Giant supermarket. After that, had a drink in a kopitiam-Kepong Kopitiam, consider this a Old Town wannabe, the lemon drink which i ordered is so damn fake and cost RM3.50! basically it is lemon extract/cordial mix with 1 slice of lemon, couldn’t finished it, and the above is where i left it at. This makes me appreciate Old Town White Coffee more, cause they maintain certain standard in their food, and they taste pretty good.
breakfast set from OldTown White Coffee, nasi lemak + ice lemon tea = RM5.90. If you take black coffee/tea with the nasi lemak, it will be RM4.90. You can add fried chicken to the rice for RM1.50, yummy.
Made a Cheese slice cake, ingredients: 3 slices of cheese, milk, butter, flour, 3 eggs etc, the batter is little, so the cake is thin and flat :\
Recipe for Cheese Slice cake is from hslingkitchen. Flat cake, it taste just alright, recipe by ivyaiwei is still da best.

 

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