Recipe: Chocolate Cup Cake

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Monday 11 February 2013 1:40 pm
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Recipe taken from Simply Recipes

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ingredients: the the right is instant coffee, white vinegar, vanilla and olive oil

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spooned

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Done

i find this just so so, not memorable


 

Recipe: Cocoa Cake

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Monday 11 February 2013 1:24 pm
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Recipe taken from Bake or Break Recipes.

I forgot to add salt, also should have buttered and floured the cake tin, only to realise this when pouring the batter into cake tin. But the cake end out able to be unmold so easily even though i only put parchment on the bottom and half out the circumference

Thinking of getting an oven thermometer, i find my oven is too hot and top of cake brown easily and crack easily though i am using lower heat than stated.

I find this cake is with slight cocoa bitterness and tasted just so so, it will be better if eaten with ice cream, crumble on top of froyo, sandwich with chocolate cream etc, i just find it plain and dry on its own

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sugar + butter

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Done

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Not my cup of tea


 

Mitasu Japanese Restaurant Ala Carte buffet, Central Plaza, Jalan Sultan Ismail

Posted by vivien | Kuala Lumpur and Selangor | Sunday 3 February 2013 9:12 pm
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This restaurant is located in Central Plaza, just behind Pavillion shopping mall, had this buffet last October 2012, not sure the buffet deal is still available, this had got to be one of the cheapest japanese buffet around, only RM48.90++ . The parking space inside Central Plaza building is really cramp and hard to navigate, so if you are going on weekend, can park in front of Central Plaza, they are probably 3 or 4 parking spots there.

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Restaurant is located in lower ground facing Jalan Sultan Ismail

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Japanese Ala Carte Buffet!

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menu

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Buffet available times:

Thursday & Friday (6pm – 10pm), Saturday & Sunday(12pm – 2:30pm & 6pm-10pm)

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Handrolls are satisfactory nice

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Sashimi not bad as well

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seaweed, jellfish etc

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seared grilled tuna

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oyster is not nice, too creamy

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squid tentacles looks nice right?

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kimchi soup is one of my favourite, filled with seafood and sourish appetising

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tepanyaki beef is tough and can be skipped

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Feels oily from panfried more than grilled which prevented me from ordering another one.

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really nice ice cream, have refills of both black sesame and green tea

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Pan cake can be skipped, dense and felt like it not freshly made

Address: Mitasu

B-01, Central Plaza,

No 34, Jalan Sultan Ismail,

50250 Kuala Lumpur

Telephone: 03-2110 2833

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Recipe: Spaghetti Bolognese

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Sunday 3 February 2013 8:36 pm
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Just started cooking and still watery, this recipe is ok, just gonna use less nutmeg as it make the spaghetti slightly too sourish. On a side note, The Humble Chef mobile van(operating from 9:30 onwards, best to arrive 9:30 sharp and before 10pm to as the crowd pile on quick and before long they won’t be any seating place) RM5 bolognese spaghetti in Damansara is creamy and tomatoey nice, just had it yesterday

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Done.

Ingredients:

1 medium carrot, diced

250g tomato, chopped

1 pack cherry tomato, chopped

2 red onion, diced

3 cloves garlic

500g meat

2 cans whole peeled tomato with its juice

bayleaf

oregano flakes

1/2 nutmeg grinded

0.5 cup white wine ( i bought the cheapest type available in Jusco for RM29)

Olive oil

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This recipe is combined from 2 sources(Imbi & Itchy & The Kitchn), excluding ingredients which i find won’t be using much in cooking 😛

1. Heat olive oil, cook onion and carrot till onion becomes translucent. Stir in garlic till fragrant, roughly stir taking care not to brown to garlic

2. Add in meat, nutmeg, oregano, salt & pepper. Brown the meat till no pinkish meat is seen.

3. Add wine, canned tomato, chopped tomato, chopped cherry tomatoes

4. Simmer for 30 minutes or so till the sauce thickens

5. Serve with spaghetti


 

Recipe: Easy Scone

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Wednesday 23 January 2013 9:55 pm
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Recipe taken from King Arthur Flour’s website.

I find this really easy and quite nice(crisp outside and tender and soft within)

Only 2 ingredients if you are using self raising flour. Else, like me, make own self raising flour by mixing 230g flour(ie 2 cups) with 3 teaspoon of baking powder, and about 1 teaspoon of seasalt. I used salted butter as well, so the scone comes out salty enough :p

Baked in around 200 to 205 celcius for about 14 to 15 minutes.

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Ingredients all laid out

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mix flour and butter with pastry cutter bought from Ace Hardware which i hardly use.

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till it become breadcrumb like texture

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add in milk and dump the whole mixture into greaseproof paper/baking sheet

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roughly push the whole mixture into one whole piece of dough, light mixing is key of making a tasty scone

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Cut into rounds

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As read from some online site, baking scone in a cake tin will result in higher scone, due to heat trap inside the cake tin or what not… i am not so sure that it works for me as mine doesn’t rise too high 😛

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Done

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Yummy when warm


 

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