Recipe: Oatmeal Cookie

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Wednesday 15 August 2012 8:52 pm
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Recipe taken from King Arthur flour website, third oatmeal cookie attempt. Previous oatmeal cookie made here and here, can’t really tell which of the 3 is the best, but the one i made in June-12 is my least favourite.

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Recipe, mixture of oil+butter instead of all butter for a lighter cookie

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ingredients

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smooth cookie mixture

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tablespoonfuls

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nice thin cookie, it looks crispy, but it is not, more of a soft cookie, should have bake it further for crispy cookie

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around 15 cookies made


 

Japanese Buffet Dinner at Sunway Putra Hotel(formerly The Legend Hotel KL)

Posted by vivien | Kuala Lumpur and Selangor | Monday 6 August 2012 9:03 pm
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Groupon deal – Japanese buffet at Sunway Putra Hotel(formerly The Legends hotel), RM110 for 2 pax japanese buffet in Gen

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Sashimi, the salmon is not bad but mostly mediocre quality

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makis which look dry and unappetising

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Teriyaki corner, choose your meat and seafood to be fried on hot plate

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teppanyaki stations

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my udon soup being cooked

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BBQ food: Shishamo, salmon bits on bone, grilled corn, grilled lamb etc

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desserts: lots of choices but mostly mediocre quality as well

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jellys and puddings

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more dessert: logan+snow fungus+sea coconut drink is refreshing

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the salmon is quite nice

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The prawn on stick is really fresh and meaty, flower crab is forgettable

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more yummy prawns and refreshing logan dessert drink

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salmon head is my favourite, but the style they cook it kinda make this less delicious, tasted pan fried more than salt grilled

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dessert are just ok: tarts, red velvet cake etc

Address: Gen@10, Sunway Putra Hotel Kuala Lumpur (formerly known as The Legend Hotel and Apartments)

9th Floor, Sunway Putra Place, No. 100, Jalan Putra
Kuala Lumpur 50350

Telephone: 03-4042 9888

Website: Sunway Putra Hotel

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Recipe: Banana Rum Cake

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Monday 6 August 2012 8:43 pm
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Recipe from Cook.Bake.Love

I reduced the oil from 90g to 70g, a nice banana cake recipe. Kinda undecided on whether this or previous banana cake i made is better.

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ingredients

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liquid ingredients blended

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done

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cross section

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yummy banana cake


 

Recipe: Pumpkin Waffle, Bittman Overnight Waffle & Chocolate Waffle

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Sunday 5 August 2012 7:25 pm
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Recipe taken from:

Pumpkin waffle from Confessions of a City Eater

Mark Bittman Overnight Waffle from BigOven

Chocolate Waffle from Confessions of a City Eater

For some reason, like the bitman overnight waffle better, could be I used butter+canola mixture for it whereas using canola only for the pumpkin waffle. Also, pumpkin was my first attempt in waffle making and the initial ones tasted very eggy as I undercook them and took them out while not crispy yet.

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Pumpkin Waffle recipe

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egg white, pumpkin+milk etc mixture, flour mixture

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all mixed, i beaten the egg white till stiff peak stage making it very hard to be fully combined into the pumpkin and flour mixture resulting in egg white pockets as seen above.

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making pumpkin waffle

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very eggy as i underfilled and under-cook the above, although it look very browned above

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nicer ones towards the end whereby i baked the waffle till there is no more steam from the waffle machine. Although very light and quite nice, i find this must be eaten with syrup or other condiments, too plain to be eaten by itself

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Overnight waffle recipe using yeast instead of baking powder. Have to be left overnight for the yeast to fully work itself in the batter.

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after mixed

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next day, the batter have risen a bit as compared to above pic, mix egg yolk into the mixture

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beat egg white till soft peak

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mixed

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i find it alike to belgian waffle, rich with buttery taste.

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Mark bittman overnight waffle looking good above

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Chocolate waffle is the last i am going to experiment on this waffle saga

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making the waffle using Cosway Empress waffle machine

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My least favourite, tasted so so and the texture is kinda dense.

Among all of the above, the pumpkin is the lightest, with bittman’s overnight waffle coming on second with its rich buttery taste, chocolate i find is the most dense.


 

Recipe: Apple Cake

Posted by vivien | Recipe | Wednesday 1 August 2012 9:17 pm
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Recipe taken  from smitten kitchen.

Yummy sugary cinnamon smell whiff through whole house while the cake was baked for 1 hour 20 mins at around 165 Celsius, last 20 mins with foil on top of cake as it was browning fast.

Overall, i prefer this cake more than Apple Pie Cake. Easier to make with no pie pastry resting period needed etc

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Amount: 385g flour, 185g oil, 200g sugar and 63g orange juice

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Ingredients, the apple are mixed cinnamon and sugar

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Layering apple and cake batter

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Finished product. Not really obvious here, but i find this cake rises surprisingly well despite being heavy cake with apple and all

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Looks yummy eh

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Another view of the cake

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Cross section.

Overall, this cake is not bad, might make this again some day. Same as apple pie cake, i find the apple cake make the cake slightly wetter the next day, but still acceptable


 

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