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.

Pumpkin Waffle recipe

egg white, pumpkin+milk etc mixture, flour mixture

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.

making pumpkin waffle

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

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

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

after mixed

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

beat egg white till soft peak

mixed

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

Mark bittman overnight waffle looking good above

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

making the waffle using Cosway Empress waffle machine

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 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

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

Ingredients, the apple are mixed cinnamon and sugar

Layering apple and cake batter

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

Looks yummy eh

Another view of the cake

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

Recipe taken from The Way The Cookie Crumbles. (Recipe from Dorie’s Greenspan)

Made this using 8 small red delicious apple + 2 large South African green apple. But turn out to be too much apples, i think using 8 small apples is enough.

Personally, I don’t find it that good, perhaps it is really good when eaten warm, it can get slightly wet and soggy when completely cooled the next day.

Total baking time is 80 minutes, there are bubbles from the apple through slits on the pastry 60 minutes into baking.

Pie pastry which is quite soft, has to be rested around 2 hours (up to 3 days) in fridge

Assembled apple pie cake, it was slightly difficult to assemble as the pastry is quite soft, as seen to be quite messy in pic above, i was literally pinching the dough into side of pan. Remember to cut few slits to let steam to escape

leftovers apples

Finished product

I used 230g butter, reduced sugar to around 100g, flour used was about 410g

Miscellaneous food musings, food photos taken over period of 1 year i guess, and finally clear all backlog of food photos from my Ipod after posting following 43 photos below.

Ben’s Grocer in Publika, above is crabmeat corn salad with fish pie. The salad is quite refreshing with fresh corns and some arugula/rockets. The fish pie though loaded with ingredients(fish, mussel etc), i find the sauce quite milky and rich

Orecchiette pea salad and mushroom lagsana with pesto, the mushroom lasagna bechamel sauce is quite rich as well, and i find it is loaded with the cheaper oyster mushroom instead of the tastier and more expensive fresh white mushroom

was craving for fries when i was sick few months back. Above is shoestring fries from Delicious. prefer thicker cut fries.

Above is minestrone soup, healthy and tomatoey i like since i read somewhere that tomato can prevent sun damage on skin!? 🙂

Fat Boy burger in Publika

ample choice to customize your own burger, too many choice perhaps

lamb burger, The burger was ok but the fries is really really nice! Crispy outside and creamy inside

Happy City steamboat next to Carrefour Kepong was just so so

Jalan Ipoh Taman Bamboo noodle shop mentioned in kampungboycitygal.com

Loh mee is nice with homemade noodle

Dumpling is forgetable though

Jalan Ipoh Jalan Bayan tai chow, just to try their assam fish

Bill

Assam fish, RM24. Can be satisying although the fish was those thawed from frozen, filled with my favourite brinjal, lady’s finger.

Kepong tuck kee dim sum is just ok, not as good as i remembered

Kuchai Lama food courty

Kung Fu pan mee is surprisingly very nice, the dough is hand pull till very long, one of the nicest pan mee texture i have so far.

Nong & Jimmy in Pandan Indah, above is baked crab

boiled cockles, fried rice etc, a satisfying meal in Nong & Jimmy

Baked crab is good, didn’t try the other crab at far end

The Famous Village Park nasi lemak in PJ

Publika’s China Wok chicken rice looks sad

Their fish head noodle is very forgetable, i asked for thick mee hoon, and they said it is thick kind, but it is clearly NOT 🙁

Free Mori in Publika! the best bakery in my book as of now, better than The Loaf, Lavender etc. I like the buttery taste in their pastry, tried their “Sampan” which is a blueberry cheese pastry

Sin Kee in Brickfield’s

Sin Kee’s seafood stewed rice, ok la, old school style

favourite Snowflake cold bestseller with additional yummy yam

Beer hive restaurant in SSTwo mall

beer battered fish in Beer hive, Fish & Co is better and cheaper

Porrige Time in Paradigm mall

Frog porridge, RM9.50, i think lots of msg inside as i felt very thirsty after eating it

loads of porrridge choices

Adds on to porridge

Colleague made vietnamese dessert – glutinuous tice with yam with coconut cream, the taste is really good but the rice is cooked till too mushy

Banana cafe catering is very yummy, a farewell lunch in office catered by them

Camel nuts(natural cocktail mix) from Singapore is really nice but expensive, usually RM12.90

Cake of the month bought from PJ Hilton(RM35) – above is supposedly peach flan, i was expecting custard-like filling but insteadd it is mostly sponge inside.

Nice sandwich from Sun Moulin in KLCC, their bread is buttery brioche like with ham and cheese filling

Frozen yogurt from Nolita in Cheras Viva mall is by far the cheapest froyo i found, with one free topping! It does taste a bit more milky than sourish though, but still worth trying. Above is almond with i think dried apricot/peach

First pride chicken nuggets are spicy and not bad, they supposedly manufacture Mcdonald’s chicken nugget.

Very yummy Garrett’s popcorn in 1Utama, love their caramel with macadamia nuts

And lastly, a picture of my favourite maggi flavour – asam laksa

Almost finishing all the backlog of photos in my Ipod and there are still some in camera 😛 Here are all the miscellaneous eats in Mid Valley and The Gardens in Mid Valley City. Above is seafood rice from Aunty Nat in Mid Valley boulevard first floor (across from The Library pub), ~RM12, hearty portion

Canton-I twin-mix porridge is one of my favourite porridge, silky smooth with nice dried scallop flavour. Above is fish with century egg, ~RM12.80

Wanton mee from Canton-I as well

Chicken rice shop chicken rice set, cheap eats for lunch crowd, around RM7 only, the taste is ok

C-Jade express set lunch

Duck rice, RM10.80 (add only RM1 for soup of the day), taste ok

Dragon-I steamed rice

RM16 for the above Dragon-I steamed rice, taste funny and not nice.

Pappa rich nasi lemak is quite nice though expensive

Hakkaido ichiba set lunch menu

Sakura Chirashidon (mixed sashimi rice set), RM30 for lunch(RM40 for dinner), taste ordinary and not satisfying, the fish feels dry, Sugimoto’s is so so so much better.

Ramen in japanese restaurant next to Starbucks

some omelette in the japanese restaurant, so so only

Little Penang in Mid Valley

Curry noodle, delicious although quite expensive

Manhattan seafood aglio olio pasta is very yummy although the portion is really small

Fish and Chips, i like Fish & Co’s better with thinner batter, the batter here is quite thick although still crunchy

Mid Valley Oasis food court new comer: Flavour of Pakistan, the one in yellow signboard manned by a Pakistani

Steamed chicken briyani served with 2 gravy(curry and yogurt condiment), RM10 very tasty, the coriander add a nice fragrance to this dish

Fish briyani, ~RM12 with dhal and yogurt condiments, i prefer the chicken briyani over this

Additional order of a bowl of dhal, RM3.90 yummy!

Cheap lunch in Popeyes Mid Valley branch

Only RM4.90 for this lunch set, yummy although portion is small

TGI Friday’s fried macaroni, surprisingly not bad. But overall, i don’t like food served there – american fast food style.

Chicken tenders with sour cream

rice with chicken stirfry

Pasta from TGI Fridays

Tony Roma’s Shrimp Scampi portion is huge, can’t finish it, loads of shrimps, but taste so so