Rice Cooker Claypot Rice

This is an easy peasy if you need a quick dinner. Glad that my bff shared this recipe with me. Everything just dumps in to cook... Lolz best right, at least on the other hand you can still do a bit of washing clothes, wiping this and that. By the time you will hear the rice cooker beeping sound and it's time for dinner.

Here's the recipe. For me I half the recipe and add to my own liking.

Recipe = Annette Tan New paper cutting

Ingredients

1 large fresh chicken (cut into small pieces)
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
3 tbsps Oyster Sauce
1 tbsp minced ginger
3 tbsps Chinese rice wine (I used Hua Diao )
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp cooking oil
2 Chinese sausages sliced thinly
2 cups rice
2.5 cups light rice stock.
A brunch of leafy green 

Method

1. Place chicken in a large bowl with dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, ginger, chinese rice wine and sesame oil. Mix well. Cover and leave to marinate in the fridge for at least an hour or overnight.
2. Wash rice thoroughly and drain well. Place in a rice cooker along with the Chinese sausages and chicken stock.
3. Cook for about 8 minutes, until the rice has absorbed about three-quarters of the stock, then add the chicken and its marinade.
4. Close lid and cook for a further 15 to 20 minutes. During the last few minutes of cooking, add the vegetables to the rice cooker.
5. Once the rice and chicken are cooked, serve hot.

Danish Butter Cookies

#Throwback# Danish Butter Cookies that we always missed. It been our childhood cookies we cannot go without it. Happen to see this recipe so I give a shot, and happy that my kids loved it.

     Here the recipe by: Anncoo

     1 Egg (60g) - lightly beaten

     200g Soft butter - Lurpak
     320g Plain flour 
     130g Icing sugar - sifted 
     2 tbsp Vanilla extract

     Method:

• Place everything in a mixing bowl and mix evenly using a paddle attachment on the lowest speed possible.
• Pipe wreaths onto baking tray using an 1M tip. 
• Bake in a preheated oven at 200C for 7-8 minutes.
• Leave to cool slightly before removing from the baking tray.
• Transfer cookies into airtight container after cookies are at room temperature. 

Gong Xi Fa Cai

Yesterday was Li Chun 立春 and I'm so excited about it. I managed to deposit my "Huat" money on 吉时吉日. Though I'm not a believer but why not just join in the Fun, who know I might be the one!!! Lolz

My hubby also managed to deposit his "Huat" money on 吉时吉日. 

Hereby I wish everyone:

Lucky/Auspicious Year of the Horse! (馬年吉祥, mǎ nián jí xiáng) 
Instant success when the horse arrives! (馬到成功, mǎ dào chéng gong)
Take the lead upon the horse!  (一馬當先, yī mǎ dāng xiān) 
Peace and good health in the Year of the Horse! (馬年安康, mǎ nián ān kāng)

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is just around the corner!!! Brought Jonas to Junction 10 after his school ends and he was delighted to see 财神爷. Our cheeky boy went up to him and asked me to take a photo of him with 财神爷.


Feeling so amused by his action, everyone started laughing at the way he reacted. Because the mall is not so big, we bumped into 财神爷 3 times and my Jonas never fail to take a pic with him.
Up till now, he still keep humming "Dong Dong Chiang, Dong Dong Chiang". He really brings a lot of joy and laughter to the family.

Almond Cookies

Chinese New Year is just round the corner.. I try my best to speed up all the bake starting on 21 January 2013. That will be the day I will slog at home instead of slogging in the office!!

Anyway told my boss that I need to take a 4 days leave to bake at home, he says "YES" you should, just glad that I have an understanding "Boss"... That when the joke came by "Hello I'm telling you I bake cos I in need of money, so you should know what to do next right". LOLZ

Anyway to share this recipe with you all and is pretty easy too.

Recipe for Almond Cookies by XXX (forgotten)

Ingredient

150gm ground almonds

230gm plain flour

150gm caster sugar

1/4tsp vanilla essence
1/4tsp salt
1tsp baking powder
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
150ml corn oil
1 egg yolk for glazing

Method

1.     Combine all ingredients together in a mixing bowl and mix into a dough.

2.     Roll small dough about 7gm each and arrage on baking tray

3.     Brush with egg yolks and bake 175C for about 15 to 20 mins or till     brown.

4.     Cool well and store in containers.

Grand Marnier Fruit Cake

Fruit cake are one of my mum's favourite, I been finding good recipe for the baking of fruit cake. Finally I chance upon this fruit cake recipe from wendyinkk. There secret to this recipe is the Grand Mariner which got to cover the done cake for 5 days to a week before consume.

It really smell heavenly with the Grand Marnier and my mum and friends love it lotz. I will be sharing this recipe below:

Recipe for Grand Mariner Fruit Cake by Wendyinkk

Ingredient

450 to 500gm of mix fruits

100ml of fresh orange juice

100ml Grand Marnier

Zest from the Orange

(Mix the ingredient except the red and green cherries. Soak it in the fridge for a day. Mix in the cherries while waiting for the butter to soften on the next day)

Next day Ingredient 

250gm salted butter

150gm sugar

4 eggs

225gm all purpose flour

100ml of Grand Marnier for later use

Method

1.     Preheat Oven 130/150C and Line a 8inch tray

2.     Cream butter and Sugar

3.     Add in the eggs one at a time

4.     Add in the sifted flour and beat in the low speed till smooth

5.     Pour in the soak mix fruit including the liquid and fold it

6.     Pour batter into 8inch pan, level and bake for 1.5hrs

7.     Once done remove cake from the oven and drizzle the 100ml Grand Mariner.

8.     Remove it from the baking tray and let it cool and wrap it up for 5days to a week in room temperature before consuming.

Credit of the photo go to my bestie Chrizelyn Tan

A Moment Of Glory

Indeed a surprise for us as Parents. Received letter from Ministry of Education indicating that my big boy Jayden got the award for Certificate of Academic Achievement and Good Progress Award. Oh My!!!! How can it be??? Hahaha.... It's a total shock for us and himself too.

I would say he did improve a lot compared to Pri 1 in 2012. With his Pri 2 result, he managed to get these 2 awards. Thumb up for him and hope he will continue with this kind of learning attitudes.

Pineapple Tarts

Chinese New Year is just round the corner!!! This year, I did something I had never thought of. It is to sell my Homemade Pineapple Tarts.

It is really a big project for me as this is the 1st time I'm baking 74 tubs. Seventy-four tubs with 32 pieces each. That's 2,368 of Pineapple Tarts. Wow Wow Wow...

I do hope everyone will enjoy the Pineapple Tarts which I had made and it's to their liking. Feel free to feedback as I feel there is always room for improvement. Enjoy...

Christmas Log Cake

Christmas is all about sharing and my sister shared this recipe with me. We have been sharing our recipe for more than a year and also have been asking each other on the methods of baking. It's always nice that both of us share the same passion on baking.

Since Christmas is all about sharing, I baked 2 log cakes. One for my bestie Chrizelyn Tan and another one for my family Christmas gathering.

These log cakes are simple and not difficult to bake type. Most importantly, the ingredients are cheap. I really can't imaging a log cake is selling at a whopping $40 to $100. Ouch...

Hereby wishing everyone a Merry Christmas!!!

Below is the recipe for you to keep.

Original Recipe by Kitchen Corner but I did some changes.

Swiss Roll recipe

Ingredients
40g Unsalted Butter
100g Egg Yolks
20g Caster Sugar
160g Egg Whites
75g Caster Sugar
55g Plain Flour

Method

1. Line the baking tray
2. Whisk the egg yolk and sugar in a double boiler till pale and fluffy
3. Whisk egg white and sugar until stiff peak
4. Pour the eggs yolk and gently fold. 
5. Add in the flour and fold
6. Pour into the tray and bake at 190C for 10-12mins.
7. The filling of the cake will be 200g of whip cream with 100g of nutella. 

Swiss Merigue recipe for covering the cake

Ingredients

125g egg whites

85g granulated sugar

225g unsalted butter

50g cocoa powder (add more if desire)

Method

1. Egg whites and egg york in a double boiler till the sugar melted.
2. Whisk the egg white till stiff peak
3. Add in butter in 3 portion till incorporated
4. Pour in the cocoa powder blend at low speed.

Photo by bestie: Chrizelyn Tan

Kueh Lapis

Haro everyone, I can't believe I'm blogging again. After Two long years of break, I'm back in action, now I have a good photographer help me take all the nice picture of my cake.