Dipping my pinky in baking!!

Been taking a keen interest on baking lately. Good thing? No?

Well, some say it is a stress reliever, for me, even more stress! Kan chiong only… cant help but wondering will the cake turn out alright? When it failed (obviously it did.. 1st time was cookies, then orange cake… both disastrous), I get upset and sayang had to pujuk me.

However, I find it quite fun. Playing masak masak makes me feel so grown up! Oh wait.. I am grown up.. dang!

Well anyways, my 2nd attempt on baking, tried a chocolate cake. Got this recipe from Kuali.com. Amazingly.. it turned out alright!! YIPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEE… anyone wants to buy my cake now????

or anyone wants to hire me to work in your bakery/hotel? *PS: my resume has only 1 failed chocolate chop cookie, 1 failed orange cake and 1 alright chocolate cake. So any takers?

So here is the fabulous recipe!!~~!!~~!!

RICH MOIST CHOCOLATE CAKE

Recipe by Amy BehType of Dish: Bread, cakes and cookies Cooking Method: Bake

Ingredients 175g butter 370g soft brown sugar 3 eggs(A) 1 tsp instant coffee powder + 1 tsp hot water, mixed to dissolve the coffee granules 1 tsp vanilla essence 1 tsp rum liqueur 1 tsp chocolate emulco(B) 220g plain flour 30g cocoa powder 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1/2 tsp salt 1½ tsp baking powder 200ml waterMethod Preheat oven to 170°C degrees C. Grease and line a 22–23cm round cake pan with greaseproof paper. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. AddBeat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.Stir in combined essences (A) until well mixed. Fold in sifted ingredients (B), alternating it with water. Turn mixture into prepared pan. Bake for 50–60 minutes or until cake is cooked through when tested with a skewer.

May Steward

Finally we are almost done with the house stuff. Renovation fully completed, painting completed, boxes unpacked, lights fixed, ASTRO fixed, guess there is nothing much left to do… except for the house warming? ok.. hold your horses.. not quite there yet… still need to get some decor stuff and a dining table. Yes nicole, will post up more pics! hehehehe… still waiting to finish up the final touches before taking pics of the whole house…

So anyways, since i finally have a spacious kitchen with plenty of preparation space, a nice big oven and stove, complete cookware (donated by mom!), i dabbed my pinky finger into cooking once again!!!!~~!!~~!!~~!!

For sayangs birthday, I made a dish I learned from someones blog on the net. Would like to call this dish Cheesy Penne.

Its a really really simple dish actually (main reason why I wanted to try this dish)

Saute up some frankfrutters and sliced button mushroom in butter

The the secret ingredient is actually…

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BAKED BEANS!!!!!~~!!!~~!!!

Mixed them up with cooked penne and the fried sausages and mushroom, and pile on the cheese!!!! The more the better!!

Pop them in the oven.. 200′c for 10 minutes or until the cheese if brown. (FInally, this oven is no more a virgin.. )

Tadaaaaaaaaaa…… i think the cheese is a lil too brown… sigh…

Mix them up, sprinkle a lil oregano and mixed herbs… and DIG IN!!~~!!~~!!

Isn’t this dish just so bloody simple? I bet anyone can do this, and even improvise it. Probably cook it with tuna? or even seafood? Shrimp penne… YUM!!~~!!

Sayang damn kiasu, want to take the virginity or something too, so he attacked our new blender. Orange smoothy… (i think its even simpler than my dish!)

Peel 2 oranges (DUH)

Even peel away the transparent ’skin’

pile them up in the blender with crushed ice, blend blend blend blend blend….

Nah…. damn senang right!! But its yummy….

This saturday, im gonna bake my 1st cake! Let’s see how it goes..

Hello… long time no see!

Wow, its been a super duper long time since I’ve updated my blog. Not going to dwell on the same old excuses, but moving on to whats up lately.

Moved in to the new house. Its been a tiring and crazy week of packing, moving and unpacking. Now that finally all the boxes have been unpacked, its time to place everything in its place and start decorating. Overall, its been such a fun and exciting process. Although its super tiring and tedious, but its just so so so so worth it.

Celebrated Lucias birthday last week at Red box then to MOS, had a blast with the gurls! Too bad some parts of the night were pretty blurry… arr… vodca has always been my weekness, and Lulu makes the bitter-est vodca mix… bluerrrgghh… (but I loved it). So thanks to Eric, now i have my own Absolute Mango. Shall wait till my booze collection reaches a presentable amount, then.. PARTAYYYYYY!!!!!!!~~~~!!!~~~!

Work’s been quite a bitch lately. Lots to do, last minute scrambles, oh well.. whats new eh?

Oh, gotten a new phone too, E66, so heres some pics from my new phone.

New house, everything new, except no new $$ flowing in.. argh. In efforts to save more money, we try to DIY everything we can, from painting, fixing the lights, fan, etc.

Here’s MR Ikeaman. Yeah, I know, the house is still a huge mass, Im sure its going to be another month or so till everything is spec and clean.

Kitchen cabinet in progress. A little piece of heads up to those purchasing from Ikea, it is so totally worth it to pay the assembling fee. Saves you loads of trouble. These men, can assemble my whole wet kitchen within 4 hours.

This guy? Hrmph.. took him about 3 days to complete my wardrobe, and on day 2 the bloody wardrobe fell on me! Major ouchie! And had a slight concussion I guess.

Wardrobe room. Whole 13 ft just for clothes and shoes… HURRAY!!!!!!!!!!~!!!!!!!~!!!!! Believe it or not, still insufficient place… wonders where all these clothes appear from.. sigh

Ok, enough of the new house.

Time to talk about some good food. 

Yummy sweet sour crabs with fried bread.. only Rm15 at this food court in Puchong.. YUM YUM YUM!!!

Yesterday night, had a great time with Sayang & Eric. It is Sayangs birthday today, so we headed to Groove Junction in Hartamas for dinner and wine. Food there was not bad, we had the Rocket Salad, Fried Oyster Mushrooms and Lamb Shank. Well, no pictures, it was pretty dark and I was very hungry. hehehe…. Then Eric came, and join us for wine while we chill out to the sounds of Josie Thomas and his band. Pretty good, upbeat jazz tunes. Kevin was requested to go up to stage while they sang him the birthday song, and we had to dance to the LONGEST SONG EVER!! That… was pretty embarassing.. i wasnt high enough to enjoy it. But all in all, we had a super great time. Its 9am  now, gotta start cooking dinner in a while.. got this recipe from the new which I plan to try. Baked penne in beans, sausages, vege and chesse. YUM?? We shall see…

Also, heading off for happy hour with the gals in the evening.. YIPPPPPEEEEEEEE!!!!!~~~~!!!!!~~!!!!!~~~~!!!!!