Carrot Cake & Jumpa Geng Cari

Last saturday was my birthday, happy birthday to me! yet another year older, sigh! and I decided to bake my own cake since I'm meeting my old fellows cari friends at Zea's house. Woke up early that day to start baking and finish making carrot cake right on time. Here goes a recipe for Rose which I got it from dear FB friend living in Perth.

CARROT CAKE

4 biji telur ( diasingkan putih dan kuning)
1 1/4 cawan corn oil atau vegetable oil
140g gula castor
160g brown sugar
1 1/2 cawan carrot (diparut)
1 sk vanilla essence

diayak

250g self raising flour
1 sudu teh serbuk kayu manis
1 sudu teh garam

100g walnut - dicincang
1 cup of kelapa parut (optional)

Cara

1. Pukul kuning telur, kemudian masukkan minyak, gula (kedua2 jenis) dan carrot. Kacau sebati, masukkan walnut dan akhir sekali masukkan adunan bahan2 kering yg diayak tadi. Kacau perlahan guna senduk kayu.
2. Pukul putih telur sampai betul2 kembang, soft peak (ni penting!) & masukkan dlm adunan kek. Kacau secara kaup balik perlahan2.
3. Bakar pada suhu (preheated oven) 180c selama 45 min.

Frosting

100g butter
250g cream cheese
160g icing sugar ( i guna 3 sudu aje sebab cake terlebih manis)
pukul semua aduan hingga sebati & ringan. Dan boleh dihias di atas kek.

putih telur, di pukul sampai kembang

Cream cheese frosting  

Tadaa..oklah utk my level :)

1st time letak dlm cup cake for my dear sister

Gambar credit to illa

Balik rumah after gathering..hubby belikan cake and belanja makan at fatty crab.

Easy Puff

It was so easy even 'budak-budak' can do it too.

What you need is instant pasty puff and leftover food like chicken curry, meat curry, sambal tumis, sambal sardines, strawberry jam or whatever food that you can get along with.

I cooked chicken curry for ifar yesterday and with some leftover, i made my version of curry puff for sahur this morning. I folded into triangle shape with chicken curry and potato in it and baked at 200'C for 15 minutes..tadaaa

This Puff Pastry will be a 'must' item in freezer nowadays.

It cost about rm7 for 10pcs (jimat belanja, makan sekeping dah kenyang)

Curry puff baru keluar oven..kalau rajin sapulah kuning telur sebelum bake..aku malas.

2 ketul utk Willy and 1 utk ku for sahur

Ini favorite Willy, kalau beli mahu rm3 seketul..hah dah jimat byk..

My version of Hainanese Chicken Rice

(This picture dari internet..the real ones dpt ambik gambar ayam)

When I was doing blogwalking last two days, 'terliur' tengok Nasi Ayam MAMA AQIL, easy cooking especially for1st timer like me moreover hubby still tak berapa suka masakan 'ala melayu' eventho dah kawin dgn org melayu-jawo dekat 9tahun.. when i said 'ala melayu' mcm asam pedas, masak lemak..no..no to him.

For Chicken Rice, he (and me too) likes 'steam' type..so I was determined to try to cook Hainanese Chicken Rice yesterday for breaking fast. The results..walalala..dpt pujian dari En Hb ( he said I can defeat his mom's chicken rice), and most importantly Hairee ate a lot.

Here are the recipe (utk kakak ku)

Utk Ayam
Perap (30min) 4 ketul kepak ayam dgn (kalau guna lebih ayam, lebih kan bahan2 kak)
4 biji bwg putih (blend)
2 biji bwg merah (blend)
2 tbsp Halia (blend)
Lepas tu steam kan utk at least 30minutes (biar betul2 masak)

Sup Ayam
Buat lah lebih utk gunakan masak nasi ayam
Nasi Ayam
Tumis 2 sudu besar butter dgn 2 biji bawang putih dan halia dan maggi stok ayam,
lepas tu masukkan beras, garam dan air sikit (dan guna air sup ayam tadi)..

Cili 
blend cili merah 2biji, bwg putih 2biji, halia, perahan air limau dan air sikit (kalau ada cuka lagi best)

Sos hitam (ini mesti ada)
Bancuh 2 sudu besar sos tiram campur dgn 4sudu sup ayam

Gambar ayam aje..nasi tak sempat..ngam2 nasi masak dah azan, so terus masuk mulut maa..

I only post masakan yg berjaya ku buat sedap..boleh buat lagi

My version of shepherds pie

Hi all ! how's your weekend.
Kemalasan nak keluar dinner on Saturday's nite, I just cooked whatever left in the fridge.
Ampunkan lah tuan punya blog..dok cite pasal masak aje 2,3 entries..kemaruk ada dapur baru :)

My 2nd time masak shepherds pie with chicken

kentang sedang direbus dan lauk pie sedang dimasak

selepas dibakar

hb and me makan 1/4 each..tinggal 1/2 habis esok pagi wat breakfast.

btw..hairee suka makan..almost 1/4 dia habiskan.

Comment en. hb yg cerewat..sedap ;)

My 1st time buat shepherds pie with meat about 2 weeks ago

I prefer guna meat lebih sedap.

Senang aje buat kan..masak western food lebih senang dari masak makanan berlauk

My recipe

Isi (ditumis)

1 plastic daging/ayam cincang

1 biji bawang besar

2 biji bawang putih

2 sudu tomato puree

1 kuib maggie ayam + 1 cup water

Black pepper

Top 

3 biji kentang besar direbus dan dilenyek +

1 biji telur, sikit butter, pure milk, cheese, 2 sudu garam

dibakar for 1/2 hour at 180'C..taraaa...

Choc Chips Cookies

Last Saturday me and my little boy went to Putrajaya for mini gathering with 'mak-mak' from cari forum. Got to know them since Hairee was in my belly and our friendship is still going on strong until now, in fact I think I much closer to them than my other friends since we talked almost every weeks thru forum or FB or chatting.

So for the gathering this time we had it at Puan Rose's house (sian rose, rumah bersepah di buat oleh kanak2 riang dan emak2 riang). I baked Choc Chips Cookies for everyone as part of the theme 'potluck' (nak masak lauk, i'm not very good indeed..so next time insyallah). Harap2 semua kawan suka cookies tu..first time buat sepanjang aku hidup ini, start buat dari pukul 7pagi tau.

Cookies siap sedia utk di bakar

My 1st and 2nd cookies hangus..baca2 balik rupanya ku set oven terlalu hot

My 3rd cookies pulak atas hangus, bawah tak masak..hahaha

Finally 4th attempts and the rest turn out ok but still not up to my satisfaction. I adjusted the oven setting from 250'C for 10minutes  to 180'C for 7minutes (gambar takde..dah lambat siap2 nak keluar).

So, utk puan rose dan zaara inilah recipenya, kalau korang nak lebih crunch letak lebih sikit tepung jagung and butter.

2 cups butter

3 cups flour
1 cup corn flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups brown sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal (blend in blender to a fine powder)
1 cup chocolate chips
1 tsp. salt
1/2 Cadbury bar (grated)
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
2 tsp. vanilla

cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla; mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate chips, Cadbury bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet.. bake for 7-8 minutes at 180 degrees.

Gambar ehsan dari zaara

My first baking experience

Semalam cuti, actually ada hal tapi last minute program postpone...so since I've nothing to do so tiba2 rasa nak try guna oven. I always wanted to do baking tapi mcm alasan terutama 'Malas'. Tengok2 buku resepi i try terus buat dua jenis..which was actually fun and I'm loving it.

Inilah hasil pertama ku...POPOVERS with Shrimp and cauliflower

Senang aje buat ini google kat youtube boleh jumpa tapi i add shrimp, puree cauliflower and bawang.
Review: Rasanya mcm cucur udang tapi next time when i do it again, after 15min, I'll insert Thai sos.

Hasil kedua ku...CARROT CAKE

I got the recipe from FB's friend, surprisingly it was't difficult to do it and turn-out 'SEDAP !'. My father makan 4 slices.

Kedua2 makanan ini ku angkut ke rumah my mom, hot from the oven dgn loyang sekali masuk kereta drove for almost 1hour dgn kereta ku berbau cake sepanjang jalan. Kalau letak kat rumah, siapa nak habiskan..So, itu pasal takde gambar selepas masak.

Just the two of us yesterday, jalan2 and spend time at home, HB keje. The bantal busuk which he called 'pooh' tak pernah tinggal dari lahir sampai skrg, especially when he wants to drink ribena and susu.

Ibu said 'dont sleep' so he was trying not to sleep by showing me his eyes are big and awake but eventually he felt asleep (penat tolong mengacau ibu..)