Sunday, March 29, 2009

Tiramisu




Ingredients:

2 egg yolks
3 tbsp sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
500g mascarpone cheese
1 1/2 cups strong black coffee
2-3 tbsp Kahlua or Tia Maria
250g French lady fingers


1. Whip egg yolks, sugar and vanilla together until creamy.
2. Add the mascarpone, mixing together well.
3. Put the strong coffee into a shallow dish then add the coffee liquor.
4. Dip the Lady fingers into the coffee for a second or two. sufficient time to absorb the coffee without falling apart, then place in a single layer in a serving dish.
5. Spread with mascarpone misture then add another layer of coffee-dipped biscuits.
6. Continue in this manner till ending with a layer of mascarpone.
7. Drift over a fine layer of sieved cocoa powder, then cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.


Tips:
1. Leave the tiramisu overnight, it tastes better as everything has soaked into the biscuit.
2. Coffee must be cool, otherwise the biscuit will just crumble and melt.
3. If mascarpone is too thick/difficult to stir, add some milk.


Prepared by: Adele Khor
Recipe by: Adele Khor

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Fried bean sprout.


Ingredients:
Carrots
Bean sprouts
Red chili
Salted fish
Garlic
Chinese parsley


1. Fried the salted fish till it turn golden brown. Put aside.
2. Use the oil that just fried the salted fish, put the chop garlic, chili and carrots slices and stir it together.
3. Put the bean sprouts and few slices of salted fish, fried together.
4. Add half cap of chinese rice wine then soy sauce, stir it a little. Off fire.
5. Decorate the fried bean sprout with the remaining salted fish and chinese parsley on top.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Pocket holder for gal's accessories


Have you ever discovered that when you have more and more accessories such as : earrings, necklace, ring, brooches etc
The more you keep, the more you will forget where you place all of them whenever you need it.

I have solution for this.

I find this pocket holder and I think it is what I been looking for so far.
It comes with the plain jeans and clear pockets.
I bought those iron on flower and leaf patches, shimmer sticker to decorate it.

What you need:
1. Adhesive hook
2. Multiple pocket holders
3. Iron-on beads, badge or cute patch
4. Cute sticker.

You can place it on the wall where near your dressing table or inside of your cupboard door.

These are my previous 2 pocket holders that I decorated before.
They are now attached on the wall near my dressing table, so easy for me to pick and choose.



Try it today!

*If you are interested to get one of these but no time to do it, you may leave a message and purchase from me.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

How to make soup stock ?

There are 2 ways to make the soup stock.

Convenient way
Simply get the bouillon cube or liquid from the department store.
It depends on what type of soup stock you want to make ?
There are chicken soup stock, beef soup stock, vegetable soup stock or fish soup stock cube available in the market.

















1. Boil the water, put in one cube and cook for 3-5 mins. Done.

*For my preference, I like Knorr more than others because it taste more natural and I don't find any coloring added in the cube.


Healthy way
Chicken/ beef soup stock -
1. Buy the chicken/beef bone from wet market. Wash the bone.
2. Boil the water and put the bone in a pot with high heat fire for 30 mins. Simmer for another 1-1.5 hours (depend on the portion, you need to make)
3. Add salt. Done.

Fish soup stock-
1. Buy the Ikan Bilis (Small tiny fish) from department stall or wet market.
2. Lightly wash the Ikan Bilis.
3. Boil the water and put the fish inside the pot with high heat fire for 30 mins. Simmer for another 1 -1.5 hours (depend on the portion, you need to make)
3. Add salt. Done.


Tips: When finished cooking, strain the broth and refrigerate for few hours. Fat in the broth will congeal at the top and can be easily strained off.

Thai style glass noodle.


Ingredients:
Glass noodles
Chili paddy(Cili padi in malay)
Chinese parsley(莞西)
Shallot/ Onion
Lime
Sugar
Fish sauce
Light soy sauce
Dried small shrimp


1. Cook the glass noodles till it soft. Separated it out from water. Put aside
2. Chop the chili paddy and chinese parsley. Slice shallot into small thin pieces.
3. Fried the dried small shrimp. Put a kitchen towel under the bowl to dry extra oil away.
4. Add fish sauce, light soy sauce, lime, sugar (test the taste before pour into the noodles) and mix with the glass noodles.
5. Put the chili paddy, shallot, chinese parsley and dried small shrimp on top of the glass noodles.
6. The Thai style glass noodles is ready to serve.


Tips:
1. You may served this as cold dish by cook the noodles and place it in the fridge for 1 hour before add the sauce and other ingredients.
2. If you like the garlic taste, you may add some chop garlic together.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Yong tauhu style Meesuah soup.


Ingredients:
Carrots
Chai Sim ( Veggie)
Seaweed
Meesuah (Noodle)
Fishball
Egg
Garlic Oil
Chicken Stock


1. Boil the water and put half cube of chicken stock.
2. Put the carrots and fishball to boil together for 2-3mins.
3. Put the meesuah, cook for 1-2 mins then add the chai sim and seaweed.
4. Add the egg lastly and off the fire.
5. Served the bowl of meesuah soup with fried garlic oil.

*Add pepper, soy sauce at your own preference*

Tips: if you like sesame oil, you may put a few drops to add favor to the soup.