Salam Aidilfitri

May Allah accept from us and from you. That was what a sahabah used to say to another sahabah. Eid Mubarak everyone!!

Portmeirion for Sale

Assalamualaikum,

As promised to Fara, my junior masa kat Tasmania dulu, I will up photos of Portmeirion for Sale. Sorry Fara, lambat upload the photos. Susah sangat nak duduk depan PC. Too busy.. Those interested, boleh email Fara kat famoh276@gmail.com. Fara lives in UK, so InsyaAllah the price of the pottery will be competitive. :)

Gooey Butter Cake

Finally, my pc dah pulih seperti sediakala, alhamdulillah. Punya la lama tak duduk berfacebook or berblogging on pc. Eh! actually blogging on ipod pun dah jarang2. *sigh*.. I know.. I have been a very bad blogger..  I might disappear again.. hehe.. but not without posting a recipe first. By the way, this cake is really really yummy. Why? coz I received orders for this cake from my friends. Not that I intend to bake and sell it. hehe..

Gooey Butter Cake - best eaten while it's still hot :)

Gooey Butter Cake

Adapted from Taste & Paula Deen

For the butter cake

Ingredients

250g butter, softened

1 cup caster sugar (I reduced the sugar to 3/4 cup)

2 teaspoons vanilla essence

3 eggs (large)

2 1/2 cups self-raising flour

2/3 cup milk

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Grease and line an 8cm-deep, 19cm (base) square cake pan with baking paper.
2. Using an electric mixer, cream butter, caster sugar and vanilla in a medium bowl on medium-high speed until light and fluffy.
3. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating to combine. Add half the flour. Stir to combine. Add half the milk. Stir to combine. Repeat with remaining flour and milk.
4. Spread mixture into prepared pan.
   
   Filling:
   250gm cream cheese, softened
   2 eggs
   1 teaspoon vanilla
   8 tablespoons butter, melted
   500gm powdered sugar (I used only 1 cup of icing sugar)
   
   In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth.  Add the eggs, vanilla, and butter and beat together. 
   Next, add the powdered sugar and mix well.  Spread over cake batter and bake for 40 to 50 minutes.  Make sure not to over bake as the center should be a little gooey.

Chocolate Madeleines

Lama sungguh aku peram this recipe. Recipe ni sangat simple dan sedap. Bear in mind, madeleines sedap makan masa panas. Kalau dah simpan overnight, dah tak sedap.

The recipe is from Martha Stewart

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup, plus 4 tablespoons unsalted butter softened, for buttering madeleine molds
• 3 large eggs
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 tablespoons packed dark-brown sugar
• 1 cup cake flour (not self-rising)
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder, preferably Dutch-processed
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Brush madeleine pans well with 4 tablespoons softened butter; refrigerate 5 minutes.
2. In a small heavy-bottomed saucepan, melt remaining 1/2 cup butter over medium heat. Continue to cook until butter turns golden brown, being careful not to let the butter burn. Remove from heat and strain through a fine mesh sieve into a small bowl; set aside.
3. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whip eggs with granulated and brown sugars until light and thickened, 3 to 5 minutes. Add flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt, and stir on low speed until combined. Add vanilla and reserved browned butter; mix just until blended.
4. Insert a 1/2-inch plain tip into a pastry bag and fill with batter. Pipe mounds of batter into prepared pans until each mold is full, mounding batter in the center of the molds but not filling to the edge. Alternatively, you can use a teaspoon to fill the molds with batter. Bake until madeleines are firm and a little mound is puffed up in the middle, 10 to 12 minutes. Madeleines are best eaten the same day they are baked.

Marble cake

Jap aku pikir, why did I baked this cake. Erm.. Oh ya!! Aku baked this for hubby to bring to his friend's house. His friend is teaching him how perform umrah, maka, sebagai tanda penghargaan, isteri mithali ni, buatkan kek marble. Hehe.. patut buatla rainbow cake ke kan? Bercinta bila pikir nak duduk depan oven berjam2 baking rainbow cake.

This is my favourite marble cake recipe. I baked this using nordic bundt pan. Lawa kan? And it's perfect too! Nordic never failed me so far.. Alhamdulillah

Marble Cake. Recipe can be found here

Cottage pie

Aku managed to get australian minced meat at 50% off kat Jusco. So, instead of paying RM29.90 perkg, I paid RM14.85 only! Yay!! murah sangat2. Aku tak suka makan minced meat ramly sebab sangat banyak lemak. The Aussie minced meat, almost fat free. Of course la, kalau takde lemak langsung, tak sedap la kan? 

Before masuk oven

Rupa wise, memang tak anggun, tapi rasa wise, peh!! memang sedap!! Jadi rebutan kawan2 iman and iffah during recess :)

Cottage Pie

Adapted from bbcgoodfood

Ingredients

• 3 tbsp olive oil
• 1¼ kg beef mince
• 3 onions , finely chopped
• 3 carrots , chopped coarsely
• 3 celery sticks, chopped coarsely
• 2 garlic cloves , finely chopped
• 3 tbsp plain flour
• 1 tbsp tomato purée
• 850ml beef stock (I used 3 ketul beef stock knor, campur dengan air)
• 4 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• few thyme sprigs (I omitted this)
• 2 bay leaves
• salt

For the Mash

For Mash, ikut creativity dan selera masing2, below is my version

• 2kg potatoes
• 300 ml milk
• 100g butter
• 200g strong cheddar , grated

Methods (has been changed to suit me)

1. Panaskan minyak, brown the meat. Bila meat dah brown, add garlic and onion, goreng sampai onion tu brown. Then add carrots, celery, bay leaves, tomato puree, worcestershire sauce, beef stock and flour.

2. Biarkan merenih until the sauce thickened ie likat.

3. To assemble. Masukkan mixture daging dalam baking dish, ratakan. Then masukkan mash potatoes, ratakan atas daging. Sprinkle with mozarella cheese (I used cheddar).

4. Bakar 20-30 minutes dalam oven 200 degree celcius.



Wordless Wednesday

Nasi Udang Pakistan

Oleh kerana hari ni aku nak balik Jabi to my parents' place, maka, hari ni we (me and k.ta) decided to masak something simple. K.Ta ambik this recipe from buku saji. Recipe ni ada dalam section promotion microwave Panasonic. Kalau ikutkan the book, memang kena masak guna microwave, but aku just masak macam biasa.

Bila masak nasi macam ni, teringat hubby coz he loves to makan nasi yg ala2 nasi arab mcm ni. Mak mertua aku pun sama. Dia org memang citarasa sama. Huhuhuh.. rindunya kat hubby. Dah la kat hotel tempat dia org duduk wifi rosak. Maka boleh ber sms je la. Nak telepon, punya la mahal. Aku beli iTalk RM30, aku cuma boleh cakap for 3 minutes je. Seminit, RM10!! Giler mahal!!

Takpe la, aku pendam rindu dalam hati.

Nasi Udang Pakistan

Nasi Udang Pakistan

Adapted from Panasonic (telah diubah suai ikut selera aku)

Bahan2

6 pot beras basmathi extra long - basuh, dan rendam dengan 3 tbs kunyit serbuk for 2 hours, toskan.

3 kuntum bunga lawang

6 biji pelaga

1 batang kayu manis

7 biji bunga cengkih

10 ulas bawang merah

6 ulas bawang putih

2 inci halia

2 tbs stock ayam (kalau takde yg liquid, guna 2 ketul stock ayam maggi/knor)

2 tbs serbuk lada sulah

4 helai daun pandan

4 tbs ghee

1 tbs minyak masak

1kg udang - dibersihkan, tos

9 pot air - sukat menggunakan pot beras tadi

3 tsp garam

cara2

1. Blend bawang merah, bawang putih dan halia. Panaskan ghee dan minyak masak, tumis bunga lawang, bunga cengkih, pelaga dan kayu manis. Masukkan bawang yg dah diblend, tumis sehingga garing. Apabila dah garing, masukkan udang, tumis sekejap dan masukkan air.

2. Masukkan daun pandan, stock ayam, lada sulah, garam. Apabila air dah menggelegak, tutup api. Masukkan beras ke dalam rice cooker. Masukkan air bercampur udang, dan boleh tekan cook sampai la nasi masak.

For this nasi, aku hidangkan dengan ayam goreng and pajeri nenas. Recipe for ayam boleh dapat kat sini.



Butter Cake

This butter cake aku buat tanpa menggunakan mixer. The taste? Memang sedap! But I think kalau guna mixer, it will be lagi gebu. I'll try again bila balik KL nanti. The cake cracked sebab oven rumah K.Ta panas sangat. Actually it's not a full fledged oven, it's a toaster oven. Maka, kurang sesuai untuk bakar cake. Tapi tak kesah la, asalkan boleh still membakar kan. Yang penting, rasa kena sedap! :D

Butter Cake

Butter Cake
Adapted from Taste.com.au

Ingredients

250g butter, softened

1 cup caster sugar (I reduced the sugar to 3/4 cup)

2 teaspoons vanilla essence

3 eggs (large)

2 1/2 cups self-raising flour

2/3 cup milk

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Grease and line an 8cm-deep, 19cm (base) square cake pan with baking paper.
2. Using an electric mixer, cream butter, caster sugar and vanilla in a medium bowl on medium-high speed until light and fluffy.
3. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating to combine. Add half the flour. Stir to combine. Add half the milk. Stir to combine. Repeat with remaining flour and milk.
4. Spread mixture into prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Stand in pan for 10 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool. Dust with icing sugar. Serve.

Hubby is gone for 2 weeks

Sedih sgt2... Belum pun 24 jam, air mata aku dah berjurai2 sebab rindu kat hubby. He went for umrah with his mom for 2 weeks. Kalau ikut kan hati, nak sgt ikut but I can't..

Hubby went for umrah from KT. Naik flight yg di charter by the state government. We sent him off to the airport at 10pm coz kena berkumpul awal. The flight took off from KT at 3am pagi tadi. I was so sleepy bangun pagi tadi sebab I slept so late. Just before his departure at about 2.30am he called. Huhuhu... Lepas tu dah Susah nak tido. Iman pulak pagi tadi Ada tuition kat sekolah rendah sultan sulaiman. Dia tumpang tuition kat situ coz she couldn't attend the one yg kat sekolah in kl.

Tuition patut start pukul 8am, aku sampai depan sekolah pukul 9.30am. I had to drive all the way from gong badak to bandar KT. Jauh la jugak. Lepas hantar Iman, I went to rumah k.nizah, ajar dia buat Lamington cake. Ada 3 other friends yg join. Seronok jugak jadi cikgu bidang terjun ni :)

In Terengganu

The girls ponteng sekolah this week coz hubby and mother in law is going for umrah tonite from Kuala Terengganu. Hubby was a bit confused about the date. Mula2 Ingatkan semlm flight, rupanya hari ni. Sian the girls, lama ponteng.

What do we do everyday since kita orang balik? Naik basikal! Orang Terengganu kata, gateh basikal :)

Lamington Cake

Masa kat Tassie dulu, aku suka sgt makan this cake. Sanggup pegi Purity on Saturday semata2 sebab nak beli cake ni at 50% off. On every Saturday, semua fresh food mcm ikan etc will be at 50% off sebab Sunday tutup. I'm a cheapskate mom remember :)

I made Lamington Cake last week. A friend, who came to pick up her kitchenaid mixer, ate more than 3 pieces (eh! Betul ke fidd?). She loves it a lot! Another friend who came to pick up her Corelle camelia set, mati2 tak caya yg aku baked the cake. That's how good Lamington cake tasted :)

I used the recipe from an Aussie website. Well, I guess, since it's Aussie's national cake, they would be the one having the best recipe for this cake la kan?

ps : I'll upload the recipe later coz I'm writing from my iPod.

 

Lamington Cake

From Taste.com.au

• 190g unsalted butter, softened(I used 200gm coz I'm too lazy to weigh the butter)
• 1 cup (220g) caster sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla-bean paste (see note) or vanilla extract (I used 1 tbs of vanilla extract)
• 3 eggs(large eggs)
• 2 1/3 cups (350g) self-raising flour, sifted
• 1 cup (250ml) milk
• 220g dark chocolate
• 1 cup (250ml) thickened cream I dont have cream, I substituted with condensed milk)
• 1 cup desiccated or shredded coconut

 Method

1. Preheat the oven to 170°C. Grease and line a 20cm-square cake pan. Whisk butter and sugar in a bowl for 2 minutes until light. Add 1 tbs vanilla. Add eggs one at a time, whisking after each until just combined. In 3 alternating batches, add flour and milk, beat to combine. Pour into pan and bake for 55-60 minutes until a skewer inserted in centre comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes, then turn onto a rack to cool completely.
2. Meanwhile, stir chocolate, cream and remaining vanilla in a heatproof bowl over simmering water until smooth (don't let the bowl touch water). Chill for 20 minutes to thicken. Spread this icing over the cake, then sprinkle top and sides with coconut. Then cut into squares.

Victoria Sandwich Cake

I'm so in love with this cake. I googled the recipe and found the one with a 5 star rating. Yea.. I'm a sucker at this. Aku cuma guna recipe yg 5 star je coz I'm so lazy nak trial and error. Nanti spend so much time in the kitchen, pastu cake tak sedap, kan frust. Anyway, here it is..Oh ya, over 3 days, I made 6 batches. hahahha.. banyakkan?? That's how delicious it is :)

ps : sorry for the blurry photos. Aku dah jarang guna dslr, selalu ambik gambar guna instagram je.

 Yummy!

The cake before being sandwiched!

Classic Victoria Sandwich Cake

From bbcgoodfood

FOR THE CAKE

• 200g caster sugar
• 200g softened butter
• 4 eggs , beaten (use medium size, jgn guna large size)
• 200g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 tbsp milk

FOR THE FILLING

• 100g butter , softened
• 140g icing sugar , sifted (I used 50gm icing sugar)
• drop vanilla extract (I used 1 tbs)
  
• 340g jar good-quality strawberry jam ( I used Tesco Brand, it's selling for RM5.90 per jar, memang sedap)

Cara2
1. Panaskan oven at 190 degree celcius.
2. Masukkan all the ingredients for cake dalam bowl, then use the whisk, beat the batter sampai soft and smooth.
2. Divide the batter into 2, bakar for about 20 minutes,  sejukkan.
3. To make the filling, beat the butter until soft and pale. Add icing sugar and beat til it forms soft peak.
4. To assemble : Sapu the filling on top of the cake, then sapu jem, and sandwich it with the other cake. Voila!! sedap!

Banoffee Pie and Belated birthday

Kesian Iman.. her birthday party had to be postponed many times.

 Banoffee Pie

 Rainbow Cake

Banoffee Pie
Pastry
3/4 cup butter
11/2 cups plain flour

1. mix together with hand, make it flat on a pie pan, bake at 200 degree until lightly brown

For filling (This is from zarin's which I dah edit coz I almost double the recipe)

100 gram gula perang
100 gram gula pasir
300 gram butter
1 1/2 tin susu pekat (yang besar)

Lapisan atas
250 ml whipping cream


1. For Filling - panaskan gula perang, gula pasir dan butter di atas api sederhana sehingga gula cair. Masukkan pula susu pekat dan kacau lagi sehingga pekat (an indication when the batter is ready is when you can draw a neat line at the back of the batter coated spatula.)

3. Tuangkan bahan caramel ke atas base tadi. Sejukkan semula selama 1 - 2 jam. Susun hirisan pisang atas pastry, then tuang the caramel on top of the pisang. Pisang will be on the base.

4. Untuk lapisan atas - pukul whipped cream until its stiff  dan pipe atas lapisan caramel/filling.

5. Chill for at least 4 hours.


PS : I'll update the filling recipe later. Cant seem to find it.. sorry sgt. 

Perginya seorang kakak yang disayangi

Last nite, I received a text message from a friend, informing me the demise of beloved k.amy (amira) as she is best known. Sedihnya, Allah saje yang tahu. I was supposed to visit her with another friend yesterday afternoon but that friend can't make it. So I postponed the visit. Little that I know that I wouldn't get another chance to meet her. Terkilan..

I was very close with k.amy before she moved to Johor. Once in a while, she would pay me a visit. Her favorite was my mee Kari. Few weeks back, she called, telling me how much she misses me. I missed her too. I told her I was driving and I would return call. I returned call 2 weeks later, by the. She couldn't answer anymore calls coz the pain was excruciating that she had to be given morphine every 2 hours. Sedih.. K.amy, I miss u so much. Ya Allah, forgive me for not being there for her when she needed me.