Homemade meatballs

Bought some mince beef and thought to make spaghetti bolognese, but hubby doesn’t seem to be interested. “How about meatballs?  Do we have the ingredients?” he hinted. “Hmmm…. there’s more work involved with meatballs….” I tried to hide the reluctance sensing that he is rather keen. “I could help chop up the onions?” he volunteered, [...]

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Chinese steamed buns

Thanks to Terri’s blog http://hungerhunger.blogspot.com/2010/04/mantou.html, I made my first lot of steamed buns without a breadmaker!!!  Still, I used the food processor to help with kneading. I made steamed vegie buns.  For filling I used shredded zuchinni, chinese mushrooms (soaked and minced), chinese black fungus (soaked and minced), a little preserved vegie or xie-cai (soaked and minced).  [...]

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Chinese New Year cake (年糕) – oven-baked version

Similar to cheesecakes, there are several versions of the Chinese New Year cake – usually the steamed version, which could turn fairly hard after a period of time.  A fried of mum’s introduced me to the oven-baked version, which is easy and quick to whip up. Ingredients: 40 grams softened butter 1 cup sugar (palm [...]

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Home-made bread – take 2

A friend brought a few polo buns (Chinese pineapple buns) to our place the other week and it was absolutely delicious.  I asked for the recipe as breads from my previous attempts don’t seem to stay fluffy and fresh after the day it’s baked.  I tried it out over the weekend and they were absolutely [...]

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Melt-and-mix Chocolate Coconut Cake

This is a really easy recipe from Donna Hay’s book.  I tried it for a recent birthday and “dressed” it up with cream and strawberries – beautiful were the responses.  Try it for yourself!

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Pastries

Here is my latest addition to my kitchen diary – danish pastries.  I didn’t make the pastries myself, they are bought pastries from the supermarket.  All I needed to do was to thaw it, put on the toppings.  I used chocolate (some ready-to-eat Lindt-look-alike chocolate thins) and canned pears. Here are the different type of [...]

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Moist chocolate cake

Here is my attempt at Chow’s recipe of the moist chocolate cake.  It’s a very simple and quick recipe – all over and done with within the hour.  Plus it’s a hassle-free recipe – I found all the necessary in the pantry, no butter to melt or eggs to beat up!  Very yummy Here’s the [...]

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Cassava cake (kuih bingka)

My attempt of the cassava cake.  We found the cake best consume when it’s cooled because it is chewy and firm. You can find the recipe here.

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Home made bread – lovely!

I love bread, any type of bread.  My favourite would be the pineapple buns from the Chinese bakery, but the recipe looks too complicating.  A good sister introduced me to her recipe of making these Chinese buns and they were lovely!  I used the bread machine to kneed so the “hard work” was deciding on [...]

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