Quick Honey Wings

The was suppose to be grilled dish, but tried cooking it in wok...

Ingredients:

Appx. 500g chicken wings

Sauce:

2tbsp honey

1tbsp cooking wine/sherry

1/2 tsp dark soy sauce

1/2 cup water

Marinade:

salt

black pepper

1 tbsp sesame oil

1 tsp paprika

Method:

1. Rinse chicken wing, marinate it the the marinade, place in fridge for at least 2 hours.

2. Heat up wok with 2 tbsp oil over medium fire, pan fry till wings are evenly brown on both sides.

3. Combined sauce ingredients together, add sauce to wings, make sure all the wings are cover by the water, lower the fire and let the wings cooked till water dried up. Remove the wings and serve

Taipei Trip'09

This trip was quite good, Taipei is a nice place, the people are very friendly and polite, there are lots of variety of food, the attractions are rather easy to locate given that we visited all the places on our own, not difficult to find places as the public transports reaches almost everwhere. Manage to cover most of the places that we wanted to visit.

This first few days was cold, kept raining...

On the second day, after visited Sun Yat Sun Memorial Hall...

We went to Hello Kitty Resturant for lunch, which was only one mrt station away from the memorial hall...

this burger was very big...

Even the toilet looks so sweet...

the cakes and pastries looks so cute and sweet...

Braised Pork Belly with Mushrooms and Eggs

There were some pre-cut pork belly laying in my mum's freezer, so I suggested to braise it with some eggs since we haven't ate braised pork dishes for a while. I like to cook the meat a bit longer so as to make sure its tender, thou it doesn't look nice but the taste was...

Ingredients:

1 kg pork belly - sliced

a few chinese mushrooms (soaked)

a few hard boiled eggs

1 star anise

1-2 cloves of galic (smashed slightly)

800ml water

Seasoning:

1 tbsp oyster sauce

1 tbsp light soy sauce

1/2 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp chinese cooking wine

1 tsp dark soy sauce

Method:

1. Rinse pork belly and place in pot. Place in mushroom. Pour in water, add in star anise, seasoning and stir well. Bring to boil, lower the heat and braise for 30 min, add in hard boiled eggs, boil for another 15 min then off fire.

2. Half and hour before dinner, turn on the heat and let it braise till gravy thickens. Dish and serve.

Valarie's Chocolate Macademia Cheesecake

Made this cake over the weekend for Kenny...Happy Birthday! Dear...

Mexican Bun

This bread was very popular in S'pore sometime ago, saw this recipe in the recent issue Famous magazine, so made a batch for last weekend's breakfast, except for Trenyce all like this bread although the topping was a little bitter, Kenny said that the filling can be optional...

Dough ingredients:

400g high protein flour or bread flour
40g caster sugar
10g salt
1/8 tsp bread improver (I omit this)
8g instant yeast
190ml cold milk
1 egg
30g butter

Topping
120g butter(melted), 120g icing sugar
1tbsp coffee essence
1tbsp instant coffee powder
2 eggs, 120g plain flour


Butter filling
250g butter, 200g sugar


Method:

1. To make bun, combine high protein flour, sugar, salt, improver and yeast in a mixer. Add in cold milk and egg, beat until form dough. Lastly add in butter, continue beat until smooth and elastic dough is formed.

2. Keep dough into warm place. Cover and leave aside for 50min. Divide dough into 50g each portion. Wrap in a cubed of butter with coated sugar. Place onto greased baking tray.

3. Leave the dough to rise for 40min or until double in size.

4. To make topping, mix melted butter, icing sugar, coffee essence, instant coffee powder and eggs. Add in flour, mix until well combined. Keep aside.

5. Pipe topping mixture onto rised bun and bake in preheated oven at 190degC for 20 min.

1st Project from my new toy

Bought a singer sewing machine with the intention to do altering of pants length, but the thought of make something else kept dwelling in my mind, then decided on a quilt for Trenyce, thought it will be easy to do with my almost zero knowledge on sewing...but almost gave up when I dive in and when doing this quilt...lucky my friend and Kenny advise to keep it simple...no need basting as our weather is pretty warm here...else I won't know when I will complete this quilt, finally after few months of struggling its completed last weekend with many mismatch here and there...LOL

Valarie's Steam Cake

Did valarie's steam marble cake last weekend, the cocoa powder from the recipe was a little too much
that the cocoa part of the cake was a bit too bitter but the plain batter taste nice, so next time have to remember to reduce the cocoa powder if to do this cake again...