MARBLE CAKE

Marble Butter Cake

I love butter cake, everybody loves butter cake... I chose to bake marble butter cake today, as usual I am using Fern's Butter in my recipe. I prefer to use butter than margarine because of the milky taste and I think it also contributes to the texture. But some like the tastes and smells of margarine, it has a bit of saltiness and less buttery milky smells... Anyway I love butter , even though it will boost the cholesterol level...! The recipe is simple, butter, sugar, eggs, flour and leavening agent. And most butter cake recipes have the same proportions and quantity of butter, flour and sugar. To make marble, you can choose any flavors... Chocolate, strawberry, pandan or screwpine leaves, orange coffee. Mostly chose chocolate marble, it taste as wonderful as it's looks right...? The method of preparing is not complicated, creaming method or batter mix later with meringue to form a more spongy and soft texture. MMMM.... This is splendid with a cup of hot tea for the evening....
This is some tips for baking, to avoid butter cake from cracking... 200 C for the first half of baking later maintain 160 C for the second half of baking.

BUKIT WANG'S WATERFALLS

Bukit Wang Waterfalls

Today is just extremely hot to be inside the house waiting for the day less sunny and goes darker... And what a waste for the children not to spend their holidays with relaxing activities such as picnic at waterfalls and exploring mother nature! We prepared some simple take away food, eggs and sardines sandwiches and Ayamas Black Pepper Chicken Cocktails... nice chicken cocktails, except for it's pungent and spicy taste! I wonder how can Donut and Jojo love and enjoy eating it...? MMM.... Some one's bad food could be some one's likes ya...
Bukit Wang is located not far from our house, which is about 20 minutes by car. The journey was really enjoyable, we passed through villages and paddy fields. It was so green and what an eye's catching scenery! Every where is less people walking around, maybe the weather is too hot outside... My self was feeling this burning sensation on the skin and I hardly say that I was enjoying making my self tanned while driving the car.... :p
When were almost reaching bukit Wang, could see so many cars heading to the same destination... While searching for a good spot to picnic our selves, we walked on the walk way and it was cool, birds chirping and water is running. It's a gratitude to the mother nature and what a wonderful and noble job of those whose working very hard in protecting mother earth... Applause for them... good job!

MEE SOUP ACU !

Chicken Soup Noodle

Ingredients :
2 pieces of chicken breast
2 onions
4 garlic
2 inches of ginger
Soup powder
Salt and pepper
Water
Cooking oil

• Blend onions, garlic and ginger
• Heat oil and saute blended ingredients
• Add in water
• Add in chicken breast
• Add in salt, pepper and soup powder

Condiments for soup noodles :

• Yellow noodles
• Shredded chicken breast
• Crispy fried shallots
• Soya sauce and chili mix
• Spring onion
  

Today my youngest sister cooked for us, Shara or famous among us by the name of Acu Mok was in very good mood to trouble her self in the kitchen. Surprisingly for me she cooked for us Chicken Soup Noodle for lunch. It was really kind and very generous of her to cook and share the recipe.... Or maybe she is really missing our mom's cooking, so actually the recipe is mom's but no doubt that Shara could almost cooked the same tasty mom's noodles and we enjoyed it very much! Even me.. Since mom left for haj, I really missing her cooking. Normally she is cooking for us at home and off course I shall not interfere in her cooking session only if I am needed to there, otherwise it's her territory so just let her rock her kitchen! So mom loves to cook while listening to the radio... Local station, sometimes Dangdut, sometimes oldies and sometimes dancing songs. She loves to dance besides of cooking and baking, now I know where the genes came from! She said dancing makes her happy and healthy, she has this theory that people who dance are happy people. Too good to be true, partly I agreed with mom but the other part I am seeing some people dancing under the influence of alcohol just to make them selves happy! Vice-Versa, but that's the fact... Well mom, I know what makes me happy... Which i s your cooking! I miss you mom...

BARLEY-O-CHERRY-O-JELLY-O

Sweet Cherry In Barley Cream

Temperature is getting hot here, no rain so far since the past one week. Even after cold shower it's easily to get sweaty again sitting inside the house. Well, this is normal circulation of the climate here, last month was really heavy in rain. Floods reported every where and even crops was having this some kind of mold infections, mom's lemon trees and eggplants were infected too... one of her favorite eggplants is R.I.P, could not be saved. I am sure she will be shocked with this tragic news of her 'deceased' eggplant! All right, enough of eggplant's story, makes me worry of mom's reaction when she is back here... I want to share about my Sweet Cherry Barley Cream now... I made this cherry and strawberry jelly with a mix of milk, it taste fruity and milky. It is served with Barley Cream, barley and coconut milk cook together so it has a mix of Malaysian delicacy. It's really good to be served cold especially during this summer.... I have this madness of fusion cooking, I just love mix and match dishes , some goes very well and some doesn't taste as good as it looks but it's normal, cooking is just like experimenting new things and testing your tastebuds sensitivity!

CHERRY THE CHICKEN

Chicken Cherry Sauce

My Ms Cherry the chicken is my creation of the day, very good combination with sweet cherry fruity sauce. Chicken is grilled and poured with cherry sauce... Well, I love spicy with a little sweet combination which enhance the taste of spiciness and the aromatic smell of spices is just too bad to hold yourself from indulging this wonderful creation... MMMM...am I just too boastful or I am just too excited about the outcome?... For the more, what else can be well served with this Ms Cherry if not Mr Green the broccoli... buttered broccoli is a simple vegetable dish but just perfect for this menu. I thought of sauteing the broccoli with some garlic but I think the flavor would be too strong for the chicken... So i keep to simplicity CT...!

I FRIED MY RICE...

Nasi Goreng Cina

It was a very busy day for me, a lot of housework and gardening as well... Pheeeewwhhh... Looking at my mom's garden.. plants and trees... Wow, it juz a breath taking but one thing for sure it isn't as simple as Nasi Goreng, need a lot of patience and also hard labor job! Trimming, digging and etc....Mom have taught me how to trim her bonsais, it is not that hard if u know how to shape your trees but the hardest part is to make sure that her plants will stay alive. I am having hard time with plants and I am aware about it long time ago...Some said I have heaty hands which these green leafy creatures dislike.. Maybe.. So I don't want to get stress out with housework, trying to make my job easier cooking our dinner. I like Nasi Goreng, making my life easy and simple..Nasi Goreng Cina, not spicy, with vegetables and I used prawns instead of chicken... MMMM... deliciousness in simplicity !