Wake Up and Smell the Cake

I love clearing out the ingredients in my kitchen. Feels good to see the fridge getting emptier without having to throw things away. I made cod potato cakes, or what I'd call fish begedil, early yesterday morning! Complete with breadcrumbs :) They were really yummy, but a bit too soft that some sorta broke while frying. Maybe if I let them cool in the fridge it would have been better. Or I could use fried potatoes instead of boiled like we do in begedil. Loosely adapted from  BBC Good Food . Cod Potato Cakes (makes 12) 1 cod fillet, about 160g 4 small to medium potatoes Milk (as usual I didn't measure) Water (same here!) 2 bay leaves 1 lime Salt & pepper 1 piece of already or almost expired bread, blitzed Skin and cut potatoes into cubes, boil them in water till soft. While potato is cooking, heat up equal parts water and milk in another pan for the fish. Add in the 2 bay leaves and cook the fish till tender. Strain the potatoes, then mash them. Season...

Back to work after the long weekend! One of the days Husband requested for ayam masak merah, and good thing I bought coriander leaves and the tomyam spices set before the holidays. This recipe my friends, is totally Husband approved! I used my mama's recipe and accidentally doubled the tomato puree (I know it's one can but I forgot there's a smaller can hurhur) but seems fine still. 1 kg chicken, already fried 2 medium onions, minced 5 cloves garlic, minced 1 stalk lemongrass, cut into 3 and bruised 8 tbsp cili kisar 1 1/2 tsp salt 2 - 3 tbsp sugar 140g tomato puree Coriander leaves (the more the merrier) No pictures though but I could do this again! Amazingly I didn't bake for the past 4 days. I did make my no egg banana pancake and I caramelised some bananas to go with it. Have been thinking about making bread with tangzhong but as usual, I will look for soooo many recipes, read and re-read before actually doing it. I could have done it yesterday...

Too many bananas over the weekend! We had one bunch, and I took home another bunch from a family gathering. Googled all sorts of banana recipes from pies to cakes to ice cream. Managed to use up 15 bananas which is a lot, and I still have about 6 more. Hurhur. Saturday morning I made jemput-jemput pisang, then I made chocolate banana spring rolls to be refrigerated and fried later, and in the afternoon I took out my Kenwood for some banana cake. Moist Banana Cake with Greek Yoghurt from Baking Bites 3 cups all purpose flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 227g butter, softened (the recipe used half cup butter, half cup oil) 2 cups sugar 3 eggs 1 tbsp vanilla 1 cup plain Greek yoghurt 1 1/2 cups mashed banana (they said approx 3 large, but I used 8 medium sized ones) Cream butter with sugar, then add the eggs one at a time. Add in half of the flour, then the greek yoghurt, and then rest of the flour. I used my Kenwood mixer for these! Haha so happy can us...

I was so determined to make bread that I woke up at 5.30 as I do on weekdays. And I did it! So happy :) I did one recipe of sweet bun that I learnt in my breads course. Totally love my Kenwood mixer! Here's to many more bakes using the Kenwood! I got the Titanium Major, the bowl's huge at 6.7 litres. But you'll never know when you need a big one, and since I'm buying this for long term use, might as well buy a very good and reliable one. Bosch seems good too with a huge power output. Anyway. Here are the pictures! So after mixing the dough in the mixer for about 12 minutes, here it is after some kneading using the hand. Left for proofing for an hour. Good thing I can use my counter top to knead dough! It doubled! So happy! I asked my son if he wanted to punch the dough, he touched it instead -_- He didn't want to punch it because he said it was sticky. Haha. Knead and then design, I made into butter buns and raisin cranberry rolls. Got 10 x 60g bu...