Baked Macaroni

This is my girl's favourite. She could finish half of the dish everytime I made this. For a petit girl, it's amazing that she could eat that much. I wonder where the fat has gone to? The recipe was taken from the Nestle advertisement in SAJI magazine years ago. Can't remember the date... Why worry. I'll share the recipe with all of you.

Ingredients:

250 gm macaroni

300 gm minced meat

1 can Nestle evaporated milk

1 cup water

3 eggs

200 gm coarsely grated cheese (it can be either cheddar or mozarella - but I used both of them)

Oil

Salt

Sugar

Sautéed ingredients:

2 yellow onions (diced)

2 tablespoons meat curry powder (I used Adabi)

1. Boil the macaroni till al dente. Strain.
2. Heat oil, saute onion till the aroma fumes.
3. Add the curry powder and saute till you can smell the curry whiff.
4. Add minced meat, sautee till cook .
5. Pour milk, and add salt and sugar. Mix well.
6. Add macaroni, water and stir until it boils.
7. Remove the macaroni into a greased baking dish.
8. Beat the eggs and pour on top of the macaroni, then sprinkle the cheese.
9. Bake at180˚C for 45 minutes.

7 DON'Ts After Meal

This 7 Don'ts After Meal article was emailed to me by my friend Khairul Aini. Thanks K. Khairul for the sharing it with me. I'm posting it here for all of us to ponder. Pray that we take a good care of ourselves.

1. Experiment from expert prove that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarette (chances of cancer higher)

2. *Don't eat fruit immediately -
    Immediately eating fruit after meal will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1hr before meal.

3. *Don't drink tea -
    This substance will cause the Protein content in the food we consume to be harden thus difficult to digest.

4. *Don't loosen your belt -
    Loosening belt after meal will easily cause the intestine to be twisted & blocked.

5. *Don't bath -
    Bathing will cause the increase of blood flow to the hands, legs & body. Thus, the amount of blood  around the stomach will therefore decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in our stomach.

6. *Don't walk about -
    People always say that after meal walk a hundred step will live till 99. In actual fact this is not true.  Walking will cause the digestive system unable to absorb the nutrition from the food we intake.

7. *Don't sleep immediately -
    The food we intake will be unable to digest properly. This will lead to gastric & infection in our intestine

**I don't agree to number 6 because there is a Hadith saying that the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. said that it is good to walkabout 50 steps after meal... so that we will not feel tired and sleep immediately after meal. What is your view on this?

Orange Choc. Rice Muffin

 

On the left is the first edition and on the right is the 2010 edition.


  





Orang Chocolate Rice Muffins

  Made some muffins yesterday. I used the basic muffin recipe but added 1 teaspoon of orange emulco and 50 grams of chocolate rice for a difference. The recipe is taken from The Joy of Baking published by Bake With Yen (KL) Sdn. Bhd. I love the book for all the delicacies will surely turn out perfect. The recipes had been tested by the chef and taught in the cooking classes held by the company. I bought the book in 2000 and it was reprinted in 2010.

  Chocolate Rice Orange Muffin

125 grams butter

120 grams fine granulated sugar

3 eggs (size C)

250 grams all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

125 ml milk

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1 teaspoon orange emulco

50 grams chocolate rice

(make 12 muffins)

1. Preheat oven to 200˚C.
2. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add vanilla essence and orange emulco.
3. Add eggs gradually.
4. Fold in sifted flour and baking powder. Pour in milk and mix gently.
5. Fold in the chocolate rice.
6. Pipe one third full of the mixture into paper cups placed in muffin moulds.
7. Bake for about 20-25 minutes at 200˚C.

Seri Muka

   It has been so long since my first disastrous attempt to make this sweet course. Read this one from NanaSham at myresipi.com . It turned out wonderful and the top layer was not as sweet as the ones sold at coffeshops or foodstalls. I am very proud of myself for being able to make this kuih seri muka. Thanks to NanaSham for sharing this recipe...

Seri Muka Use 22cm / 3''  pan

Bottom layer: 

500gm glutinous rice

400ml coconut milk

1 tspn salt

2 tblspns oil

Top layer: 

120gm flour

3 tblspns corn starch 

140gm sugar

3 eggs

450ml thick coconut milk

1/2 tspn salt

300ml water + 10 pandan leaves blend together to get the pandan juice (OR 1 tspn pandan paste)

Bottom layer: 

1. Wash and soak glutinous rice for 10-20 minutes.

2. Prepare the steamer.

3. Drain the glutinous rice and mix it with the coconut milk, salt and oil.

4. Steam on high heat for 20-30 minutes.

4. Remove the pan from the steamer, press the glutinous rice mixture to level the surface. Prepare the top 

    layer.

Top layer:

1. Beat sugar and eggs.

2. Add in the coconut milk and salt mixture, followed by the pandan juice. Whisk.

3. Add in sifted flour and corn starch and combine till well mixed. 

4. Strain the mixture and pour it on top of the pressed glutinous rice.

5.  Stem on medium heat for 45 minutes to 1 hour.

6. Remove from the steamer and wait for it to cool before cutting it.

Orange Pound Cake Cupcakes

I bought a recipe book entitled 'Cupcake Designs' priced at RM 12.00 from Bake With Yen in Bangi recently. There are 6 types of cupcake recipes. I tried the Pound Cake Cupcake recipe and it turned out very nice. I did some alteration to the actual recipe where I added 1 teaspoon of orang emulco to get the orange flavour.

The newly baked Orange Pound cake cupcakes

 I made this for my hubby's cousin's engagement gift.

Cupcakes for Jaizah's engagement

 Orange Pound Cake Cupcakes

A. 250 gms butter (I used Anchor since I didn't have Golden Churn in stock)
     250 gms fine granulated sugar
     200 gms eggs
     1 teaspoon vanilla essence
     1 teaspoon orange emulco ( I added this for the slight tint of orange in the flavour)


B. 250 gms cake flour       )
    1½ tsp baking powder ) sift together


C. 80 ml milk ( I used Dutch Lady fresh milk)


1. Beat the butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
2. One at a time beat in the eggs, then beat in the vanilla essence.
3. Alternately, add the sifted flour mixture and milk, starting and finishing with the flour 
    mixture.
4. Scoop batter in baking sups until 2/3 full.
5. Bake at 180°C for 20-25 minutes.


**Cool cupcakes before frosting with any favourite recipe. ( I used the American buttercream frosting). 

Source: 2009. Cupcake Designs. Bake With Yen (KL) Sdn Bhd (274391-D).

Blueberry Cheese Tarts

I baked some blueberry cheese tarts for my daughter and my hubby's grandmother yesterday. My girl can finish 10 pieces of the tarts in one go. Luckily she's a skinny type. However, I still worry for it has a high content of fat - the cheese... That is why I haven't been baking this for quite sometime . Another reson is because I don't fancy the idea of having to prepare the baked tart shells beforehand. Thanks to K. Rabaah who was willing to bake me the tart shells.

The newly baked Blueberry Cheese Tarts

Since there was a 'kenduri' at one of the aunts house in Malacca and knowing that the grandmother whom we address as Puan would be there, I brought the whole batch there for everybody to savour. Within seconds, the tarts disappeared...


Tart Shells: Sweet Pastry


250 gm butter
130 gm icing sugar
2 egg yolks
500 gm Red Rose flour (Medium Protein flour)
2 tbsp water
1 tsp vaniila essence
1 tsp lemon yellow colour (optional)


1. Cream buter, sugar, vanilla essence and yellow colour (not too creamy).
2. Add in egg yolks and water. Continue creamimg for 1-2 minutes.
3. Fold in flour.
4. Press pastry in the tart moulds. Prick the pastry shells with fork.
5. Bake for 20 minutes at 180°C.


Blueberry Cheese Filling


250 gm Cream Cheese (I prefer Philadelphia cream cheese)
20 gm butter
60 gm castor sugar
1 egg
15 gm corn flour
Blueberry fruit filling


1. Cream cream cheese, butter and sugar together till creamy and fluffy.
2. Add in egg and beat together till well blend.
3. Add in corn flour.
4. Pipe cheese mixture onto the baked tart shells.
5. Pipe blueberry fruit filling into the cheese mixture and swirl it to get a marbling effect.
6. Bake at 180°C for 10 minutes using top fire.

I could get 50 pieces of 5cm in diameter tart shells using this cheese filling.

Source: Cynthia from Yummie Bakery. I attended one of her tarts baking classes years ago (sounds like ages ago.. ancient recipe? He! He!).

Sponge Cake with Ganache

Nani's, Aina's and Aiman's birthday.

Buttercake With Buttercream Icing

Aqmal's and Arisya's birthday.

Cupcake with Buttercream Icing

Pn. Normah's order.

Pn. Kamsiah's daughter's engagement.

Pn. Normah's nephew's engagement.

Fondant Butter Cake

2-tiered fondant cake

Chocolate Cake with Butercream Icing

Abon's engagement.

Alia's 6th Birthday

Pn. Normah's son's birthday.

Ayu's brother-in-laws' wedding.

Akmar's nephew's wedding .