Green Tea latte

Green Tea latte has always being my favourite drink.
I am always ordering a GT latte or a black coffee at Starbucks.  =)

Here is my first attempt in making Milk Green Tea

1st try ( This is a tips from my cousin )
- Green Tea powder + water + whipped cream

Was deciding over the proportion of milk and water. Felt that the first one was too watery. 

2nd try ( Trying to recreate the taste of Starbucks :P )
- brought full cream milk to boil ( i uses greenfield )
- 4 tablespoon of green tea powder
- stir and serve with a little bit of whipped cream

Guess I much preferred my milk green tea with more milk... =)

Chopping up some hot and spicy

Nut cracking

Bought a pack of aksun aprocot from market today.
It was really really sweet and delicious.

The market lady told us to break open the seed and eat the kernel inside. However I heard that it could be harmful when taking it raw. From a internet source, its contain cyanide which its insoluble fiber is hard to digest by body....... but apparently it is an 'alternative' cancer treatments .

Anyway, just took one out of curiosity. It tastes like almond. =P

病人的早餐

Plain Congee + Preserved Olive Vegetabtle + Mishima Seto Fumi Rice seasoning

Lemon Honey

A quick remedy to my sore throat.

冬至 2010

每年冬至都是我特别想念外婆的日子。执意自己做，因为那是我缅怀她的方式。怎么搓，怎么揉都是跟在外婆边一点一点学来的。今年特别想念她。

今年的花样是包花生馅。＝）

Soups

Took this shot while I was in a hair salon.
Collecting recipes is a hobbit of mine.

Going to try it someday =)
Someday.......

Hungry already

Warm pasta salad 1

Has been a long while since I have made warm pasta salad . My version has always been pretty flexible. Just mix in whatever I fancy on the day, toss and serve. =) ( but I never go without scallop )

This was done last week, during the long weekend. Non meat version ( because I have forgotten to buy chicken breast) Let see if I can still remember the ingredients.

- 2 tomatoes
- 2 apples
- 2 potatoes
- Broccoli
- 1/2 pack of Penne
- Mayonnaise
- cheese cream

Sprinkle in Salt, Black Pepper and Chilli Fakes

Toss and Served

=)

Tiramisu - 1st attempt

My first attempt at making Tiramisu. It was a little messy as you can see from the presentation. =P

Has been going around looking for Tiramisu recipe for weeks. Finally decided to settle for this one from You tube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPcAdAX3mQg

The instruction was very easy to follow and this is the only one that lightly cooked the egg york. =) Oh.... this was my very first attempt at whipping cream too. I nearly overwhipped it and turned it into butter. hm......maybe I have?!!!

Just tasted a spoonful of it, tasted alright. Feedback from the rest isn't bad either. hee.....hm.... just a note, maybe I should put in more Masala wine for next round. I hardly taste the wine right now =)

In my picnic basket

... there were celery, carrots, Japanese cucumber and capsicums. It paired off nicely with the grilled chicken and the cherries we bought in supermarket.

o.....and We bought salsa and thousand island for the dip.

Japanese Curry Rice

My first attempt at cooking Japanese Curry Rice.

With the ready made curry paste, it was really quite easy and convenience to cook it. The taste was there but I might add more chunky stuff next time. For now, it looked almost like I was cooking carrot curry. =P

一个人的晚餐

今天 心血来潮
煮了Chilli, Lemon and Parsley Linguine 来吃

不过 本来一个人的晚餐变成俩个人的
还好食材很简单

临时加一碟也不是问题

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Chilli, Lemon and Parsley Linguine
( Serves 2 )
- 25o g Linguine
- Grated zest of 1 lemon
- 2 tbsp chopped parsley
- 1 Chilli Padi
- 5-6 tbsp Olive Oil
- 30g butter
- 1 clove garlic

Salt and pepper to taste

Method
1. Heat up olive oil in pan and add in butter to melt
2. Saute garlic in pan, follow by Chilli
3. Add in cooked linguine, lemon zest and parsley
4. Toast to coat, then serve.

Personally, I like to squeeze in more lemon juice for that extra zest =)

After thoughts : My friend sort of think that adding lemon is not a good idea. ha =) That's settled it, I will never be a cook. Coz I still think it still tastes really great.

我的美人

今晚的饭后甜点

最近天气太热，特别爱吃西瓜

买了半粒西瓜
把它挖成一粒粒的小丸子
放进冷冻格
等晚饭后在拿出来
就可以吃了

这是偷工减料做
Watermelon Sherbert 的方法
=P

下星期有空的话
在来试一试
Strawberry and Lime Sherbert
with scope of Strawberry Ice-cream

Yum

Chocolate factory

I took less than 60 min to make these chocolate tarts.
So convenience.

Japanese idea is incredible !

2.14

2.14 的四方盒里
装了60分钟就可以完成的
情人节巧克力速成班

这个二月
我要散“心” 去。= )

冬至 2009

[1]左。姜汤 ／ 右。芝麻糊 [2－3]汤圆也疯狂

从开始写部落格起，
每年的冬至我都会贴上自己做的汤圆 (照片)

去年
突发奇想，我要做点不一样的
学包有馅的汤圆，好像不错

结果是。。。。没学成

我想
学不会把芝麻包在汤圆里
我就把它煮在“ 外面” 吧

这是前一阵子学芝麻糊的原因

hm....明年我要玩什么花样呢？

老实说
我不爱吃甜食
也不爱吃汤圆＝）
不过
我很享受烹煮的过程

芝麻开门

[1] 自己煮的第一碗芝麻糊 [2] 黑芝麻 [3] 白芝麻

早晨！香港

今早和老妈饮茶，说起明年她想和妹妹再去香港买东西，吃东西的计划。哈～～突然想念起那间在老街坊里 ，很不起眼的茶餐厅。里面的食物很道地。

那里的油条是我吃过，最最最好吃的。香脆可口，油而不腻。。。。。从来没在新加坡吃过那么好吃的油条。

在香港的五天，我们就光顾了三天。在我们分头行事 的一晚，爸妈又自己去那里吃了一顿他们赞不绝口的夜宵。为什么没叫我们？？[他们吃得不亦乐乎时，我们正在饿着肚子。。。瞎拼 = P ]

常觉得看起来越简单的料理，其实越难烹调。简简单单的早点，还是可以煮出可以让食客吃得很幸福的味道。

那三天吃了超正点的白粥油条的我，觉得自己很幸福。哈

料理 料理
料理 人心


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法式 [烧焦] 烤面包

可爱的笔心昨天给我留言
说是因为闻到一股法式烧焦味
所以特地来探望我的。

哈哈～

其实 应该闻不到什么烧焦味的

因为technically
那两个面包没有“很” 烤焦

我忘了一个很重要的法则
油炸的食物在捞起后的几秒钟
还是会继续被热油“慢煮”的

所以一定要在食物变成金黄色之前捞起，
否则就会象照片里的一样，
惨不忍睹

还是能吃
只是卖象不好而已。

笔心，笔心
请你吃 法式 [烧焦] 烤面包

哈哈哈～～～

(吸收了第一轮的教训，第二次还蛮成功的 [法式料理] )

法式料理 (乱来的)

昨天看了Julie & Julia, 就很有冲动做一道很简单的法式料理。(依样画葫芦的)

今早晨运后就到湿巴刹去，买了两粒番茄和一个刚刚出炉，香喷喷的尖头面包。真的很香。。。(朋友建议买Romanian tomato，因为它们比较甜。)

这个法式料理很简单。只需要把切好的尖头面包放在涂了butter的平底锅上烤至金黄就可以了。(这个recipe一定要用butter， margarine不好吃哦。) 最后，放上之前准备的番茄（切丁番茄＋橄榄油＋parsley)就大功告成了。BON APPETIT

觉得自己好象在班门弄斧的。。。哈～～

Julie & Julia是一部看了心里好暖和的影片。

喜欢它的三个理由 ：
1。美味的料理
2。那种婚姻生活让人向往
3。喜欢准备食材时，切菜的节奏 =)

这个星期听到最动听的情话 ：
You are the butter to my bread, breath to my life.

Swooned.

好喜欢片尾听到的那首 time after time。最近常听到呢。