hanimcooks:

Peach Pastry.

This dessert will be perfect if I had some slithered almonds and icing sugar in my kitchen pantry for decoration. But I think this is good enough.

I finally got around to translate the recipe in my head into writing - only because someone actually asked for it, gasp! Hope I didn’t screw anything up. 

smilingfork:

Moules Mediterranee

Difficulty:
★☆☆☆☆ (very easy)

Ingredients:

• 1 onion, chopped
• 1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
• 4 garlic cloves, chopped
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• 2 quarts fresh mussels
• 1/4 cup white wine
• 3 tomatoes, chopped
• 1/4 cup parsley, chopped

Directions:

1. Cook the onion, pepper and garlic in the oil on medium flame until the onions are soft.
2. Turn up the flame to high and add the mussels.
3. Pour in the white wine and stir for about 1 minute. Stir in the tomatoes, cover and cook for 5 minutes until all the mussels have opened.
4. Serve the mussels in large bowl with the broth and garlic toast.

theglitterguide:

(via gastro / Homemade Moon pies.)

shereens:

spice up your life!

this weeks inspiration is tradition, from malay & indonesian sambal. sambal is a chili based sauce which is commonly used as a condiment; belacan is a shrimp paste or sauce, widely used in our daily food.

sambal belacan with red chilies (left)

1 fresh red chili

1/2 an inch of belacan paste (place on fire to char)

1 lime

a pinch of salt

place all ingredients in a mortar til condiments as shown in picture.

sambal oelek/penyet

5-6 bird’s eye chili (cili padi)

1 garlic

3-4 shallots

half fresh tomato

1/2 inch of belacan

1 lime (only when pounding)

ingredients are placed in a wok to fry til wilted and soft, place in mortar. add in a pinch of salt, and lime juice if its too spicy.

sambal belacan cili padi

6-7 bird’s eye chili (green ones only)

1/2 an inch of belacan

1 lime

a pinch of salt

place all in a mortar and pound

these sambal are great with fried tempe (soy bean), tauhu (tofu), keropok (crackers), and fresh ulam (raw veggies - cucumber, four angled beans, long beans, cabbage etc)

enjoy! 

shereens:

i was suppose to contribute dessert for boxing day, and i was pressed for time. this was a total life saver! completed the batter within 15 minutes, and baked it for 25 minutes at 160deg.

voila! it was ready in a jiffy. 

blondie

1 cup of all purpose flour

1 tsp of baking powder

a pinch of salt

sift flour in a big bowl, add in the rest of dry ingredients

1/2 cup of butter 

1 cup of brown sugar

place in a sauce pan til butter is melted and sugar is dissolved, set aside

1 egg + 1 tsp vanilla essence (or pure vanilla is better)

whisk it lightly til all is well combined

additional: macadamia nuts, white chocolate or chocolate chips

pour the egg & melted butter and sugar into the dry ingredients (some would like to fold it in, but this is a non raising dessert so you can just mix it together). place the additional ingredient according to your preference.

inspired by: http://whippedtheblog.com/

shereens:

last week as i was updating my bookmark i came across this food blog that has lots of great malay recipes.

one recipe that caught my attention was ayam bakar berempah (malay style roasted chicken), which i made last weekend was a super hit at home! so to those who loves trying out new recipes,…

shereens:

smoked salmon, leek & goat’s cheese quice by forthwbodyandaoul.blogspot.com

crust:
250g all purpose flour, sifted
150g cold butter, cut into cubes
4 tbsp iced water
pinch of salt

filling:
200g smoked salmon
1 leek, white part onlu
1 tbsp olive oil
100g soft goat cheese
1 cup (250ml) milk
3 extra large eggs
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp chives, chopped
salt
pepper

1. place flour, salt & butter in food processor. pulse til mixture looks crumbly, while the motor is running, add water, spoon by spoon ti form smooth dough. transfer to flat surface & knead
2. grease tartlet pans with butter. roll out the dough on lightly floured surface. line up the tartlet pan, cover with parchment paper and fill with baking weights. refrigerate for 30 mins
3. preheat oven to 390F (200C) bake crust for 15-20 mins, take out from the oven and remove the parchment paper & weights

filling:
1. slice leek, fry in a pan with 1 tbsp olive oil till tender but not brown
2. cut salmon into small pieces
3. in a bowl beat eggs & milk, add crumbled goat cheese & chives. season with lemon juice, salt & pepper
4. in a separate bowl combine salmon & leek. arrange in tarte shell, cover with eggs & milk
5. bake for 30-35 mins, leave 5-10 mins to cool before serving

kooshkish:

prettygirlfood:

Click here for the recipe!

I wanna try this!!

shereens:

hummingbird tray cake

need 3 large carrots
use veg oil/sunflower oil
bake in 25cm square cake pan
bake for 1hr 25mins

3 cups self raising flour
1 2/3 cups firmly packed brown sugar
2/3 cup desiccated coconut
2 tsp mixed spice
3 cups grated carrot
440g crushed pineapple in syrup, drained
4 eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/4 cups sunflower oil
cream cheese frosting
1/3 cups flaked coconut, toasted

cream cheese frosting
200g cream cheese, room temp
50g butter, room temp
1 tsp grated orange zest
1 1/2 cups icing sugar

use electric mixer, beat cream cheese, butter & zest until light & creamy. stir in icing sugar

method:

1. preheat oven 180deg, grease & line cake pan
2. place flour, sugar, coconut & spice in a large processor bowl. add carrot, drained pineapple & combined egg and oil; process for 30secs or til combined
3. spoon cake mixture and bake, while baking make cream cheese frosting.
4. spread frosting over the cake & sprinkle w coconut
5. cut into squares

recipe courtesy of: recipe + magazine

am a sucker for hummingbird cakes, love the ones from whisk kl, empire shopping mall! to die/pengsan for.

happy baking lovelies!