Blueberries Muffins

Two weeks ago, when I came home, I saw a packet of Kirkland dried blueberries on our dining table. Hubby told me it’s from Auntie Jenny. She bought for me as she knows I love to bake.

I was excited and posted on my facebook “What should I bake with this?”

The suggestions that I received were blueberries pie, tartlets, cheesecake, scones, ice-cream, yoghurt, muffin, cupcakes, cookies, waffles, etc. I knew blueberries are good for cupcakes and muffin but these are dried ones. So, I wasn’t sure.

I asked my aunt and she suggested for me to soak the blueberries with pure orange juice and I did.

I searched on the internet for blueberries muffins recipe and this “To Die for Blueberry Muffins” pop out on top of the search. It was a simple recipe and with 4.5 stars by almost 7,000 reviews. In addition, I’ve been using several recipes from All Recipes and they turned out well.

I decided to double the recipe as the original recipe only makes 8 large muffins.

For muffins:

  • 3.0 cups (380g) all purpose flour
  • 1.5 cups (300g) white sugar
  • 1.0 tsp salt
  • 4 tsp baking powder
  • 2/3 cup (160ml) vegetable oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups (290g) fresh blueberries (if using dried blueberries, to soak with warm water or fresh orange juice)

Crumb Topping:

  • 1/2 cup (100g) white sugar
  • 1/3 cup (40g) all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup (55g) butter, cubed
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Directions:

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease muffin cups or line with muffin liners.
  • Combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder.
  • Place vegetable oil into a 2 cup measuring cup; add eggs and enough milk to fill the 2 cup.
  • Mix this with flour mixture. Fold in blueberries.
  • Fill muffin cups right to the top.

 

To Make Crumb Topping:

  • Mix together sugar, flour, butter and cinnamon with fork
  • Sprinkle over muffins before baking.
  • Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until done.

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When those muffins were baking in the oven, the smell of muffins, especially the cinnamon were really nice.

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When those muffins were out from the oven, Jared instantly wanted to eat it.

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Later in the evening, Hubby ate one muffin. After finished eating, he said “Your muffin is excellent”. He said it has all the things that muffin should have … crisp topping, moist muffin, a dash of tangy from the orange juice, a little of sweetness, etc. He just know how to motivate me to bake more often.

My instinct tells me the muffins will taste even nicer if I were to use fresh blueberries. Will take some to the office tomorrow for my colleagues. Glad that I bake them today before our crazy yearly planning activity kicked in over the next few days. All of us need all the tender, loving, care during this period. Hugs will be great.

Thank you Auntie Jenny for the blueberries. I can feel the TLC 🙂

 

 

Christmas Tree, Lightings, Presents, Celebrations and All

Christmas is coming and I’m loving it! I like the Christmas decorations in shopping malls and hotels, Christmas songs, Christmas presents, Christmas celebrations and the spirits of sharing and giving.

Auntie YC has been buying Christmas presents for Jared and Jaden every year. A few weeks before Christmas, she would remind and ask the boys what would they like to have for Christmas presents. Even today, Jared remembers that she got for him a PSP when PSP was just launched and he was only 3 years old.

This year, Auntie YC gave them budget of RM200 each for their Christmas presents. Jared and Jaden had been discussing among themselves every day and finally came out with the following list of toys they wish to have as their Christmas presents. We enjoyed watching the both of them discussed and calculate the total costs of toys selected by them and adjust the lists to be within the budget given.

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On the Christmas presents shopping day, Auntie YC wanted to buy Christmas tree and ornaments. It was so fun deciding on the size of the Christmas tree, the theme and then the ornaments to match the theme. Auntie YC decided on Red and Silver theme for the Christmas tree. The entire family chosen so many ornaments that the sales girl told us we had too many ornaments and would be too heavy for the tree. We spent almost RM700 on the Christmas tree.

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The 3 boys set up the Christmas tree while I was in-charge of putting up all the ornaments. This is the first time that we put up a Christmas tree.

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This is my first … and I felt good and satisfied that we managed to put a pretty decent Christmas tree :).

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Nicole invited Susan and I to her house for tea party today. Both of them are good bakers. As I have to work and without maid now, I told them I would not be able to bake anything. In return, we got Christmas presents for the kids. These presents were chosen by Jared and Jaden. We asked them to choose presents for Claire, Colin, Jayde and Jayden based on their sex and age.

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When we reached Nicole’s house today, we saw this impressive table setting with lovely food on her dining table, filled with Christmas atmosphere.

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She made this lovely, cheesy quiche. Claire helped her with the sausage.

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She also made tortilla with roasted turkey meat, mushroom and cheese.

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This chocolate cupcakes and coffee frosting were moist and decorated with Christmas liners and toppers.

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Susan made these chocolate and orange macaroons. They looked so perfect and even. Other than these, Susan also gave us a box each to bring home.

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Strawberry, marshmallow, grapes and banana with chocolate fondue.

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Nicole’s house is also decorated with Christmas decoration and I like this purple theme Christmas tree.

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Just before we went back, Nicole gave us this mince tart made by her personally. Look at the details and thought that she put in decorating this container.

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Not only that, we also have the following from her to take home. Nicole is a good party planner and we can expect lots of “Wow” from each and every of her parties.

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Next, I’m looking forward to my office’s Christmas party next week and roast turkey dinner at Auntie YC’s house on Christmas day!

Career and Family

2 weeks ago, I received an email from my company’s New Employee Assistant titled “Happy 1-Year Anniversary”. How time flies, I’ve been with the company for a year now. Honeymoon period is over, no more excuses and can’t say “I’m new” anymore 🙁

The ride so far has been (very) bumpy and definitely not quite straightforward. I had the set of challenges while I also have set of opportunities. I’m no longer a people manager, instead I’ve to report to a manager who is younger than me. sighhh.

Looking back, I think this is good for me. While I was climbing up the corporate ladder, this allows me to step back, experience, reflect and learn from it. I understand staff feeling better, I knew the frustration of staff and the expectation of staff from their manager as I certainly have expectation from my manager now. I promised myself that I will be a better manager when I become one again 🙂

There’s lot of opportunities to learn in this company, especially the rhythm of business and the way we communicate and share as a community. In the span of one year, I’ve attended so many conferences inclusive of conference in Atlanta, training in Singapore twice, trainings in local office, townhalls, online trainings, etc. There are so many community calls and learning circle in the company. The word “leverage” and “share” are keys here.

On personal side, I suddenly realized we’ve been eating out a lot since Moch went back. I felt like cooking (not baking). Must focus on “must have” and not “nice to have” when time is not on our side.

Early morning, I went to my favourite TTDI market for groceries shopping. Have not been to the market for a while and I saw two Porsche in the car park. Is this the new trend now, driving sports car to market or TTDI market become so high end already?

It was good to catch up with the aunties from the market. I bought some roast pork as I intended to fry rice for lunch. Bought pork ribs to boil soup, prawns (small and large for pasta, fry with vegetables, etc), cod fish to steam for dinner, dory fish for fish and chips, chicken, vegetables, mango, etc. Stopped at Soya bean stall and Bake with Yen to buy bread crumbs and self raising flour.

When I reached home, I quickly cleaned up all the seafood and meat that I bought. I cooked fried rice for lunch and this is my first time attempting to cook fried rice.

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Fried rice with prawn, roast pork, long bean, onion and egg,

The taste was not bad actually.

After lunch, we went to Parkson to get running shoes for Jared. He has outgrown his current pair. Ever since the advice from Jaden’s food podiatric, we are very particular when selecting the right pair of shoes for our boys.

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Adidas running shoes that cost RM199.

 We always end up buying Adidas shoes.

After a short stop at MPH, we went home and it was time to cook dinner.

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Tumeric Chicken

Jared requested for his favourite Tumeric Chicken and it wasn’t hard to cook this.

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Steamed White Codfish with Ginger Garlic Sauce

I got this steam codfish recipe from The Star Kuali, Amy Beh’s recipe. Hubby said the fish was nicely done, not overcooked. The flesh was fresh and tender.

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Hubby’s famous Steamed Egg

This is by Hubby. Our family love the steamed egg by him as it’s smooth and soft. We always don’t have enough to go round among us despite him steaming 3 eggs. I told him to steam 4 eggs but he refused to listen. He just love us fighting over his steamed egg.

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Kou Gei with Fish Ball Soup

This Kou Gei Soup is Jaden’s favourite. In fact, all these dishes are dishes that Moch used to cook for us and the boys have been missing them. I’m glad that we can cook pretty close to the food that we used to eat at home. Everyone was happy. I’m not a bad cook after all.

After dinner, it’s time to wash up all the pots and dishes, threw away rubbish and mop the floor. I was so tired at the end of it. My weekend was gone and it’s not easy to have Career and Family in our life. It’s not impossible but lot’s of choices to make and sacrifices in between.

And this is the choice that I made!

Myopia

Myopia (short sighted) in kids are getting more and more common and it is a concern for parents like us with growing up kids. While kids may look cute and adorable in their glasses, I always feel heartache when I see them wiping their tears underneath their glasses, when they are playing outdoor activities (running, playing football, badminton, etc) with glasses on. It is so inconvenient and they cant enjoy the outdoor activities fully.

Today, Hubby went to see ophthalmologist. The ophthalmologist told Hubby that there are 4 causes of myopia:

  1. Genetics
  2. Too much of near vision activities – read too closely, video games, etc
  3. Lack of outdoor, natural lights. Study in Australia of group of children shows that the rate of growth for myopia is much lower for those kids with outdoor activities of 2 hours a day
  4. Type of glasses/lens that we wear. Recommended to wear Bifocals, varifocals or myovision lenses with approximately 30% reduction in myopic progression.

Recently, a daughter of our friend has stopped wearing glasses. Her mother told us that her daughter was wearing Orthokeratology, also known as Ortho-K, Overnight Vision Correction and Corneal Refractive Therapy. This hard lenses will temporarily reshape our cornea to reduce refractive errors such as myopia, farsightedness and astigmatism. However, this requires lots of discipline in terms of eyes hygiene.

 

Love and Respect

Jaden will get 50sen rewards from his Daddy for every week that he does his Ejaan and Spelling well ie all correct.

Last week, Hubby asked Jaden to do something.

Jaden asked “What will I get?”. He was expecting the same 50sen reward.

Hubby replied “Love and Respect”.

Disappointedly, he said “That’s nothing”. What he meant is the rewards are not something that is tangible.

Hubby laughed over it.

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“Let’s go home” … Hubby and Jaden at KPJ Damansara Specialist Hospital.

Few days ago, for Hubby’s birthday, we asked Jaden “What are you going to give to Daddy for his birthday present?”.

Jaden replied “Love and Respect”.

All of us laughed.

 

Coffee Butter Cake

Since my maid, Moch, went back in early April, I’ve not been baking. Moch was my baking buddy. I used to tell her a day before and she would take out the mixer and all baking ingredients. I don’t like the washing up after baking, don’t like the greasy pots and utensils.

Yesterday was Hubby’s birthday. We had a pack day with weekly house cleaning, laundry and dinner at night. I could only made pudding, which is my family’s favorite too. We had dinner at Lala Chong Restaurant. My father gave us a big white pomfret, I did not have confidence to steam the expensive fish myself. I suggested to Hubby to bring to Lala Chong and asked them to steam for us. The fish turned out very nicely done. Jaden loves the fish very much and he ate quite a bit of it. The cooking charges for the steam fish was RM25. We had my parents and Hubby’s auntie to join us for Hubby’s birthday dinner. It was a simple and nice one.

Before I slept, I saw a missed call and sms from my best friend, Christina. Her sms “Wei, wei … Happy Birthday, hope you have a great celebration today and a wonderful year ahead . I replied “But today is not my birthday woh. It’s Hubby’s”.

This morning she replied “Haha, I got yours mix up with YC. Urs on 28th. Pls wish YC happy birthday for us”. My reply to her “Hmmm, guess our age is catching on us. I missed your birthday, you got my birthday inaccurate”.

But, my birthday is not on 28th. Never mind, it’s the thought that count. I am glad and thankful for the friendship that I have with Christina all these years.

I felt guilty for not baking cake for Hubby’s birthday. This morning, I finally bake again. I baked Coffee Butter Cake for him.

My sister baked this cake for us during CNY gathering. Jaden ate and love the cake very much. The next morning, Jaden asked “Mommy, can I have yesterday Siao Yi’s cake?” but I didn’t have any share of the cake to take home. My mother said the cake was not enough to share among all of us and since I can bake my own cake, I wasn’t given any. After reading my whatsapp post then, my eldest sister laughed and told my mom about it. The next day, my mom asked my Dad to send the balance of the cake to me. My eldest sister asked my youngest sister to bake more. She likes the cake to go with coffee. Basically, the entire family love my sister’s cake.

My sister gave me this recipe and I have baked this cake many times before. Without Moch around, I forgotten to take out eggs from the fridge. So, the eggs were not at room temperature.

Ingredients:

  • 227g Salted butter
  • 140g Caster sugar
  • 4 Eggs
  • 1 tsp Coffee extract (optional)
  • 180g Self-raising flour
  • Pinch Salt (Optional)
  • 1 tbsp Instant coffee powder mix with 1 tbsp hot water
  • 1 tbsp Cocoa powder

Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven 180C
  2. Lightly grease the bottom and side of 8” square baking tray. Line the bottom with baking paper
  3. Beat butter and sugar till smooth and fluffy
  4. Beat egg one at a time till incorporated
  5. Add coffee extract, if using
  6. Sift is flour and salt and still till well blended
  7. Stir in coffee mixture and mix well
  8. Mix ¼ of the mixture with sifted cocoa powder
  9. Pour 2/4 of mixture into cake tray
  10. Pour the above ¼ cocoa mixture
  11. Top with the remaining ¼ mixture
  12. Bake the cake for 40-45 minutes

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This cake is simple and easy to bake. The coffee and cocoa add a very nice flavor to the cake.

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We had the cake for tea today, after our Tim Sum lunch at Oriental and Despicable 2 movie. Hubby ate far more than I expected, 5 pieces in total. He said it’s nice and not too sweet.

Oh yes … Hubby knows what he wanted for his birthday. His Nokia 925 is on the way.

Chinese New Year Celebration 2013

With the new job, I did not have much time and also day off to prepare for CNY. I managed to make a few can of cookies … chocolate chips pecan cookies and almond cookies.

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These were for my sister and brother as I knew they love these cookies.

Jaden brought a few of the cookies to kinder to eat. His teacher saw it and asked him to get the recipe from me. He came home and told me about it. The next day, he told the teacher “You can get the recipe from my mother’s blog” and passed to the teacher a paper slip with “www.treasure-memories.com” written on it. Not bad ya, my boy knows how to promote my blog 🙂

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On the last day of work before the CNY break, my boss took us out for department lunch. With this new job, I had the least “lou sang” for CNY as compared to my previous job as we used to entertain dealers to CNY Yee Sang after the annual account reviews.

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 We had our reunion dinner in Segamat with Hubby’s family. After reunion, we exchanged ang pow. In order to receive ang pow from my mother in-law, all of the kids (inclusive of her second son) have to give her a kiss on the cheek. Thank God she doesn’t have an oily face.

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For the very first time, I was so happy that we went to temple for prayer and blessing, first thing on the 1st day of Lunar New Year.

After prayer, we went to Kluang to meet Hubby’s uncles, aunties and cousins that came back from Singapore, Penang, KL and Johor.

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It was also Auntie Jenny’s birthday. We had a good birthday celebration in restaurant.

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On the 2nd day of CNY, we had three cooking classes from our aunties:

  1. Roast Pork
  2. Ju Hu Char
  3. Crispy Seaweed Strips

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Technology got us closer for those near and far. Hubby arranged Skype with her sister who is in US. WP_20130211_029

Most of us left Kluang on the 3rd day of CNY, after our breakfast.

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I truly enjoyed the CNY celebration at Kluang with great company and lots of laughter.

When we reached home, we had Mc Donalds for lunch. After lunch, we went to my parents house to have gathering with my siblings and family. At night, we had Kajang Satay for dinner. I guess we had too much of Chinese food and we ate too much too that we just wanted to eat non-Chinese food.

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On the 4th day of CNY, I received these from postman.  My lovely friend who was my classmate in secondary school and now live in Singapore knows I like OCBC angpow packets and sent them all the way from Singapore.

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At night, we had dinner with our parents at The Uma. I had been wanting to take my parents to try out the Balinese food here. Since we had too much of CNY feast, this Balinese good was a good choice for the dinner there.

I ordered pork rib set, mutton, fish and the famous Bali duck meat. My dad love the mutton set.

Looking back, it was really a good choice of not having Chinese food. We can avoid the crowd, expensive food with not so attentive service.

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 On the 5th day of CNY, my auntie and her families from Klang visited my parents. All of us met up with them at my parents house. I volunteered to cook pilaf rice with rendang Chicken for lunch and Acar that I’ve bought from TTDI market.WP_20130214_012

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My auntie and her children.

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Ben’s at Bangsar Shopping Centre

At night, our 4th Auntie invited us for dinner at Ben’s at Bangsar Shopping Center. It’s Valentine’s Day and there were lots of people and it was quite difficult for us to find car park at the shopping center.

There’s no candle light dinner with Hubby. Married couple is not romantic anymore 🙁

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Rocket Salad

The food at Ben’s is nice.

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Beef for Hubby

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Fish for 4th Auntie

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Duck pasta for me

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We finished our dinner with coffee and cake. This is Heaven!

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On the 6th day of CNY, I worked half day from home as I’ve to take two online meetings. After the meetings, we rushed to Tesco to buy ingredients to make pizzas.

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I had my ex-school mates at home for tea time. I made 4 types of pizza ie ham, salami and sausage & bacon pizzas and paired them with white wine. Wai Peng made Apple crumble pie and I served it with scoop of vanilla ice-cream.

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Technology got them closer but apart.

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Good chat among old friends. We truly enjoyed our chat at our cozy home.

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On the 7th day of CNY, we had BBQ pot luck at William’s new condo. The condo has a very nice pool that looks like resort pool.

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I brought a packet of dried meat to be grilled at the BBQ dinner. It was delicious and my friends enjoyed eating it.

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I also made banana walnut brownies as dessert for the gathering. It was so difficult to get the host of the gathering, William to prepare Vanilla ice-cream to go with the brownies. He was just trying to be difficult.

From the 8th to 11th day of CNY, I went to Singapore for office three days training. Hubby accompanied me and we drove to Singapore and stayed at Marina Mandarin Hotel which is within walking distance to Marina Bay Sand.

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Overall, it was a good CNY celebration and break from work.

May the year of Snake brings Joy, good health & happiness to all of us.

Crispy Seaweed Strips

This time round, our 5th Auntie who used to be a home science teacher cooked her famous curry chicken and she also made Crispy Seaweed Strips.

Dean’s fiance, Christine who joined us for the very first CNY celebration in Kluang loves to eat the Crispy Seaweed Strips. Our auntie offered to make for her to bring back to US.

After lunch, we had our 3rd cooking class. This time round, our auntie taught us to make Crispy Seaweed Strips.

Ingredients:

  • Popiah skin
  • Seaweed (try to buy the same size as popiah skin)
  • Egg, lightly beaten. Add sesame oil, pepper and pinch of salt.

New Folder

  1. Place popiah skin on non-stick surface
  2. Brush with egg wash
  3. Place a piece of seaweed on top of it
  4. Brush with egg wash again
  5. Cover with another piece of popiah skin
  6. Put it aside to let it dry, while continue with other pieces of popiah skin and seaweed
  7. Fold into 3 equal sizes and use scissors to cut along the folded line
  8. Cut into shorter strips of 1cm width

New Folder (2)

  1. Pour oil into frying wok
  2. Test it with chopsticks to see if the oil is hot enough for frying. Bubbles will appear in the oil when it’s hot
  3. Take a handful of seaweed strips and fry them in the wok
  4. Once they turn lightly brown, turn down the flame
  5. Take out from wok and place on a plate with kitchen towel.

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Good students and helpers in the kitchen

Good students and helpers in the kitchen

We had quite a few helpers in the kitchen and we worked like “factory line” with different people performing different tasks. We were having fun and the entire process of making and frying the seaweed strips were done in half an hour. The seaweed strips were crispy, smell great and tasted good too.

Suggestions:

  • If you prefer the stronger taste of seaweed, you may start with seaweed, then popiah skin and end with seaweed.
  • Use egg white rather than whole egg as it will be crispier and the seaweed strips will last longer
  • My auntie told us that this seaweed strips go well with porridge.
The only and very happy man in the kitchen.

The only and very happy man in the kitchen.

We had lots of laugher, changing idea and cooking tips. It was certainly a good bonding time during this Chinese New Year break.

Ju Hu Char – Nyonya Dish

Part of our CNY tradition is each family will buy or make their famous food back to Kluang.

  1. 2nd Auntie will make “kok cai” which is Hubby’s favourite and layer cakes that both Jared and Jaden love so much.
  2. 4th Auntie will buy Godiva and all sort of expensive chocolates
  3. 5th Auntie will make fruits cake and cook curry chicken
  4. 7th Auntie is famous for her roast pork and Ju Hu Char
  5. 8th Auntie always buy persimmon, plum, cherry, strawberries and varieties of nuts (almond, walnut, etc).

We have non-stop of good food that was so hard to resist. Nobody can ever have a successful “diet plan” during this CNY get together.

The second cooking class that we had is to cook “Ju Hu Char” by Auntie Jenny again.

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  1. Boil pork belly (200g) and slice thinly
  2. Soak dried squid strips (Ju Hu See) with vinegar and water for about 10 minutes
  3. Saute garlic and onion
  4. Add squid strips and stir until fragrant
  5. Add pork and stir fry for about 5 minutes
  6. Add vegetables (carrot, turnip, cabbage, French bean, mushroom) and stir fry until cooked.
  7. Add pinch of salt and white pepper.

This dish goes very well with lettuce.

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Roast Pork and Flavawave, Halogen Convection Oven

Today, over CNY family gathering, I have the opportunity to watch Auntie Jenny made her famous roast pork again.

The roast pork that we use to roast at home is nice but not as nice as Auntie Jenny’s. The most challenging part to make a good roast pork is to have crispy skin and not the hard skin.

Ingredients:

  • 1.5kg pork belly with skin
  • 1 tbsp salt

Mix into paste:

  • 1 tbsp five spice powder
  • 2 cloves garlic – pounded
  • 1 piece of ginger – pounded
  • Few pieces of cilantro root – pounded (optional)
  • 1 tsp salt

There are tricks to this.

  • Choose 5 layers of pork belly with thin skin, so that the roast pork is crispy.

5 layers of pork belly with thin skin

  • Clean and dry with paper towel
  • Score the skin of pork belly with sharp knife across entire surface (2″ cuts with 1/4″ apart). Make sure the skin layer gets cut thorough but not too deep. Repeat same in 90 degrees direction so cuts form square patterns on skin. Some butcher will do this for you.

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  • There’s layer of fat under the skin of pork belly. When we score the skin, the layer of fat comes out and with the heat, will fry the skin and cause the skin to crack and crispy.
  • Rub some of the 1 tbsp salt on the pork skin. Salt will absorb water. When moisture forms, pat dry the skin of pork belly with kitchen towel.
  • Marinade the meat layer with the paste, coating well. Do not apply on skin as the skin will turn black easily with the paste.
  • Rub the skin with salt again for a few times, about 30 minutes apart till the 1 tbsp salt is used up.
  • Leave meat aside in a cool area, do not refrigerate. Keep wiping off any moisture that forms on skin.
  • Preheat oven to 200C. Wipe pork skin dry and remove the excess salt from the skin and brush oil on it.
  • Place a shallow tray of water (1-2inch) at lower ract to get rid of smoke.
  • Place meat with skin side up on wire rack and roast for 15 mins.WP_20130211_026
  • Turn down temperature to 180C and continue roasting for another 40-45 mins depending on thickness of meat, till well browned.
  • If skin does not crackle fully after meat is cooked, switched oven mode to grill the skin surface for about 10-15 mins.
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  • To cut the roast pork, turn meat upside down and chop into 2 halves with very sharp knife. Quickly turn back the pieces, skin side up, on chopping board, making sure juice that runs out of meat do not come into contact with crispy skin. Cut 1st half of the meat into slices, skin side down, and turning each skin side up again.WP_20130211_059
  • After slices are done, chop each slice into bite sizes, repeat for the other half and serve immediately.WP_20130211_061

Aunty Jenny recently bought a halogen convection oven and she told us it’s good to roast pork. It’s fast, visible, not smoky and easy to clean.

Roast Pork

The roast pork goes very well with mustard sauce.

Despite the 4 big pieces of roast pork, the roast pork were all eaten over our lunch.