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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Real Cafe Coffee

Annie Tan our main coffee "purchaser" come across this new product from NTUC and brought it to the office. I'm so excited to try it out during my self declared "coffee break".

Real Cafe ~ Specially Blended Drip Coffee ~

Instruction :

Open the bag by tearing along the arrow line.
Pull the hooks to make the opening squarely and hook it on the cup.
Half fill with hot water slowly and wait for 20 seconds before adding more water.
Shake the bag well and remove it before drinking (Add sugar or milk to suit your taste).

The second cup AT helps me to prepare taste very much better than the one that I mixed.

Probably that's come with a touch of tender care, hahaha !

Serves 2-3 people

Ingredients
110gm sweet potato flour
250ml water
½ tsp salt
15gm Chinese chives, chopped finely
3 tbsp lard or vegetable cooking oil
2 eggs, beaten
2 tbsp finely chopped garlic
½ tbsp chopped preserved radish (chai por)
800gm fresh oysters, washed and drained (I used 500gm prawns)
½ tsp fish sauce
½ tsp light Soya sauce
White pepper to taste
2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves to garnish

Method

Whisk the starch batter and set aside to let it rest for 15 minute.
Heat 2 tbsp of oil in frying pan of about 12-16 inches over medium to high fire. Stir batter as it settles, and ladle over enough to form a thin splattered layer. Don’t let the starch harden, pour in the eggs within five seconds and allow the pancake batter to settle and softly firm up before breaking it up.
When the texture is crispy outside and soft within, push the batter to the side of the pan.
Add the chai por, oyster (dip them in the batter for added smoothness) and fish sauce. . Stir-fry quickly. Take care not to overcook the oysters or they will get hard.
Season to taste with the fish sauce or Soya sauce and pepperDish omelette onto plate, top it with the succulent oysters and garnish to serve.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Birthday

We headed to somewhere new for this year birthday treat by "Art of Eating". There are surprises every year !

Mad Jack Cafe

Selegie Outlet - Paradiz Centre 01-04/05, 1 Selegie Rd

Chicken Leg in Special Mad Jack's sauce

Grill Chicken in Blace Pepper Sauce

Chocolate Delight Cake with Ice-Cream

我吃到饱饱,

谢谢你我的好朋友！

My home 大宝贝bought for me a cheese cake from Lil’ Foot Patisserie (littlefootpastry.wordpress.com). The checked design is made of chocolate spongy cake with cheesy cream and tint of lemon . Taste pleasant and great, thanks alot !

English-Chinese Flour Glossary

1) Low-protein flour/ cake flour
低筋麵粉 [Chinese]
Hakurikiko 薄力粉 [Japanese]
Notes: wheat flour, 6-8% protein
Cake Flour is a superb quality, soft-as-silk flour. It has excellent tolerance to a high amount of butter and sugar, resulting in cakes of good volume. This flour is best used for baking sponge cakes and very rich cakes like pound cakes.

2) Medium-protein flour/ all-purpose flour
中筋麵粉 [Chinese]
Notes: wheat flour, 10-12% protein
Plain Flour is an all-purpose flour, best used for making cakes, pancakes, pastries, batter and as a thickener. This flour is also ideal for Oriental specialities like Chinese dumpling (bao), Chinese dough fritters (yu tiao) and roti prata.

3) High-protein flour/ bread flour
高筋麵粉 [Chinese]
Notes: wheat flour, 13%-14% protein
Bread Flour is a high-protein flour, ideal for making all varieties of bread, buns

4) Self-Raising Flour
Self-Raising Flour is a premium quality flour blended with the right amount of leavening agents. It is best suited for baking cakes, hot cakes such as American pancakes and cookies. It is also excellent as a batter for frying chicken, fish, prawns and banana fritters.
1 cup self-raising flour = 1 cup cake flour + 1 tsp baking powder + pinch of salt

5) Superlite / Hong Kong Flour
Superlite is a super soft flour. It is best used for making Hong Kong type steamed buns (bao), Japanese castella cake, Malay sponge cake (kueh baulu) and others where a specially soft and light texture is required.

6) Top Flour
Top Flour is an extra-fine quality flour to give exceptionally smooth and fine texture for your baking needs. It is especially ideal for baking very fine cakes; such as chiffon cakes, swiss rolls, crepes, cake doughnuts and butter cookies

7) Wheat starch
澄麵粉 [Cant.] tung mein fun
澄粉 [Mand.] deng4 fen3
Suitable for making chinese dim sum like prawn dumpling (ha kau), nian gao and turnip cake

8) Glutinous rice flour/ sweet rice flour
糯米粉 [Chinese]
Shiratamako 白玉粉 [Japanese]
It becomes thick when mixed with water and heated. Chinese dim sum and local desserts made from glutinous flour are smooth and shiny.
Notes: Cooked, or dry-fried, glutinous rice flour is sold as a different product called 熟糯米粉／糕粉 gao fun [Cant.]. According to Kuali.com, “You can dry-fry glutinous rice flour yourself but it will not be as fine as the commercialised kao fun. Those that are imported from China are very fine. Try looking for this item in provision shops around your area.”Cooked glutinous flour used for making Snow Skin - Ping Pei (chilled) mooncakes and banana rolls

9) Rice flour
粘米粉／黏米粉／在來米粉／在萊米粉／再來米粉 [Chinese]
Jyoshinko　上新粉 [Japanese]
Used frequently in chinese dim sum like turnip cake and yam cake, and local desserts like kuih lapis and kuih talam.

10) Corn flour/ cornstarch
生粉 [Cant.]
粟粉／粟米粉／玉米粉／玉米澱粉
Corn flour is very useful for gluten-free quick breads. As a thickener, having double the thickening properties of regular flour. It is widely used for thickening sauces, gravies, and puddings

11) Water chestnut flour
馬蹄粉 [Chinese]
Its best uses are similar to those for corn-starch, e.g., as a thickener and breading material. It is mixed with a small amount of water before being added to the hot mixture to be thickened.

12) Tapioca flour
樹薯粉／木薯粉／茨粉／(菱粉／泰國生粉／太白粉／地瓜粉)
Consumed as a vegetable, or used in bread baking or as a thickening agent in liquid foods, custards, puddings etc. When cooked, tapioca swells into a pale, translucent jelly.
Malaysians use this flour frequently in kuih making, e.g. kuih bangkit, kuih bongkong and onde-onde.

13) Potato flour
生粉／太白粉
Katakuriko 片栗粉
Gives smooth and transparent result when used as thickener in soups or sauces. Sauces thickened with potato starch turns thinner after cooling.

14) Sweet Potato flour
番茨粉
蕃薯粉 fan1 shu3 fen3
地瓜粉 di4 gua1 fen3
Normally used as thickener and in making of chinese dim sum.
Gives crispy skin when used as coating of fried food.

15) Soya bean flour (toasted)
Kinako きな粉
Soy flour turns up in an amazing array of food products, including fudge and other candies, pies, doughnuts, cakes and rolls, pasta, pancake mixes and frozen desserts. Some meat loaves and other prepared meat products use soy flour. Baked products containing soy flour tend to brown more quickly, so it may be necessary to shorten baking time or lower the temperature just slightly.

16) Sago flour
沙谷粉
Used as thickener or Kueh Bangkit

17) Arrowroot flour
葛粉
Kuzuko葛粉
Used in diets requiring bland, low-salt, and low-protein foods. It is, however, mostly used as a thickening agent for sauces, fruit pie fillings, glazes, puddings, but can also be used as a flour substitute mixed with rice flour for gluten-free baking.

18) Mugwort flour
Yomogiko 蓬粉
A flour used in making in sai biang, molded steamed cakes served in celebration of certain Chinese festivals.

19) Hoen Kwe flour, Green bean flour, Mung bean flour
Commonly used in making Malaysian kuihs (like pandan layer cake, cendol) and Indonesian desserts.

Baker's percentage

As long as you're making the same bread, no matter how much you want to bake, you may easily calculate the amount of each ingredient with baker's percentage method. To determine the baker's percentage, the weight of flour is always set at 100%. All ingredients are measured by their weight in relation to that of flour. The total must add up to over 100%.

Example :

Calculate the baker's percentage according to the amount listed in a recipe.
Baker's percentage = (weight of a certain ingredient / weight of flour) x 100

Flour - 1000 g (100%)
Sugar - 30 g (30/1000 x 100) = 3%
Egg - 200 g ( 200 / 1000 x 100) = 20%
Sea Salt - 10 g (10/1000 x 100) = 1%
Yeast - 30 g (30/1000 x 100) = 3%

Based on the above percentage and re-compute the weight of each ingredients.

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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Real Cafe Coffee

Oyster Omelette (Or Luak)

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Birthday

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