Youg Tau Foo 2

I have been searching for a sauce recipe for my Yong Tau Foo and so glad to find it at Rasa Malaysia. I just had to try it since I have all the ingredients at home.

I marinated my fish meat emulsion with just white peppers and sesame oil and stuffed it in fresh white mushrooms, okras and small taufu poks.

Her yellow bean sauce is simply delicious, perfect for the yong tau foo. I definitely going to make this sauce again and again. Yummilicious!!

Thanks Rasa Malaysia! :D

Sugee Cookies/ Sugi Cookies

I decided to try another recipe for my CNY cookies collection, Sugi Cookies because of its' simplicity. This cookie is delicious, it's crunchy when you bite into it and then simply melt-in-the-mouth.




Ingredients:

(A)
1 1/3 cup of unbleached all-purpose flour (or plain flour)
2/3 cup of icing sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda

(B)
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/3 cup + 2 Tbp. canola oil

Method:

1. Sift (A) into a mixing bowl. Add (B) and use a fork to stir it. Mix well, a soft dough should form. Knead the dough a few times so that the vanilla extract can distribute evenly.

2. Use your hands and roll the dough into small balls (about 1 tsp. size). Place on parchment lined baking sheet.

3. Use the back of a chopstick, the round one and place an indentation in the middle of the cookie.

4. Bake at preheated 350'F oven for 15-18 mins.

~Yield 62 small cookies

Chinese Peanut Cookies

Finally I made Jo's peanut cookies that I have been eyeing since last year! The original recipe can be found at IK (under cookies/biscuit section). I only did 1/4 of the recipe because I only have 80g of ground peanuts at home. So, I testing out this recipe earlier preparing for the CNY ahead.




Here's my adaptation of her recipe: (yield 37 cookies)

(A)
1 1/3 cup unbleached all-purpose flour/ plain flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
(B)
1/4 cup sugar (or icing sugar for more melt in the mouth texture)
80g ground coarsed roasted/toasted peanuts
(C)
1/3 cup + 2 Tbp. canola oil

1 egg, beaten for egg wash

Method:

1. Sift (A) into a bowl.
2. Add (B), mix well.
3. Add (C), stir with a fork, the mixture will be crumbly.
4. Use your hands, scoop up the mixture and press it into balls. Place on parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
5. Glaze the peanut cookies with egg wash.
6. Bake at preheated 350'F oven for 20 minutes.



This peanut cookie is soft and melt-in-the-mouth. Though I find the cookie not sweet enough, it might be because I have developed a sweeter tooth after living in the States for so long. It can be sweeter but just as yummy!

Jo, thank you for this keeper recipe! :D Will make more for the CNY for sure hard to stop at just a few.


Edited to add:





The one above I made it with small cookie scoop for CNY. You can get the cookie scoop from Bed Bath & Beyond. To me, it looks so much nicer with the scoop.

Coconut Filling Buns

I decided to make coconut buns after I saw this at Pusiva's blog. It reminded me of what I used to have in M'sia. Since I just bought a package of shredded coconut, I decided to make the coconut filling and freeze it for future use. I used Pusiva's Coconut Filling recipe. As for the buns, I used Gina's Basic Sweet Buns recipe. With the filling ready in the freezer, I can whip up coconut buns anytime.

This is just a delicious bun, the Gula Melaka that I used in the filling made the coconut smelled heavenly while baking and tasty to eat. Do give this a try ya if you miss coconut buns! :)

Usual Bakes

Tau Sar Buns coated with double egg wash glaze, really golden brown huh?

Made the Lo Ti Piah (bread cookie) again! Made it more nutritious by adding Milo. Click here for my recipe. Oh, I used Sara Lee 100% whole wheat bread thus the brown color.

Western Dinner Night

Not sure about you, but as for me sometimes I do long for some western meal instead of the usual chinese afair. One thing though my hubby prefers chinese anytime since his first comment while seeing what's on the table was, "Why do you have to cook all these weird dishes?". Yes! Anything not chinese/asian is considered weird to him. I actually knew this was coming but I went ahead and cooked these because I have a craving for green bean casserole and some mashed sweet potatoes. Haha... too bad for him!

Baked Cornish Hens with spices and dried Rosemary

Traditional Green Bean Casserole (recipe found on web)

Mashed Sweet Potatoes

I actually cooked some fried rice this afternoon for his lunch box the next day (since I know he won't want a western meal lunch box) , nothing special just a simply "hamtam" what's in the fridge fried rice and his comment when he saw the lunch box was, "Wow, got fried rice to eat, yummy!". He would prefer white rice and simple eggs with chai por over the above anytime. Another of his favorite is pan-fried luncheon meat and fried eggs with white rice! Very chinese right? Anyone hubby is like that?

Evy & Edda

It's so hard to take picture of my two precious daughters together. Evy wants to join in whenever I try to snap some pictures of Edda (which I have not been doing it often enough), so I would have to accomodate her in the pictures as well.

Oh mine, look at Edda's spiky hair! Evy's hair was not like that before, guess it will fall down when it gets longer, if she hasn't turned "botak" (bold) already. She started losing her hair at 2 1/2 months and still losing. If she is like Evy, she will become almost bold around 6-7 months and then her hair will start to grow back.

Edda is 3 months old today! She is such a happy baby. She will smile to everyone who talks to her. Guess a chocolate a day while pregnant and remain stress free during the whole pregnancy really produces a happy baby. ^o^