My favourites 2011 , and Happy New Year 2012

Just thinking to do a short recap/review of what i have cooked/ baked for the past one year in 2011 before New Year 2012 knock our door tomorrow. This recap is based on what my family's favourite food. Actually there are too many of our favourites, i have hard time to choose which post to include in this post..First thinking to choose only 10 favourite posts but it ended up with 15 favourite posts, hehehe..
And looking back through my posts for past one year, and i know why every of my New Year resolution to get slimmer never happen, look at all food that i have prepared and eaten, hahaha...
Thank you to all who dropping by my blog, you have motivating me to continue striving for greatness in the kitchen!

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My Favourites 2011, enjoy !!

Vietnamese Spicy Lemongrass Chicken 越式香茅鸡

 Cotton cheesecake with blueberries filling 

 Homemade fluffy Pancake with maple syrup 

 Minced meat & baked bean with rice 

Spongy Banana Cake

Egg tart with frozen puff pastry

Kung Pao Chicken 宫保鸡丁

 

Choux with durian cream (cream puff)

Spiral Curry Puff 螺旋咖哩角

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

Shanghai Jiaozi (Dumplings) 饺子

Croissant

Korean Kimchi fried rice

Easy French Bread / Baguette

Banana and Chocolate Rice Cupcakes

Wishing all a blessed New Year 2012 !!

Homemade salted eggs 鹹蛋

Today we enjoyed our lunch with the salted eggs that i made for the first time. Before i share with you this recipe, first let me introduce you the owner of this recipe, she is Yan with her blog "Simple Menu". She is one of my blogger friend that i keep in touch almost daily (we chat thru MSN). I encouraged her to create this blog as she always preparing simple dishes since she is staying alone. She has another blog called "Bakeling" which she is sharing maily on photography...i also learnt photography tips from her too.

I getting the "kampung" type of duck eggs from this type of stall that only selling all kind of eggs..fresh eggs, preserved eggs & etc..

The owner of the shop told me to use those duck eggs with slightly green shell as it has better aroma..

Very simple to make, just need patience to wait!

fill eggs in the jar till full, do not leave empty space in the jar, otherwise eggs will be floating on the top..

My son Lucas helped me to mark the date and put a cute duck sticker ^_^ ! So today is the best day to enjoy this homemade salted eggs which need 14days to get the right saltiness..

Next time i will try to reduce the salt amount as I found not all salt could be dissolved.

This is our yummy lunch today...salted egg is best to serve with a bowl of plain porridge/congee..

Please visit to "Simple Menu" and give your support to Yan to encourage her to share more simple dishes with us, Thank you..

Homemade Salted eggs
(recipe source : adapted from Yan of Simple Menu)

15 duck eggs
400g coarse salt
1litre water

1. Wash and clean duck eggs under running water by rubbing with a piece of cloth and immediately rub it dry (Do not soak the eggs in water).
2. Cook salt and water till boiled, stir from time to time, cook till salt dissolved as much as possible, set aside to cool. Take out the salt water.
3. Place duck eggs in a clean glass jar, add in salt water. Close the lid and mark the date.
4. Store in room temperature for 14 days.
5. Boil salted eggs for 10mins before serving.

Tropical Spice Garden Penang

Beside cari makan (food hunting) in Penang, we also dropped by Tropical Spice Garden, Southeast Asia's One and Only Award-winning Spice Garden..

First time see a giant pandan leaves (screwpine leaf) and it is taller than us..

my kids were enjoyed swinging on this giant swing...

Lets start the walk into this garden..

We were told this serai wangi can effectively chase away mosquito, it is difference from the normal lemongrass that we use to cook..

After half an hour of walk, we went to the "Tree Monkey restaurant" in this garden and enjoyed a cool fruit drink and eating a mouth-watering Thai fish cake (i made this before, my recipe here)..we love the natural surrounding of jungle trees, fresh air and awesome bay views of the Andaman sea.

I went home without empty hands, bought these gifts from the gift shop..I especially like the brass net, nice to use when we having steamboat..

Find out more in here-Tropical Spice Garden Penang

Tropical Spice Garden


Lone Crag Villa, Lot 595 Mukim 2,

Jalan Teluk Bahang,

11100 Penang, Malaysia.

Telephone: 604 - 881 1797

Facsimile: 604 - 881 3794

Email : info@tropicalspicegarden.com