My Models .. oops .. Angels I Mean!

I just love taking pictures of my angels. They too just love their pix to be taken and they posed willingly for me. Look at their pix .. ;-)

Auni in her new outfit from Fox Kids.

I just love Auni's looks .. soo intense .. and ooh those kissable lips .. hahaha

Tihani in a hand me down top.

Tihani with her new Barbie watch.

Mandarin Orange Cake

After a week of not baking, I baked an orange cake yesterday. Besides orange juice, I used canned mandarin orange segments for this particular cake thus naming it Mandarin Orange Cake. I like the not so sweet and faint citrusy taste of this cake.

I have deleted the old pix. I managed to collect my digicam from mum's and took this pic.

Ingredients

185g butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 cup mandarin orange segments
2 cups self raising flour
2/3 cup orange juice

Method

Preheat oven to 180C and grease a 20 cm square cake tin.
Beat egg and sugar till creamy.
Gradually add eggs, beating thoroughly after each addition.
Beat in orange segments and vanilla essence.
Using a large metal spoon, fold in flour alternately with orange juice.
Spoon into prepared tin and smooth surface.
Bake for 45 mins until cook.
Leave in tin for 10 mins, then turn out into a wire rack to cool.

Fried Rice, Breaded Fish Bites & Baked Chix

I had a severe migraine since Friday and only got better this morning after I popped Naramig prescribed by my GP yesterday evening. Although still feeling groggy, I managed to whip a simple lunch of Fried Rice, Breaded Fish Bites and Baked Mid Joints.

The recipe for the Fried Rice and Breaded Fish Bites can be found below.

Ingredients

2 cups cooked rice
1 onion, thinly sliced
1 green chilli, thinly sliced
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp ground dried chillies
1 tsp chicken seasoning
2 eggs
4 crabsticks, sliced
Oil for frying

Method

Heat oil and fry onion and ground chilli till fragrant.
Put in sliced chilli, oyster sauce and chicken seasoning.
Fry in the eggs and crabstick.
Then stir in the rice.

Ingredients

1 dory fillet, cut into 20 bites & season with a lil salt
Flour seasoned with salt and pepper
1 egg
Japanese breadcrumb
Oil

Method

Coat fillet bites with flour.
Then coat with egg.
Then with japanese breadcrumb.
Heat oil and fry fish bites for about 5 mins.

I bought this pre marinated mid joint wings at the supermarket. Its really tasty and peppery hot!

Corn Ice Cream

This Corn Ice Cream has been sitting in the freezer since last Friday, the day I made them. I totally forgot about it. I only took it out yesterday to have a taste of it. Mmmmm ... it's really rich, creamy and errrrmmm corny .. hehehe .. ;-)

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups coffee mate
2 cups fresh milk
1/2 cup caster sugar
1/2 tin cream corn

Method

Whisk coffee mate, milk and sugar together.
Add in cream and mix well.
Pour mixture into container and half froze it.
Remove when half frozen and whisk again till double in volume.
Pour mixture again into containter and refreeze.

KFC?! Nope, it's Popeye's!

Hubby brought the angels and myself to the airport, T1 last Saturday and we ate at Popeye's.

You ought to give it a try. From the fried chicken to whipped potatoes to cajun fries and buttermilk biscuit .. they are soo yummylicious!

That's hubby and angels enjoying the water fountain. As I took this picture, I could clearly remember how when I was a child and whenever I visited the airport, I too enjoyed looking at the fountain as it changes its colours.

German Apple Cake

Mum and I saw Mami Asmah Laili made Apple Cake on her cookshow Dapur Mami and mum initiated that I make this. I used another recipe though and this is called German Apple Cake I from Allrecipes. The following ingredients and measurements are not the original. I changed it based on the reviews given and what I have at home. It is a must try recipe as 120 members rated it 5 out of 5. Oh ya .. not forgetting the whole kitchen smelt sooo good .. the aroma was just wow .. :-)

Ingredients

2 eggs
1/2 cup melted butter
1 1/2 cup white sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 cups self raising flour
3 fuji apples, peeled, each cut in 4, cored and thinly sliced

Method

Preheat oven to 180C. Grease a cake tin. (I used a 20 cm diameter round cake tin.)
Beat oil and eggs till creamy.
Add sugar and vanilla and beat well.
Combine flour, salt, ground cinnamon together in a bowl.
Add this to the egg mixture and mix till combined. The batter will be very thick.
Fold in the apples.
Spread batter into tin and bake at 160C (note that temperature is reduced) for 1 hr 30 mins.
Cool on wire rack when tested done.

Above is a picture of the whole cake which has sugar dustings on it.

And this is the slice that I ate with vanilla ice cream at 11.30 pm .. how sinful can it get but whoa it was soooooooooo heavenly!!

Crab Rangoon

I chanced upon this Crab Rangoon while searching for other recipes on the net. The recipe I saw has ingredients which I personally do not like and it only uses 3 crabsticks. Too little crabstick and too cheesy a mixture for me. I tweaked the Crab Rangoon recipe to suit my tastebud.

Ingredients

250 gm Philladelphia cream cheese, softened
8 pcs crabstick, boiled and diced
lotsa spring onion, thinly sliced
salt and sugar to taste
wanton skin
water
oil for frying

Method

Mix cheese, crabsticks and spring onion together.
Add salt n sugar to taste.
Spoon mixture onto middle of wanton skin, fold and seal the sides with water.
Heal oil in a frying pan and fry the crabsticks.

The wanton tastes good when dip in mayo and chilli sauce.

Feel Like Having Pasta

Buddies felt like having pasta for lunch last Sunday. I made them Spaghetti Bolognaise, something rather simple for me to prepare since there were other things that I need to prepare as well.

Ingredients

500 g minced beef, pre cooked with a pinch of salt n pepper
2 tbsp ground chilli
2 big onions, diced
4 cloves garlic, diced
a lil oil for frying
2 celery, diced
1 can button mushroom, sliced
1 jar spaghetti sauce (bought off the supermarket shelves)
1/2 jar water (use the spaghetti sauce jar to measure)
salt and sugar to taste
1 pkt spaghetti
a pot of salted boiling water
parmesan cheese, grated

Method

Heal oil in a pan.
Fry the ground chilli, onions and garlic until they are softened.
Put in the celery, mushroom and then ground beef.
Pour in the spaghetti sauce followed by 1/2 jar of water.
Season with salt n a lil sugar.
Lower the heat and simmer for abt 20 mins.

Meanwhile, boil a pot of water and put in abt 2 tsp of salt and a few drops of oil.
When water reaches boiling point, put in the spaghetti and cook till al dente and drain.

To serve, place some spaghetti on a plate topped with the spaghetti mixture and sprinkle with some parmesan cheese.