Marble Cake

Last weekend, the mood of baking cake came back.  I baked the most simple marble cake using the butter cake recipe.  

Here is the simple recipe and this is the first cake I learnt to bake during my teenage year.

Basic Butter Cake

Ingredients :
250g Self raising flour
4 eggs (Grade A)

200g sugar
4 tbsp fresh milk
2 drops vanilla essences
250g butter (room temperature)

Beat the butter and the sugar till butter turns creamy, put in the eggs one at the time ,put in the vanilla essences.

Beat till fluffy and pale.then put in the flour and the milk and beat till all mixed well.

Then put in the cake tin and bake in oven for 1 hour or till cooked in oven 200C

Add in 1 tbsp of cocoa powder (for marble cake)

I brought some for my colleagues

4-day holiday is over

The 4-day holiday just over. 2 days PH plus 2 days weekend.  I had a enjoyable and relaxing holiday with my family.  We spend our time at our home sweet home.

I cooked kuah kacang and pork rendang to go along with nasi impit and ketupat palas on first day raya.  For pork rendang, I use the instant rendang paste from Mak Nyonya.  As for kuah kacang, I get the recipe from my friend.  For dinner, my mum cooked Laksa Sarawak again ! special request from my sister who fly back from Singapore for holiday.
On Friday, I make siew yoke.  I would said it is super easy to make and it is as nice as the one sell in chicken stall.  I like the crispyness of the skin and juicyness of the meat. Yummy !

Kuah Kacang and pork rendang with nasi impit & ketupat palas

Siew yoke in making. Forget to take photo after it was done.  The skin is so crispy.

Hari Raya Holiday

To all the muslim, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri. To those not celebrating, happy holiday and long weekend.
Today is the last day of working and we will off for long holiday.
Holiday plan ? no plan, will be in town only.  Since Cyn is sitting for UPSR in a month time, we are only going for holiday after her exam.
My sister is coming back for holiday and my mum is busy in the kitchen preparing food for her.

Picture from google.com

Coffee art

Coffee art....
Brew & Bread Cafe at Kota Kemuning

Teddy bear

Angry bird

Homemade breakfast - Tuna and cheese wrap

I usually only prepared bread spread with butter & kaya or nutella for my family especially since I joined this new company.  If no breakfast is prepared, Cyn will buy her own food in the canteen and Maine will normally still bring some biscuits or breakfast cereals.

Cyn commented once that she is bored of eating bread even I did alternate it with varieties of bun.  I think she is really bored of eating bread or bun !!!

I saw my colleague eating a very interesting breakfast one morning in the office and I asked her "what is that", she said it is Wrap !  Oh ya !! tortilla wrap ! why I never thought of preparing that for breakfast.  It is also easy to prepare.  I bought 2 packets of Mission tortilla wrap for AEON Bukit Tinggi, one is potato and another one is wholegrain.  

Tuna and cheese wrap recipe

Ingredient :

Wholegrain wrap

Lettuce

Cucumber

Mayonise 

1 tbsp of tuna

Cheese

Method :

1. Wash the cucumber and lettuce.  Slice the cucumber

2. Heat up the wrap on the non stick pan.  No oil needed.

3. On a flat plate, arrange the lettuce and sliced cucumber

4. Scoop in the tuna and put on a slice of cheese

5. Squeeze in some mayonise

6. Wrap and cut into halves

7. Enjoy your breakfast with a cup of white coffee. Yummy

I used this brand. Mission Wraps - wholegrain.
Picture from google

Tuna and cheese wrap

My breakfast

Yesterday I also prepared this breakfast but I used sausages and omellete instead of tuna.  I also add on a slice of cheese.  That's all for this week.  Tomorrow back bread day ....hahahahaha

Restoran Bak Kut Teh Ah Meng

I have been staying in Klang for close to 20 years.  Klang is famous of Bak Kut Teh and everyone staying here will have their preferred BKT restaurant.  For my family, our choice is always Restoran Bak Kut Teh Ah Meng which is located behind old Taman Sentosa KFC.

The only person who will take order is the lady boss and she will never go wrong with your order.  I have yet to experience that she forget to place my order.  They are also not stingy with the portion of meat and soup. 

Yesterday, we went again for our brunch.

Maine with her rice 

Cyn posing with her plate of rice with lots of fried onion

A pot of BKT.  We ordered for 3.5 person share which is more than enough to serve 6 of us

Sarawak Kueh Teow Tomato

Kueh teow tomato can only be found in Sarawak, my hometown.  My hubby and 2 girls have also fall in love with it.

This is not a very difficult dish to DIY at home and I use to do it during weekend and the girls will ask for more. 

This is my version of Sarawak Kueh Teow Tomato.

The recipe 
(source from Cynmainemum.blogspot.com)

The ingredients :
1 pkt Kway Teow - fried with black soy sauce (used the soy sauce from Sarawak) 

100g Sayur Sawi
100g Lean Meat
100g sotong
1 pkt fishballs
garlic
1 tablespoon osyster sauce
3 tablespoons tomato sauce
2 cups of chicken stock
2 tablespoon starch flour
salt to taste

1) Heat some oil in wok and fry kuay teow briefly on high heat. Add soy sause and mix evenly till all kueh teow are evenly brown. Remove from wok and set aside.
2) In the same wok, heat 1 tbsp oil and fry the garlic till fragrant.  Add in lean meat, fish balls & sayur sawi and stir fry till all the ingredient are cooked.  Then, add in the sotong. 
3) Add in the chicken stock and bring to boil
4) Now, mix the starch flour with water and cook till the gravy thickens.
5) To serve, place some fried kueh teow onto a serving plate, and scoop over the gravy.

Kueh Teow Tomato