God works in mysterious ways and it's amazing how when we take the time to share and talk to others that God reveals things to us. Some of the things I've learnt or am reminded of tonight...
1) Do not compare what other people are going thru with what I'm going thru because we are all called to different paths. I have my own race to run
2) Whatever I am going thru, nothing can COMPARE to what Jesus went through on the cross. He died and shed his blood for ALL. He didnt have to but he did, he sacrificed himself to save the world.
3) When I keep postponing the promtings from the Holy Spirit, I will find myself not being able to hear God's voice clearly because I have distant myself as well as put other clutter in between.
4) I am put on earth as a vessel for him, an instrument to be used by him. So no matter where I am, what I'm doing I need to remind myself that I am doing it unto the Lord
5) What he gives he can take away. When he blesses me financially or with relationships or with resources..it is my responsibility to make full use of it because it belongs to God, not me. What he gives he can take away.
6) Men can fail us but God's love will always be there, his word stays the same now and forever
7) Seeds that we sow today may not be seen, but goes towards eternal fruits therefore do not be discourage at the seeds we sow but do not see the harvest in our time.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Ripe bananas
Spent the day at mum's today watching chinese dvds and when I saw ripe bananas with the skin so brown I have to do something about it. Yes I decided to make banana muffins because they were quick and easy. I mixed in tiny bits of M&Ms into the mixture so the outcome came out abit colourful but you could smell the wonder aroma of the bananas which is my favourite part!
Banana M&M muffins ready just in time for sisters afternoon tea!
Banana M&M muffins ready just in time for sisters afternoon tea!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
SUn, DvD and Baking!
Today I had a really relaxing enjoyable day baking and watching you've got mail at ken's place with nette and Hsu Lynn.
We baked egg tarts which turned out alright even though the dough was stickier and seems different to when baking at my own place. It's strange but I think baking in other people's place using thier ovens and ingredients can make such a difference! Ok maybe it's just me...need to be more accurate.
After baking the egg tarts, we decided to bake lemon cake because we had a lemoon?? Nette tried looking for other things to bake like...cheesecake....marble cake....but we didnt have some of the ingredients needed. We really wanted to get rid of the lemon and the butter that I melted haha....so so...Nette made Lemon cake which turned out great! Even Ken said it was good hehe..
While baking the cake in the oven, ken was our bartender....making us cocktails and drinks...and Hsu went to get her hair cut and came back for a second hair cut by Nette. I must say..Nette was like a baker and a hairdresser...so anyone wanting haircuts should find her hahaha
When the cake was finally done, I felt like doing something to the plain cake so I decorated the lemon cake with lemon icing to make it look pretty but turned out it was quite sweet. However, ken thought it was just right...I think he has a sweet tooth like me. The sliced lemon on top was just for deco and for the picture. The icing was flowing down frm the cake making it look like an overloaded icing cake.
Even though it looked quite WHITE, when cut it is nice inside and when eaten the texture was just right! Well dong NettE!
So as you can tell...we were pretty much "sweeten" out for the day and me drinking coffee and cocktails with it made me feel like i'm on a little holiday! It was fun..I felt like uni when it was holiday time and we just bummed around enjoying doing nothing and just relax...the best part was the sun was out and I was sitting on the bean bag getting tanned but it got tooooo hot so I migrated to the sofa. I am starting to feel SUMMER is approaching and the smell of BBQs and fish and chips!
For those of you who want the recipe for the egg tarts here they are:
INGREDIENTS
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 pinch salt
• 140 g Butter
• 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 & 1/2 - 2 tablespoons water (just enough to mix and form a nice dough)
Filling:
• 1 cup water
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 6 Tablespoon evaporated milk
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 200 Degrees C
Dough:
In a large bowl, mix flour and salt and sugar together.
Blend in butter with a pastry cutter or knife until mixture resemble coarse crumbs.
In a small bowl, beat the egg with the cold water. Stir the egg mixture into the flour mixture to form a soft dough. Handle lightly don’t knead to get a more flaky crust.
Wrap with plastic and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
When dough is ready mould them into prepared greased muffin trays or egg tart shells. Depending on the thickness of how you want your pastry shell, divide dough in parts. I divide mine into 12 - 14 using greased muffin trays.
While waiting for the dough prepare the filling
Filling:
In a saucepan over low heat, stir water and sugar until sugar dissolves. Measure 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons of the resulting syrup and set aside to cool. I put this in the fridge to quicken the process.
In a large bowl, combine eggs, evaporated milk and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Strain once then second time into reserved syrup and mix well. Pour into prepared tart shells or muffin tray.
Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown and filling is set.
YUM YUM taste like thes one in the shops!!
NOTE: Depending on your oven and pastry, I normally preheat the oven once I've prepared to mould the dough into the muffin tray so that the oven does not get too hot to burn the pastry.
We baked egg tarts which turned out alright even though the dough was stickier and seems different to when baking at my own place. It's strange but I think baking in other people's place using thier ovens and ingredients can make such a difference! Ok maybe it's just me...need to be more accurate.
After baking the egg tarts, we decided to bake lemon cake because we had a lemoon?? Nette tried looking for other things to bake like...cheesecake....marble cake....but we didnt have some of the ingredients needed. We really wanted to get rid of the lemon and the butter that I melted haha....so so...Nette made Lemon cake which turned out great! Even Ken said it was good hehe..
While baking the cake in the oven, ken was our bartender....making us cocktails and drinks...and Hsu went to get her hair cut and came back for a second hair cut by Nette. I must say..Nette was like a baker and a hairdresser...so anyone wanting haircuts should find her hahaha
When the cake was finally done, I felt like doing something to the plain cake so I decorated the lemon cake with lemon icing to make it look pretty but turned out it was quite sweet. However, ken thought it was just right...I think he has a sweet tooth like me. The sliced lemon on top was just for deco and for the picture. The icing was flowing down frm the cake making it look like an overloaded icing cake.
Even though it looked quite WHITE, when cut it is nice inside and when eaten the texture was just right! Well dong NettE!
So as you can tell...we were pretty much "sweeten" out for the day and me drinking coffee and cocktails with it made me feel like i'm on a little holiday! It was fun..I felt like uni when it was holiday time and we just bummed around enjoying doing nothing and just relax...the best part was the sun was out and I was sitting on the bean bag getting tanned but it got tooooo hot so I migrated to the sofa. I am starting to feel SUMMER is approaching and the smell of BBQs and fish and chips!
For those of you who want the recipe for the egg tarts here they are:
INGREDIENTS
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 pinch salt
• 140 g Butter
• 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 & 1/2 - 2 tablespoons water (just enough to mix and form a nice dough)
Filling:
• 1 cup water
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 6 Tablespoon evaporated milk
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 200 Degrees C
Dough:
In a large bowl, mix flour and salt and sugar together.
Blend in butter with a pastry cutter or knife until mixture resemble coarse crumbs.
In a small bowl, beat the egg with the cold water. Stir the egg mixture into the flour mixture to form a soft dough. Handle lightly don’t knead to get a more flaky crust.
Wrap with plastic and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
When dough is ready mould them into prepared greased muffin trays or egg tart shells. Depending on the thickness of how you want your pastry shell, divide dough in parts. I divide mine into 12 - 14 using greased muffin trays.
While waiting for the dough prepare the filling
Filling:
In a saucepan over low heat, stir water and sugar until sugar dissolves. Measure 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons of the resulting syrup and set aside to cool. I put this in the fridge to quicken the process.
In a large bowl, combine eggs, evaporated milk and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Strain once then second time into reserved syrup and mix well. Pour into prepared tart shells or muffin tray.
Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown and filling is set.
YUM YUM taste like thes one in the shops!!
NOTE: Depending on your oven and pastry, I normally preheat the oven once I've prepared to mould the dough into the muffin tray so that the oven does not get too hot to burn the pastry.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Yay it's Friday
I need a job....otherwise im going abit insane but other than that it was good ken and nette asked me out for coffee so we went to Kenzie nearby. Kenzie is located on 557 Manukau Rd, Epsom. It is my weekly coffee place because it's near home.
I really like thier coffee and soy chocolate here. Basically, anywhere that does allpress coffee I like. They sell cabinet food as well as cooked food.
French toast:
Mushroom and some saussage thingy with soggy harshbrown at the bottom...
After lunch at home, went to mum and baked more red bean flakey pastry cookies and afternoon, went to get stuff for tomorrow's steam boat and I couldnt resist NOT buying Ma lai Koh from the tofu shop. I really like these kind of bread and in Malaysia/Singapore I would always look out for these and buy them for snacks. In KL in early morning markets they sell them and have different flavours like Pandan and those pink ones I have no idea what they are called!
Anyway so much food to eat during the day, I so need a job so that I can get moving and keep myself away from them!!
Ma Lai Koh can also be found in Yum Char but I think the only ones that does it is in Grand park...
I think there is a Malay type and a Hong Kong type Ma Lai Koh but I like them both!
They are so soft, so spongy, so light and rich at the same time...and not too sweet...I think the similarity is that they are both like egg steam cake. I remember having a durian egg steam cake from Takashimaya in Singapore. They could be baked too but I guess it doesnt matter how they are made as long as it's nice.
Ohh I bought Tar sar peah too because I love them too! Tofu shop charge like double the price of RM...obviously and it was brought from Malaysia. I have to stock up on them when I go back because I finished all the ones I bought in June this year all by myself...
Well i enjoyed the cake with a nice cuppa Aik Cheong Coffee packet ones always taste good....What would we do without them??? Buy more coffee frm outside or maybe drink less which is better for me...
I really like thier coffee and soy chocolate here. Basically, anywhere that does allpress coffee I like. They sell cabinet food as well as cooked food.
French toast:
Mushroom and some saussage thingy with soggy harshbrown at the bottom...
After lunch at home, went to mum and baked more red bean flakey pastry cookies and afternoon, went to get stuff for tomorrow's steam boat and I couldnt resist NOT buying Ma lai Koh from the tofu shop. I really like these kind of bread and in Malaysia/Singapore I would always look out for these and buy them for snacks. In KL in early morning markets they sell them and have different flavours like Pandan and those pink ones I have no idea what they are called!
Anyway so much food to eat during the day, I so need a job so that I can get moving and keep myself away from them!!
Ma Lai Koh can also be found in Yum Char but I think the only ones that does it is in Grand park...
I think there is a Malay type and a Hong Kong type Ma Lai Koh but I like them both!
They are so soft, so spongy, so light and rich at the same time...and not too sweet...I think the similarity is that they are both like egg steam cake. I remember having a durian egg steam cake from Takashimaya in Singapore. They could be baked too but I guess it doesnt matter how they are made as long as it's nice.
Ohh I bought Tar sar peah too because I love them too! Tofu shop charge like double the price of RM...obviously and it was brought from Malaysia. I have to stock up on them when I go back because I finished all the ones I bought in June this year all by myself...
Well i enjoyed the cake with a nice cuppa Aik Cheong Coffee packet ones always taste good....What would we do without them??? Buy more coffee frm outside or maybe drink less which is better for me...
Monday, August 4, 2008
Another attempt in egg tarts
I am trying to alter my egg tarts so that the pastry is a little more flaky and crumbly and hopefully one day try different types of pudding such as kaya, panda, green tea, red bean??
Here was the results of my baking today:
It didnt turn out as nice as I would like it. The egg was not enough but the pastry was not very thick - I think I need todo the dough properly as in have the right amount of ingredients etc to give it the right texture.
It was too airy inside when I ate the egg tart, it was very thin. I think I preferred the other recipie better ;P
Here was the results of my baking today:
It didnt turn out as nice as I would like it. The egg was not enough but the pastry was not very thick - I think I need todo the dough properly as in have the right amount of ingredients etc to give it the right texture.
It was too airy inside when I ate the egg tart, it was very thin. I think I preferred the other recipie better ;P
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