some not-to-bad baking

I was never in the baking thing. As I mentioned before, there's a well-built oven in my kitchen and no one uses it except me. Since I'm having a 2-months long holiday, I listed down what I'm going to do and BAKING is one of it.


First thing I do is re-challenge muffin. Again, I failed. Somemore im using cups this time with cute bears. Wasted my money.
Failed as in it didn't taste chocolatey. The bitter taste of excess vanilla essence is all what I tasted on the first bite. Edible, but you won't want to finish even one muffin.

Mum told me not to do muffin ANYMORE.

So the next thing is COOKIES! Chocolate cookies without chips.
Here're them in the oven. I even made them in HEART SHAPE!



I can't say it is very delicious compared to Famous Amos but it's way much better than muffin.
I made a lot. Mom still disagree with cookie. She asked for cakes. Simple cakes as my family aren't cookie lover.

So I picked up the most simple recipe from internet, and the one I kept in my notebook years ago. Follow two recipes to make the simplest butter cake.

It doesn't looks attractive but it's tasty! And it was finished in a day! Finally something that my family likes. So I bake another one after a week.


This one looks like banana cake.By mentioning banana cakes, attention to my primary school friends! I always have a image of our class teacher forcing our classmate (a guy) to eat banana cake and he refused! Because he HATES banana cake! Do you all remember who is he?! I have the image with blurred face. It's either leow zi hao or lee man djun. anyone remembers???

After trying butter cake, I made cheesecake that I'm very familiar with.
I baked it. It's no longer chilled. And I made this conclusion that baked cheesecake taste yummier than chilled!

Again, with the cracks, it doesn't looks tempting.

This cake was finished within 2 days.
Proved that cakes are the most welcomed in my home.
Next time I should make more cakes instead of cookies and the never-going-to-success muffins.



I used the remaining ingredient from cheesecakes and made douphinoise potatoes.
This was quite energy consuming as I had to layered the sliced potatoes. gah.
This time it was abit watery because I added too much milk!!!


That's all about one of the thing I did during my holiday! I think it's quite meaningful. At least something contributing to the house lah. Also showed evidently that im talented in making simple cake. heeheehee.






Lastly, a random picture taken by HTC Desire. Whaddaya think?

random !

Thursday night, which is the night I recovered from fever, yet still have flu and cough.

Mahjung is so attractive and I can't stand it's charm!
Knowing I am not fully recover, I went to Harn Wei's place to play!

Today our new kaki is harn jean's friend, jun hong.

This boy is really lucky. I mean, he doesn't really lose to us! We played from 10pm to 2.30am, I think he won for twenty rounds =)

Rounds that Harn Wei and I won, not more than 10 i think.

And the chips which replace the money (ehem, we don't gamble. Mahjung is actually a healthy game._) was redistribute twice.

What to do? He won all of our chips. Or else, we are highly in debt.
the next day harn wei suggested us to rematch. I agree.
I just don't believe he is so that lucky!

Friday afternoon, my lunch is Asam Laksa fr Hai Ping.
yummy. always my choice.


That evening, I made my 3rd douphinoise potato aka baked potato.
But this time I used the muffin can.

First the size is almost the same as the potato slice.
Second, isn't it cute to be served in mini round shape?
This time, is very successful because everyone who had tried it gave me a thumb up!

Dad said:"Next time if we want to get a nice baked potato, we can have it at home!"Hurray !!!

Saturday morning, I was in SMK Tanah Putih.
Debate competition organized by Xue Hai is here again!

I am participating in that since form3 while I was elected as secretary.
But I wasn't doing good that time. Lack of experience and some responsibility.


Here's my timer and me, the host of first round!


Evening, had some fun time with my Ponyo and I discover she has grow a little bit.
Although she is not that cutey fat puppy like when I found her.
Anyway, I still love you.
Ponyo, can u stop biting my fingers or leg everytime u sees me?
Ouch.

Last but not least, Earth Hour !
Don't forget okay??

Vote Earth by switching off your lights at 28 March, 8.30pm to 9.30pm!

My own Douphinoise Potato.

I am showing my passion to potatoes lately.

Potato is one of the best thing ever comes to my life.
Whatever food cooked by mama or grandma that contains potato such as potato soup, curry chicken, pork, and so on, I finish all the potatoes instead of the meat.
You don't think that I'm wasting the animal who died just to be my dinner.

It is just the potato has the charm *huhu* and it chews like meat.

Not all food made from potato will attracts me. I dislike french fries and potato chips.
It is soooo fattening.

Boiled potato has zero calories but fried potato contains calories that will caused u fat.
They are like oil sponge. The oil amount they adsorbed during cooking are as same as their size.

So don't eat so much potato chips and fries lah.

I done some searching in the internet for recipe of potatoes food especially western style.
Since spicy isn't my thing and cheesy creamy are always my choice so the western will suits me the best.

Yeah I got hundreds of result so I start it with the douphinoise potato that I'm addicted to lately.
I mentioned in my previous post.

Ingredients needed are of course potatoes, double cream, some milk, cheese, salt, black pepper, and thyme as u prefer.

Double cream. Hmm, I wonder where to get it since it isn't a common food in supermarket. So I went to Carrefour but they didn't sell it.
Then I went to some bakery shop they tell me they don't sell double cream.
The weather is freaking hot during afternoon and I start feeling irritated.
Until I went to Sherwood, my uncle told me double cream is actually whipped cream.

*deng* *deng* *deng*

I walked to Pantai Selamat. it cost Rm16 per litre but I don bring enough cash and dare not to borrow from my uncle.

(got scolded by my mom coz I ask her to buy for me instead of borrow $ from my uncle. sigh.)

In the end I drove back to Carrefour and bought the whipped cream using my debit card.

Okay, end of the story of ingredients buying.

Boiled the potatoes, sliced it, cooked the cream, then arrange it layer by layer into a container then baked!

Before I baked, I start questioning myself.
The douphinoise potato in croc rock doesn't look like this.
Why mine is so wattery? (the photo below)


Nvm, I was way too excited and quickly sent it into oven.

*tick tock tick tock*

After half an hour, I can smell the creamy outside the oven.
Oohlala. Took a deep breathe and smiled.

Take it out and the result is like this.Golden and a bit brownish. Exactly what it described in the recipe.

I cut some and eat.

During the cut I knew this wasn't douphinoise potato because a lot of milk dashing out between layers!

It looks like this, tell me it is attracting!


Nice huh?

It taste just fine, a bit less salt, the potato are soft enough, the cream is nice =)


There was some failure, however I consider it is success because it can be eat.

Haha, since I still have some potato so I decided to try again tmr.

On 2nd experiment, I used a smaller container and it is heart shape! awwh.
My mom thought I gonna make for my lover because the next day is Valentine's day.
haha, if I have a lover I will do it too.

This time I reduced the ammount of milk and cream, but added some Gouda cheese and more salt in the cream.
Sprinkled some black pepper in between layers and more cheeeese.


Tada!!!! this is how it looks like!


taste? aaargh. too much salt.

But still, not the douphinoise potato I want.
More to mashed potato.

Conclution : far better than yesterday!

3rd experiment coming soon!!!!

Goodnight!

shyong's birthday celebration

Recently the I decrease the time of blogging. Not purposely but I just don't know what to write.

Last wednesday we sort of celebrate voon voon's birthday at crocodile rock.
I ordered my fav douphinoise potato of course.

read her post for pics : voon voon

oh ya, i hvt blog here bout shyong's birthday celebration last wednesday.
since we are now friends so I just post my pics la.

this is his birthday cake from Secret Recipe.
then we went to crocodile rock at 10pm to eat something. our stomach is starving.

this is ee loe.

I don't know what he said then I pick up my fork to stab him!

Then my food is served : Salmon Spaghetti.

I love creamy and cheesy food =*

My first time order Douphinoise Potato and fell in love with it.
delicious!
he feeds me!

I am busy making my own douphinoise potato recently.

Made this decision at the night v celebrate birthday with voon voon.
But it ends up like mashed potato.
aaaawh.
gotta tried a few more times hoping to make the best!

I will success!

I am STILL reading the last chapter of harry porter.
Few pages a day before sleep.. haha.

41 urge me to write a post.