Jiggly

The next big wave of healthy drink hitting town is promegranate juice. It is high in natural antioxidants which is good for the skin. It is very popular in Korea when I was last there in December. You are spoilt with choices as their supermarket is so well stocked with different brands. So while doing my grocery yesterday, I grab a bottle remembering how good it is to our health.

Anyway, I wanted something jiggly for our dessert tonight. Here is my Fruit Jelly with Pomegranate Juice. yummmmm all my favourites.



What you need

Fresh fruit of your choice (diced)
2 packet of Tropical Jelly (Lemon)
2 cups of pomegranate juice

Method

Boil Pomegranate juice
Mix the boiling juice into the jelly and stir till crystals melted.

Divide into 4 serving cups and add in fruits.

Chill till set and serve cold.

Labels: dessert
Posted by Precious Moments @ 9:27 AM :: (0) comments

Finally back

Finally hubby is back at least for the time being. No news of further travel plans. Yipee.

My health is finally in track. Thanks to C, for that four days of ginseng tea. Thanks mate! You are the best. Not forgetting H for ever so loving and sweet, bought a jar of eye mask for me to nurse my swollen eyes. I am truly touched by your gals's heart and generousity.

Besides family, friendship meant alot to me. That is why I always treasure them and it always breaks my heart when it comes to an end. Nevertheless, my mom always tell me. You only need a few good ones to be around and that is enough. Luckily for me, I got more than a few good ones. hehehehe.... ain't I a lucky gal?

I am truly looking forward to some good quality family time together this weekend.

Since I haven't really been that active in the kitchen for the past weeks. I decided to venture out and made Pulut Serikaya as I needed to use up a packet of coconut milk.

This is my first attempt in making Nonya Kueh. Though I never been a big fan of coconut milk but I always has a soft spot for Bengawan Solo's.

Well, you can see how ugly and unpresentable mine is. I think the heat was too high during the steaming process resulted in an very uneven layer. Wondering how others do theirs. Luckily it tasted not too bad, a verdict from my home food tasters.



recipe adapted from Asian Delights

What you need

7 eggs
300g sugar
5 tbsp plain flour
1/2 tsp yellow colouring
2 tbsp rose water
1 1/2 cup thick coconut milk

500g glutinous rice (soak overnight and drain)
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 cup thick coconut milk for the kaya
1 cup thin coconut milk for the rice base

Method

Mix eggs with sugar and flour until smooth. Add yellow colouring, rose water and thick coconut milk. Set aside.

Place soaked rice in a cake pan. Mix in salt and thin coconut milk. Steam over rapid boiling water for 10 mins. Press down rice firmly and further steam for another 10 mins. Test rice, if not cook, prolong the steaming.

Pour and sieve prepared serikaya topping over steamed rice. Steam over medium to low heat for 12 - 15 mins till kaya set.

Cool before cutting into slices.

So much to do so little left

I haven't been feeling well at all for nearly a whole week. First it was the eye infection which is still not recovering. The redness has subsided tremendously, the pain has mellowed alot but my eyes are still swollen and the blur vision is still here. Luckily the body ache banished after a couple of days and the fever no longer in sight. According to doctor, this is might be a viral and bacteria infection, if the symptom persist for a week, it might be herpes! Gee sounds scary isn't it? Trying another dose of medicine and hopefully it works this time.

Still coping with that, I am down with flu like symptom. My throat was like having someone rubbing sand down my throat, starting a nasty dry cough and though tired but couldn't sleep. I feel so shitty.

But my poor princess hasn't been easy for her too. Though she is up and running but her eyes redness still didn't go away completely. I don't think it is wise for her to be in school despite her wanting so much. I know she is getting really bored.

After my parents dropped by this early morning to give me a dose of herbal drink. I felt much better. I sum up some strength and got her involved in making our little chocolate waffles for tea time.

She had hers with macadamia nuts ice cream and for me, I just had it plain to keep her company.



Though I haven't much appetite lately, the wonderful smell of the chocolate waffles filling the kitchen was really nice and comforting

I better find back my energy by tomorrow morning



Recipe adapted from Chocolate Holidays by Alice Medrich

What you need:

3/4 cup plain flour
2 tbsp castor sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
8 tbsp butter
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup brown sugar (packed)
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla essence


Method

Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Set aside.

Melt the butter over low heat and stir in the cocoa until smooth and hot. Gradually stir in the milk. Off the heat and whisk in the brown sugar and vanilla until the mixture is completely smooth.

Pour over the flour mixture and stir until the dry ingredients are completely moistened.

Preheat the waffle iron. Pour enough batter to fit the waffle maker.

Place the cooked waffles on a rack to cool.

Serve either with ice cream or plain.

Two more days to go

Since we moved here, hubby has been very kind to reduce his travelling because he knows that I am still not really comfortable with rural living.

Well, guess, the day had come that he can no longer indulge me with such privilege. He will be on the road again. This time round, much longer. Well, at least he will try to be a weekend dad and hubby.

Now I have to prepared myself mentality to be once again the daddy, mommy and everything to my kids.

Wanted to bake this sugee cake for the longest time but never really get to it. Wanted to try it partly because of my curiousity how this taste like.

So here I am..... Sugee cake (shared by a forum member). Thanks A! it is really nice except I don't know how come all my nuts and raisins disappeared to (wink) and indeed wasn't that sweet as I would have expected.





Going to bring this to share with the rest of the parent volunteers in son's school tomorrow.

What you need

400 gm Semolina
280 ml Full cream UHT milk
60 ml water

Mix above ingredients together and stir till well mix then cover and soak for 1 hour.

375g butter
285g castor sugar
200g cake flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
5 eggs, separate white and yolk
115g sugar (for the eggs white)
110g chopped mixed nuts (cashew and almond)
60g raisins,chopped

Method

Sieve flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.

Preheat oven to 180°C , lined and greased a 10 inch square tin (I used 2 X 6” + a 9” sq tin)

Cream butter and sugar (285gm) till light and fluffy (do not over beat)

Add in egg yolks one at a time and mix well (high speed)

Add in the soaked semolina mixture and stir well (low speed or stirring speed)

Add in the sieved flours little by little (stirring speed)

Lastly add chopped nuts and raisins.

Whisk egg white and sugar (115gm) till stiff and fold them slowly with a wooden spoon or spatula into the flour mixture, stir till well combine.

Pour cake batter into prepared tin and bake for 45 - 50 minutes or till cooked.

Cool on rack.

TGIF

Hubby has this group of friends who also his mahjong kaki for a long time. Especially T who was away from Singapore for nearly 10 years, he sure seems to miss playing with hubby. Request was turned down when he suggested a game near son's exam. I reckon since now is school holiday, there isn't anymore excuse not to have a game or two.

They are not compulsive gamblers but to them, this is a time for get together. For girls, we grouped together to drink and chat. For guys, I think this is their form of bonding. Though I know about the rules of this game but had never been a fan of this. To me, this is a really a very tiring game, having to sit for hours.

My cousin and his wife, both in medical line took up mahjong (by the way, both hates gambling) just to keep my uncle's brain cell working. According to them, mahjong helps old people to avoid dementia. Well, perhaps some day when hubby is retired and we got no other revenue to exercise our aging brain cell, maybe I will take up this challenge.

For tonight dinner's I decided on Mee Rebus. I have love this dish but always had an impression this is hard to prepare. My biggest surprise was, I didn't even know red meat and coconut were involved in this till I started reading on this recipe.

Well, I was glad that I pull this through. R & H also joined in our dinner and H gave pretty good review on this. For me, I didn't taste it because I was kind of put off by the thought that my favourite actually had coconut milk in it!



recipe adapted from Asian Delights by Betty Yew

What you need:

300g beef (sliced)
8 tbsp oil

Grind
20 dried chillies, seeded
30 shallots
4 cloves garlic
5cm turmeric root
2½ cm galingale
40 black peppercorns
2 tbsp preserved soya beans

900g sweet potatoes, steamed and blended with 1 med sized coconut milk.
3 tbsp rice flour, mixed into a paste with a little water
1 tbsp sugar
2 tsp salt

600g fresh yellow noodles, scalded in boiling water
300g beansprouts, tailed and scalded in boiling water

Garnishes

5 hardboiled eggs, halved
4 stalks spring onion, chopped
5 green chillies, sliced
10 small limes, haved.
Prawn crisps


Method

Heat oil and fry A until fragrant and oil separates. Put in beef and fry for 2 mins, then pour in blended sweet potatoes coconut milk mixture. Bring to boil and lower heat to simmer for 10 mins.

Add rice flour to thicken gravy.

Add salt and sugar. Bring to boil again, turn off heat.

To serve, put noodles, beansprouts into serving dish. Pour hot gravy over and garnish.