Moi Choi Cow Yoke

On May Day, I cooked dinner for in-law family. It was quite sometime since the last I cooked for them. Probably was CNY ;p Here is the recipe to share:

Ingredients: (4-6 pax)

(1) 8g five spices powder
(2) 800g "fua yoke" with skin (cut them into square/rectangular size)
(3) 350g "tim moi choy"
(4) 350ml cooking oil

Sauces:
3 spoons of black sauce;
8 spoons of soya sauce;
6 spoons of osyter sause;
6 spoons of "fua diew" alcohol
1/4 cup of water

Note: You may change the porpotion of sauces as you like.

How to prepare:
1. Soup the "tim moi choi" for 1 hour. Raise it. Then cut them into 2-3cm per piece.
2. Marinated the "fua yoke" with five spices powder and 4 spoons of soya sauce for 1 hour.
3. Dry the marinated "fua yoke".
4. Heat up the wok with cooking oil. Then fried them until 80% cooked. Cut it into 1-1.5cm thick per slice.
5. Place the "tim moi choi" on top of the fried "fua yoke" slices then add all the mixture of sauces into it.
6. You may choose to steam or stew:
Steam => Steam using medium fire for 2.5 hours.
Stew => Stew using small fire for 2 hours. Watch out the gravy will be dried up during the process.

Sweet Man-Tou

Hi, today I discovered a very easy way to make man-tou. I am a man-tou lover but find very difficult to make a good and easy one. Finally I found a way and would like to share ;)

Ingredients (Approx. 15 pcs)
200g Pancake Mixtures
80g Icing Sugar (You may reduce if you don't like so sweet)
80ml Water

Optional: Red beans paste, peanuts butter, Mocha & etc...

How:
1. Put all the ingredients into a bowl and mix it well.
2. Roll the dough to cylinder shape and cut it to the size you like. You also may fil it up with fillings.
3. Steam the dough for 20 mins.

Don't wait. Buy a pack of pancake mixture and try it out!

Moo-Moo Babies

I guess Moo-Moo year is a great year although bad economic and political situation. So many news of Moo-Moo babies one after another. I also one of the Moo-Moo mom, my baby Moo-Moo will be arriving in June.

Early of the morning, received a very good sms from someone who close to me. He was sharing the news of getting a Moo-Moo baby in October. I feel extremely happy and excited for them. Especially they had tried years to get a baby. What's a good news in the morning cheer-up the day.

Then later in the noon, my best friend sms me and told me her little boy arrived safely early of the morning ;) ;) ;) This is her 2nd child. Everytime during her labor, she is making the statement no more baby then. But later looking at the adorable baby, she will forget everything and only remember during labor. Kakakaka...

P/S: Welcome all the Moo-Moo babies!

Muffins Baking

Last weekend I bought some cooking books. One of the book is cupcakes and muffins. Then mom told me that she would like to try some muffins.

Since hubby is going for photographer class over the weekend, thus I decided to use the free time to make some muffins for mom & in-laws.

The costs of making muffins are low, I spent less than MYR15 to make the following:

10 nos. big chocolate muffins

10 nos. small chocolate muffins

25 nos. small chocolate chips muffins

10 nos. small mixed fruits muffins

10 nos. small corn flake muffins

06 nos. small nuts muffins

To pack these muffins as gifts, I put them into nice packaging. Personally I think foods alway are a pacakage = Taste + Outlook + Packaging. A simple plastic bag with a colour ribbon is enough to light up the gift.

Macaron Baking Class

Today I went for a macaron baking class at Big Boys Oven. The teacher called Sunny and has a partner called Sid. English, Mandarin and Cantonese were used in the class. So, you wouldn't have any languages problem at all.

It is a great session! There were only five students in the class. Surprised me was there was 1 to 1 hand on session for the amount of fees paid. Each of us make a favour of macaron. And the end of the class, each of us got to bring home a box of macaron made by ourself and exchange some other favours with other students.

My macaron is black seaseme favour with durian filing. The result wasn't good as I had over beaten the white egg. During the heating session, the macaron has cracked ;( Sob, sob, sob. I told myself, imprefection is a type of beauty as well to comfort my own feeling.

P/S:

Sunny and Sid were great host! They even served us with different type of macaron, cakes and cupcakes for tea break! Yummy, yummy, yummy ;) If you are interested, you may find more information about Big Boys Oven at

http://bigboysoven.blogspot.com/

Recycle Craft

This is a very simple craft using the recycle materials as following:

01. Ice-cream sticks;
02. Round mineral bottle;

03. Cutter; and

04. Glue - UHU/Wooden

Note: Add on with a money plant, it will light up the craft a lot!

Pig's Nose Octopus

A friend opened a food stall called Octopus Grilled. The stall sells variety of grilled foods. The chef called 'Octopus". Thus, I made a pig's nose Octopus for her business opening.

She asked me why pig's nose? In Chinese believe, pig is the wealth symbol for business - "Chu Loong Yap Sui". Beside, it is more cartoon feel with the pig's nose instead of the octopus's nose. See catch people attention ;D

Anyway, wishing her all the best for new venture of business!