KookyCulinary

I love crepes. It’s so versatile. You can have it anytime of the day. Slather it up with orange marmalade or strawberry jelly/jam, you can have it for breakfast. Fill it up with savory filling like tuna or chicken salad, you can have it for lunch and for my favorite crepe, fill it with ice-cream, banana, chocolate sauce & whipped cream, you’ll have an amazing dessert!!

Recipe:
60 gm butter - melted & cooled
3 eggs - beaten
125 gm plain flour
250 ml milk
20 gm sugar
Pinch of salt

• Sieve flour into a big bowl. Make a hole in the middle
• Add the other ingredients one at a time &  mix it together gradually & whisk till it is well-mixed. Strain if there are lumps.
• Heat up a pan on medium heat & pour one scoop of mixture onto pan. Swirl all around to make a thin layer. Remove when bottom is golden brown. I actually only cook on one side since it is very thin. If preferred, you can flip it over & cook both side.

After last year’s attempt at making snowskin (ping pei) mooncake, I decided that for this year I wanted to try making baked mooncake instead. After all I did lug back the heavy mooncake mold from Malaysia, so I better make full use of it. But as the mooncake festival draws closer, the lazy bug in me kicked in & I really was not in the mood to make it. But this weekend, 2 days to mooncake festival with my 2nd batch of salted egg just screaming to be used, I finally got off my lazy behind & made mooncakes.

Many many hours later………….. Mooncakes, anyone???

Look at how my salted egg yolk turned out! They look so nice & orange.
Just what I needed for mooncakes.

Before baking

After it has been cut. Lotus paste mooncake with 1 egg yolk. In case you are wondering about the black spots, those are sunflower seeds. I couldn’t find “kuaci” so thought that sunflower seeds were a good substitute. Unfortunately, I don’t really like it. I guess I should have just used all lotus paste. But overall, I still need to do some minor tweaking but still pretty happy the way they turned out.

For mooncake recipes & step-by-step instructions, check out Jo’s Deli .  

Ever since my little one started pre-school 2 weeks ago, I started packing lunch for her because after school, I will bring her to the park or mall depending on the weather. She’s not a very good eater so in order to encourage her to eat, I started making Bento lunches. I find that she’s enjoying her food more when I make Bentos. I will be including the Bentos in this blog just for fun.

Here’s a couple of the bentos I did during the 1st week of school.

Bento #1: Turkey sandwich, cheese, celery with peanut butter, cherry tomatoes on a stick & dip.

Bento #2: Homemade mini hotdog bun, string cheese on a stick & grapes. Pretzels & wafer cookie were for snack time.

Welcome, welcome!!!  Thank you for dropping by!! Please, have a seat, relax, put up your feet & make yourself at home . . . 

Here’s some coffee . . . . .

How about some donuts? 

Or maybe some roti canai?

Look around, drop me a comment or 2, & hope you enjoy this new place. Do come back and visit often, ok??? :P 

I’m baccckkkk…. I survived my little gal’s first week of pre-school!! If you are interested, see here & here for details. How about starting this week with some sugar-high??? Donuts, anyone???

When I saw these mini jelly donuts, I thought they were so cute! So I decided to try them out. I omitted the jelly filling & went a little crazy with the shapes again. You may have noticed I have been using my cookie cutters a lot recently. It’s because I have a little helper who’s been invading my kitchen recently, so I’ve been trying to find recipes that she can “help” me!! : )

Oops, I digress, back to the donuts, they were really yummy! Without the jelly & with lots of powdered sugar, they taste just like the famous beignets from Cafe du Monde in New Orleans. Thanks EMWK for sharing the recipe! I’ll definitely be making this again.

Sorry for the lack of update this week. For those that requested for recipes, I haven’t forgotten. I will put it up ASAP. Sorry! It’s my little gal’s 1st week of pre-school this week so life has been a little crazy. On a side note, she did very well on the 1st day of school even though this is the first time she’s attending without me Anyway, will be back next week with the overdue recipes and some new ones too.

After a taste of the bak kua I bought in Canada, it triggered off a craving for it. Since I can’t buy it here, I had to make it myself.

Here it is before going into the oven for the drying process.

After the drying process, cut into little pieces & throw them on the grill . . .

Nice grill marks! Almost there……..

Tada….. the final product. Looks a litte burnt but that’s the way I like it. Yum, so good! I might be a little biased but I think it taste better than the ones I bought! hahaha……

I was going through my blog when I realized that I had forgotten all about the award that Hijack Queen passed to me a long time ago. Sorry HQ! So here it is, a lot late but better than never, right? Thank you very very much!

It’s labor day weekend and that means a 3 day weekend for us. Usually on a long weekend, we will try to go out of town but this weekend, we decided to hang around locally, explore some local attractions and pig-out instead!!

Started off the weekend with steamboat. Clear ikan bilis (anchovies) soup on one side and spicy tomyum on the other. Loaded with lots of veg, mushroom, fishball, eggs and noodles, it was a very satisfying meal!! What do you like in your steamboat??