Raspberry Souffle & Char Kway Teow

I think this souffle experiment has been on going for some time. LOL. this is the third and finally successful experiment! YAY MATT!



First attempt of the day.




Tak jadi. Overflowed. =(



Finally success on third try of the day!! =D



Deflated after about 5 mins of photo taking. lol.



Matt has got real skill. =P



Although this looks pretty ugly, its actually pretty good!! HAHA. char kway teow courtesy of Prima Taste pack from Singapore, pad thai noodles, chinese sausages and egg! My Mexican housemate liked it so much he ate three bowls of this and kept fighting for more. ROFL.



Looks better here! Tastes good although it doesnt have the wok fire taste, cuz my stove is not a gas stove and I dont have a wok. =(



Just a pic of the vege accompaniment. heh. to prove that I eat veges mum!

Pad Thai

Was just one of those days we didnt feel like dressing up in a suit just to go to school for lunch. So we made instant Pad Thai with an all inclusive pack gotten from Bangkok! it had the noodles, spices, sauce and toppings, just add egg and meat/seafood and bean sprouts. We added egg and minced beef leftovers which was marinated with mirin and soy sauce.





Tasted absolutely yummy!! Sweet and just salty enough. Packet enuf for two.

Chocolate pie, Barbeque Chicken Wings, Wanton Mee & Apple Crumble!

Chocolate Custard Pie!



First we made cookie crumbs. LOL ingenious idea.



Then we added butter, flour & sugar to shape it into a crust and baked it.



Next the chocolate custard!!! Chocolate, sugar, cornstarch and cream.




Naked Chocolate Custard Pie.



Whip the cream.



Finished chocolate custard pie, ready to serveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!







=)




G's aunty's famous CNY barbequed wings, marinate with Char Siu sauce, garlic, ginger and sugar.



yummmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!



Trial run of char siu/siu yuk combi in one.



Vege.



Swiss wantan mee. >.<"



Complete wantan mee!



Apple crumble!





Almost empty apple crumble pan. Eaten with vanilla cream. =)


.BLISS.

Baking Day

In an attempt to get rid of leftover salami and cheese, we made a quick appetizer while waiting for our leftover chicken rice to heat up/steam.



And we came up with croque madame! AWESOME. LOL


Its just grilled buttered bread, topped with salami, cheese slice and a sunny side up egg. =D

Then on Sunday, when a huge wave of procrastination hit, we set out to test our new CHF20 mixer! haha. First we made Chocolate Cream Pie which hasnt finished yet cuz its still being chilled overnight. Then, we made an attempt on Viennese Fingers. Sadly...... the recipe we took off Marie Claire didnt turn out anything well, cuz we had a very dry dough which kinda fell apart when we piped it out. In the end, instead of piping, we just rolled the dough into mini balls and flattened them on the baking sheet.



Lousy recipe really. Ended up with really crumbly biscuits which had a very sandy texture to it and not sweet enough.



Baked cookies which were kinda crumbling apart.



This was the only attempt that succeeded being dipped in chocolate without crumbling into the melted chocolate.


We gave up on dipping and proceeded on dolloping chocolate on the cookies instead. >.<"



Since we had 1kg of fresh HUGE strawberries in the fridge, we made use of the rest of the melted chocolate to make chocolate coated strawberries!!!



Not enough chocolate to coat all properly. but they tasted GOOD all the same.



Best looking chocolate covered strawberry!!


Next entry: Chocolate cream pie. =DDDDDDD

Belated Chap Goh Mei

Since the BBQ session wasnt so grand, we had a second belated Chap Goh Mei dinner 3 days after the actual day.



Basically the menu of the day was Hainanese Chicken Rice (already in the red bowls), Jiaozi (Pork & Chives Chinese dumplings) and Long Beans with Pork Belly, accompanied by our self made Bubble Tea as dessert. =)



Our mountain of Jiaozi, which was made without chives this time but with water chestnuts for that extra crunch.



The best looking Jiaozi/Woh Tip. We actually steamed them on plastic plates first before pan frying, but most of them got stuck to the plate during the steaming process, causing them to break when we transfered them from the plate to the frying pan. Later we devised a tactic where we covered the plastic plates with aluminium foil and lightly greased the foil before placing the raw Jiaozi on to steam, and it worked pretty well. Later I was told that noone steams Jiaozi. >.<" We were supposed to boil them in a shallow pan for a while before draining the water then pan fry them on the same pan. Oh well. Next time.

Heart shaped Jiaozi skin.



Jiaozi is supposed to be eaten with julliened ginger and Chinese vinegar. Although it doesnt look very well jullienned here. haha.



Vege of the day. Long beans stir fried with salted pork belly, onions, garlic, chilli and just a bit of salt and pepper. Very nice indeed. =D



And finally, topped off with Bubble Tea, made from Tapioca Pearls boiled in honey, and Lipton milk tea. Although supposingly its best with condensed milk or coffeemate powder.

End of the CNY 2010 celebrations although not the end of the cooking & eating sessions!

Chap Goh Mei

IMG_1071, originally uploaded by alienstargurlz.

Our little BBQ on the balcony to celebrate the 15th day of Chinese New Year 2010.
Chicken wings, Beefs slices, Pigs in a blanket, Mushrooms, Capsicums and Prawns!

CNY 2010

Incomplete Yee Sang



Yee Sang!! Made with carrots, radish, pomelo, pickled ginger, yam, green mango, kaffir lime leaves, lettuce, red,green,yellow capsicums, sesame seeds, chopped peanuts.



We used wanton skin as the crunchy bits, jellyfish, salmon, spring onions, 5 spice powder and lime juice for garnish.



Deep fried vegetarian spring rolls



epic fail jiaozi.. too much water in the dough and not enough flour, causing the jiaozi to stick together until we cooked them. And of course! they had to fall apart.



1st spread.



lou hei!



2nd spread including siu mai and lap cheong fan (chinese sausage rice)

Some ingredients were sourced from Geneva, and even imported directly from Brunei. Although everything didnt really turn out as it should have, we were all still happy to have gotten a decent chinese new year reunion dinner even though we were stuck in a village in the middle of the Swiss Alps. =D

Happy Tiger Year!