Cik Ngah's B'day 2012

My Birthday Cake
Chocolate Moist Cake Covered with Crushed Oreo Cookies,
Elegant and Classy looking cake and delicious too....

This year's birthday Hubby had booked a candlelight steamboat+BBQ at Coconut Groove Beach Restaurant, PD. It was a surprised! Which had brought some minor cupcake blunder!!! He he he..

I was on leave on my birthday and was keen to bake some new recipe that I heard on a cooking show. So I went window shopping that morning of 2nd Feb 2012. Hubby had taken half day leave and I was to pick him up at lunch time. I bought the must have ingredients for the cuppies that is Raspberry!

So we met during lunch and had our lunch at Jaring. Back at home, since Hubby said that he did not plan to go out, I had proceeded to prepare the White Chocolate and Raspberry Cupcakes. Butter and sugar already in mixing bowl, all dry ingredients have been sifted, suddenly Hubby came out of the bedroom asking me what I was doing! He looked surprised and said we need to quickly performed our Asar prayer and went out. We were to depart to PD after his badminton training!

So I had to packed things up and went out after prayer.. Hu hu hu... butter and sugar was left in the mixing bowl! Back from PD, I had to continue making the cuppies though it was already midnight! The cuppies become soggy...bantat org melayu kata!! But my officemates love them!! So that was the story!

Well back to my birthday, I love the cake, it was moist and chocolatey! The idea of covering the cake with crushed oreo cookies is brilliant, that gave me the idea to bake chocolate cake with chocolate topping covered with crushed oreo cookies! Great idea since I do not know how to nicely and neatly glaze or decorate chocolate cake with chocolate ganache, chocolate cream or chocolate topping!!

Thanks Hubby for a nice birthday dinner......

Happy 2012's Birthday Cik Ngah.....

My Favourite Shake - Ramadhan Al Mubarak - 2011

Ramadhan datang lagi dan Alhamdulillah Cik Ngah syukur sgt yg Allah masih memanjangkan umur Cik Ngah utk bertemu dgn Ramadhan tahun ini..Hari ni 2nd day puasa letih sikit, Cik Ngah semalam berbuka dan sahor dirumah mertua di Temerloh, lepas sahor balik KL terus dtg office!!

Dah lama Cik Ngah tak update blog ni, ada resepi baru yg Cik Ngah dah try, tapi belum sempat update.Tunggu yer..Ayam kampung goreng bumbu!

Ramadhan tahun ni Cik Ngah nak cuba banyakkan sahur dgn meal replcacement shake formula+oat+apple+higoat+kurma! Sedap dan berkhasiat! For those on diet and trying to consume oat dgn mudah, Cik Ngah sertakan resepi;

Bahan2:

3 scoops of your meal replacement shake formula - I used Herbalife..

3 scoops of organic oat

1 Apple/Avocado

1 Packet of Hi Goat

3 kurma Ajwa (others also can...)

500ml chill water
Note: For those trying to lower down cholesterol boleh campur cinnamon powder!

Cara:

Blend semua bahan sehingga lumat, sedia utk diminum!!!!

Boleh experiment dgn mcm2 fresh fruits....

Selamat berpuasa semua!!!

Dadih oh Dadih

Dadih Strawberry....
ni gambar ehsan dari web

Cik Ngah tetiba mahu try buat dadih, bila browsing blog masakan Mat Gebu, terjumpa resepi dadih! Rupa-rupanya buat dadih letak CofeeMate.Patutlah adik ipar Cik Ngah hari tu beli byk sgt CofeeMate. Memang adik ipar Cik Ngah ni jual dadih. Tak pernah pulak Cik Ngah tanya resepi kat dia. Hemm baru tahu!

Baru-baru ni anak sedara Cik Ngah yg dah duduk asrama tu pun cakap dia dah suka makan dadih, lagi semangat Cik Ngah nak buat dadih ni. Hubby pun suka.So Cik Ngah google resepi dadih ni, ada macam2 resepi.

Cik Ngah cuba satu resepi ni dan buat setengah darinya. Dalam resepi tu ada tulis anggaran serbuk jelly 2 sudu besar. Cik Ngah letak 1 sudu besar Konyoku serbuk tu..Cik Ngah buat dadih Strawberry, siap letak fresh Strawberry chunk lagi, perisa Bluberry dan Capuchino. Ni semua semalam Cik Ngah buat.Dadih dah sejuk, masuk dlm fridge.

Today, pepagi lagi Cik Ngah dengan eager ni nak try dadih kali pertama buat ni, aik...naper cair jer? Tak jadi! So Cik Ngah masak balik dadih tu dan tambah balik serbuk jelly. Ulang balik process. Tengahari, lepas kemas dan vacuum rumah serta basuh baju bagai, sekali lagi try, masih cair!! Arghh...dah ler Cik Ngah buat 3 perisa; Strawberry, Capuchino and Blueberry.

So masak balik and tambah lagi serbuk jelly, kali ni Cik Ngah tambah 2 sudu teh utk kesemua jelly berperisa tu, 3 kali masak tau..Cik Ngah masak yg Capuchino dulu, letak dlm bekas, masuk freezer, nak tengok whether dah cukup serbuk jelly tu. Alhamdulillah baru ler jadi the dadih texture tu!!! So untuk yg blueberry dan strawberry tu Cik Ngah tambah the same amount of serbuk jelly. Strawberry chunck tu, dah larut napak biji jer!!!!



Gambar ehsan dari wweb.... 



Cik Ngah nak buat lagi sekali, and bila berjaya nanti Cik Ngah share resepi di sini yer... Sabor jerlah, sampai 3 kali ulang process yang sama! Alhamdulillah rasanya sedap!!!Next time Cik Ngah nak cuba guna serbuk dadih dicampur dengan susu segar dan CofeeMate! Nantikan cubaan ke dua Cik Ngah. 

Ok semua till my next attempt of making dadih!!!

Of Rice and Choux Pastry Mishap!!!

Of Rice Mishap!!!

Frankly speaking Cik Ngah ni, is not very knowledgeable in terms of rice types and category -  yang mana ok dan tidak! Only 3 types of rice yang Cik Ngah pernah beli utk stock kat rumah: - Faiza Basmathi Moghul, Faiza Basmathi and Faiza Herba Ponni. Bila pi kedai yang tak der jual antara beras ni , Cik Ngah dah tak tahu nak beli yang mana!

Last Friday 21st Jan, Hubby request untuk masak hari tu, kebetulan balik awallah jugak! Since the rice is out of stock and  also on Sunday Cik Ngah was planning to cook Nasi Arab for Cik Ngah's sister, Cik Ngah suggest kat Hubby to buy rice sekalilah. At first Hubby had asked me to just cook vegetable soup and buy fried rice from the nearby stall.

Since the intention was to buy things for cooking vegetable soup, Hubby stop at 'kedai barang basah'. I went straight to rice sections, however I could not find any familiar brands. So I proceed to the next similar shop nearby. Tak der jugak...so I opted for basmathi rice with another brand - Jasmine.

At home while waiting for the rice to cook, Cik Ngah prepared the vegetable soup. So that nite the menu were fried rice and vegetable soup. When the rice was ready, I noticed that the rice tidak seperti basmathi yang pernah cik ngah guna..macam berpulut sikit...Arghhhh. Okay tak per, may be sebab salah sukatan air kot!!

On saturday morning, Cik Ngah cooked Nasi Lemak! and guess what..Nasi Lemak pun tak jadi! Tak best! Sunday Cik Ngah cooked nasi arab pulak..pun tak berapa jadi - lembik dan macam berpulut!!! Arghh...Tak sukanya...So now what to do? Nak kena habiskan beras yg 5 kilo tu dulu baru boleh beli yang lain!!! Tensionnya...

Chicken Mandy - Picture Source Blog : Saya Penggemar Makanan

Anyway Cik Ngah shall share the Nasi Arab recipe yang cik ngah dah simplifykan in the next entry!!! Dah masuk 3 kali masak Nasi Arab ni. This time around pulak kurang menjadi...!!! Gambar pulak lupa snap!!!

Of Choux Pastry Mishap!!!

On Sunday jugak Cik Ngah buat choux pastry - creme puff punya pastri tu!! Before this dah pernah buat without any problem. That nite before buat Vanila Cream Filling, this one Cik Ngah never did. Kira first time try ler...it turn out marvelous, lemak berkrim dan tak manis sangat. Before this Cik Ngah just use whipping creme to fill in the choux pastry and eat with chocolate sauce - these type, they were called profiteroles!

Profiteroles........... Picture source - google!!!

First mishap happened when Cik Ngah was piping the pastry in the baking tray! Piping bag pecah!!! Ok, tak per, Cik Ngah proceed to just made the pastry into balls. Ready, off to oven and bake for 15 - 20 min. And voila..tak jadi! Arghhh... Malas nak ceritalah..but bottom line tak jadi. But I just procced to cut and filled the balls with the pre-prepared filling. Bila makan sedaplah, tapi tak nampak macam creme puff!!

Cik Ngah akan share the recipe when the pastry tu jadi yer..together with the Vanila Cream Filling. Banyak recipes cik ngah kumpul, and the one ynag Cik Ngah buat tu sedap, so I will stick to the onelah for Vanlla Cream Filling..Tungguu......