things i made recently

Atta raisin scones with red dates tea.
Atta mixed fruit and nut steam bun.

Yoga Bread

I love baking bread. I love kneading them more. Sometimes I practise taichi bread, sometimes shaolin kongfu bread. Today, i did a yoga bread.

It was meditative. I watched every stroke and breath mindfully.

The result was pleasant. It was a great work out, all sweat out. I felt blissful.

Oven Thermometer & Canon 300D = Orange Cake

The above 2 things make so much difference in the results. Right tools help.

This recipe is from "PERFECT PICNICS" Published by Hermes House. I got it from Big book Shop in Atria for RM1.

Moist Orange & Almond Cake.

1 large orange

3 eggs

225g/ 1 cup caster sugar

5ml/1tsp baking powder

225g/2cups ground almonds

25g/ 1/4 cup plain flour

icing sugar for dusting

1.

pierce orange with a skewer. put it in a saucepan and pour over water to cover completely. Bring to the boil, lower the hear, covr and simmer for 1 hr or till the skin is very soft. drain then cool.

2.

preheat oven to 180 c. Grease a 20 cm/ 8 in, round cake tin and line it with non- stick baking parchment. blend the orange and mix all ingredients together. Bake for 1 hour.

note: the sides and the top burn fast. but it doesn't affect the texture inside. a bit like baking bread. you can trim the burnt bit off.

Brewing Garbage

2nd Brew: Mixed Citrus Fruit Flavour 

After doing so much of baking and cooking... Now i can even make something to use! I feel really excited about it. Garbage enzyme is such an in thing in every household now. Most housewife u ask, chances are they too have a tub or 2 of this backyard science in their kitchen.

Started making my first bottle with left over pineapple skins after making some pineapple jam. It leaves me absolutely Zero garbage. 2 pineapples skins and cuts gives me about 1kg garbage to work with. add about 300g of dark sugar and 3000g of water. mix them all up. Done.

Fits nicely in a big cny plastic cookie jar.

Today, i made one more round of citrus based mixed fruit flavour consist of pamelo, orange, lemon, apple, pear, dragon fruits skins. Fruits we consumed over the week, stored in the fridge b4 i have enough to start doing. Can't wait to collect my harvest in 3 months time!

Great thing to do after your juicing, jamming, baking session where u have used big amount of fruits n vege. Or simply buy over the garbage from a cut fruit n juice stall.

And what can u do with the enzyme? I read it can be used for cleaning, removing odor of cigarette, kitchen, bathroom, window pane, washing your car outside and flows to the garden as fertilizer. Antiseptic floor mopping,  air con cleaning, drives away flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, rats... Basically cleans your whole house, cars, utensils, you and your pets. Fertilizes. Total magical solutions! From something we would usually throw away! Save so much money from buying different chemicals to serve those purposes.

I really can't wait for the harvest. 

my Humble First Brew : Pineapple Flavor after a week. Smelling good.

homemade orgnaic gourmet wholemeal bread

Shanyang and hubby are my fans. Such hard densed bread shanyang can eat 2 big pieces with home made cinnamom butter and pineapple jam. 

He asked, " did you made this? I want to eat!  2 pieces pls." 

It's filling and tasty, though very dense n hard. not to everyone's taste bud for sure! wahahhaha.

Pesto spagetti - meals done in less than 45min.

including washing too. absolutely healthy, and it's vegetarian. Easy for kids, coz all veges are blended. one more family one dish meal on my list.

this time i did without pine nuts n cheese. haven't got any pine nuts and can't stand cheese these days.

ingredient a: ( blend till fine)

some tbsp of pine nuts ( dry roast 2 min)

hand full of basil

2 cloves of garlic

ingrediant b: ( add in later, coarsely blend)

3 tbsp of olive oil

2 small tomato deseeded

some sea salt to taste

Method:

Heat some olive oil in a pan and JUST MIX the pesto mixture and grated parmesan cheese above with your pasta.

The session was broadcast live to adeline.