Best Pancakes Ever

Every Sunday morning I try to make something a little special for breakfast. I absolutely love these mini pancakes (or pikelets), especially with fruit.

1 cup (150g) self-raising flour
2 tablespoons of castor sugar (optional)
1 egg, beaten lightly
¾ cup (180ml) of milk
butter for cooking

1. Mix flour and sugar
2. Mix in egg and milk, to make a smooth batter.
3. Add a bit of butter to lightly coat a hot pan. Pour dessert-spoons of pancake mixture onto the pan.
4. Wait for bubbles to appear on the surface of the pancake, flip!
5. Serve hot with fruit, yoghurt and honey!

My parents don’t like their pancakes to be stacked up, so I serve them like biscuits.

Pizza: Vegetarian and Cheeseless

My family is trying to eat less cheese and dairy. So with homemade vegetarian pizzas for dinner, I decided to make mum and dad a cheese-less version.

Pita bread with tomato paste, chopped tomatoes, capsicums, green beans, olives, mushrooms.

I cracked an egg in the centre and sprinkled some dukkah (an Egyptian blend of spices and crushed nuts), salt, and cracked pepper all over. Into a 180C oven for 20 minutes.

The smell of the roasted dukkah was INCREDIBLE. My goodness, I could hardly contain myself.

And then I noticed that I had accidentally crumbled feta onto it… CHEESE! OOPS. Silly me. So I decided to eat it myself.

(I made them another one! I’m not that mean!)

Perfect Dessert

Delicious and special gui ling gao with vanilla ice-cream.

Raspberry and White Chocolate Muffins

When I bake, I usually try to use organic ingredients, less sugar, and healthier alternatives. But today I decided to throw it all out the window.

I was very keen to try out a muffin recipe that was a bit sweeter, richer and basically, something delicious I could serve at a tea party and make people sigh with delight.

This recipe is based on Ainsley Harriott’s Raspberry and White Chocolate Recipe. I used organic white self-raising flour instead of his suggested baking powder and plain flour.

Ingredients
300g self-raising flour
150g golden caster sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
225ml milk
50g butter, melted
100g fresh raspberries
75g chopped white chocolate

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 200C. Cut greaseproof paper into 15cmx15cm squares and push, creasing the paper to fit, into a muffin tin.

2. Sift the flour and baking powder into a large bowl and stir in the sugar. Crack the egg into a separate bowl and whisk in the vanilla extract, milk and melted butter.

3. Stir the liquid into the dry ingredients with the raspberries and chocolate. Take care not to over-mix, no more than 10-15 strokes.

4. Spoon the mixture into the cases and bake for 30 minutes or so until well risen and just firm.

I put half the mixture in the self-made muffin cases and the other half in regular muffin cases. I couldn’t decide which cases made the muffins look better..

Roast Vegetable Pasta Salad Recipe

This is another one of my lazy – but healthy – vegetarian recipes.

Chop 1 medium eggplant, 4 tomatoes, 1 red onion into quarters. Put into a slightly greased oven pan. Throw in 5 cloves of garlic (unpeeled). Drizzle 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Salt and pepper.

Roast at 180ºC for 1 hour. While you’re waiting, Boil 250g of spiral pasta.

When roasting is done, toss in a handful or two of fresh spinach leaves and fresh basil leaves. The heat makes the spinach wilt a bit.

Take out garlic cloves, unpeel, squash. Whisk with ¼ cup of olive oil and ¼ cup of balsamic vinegar. Pour this into the roasted vegetable mix.

Tip in pasta, toss everything, and eat immediately!

(I personally like to throw in some marinated feta too!)

Exquisite Roast Vegetables

This is another of my favourite, healthy and very lazy meals.

Use any sort of vegetables. Egg plant, tomatoes, capsicum, red onions, pumpkin, sweet potato, baby carrots, beetroot, turnips. Add fresh herbs from the garden.

Drizzle lots of olive oil, salt, pepper.

Into a 180C oven for 1.5 hours.

Serving ideas: Toss with pasta. Serve with rice. Or pita bread. Or a bunch of fresh green salad.

Lunch at Restaurant Posto Romania

My favourite Pasta besides Cabonara.

Organic Watercress

I recently read somewhere that watercress was the newly discovered “superfood” - with lots of health benefits, concentrated antioxidants and amazing cancer fighting properties (it contains a certain compund that prevents damage to the DNA in white blood cells).

My mother used to make watercress soup all the time. I used to LOVE eating the stuff! in salads, in chicken soups, in noodles or just simply fried it. Yum.

Lunch after Church

I have got very delicious dried curry mee for lunch on Sunday. It's at a newly open store in Endah Parade.

Hmmmm...simply delicious!

Lovely Sunday

Dinner at Restaurant Canton-I to celebrate mum's birthday in advanced~ ^^

The food were absolutely unforgettable delicious!



Mum and me~*

Omg..This is so adorable! Piggy dou sha bao~

Superb Cute~^^

Dad's Wanton Mee. Must try! It's really yummy~

Mum's favorite, the soup and the prawn wantons are absolutely yummy~ slurpsss.. ^^

Fried lo bo gao, must try! *thumbs up*

My seafood fried rice~

This is the most delicious among all the dishes, the "Zhen Jiang Gu" Mmm...finger licking good! ^^


My dessert..yummy~

What a wonderful Sunday. ^^

Calories

It doesn't matter where you had your dinner,

It doesn't matter what you have for dinner,

It doesn't matter how's the food taste like,

It really matters are the person to have dinner with...

Seafood Salad~

Sweet rice ball~

Coca Cola Chicken Wings~

Pumpkin Fried Rice~

Seafood Yee Mee~

Mexico Chicken Chop~

Restaurant Calories~

Pretty Mummy~

Naughty Daddy~

But this restaurant near by our house was absolutely not bad,

And I like it's name, Calories.

xoxo

Lunch with Babe Quin~*

Went to Quin's house to do some amendments for Phuket Marathon online registration in this afternoon. Thank God we had settled it.

Have lunch later at Sri Petaling Hong Kong Restaurant.



*Delicious*

"Wo hao er a!" (I'm starving!)
Poor babe Quin, she's not even taken her breakfast! @.@

Quin's favorite, Fujisnow~

One of my most favorite Chinese dessert. Not fish ball, we call it "Tang Yuan"~

What do you think it looks like?

Beautiful Monday~

I have a date today.

With babe Eve. ^^

I supposed to bring her to Taipan for Teppanyaki, but unfortunately it's closed! *disappointed*
We tried to find another near by Japanese restaurant, so happened we went to Korean BBQ. *grin*

First time we've been to this restaurant, the food here were unexpectedly delicious. =)

It's a little creepy where there were only us in the entire restaurant. O.o

Cute babe Eve *hugs*

The appetizer, salads~

*Pork ribs*


Babe eve, you ate so many food? *wide eyes* =p

I love Korean food!

I'm having the best time ever. ^^

Thanks babe eve! *hearts*

Health Care

Love yourself.. Because I love you too..

• Reduce the amount of TEA you consume
• Do not eat bread which has only JUST been toasted
• Keep your distance from hand phone CHARGERS
• Drink more WATER in the morning, less at night
• Do not drink coffee TWICE a day
• Reduce the amount of OILY food you consume
• Best sleeping time is from 10pm at night to 6am in the morning
• Do not have HUGE meals after 5pm
• Do not take alcohol more than one glass/cup/serving a day
• Do not take pills with COOL water
• Do not lie down immediately after taking medicine before sleeping
• Getting LESS than 8 hours of sleep affects your health
• People used to napping will not get old easily
• When battery is down to the LAST grid/bar, do not answer the phone The radiation is 1000 times
• Answer the phone by LEFT earIt'll spoil your brain directly by using right ear
• Do not use headphones/earphone for LONG period of time
• Rest your ear awhile after 1 hour