Tuesday, 21 May 2013

南瓜面条 Pumpkin Porcini Noodles



喜欢用南瓜来做料理,因为那自然的金黄色很讨人欢心。今天的<南瓜面条>女儿还是照样的捧场,但是,儿子却不大喜欢吃。

在Google里找Porcini Mushroom的翻译,得到的答案是牛肝菌,还是第一次听这名词,不大肯定到底是不是我用的那种,所以只敢叫它<南瓜面条>就算了。

I have been experimenting in making different flavour of noodles recently & few weeks ago, I made this <Pumpkin Porcini Noodles> using a bottle of the ground porcini mushroom that I bought from a fruit store.

I still recall that few years ago, porcini mushroom was rarely seen in the market but now, you can easily find the dried porcini mushroom from the 2 big supermarkets like Coles & Woolworths.  Since I am too lazy to re-hydrate them in the water, I decided to buy the ground porcini which I can also use it for marinade purpose.



南瓜面条
Pumpkin Porcini Noodles
(Recipe Source: Jessie-CookingMoments)

Ingredients:
130g High Gluten Flour
130g Plain Flour
100g Pumpkin Puree
1.5tsp Ground Porcini Mushroom
3g Salt
60ml Water drained by the Pumpkin Puree
12ml Oil
½ Egg

Method:
1.Place all ingredients except the oil in a bowl & knead with a mixer for few minutes or until the dough becomes a ball. The dough should be a bit sticky.
2.Add oil & knead for another few minutes until smooth.
3.Divide the dough to 3-4 balls, spray with some water & cover with cling wrap. Let to rest for about an hour.

4.Roll out the dough with a flour-dusted rolling pin, then roll out through a pasta maker according to the instruction.  Dust with some flour if needed.


5.Rest the noodles for a few minutes before cooking.  Again, dust with some flour if needed.

Small Tip:
These noodles only take 2-3 minutes to cook through in a pot of boiling hot water.
  


I’m submitting this to the Little Thumbs Up – Mushroom(May) which is organized by Zoe@Bake for Happy Kids & Mui Mui@My Little FavouriteDIY & currently hosted by Joyce@Kitchen Flavours.

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Last Friday was my little one 3rd birthday so mummy & daughter went to PappaRich to have a quick lunch. I just found out that she shares the same birthday with Sonia's youngest son. No wonder she likes to play with Desmond 哥哥 when we were in Malaysia.


~Enjoy!~


Sunday, 19 May 2013

粉紅龜粿 Pink Ang Ku Kueh with Mung Bean Filling




在Wikipedia那边找紅龜粿的来历,竟让我学了不少东西。原来红龟粿/红龟糕在客家语称为红粄,那不就是说它和近期超红的喜粄有拉浪(la lang)咯?还有的是,之前以为只有新马的朋友才会吃这个kueh,但又原来广东,福建和台湾一带也用它来拜拜,我真是孤漏寡闻。

我在马来西亚时很少吃蒸糕,但最爱的有蒸芋头糕,Kuih Talam和这个Ang Ku Kueh(AKK)。前者在刚来澳洲时做了;Kuih Talam在去年做了,而这个AKK我一直在等一个很特别的节日才做。最近终於等到了。我的一位中学朋友不但移民来了这里,而且还住在隔几条街那麽近而已,她的女儿将要满月,所以她邀请我和一班她的朋友去她家吃茶点。现在不做的话哪怕要我一个人哽完这些糕了,所以立刻行动。 

When I was in Malaysia, I didn’t eat kueh very often but my three most favourite kueh are the Steamed Taro Cake, Kuih Talam & this Ang Ku Kueh(AKK). I made the Steamed Taro Cake long before I started this Blog & I made the Kuih Talam last year. As for this AKK, I had been waiting for a special occasion to make them & this day had finally come when I received an invitation from my high school friend that she was holding a tea party for her full-month daughter.
  

在这里要特别地感谢Mui Mui@My Little Favourite DIY,因为她不但给了我几个食谱来做参考,在做AKK的当天,还透过Whatsapp跟我诉说每个步骤的细节。有不明白的地方,我索性拍照给她看,问个清楚。没有她,这些AKK不会那麽顺利的完成啦。
  
I’m very thankful for Mui Mui@My Little Favourite DIY because not only she has provided me a few of the AKK recipes, on the night I made these AKK, she had also talked me through the whole process via Whatsapp. I even sent her some pictures so she could check whether I was on the right track or not. 

 当天出席茶点的朋友都是来自马来西亚和新加坡,所以那些AKK很快被扫清光!
There was no problem to finish these kueh as all the guests who turned up on that day are from Malaysia and Singapore.

很奇怪,明明买了Queen的Pillar Box Red红色素,但出来却是粉红色的,幸亏小主人是个女的,不然的话。。。
 I used Queen’s Pillar Box Red to dye the dough but strangely, it came out as a pink dough, not red dough. Why huh?

粉紅龜粿
Pink Ang Ku Kueh with Mung Bean Filling
(Recipe Source: Mui Mui@My Little Favourite DIY with Minor Adjustment)

Makes 40 (I used ½ Ingredients to make 20)
My mould is 5.5cm long

Skin Ingredients:
50g Rice Flour
210ml Water
31/2tbsp Oil

300g Glutinous Rice Flour
180ml Water
Few Drops of Queen’s Pillar Box Red Food Colouring

Mung Bean Filling Ingredients:
150g Dried Mung Bean, washed & soaked overnight; drained
31/2tbsp Oil
110g Caster Sugar

Other Ingredients:
Banana Leaves, cut into squares & oiled
Oil for brushing
Extra Glutinous Rice Flour for dusting

Method:
1.To make the filling, steam mung bean until soft. Sifted.

Note: 
I noticed that my mung bean were very dry after steaming & it was quite difficult to put through a sieve. So I placed them in a stick blender & sprayed with lots of water, then blender until smooth.

2.Place mung bean paste, sugar & oil in a frying-pan & stir-fry until the paste can leave the side of the frying-pan.

3.Dish up; cover with a wet towel & let to cool down a bit.  Grab 13g of the mung bean paste & roll into ball. Repeat until all the paste is used. Cover with a wet towel.

4.To make the skin, place rice flour, 210ml water & 3.5tbsp oil in a small saucepan. Cook over low heat. Stir constantly. Once the rice batter becomes as thick & smooth as glue consistency, remove from heat immediately.

Note:
The rice batter will become thicker & turned to be lumpy after cooling down.

5.Mix 180ml water with the rice batter. Whisk until the batter becomes no lumps & smooth again.
6.Place glutinous rice flour, rice batter & red food colouring in a large bowl. Knead until the dough is pliable. It should feel like play dough & not that sticky.
7.Grab a 17g of dough, wrap with a mung bean ball.
Dust the AKK mould with some glutinous rice flour, pour out the excess.
8.Also dust the dough with some glutinous rice flour  before pressing it into the mould.
9.Gently knock out to remove the AKK from the mould. Place on an oiled banana leaf. Repeat until all the mung bean balls are used.
10.Steam over high heat for 3-5 minutes, time starts counting from boiling point.

Small Tip:
The weather here is cold & dry & at any stage if the mung bean became dry again, simply spray with some water & roll into ball again.

 

PS: Also a big thank you to Sonia who had given me this AKK mould over a year ago!
~Enjoy!~


Tuesday, 14 May 2013

超软的全麦南瓜葡萄乾吐司(Carol老师的食谱)Wholemeal Pumpkin & Currant Bread(A Must Try Recipe)


三个月前在Mich@Piece of Cake的家"kup"中这Carol老师的<全麦南瓜吐司>。整个过程只能用先苦後甜来形容,因为我花了六个小时,吐司才顺顺利利的出炉。如果我是开店卖面包的话就等倒闭吧,哈哈!单是三个发酵的过程都用了五个小时,真够折磨,不过就如我说的先苦後甜嘛,那些吐司是出奇的柔软,我真的好喜欢好喜欢!放了葡萄干在吐司里,增加面包的甜度,拍完照後就不停的顾著吃而已!

One of my favourite vegetable is pumpkin & we eat it like once a week.  So, when I saw Mich@Piece of Cake made her <Purple Sweet Potato Bread> which original recipe uses pumpkin instead, I told myself that I must try it.

There is a Chinese saying “Taste the bitterness before you taste the sweetness” (先苦後甜) & it fits so well in my case of baking this bread. The dough proofing seemed to be a never ending journey to me. I was pretty sure that I started measuring the ingredients just before 10am & by the time that the 3 small loaf of bread were removed from the oven, it passed 4pm! I wasn’t joking! I let the dough to proof in the bread maker in the first 2 rounds & each round took for 1hr + 15minutes to double its size.  And the final proofing took like 2.5hours to achieve 80% full in the loaf pan. So, that was already 5 hours spent in the proofing process. It was a cold day so I did put some hot water in the oven & kept changing it after cooling down so what actually happened on that day, I’m still not quite sure, hahaha!

Anyway, I’m so glad that I did try out this recipe as it yields such a soft bread! So soft & it’s a MUST-TRY recipe, if you do make bread!  I couldn’t help myself but kept eating it after finish taking the photos.
  
在温热的烘炉里发酵了两个小时半後,面团还发不到顶。
This was what they looked like after proofing in a warm oven for 2.5 hours.



第一次用朋友送的吐司模竟没有涂上油。食谱要求吐司出炉後就要马上脱模,结果最後我的吐司都变得破破烂烂了,底部还要切了後才可以上镜,哈哈!
First time of using the loaf pan given by a friend. I forgot to oil the pan & the recipe requires the bread to be removed from the pan straight after out of the oven.  I was struggling to do that & by the time they were out of the pan, the side & bottom of the bread had cracked & some had broken into pieces. Oops!

全麦南瓜葡萄乾吐司
Wholemeal Pumpkin & Currant Bread
(Recipe Sources: Mich@Piece of Cake who uses recipe of Carol老师 with Minor Adjustments)

Starter Dough Ingredients:
200g Bread Flour
2g Instant Dried Yeast
120g Pumpkin Puree, sifted
10g Fresh Milk

Method:
1.Knead in a stand mixer until no lumps & smooth.  This takes only a few minutes to complete.
2.Place in a bowl, spray some water on the top, cover with cling wrap & let to prove until double in size.  I did it in a bread maker for 1 hour + 15 minutes.

Main Dough Ingredients:
All Starter Dough
2g Instant Dried Yeast
50g Bread Flour
30g Wholemeal Flour
65g Pumpkin Puree, sifted
30g Caster Sugar
2g Salt
40g Olive Oil
45g Dried Currants, soaked in Lemon Lime & Bitter & drained
Some Egg Wash

Method:
1.Place all ingredients except dried currants & egg wash in a bowl & knead until elastic. It is ready when you can stretch out the dough as thin as bubble gum.
2.Add dried currants. Mix until well-combined.
3.Spray some water on the top, cover with cling wrap & prove in a warm place until double in size. Again, I did it in the bread maker & took 1hr + 15minutes to complete.
4.Press to remove air bubbles.
5.Divide the dough into 3 equal portions, cover with a wet towel & rest for 15 minutes.
5.Roll out each smaller dough into a 20cm x 30cm rectangle. Fold left & right side of the dough to the middle, then, roll up like a swiss roll. Press firm on the seam. Place into an oiled loaf pan. Click here to view the pictures.
6.Spray some water on the top, prove in a warm place until the dough reaches the top of the loaf pan. Mine only managed to reach 80% full after 2.5hours.
7.Brush with some egg wash & bake in a 170C preheated oven for 35-38 minutes.
8.Very quickly, remove the bread from the loaf pan & let to cool down completely on a wire rack.


~Enjoy!~



Sunday, 12 May 2013

草莓优格马芬(孟老师的食谱) Strawberry Yoghurt Muffins


“做事认真,凡事讲求完美是人之常情的事。”这是最近一位朋友对我说的一句话。我觉得蛮有意思的,不是吗?在开始玩烘焙时都是blur blur的,拍的照片也是马马虎虎。何时何月开始注重外表的包装,要买的道具也越来越多,还有相机,镜片等等的,为了什麽?都是想把自己那些心血拍出感觉美,你认同吗?认同的话来个Hi  Five,哈哈!

今天的<草莓优格马芬>已是六个星期前的作品Sonia聊起复活节该带些什麽食物去野餐,她提起刚做的<蓝莓优格马芬>,所以我就借了她的食谱做这个<草莓优格马芬>,原因是现在的蓝莓卖到整澳币$10一小盒,真的不舍得买来吃。

These <Strawberry Yoghurt Muffins> were made a week after I made those <Raspberry Muffins> about six weeks ago! At that time, I was chatting with Sonia & she told me about the <Blueberry Yoghurt Muffins> that she had made & I thought it was a good idea to bring them to the Easter picnic which I had organized with my friends.  Somehow, now is not the blueberry’s season & is selling for nearly aud$10 per punnet so I replaced them with some strawberries.



这个食谱和之前上的<覆盆子马芬>蛮相似的,都採用大量的湿食材,所以烘出来的马芬都异常的湿润!

This recipe is very similar to the <Raspberry Muffins> which I had posted earlier & both require a large quantity of wet ingredients in making the muffins!

草莓优格马芬
Strawberry Yoghurt Muffins
(Recipe Source: 孟老师的100道小蛋糕 supplied by Sonia@Nasi Lemak Lover) with Minor Adjustments

Makes 34 Small Cupcake Liners

Ingredients:
4 Eggs
180g Caster Sugar
240g Corn Oil (I will reduce to 200-220g in the future)
140g Milk
280g Plain Yoghurt
400g Low Gluten Flour, sifted
2tsp Baking Powder, sifted
1tsp Baking Soda
250g Strawberries
2tsp Vanilla Extract

Method:
1. Beat eggs with sugar until they are all dissolved.
2. Add oil, milk & yoghurt separately. Mix well on each addition.
3. Add flour, baking powder & baking soda in a few batches. With low speed running, mix until just incorporated.
4. Gently stir in strawberries.
5. Spoon the muffin mixture into some cupcake liners until 80% full. Bake at the 180C preheated oven for about 25 minutes or until  cake tester comes out clean.

我的女儿第一次做脸部彩绘!看得出吗,那是一只青蓝色的蝴蝶。

My girl’s 1st face painting, thanks to Aunty C. She wanted a green/blue butterfly.

~Enjoy!~



Thursday, 9 May 2013

覆盆子(樱花)蛋糕卷 Raspberry(Sakura) Souffle Swiss Roll + 母亲节快乐 Happy Mother’s Day



今晚赶著上这帖子因为明天起会一直忙到星期天。好,先预祝所有的妈咪有个温馨的母亲节,过个快快乐乐的星期天!

I’m rushing up to update my blog today as I won’t have time to do it for the next 3 days. First of all, to all the lovely mothers & mums-to-be here, have a nice celebration with your family & enjoy your Mother’s Day on this Sunday!

这原本该是一个正常的樱花蛋糕卷,但无奈傻傻的我因拼命的忙著消气泡,结果弄到那些樱花被埋在蛋糕糊里。我的天啊,下手太重了,让那些樱花白白的牺牲了,真对不起送这些樱花渍给我的朋友!幸好冰箱里还有一盒买了一个星期的覆盆子,快快用它来救救我的蛋糕卷。

PS: 靠近cream那边有一点一点像肮脏的东西就是那些可怜的樱花!

I have a mixed feeling for this Swiss Roll that I’m posting today. It was supposed to be a Sakura Souffle Swiss Roll but I was so silly of lifting & dropping my Swiss Roll pan up to 3 times to remove air bubbles that until the end, my pickled sakura sort of blending with the batter. Because of that,  I could not display it like a normal Sakura Swiss Roll. I was quite disappointed mainly because my dear friend gave me a packet of this precious pickled sakura a few months ago & I wasted more than 1/2 a packet just like that. I feel like I have failed her, oh dear!

PS: There are few dots around the cream which look like dirt are actually the pickled sakura.  I used the opposite side of the souffle sponge to roll up & this is why all my sakura got buried underneath the cream.


用了Keiko老师(Okashi Sweet Treats Made with Love)的食谱来做蛋糕体,深深的体会到为什麽朋友会这麽爱用老师的食谱。
它,够细腻;
它,够柔软;
它,够湿润
我们,包括老公和儿子在内都好爱这蛋糕卷!这本书是去年在花花家玩抽奖时,儿子抽到的头奖礼物,在这里要谢谢花花们和儿子送的礼物!

Anyway, the good news is that I had a punnet of fresh raspberries which had been sitting in my fridge for a week, so at last, I used them to make this <Raspberry(Sakura) Souffle Swiss Roll>.  This is the 1st time I used Keiko’s recipe & I was really happy with the outcome. The sponge’s texture was soft, fine & spongy & we just love it so much! Now I can understand why some of my friends love using Keiko’s recipes so much! 

 


覆盆子(樱花)蛋糕卷 
Raspberry(Sakura) Souffle Swiss Roll
(Recipe Sources: Okashi Sweet Treats Made with Love with Adjustments + Sonia@Nasi Lemak Lover)

Ingredients:
1 Egg
3 Egg Yolks
1tsp Vanilla Concentrated Extract
60g Fresh Milk
45g Corn Oil
60g Low Gluten Flour, sifted + Some Extra for Dusting on the Pickled Sakura

3 Egg Whites
60g Caster Sugar

12 Fresh Raspberries
17 Pickled Sakura, soaked in water for a few hours + pat dry on the paper towel

120g Whipping Cream
35g Caster Sugar
2tsp Lemon Juice
Rind from a Lemon

Method:
For the Souffle Sponge:
1. Preheat oven to 160C. Line a 21cm X 31cm Swiss Roll/Lamington pan with non-stick baking paper.
2. Arrange the pickled sakura on the lined pan & lightly dust with some low gluten flour.

3. Beat the egg & egg yolks lightly with a hand whisk. Add vanilla extract, followed by milk, corn oil & flour. Mix well on each addition.
4. Place a large, clean bowl in the freezer for 5 minutes.  Remove & place in the egg whites.  Beat until foamy. Add sugar in 3 different rounds & continue to beat until stiff peaks. Gently fold in 1/3 of the meringue into the egg yolks mixture.  Pour the batter into the rest of the meringue & fold until well-combined. Don’t over mixing it.
5. Pour batter into the lined pan, spread evenly with a scraper. Lift the pan & tap on all sides + the bottom of the pan to remove air bubbles.
6. Place the pan into a bigger baking pan & bake in the oven for about 20 minutes or until the cake tester comes out clean. DON’T FILL UP THE BIGGER PAN WITH WATER.

7. Very quickly but carefully, remove the soufflé sponge from the pans. Pull off the baking paper from the sides of the soufflé sponge & cover with a clean sheet of baking paper. Leave to cool down.

For the Cream Filling:
Beat the cream, sugar, lemon juice & lemon rind in a clean bowl until stiff peaks. Put it in the fridge while waiting for the soufflé sponge to cool down.

To Assemble the Swiss Roll:
1. Place the soufflé sponge on a clean working surface. Trim the sides of the sponge to give tidy edges. Then, gently peel off the “brown” skin of the souffle sponge & discard.

2. Turn the sponge to the opposite side & peel off the baking paper from the bottom with pickled sakura faces up. 
3. With shorter side of the sponge faces you, make 3 slits(do not cut through the sponge) on one end(which is closer to you) of the sponge. Then, make a few more slits on the entire sponge, again, do not cut through the sponge. The slits help to increase flexibility of the sponge so that it won’t crack so much when rolling up!
4. Spread some whipped cream on the sponge & arrange some raspberries in 2 rows with a distance apart.

5. Roll up the sponge. Lightly push the Swiss Roll towards your body to help in shaping up. Wrap with baking paper, followed by cling wrap. Place in an air-tight container & refrigerate overnight.


Notes:
1.這個食譜是把蛋糕表面那褐色的皮給拔掉,翻转,再把cream塗在蛋糕底,捲上而完成的。櫻花都在cream底下。
What I did on this recipe was to remove the brown "skin" on the top of the souffle sponge, turn to the bottom of the sponge, spread with some cream & roll up. The pickled sakura were on the bottom of the sponge & underneath the cream.

2.原本的食谱是要把牛油融化,然後加入蛋糕粉一起煮,过後还要过筛。我觉得步骤比较复杂,所以用了玉米油来代替牛油,这样省掉煮蛋糕粉和过筛的过程。
Original recipe uses melted butter which requires the flour to be cooked with the melted butter, then sift the sponge batter.  The steps were a little bit complicated to me so I replaced the butter with corn oil & it had saved me from the whole cooking & sifting process.

Small Tip:
Leave cold eggs in room temperature for about 45 minutes before use.



Happy  Mother's Day!
&
~Enjoy!~

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Gary Mehigan’s Raspberry Muffins 覆盆子马芬…覆盆子冰淇淋?

 


星期日或星期一是我原定更新帖子的日子,但因为马来西亚选举一事让我很生气,所以决定罢工,等我心情恢复平静才上这我高高兴兴做的<覆盆子马芬>。

今天的马芬有Jane@Jane’s Corner大大的推荐,因为用了她的偶像Gary Mehigan的食谱。Gary Mehigan是其中一个Masterchef Australia的评审。她做了这马芬有高达三次这麽多,还说是最好的马芬食谱,但却一次也没上过帖子。虽然如此,她还是很慷慨地把食谱传送给我,在这里要再次的谢谢她!

According to Gary Mehigan or better known as one of the 3 original judges in the Australian Masterchef, this <Raspberry Muffins> recipe is a cracker! He said he has no idea why the sour cream & oil are added in this recipe but they taste great! 

So far, this recipe has been tested 3 times by one of the “sifu-stage” blogger friends, Jane@Jane’s Corner & she is so generous to share this great recipe with me though she has not posted this on her blog herself!  Jane said that this is the best muffin recipe that she has tried so far!


用冰淇淋杯来烘马芬可以给小朋友们带来惊喜!
Using ice cream cones to bake muffins/cupcakes is a great idea, it gives our junior guests a surprise!


我狠心地把马芬的”头”给砍掉,然後pipe上覆盆子奶油。
I cut off the muffin tops & then piped with some raspberry frosting.

覆盆子马芬 
Raspberry Muffins
(Recipe Source: From Gary Mehigan’s Comfort Food Cookbook supplied by Jane@Jane Corner with Minor Adjustments)

Makes 24 Small Muffins

Ingredients:
360g Plain Flour
Pinch of Salt
1tsp Baking Soda
2tsp Baking Powder
4 Eggs
200g Caster Sugar
180ml Vegetable Oil
270g Sour Cream <See Note 1>, softened at room temperature
2tsp Vanilla Extract
250g Raspberry
Icing Sugar for dusting, optional

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 170C.
2.Place 24 small cupcake cases into the lightly greased muffin trays. <See Note 2>
3.Sift the flour, salt, baking soda & baking powder into a bowl.
4.Beat the egg & sugar in a separate bowl until pale & sugar is all dissolved. With low speed, continue beating the egg mixture, slowly adding vanilla extract, oil & flour mixture. Mix well on each addition.
5.Add the sour cream & mix until well combined.
6.Gently stir in the raspberries. Spoon the batter into the muffin cases to 80% full. I filled up to 90% & some of them were over-flow.
7.Bake for 15 minutes or until the cake tester comes out clean. Remove & let to cool in the pan.
8.Serve warm or at room temperature, dusted with icing sugar, if desired. Keep unconsumed muffins in an air-tight container.

Gary’s Tip:
Don’t over-mixing as this results a tough texture.

Note 1:
Gary’s recipe called for 275ml sour cream. Though I could get the sour cream packed in “ml” packaging, it was still in solid cream. So I used 270g instead.

Note 2:
I made 16 muffins in ice-cream cones + 8 small muffins

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Raspberry Frosting
(Recipe Source: Gourmet Traveller with Minor Adjustment)

Makes 12 Frosting on Ice Cream Cones

Ingredients:
100g Raspberry, pureed & strained
250g Unsalted Butter, softened at room temperature
¾ cup Icing Sugar, sifted
Some Red Sugar Hearts

Method:
1.Beat butter until pale & fluffy.
2.Add icing sugar. Beat until soft peaks form.
3.Add raspberry puree spoon by spoon. Mix well on each addition. Stop when the desired colour is achieved. I used 1.5tbsp.
4.Cut off the “muffin tops” so they give a flat surface for frosting. Pipe out the frosting. Decorate with some red sugar hearts.

~Enjoy!~