100 meter !!

Ya this calls for a celebration. Yesterday I went for my golf practice and a very nice man called Mr Teo (a golf instructer by profession) is kind enough to point out our mistakes. With his advise, I've hit 100m with a 6 iron!! That's calls for a celebration as I've never ever got pass 70m with irons. I had a good night sleep....

New York Cheese Cake with Yogurt well

This is another Cheese Cake which I got it from a website. Baked New York Cheese Cake with Yogurt well. Enough to serve 8 person. Think it really taste good b'cos my sister request for the recipe. My niece asked for a second piece and my husband which doesn't eat yogurt gives a thumbs up too!

Hokkaido Trip

The best trip ever, free and easy self drive allow us to see more depth to Hokkaido.

American Carrot Cake w Cheese Frosting

American Carrot Cake with Cheese Frosting. This cake is full of flavor, moist in the inside with every bite full of walnuts and raisins. I need not mention the sweetness from the Carrot. Finishing the taste before you swallow is smooth texture & came the smell of the cheese topping. Yummy Yumm...

Healthy Cheese Cake

This Cheese Cake is not like others. Here the version using Toufu with Cheese. That makes this cheese cake so special. Taste exactly like CheeseCake and even better 'cos it's HEALTHIER!

Colleague & friends give it a tumbs up and benchmark it with CoffeeBean & Starbuck quality. They say I can sell it. Any buyer???

red beans cupcakes

Making red beans cupcakes is really tough & time consuming.. but the rewards is great! Pure satisfaction! ;-)

Lovely flower macro shots taken throughout my travel life so far.

The new electric mixer. Can't wait to see what I can make out from it...

Could anyone tell me if these colorful pumkins are edible?

I love taking macro photo shots. It can tell us alot of things from it. Mhhh....

These are some shots taken during my last trip to Switzerland and Austra.

More to share for other trips....

Cream Puff.. hot from oven!! ;-)

One of the cream I must try is Durain Cream


INGREDIENTS:
1 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

PREPARATION:
Whip cream until almost stiff. Add sugar and vanilla; beat until cream holds peaks. Add durain puree to cream, quantity varies according to individual liking. Serve chilled.

March is the month of birthdays. This time is my niece 7th birthday.











This mini-cupcakes are made for children with colorful buttercream and compliment with rich chocolate cake. I've used primary colors to mix purple and green color. And of course, Kenneth never miss the decoration part.






The kids loved it. One commented it taste like Mrs Field cupcakes. .. ..

Bite-size Mini-cupcake

On 4th March is my MIL birthday. I made a healthy cupcake for her birthday. The chocolate cake almost fat-free and of course the cream I've choosen the 'Healthier' version with less sugar & butter.




Serve plain with icing sugar.

This Chocolate Cup Cake and vanilla frosting is our 1st try in cup cake. Kenneth and I enjoyed the process of decorating the cup cakes. Frankly it looks great, children with sweet tooth will love the frosting on top. Great for children parties.

I've not made this Pineapple Tart for many years. I use to make the pineapple filling myself, but now I took the risk by buying off shelf. It's available at supermarket during this Chinese New Year season. It turn out well. My colleagues love them.




Another pineapple cookie in the shape of pineapple shape. Thin crust with lots of pineapple jam.





Ingredient:

2 pineapples (1kg each), 1/2 ripe pineapple, skin and remove 'eye'
1 cinnamon stick, 3-4cm long
250g brown sugar
5 cloves
500g plain flour
250g butter
1 egg yolk
2 tbsps cold water
1/2 tsp salt

1 beaten egg for brushing

Parepare jam
1) Grind pineapple and drain off juice.
2) Heat cinnamon stick in a drop of hot oil, add cloves, grinded pineapple and brown sugar. Add pandan leave. Stir for 30mins till jam is golden brown.
3) Set aside to cool.

Make Dough
1) Sift flour in a mixing bowl with salt and butter.
2) Knead butter and flour to crumbly (breadcrumb) texture.
3) Add egg yolk and sprinkle water so it's pliable enough to knead into smooth dough.
4) Refrigerate for at least 4 hours.

Method
1) Heat oven to 300F
2) Roll pastry to form a long strip 1/2cm thick
3) Use a biscuit cutter to cut out rounds for tart shells, 51/2 cm in diameter
4) Flute tart rim with fingers
5) Fill tart with pineapple jam
6) Brush egg yolk on tart
7) Bake 20 mins until golden brown
8) Cool & Serve

Recently I took up beginner Golf lessons. Here are some of the shots. My teacher commented that I have the right posture, however lack of practice. See some funny shots...

This is what i did for my X'mas gifts, decorated with origami flower.

Hey do you remember Nacho Libre Movie? The two butts squeeze? Me can do it too. Join the Nacho Challenge... http://nachochallenge.blogspot.com/

My Hamemade Christmas Tree Origami. The website link teaches you how to fold them step-by-step. I only spend 2 gift-wrap & some origami papers. Cost me less than $3.00 to make. Try it & let me know your comments. It's a great family activity for the X'mas.

Complete
Christmas Tree

(http://www.noel.qc.ca/eori3.htm)

Ornaments

(http://www.origami-club.com/en/xmas/)