Cakes Again?

I always have the tendency to over purchase stuff such as vegetables, butter, milk, apples, grapes and others food stuff then left in the refrigerator too long and totally forget about it. Nowadays most of supermarket packages the goods in multiples and very reasonable price which is so tempting. Do I sound like a houseman(wife)? After some days of specific memory loss, these supposedly good deals does not fill my stomach, it becomes a major source of food for my dustbin. I do not always forget about it, sometimes you got so much of work or appointment which by the time I reach home, it will be too late to cook anything.

So when I decided to try a cheese cake, I bought a whole kg of Anchor Cream Cheese. After making the first mix strawberry and lemon cheese cake, I need to quickly make another cake before my dustbin get its bite on the other half kg of the cream cheese. So I look at my another cookbook, celebrity chef Su Chan (who is she? I never heard of her before, just got the book at discount at M’sia Book Fest for discount) to look for my next cake ideas.

The American Cheesecake recipe looks like the easily to prepare and quick with those existing ingredients I have. I won’t list the recipe here, please get the cookbook and get your income tax deduction (this was what i was thinking).

So here, I mix the cream cheese, egg yolks, sugar and lemon in a bowl and the egg whites and sugar in another bowl. Then combine the both items and pour into a grease springform pan (Hah! I remember to grease the pan).

Thereafter bake till it become slight brown at the top and please to take my as standards, it is slight overburnt. After remove the oven leave to cool and refrigerate the cake overnight.

After overnight in the fridge, you can serve it. Look at the beautifully cut cheese cakes. Want some? Look better than the earlier cheese cake.

Cakes, cakes & cakes!!

Cakes are probably the most loveable food to every person in this planet earth. We celebrate our birthdays, weddings, engagement, anniversary and any other special events with it. Every people like to have one piece of it whenever they are not worrying about the calories. I myself also love and adore cakes. I used to buy a whole butter cake filled with delicious sugar icing during the holidays so that it can fill-up my holiday appetite and forget about calories for a while.

Now with the pricing of goods has gone 10 folds, you can’t get my favourite butter cake for only RM28. Now, I think it will cost me around RM45 per kg. Then I thought to myself, why don’t try doing it myself and that means one less customers for Secret Recipe.




Here are some of the beautiful creations by the experts in the FHM 2007 even though I know event the occurred closed to a year ago. We can still enjoy all this mouth watering creations in your imagination. Wouldn't you wish to take a bite at it ?...Yummmy!



Look at those mini-cakes...

and also this cakes...

Then I started on the simple recipe from my cookbooks and change it bit to become a mix of strawberry and lemon cheese cakes. I used the Mc-Vities Digestives for the base and of course the cream cheese mixed with some strawberry jam for the strawberry favour and lemon juice.



You can see from the tray before baking the two difference colours of the cheese cakes.


This is the first time I baked cakes and I forget to grease the tray, look at the all the crunchy biscuit all stuck at the bottom of the tray. Just look at this picture and how messy the cutting becomes. On top of that, I did not reduce the sugar level and with the strawberry jam it becomes too sweet. Well, can we consider this is not a successful try. How much do you rate this (for some of you have try it)?

This picture is taken by Teckiee, one of the many professional photographers in the flogger gang. See difference between the amateur and professional.

Restarting!!

Just to keep everyone inform, I have finally run out of reason not to write my blog. Upgraded my computer to C2D with 4GB memory to play with and running on Vista. I also have a new wireless keyboard and mouse. Now I can type anywhere at my comfort. Well we have to keep up with technological advances but it will burn a hole in your wallet (save for the income tax deduction). Hope you fellow bloggers can continue to provide me with your valuable comments or ........

Next weekend another big event and I will be in Singapore. It is the first Toy & Comic Convention in Asia brought to you by ANIMAX. Thanks to the 50 million viewers that tune-in to ANIMAX, and ASTRO to bring the channel to Malaysia (again we need paid for TV). Check the event here.

Keep watching for the on-coming posts.....

Restoran 52

This place is located somewhere in Semenyih town. It has been review by The Star before and been the talking subjects among my friends for quite sometimes. For FOOD, I pester them like mad to take me there, and here we are. Its look like some of the restaurants around my place, small kampung, own home, part become as a restuarant and part a home. How you wish to work from home? However, this is a full-time job! Morning preparation, lunch time business, afternoon preparation, dinner time business and night time, money counting...

My friends have been to this place a few times, they knows what is good. I decided to layback and let them please me :). In the meantime, I was looking at their menu, it surprise me how organized their menu are. They properly separate each of the items accordingly to type of meat, fish, beancurd, vegetables and so on.

They even have a special page that list customers favourites or specialty foods.

Here comes the Specialty Item 1: Lighty Deep Fried Tilapia



Specialty Item 2: Salt Baked Chicken Wings:


Next Item (not favourites but I like this much so, very tender and juicy): Stewed Hakka Fried Pork Belly

Of course must have a vegetable, fried kailan with gralic:

Overall the food was delicious, must warn you a few things, always finish you chicken wing before its get cold else it will be to salty and waiting time is about 30min to a hour for the dishes to arrives even with 3 chefs, can't figure out why. In weekends the place is pack, so expect to wait longer. My LAF rating = 6.8/10.

• Restoran 52, Semenyih
• Telephone : 03-87238733
• H/P : 012-6439892
• Closed on Monday
• Operating Hours : Lunch - 11.30am to 3.00pm & Dinner - 6.00pm to 10.30pm
  

Coming Soon!!!

Thanks for all your wishes and the gift PPea, WMW, Lyrical Lemongrass on such great event you organised and put effort @ Gajah. Got to give you gals 110% for such eventful night. I met so many others bloggers / floggers. Can't wait to meet you all on the next session of gathering.

Anyway, thousand of apologies for not keeping up with my updates, I promise for this new year, belows are some of my resolutions are :

1. Keep blogging as much as possible.
2. Try out the receipes in my cookbook collection.
3. Learn swimming and keep fit (probably lost some kg).
4. Go to Myammar, Laos and Hong Kong.
5. Get a bike (>1000 c.c.)
6.......

Here a sneak preview of what is coming......