my lil'Chomel

This time around, I manage to find a cake recipe that I can bake. As in using my oven. Gotta choose one that I am confident in doing it and I have all the ingredients! (somewhere in my cupboard). I started baking quite late... about 10 pm. Because, according to the recipe, I only need to bake it for 45 mins. Hmm... that saves me a lot of time (as oppose to steaming a cake for 2 hours, that's 120 mins). It went well, but I think I over beat the eggs. It's not bad. Hahahaha. Actually, my mom likes it better than the steamed cake. It taste lighter and less moist. And took about 1 hour to be fully baked.

Tried another cake recipe from this blog http://mamafami.fotopages.com/?entry=1253338. I was actually looking forward to bake a cake with my oven, but this recipe requires me to steam the cake instead. Steam for 2 hours! I was quite worried especially with the raising price in oil and gas. But Mdm Blogger said it was "worth the wait", so I'll just give it a try. The verdict? It was really worth the wait. Not bad for a starter like me (first time baking a chocolate cake, ok). Everyone loves it. Jon loves it too.

One thing I have to remember next time, to leave some space between the cake and the foil so that it can raise without cramping it. And to take nicer pictures too. Sorry, a bit blur cos my eyes was a bit blur too. Finish baking a bit late. Was kinda tired handling my dad's mixer without the mixer stand. But that oldie has been with this family so easily more than 15 years!

Yeah right! No break is more like it. The week was a bit tensed and I got everyone at home all tensed up too. This is how I de-stress *grin* (by stressing other people which is the worst way btw). It's not my intention, but when my head if "full", can't really think of other things. Or even sanity. From now on, I have to go full steam (the result of shopping for Thomas and Friends stuffs with Shida in Nilai 3) in writing my papers. Of course, there's always time to play with Jon, shop with mom and have some lok-lok with Hubby.

I caught some of Shida's baking bug lately. I didn't really bake... instead I steamed a chocolate banana cake! Got this recipe from this blog http://mamafami.fotopages.com/?entry=901788 recommended by Shida. I find the recipes here practical cos the blogger herself tried the recipe before posting it. And the most important thing of all, some of the recipe are easy to do! Cos I'm a bit "hangat hangat tahi ayam" (hot hot chicken s*** - sorry for the bad word but its actually a saying in Malay). I love all the nice dishes, cakes and dessert recipe posted on the web. But did not actually got into doing it at the end.

So, I finally manage to do the chocolate banana cake. Will remember to put in more bananas next time cos everyone in the family loves banana and banana cake. Hehehehe... so happy that everyone likes it. (Sorry no pictures yet. Have to get the dang phone to connect to the laptop)

Next day, I made "fu chuk yee mai" (barley with bean curd sheets). Suppose to be cooling for the body. Well, after the chocolate cake and all.

Well, that is the short stint of "cooking" for me. Hope to do more... soon. Kinda good for de-stressing.