Happy Mother's Day!

 A LOVELY surprise from my dearest sisters

on Mother's Day 2022

Photos of the month (Food and Life) July 2018

Homemade Taro Fresh Milk with "tadpoles" and chendol

May celebrations

May........... The month for mothers. That calls for a celebration, don't you think so? My darling little sister is a May baby too, so we are celebrating for 2 good reasons:)

Sesame Mochi

Made another batch of Mochi, this time I added lavendar flower and sesame seeds to the Mochi skin and used sesame filling, as it is an all-time favourite.

Mochi Mochi I love you.....

Mochi......mochi....... so cute, so chewy. The little sticky rice ball stuffed with sweet fillings, wrapped in pastel coloured wrappers and adorned with cutesy facial expressions.... makes one go "awww..... soooo cute!" 

Tiramisu, my way....

I had been wanting to make an easy version of Tiramisu, so the other day, while at NTUC, I thought: why not try using thick cream and Mascarpone cheese while omitting the raw eggs.

Ingredients used:
250g Mascarpone cheese
250ml thick cream
2 Tbsp Xylitol (to replace caster sugar)

250ml Very thick Coffee
3 Tbsp Kahlua syrup (add to the coffee)

1 large pack of Ladyfingers
Pure Cocoa powder to sprinkle

Pancake with maple syrup and cranberries

Pancake for dinner!
That was what I decided to have after running out of ideas...
Happened that I bought some fresh cranberries at NTUC Extra Supermarket, added these to the pancake drizzled with maple syrup, the sweetness of the syrup and the sourness of the cranberries merged into one heavenly meal......yummy..........
The kids loved it, and so did I (forget about the calories, tomorrow is the Great Eastern Womens Run anyway, the calories would be burnt by then..........hopefully....)

Madeleine

Finally, I found a (one and only one) standard size Madeleine baking pan at a baking accessories shop near my workplace. I was like ‘Ohhhh!!!!" and bought it without second thoughts.

I have used it a few times and found it very easy to use. Still testing a few Madeleine recipes to decide which is our favourite one:)

Added some passion fruit pulp on some of the Madeleines

Muah Chee with peanut/ soya powder

Here is the method I used for making homemade Muah Chee (sticky rice bites)

Method:

Add 2 Tbsp caster sugar to 1 Cup of Glutinous Rice Flour (I also added a teaspoon of Matcha powder).
Add 1/2 Cup water and stir till well mixed.
Steam until cooked. I used the traditional rice cooker to steam.
Get ready a plate or container with powder peanuts with sugar.
When the Muah Chee is still hot, use fork and scissors to cut the cooked dough into bite size. It is easier if you cut a chunk from the big lump of Muah Chee and place it on the peanut mixture to cut, as the coating will help to reduce the stickiness and make the cutting much easier.

I reserved another portion to be coated with soya bean powder, yummy!!!

Muah Chee (sticky rice dough ball)

Muah chee......... chewy, sticky and "QQ"........ always found at the night markets and small eatery stalls at the shopping malls. It's a snack we grow up loving and are familiar with. 

Recently we tried the Injoelmi Bingsu, which is basically shaved frozen milk, topped with chewy (glutinous) rice cake and soy powder at Nunsaram, Westgate Jurong East branch. We loved it so much that we visited twice that week. I decided to give it a try, making at home.