Mini Brioche Burger

Ooh, I actually forgot to post about this mini brioche burger I made for Doink to bring to his office to have as snack. The burger meat is actually made together with the same batch as the meatballs I cooked on Sunday. I made some new batches of brioche and just add a piece of burger meat and cheese on it. Just toast it before serve. Add a slice of tomato or cucumber if you want. Taste good but if you find it too dry just spread some mayonaise on it. Oooh, yummy!!!!

Meatballs and Mango Salsa

Mom bought some really fresh and sweet mangoes from Thailand just the other day. Than I decided to make mango salsa. I was just trying out as I saw the recipe in one of my lovely recipe book. I wanted to know how does a mango salsa taste like. It's actually very simple to make and the taste is awesomelicious. Yum Yum!!! Next time I will make Mango Chicken with Mango Salsa. Oooh, must go buy ingredients and make for Doink to try soon. hehe...

Mango Salsa

Anyway, I did not just make the mango salsa that day. With some leftovers of minced meat in the freezer, I decided to make meatballs using Nigella Lawson's recipe which I saw on TV. I made some changes in the recipe. I made 2 batches of the meatballs - fried and baked. The baked meatballs are the healthier version and it actually tasted just as good as the fried meatballs. Just make sure you don't over bake it as your meatballs will turn very dry.

These meatballs are ideal for snacks or it can be serve to your guests as finger food. It's really yummy. Besides that, you can also have your meatballs serve together with your pasta. Apparently the meatballs and the mango salsa went well together. Both the taste matches really well. haha...

Anyway, while waiting for Doink to come back from his usual Sunday sports, I decided to display the meatballs in a special way. hehe...

Fried Meatballs

Just have got nothing better to do. *hehe*

Meatballs on eggy...

Chachos with Salsa Sauce

Chachos are gorgeously delicious snacks. It's probably one of my favourite snacks especially when I feel like munching something. I can just munch the whole packet without realising it that I had finish it within 10 minutes. Because of that reason, I dare not buy too many packets of chachos as I'm afraid that I will just put those lovely snacks in my mouth which will end up all down on my waistline. hehe... All these time I have been eating chachos by itself but then just the other day I decided to make my home-made salsa to go with it.

Home-Made Salsa Sauce

Dipping those lovely chachos on the salsa sauce is deliciously good. I think it will taste even better if I had added melted mozarella cheese. Oooh, I have to do that next time. haha... That means more calories in my waistline.

Chachos with Salsa Sauce

Finger Food

Ooooh, I love finger food. You can try so many different types of variety of food and it's all in a very tiny portion. So you can have 100 different types of finger food and not feel stuffed. Ok, I exaggerated a bit. 100 is a bit a lot. haha...

Anyway, I made finger food for Doink. hehe... I got nothing better to do mer. Anyway, Tesco was having offer on their baguette so I decided to make bruchetta and a very simple pizza bread which I learned how to make when I was working at a pastry shop in UK.

This is my first time making a bruchetta. Was excited to try it when I went to Borders at the Curve today and saw the recipe in one of the cook book. Anyway, it's quite simple to make but I wasn't too sure whether the taste was ok. Doink told me that it was fine and it taste quite good. *phew* hehe... :)

Bruchetta

Next, is the pizza bread where I made my home-made tomato base. (It's a secret) Spread over the baguette and than layer it with ham and sprinkle mozarella cheese (loads of it if you are not health conscious) and toast it for about 7 minutes. Your pizza is ready. It's even faster than Pizza Hut and it taste gorgeous. It's best served the moment it comes out of the toaster. So yummylicious. And guess what, I think it's a balanced meal coz there are carbohydrate (baguette), protein (ham) and fat (cheese). Moreover, there is also nutrients (tomato, onions and herbs-sauce) See, healthy meal can be delicious too!!! :)

Pizza Bread

I still have some left over lasagne meat sauce. So I finish them off by spreading some meat sauce over a slice of ham and roll it. Than I slice it and skewer them on a toothpick alternately with a mini slice of cucumber. There you go, another yummy finger food.

Ham Rolled Skewed With Cucumber

The last finger food that I made is the Wrapped Ham On Top Of A Cucumber. There is nothing really special about this one but its' just that I wrapped the ham with the meat sauce and add a slice of crab meat before wrapping it. Then I place it on top of a cucumber where I had already made a hole in it so that it can stand on top of it. Spread some thousand island sauce round the cucumber to give it more taste.

Wrapped Ham On Top Of A Cucumber

I'm gonna think of new ways of making interesting finger food. I had so much fun just making it. hehe... Oh, another tiring day but happy.

My lovely foodie!!!

Korea Qing Zhou Restaurant (Midvalley Megamall)

I know it has been more than a month after my birthday and I somehow forgot to blog about how my sweet buddies celebrated my birthday on Chinese New Year Eve since this year my birthday falls on that particular date. I somehow couldn't search the photos to publish it so I have been delaying it. Anyway, we went for lunch at Midvalley Megamall as all of us had to go home for reunion dinner. They decided to go to Korea Qing Zhou Restaurant at Midvalley (Lot T049, Third Floor) . It's near the cinema area.


Complimentary Starters

We were served with some complimentary starters. They were Kim chi, fried anchovies, mung beans, spinach and some pickle thingy. hehe... It tasted alright. Nothing fantastic but the fried anchovies and Kim Chi are nice.

Anyway, I ordered the stone pot rice with chicken. The stone pot comes with a bowl of sauce and you add it in the pot according to your taste and mix it. I would recommend you to mix it the moment your food arrives as there is a raw egg yolk in the centre of the pot. So you want the heat in the pot to cook the yolk a bit when mixing it in the pot. It's quite yummy actually.


Stone Pot Rice

While I had my stone pot rice, Doink ordered his stir fry beef on a hot plate. This dish is actually quite yummy. I loved it so much. The beef is so tender and there is some tung fun stir fry together with the beef. It comes with a fried egg on top and a bowl of rice. Anyway, this dish goes very well with my stone pot rice. hehe...


Stir Fry Beef On A Hot Plate

One of my friends ordered this Seafood Kim Chi Soup. Not really sure what that is. I tried a bit and find that there is not enough taste and it wasn't spicy enough. This soup comes with a bowl of rice even though there is some tong fun in the soup.


Seafood Kim Chi Soup

Overall, the food here is not bad. Might return to this place if I ever go to Midvalley. Chances are very slim as I hardly go to Midvalley. hehe... Anyway, thanks to all my dear friends for the treat and pressie. Love ya guys! Oh ya, they bought me some nail polish. Hmmm, I wonder whether I will use it as I cook so often, I don't want my food to be contaminated with the nail polish. hehe....

Home-Made Lasagne

Doink loves Lasagne compared to Pasta as there is more meat in lasagne. I haven't been making lasagne for him for quite a while so he has sort of been asking me to make one. hehe...

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Since I was in the mood of making lasagne again for him, I quickly went to search my recipe and bought the ingredients and getting prepared to bake him one again. Actually it's very simple to make lasagne but it's just that I'm lazy at times and I'm not a huge fan of it.

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Anyway, I made 2 different types of sauce (white and meat sauce) for my lasagne. I will prepare my own white sauce and then later cook another pot of meat sauce. In my meat sauce, there are garlic, onions, carrots, mince chicken and pork, tomatoes, tomato paste and herbs. I like to use 2 different types of meat as it gives the taste more flavour and carrots somehow add more taste to it.

It's time to build my Lasagne

Firstly I layer my meat sauce over the pyrex and then I spread some white sauce over it and sprinkle mozarella. Than I place the lasagne sheet and continue the process until it reaches the top. Than I bake it for about 25-30 minutes. Oooh, lasagne is ready to be served. It's nice to be served with a slice of garlic bread. Oops, I actually forgot to make garlic bread. Oh, who cares! Doink didn't complain anyway.

2 trays of hard work

A slice of my lovely lasagne

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After a yummy meal, it's time to just sit on the couch and watch TV before going to bed. hehe... Oh, what a satisfying day!!! I'm going to turn into a piggy soon. :)

Assorted Muffins

Woke up at 5 am this morning and went for McDonalds Breakfast before Doink went to work. It was nice but I was still blur when I reached Centrepoint McD. Ooh, ordered my favourite McEgg Muffin. Loved it so much. If only they have McD Breakfast all day. Just can't have enough of it. I wanted to have another one but was thinking that it was still early morning, and I still have the whole day of calorie intake. So better not stuff myself with too much calories.

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I'm still lazing around at home doing nothing. Not really nothing, I'm still having fun experimenting new ways in cooking and baking. Enjoyed my break a lot but then I won't have the chance to do so coz I'm starting my new job next week. Sigh sigh sigh.... Hopefully I will have some fun time working in my new place and also some time to bake. Gonna miss my baking time.

Well, enough of crap. Gonna start talking about my food blog now. I made home baked muffins which have a wonderful melt-in-the-mouth crumbly texture yesterday. Haven't been making these lovely muffins for quite a while. I think it has been a year since I last made these gorgeous yummylicious muffins. *ahem*

My tray of assorted muffins (stole one of it the moment it came out from the oven. Couldn't resist it. *grin*)
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Usually I only make chocolate chips with raisins muffins. But this time round I was having a bit more fun by making different variety of muffins. Made blueberry muffin, cheat truffles muffins and blueberry cheese muffins.

Chocolate Chips Raisins muffin

Blueberry muffin

Cheat Truffle Muffin (stuffed the truffles I made inside the muffin)

Blueberry Cheese Muffin

Mmmm, it was lovely. I quite like the blueberry cheese muffin but I find that I didn't add enough cheese on it. Should add in the batter instead of just putting it in the centre. I was trying to make the Starbucks Blueberry Cheese muffin. I fell in love with that when I had it. hehe... Anyway, to those muffin lovers, they should try making these yummy & sinful blueberry cheese muffins.

Doink loves it and these muffins are going to keep him awake while he is working. I wonder how many muffins must he eat to keep him awake. hehe...

Dae Jang Geum, Korean BBQ, Section 14

Doink's friends celebrated his birthday at Dae Jang Geum (DJG) at Section 14. It's located at the end of the road where KFC is located. Doink and I had never try that place but were excited about it as he loves Korean BBQ food. One thing I love about Korean utensils is that their spoons are pretty long. So it was easy for me to grab food that is quite a distance away from me. hehe....




Complimentary Starters
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I didn't really get the chance to look at the menu as Doink's friend ordered everything. So wasn't sure about the price of the variety of food they have in there. Had Korean Tea, and I have to say that I didn't enjoy the tea. It tasted weird. I think Japanese green tea is still the best.

We started off with lots of different kind of starters. I think it's complimentary and you can ask for more if you want. They tasted quite good. Than there was this fried tung hoon which tasted so yummylicious. I just couldn't stop scooping it. Greedy me! *grin* It actually tasted a bit like our Chinese style of fried tung hoon with black pepper sauce. But this one tasted better. There were also steamed egg and some corn cook with milk and ham I think. Not sure if those are Korean food but it does taste good.. haha... Oh ya, the tung hoon, egg and corn are not complimentary thus you cannot ask for more once you have finished it. We also ordered a type of Korean pancake. Didn't managed to grab a picture of it and the taste is passable.
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And here comes the meat. We ordered a set. So there were chicken, beef, and lamb. I was sitting right in front of the stove. So by the end of the meal, my body is full of meat and charcoal smell. Oh ya, they use charcoal to cook the meat. That's why the meat taste so much nicer. And it's healthy too as I did not see the staff adding any oil while cooking the meat. Oh ya, they also give some vegetables for you to wrap the meat to eat together with it.
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Can't wait for the meat to be cooked
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Then there were more food coming. A big pot of seafood steamboat was brought over to our table. Inside the pot, there were plenty of taugeh, prawns, mini crab, squid, carrots and oysters. We were surprised that there weren't any fish in it. Sob sob.... Anyway, the soup is awesome. The spiciness does give you a kick. Oooh, the more you drink, the better it taste. Doink did not really touch the soup as he felt too spicy, and I finished his one as well... *grin*
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Seafood -yum yum
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By the end of the meal, we couldn't get off our chairs... haha.. Okie, I exaggerated about that. But we all did feel super full. A great dinner spent with some great friends. What more can you ask for? hehe.... I definitely will come back here to try their food again.

Cheese Baked Fried Rice

Fried rice are lovely when you don't know what to eat or cook. It's been a while since I last fried rice for Doink. I didn't feel like going out for dinner so I decided to cook at home for Doink instead.

I fried those left over rice with bacon, carrots and some chicken meat and add seasoning to it. After that, I transfer it into a pyrex bowl, and add a big slice of glazed ham... Ooohh, yum yum!!! Than I sprinkle grated mozarella cheese over it.

Melted cheese over the fried rice

I baked it in the oven for about 5 minutes till the cheese has melted. Than later I add an egg over it and bake it probably another 1 minute. The egg is half cooked and you mix it over into your fried rice together with the cheese.

Wobbly eggy!!!

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Oooh, it's so sinfully delicious. The ham added more taste to the whole cheese baked fried rice. Doink and I love it soooo much. A very satisfying dinner!!!

Brioche

Brioche is rich yet light buttery breads with their characteristic fluted shape can be eaten with both sweet and savoury food.

I first discovered Brioche when I was studying in UK. My friend recommended me to try it since she and I are both bread lovers. After trying, I fell in love with it. It's so soft and moist and buttery. I found out that Brioche origin from France so when I went to Paris for holiday, I bought and try the origin taste of it. I somehow feel that the Brioche made in Paris are less sweeter compared to the UK ones. I guess British people like it sweet. Anyway, in Paris, there were so many different shapes and sizes and by just having to choose one of those will give you a headache.

I have not see any place selling Brioche so far in Malaysia. Or maybe I did but it's just that I did not notice it. So yesterday I asked Doink if he wanted to try it since he had no idea what is it. Moreover, I was having some cravings to try these deliciously sinful brioche.

My mini brioche-waiting for the annoying dough to rise.

Making this mini Brioche are actually time consuming as you have to leave the dough to rise. By the time you finish kneading the dough, you have to put it aside for about 30minutes. And after that you shape your mini brioche and again you have to leave it aside until it is well risen. Oh gosh, you really have to be very patient coz it practically takes about 2hours preparation time just before you can bake it.

Ooooh, can't wait to try these

The crust is glazed before baking and turns a deep golden brown.

My lovely warm brioche. Oops, couldn't resist, stole one of the brioche before taking a picture of it. *grin*

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The end results is good. It's all worth it even though it takes a lot of time just to make it. But one cannot be having it too often as I find it quite sinful as it's so buttery. It's just like having croissants everyday.