Pavlova - Recipe @ Home (Part 2)

I'm into making cakes again!! Pavlova again this time! Since I weren't very happy with the previous one I made... cos' I didn't manage to get the *Must Have* ingredient that time, which is Blueberry~♥ Well, I bought it this time, am really please~ *big smile*

I made a smaller portion today due to the lack of ingredients, just too careless. I assumed that there's enough eggs at home while there's only 2! Sheesh... No worries! I'll make a smaller portion! =D


- INGREDIENTS -

Part A (Meringue)
2 Large egg white
8 Tablespoonfine castor sugar (the finer the better)
1 teaspoon vinegar (may be subtituted with vinegar, lemon
juice, cream of tartar)

Part B (Topping)
100ml Heavy Whipping Cream
2 Teaspoon of granulated white sugar
1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Strawberries
Blueberry

- METHOD -
In the mixer bowl, start of with egg whites and vinegar, make sure bowl is CLEAN greaseless. Beat the whip attachment on medium low speed until it foams up till the meringue holds soft peak. Start adding sugar a tablespoon at a time and continue to beat medium-high speed until the meringue holds very stiff peak. Test whether sugar has dissolved by rubbing between your fingers. It should not feels gritty of sugar.

Gently spread the meringue inside the circle drawn on the parchment paper (baking paper, grease proof paper, or silicon paper) smoothing the edges. It doesn't have to be perfectly neat, but at least a nice flat top or with higher sides (you might want a slight well center to place whipped cream and fruits).

Put the meringue into the oven and drop the temperature to 120 celcius and bake for 1 hour 15 minutes or until outside is dry and takes on very pale cream color. Turn oven off and leave it to cool completely in the oven (about an hour or so).

The cooled meringue can be made and stored in cool dry place or airtight container for a few days.

Just before serving gently place the meringue onto a serving plate. Whip the cream in your electric mixer, with the whisk attachment, until soft peaks form. Sweeten with the sugar and vanilla and then mound the softly whipped cream into the center of the meringue. Arrange the fruit randomly, or in a decorative pattern, on top of the cream. Serve immediately as this dessert does not hold for more than a few hours.

Serves 4 to 6

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Almond Cake - Recipe @ Home

I've been away from my blog for too long... =( cos' I'm working at home, didn't have much time to go out hunt for more yummy stuff. So yea... I'll make my own food at home for awhile. Hehe ^^

Some time ago my aunt came back from UK for a visit and taught mum this recipe to make Almond Cake, without the use of flour AT ALL. Gawd~ It taste too good!! And it's Easy to make, Healthy to eat. So I decided to share with everyone of you ;)

Cooling the cake

Just before I'm about to indulge it =p

- INGREDIENTS -

4 Eggs
190gm Butter
310gm Ground Almond
180gm Brown Sugar (If you don't like it so sweet, u can always cut down)
2 orange zest

- METHOD -

Preheat oven to 180 celcius for 10-15mins

Put EVERYTHING (ingredients) into the mixer and mix well!
Pour into 7" cake tin of whatever shape you like, round or square is good. Make sure the mixture is even.

Drop temperature 160 celcius and bake for about 1 hour.

When it's done. Remove cake from cake tin and leave it to cool. You would like to try it when the cake is still warm! while the outer layer of the cake is slightly crispy! Awww~ taste good to the last bite!

if you eat it the next day, it's taste really moisty with a hint of orange zest. a total different experience u must try!

Enjoy! =)

Portuguese Grill @ Oasis, Midvalley

Anyone here likes spicy food? I bet there are!

Well, lots of local stalls serve Portuguese Grill, usually seafood. They'll wrap the seafood of your choice in aluminum foil with their own spicy sauce then take to grill. Not only the seafood freshness is important, the spicy sauce plays a HUGE role in this dish. Many I've tried, a lot of them don't keep their seafood freshness up to standard, and most of them did the spicy sauce very bland.

This particular one I had that taste great! Spicy enough, and yet very distinctive flavor. At all the strange places, can you believe that one of Midvalley's food court actually serves such good food? Haha! It's one of the stall inside The Oasis. Food was so good that every meal break people are queuing up to order. Gosh...

Prawn with Ladies Finger & Petai


Squid with Ladies Finger


Only Ladies Finger
*I know I know... you must be thinking I'm hell of a ladies finger huge fan. But NO! not me! it's my mum!


Look at the crowd!
*note: it's a public holiday where most people aren't here. you should visit during the weekdays then you'll know how PACKED it is.

In terms of price in these kinda places (food court), a lil' pricy though... but yea... it's seafood. So, it's pretty much expected.

Owh! Aside from Midvalley, there's another place that is very famous with this too. Petaling Street!! It's located at the center of the whole street, at where the famous "Longan Loh Hon Guo Leong Shui" is. It opens only at night if not mistaken. I'll introduce it more when I come to it ;)

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Midvalley Megamall
2nd Floor, Center Court.
Near the IT area.
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Ah Koong Eating House @ Jalan Changkat Thambi Dollah, KL

During hari raya, alot of shops are closed including those that are run by chinese (I really wonder what has it got to do with them?). So yea, we couldn't think of anything nice that suits my aunt's taste bud until we thought of this place, Ah Koong Eating House 亚坤纯正西刀鱼丸 at Jalan Changkat Thambi Dollah, nearby Shaw Parade & Time Square.

Fish Cake, Prawn Cake & Etc
*Like most reviews I heard, the fish cake is really bouncy! Taste very fresh as well, nice~


Noodles Soup with fish cake
*Even though it's clear soup, but it's tasty (hope it's not the MSG)
as for the noodles itself so-so lar... not homemade wut...


Mix Ingredients
*I ordered this, not that I fancy noodles so much =P
Did I mention they put mince meat into the soup too? Nice!


Dry Noodles
*Nothing much about this, noodles very soft.

Generally food is not bad here, anything made of fish paste are great! Oh...!! They even have oyster and abalone there as well, not sure how they cook that. They have curry mee, yong toufu... etc. I'll come back again next time =)

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Ah Koong Eating House
Jalan Changkat Thambi Dollah
Near Shaw Parade, behind Berjaya Times Square.
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Yum Char @ Sri Kembangan, Serdang

There's this kopitiam located right behind my aunt's shop, where all the working uncles around that area will go there for lunch or tea-time. It's a Hakka area, Sri Kembangan. This place serves really good drinks which anything you order it's already extra "KAO", where else can you find such place nowadays in KL?? Lots of mamak stall also milo not enough "KAO" even though you repeatedly said "KAO". Aisay... Cannot lar...

So far this is the best places I tried really "kao kao" milo, teh, kopi...etc. I usually order "3 colour tea" a.k.a 三色奶茶 (sam sik lai char), the best I had in so many other places. Accompanied by my all time favorite Roti Bakar... Ahhh~ Mum will order her favorite drink Kopi-O Ice Tarik! I know her kopi sounded weird, but trust me... it taste great!

3 color tea 三色奶茶

Kopi-O Ice Tarik
*Look at the foam on top? It's not milk, It's Kopi-O!

Roti Bakar
*Something I can never have enough

Anyone up for a drink there lemme know ya ;)
Btw, the kopitiam opens until around 4-5pm only, the other food store will be all closed by then as well.