Tonkatsu Curry topped w Crispy Fried Garlic Slices

don't you just love the sound of stuff deep-frying in your kitchen? well, i do! it's like music to my ears.. and everything just seems so tasty after that!

don't know why recently keep craving for fried stuff.. eekS!

Mango Sago Dessert

first attempt at one this.. kinda obvious but i still gotta say that the quality and taste of the mangoes used must be really good in order to score at this dessert.. colour of dessert is also greatly affected by your mangoes.. mine's kinda pale.. not so sweet.. so i added some sugar to sweeten it up..

Blueberry Cake with Streusel Topping

Stir-Fry Soba Noodles

Tried a new recipe.. noodles are tossed in truffle oil before serving.. added a little cha soba sauce for taste too..

Hello Kitty 冰皮月饼 Snow Skin Mooncake

i think baking has become part of my life.. i'm like doing something almost once a week!

suddenly itchy backside.. thought of making snowskin mooncake.. and not just any snowskin mooncake, i really love the one my friend, Carol, makes! understand that she doesn't really bake to sell anymore, so i thick-skin go ask her for recipe and she willingly obliged! WAH SO HAPPY LEH!

she kept reassuring me that it's a foolproof recipe and indeed! only thing was, i didn't know what proportion of skin to wrap the filling with.. initially i used 1 part filling to 2 parts skin.. GRAVE MISTAKE! skin was super thick :\ so i did 1 to 1.. much better! then another friend told me skin should be slightly lesser than filing.. which i think is true also lah.. cos even 1 to 1, the skin still a bit on the thick side as compared to the ones sold commercially.. nonetheless, most importantly, the taste (i like) is there!!!!!!!!!!!! yumz! i'm lovin' it! my toughest critic also gave the thumbs up!

in case you're wondering what has the first 4 pic gotta do with the mooncake... i extracted pandan juice from pandan leaves by pounding them and squeezing (the hell!) out of them.. why did i do it? 'cause i forget to buy pandan essence and i was lazy to go get it.. so since my dad has 3 huge pandan plants and mum used to pound the pandan leaves to get the extract, i decided to try it for myself.. a lesson learnt - get the ready-made extract/essence.. (-_-) after pounding and squeezing like almost 20 leaves, i got like prob 1 tsp of juice? and my palms hurt from all the squeezing.. so the pandan flavour wasn't v strong..

anyway, will prob try a lychee or mango flavour next week :) wish me luck!

Orange-flavoured Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

Left office late today.. randomly decided to drop by phoon huat to replenish my supply of chocolate chips and bought a couple of new piping tips.. went home.. nuah a bit.. and decided to bake these.. haha.. really impromptu! i had butter in the fridge so didn't have to wait v long.. and all in all, it took me less than 2 hours to do these from scratch to packing them :) really easy recipe and this is one of the stuff that i'll eat 'cause the flavour isn't rich (i substituted orange essence with orange jucei) so it's quite easy on the palette..

Chocolate Cake with Ganache

First time experimenting with ganache and it was really successful! the ganache tasted really good and added a really nice coating to the cake..

then i was faced with a problem - how do i decorate the cake?? it looked so plain.. i toyed with the idea of piping some frosting but i didn't have time to prepare the frosting.. so i went through my cupboard.. and found these colorful chocolate bits which i bought from Australia last year.. the silver beads were also from Australia and  i lined it around the heart to make it more defined.. don't worry.. these haven't expired yet :P won't be using them if they had!

Radish Cake

For my aunt :)