Grab n Gobble

The days are getting colder and that's not so great. Having to drive to school (saja nak habaq, got my liscence two weeks ago!!!*poyo*) with the stering wheel practically frozen is a new experience. So busy and I am bummed that I can't spend time cooking as much. Still, my stomach demand a little sweet treats once in a while.

 Thank goodness for these...

Cremé Bruleé !!

Creamy custard.

Sprinkle brown sugar.

Burn with a torch.

DEVOUR!!

Raya with the Fraunholz

Fasha and her family invited us to their Syawal openhouse. Lucky us!!

Tangan tuan rumah, tgh susun sudu.

 

Ulam untuk Laksa Johor

I love to see and more importantly, smell raya food.

This is what she laid out for us. Feast fit for a king.

My favourite dalca tomato.

Kek Lapis Sarawak dari Dewi.

Anak² kacuk.

Lastly the desert table.

It was so much fun, sooo much good food that we ended up Tapauing..haha. Fasha dear, jgn serik dpt tetamu macam kami naa..*dasar tetamu makan macam ular sawa*

Krümel Torte

Krümel means crumbs and Torte means cake. We saw a pack of instant Krümel Torte mix and my husband straight away asked me if I could make it. I am always ready for new things or in this case new cake..haha, so I said, why not. We looked roughly at the ingredients and threw the package almost instantly into our shopping cart. You know, shopping in ramadhan is very dangerous. You tend to put everything in your cart and come home with more than you actually need.

Wah, today dah hari keempat raya. Our rendang and gulai nasi dagang pun dah licin. Kuih raya Amy Schwenke dah tinggal dua tiga biji saja. Haha. So I decided to bake the cake yesterday evening. I looked again roughly at the instructions on the box. The cake base was easy enough.

I baked the cake and let it cool.

Then I scooped the cake to create a crater, where it should be filled with its cream fillings.

I sliced 3 medium bananas and arranged them in the crater. Next comes the fillings.

There was a packet of powder in the cake box, which I had to mix with cold water. As the mixture cools down, I saw that it starts to gel-up. Hmm. Note that I read the ingredients only roughly as we bought it. 

What do you know, there's gelatine in it. Ooops! Lucky that I haven't mix everything in yet. So I had to use agar-agar powder, sugar and chocolate chips to replace the mix. I whipped the cream, fold in the agar mixture and dollop onto the cake. And then the crumbs comes on top of the cake. Very messy work, I tell you. Please note that I am a clumsy.

After hours chilling in the fridge, this is how it looks like. It sets up pretty nicely. 

The taste? YUM! Mind you, this isn't for those with strict diet, even if there are slices of healthy bananas in it. :D. It wasn't sweet enough, probably because of my improvision. It was nevertheless very lecker.

Kuih Loyang

Alahai nampak sangat terpengaruh dengan cerita Shafiq Goyang tu, sbb hari ni ada la sorang tu bergoyang sensorang kat dapur. Tapi kat rumah kami, tak panggil kuih Goyang, kami panggil kuih ni kuih Loyang, tak pun kuih Ros.

Kuih ni selalunya kalau raya kami beli ja. Tapi ada sekali tu, teruja sangat nak buat sendiri so ada la sekali tu buat time bulan puasa kat Malaysia. Terus order loyang tembaga nak bawak balik Jerman. So hari ni dapatla merasmikan loyang bertuah itu.

Tak le cun sangat, tapi boleh la..

rasanya?..ntah..kami at this time belum berbuka..nanti kami update na...

Kuih Loyang:

100g tepung beras

100g tepung gandum

85g gula putih

1/4 sudu kecil garam

1 biji telur

200ml santan

100ml air

Minyak untuk menggoreng

1. Campurkan semua bahan dan gaul hingga sebati. Tapis jika perlu. Sediakan adunan ini dalam bekas yang tahan panas, jangan guna bekas plastik.

2. Sediakan kuali dan isikan dengan minyak hingga lebih kurang 3-4 cm.

3. Panaskan minyak dengan api sederhana

4. Bila minyak dah agak panas, rendamkan loyang dalam masa 1-2 minit.

5. Celupkan loyang dalam adunan, tapi jangan sampai adunan tadi menyaluti bahagian atas loyang.

6. Rendam loyang dalam minyak panas tadi dan 'goyang' loyang tadi sehingga kuih terpisah dari loyang.

7. Goreng hingga perang keemasan.

8. Ulang sehingga adunan habis.

Senang jerr...

♥ Ich liebe Macarons!! ♥

Though I am fully aware of the stress and the ridiculous preparations of making this adorable cookies, I tried another recipe for macarons, here's the link.

I made the shells with finely grated lemon peel and nuttela ganachè for the fillings.

I succesfully baked a tray of shells with 'feet' and another tray was just a disaster. So I do recommend a good preparation not only physically but also emotionally for anyone trying to make macarons for the first time. I myself thought I will never make these EVER again, as I failed my first time. But when I bloghop and see homemade macarons, I couldn't resist trying just one more time!

I'm just happy to say, this is the results of my fifth attempt. Saying that doesn't mean anything, because that won't ensure my next attempt will be flawless. 

Damn you macarons!..

It's truly a Love Hate Relationship.

Mango Pudding Tart

Tadaaa..tayang sikit mango pudding tart neh. Ni buat setelah penat mengentel dumplings bertuah itteuw. Patutnya pakcik insurance nak singgah kejap petang semalam, tapi kitorang tunggu punya tunggu punya tunggu (sila baca style Pramlee dlm cerita Seniman Bujang Lapok ya), pakcik insurance tak timbul-timbul. Kekdahnya dia terlupa, tadi baru dia telepon habaq.

So rezeki kami berdua lah baham tart mango ini. Resepi ni ilham website ni, tapi dah di'oter' akibat ada a few things tak available kat pantry. Yang ada mango dalam tin saja, so terpaksa la guna creativiti. I don't have any gelatin or serbuk agar-agar kat rumah, so I use vanilla pudding, I added some mango puree to it. The crust I made exactly according to the recipe.

I topped the tart with more mango puree and then leave it to set in the fridge. Hasilnya amat memuaskan, optik sebelum dipotong memang otai, rasa pun sedap, lemak manis. My favourite part is the crust, made of normal short pastry cuma tambah coconut flakes. Memang kena la dengan manis mango tuh.

Probably sebab mango puree kat atas tart tu banyak sangat, terjadilah 'landslide' reaction antara pudding ngan mango puree tuh bila dipotong. Hehe. Apapun, tart ni sedap dan sangatlah senang, I will make it again. Maybe next time I will use serbuk agar-agar bagi set sikit pudding tu.

Chocolate-Crazy *Read at your own risk* & *Dieters beware!!*

Holidays are all about chocolates and candies, for us at least. I just love it when easter or christmas holidays are coming and the chocolate section in the supermarket becomes fancier and brighter. I get excited just looking at them.

As usual, mamaks parents will send us a package filled with chocolate every holiday season. Our package this time is of course for easter. I was so excited to get these chocolate eggs packed in a real egg carton. I've seen them at the stores before this, tapi tak pernah beli lagi.

With the cream eggs, you get two cute milka spoons.

And you are suppose to indulge the milk cream inside the eggs using that cute spoon. So adorable!!

We also received a bunch of Cadbury mini candies, Kinder Überaschung Eier and ...

 ..these are Haloren Kugeln or chocolate balls with fillings, they're from the oldest chocolate factory in Germany, ni dedulu product east german, now you can find it everywhere in Germany.

This is the Milka version of easter bunny, the one that mamak likes. I like the small gold one at the back.

Takdak kerja la ni, soh chocolate bunny posing kat pokok orchid.

Anyway, did I tell you guys that our favourite chocolate store Läderach, the one in Zürich has opened a branch at our nearest city. We found out last Saturday and I almost jumped with joy. Sekarang, I have less reason to travel to Zürich and that means travel cost could be spend on more chocolates!!.....Call me crazy, but you haven't tasted chocolate until you taste these...

 At the counter they present tons of freshly made chocolate bars. We bought this one, caramelized haselnuts with milk chocolate....

...and these, white chocolate with berry cruch. At the store you can buy chocolates kiloweise and that means by the kilo. You order by telling them how big you want your chocolate bar to be or an estimated weight of the chocolate piece that you want. They will break the piece for you, ask for your approval, weight it, pack it up and its yours. Of course dont forget to pay for it..hehe.

 Well, I hope you guys had fun reading my chocolate entry. I'll be in school for the week and I guess, I'll be updating my blog on the weekends..

Have a good week y'all!! 

Yakitori Tare and my not so original Apple Crumble

Aaaachhooo!!!! Both of us caught the 'grilling fever'. Just last week we grilled, today both of us heated up the charcoal again.

Today instead of grilling sausages, I prepared ayam sticks. Teringin nak makan style yakitori tare, so pagi tadi gigih di dapur dok debone a whole 1,3 kg chicken. I used all of the chicken parts except for the breast, because they tend to get dry when not grilled correctly.

I just marinated them a little with salt,white pepper and garlic powder before piercing them onto the bamboo skewers. Note that there's only two mushrooms skewers, they're for me and only me, because mamak tak lalu nak makan cendawan..:).

Then when they are about done on the grill, we brushed them generously with my home-improved teriyaki sauce, there's the recipe below. I made some simple mee goreng to eat with these chicken sticks, sorry aaa foto mee goreng lupa nak ambik.

Just a while ago I made this apple crumble. It's not the traditional one, because I used biscuits crumbs and cornflakes instead of flour, since tepung dah habis kat rumah...muahahah. Sedap jugak. Kalau sesiapa yang interested, silalah tgk recipe kat bawah naa. We enjoyed this sambil minum kopi and layan the 70's show.

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Recipes:

Home improved teriyaki sauce:

1/2 cup sweet soya sauce or *teriyaki sauce

1/2 cup salty soya sauce

1/2 cup apple juice

4 tablespoonsfull brown sugar

1 tablespoonsfull white sugar

1 clove garlic, smashed

1/2 inch ginger, smashed

1-2 tablespoon cornflour, mixed with some water

Mix all ingredients, except for the cornflour mixture together in a pot, simmer for a while at low heat until all the aromas combined. To thicken, bring the sauce to a soft boil and add the cornflour mixture. Make sure that the sauce boil a little for a while to get rid of the 'raw-flour' smell. Then stir vigorously to avoid clumping and turn of the burner. I made a slightly thicker version of this teriyaki sauce to make basting easier. You can adjust the thickness yourself with reducing or adding more cornflour mixture to the sauce.

* most of the teriyaki sauce sold at the stores here, have mirin, a sweet rice wine as an ingredient. There are a few mirin-free teriyaki sauce, but they taste like normal sweet soya sauce. That's why I like to refined the taste with the ingredients above.

Apple with butter biscuits and cornflakes crumble

2 apples, cored, skinned and sliced.

3 tablespoon sugar.

a dash of cinnamon and nutmeg.

Mix these ingredients together.

around 60-80g butter biscuits

1/2 cup cornflakes

60g diced butter

Blend these in a food processer until almost fine. Add the diced butter and pulse until a breadcrumb-like texture is achieved. 

Preheat oven to 190°C. Spoon apple and sugar mixture into a large ovenproof dish, or small individual dish. Cover the fruit with the crumble mixture and bake for 30 minutes.

Voila! oh..don't forget to serve it with a good scoop of vanilla ice-cream.

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I'm Back Home

 Yesterday, after a little schedule mix-up, I checked my current schedule online. There were so many changes that I had to organize my whole jadual waktu all over again. I ended up having only one subject on friday morning, which is pretty annoying. Ya la kan, kalau hari jumaat takdak subject, malam khamis dah bleh cabut balik rumah..hehe. 

Aaanyway, pagi tadi pergi kelas seperti biasa and then as usual I checked out the latest notice online, in case kelas cancel ke hapa. Not to my surprise, kelas petang hari ni and jumaat pagi tu cancel, cikgu takdak. I guess its normal first week kelas ada yang cancel, lepaih ni, jangan harap la. Apa lagi, selesai kelas, terus tot tet tot tet balik bilik, boh laptop dalam rucksack, hambik kunci rumah dan terus conggok kat bus stop.

Sesampainya di rumah, rilek kejap sambil diperli oleh Mamak. Mestila kena perli, tak sampai berapa hari dah ada kat rumah balik, tak sempat nak merasa jadi unofficial bachelor. Ces tui!..Tunggu la kita exam nanti, huhu...time tu baru dia tau bila dah rindu nak makan kari...muahaha. Sapa nak goreng papadom time tuh!..

Anyway, terus ku hambik packet kek instant Dr. Oetker yang dah nak expired tu and baked this cake. Kitchen therapy. This is called Russischer Zupfkuchen or Russian Cheesecake, but its really a traditional German cake. Ada la tu keturunan russian yang dok Jerman zaman dulu-dulu tu kot yang bawak kek ni ke Jerman. Hehe..pepandai ja buat cerita ek.

 Its a cheesecake made from Quark or fresh white cheese curd with chocolate flavoured short pastry crust. As the name says Zupfkuchen, you are to zupfen or pluck some of the short pastry dough and scatter them at the top of the cake.

The cake taste pretty light because it is made with fresh cheese curd instead of cream cheese. I just love the colour constrast.

Mamak yang introduced this cake to me. He really loves this cake, masa baru-baru kenal dia dulu, he baked this cake and bawak pi tmpt kerja for us. Muahaha..time tu mati-mati ingat dia buat kek ni from scratch. Tipah tertipu. Since then, just like him, I have never made it from scratch. Maybe one day, but thank Dr. Oetker, I (or we) make the perfect Russicher Zupfkuchen everytime. So easy and really really good! When I do make one from scratch, I will surely share it here with you guys.

Oh well, time to enjoy being home! 

Until next time.

Tchüss!

Tolak van and Tarte Tatin

Semalam kami berdua menjalankan aktiviti pindah randah. I've rented a room at flat near my school, from a girlfriend who's currently doing her practical semester right now. So I'll be there through the week to go to school and balik rumah at the weekends..huhu..so sad kan? I'm being strong just by thinking "It's all for our future". Hopefully by next semester, I'll get my german driving license and we'll get a car, so that I can travel back and forth to school from home. At the moment we don't really have a choice lah, since the bus connection is teribble eventhough rumah tak jauh mana pun. 

Hari selasa ni akan start kelas, I was moving some of my stuff with mamak yesterday, with the company van yang dah usang itu (hasil pinjaman dari tmpt kerja mamak, atas budi bicara bos mamak, encik misai). Van itu amatlah usang, tapi tak berani nak ambil gambar sbb van company..muahaha. Nak dijadikan cerita, both of us went to shop for groceries, alang-alang dah ada transport kan. Mamak tried to start the van and it didnt budge. Tercengang kami sebab van usang tu takleh nak start. So at the parking lot Kaufland semalam, terjadilah aksi mami tolak van buruk tapi besar itu..muahahahhaa. Alhamdulillah, the motor ran, we all sempat drive balik rumah and sent the car back safely. Of course we informed Encik Misai about the incident, dengan selamba Encik Misai kata "awat tak katok-katok skit kat enjin tu" dgn slang germannya itu. Adeh, manala kami tau nak katok tang mana. Ish ish ish..

Aaanyway, I'm still at home, enjoying my last Sunday with my husband as a free soul, before I start my life back again as a Student. I made the french version of apple pie today. Something like the upside down pineapple cake, but instead of cake, I use pastry crust. Here's the actual recipe, but as usual I sort adjusted it. Instead of one big pie, I made two small individual pies. Senang, sorang satu..haha..takyah gaduh-gaduh.

I didn't use eggs for the pie crust, just for funsies. Still the crust tasted good, maybe next time I will try with eggs, just to compare. :). Some recipes uses puff pastry, which is probably lighter and yummier, cause the pastry could soak the dripping caramel.

Well, its pretty easy to make and I would recommend this to any hobby bakers who loves fruit pies or tarts. Ours was not bad, served warm with a cup of coffee, just heavenly. 

Besok kami balik ke uni semula, mamak took a few days off from work, so he'll be there with me sampai hari rabu. Merasa husband hantar pegi skolah..muahahah.