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...

Ramadhan

Assalamualaikum,

wahh it has been a looooong time since I posted. First of all I want to convey my Salam Ramadhan to those who still reads my blog. :)..I am truly touched to see that so many still read this blog. My heart goes to all of you. Thank you so much. Mamak and I are doing fine and since it's Ramadhan, we would like to ask for forgiveness, kalaulah kami terkasar bahasa, tersilap kata, offended or hurt anyone's feelings. Maaf Zahir Batin.

Update : 

I actually am still alive, to those who are wondering. Haha. I was just fully concentrating on my studies. Honestly, I haven't opened my own blog AND haven't visited any other blogs since I posted my last entry. Talk about determination.

The thing is, as you guys know, I swing my way back home and school. Also I had to study in German and that means, three times the workload of a normal students. It takes a lot of time trying to balance home and school at the same time, so I told myself I had to concentrate on some things and leave other things as they are for a while. 

Unfortunately I decided to leave my blog as it was and come back when I have the time. I miss blogging teribbly and I miss interacting with my blogreaders too. But I was determined. Alhamdulillah, I finished my semester, sat for 6 exams plus one Lab and syukur kepada Allah, I got 5 of my exams and my one lab results and I passed  all of them!! Now I'm waiting for my last results, and hopefully I will pass that one too.

Ramadhan is great. Sini at the end of summer, so fasting time is rather long. Mamak had a little problem fasting for 17-16 hours masa awal Ramadhan, but Alhamdulillah he's what the german calls 'Tapfer', meaning tak mudah patah semangat. Ada la dia tinggal dua tiga hari sbb tak larat akibat kerja (don't tell him I told you..haha..) but I am so proud of him still.

Skarang ni I am enjoying my summer holidays at home until end of September, which is cool because I start class after raya. So fasting is no problem since I just stay at home and do nothing. Well not exactly nothing, I am going for driving class in the evenings. My malaysian liscence is only valid for the first six month residence in Germany so obviously mine is not valid anymore. I'll have to take theorie and practical exams again to get my german driving liscence.  To think that I had it all behind me...haha. So now I have to actually attend driving classes with 17 year olds and that makes me feel so very young. NOT.

We also bought a 12 year old VW Lupo for a very little money (all the we could afford), which I call KODOK because it is bilious green, from Mamaks little brother who inherited the car from their late Atok. The car is old, the paint is beaten up, we had a casette player radio which we had to remove because it was messing up the car battery and now we have a hole with cables in it, no air-cond but thank god for the heater, roll windows, 1.0 engine and we love it. The kodok is responsible to take me to school next semester, meaning I have to pass my driving exams first. 

Foodwise, I have been cooking the same things in ramadhan. Nothing new. We tend to eat more malaysian food, since both of us are homesick, home as in Penang. Watching Shamsul Ghau-Ghau at Bazar ramadhan on tv3 online does not help ease the pain but we watch it anyway. 

Here's what I made two days ago.

In penang this what the people call 'Coq Kucai'

This one I made using a recipe from Foodbeam. So it's the stylish version of coq kucai la. Instead of the cream cheese used in the batter, I used fullfat yoghurt. Sedap. Crunchy on the outside, soft inside. I put in the fridge and reheat in the toaster oven of sahoor, still soft and crunchy.

Until next time!!

Let's make the ultimate Kartoffelsalat!

Kartoffelsalat is potato salad in german. Usually I buy my potato salad from the supermarket, because they taste pretty good and I don't have to stand around in the kitchen to make them. It is pretty time consuming you know. Well, that was until I tasted my mom in laws potato salad. You see, every family here has their own recipe and naturally everyone says theirs are the best :). Just like our rendang recipe lah. This one is from a very new recipe book, that my MIL tried, which means not the turun temurun recipe lah. But I think they taste so good, I want to make it a tradition.

First you need 1 kg potatoes, the type that keeps their shapes when cooked. Just boil the whole kilo in salt water.

Then you need radishes, 10 medium sized ones.

Then you need sour cream, 100g will do.

One medium sized onion and a bunch of parsley.

This is meerrettich, grated horseradish. It taste like a milder wasabi. Not a must, but it gives a sharp taste to the salad.

Of course, gherkins.

This is veggie broth granules. Every german household has it and they put this stuff in everything, I mean EVERYTHING. Really. Kat Malaysia takda jual benda ni, so I guess you can use chicken stock atau home made sup sayur.

Remember the boiled potatoes? I skinned them after their boiled and chunk them into tiny pieces. Don't ask me why I skinned them after boiling, haha. I just obediently follow instructions. Anyway, I made a veggie stock consisting 3 tablespoons veggie granules and 150ml warm water. Add chopped onions, pepper and a generous dash of the gherkin juice. Then I pour this mixture onto the warm potatoes. They should be soaked until they cool down to room temperature.

Meanwhile I sliced the radishes and chopped the gherkins finely.

One hard boiled egg chopped into small pieces.

Here comes the cream mixture, 100g sour cream, 100mg mayonaisse and 2 tablespoons grated horseradish. Once the potato salad is cold enough, have a taste. Now you can adjust the salt, I don't put any salt in the beginning because the veggie stock can be very salty. So add the cream mixture, egg, radishes and gherkins. It is almost done now. Leave your precious potato salad to rest in the fridge overnight. Don't touch it!!

Now, the next day before you serve, chop the parsley and mix it in. Transfer everything into a nice clean bowl and sprinkle more parsley on top, just for fun.

Now your ultimate potato salad is ready!

We had guests today to share ours. Too bad the pictures came out not so good, I don't snap well under pressure !..haha.

Little P and his parents came to visit. It was lovely! The little guy can speak a few words now and he knows us by names.

Precious little thing!

Cok Kodok Apple

We had a late lunch yesterday of kuey teow sup and shrimp dumplings. Sorry naa, tak ambil gambar pun, sebab sama ja rupa dia dengan dumpling yang buat hari tu. Hehe..

So for dinner I made some cekodok apple, which was so yummy. Tak sangka the batter came out so fluffy because I used resepi hentam keromo saja.

I put very little sugar in the batter sbb takut hangit, so they were not sweet enough. So I sprinkled lots of powdered sugar on them. So yummy, sugary sweet with a light sour flavour from the apples. 

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Cok Kodok Apple recipe:

1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup cold water
2 tablespoon sugar
1 large apple, skinned, sliced and diced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder


method:
Combine flour, salt, sugar and cold water in a large bowl. It should have a sticky texture, since the apples will add some water to the mixture. Mix in the diced apples and stir until batter coats everything. Now if the batter is too sticky, you may add a little water and if too runny, add more flour. Add the baking powder and mix thoroughly one last time. Preheat oil in a deep frying pan, about 2 inches deep. Spoon apple mixture into the oil and fry for about 3-4 minutes. Lay them on kitchen towel and sprinkle powdered sugar before serving.

(ps: in Germany, fluid cooking oil sold, for instance cornoil of raspoil, are not suitable for deep frying because they are not heat-stable, that means they will burn and smoke at high temperature. To deep fry dishes like this one, I recommend using solid oils, usually made with palm oil, available at refrigerated section at stores, usually near butter)

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!

Fishy Lunch at Lake Constance

This is Pakcik R and his wife. On her birthday in January, we promised to take her out for lunch. So finally we had the group together yesterday and treated her lunch at this restaurant, which she chose herself.

The restaurant called Seehaus, which means 'Lakehouse' is located, as you can see, directly near the Bodensee, in english the Lake Constance.

Pretty overwhelming view. When the weather is clear, you may see the Alps in this direction.

The salad was our appetizer. If all salad were like this, I could be a vegetarian.hehe. Delicious dressing. 

This is little P's dad. He ordered the salad platter and he was so surprised to see that it was so huge. It was served with assorted fish fillets.

This is Mamaks plate. Felchenfillet or white fish, sautéd with almond butter. Served with boiled potatoes. The fish is caught in this very lake! Fresh!

The trainee is a vegetarian. This dish is called Spätzle, a noodle type very typical here. Hers was Spinach Spätzle with cheese sauce, served with lots of bawang goreng.

This is Jarmans Sejati's plate. It's house-smoked salmon served with mustard dill sauce and savoury crepès.

This was mine! Pakcik R and his wife ordered the same one. Kretzerfillets (Perch) fried in egg batter. Also served with boiled potatoes. These fishes were also caught at the lake.

This one is Jarman Sejati's mango yoghurt ice-cream. Mamak and I had espressos after lunch, since there were no room left in our tummy for deserts.

It was very nice to have a beautiful food for lunch, nice weather, great conversations and lovely view.

 We'll surely be coming back to this restaurant this summer, kalau ada rezeki :). 

Kuih Pau

Kuih pau! Kuih pau! Mari mari...

Kuih Pau ni dinner kami berdua semalam. Ni first time buat ni. Selama ni tak berani nak buat sebab kebanyakkan resipi pakai tepung pau atau tepung hongkong, mana la nak dpt kat sini. Baru ni jumpa banyak pula resepi yang pakai tepung gandum biasa, so boleh la nak cuba. Cuma orang kata kalau pakai tepung biasa, pau jadi kekuningan, tak gebueww gitu.

Pau ni inti kari ayam, kertas tu pulak baking paper yang dipotong kecil-kecil.

Dah lama periuk kukus ni sampai dari mesia, ni baru berpeluang nak guna. Hehe..

Ni pau yang dah siap kukus, kembang semangkuk you! Tak budget nak kembang, seb baik tak kukus ramai-ramai sekali, kalau tak memang melekat la jawabnya pau-pau ni. Alhamdulillah dough menjadi. Paling penting, dough ni dah sejuk pun masih lembut.

 This time mami mungkin terlalu tamak, roll dough sampai nipis lepas tu taruk inti bebanyak, so bila kembang, bertambah nipis la dough tu. Apa pun, pau ni tak macam beli di kedai, hehe..kalau beli kat kedai, kulit pau bukan main tebal, inti ciput saja. Pau ni inti membuak-buak, seb baik tak pecah..hehe.

Mamak baru first time makan kuih pau ni, katanya dia kena setting lidah sikit, sebab kat Jerman ni ada juga kuih kukus, nama dia Dampfnudel, rasa sebijik macam kuih pau, cuma takdak inti, makan pulak dengan sos vanila dan blueberry compote. So bila makan kuih pau inti kari, dia terasa confuse sekejap..haha.

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Pau dough:

250g All purpose flour, diayak

12g Fresh yeast,

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoon baking powder

3 tablespoon sugar

2 tablespoon shortening (I use veg oil)

125ml warm water *

Method:

Sieve flour, salt and baking powder into a bowl. Mix with sugar. Make a cavity in the middle of the flour mixture and crumble yeast into the cavity. *Pour in some of the water and start kneading. Add the shortening and knead further. *Only add more water if the dough is too dry, you dont have to use up all of the water. Knead until it becomes a soft pliable dough. Place in a bowl, cover with damp cloth and let rise for 30 minutes at a warm place. 

After the dough has doubled in size, knead to release the gas in the dough and roll into a log shape. Cut the dough into 6 portions and roll each portions into a ball. At this time, you can prepare the steamer on your stove. I use the rolling pin to flatten the dough into a round shape, fill the dough with filling and use fingers to gather up the edge and pleat to seal the pau. Place the pau on a small piece of paper (I use baking paper). When the water in the steamer boils, steam them for 10-15minutes.

Mee Kuning ka Udon ka?

Baru hari itu mengeluh sebab rindukan mee kuning. Kalau di Malaysia memang mee kuning pilihan hati, nombor dua keow teow dan diikuti dengan bihun. Itu kategori noodles. Selama duduk di Jerman ni, jarang dapat makan atau beli mee sesedap mee kat Malaysia. Kat Asia Markt tu mee kering tu ada, still tak sesedap mee kuning. Keow teow pun tak ada yang fresh, yang kering tu tak bes sebab asik patah bila rendam dalam air. Kalau bihun no problem, memang senang nak dpt. Kedai groceries biasa pun dah ada jual bihun skarang ni.

Dah lama simpan resepi ni kat bookmark browser, tapi tak berpeluang nak buat. Hari ni semangat rasanya nak try. Resepi mee kuning ni saya tengok kat blog Kak Hani. Thank you so much.

Buat separuh adunan saja, sebab takut tak menjadi. Kami takdak pasta machine, so lenguh juga jadinya dok roll adunan tu jadi senipis yang boleh. Lepas tu potong nipis-nipis macam ni.

Ni la ghope mee yang baru di potong. Akibat sikit sangat taruk pewarna kuning, mee ni jadi pucat. Ala-ala mee Udon pulak dah jadinya. Tadi bukan ke nak buat mee kuning? haha..Konpius akak! Anyway, mengikut resepi, saya rebus mee ni, tos dalam air sejuk dan gaul dengan minyak. Lepas tu saya pun rasa seurat. Alamak aih, kentalnya. Terus rasa sayang, takut-takut takleh guna langsung mee tu.

So lepas Mamak pergi kerja semula lepas lunch tadi, kita ni mula la cube try test. Ambik sikit mee yang baru buat tu, celur semula dalam air mendidih. Baki mee goreng mamak haritu ada lagi dalam peti ais, panaskan, tambah rencah dan campur mee yang baru celur tu. Alhamdulillah..lembut. Memang rasa 'chewy' skit macam Udon. Nih baru bes buat mee goreng, boleh slurrrp..slurrp..gituew. Memang sedaplah compared to mee goreng yang guna spaghetti. Maka terubatlah sikit rindu nak makan mee kuning..huhuhu. Maybe next time bleh buat mee yang lebih bes, bila dah ada pasta machine nanti. 

Whats next? Homemade keow teow?

Matcha Ice Cream

I tried a green tea desert for the first time at Sushi King, it was a packet Matcha Tiramisu. Masa tu makan dinner with Hunny. Then at Azuma, also with Hunny, we got tiny but free scoops of matcha ice-cream. So tiny but so sedap.

The other day, I told Mamak about this green tea ice cream and he told me dia tak pernah makan, so I decided to make some at home. The problem was that we searched high and low for powdered green tea kat grocery stores sini, hampeh tak jumpa-jumpa. At last we decided to go to a Tee-Fachladen, a shop that only sells tea to ask for Matcha. I warned Mamak, kalau ada pun kat kedai camni, mesti mahal. He said, we should give it a try since he was already very excited with the idea of green tea ice cream.

So kat kedai tu, there were no Matcha to be seen so I had to ask the lady. The nice lady at the counter told us she has Matcha and senyum-senyum simpul kat kami. She fetched two small canister of green tea and told us, one is 20grams for 22€ and the other is 30grams for 12.50€. Terus both of us start laughing, ye lah, for us Tea noobs, the price was ridiculously high. Terasa macam nak beli emas pulak, ikut gram tuh. Then I asked her if she know of any other form of powdered green tea and she said, she only know Matcha as powdered green tea. Other japanese tea like sencha are all not powdered. So we took her word for it..

..and we ended up buying this one.

Thats right folks, of of course we bought the cheaper one. We thought we wont feel so robbed if we buy this one...haha. Now I know why we got such a tiny scoop of Match ice-cream kat Azuma dulu.

This is how the green tea powder looks like. The powder is so fine that everytime you open the canister, some of it will 'fly' out in a puff.

The ice cream making part is however easier. First buy a good quality vanilla ice-cream (I use Mövenpick) and leave it to defrost a little to become softer. I sieved around three teaspoons-full of Matcha powder into a quarter cup of milk. Mix until the Matcha virtually dissolves into the milk. Add the Matcha-milk to the ice-cream and stir until incorporated. I poured the ice-cream mixture back into the plastic container and freeze until to be served.

Why so much work for a scoop of Matcha ice-cream? Well you'll have to try it yourself. Ermm..also because there's none to buy at the stores here. But hey, look at the pictures. They are totally worth the trouble.

Mamak totally love this stuff now and we are planning to use every bit of the ridiculously priced powder tea to good use.

Itadakimasu!

Schweineohren translated err..telinga...err...errr...

Untuk mengelakkan kekeliruan saya copy paste saja terus dari dictionary german-english okay,

Schwein (der)

n. pig, hog, swine, pork; jerk, annoying person, slob, clumsy person, filthy person 

Ohr (das)

n. part of the body used for hearing; ear

Makanya Schweineohren means pig ears. Yes, itu nama german untuk pastry yang dimaksudkan ini. Orang Perancis panggil Palmiers yang bermaksud palm tree, satu nama yang mungkin lebih comel tapi tidak sensasi seperti Schweineohren itu. He he..

Anway, this is sort of our emergency pastry stash yang ada dalam freezer kami. Just plain puff pastry, sprinkled with lots of sugar and dribbled with honey. Pastu gulung camni.

Pastu, kami pack each piece individually and freeze them. 

(note my cute hand!)

Bila selera dah datang tu, just defrost the pastry for 10 minutes, cut them diagonally like this, and sprinkle more sugarand more honey onto them.

Susun jauh-jauh sikit from each other, sebab pastry tu will expand as they bake. Shove them in the oven for 10-12 minutes at 200°C.

I guess now you see why it's called Schweineohren. Oh, memang tidak setanding dengan Schweineohren yang beli kat bakery (kat bakery ada yang besaq telinga gajah), tapi kalau petang-petang tu tengah craving, memang layan. Especially with a cup of hot coffee.

Oh..sangat berkaramel dan ranggup bercrispy.