Sunday, November 2, 2008

Five-Berry-Muffins

Normally, orang buat Tri-Berry ja. Kami belasah sampai 5 jenis berries. Hahaha..berries ni bukan kami kutip dalam hutan aa, kami kutip kat Kaufland, section frozen food.


Anyway, this is my third time ever making muffins. As said before, bab bakar membakar nih kurang talent skit. Dulu-dulu ingatkan susah nak buat muffins nih. At that time gila la impressed dengan orang yang boleh buat muffins. Heh..heh...skang ni impressed lagi. Sebab kami ni baru pass bab Muffin saja, bab lain tu belum lagi.

So sekali tu try la resepi Chocolate Chip Muffins Nigella Lawson. Menjadi, sedap lak tu. Sindri makan sindri komen. Second time, buat Marble muffins(Chocolate, Vanilla and Strawberry). Boleh la tahan. This time, menjadi lagi. Actually guna resepi Nigella, cuma tambah Berries.

Itula satu sebab kita ni kurang berjaya bab bakar membakar nih. Lepas dapat satu resepi, mula la nak merubah2 ikut suka hati. Haha..tapi nasib baik muffin ni okay. Maybe kurang manis skit, sebab berries tu masam rupanya.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Pudding oh Pudding...

Kalau dulu orang sebut pudding, kami ingatkan pudding jagung dan bread pudding. Hmmm..tapi kat sini, chocolate pudding ngan vanilla pudding paling famous.

Pudding tu camna sebenarnya? Kami pun confuse. Kat sini kalau serbuk pudding tu merata2 jual. Tambah susu panas, kacau dah jadi pudding.

Hmmm..confusing kan. Is german pudding the british custard? For me pudding should be sweet. But yorkshire pudding (British) is something like a really light bread roll. I still remember, my Oma-angkat kat Middlesborough told me she wanted to make Yorkshire pudding for me. So when I ate dinner, I told her I was looking forward to desert, thinking that pudding is something like our pudding jagung. Hahaha..then she told me, If you mean pudding, you are eating them right now. From then on I got confused on what pudding really means.

Never really sure what is what and being in Germany makes me a little bit more confused. But then kawan2 kat sini, kalau guna resepi dari malaysia,yang guna custard powder, depa substitute dengan pudding powder. Hmmm....??

Dulu-dulu kalau nak makan pudding kat sini, beli yang dah siap packet, pastu kalau teringin nak makan dengan whipped cream, kami beli whipped cream dalam botol pastu spray saja atas pudding yang dah siap. Kata student, malas tu memang no 1.

Si Mamak ni pulak, suka sangat makan pudding. Sejak kenal dia, baru la dapat tau, yang pudding ni ada yang dimakan panas2. He personally likes it warm. And one more thing, he makes his pudding himself. And he can finish 500ml warm chocolate pudding on one go. I find it rather impressive, since I can't eat so much sweet stuff on one go. But if you serve me curry kepala ikan, Bring It On..haha..!

Anyway, conclusion, what really pudding means depends a lot on where you are at. Malaysia, England or Germany, pudding sind einfach lecker! (sedap sangat!)

ps: Oma-angkats yorkshire pudding were really great. Wish i could get the recipe. :)