Moist & Aromatic Banana Walnut Bread

Recipe will be posted up soon.

Stay tuned !

Healthy Oatmeal with Walnuts, Raisins and Cranberries Cookies !

Hello peeps !
I'm having my second semester break now, that's why I'm back (at least for now).

I woke up this morning and I just randomly had this "baking mood".
So, I'd decided to baked some healthy oatmeal cookies for my loved ones !

I got this recipe from one of my athletics team mates, Cece, who is just as health-fanatic as I am. ;)
She's an amazing baker, and not to mention, runner !

That would be all for my introduction for today. :P
Coming back to our cookies.

1. Prepare the following ingredients:

1/2 cup Butter, softened (Not melted ! You will get a different texture if you do so)
1/2 cup Brown sugar (I'm not a fan of sweets, so I put about 1/3)
1 Large egg
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla essence
3/4 cup Wholemeal flour
1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Salt (1/4 if you are using salted butter)
1 1/2 cup Rolled oats
1/2 cup Raisins and/or Cranberries
1/2 cup Walnuts, chopped

2. In a large bowl, cream butter, brown sugar, egg and vanilla essence until smooth.

This might take some time, but it's worth waiting !

3. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.

4. Stir dry mixture from Step 3 into the butter-egg mixture in Step 2.

5. Add rolled oats, raisins and/or cranberries and walnuts into the bowl.

Final cookie dough will look something like this !

We're almost there !!

6. Scoop the cookie dough onto a baking tray. 

There's no rule that says what size the cookies should be or should not be, 

so, make as small or as big as you wish !

7. Put the tray (with uncooked cookies) into the freezer to chill it for a while.

Meanwhile, preheat oven to 155°C.

8. When oven is preheated, remove tray from freezer and put it inside the preheated oven.

Bake it for 20-25 minutes. 

Time required may vary slightly according to many factors, such as cookie size and oven type, 

So, just bake until cookie turns brown. :)

... 20 minutes later,

 and our cookies are done! 

 

Feeling hungry already?

Get into the kitchen and start baking !

Byeeee. Imma go eat my cookieeez.

Coffee. ♥

Muffin !

Starbucks Apple multigrain muffin t.t

#MEWANTMORE.

#current craving

Bitter gourd omelet !

Sub-day!

Love friday's Sub-of-the-day - Chicken Slice!!!
Guess what? I have been eating subway every friday for a month! teheee.

I meant, its so yummy and healthy!! t.t

So, I hereby declare Friday as my Sub-day. :P

Eat to live, or live to eat?

Live to eat. :)

Fluffy pancakes.

Made some pancakes for breakfast with my sister. ♥ 
Fluffy and pillowy, yummy!

Pau Project: {miscellaneous}

Hey readers, this is just an update on my pau project! haha 

It has been progressing pretty well these two months XD 

1. Bao Today (Marina square,Singapore)

A place that I have always been wanting to go badly!

IT WAS LITERALLY PAU HEAVEN, I'M TELLING YOU.

My favorite - '王朝芝麻包' (Bao Today's Black sesame pau) 

The warm roasted sesame paste, oh so divine! 5/5

'金碧流沙包' (Steamed Creamy Custard pau)
When the custard filling ooze out into your mouth..! 4.5/5 

'半个包' (1/2 Assorted meat pau)! 4/5

'包黑子' (Sesame skin pork pau). 3.75/5

'鹿鼎记包' (Deer meat pau)

DEER!? 3.5/5 

'扣肉宝包' (Braised pork pau)! 3.75/5

2. Zhung Kong Dim Sum (Jln Genting Klang ,behind KFC)
Erina introduced this place to me :) She was told that there are some interesting pau here too.

小笼包! 3.5/5

'可可奶油包' (Coco sweet corn pau)
奶油=sweet corn? 3.5/5

'鸡窝包'!
This was the reason why I came to this restaurant.
But unfortunately, it let me down.
Too dry, and it didn't have much taste. 2.75/5

(out of pau project topic)
They served their drinks with mugs! aah, so homey.
My dad got himself a 'Papa's mug'! haha
and their Milo-C kosong was one of the best I've tried! -thumbs up-

Others: 

Sweet potato man tou, simple yet yummy!
you can get it from a pau motorbike-stall at Desa setapak for rm1.40ea.
3.75/5 

Cny Cookie baking!

Some severely addictive cookies me and my sister baked. ♥

Crispy almond cookies!

Melt-in-your-mouth green pea cookies!

Can't stop eating 'em t.t

Whole walnut !

Interesting looking whole walnut o.o

No wonder they say walnut is a brain-food,

Walnuts do look like brains! haha XD

Mashed potatoes.

I was totally in love with mashed potatoes after trying the one Becky and her mama made! It was heavenly!

So I decided to bake one myself, with my sister of course! :)

Mash, mash, mash!

Tadaaa. 

Mouthwatering creamy mashed potatoes ready to be served!

Aaaah. it was absolutely delicious!

What more, it's very easy to bake :D haha

So try one yourself! 

You can simply get the recipe from foodwishes.com.
Do check out the other recipes and videos there as well,
but let me warn you, THEY ARE TOTALLY FOOD.PORN. 

Pau Project: Kou rou pau, Peanut pau, Siew pau

Mwahaha. my pau project is progressing very well!
Woke up in the morning and walked to Desa Setapak's hawker centre with my sister today to have our breakfast :)

Let me present to you.. 扣肉包! 

rm2.30 each

 Pillow-looking outside o.o

 The inside! filled with a generous amount of pork (tasted like the pork in 粽子 )

Looks good huh? ;) it was. 

 Peanut pau

rm1.50 each

As you know I'm a peanut lover, so I was really excited when I was peeling the pau skin.
But when I tasted it, it turned out to be a big letdown :(
IT WAS SO SWEET!

Anyway, lets move on to our Siew pau. 

rm1.20 each

Kee Mei Seremban Siew Pow, ho chiak!  

Happy 71th Birthday yeye!

Hoho. its 17th of december, yeye is officially 71 today!

Since he don't fancy cakes or western food, 
we decided to bring him to Soo Kee Restaurant for lunch :)

(took us sometime to convince him to go! pfft, he and his 'eeeh'!)

It was quite jam at MRR2, so we reached there only at about 1.45pm :(
Felt so sorry for yeye, his tummy must have been grumbling !

Camera shy?

haha! he was actually rubbing his face :P

Good thing it wasn't long until they served the food. *jeng jeng*

 Soo Kee's famous Char Siew.
without a doubt, the best char siew in town!!

Love their Kam Chin Taufu!

 Steamed fish with ginger.

Happy Birthday yeye!

Your '牛佩君' love you deep down in her heart. ♥

Plaits cookies

Beware of these cookies!

They are highly addictive t.t

Tips: Whenever you feel like nibbling these junkies, 

remind yourself, 'a moment on your lips, forever on your hips' !
{it didn't work on me though}

Pau Project: Vegetarian Charsiew pau, vege pau

Tried some vegetarian pau at 心願素店.

They're selling at rm1.50 each.

 Charsiew pau

Vege pau

Both the paus tasted average.
Hm, still prefer their pumpkin pau more! haha

Love the homemade-ness of these paus though :)

Pau Project: Pumpkin pau

Pumpkin pau from 心願素店

rm1.50 each!

Never heard of pumpkin pau before this o.o haha

The dough of this homemade pau was made of wheat flour and 

the pumpkin filling tasted a bit like kaya.

it wasn't too sweet, so I laik! :)

Pau Project: Big pau

大包 from a hawker stall at Desa Setapak, Wangsa Maju.

Selling at rm3.00 each :)

 Really 大! 
good thing I have my sister there to share with me. haha

Now I know what's inside 大包!
Pork, chicken, egg(??), vegetables
The egg reminds me of Ikea curry puffs o.o

not bad at all! :)

French toast for breakfast

Woke up early in the morning and pan-fry-toasted some french toast with my sister :D

-nomnom-

Best bananana cake.

My sister baked banana cake today! 

omagoddd. 

IT TASTES SUPERBLY GOOD.  

Now, let the food porn begins ;)

Fresh from oven !

Wanted to taste it so badly then, but unfortunately,
we had to wait for another 30mins for it to cool down before we can cut it t.t

AT LAST, it's sliced. 

So moist, so yummy!!

And look at the generous amount of walnuts my sister had put in !

heh. i just looove walnuts.

Well, that was undeniably the best banana cake I'd ever tried.
Good job jie! Now, bake more! :P