Pandan coconut pound cake with frosting

Posted by yanti on Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Life have been a bit hectic lately and I had neglected the blog for a while.

To welcome me back I presented you with a sweet treat. It's a pandan and coconut pound cake with butter frosting. This recipe is something I made up with ingredients I thought nice together.



Cake

Ingredients:
50ml pandan juice (extracted from 10 - 12 pandan leaves + 2-3 tbsp water)
4 medium size eggs
200g plain
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Rendang Daging (Beef rendang)

Posted by yanti on Thursday, October 21, 2010


Beef rendang is probably one of the most popular Malay curry. I haven't met anyone who does not like this fragrant spicy dried beef curry. Nearly every Malay festive celebrations, there is always rendang of some sort, beef, chicken, lamb, dried or wet rendang.

Preparing the rempah or spice paste is important to give maximum flavour. Usiing a mini blender it only takes less than a minute to
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Copycat fried 'dace' fish with black beans ?????

Posted by yanti on Friday, October 8, 2010

I was talking with Josh of Cooking The Book the other day about canned fried dace with black bean 'dou si lian yue ????' and how difficult to find them these days due to limited import because of suspected contaminated fish used for manufacturing. I have a craving since for this salty chewy leathery fish with yummy black beans.

Couple of days ago I was shopping in Lidl and they had frozen
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Korean spicy chicken stew

Posted by yanti on Saturday, September 11, 2010


This stew is so easy to make. One of those recipes I have repeated time after time when I crave for a warm hearty stew but could not be bother or too tired to hang around long in the kitchen. All I have to do is cut the vegetables and chicken, then just add water and boil till just about tender then add spicy sauce. That is it. Couldn't be simpler, grease free cooking. It does look good with a
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Fish fragrant aubergine jiaozi-wartip ?????????

Posted by yanti on Wednesday, September 8, 2010


This recipe is inspired by two of my favourites, fish fragrant aubergine and jiaozi dumplings. This isn't a classic recipe but a tasty combination. If you don't believe me give it a try you will be addicted. The dumplings are tasty with a nice spicy flavour. Tasty enough without needing any dipping sauce, but I still make a ginger spicy vinegar to go with.

Unlike standard fish fragrant
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Sweet corn juk (rice soup) ???

Posted by yanti on Saturday, September 4, 2010

Sweet corn is in season again. One of the simplest way I like with fresh sweet corn is to make juk for breakfast/brunch. It's so simple just two ingredients plus lots of water. This juk is similar to Cantonese sweet corn soup without the chicken bits, meat stock etc..., very simple but refreshing with a lovely sweet flavour.Take about 3/4 cup of glutinous rice. Rinse and soak with 1 cup of water
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Kuih Momo (Kuih Makmur)

Posted by yanti on Wednesday, September 1, 2010

It's still Ramadan at the moment. Hari Raya or Eid is coming soon. When I was still living in the Far East, one of the sweet cookies I remembered popular during Hari Raya is Kuih Momo. In Brunei and East Malaysia, these cookies are commonly known as Kuih Momo and in West Malaysia I think they are more commonly known as Kuih Makmur.Other than Hari Raya, we also make these cookies for Chinese New
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