Mezze

It's a lovely restaurant located behind Victoria Station along the Sprint Highway. Well the food was quite delicious. Except I didn't like the appetizer which was the Pork Rillette and Costillas. It was rather dry and hard to chew. However, mom's chicken was quite the catch. I love the way they marinated it. Yum!

Costillas, bread with pork meat spread

Pork Rillette - pork ribs but it was rather hard to chew

Tenderlion - beef served with wedges, red wine sauce and white cream sauce.

Mezze House salad

pasta Con Formaggio and Pungi - Angle hair with mushroom and a bit of chess. It tasted like Aglio Olio

Spatchcock Chichken - Well marinated and delicious with a bite. It'll leave you wanting for more

Dessert, Panna Cota - Vanilla ice-cream with hazelnut syrup. It's a to die for.

Tang Yuan

Or as 21 december 2010 Startwo calles it Green Tea Dumpling with black sesame.

ingredients:
90g glutinous rice flour
80g water
10g shortening
1/2tsp green tea powder

Filling:
30g black sesame paste
15g castor sugar

10g butter
1/8-1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp cold water

tea soup:

600ml water
35g sugar
2 sachets green tea

To prepare filling:
Combine black sesame paste, sugar, btter, salt and water in a small bowl. Mix until holds together. Take a tiny portion and press well together to form a very tiny ball. Leave aside the balls of filling.

Instructions:

1)Place glutinous rice flour, tapioca flour and green tea powder in a mixing bowl. add shortening and make a well in the centre. Gradually add water and mix into a soft and pliable dough.

2)Divide dough into equal portions and set aside covered with a peice of clingfilm.

3)Take a portion of green tead dough and make a small dent in the centre. Add a ball of black sesame seeds filling. Wrap up neatly and roll into a round ball od tang yuan.

4)Bring a pot of water to the bowl. Drop the balls of tang yuan into the water and bring to a boil. When the dough balls float, remoce them with a slotted spoon.

5)Put them into a basin of cold water. Allow to steep in the cold water while preparing the tea soup. (Note, do not keep it too long in the cold water as it would be ineadible.)

To make the tea soup:

1)Boil water and sugar in a small saucepot. Once the sugar dissolves drop in the sachets of green tea. Allow to steep for two minutes.

2)Discard the tea bags and drop the balls of cooked tang yuan into the syrup.

Granola Bar (serves 5-6)

Ingredients:
250oats
45g chopped pecans
115g chopped almonds
75g raisins
50g dried cranberries
75g sunglower seeds
100g brown sugar
160ml maple syrup
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cardamom
1 tbsp vanilla extract
75 ml oil

Methos:
1)In a large bowl, combine the oats, pecans, almonds, raisins, dried cranberries and sunflower seeds

2)In another bowl, mix brown sugar, maple syrup, cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla extract and oil




3)Next, combine all the ingredients together. Place the granola mix on a baking tray covered with baking papaer. Bake the granola at 300°F (150°C) for 30-40 minutes.
4)Break the granola into bars and store it in an airtight container.

Pasta zanmai

pasta with unagi egg with mushroom sauce


pasta with terriyaki chicken, egg and mushroom sauce

Some ebiko dish, I know, I'm terrbiyl for not remembering it T.T

Overall, the food in pasta zanmai is a MUST try, it's worth it. Don't expect to find any sashimi dishes over there because their speciality is pasta.


From Hagen Dazs

Blueberry muffin recipe

1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour

3/4 cup white sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoon baking powder

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 egg

1/3 cup milk

1 cup fresh blueberries

Topping:

1/2 cup white sugar

1/3 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 cup butter, cubed

1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions:

1) Preheat over to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C)

2) Combine 1 1/2 cup flour, 3/4 cup sugar, salt and baking power. Place the vegetable oil into a 1 cup measuring cup; add the egg and enough milk to fill the cup. Mix this with flour mixture. Fold in blueberries.

3)Fill muffins cup right to the top, and sprinkle with crumb topping mixture.

4) To make the topping: Mix together 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup flour, 1/4 cup butter and 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.

Bake for 20 - 25 minutes in the oven or until done.

Note: This isn't my recipe, got it of from the Internet. credits goes to the creator of it.

Culinary category B (1.15p.m-2.15p.m)

Eunice and my creation

Pj Hilton

Since they had a promotion, dad decided to take mom and I to eat japanese at Pj Hilton. In my opinion, the japanese restaurant called Sushi Tomo at SS2 is more delicious than Pj Hilton.

They're so call 'pizzz'. It's made out of seaweed -which is at the bottom- with rice, tomato, oinions and i think chicken.

There were suppose to be more, but I really forgot to take pictures until half way through the meal.

Black Canyon, Centre Point

Muahaha, another one of my favorite day where I go out and eat craps with my mom! XD This time the cafe was at Centre Point. The cafe is call Black Canyon. The menu was a mixture of western, Eastern and local food.

My Drink~ As you know I'm addicted to coffee XD I was being adventures and wanted to try this coffee. I can't remember the name, but the coffee was so damn bloody good!

My chicken sandwich. They're very stingy with their bread!!! LOOK HOW small THE SANDWICH IS!!!

And the 'unique' dish, where west meets east. It's call curry fettuccine. The curry was too spicy but the chicken is very tender~

PS: Sorry picture is upside down, blogger wouldn't allow me to upload the correct side!

La'Italian Kitchen

Initially, my parents wanted to take me to Burnos after tuition. Sadly, the restaurant was shut down! So we ate at the Italian restaurant next to it. Haha I'm sure my dad wouldn't want to go back there ever again X) I don't mind going back there just to try their desserts!

Coffee Mocha (I'm addicted to coffee!!!!)

Mushroom bread, Crispy appetizer :D

I think this was pork... I'm not sure as it wasn't my dish, but the meat was well made with suitable gravy

A tender chicken that my mom ordered.

My lamb cutler risotto (Italian rice). Ordered it well made as well done has blood in it. The rice was well made and to top it of was the delicious gravy

Chocolate Banana Cake

Last day of hols meaning last day to make something!

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 50 minutes

Ingredients:

2 cups self-raising flour

1/4 cup cocoa

1 cup caster sugar

1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

2 eggs

3/4 cup boiling water

1teaspoon imitation vanilla essence

2 bananas, peeled and roughly broken (Note: I used 5 bananas to make the cake)

Icing:

100 g cream cheese

1/2 cup icing sugar

1 tablespoon hot milk

1 tablespoon cocoa

Procedure:

1) Preheat oven to 180°C. Brush 8" x 4" x 4" tin with butter or you can just cut a grease paper and fir it in nicely.

2)Place dry ingredients into food-processor bowl. Add eggs, water, vanilla essence and banana. Using the pulse action, process 15 seconds or until mixture is smooth.

3) Spoon mixture into prepared tins; smooth surfaces. Bake for 50 minutes or until skewer comes out clean when inserted in centre.

4) Stand cakes in tines 10 minutes before turning on to wire rack to cool.

5) To make the icing;: beat cream cheese and icing sugar with electric beaters in small mixer bowl until smooth and creamy. Add milk and cocoa; beat until well combined. Spread evenly over the cake using a palette knife or you can cut the cake into half and just spread the icing on it, that's what I did anyway.

Hmm... irresistable

Charms: Its food quality has rapidly deteriorate! Sorry to say but I'm never going back there again

Charms Rojak: the fruit was so sour!!!! ><

Pineapple fried rice: It was tasteless!

Something athirah ate, it was tasteless to me :(

However below are some scrumptious mouth watering pictures -or at least one of it is a mouth watering pictures :D

Tada! Sadly no I didn't bake it :'( It's too adorable to be eaten!

These are chocolate flakes. They're the easiest dessert to make! Seriously. All you need is a box of cornflakes and melted chocolate.

Tip for melting chocolate:

1) You can use any chocolate. When I mean any I mean even eating chocolate bought from supermarket. To me, cooking chocolate bought from any bakery is still the best.

2) When melting a chocolate, cut the chocolate bars in to tiny pieces so that it'll melt in a faster rate.

3) To melt a chocolate quickly, place the chocolate in to a bowl and place the bowl in to a pot of hot water. Be careful not to let any hot water splashes in to the chocolate or the chocolate will be ruin.

4) The bowl that you place the chocolate in should ALWAYS BE LARGER than the pot of hot water. This is so that there won't be any difficulty when taking the bowl of chocolate out.

5) You MUST always stir the chocolate and not leave it aside otherwise it'll turn hard.

Something like this, but use a bigger bowl :)