Special request to have pizza once again today.

Thus, this time around, we're gonna go with the conventional pizza. No more manual kneading of pizza dough for this round BUT we're gonna have the dough kneaded by using the Thermomix. Having used this machine, the time needed for kneading the dough had definitely reduce immensely and no more sticky dough on hands ..tsk tsk.. All in all, it takes about 1 and 1/2 hours to get the end result.

Pizza Dough Recipe with Thermomix:

1. Dry Yeast
2. Room Temperature Water - 400g 
3. Sugar - 1 Tsp
4. Bread Flour (High Protein Flour) - 400g
5. Olive Oil / Sunflower Seed Oil (3 Tbps)
6. Salt - 1 Tsp

1. Insert ingredient 1 to 3 and mix for 30sec/ Speed 2
2. Next, insert ingredient 4 to 6 and let it knead for 2 mins.

You would get a nice, soft non-sticky and soft dough mixture as per picture below. Pour the dough out onto a tray and make it into a ball size. Cover the dough up and let it rise till double in size for approximately 30 - 45mins.    

Once the dough had doubled up, press it out onto a tray. It's gonna be square pizza for us 😁😁 

Then, add your favourite toppings. Get as creative as you can for your love ones. Here we're gonna add our favourite ingredients tomato paste, ham, mushroom chicken sausage and Mozzarella Cheese.

Once you finished decorating your pizza toppings, put the tray into the oven and bake it at 200degrees for 25mins. 

Yakisoba a.k.a Japanese stir fried noodles are yellow noodles made from ramen noodles. Similar to the chinese yellow noodles but it's slightly thinner and faster to cook when stir frying.

Ingredients:

1. Ramen noodles - 300g
2. 1 Tbsp Sesame Oil
3. 2 Tbsp Peanut Oil
4. 250g pork thinly sliced 
5. Beans Sprout
6. Fish Cake
7. 3 Shiitake mushrooms sliced thinly
8. 1 Medium Sized Carrot - thinly sliced
   
9. Eggs
10. Spring Onions

Steps:

1. Boil a sufficient amount of water in a sauce pan and boil the noodles for 1 minute.
2. Drain and sprinkle sesame oil over the noodles and mix until all noodles are coated. This is to prevent the noodles from sticking to each other.
3. Heat oil in a wok or a large frying pan over medium high heat. Add the pork and saute untill the pork is almost cook. Approximately 3-5mins, depending on the thickness of the pork slices.
4. Then, add the fish cake and carrots. Stir fry the ingredients for 30second before adding in the bean sprouts.
5. Next, add in the noodles and mix it well with the ingredients.
6. Add the sauce and mix quickly to ensure that all the noodles are coated with the sauce, and the colour of the noodles is consistently light brown.
7. Finally, transfer the noodles onto the plate, ready to be served.

Preparation Steps:  

                     

Note:
1. You may skip step 3 if you do not wish to have cinnamon in your cake.

2. This recipe can be modified to have raisins, walnut or any other ingredients you wish to add on easily.

Watch how to prepare the banana cake batter below:

Based on those very simple steps above...TAAAAA---DAA!! You'll get your moist banana cake ready for tea time !!  💕💕

           

 

Salted Caramel Bliss cake from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf that has chocolate curls and mini chocolate bites in it courtesy of my SIL. It was nonetheless a very satisfying and BLISSFUL slice indeed!!😍😍



You may purchase a whole 1.5kg Salted Caramel Bliss cake for your special occasions from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf at https://www.coffeebean.com.my/online-store/cakes-to-go/signature-classics/salted-caramel-bliss

It's been awhile since we had the chance to hang out during this pandemic period. Thus, it was a nice quick catch up over lunch at Antipodean, Atria. The restaurant had quite a number of people visiting it during this time, but of course everyone was observing strict social distancing.😷😷

Kitsune Udon which is one of the most popular, classic Japanese noodle dish which can be easily found in the menu list at any of the Japanese restaurants that you visit in Malaysia. Today, we decided to try making our very own home cook version of Kitsune Udon, topped with fried tofu pok, fish cake and Shimeji Mushroom.  

Our very own ingredient preparations are as below. Portion is suitable for 2-3 persons.

1. Japanese Udon Noodles

2. Dashi Powder

3. Shimeji Mushroom

4. Fishcake

5. Fried ToFu Pok

6. Soy Sauce

7. Pepper (Optional)

Watch how to make Kitsune Udon.

Preparation Steps:

(A) Main Ingredients
      1. Cut the fish cake into thin slices and set aside.
      2. Cut the fried tofu pok into halves and set aside.
      3. Prepare 50g of Shimeji mushrooms. 
      4. Set aside 2 packets of Japanese Udon noodles.

Mix all 3 ingredients in the list above in less than 10mins and you get to enjoy your refreshing watermelon dessert on a hot day.