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Garlic Butter Toasts

Attended a class at Creative Culinaires the other day, and the most amazing dish that day was the cream of mushroom with puff pastry. It was surprisingly easy and extremely tasty! So I tried to do it at bf's place...
It may seem really easy when cooking it during the class, cos ingredients were already prepared for us. I spent some time trying to figure out which cream to get, whether to use the ready chicken stock or chicken stock cubes etc.
I didn't want to get the puff pastry, so planned to prepare garlic toasts instead. Since bf just replenished his garlic supplies and we have LOTS of garlic, I decided to make our own garlic butter spread. Did a quick search and ended up at WokkingMum's recipe for garlic butter spread. Back at bf's place, there was garlic, butter, garlic powder, and garlic pepper powder. These all went into my mixing bowl without measurement. An estimate of what I used would be:
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tbsp butter, softened
a dash of garlic pepper powder
generous amt of garlic powder
I also cut some white bread into strips (inspired by WokkingMum), so that it would be of a nice size to dip in the soup later. Spread the garlic butter mixture on the bread, and toasted it in the oven at about 230 C for 10 min.

The buttered surface dint brown as much as I expected it to. Bf also commented that I should have been more generous with the spread. But well, all in all it was still nice. ;)
- 16 April 2011
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阿良家乡面

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阿良说他煮的面很有水准，比我煮的好吃。自己夸到天上有地下无。今天我就请阿良师傅煮面给我吃，我当他的助手。
美美的两碗面就这样出炉了! ;) 味道还不错啦...
- 2 April 2011
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Raisins & Rosemary Bread

Technically my first attempt at using the bread maker. Previous attempts were mostly or entirely my sister's efforts.
The rosemary was so aromatic i was just hovering around the machine waiting for it to be done. Then i had to leave it to cool before slicing it.
When I finally sliced it and tried it, hahaha. Wonderful. The bread was fluffier than the ones my sister attempted. I would think the problem lies with the amount of flour, rather than our initial suspicion of the yeast. My sis likes to tap the measuring cup when measuring the flour, compacting them in the process. This results her adding more flour than required. Which is why measuring ingredients by weight is a better...
Shall go grab more bread to eat... :)
- 27 February 2011
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First trip to Phoon Huat
- 27 February 2011
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Guo tie

Missing the juicy guo tie from Qun Zhong Eating House...
- 26 February 2011
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Tampopo

I was so excited when the food came that the only pictures I have is this - when I was waiting for the food...
- 14 November 2010
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My Shopping List

Drafted a shopping list for the dishes tomorrow. ;)
Popplet is quite nice...
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- 15 October 2010
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Teochew Muay

Dad's birthday is coming and I was super attracted by ieatishootipost's introduction of teochew muay.

So I recommended it and without objections from the rest of the family, we reserved a table on a Saturday afternoon for the $9.90 nett lunch buffet.
Reviews on hungrygowhere mentioned that the variety wasn't much, although some argued that it was sufficient and value for money. So we went there with not too high expectations of the variety, but still with some expectations of the quality of food.

After being seated, we were served with a plate of each variety, as recommended by them as there were 5 of us.

The muay was abit more "creamy" than what my grandma usually cooked... So I was still quite ok with it. I usually dun like to eat muay....

Nice minced meat. Not too salty. Alot of places selling muay have very salty dishes to go with the muay, as they become diluted when you eat with the muay. So I was quite glad I dint have to grimace at super salty minced meat when I had this as my first mouthful without the muay.

I dunno what this is called, some kind of gourd? But this is a common dish at home.

Fish cake and omelette. Omelette tastes like what my grandma makes... I think the taste comes from the browned parts of the omelette.

I like egg plant! ;)

The braised duck and some meat. This is the most raved after dish. Not bad! Succulent duck meat. heh. And again, wasn't too salty. Wun mind eating more of it, even without the muay to dilute it.

Another of my favourites, pig intestines. Felt quite fatty eatting it tho. Some gooey and fat like substance in it. haa. but i like.

I initially tot it was just chives/spring onion.

After some time, Mum pointed out there was bits of fried dace in salted black beans (dao si). My favourite canned food of all times!

Seasoned cockles! This was one dish that they dint serve by default. Maybe cos not everyone eats it. But dad kept telling me it was available, so I asked for it. Looked super seasoned, like it would be super salty... But it wasn't. haa. Then dad and mum only ate one each, restricted by cholesterol i think. My bro and sis both dun eat it. So I had to finish everything. It was quite spicy cos of the chilli...
Other dishes we had are below...

We were also provided with this chilli sauce.

At the end of the meal.... We were left with the following...

The remaining sauce from the cockles...

The shells, all cleared by me.
I was quite terrified by whatever was left of the pig intestines...

But all in all, I think its nice! Worth the money, and nice environment to dine in! ;)
Would like to try the dinner buffet another time. There's bak kut teh and a wider range of food available!
- 9 October 2010
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Cream Puff from Tampopo Deli

I had already taken 2 bites out of this. Tot the oozing custard was worth a photo. :)
Dad said this is famous. And it was fast running... So he asked for all 3 in the cabinet. turned out there was more in the kitchen... n it was slightly cheaper in a box of 4. So we bought a box of 4 at $10.
Cant remember how the cream puffs at beard papa tastes like. but the custard shld b similar. i just tot this puff was bigger n allowed u to take a bigger bite out of it. haa. shiok.
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- 9 October 2010
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Cookie Crust from Betty Crocker Recipe
I used a new recipe for the apple crumble crust today... Found the crust from the previous recipe too hard. Cookie crust sounded nice, so I gave it a try.. I now have crumbly cookie crust apple crumble and I'm crumbling from all the kneading and cutting and baking. off to rest! Recipe for the crust below!
Ingredients
1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 tablespoons packed brown sugar
1 egg
Directions
Heat oven to 400°F. In small bowl, mix all crust ingredients until dough forms. Press dough firmly and evenly against bottom and side of ungreased 9x1-inch tart pan, using floured fingers.

Bake 13 to 15 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool completely, about 45 minutes.
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- 3 October 2010
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