Velle Can Cook 25- Scumptious desserts

Velle Can Cook 24- French Toast

Thai Cooking Session at Dempsey

Tom Yum Soup

• Boil chicken stock in medium heat, add lemon grass, kalangal, shallot, kaffir lime leave, parsley and mushroon into the soup
• Add prawn and wait until it turns to red color
• Add fish Sauce, Lime Juice, Tamarind Paste and Sugar
• Add Chilli and Dried Chilli
• Wait until the soup boil again then ready to serve

Pad Thai
How to make Pad Thai Sauce

Add margarine, tomato sauce, chili sauce, sugar, palm sugar, tamarind paste, garlic pickle, fish sauce on the medium heat, stir until it mixed well

How to cook Pad Thai

Soak the noodle into water for 20 minute to clean the flour on the texture

Change the water and soak the noodle again for 10 minutes to make it softer and transparent, after that put in the strainer until a bit dry

· Heat up the oil in the pan

· Add egg and stir until it cooked

· Add noodle and prawn

· Add Pad Thai sauce

· Stir until the noodle become soft and yellow

· Add sweet radish, beansprout, chive, yellow tofu, and dried shrimp, fry until the vegetable become a bit soft

· Serve with ground peanut and chili powder

Sweet Tapioca

• Clean the tapioca and peel the skin out
• Boil into water with low heat, wait until it cooked (if the chopstick can pass through, it has already cooked)
• Put Tapioca into room temperature water
• Boil water and sugar together until mixed well, add tapioca, simmer with low heat around 30 minutes
• Wait until it cold and serve with coconut milk

How to make coconut milk

• Boil coconut milk, add sugar and salt, stir until the sugar and salt melt down
• Add flour to make it thick (optional)

Velle Can Cook 22- Feta cheese with juicy cherry tomatoes

MAKE IT YOURSELF: MELTED TOMATOES
(newspaper cut from Straits Times)

Ingredients:
500g yellow or mini tomatoes
500g red cherry tomatoes
5 cloves garlic
6-8 sprigs of thyme
5 tbs extra virgin olive oil
1/2 tsp coarse sea salt or to taste
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
150g feta cheese
5-6sprigs parsley, chopped

Method:
1.Preheat oven to 180deg C
2. Rinse tomatoes under running water, pat dry with paper towels. Place in a medium baking dish that will hold the tomatoes in one layer.
3. Peel the skin off the garlic, slice into slivers, scatter over the tomatoes.
4. Pluck the thyme leaves off the stems, scatter the leaves and stem over the tomatoes. spoon the olive oil evenly over the tomatoes, add sea salt.
5. Place in oven for 40mins, remove and let cool for 5 mins. Discard the thyme stems and garlic.
7. Add freshly ground black pepper to taste, mix through and spoon the tomatoes over bread or toss with pasta, topped with feta cheese and chopped parsley.

serves four as an appetiser, two as a main course.


made with lots of love

Battery Operated Light tubes from IKEA

here's something which I bought from IKEA which I thought was pretty nifty!
it's a battery operated light tube that needs no wiring = no electrician needed.
and it can flip up or down to shine the light.
small and slim.
super user friendly.
Best of all, easy to clasp onto a shelf for deep areas in the cupboards where i have no lights.

Velle Can Cook 19- Ham & Cheese Hello Kitty Sandwich

wakie wakie

to a breakfast made from Sanrio???





ham & cheese sandwich with scrambled eggs on side with milk +orange juice.

Hongkong Day 04

HAPPY NATIONAL DAY TO ALL MY FELLOW SINGAPOREANS!!!
and i'm here in my third day in Hongkong having dim sum with my parents!

Daddy is very happy when all his food has arrived to the table....


Mum goes..."aiyah...Singapore also have very good bao....sup sup sway here lah...."
Dad goes with raised eyebrows..."huh....you think so..."

weijie goes..." sigh...MILS...just eat can already...but i better keep my mouth shut."

time for a shot for my parents!

and a shot of me and wj in my spanking new colourful rainbow top!!!! Plus new hairband too!


after loads of dim sum, it's time to walk off all the calories and we are off shopping for home living stuff! Okay peeps, you got to scroll all the way down to see the buys for today..cos when i shop, there's hardly time to take photo at the same time.



Love dropping by the outlet mall near disneyland cos there's always a good buy/steal somewhere! This time i bought a kate spade sling bag at a fraction of its original price!

After approx 2 hours of shopping at the outlet mall, it's time for some serious stomach filling noodles...and my fave place is Mak Mun Kee 麥文記麵家 quite famous in Hong Kong’s Jordan area for its wonton noodles. It’s located at Parkes Street, just next to Australian Diary Co where it's famous for their breakfast set where their scrambled eggs are soo fluffy, buttery and YELLOW!!!!

Mak Mun Kee Noodle House – Address: 51, Parkes Street, Jordan, Hong Kong.

WJ had the dried noodles while i tried their shrimp powder noodles which wasn't to my palette. So to those out there reading, please just eat their soup wanton noodles. Playing safe is a good choice.


such a small bowl of noodles...mum was pretty pleased....watching her weight but daddy was like "huh...where got full like that!!!" But it just means that we have more space in our tum tum to eat the street side food!!!


eat how old fashion it gets???? Retro wall tiles and wooden benches.
After eating my fave wanton noodles, we went down to La Foret and Island Beverly where i left my parents for some shopping on their own....and i quickly headed over to Xu Lui Shan for desserts!!!

WJ isn't too pleased here that i had left my parents just to eat my bowl of mango chunks with mango puree on top of pulut hitam...gosh someone should really start selling these in Singapore!


Time flies and after a few hours of shopping, we went back to Mongkok for some night street food fare!!! and here is our bowl of beef innards!!! hahahahah.....

see WJ's disgusted face! But i lurve it!!! so delicious!!!! YUMS!!!!
it's not stinky or fishy or anything...it's just stewed too perfection...soft and moist and taste just right!


here are the buys for today!!!!