Cooking and Traveling: August 2013

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Tomato Rice and Tomato Chicken

Pizza.

Pizza with 3 cheese

Pizza Margarita but with dried basil instead of fresh Basil

Fried Bihun (Rice Noodle) and Tortilla Chips

Fried Bihun

Tortilla Chips made of Tortilla bread and Greek salad

Ice Cream Cake

During my in-law birthday, we decide to give him some surprise. So we bought ice cream cake from Baskin Robin and Some mixed pastries

Vanila Ice Cream cake with Cherries

Chocolate Ice Cream cake with choco ball and chocolate coated chocolate cookies

Mixed plater of savory pastry. Yumm

Pasta with olive and Parmesan cheese

Pasta with Olive and Parmesan Cheese

Not quite good match but here is the fried Akawi Cheese Puff

Spatchcock grilled chicken

Chopped vegetable salad and Orzo Soup

Spatchcock grilled chicken

Arab Food

Beef Kafta, Beef Kebab and cucumber with yoghurt salad

Lebanese bread

Chinese Food

French Bean with stir fried minced beef

Chiken with bell pepper

Rice

Asian Food

Cucumber and Carrot salad

Asian Grilled Chicken

Food for one

Who would eat this food? Hehe its me when am alone..

Indian Butter Chicken with Naan bread

Buttered Chicken

Buttered chicken, Naan bread and Rice

Mid Week Menu

Mid week menu: buffalo style chicken, stir fried chicken, puff pastry wrapped hotdog and vegetables. This is great snack food too :)

Stir fry chicken with Leek and herbed rice

Stir fry chicken with Leek

Herbed Rice

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Snow Cheese Cake

During the long weekend due to Hari Raya holiday, i had bake Snow Cheese cake. This is my first time bake this cake and the result turn out very satisfying.

Here i post the recipe for future reference;

Ingredients

For cake;

4 eggs + 2 eggs yolks

100gm sugar

100gm flour

60gm corn flour

50gm cold water

1 teaspoon baking powder

2 table spoons ovalette

75gm butter (melted)

For the cream;

250gm cream cheese

½ can of condensed milk

For topping;

Cheddar cheese (grated)

Steps;

Beat all of the ingredients for cake except melted butter
Beat using medium speed until stiffen. Add in melted butter.
Grease the pan & bake the cake in the pre-heated oven (150C) for about 45 minutes – 1 hour.
Let the cake cool on the rack.
Divide the cake into 2 layers and spread cream cheese on the first layer. Then add another layer on the top.
Coat the cake with cream cheese.
Add grated cheddar cheese on the top and around the cake.
Let chilled in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Enough posting about food for a while, too many picture of food to post. As i took photo almost everyday of my cooking hehe..should have instagram will be nice to post photo. Recently we decide to make corner for recycled furniture etc..so we took old sofa from mother in law place and cover it with new sofa cover.

Here is the clothes, roughly around 3 meter for the 2 sofa. My assistant is sleeping while am stitching the rest of the pieces together.

Here is how the sofa cover look before cover

The 2 picture show the end product of the 2 sofa. The small pillow cover was bought from Jaipur, India during our golden triangle trip there. Finally i found the use of it. Matching isnt it?

Side view of the sofa

PS: All the cover are hand stitch...stitch till my finger pain. For next project gonna get myself electric sewing machine.

Homemade pita bread and Thyme fatayer

We eat pita bread a lot here in Cairo, its a staple. Its like eating rice back in Malaysia. We eat for breakfast with cheese or eggs, for lunch and dinner. Taste is plain as its made of only flour and water with little bit of salt and oil (optional). Usually we bought from bread maker but here am learning to make my own just for fun and incase we travel anywhere that doesn't have pita bread i can bake at home. Sustainable living in the making haha.

Here it is Pita bread puffing like pillow. Its always thrilling to watch it puffing up. Sometimes it puff up halfway or just bubble up few places but thats fine, maybe due to uneven bread surface i guess or temperature not hot enough.

Sometimes i divide my dough into 2 batch, first one to make pita and the other half i make this fatayer with thyme. I forget what it is call..T_T when i remember it i will try to update it here. This is good for breakfast. You can make it chewy or crunchy as preferred.