Bubur Kacang and Gendang Kasturi

One day I felt like eating Gendang Kasturi. Never done it before and it hard to find if you are living near Heathrow. So I called my Mom in Johor Bahru to get the recipes. When you get your recipes from you mom you will never get the quantity of the stuffs you need, she just said you need this and that only. So I just do as I go by.

Bubur Kacang
250 g green beans
5 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp brown sugar/ mascova sugar
2 cups of coconut milk
4 - 5 cups of water

Wash the green beans, put in the pot together with water and boil it for 30 minutes than put all the other ingredients and let it boil few minutes more and it ready to eat. (some people put ginger and some also put salt)






Gendang Kasturi

250 g green beans
4 - 5 cups of water
1 cup of desiccated coconut (I used this as its is the only one I got - you can use fresh coconut)
8 tbsp sugar

Batter
1/2 cup self-raising flour
1/4 cup corn flour
1 tbsp rice flour
Pinch of salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
180ml water or just enough

Enough oil for deep-frying

Method
Combine the various flours, salt and baking powder in a mixing bowl. Pour in water and combine into a batter.

Wash the green beans, put in a pot together and boil for 30 to 40 minutes and put the sugar and coconut and let it cook until no water left, make sure you stir it around.

Cool it and after that make a small disc.

Heat the Oil. Coat the green dics in batter and deep-fry in hot oil for three to four minutes or until crispy and golden brown. Remove and drain

Serawa Buak Kuini

Source : resepi dari Siti Nor

Ok...senang je buatnya, mula2 ko cincangkan buah kuini tu (potong panjang2 nmpk cantik sikit..), pas tu bubuh gula pasir sikit, then campurkan santan kelapa...(aku guna santan ayam brand je...), campur air masak sikit...kacau2..rasalah cukup ke tak manisnya...senang je..pas tu masuklah dlm fridge sekejap...just bg sejuk je...

Journey to Canterbury

My journey started on friday night by making Kuih Sri Muka and Kuih Lapis and prying our car will be alright tomorrow. The engine just refuse to started in the afternoon

The green is Kuih Sri Muka and the red is Kuih Lapis


I also cooked Mee Goreng for breakfast and to bring some to Azrin House. At 11 am saturday morning Pandi came with his 2 daughters. I knew them since they were babies. Harini is on the left and Pravita on the right. Both girl love the kuih lapis and Pravita said 'I can eat this sweet forever' what a compliment. While the dad fixed the car, I had to entertained them, what a job and I managed to find bags as gift, marbles to play, paper and pen and lastly their x'mas present while I still in my PJ. The clock ticking , we have to move as we have long journey ahead of us to Canterbury, but trying to push the girls and their dad out of our house politely was very hard. By 1.30pm I managed to do it by reminding them about their little sister at home. Yahoo! I can have my shower now. But before they go, Harini asked me 'is there anything that I want to give them?'


We started our journey at 2.30pm and reached Canterbury at 4pm. It already dark and guess what, we lost, we can't find the road to Azrin's house. She have to walk 20 minutes to train station to meet us. She have a lovely house. 3 doctors staying together in big house. For tea Azrin cooked tuna curry, rice and stir fry bean. I enjoyed the dinner especially as you are hungry. After that we went to Sainsbury - 1 bought 4 eco friendly shopping bag - it only 40 pence a piece. What a bargin. After that we watched X Factor. Ruth out of the contest and Diana stayed. We watched TV until 1am. Guess what we got the bed and Azrin got a sofa for the night.

Sunday - Ashford Factory outlet here we come. 1/2 hour from Canterbury. We arrived around 12.30pm and the parking was almost full. We went from one shop to another. The place was big around 90 shops fashion, footware, luggage, home, sport & outdoor, jewellery & beauty, children, food & drinks. As it was sunday the shops closed at 5pm and that the time we stop. My first purchase of the day Next curtain org price £65 and I bought it for £9. What a bargin! My husband bought diamond and sheppire ring for me as our wedding annivesary present. Unfortunatly they don't have the ring size but they will sent by post to me. Yeh! Yeh!.

We have our dinner at Harry Ramsden's - fish and chips






Our journey home started fine, we in right track M25 but after that we lost as my hubby miss a junction, we going toward M25 North (the right way is M25 west). We went through Dartford Tol, Stansted up north than going toward west to Heathrow. Our Journey home suppose to take less than 2 hours but we end up with 3 hours drive. We nearly have an accident. There was a traffic jam, the van in front of us kept breaking. At one staged he braked his van, luckily of my husband quick action he pushed his car braked very hard and just miss the van bumper. The driver signal us to stop at hard shoulder. He alleged that my husband hit his car. They change insurance policy and luckly we had our camera and took photo of the van. As you can see there was nothing wrong with his bumper. My husband might touch his tow bar and not his bumper. First thing when we arrived at home he called his insurance to put a record accident never happened and he have photo to proof.


This were all we bought at Swindon. Cutlery set to top up what I had £49.99, 3 rolls of wrapping 99 pence each, Next curtain. Cook books (my x'mas present from my hubby - I have to wrap it up and have to act suprise when I open it on x'mas), his martial art book and 2 pairs of clarke shoes (he bought it cheap £10 and £13.50 perpair)

Busy Wednesday

I having my 2nd interview - competency test on thursday. I was a bit stressed up a night before, usually I go shopping to let go the stress but as it was cold and dark outside and I haven't get paid yet, to ease my tension I done baking.

Sardine Currypuff


As I still have left over sardine filling, I made the currypuff. I just made simple pastry using 4 tbsp veg fat (shortening), 800g flour, 2tbsp sugar, 1tbs salt and 2 cups of cold water. Mixed all and made a dough. I managed to made 66 currypuff from it. This weekend we going to Azrin's house in Canterbury, I going to bring some for her.

Honey Cornflakes


My husband help me putting the cornflakes into the paper cases. We used big paper cases less work for us and big portion to eat. Lovely.

Jam Muffins


I baked this muffins to bring it to work for my colleagues.

Jam Muffin

2 cups flour }
4 tsp baking powder } sift together
1 tsp cinnamon powder }
1 cup milk
1/2 cup veg oil
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
Jam

1. Preheat oven to 200c (gas mark 6). Beat together milk, oil, sugar and egg.
2. Stir in flour mixture and mix together until just blended.
3. Line a muffin tray with paper, fill each cases 1 spoonful muffin mixture then spoon in 1 tsp jam then top up with muffin mixture and fill just below the top
4. Bake muffins for 20-25 minutes.

(note: this is my basic muffin recipe at any time you can omit or replace the jam, put coco powder and chocolate chip you can call it Chocolate Chip Muffin. Put fresh blueberry become Blueberry Muffin and as for me I put whatever in season or whatever I have. It only take less than 40 minutes to make.)

Kuih Lapis Pandan

Yesterday evening after discussing about kuih lapis with Aniza (she already made this kuih and get thumb up from her children) I decided to make this kuih lapis (the recipe from her blog www.malaykueh.blogsport.com). The result as above.

Kuih Lapis Pandan

Ingredients A
1 1/2 cup flour
2 tbsp rice flour
2 tbsp corn flour
3/4 cup sugar
3 cups water
1 tsp salt

Ingredients B
1/2 cup pandan juice
green colouring
1/2 cup water

1. Mixed all the Ingredients A in big bowl and beat until smooth.
2. Divide the batter into 2 bowls.
3. In 1st bowl put green colouring and 1/2 cup pandan juice and the 2nd bowl leave it white and put 1/2 cup of water.
4. Ready your steamer and oil the baking pan (square or round but it must fit your steamer).
6. Ladle in enough green batter to coat the pan and let steam for 5 minutes.
7. Then put the second layer- white batter and let it steam for 5 minutes.
8. Keep layering with alternate colour to the high you want.
9. Leave it cool in fridge for fews hours than ready to cut and serve.

Karipap Pusing

My first attempt of karipap pusing, recipe courtesy of Aniza. Well there was a glitch, I put water on my oil dough therefore you can't see the swirl. Tip of a day - water is no no on oil dough that what Aniza said. Overall the taste is ok but not as good as Aniza's. I brought it to work and all my colleagues said it taste nice. I will update my next attempt of karipap pusing.

For the recipe please visit www.malaykueh.blogspots.com under Kuih Tradisional - Karipap Pusing