Chicken Pau

I have been wanting to make some pau for ages but I can't seem to find any pau flour.  I googled to see if I can just use plain flour and voila!... I can but the pau might turn out to be yellowish.  Heck man...yellowish is a small issue, what's important is I can taste my favourite pau once again.  So, I told my other half that I am going to do pau with plain flour and he was trying to discourage me as he thinks I might fail. I told him that no matter what, I am going to try..just once.

I took out my family recipe and made the pau.  Everything went well.  The last stage was to steam the pau.  My hubby told me that he will watch the pau and I go and play with my kids. Oh well...since he offered, I accepted it.  When I saw my hubby's face and seeing him munching the pau, I knew I succeeded..wohoo.

Here's a photo of my pau using plain flour

Now that I got it right, I am no longer afraid to use plain flour to do pau..wohoo!!!

Pancakes with Maple Syrup

My little Prince who is in Year 1 came back one day and asking me to allow him to flip the pancakes. I asked him to tell me everything about it and he mentioned that his school had a pancake day and they were allowed to make their own pancakes.  He informed me that he is a wonderful pancake maker and he can really flip a pancake like an expert. I promised him that we will do it on a weekend and we did.

Since he was so interested in pancakes, I decided to wear one of my many hats as a Mother (the educator hat) and explained to him that a pancake is a thin, flat, round cake made from a batter and  cooked on a hot frying pan.  We made the pancake batter together (me explaining to him each of the ingredient used) and my little Prince managed to keep the kitchen table pretty clean while doing most of it by himself...haha!

Here's a photo of my little Prince's pancakes.  He really did a superb job, I must say.  My little Princess ate quite a number of pieces of it and she thought it was from Mc Donalds...

My little Prince...we will be doing this again real soon....

Apple and Coffee Scrolls

Apple and coffee scrolls....some will call it apple and coffee rolls, apple and coffee buns or even apple and coffee swirls.  Whatever name its known as, this is a sweet yeast-leavened dough which has custard spread on it. If you want to make coffee scrolls, you just have to sprinkle some coffee paste on top of the custard and then you start rolling it like how you would a swiss roll.  And if you want to make apple scrolls, you just have to sprinkle some cooked cubed apples on top of the custard and then you roll it.  Once you have rolled it and cut into individual portions, it has to be proved till it double in size. Then, you will bake it in a hot oven at 220 degrees C for 10- 15 mins.  Once its baked, you will then bunwash it with sugar syrup.  Lastly, you will glaze it with white fondant (apple scrolls) or coffee fondant (coffee scrolls) before serving it to your guests and customers.  Here's some photos of my scrolls.

Before being placed into the prover box.

After it comes out from the oven and bunwashed with sugar syrup.

This is a delicious breakfast item indeed...yummy!!!

BLT Sandwich

BLT sandwich is a very popular type of sandwich here. In the metro itself, it seems like every cafe has BLT..its a must have kind of thingy.  My other half loves bacon and BLT seems the easiest thing for me to whipped up in the morning when I am plain lazy to fry noodles and such.  What is a BLT? As the name states it, B - Bacon, L - Lettuce and T - Tomato.  For me, I will pan fry the bacon with some butter till crispy as my other half loves it crispy. Then I will spread some butter, mayonnaise and stack the BLT accordingly and lastly sprinkle some seasonings.  Here's a photo of my other half's BLT Sandwich.

I am glad that my other half is a easily pleased kind of guy...if not, I really have to slave in the kitchen to whip-up a meal for his breakfast...phew!!! :)