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Nasi Lemak (Coconut Rice)

Nasi lemak is a dish which is another favourite in my family...even my prince and princess love eating nasi lemak ( of course with the sambal as its pretty hot). Some of my friends eat nasi lemak for breakfast, other will eat it for lunch or dinner. For us, its normally dinner. Yeah...I know, it pretty fattening....

When I was young, my Grandaunt would steam the rice on a layer of banana leaves in a steamer slowly and flake it with chopsticks. Today, I just boil the rice in the rice cooker....lazy, huh?! However, I still do my own sambal (hot spicy sauce). This is a MUST!!! With the sambal, nasi lemak is NOT nasi lemak. I also fried some turmeric chicken, fried anchovies (ikan bilis), slice some cucumber, deep fry the egg, etc. Here's a plate of nasi lemak which I plated for my other half...he ate 2 plates of it....its good that he loves it. As everyone tells me...the way to a man's heart is through his stomach...is that really true?

Nasi Lemak....

Sausage Rolls

In our pastry class, we made sausage rolls out of puff pastry. Its a common pastry here. Sometimes you will find just a sausage being rolled with a sheet of puff pastry. However, in school, we made the sausage itself using minced beef. Seriously...its just plain delicious. So much better than the commercial sausages....yum!!!

Sausage Rolls with freshly made minced beef rolls before we popped it into the oven.

Freshly out of the oven and we were drooling.....yum!!!

We also made apple strudel too on the same day. We had lots of fun making the Filo Dough. We had to stretch and stretch the dough till its paper thin but it was so fun.... we looked like Mohammad Ali...ha!ha!

Apple strudels before these babies goes into the oven...

Yummylicious apple strudels....delicious!!!

Marble Cake

My other half was complaining that I don't make enough cakes for him to accompany his tea time with. Therefore, I decided to try and bake another marble cake. This time around, I tried to drop a few spoonfuls of batter mixed with cocoa powder in a circle in the middle of the cake and just went round and round with a knife. Here's the effect of it... Did not expect any visitors but ta-daa....my other half's buddies came for a visit. Thank goodness I made this cake....ha!ha!

Donuts, Donuts, Donuts

It has been awhile since I last posted....
Been so busy....work, school, etc...
A little catch-up...
Over the last few weeks, we made donuts...yup, donuts in school. This was the very first time that I used "pork fat" for the donuts. You heard it right...its fat from the little piggy (some calls it lard). It does smell a little but boy oh boy was it fantastically nice after its done-do....We made jelly donuts, ring donuts, long johns, etc. Here's some photos which I took at school.