Radish cake (Lo Bak Gao)

I made this two days ago and the recipe was obtained from sunflower. Thanks her for nice recipes There are two ways to eat this savoury cake. You can either pan-fried it or fried it like char kueh tiaw. This is a keeper.. yummy.

Blackfriars Spring Market

Blackfriars Spring Market was held last saturday at the churh hall. It is an annual event to raise fund for the church. My friend and I set up an asian food stall. She prepared fried rice and jellies while I prepared cakes and noodles. We went to church early to prepare and cook our dishes. There were some other stalls too, selling other miscellaneous things such as cards, toys and books. There were also raffles and DH won a packet of shortbread. We enjoyed ourselves very much although we didn't sell all the food.


Photos taken together with Fr. Isidore and Fr. Peter. They are twin brothers who have a beautifully written and interesting blog.

Wonderful Scenery on a Beautiful Day

We went to the Heights of Abraham at Matlock Bath last Saturday and it was really great. We started our journey with a spectacular cable car ride to the hill top. The scenery was magnificient from top. There were two caverns which once were rich with minerals. It was cold inside the caverns. Can you imagine how the miners used to collect the mineral with just one single candle lighted up in the dark cave? Apart from Abraham Height, there were some other places to be explored too such as lovers' walk, high tor, pic tor and some gardens. Due to time limit we could only explore lovers' walk and one of the gardens.

After we came down from the top, we went for dinner at a local pub restaurant. The food was... hmmm.... not too bad... ;) Allthough it was a long walk ,it was really worth it. Here are some photos to share..

Ohya, not forgetting the ice-cream, it was really yummyyy... :)

Okonomiyaki

My own creation of okonomiyaki... The real okonomiyaki should be something like the photos which I uploaded on my previous blog @ a day trip to London. The batter is just like the way we make the basic pancake by replacing milk with chicken broth and add any ingredients that you prefer (salmon, chicken, carrots, cucumber, etc.) and top it with mayonaise and okonomiyaki sauce( I used oyster sauce + kicap manis + hp sauce). My DH is my loyal guinea pig to taste every dishes that I cook ;p

Korean vs Malaysian Food

I never thought that I would find this type of rice cake here, at the place where I stay at the moment. It was kind of suprise when I saw it in one of the oriental supermarkets. Without much hesitation, I just grabbed a packet. But, alas, I found out that it was made in china when i reached home. I thought it was supposed to be made in Korea. Anyway, I still go ahead to cook TteokBokki. It turned out quite nice. The rice cake was chewy and yummy. A bit like chinese rice cake. But to tell you the truth I haven't really try the real TteokBokki before so I can't really comment much.

I cooked this nasi lemak sometimes ago. I forgot where I got the recipes from. The tedious parts were cooking the rendang and the sambal. I omitted the belacan for the sambal because I didn't have any and at the same time I didn't want my whole flat to smell like 'belacan in the air'. It was a good try.

Bread and buns

I'm really satisfied with these bread and buns. They were really soft and fluffy. They stay soft the next day without any artificial ingredients to make them stay soft and also without the need of reheating them. This method of making the bread is called 65 degree tang zhong bread @ water roux bread. Recipes adapted from here and here. Try it and you will know. :)

Jjajangmyun - Korean black bean noodles

Jjajangmyun in making. I adapted it from maangchi. I used udon instead because I couldn't find the special noodles for jjjajangmyun. Anyway, it tasted great. I read from somewhere that we can also use spaghetti or even rice to go with this yummy sauce.