Books and Keeping Sane

I must have been insane to post this Title without any content. Haha... Took me months to realise that this posting was blank.

Anyway, I have been buying many books to keep sane and even found a couple of chinese books from Taiwan interesting. Unfortunately, I had problem finding out some of the ingredients that they were using. Anyhow, the 2 books below from Xiao Xiao Mi Tong is simple to cook. I have tried the salted egg meat ball recipe and I like it.

Resolutions for Year 2010

Is almost Chinese New Year. This year, I won't be baking any cookies due to a big tummy on hand.

Last year hasn't been a very smooth year especially at work. This year, I hope it would be better. Well, hopefully everything will be better be it health, wealth, career, family, etc.

Resolutions for 2010

• Buy more cookbooks. The next book on the list is the new release from Rose Levy - Rose Heavenly Cakes.
• Buy a bigger book shelf to house my collection. (Have to think of where to put the shelf)
• Avoid offending 小人.
• Good health to all, especially my family members and friends.

Happy New Year 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

This should have been uploaded after Christmas but due to my laziness, it was delayed till now. I bought this 3 Tier Plate from Ikea during the weekend when they were selling it for $19 instead of $29.

Instead of putting home made pastries as I did not back any pastries for Christmas, I have used it to put savoury stuff like condiments such as crepe skin, cucumber for Peking duck, fried spring roll, fried sotong yew cha kuey and cocktail sausages.

A very useful tray as you could stack food item upwards and save some space at the dining table. Very pleased with myself to have gotten this at $19.

Christmas Party

After the Christmas party we had in Yr 2007, we have decided to hold another Christmas Party this year at my place. This year's menu would be very simple to cook as it it only caters for like less than 20 people as some family members are away this Christmas season on a holiday. I am definitely looking forward to the party!

Raisin Pound Cake

This raisin cake is made from the same recipe as the fruit pound cake. However if you notice, this looks a bit dense. I suspect is because I used some left over brown sugar instead of castor sugar and my brown sugar was a bit damp. This could have contributed to the cake failing to rise. But I prefer this cake taste to the fruit cake as it has a brown sugar fragrance.