Tranquility, serenity, quietness
Peace, Faith, Love, Joy.
I have the habit of happiness.
I have the habit of expecting the good.
I have the habit of never giving up.
I have the habit of patience.
I have the habit of trusting the living God.
I have the habit of helping others.
Friday 31 December 2010
Tuesday 21 December 2010
Christmas Celebrations
CHRISTMAS CONTRIBUTIONS
Whenever one mentions tapioca, it makes me think about the Japanese War. Why? Coz my grandfather used to tell me lots about their hardship during the Japanese War in Malaya. Pple were scared, poor and hungry and tapioca was cheap and easily available food. We are just too lucky these days. When I was little, I was trained to address or say hello to pple by asking ' Chia pa bui'- ( have you eaten?) It was a common phrase simply because most pple were hungry during the war and it would be helpful to feed the hungry.
However, instead of asking ' chia pa bui' these days, it would be ' chia si me' ( what have you eaten?) ? lobster ? big prawns.We are moving fast and demanding more. What type and how expensive is your food seems more important than trying to fill the stomach. Perhaps I am wrong and this is very much self opinionated.
The tapioca cake - really quite like it. Shew... I ate quite a bit before bringing to the gathering... ok, just tasting it. MMM... my homemade tapioca cake.
Aunt Katie and Aunt Liz bought some pandan flavour and essense when they went back to Asia. I love pandan - lovely smell and nice colour. My old home used to have pandan plant. My mother used it in her cooking and dessert. Miss my mother cookies these days.
The yoghurt used was greek yoghurt. Hence, the cake was very very moist and slightly bitter. The cake had 2 colours- unfortunately I did not manage to take the pictures. The bottom layer was white and the top layer was green. I thought it was so pretty. Aunt Mei Li loved this cake. :)
- TAPIOCA CAKE
- PANDAN YOGHURT GAKE
It is Christmas again and Woking and Guildford Community Group are having gatherings. Managed to attend Woking Group but not Guildford Group due to my work. I decided to give the groups equally. Hence I did 2 sets of tapioca cakes and pandan yoghurt cake. Very Asian style.
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| Tapioca Cake |
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| Tapioca Cake in Slices |
Whenever one mentions tapioca, it makes me think about the Japanese War. Why? Coz my grandfather used to tell me lots about their hardship during the Japanese War in Malaya. Pple were scared, poor and hungry and tapioca was cheap and easily available food. We are just too lucky these days. When I was little, I was trained to address or say hello to pple by asking ' Chia pa bui'- ( have you eaten?) It was a common phrase simply because most pple were hungry during the war and it would be helpful to feed the hungry.
However, instead of asking ' chia pa bui' these days, it would be ' chia si me' ( what have you eaten?) ? lobster ? big prawns.We are moving fast and demanding more. What type and how expensive is your food seems more important than trying to fill the stomach. Perhaps I am wrong and this is very much self opinionated.
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| Pandan Yoghurt Cake |
Aunt Katie and Aunt Liz bought some pandan flavour and essense when they went back to Asia. I love pandan - lovely smell and nice colour. My old home used to have pandan plant. My mother used it in her cooking and dessert. Miss my mother cookies these days.
The yoghurt used was greek yoghurt. Hence, the cake was very very moist and slightly bitter. The cake had 2 colours- unfortunately I did not manage to take the pictures. The bottom layer was white and the top layer was green. I thought it was so pretty. Aunt Mei Li loved this cake. :)
Monday 20 December 2010
Meow Meow's Pictures
See the beautiful red lantern. Gorgeous!
Aunt Milly commented that my face is like an apple. Oh well, too much ice cream, I think.
4 scoops of ice cream- really yummy.
Hope you can differentiate the ice cream and my face.
It was actually quite cold and yet Meow Meow
enjoying ice cream in Rome. :0
Was at Vatican City, we were tired of sight-seeing and hence took a break at the Italian Cafe.
At Sicily. Breathtaking view from top of the hill. Trying to be Mafia, Hawaiian or Flinestone?
Really love the colourful Lizard. Who is more colourful? Lizard or Meow Meow?
The Barcelona weather was sunny and bright. :)
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| Cutting my traybakes |
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| With Aunt Kwei & Others |
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| Chinese New Year |
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| Chinese New Year |
See the beautiful red lantern. Gorgeous!
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| BBQ with Woking Group |
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| Mid Autumn Festival |
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| Meow Meow |
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| Kitty Cat |
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| Meow Meow & Ice Cream |
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| Yummy Ice Cream |
Aunt Milly commented that my face is like an apple. Oh well, too much ice cream, I think.
4 scoops of ice cream- really yummy.
Hope you can differentiate the ice cream and my face.
It was actually quite cold and yet Meow Meow
enjoying ice cream in Rome. :0
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| Ice Cream |
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| At Italian Cafe |
Was at Vatican City, we were tired of sight-seeing and hence took a break at the Italian Cafe.
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| Aunt Mei Li, Milly and Meow Meow |
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| Cheers |
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| Mafia Meow Meow |
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| Flinstone Custome? Hawaiian ? |
At Sicily. Breathtaking view from top of the hill. Trying to be Mafia, Hawaiian or Flinestone?
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| Meow Meow & Colourful Lizard |
Really love the colourful Lizard. Who is more colourful? Lizard or Meow Meow?
The Barcelona weather was sunny and bright. :)
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| Too bright for Meow Meow to open eyes |
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| Miss Meow Meow- number 33 |
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| Imaginary House |
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| Cake |
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| Meow Meow, S & Cake |
Snow
Look at the snow.
So pretty.
Beautiful.
How can it be so pretty?
My gorgeous Mr Snowman is still alive, standing strong. :)
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| MR SNOWMAN |
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| CHRISTMAS TREE |
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| GORGEOUS |
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| HAPPY |
Look at the snow.
So pretty.
Beautiful.
How can it be so pretty?
My gorgeous Mr Snowman is still alive, standing strong. :)
Thursday 16 December 2010
Life is beautiful. Keep smiling :)
Today is beautiful.
Life is beautiful.
Keep Smiling. :)
Lots of love,
Meow Meow
Life is beautiful.
Keep Smiling. :)
Lots of love,
Meow Meow
Sunday 28 November 2010
Thursday 21 October 2010
Welcome Party
STUDENT WELCOME CONTRIBUTION
Catering and baking for many can be an enormous tasks. Welcome party will be about min of 100 pple. To ensure most pple have something to bite during tea time or dinner, I cracked out my head thinking what would be best to bake to such large group of pple.
I enlisted S to give me a hand this time. The idea of doing small cornflakes and rice crisps cookies was fantastic. It took 2 short evenings to complete the task. We counted the cookies but I forgot the total amount! At least, about 300+++ cookies.
You would have noticed that I normally do round decorative cake. A big change this time.
Be creative this time and ventured to do a double layer rectangular cake. The fillings were pineapple jam and fresh cream. The decorations, as you can see, were strawberries, chocolate and colourful rice, smarties at the corers and 3 different colour flowers at the centre.
The 2 layered cake was moist victoria sponge cake.
In addition to the cookies and double layer rectangular cake, I decided to bake more- just in case the bakes were inadequate for all.
Baked an old time classic lemon drizzle traybake. Put lots of fresh squeezed lemon in it. That is what I called homemade and real lemon cake!
The other traybake turned out fantastic too. Really love the hazelnut flakes decorations.
- CORNFLAKES COOKIES
- RICE CRISPS COOKIES
- DOUBLE LAYER RECTANGULAR CAKE
- LEMON DRIZZLE TRAYBAKE
- ALMOND CAKE TRAYBAKE
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| So many cookies! |
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| CornFlakes & Rice Crisps Cookies |
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| Cornflakes Cookies |
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| Rice Crisps Cookies |
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| Cookies in Jar |
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| Cookies |
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| Double Layer Rectangular Cake |
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| Strawberries, Smarties, Flowers, Chocolate Rice as decorations |
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| Lemon Drizzle Traybake |
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| Almond Cake Traybake |
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| Traybakes |
Catering and baking for many can be an enormous tasks. Welcome party will be about min of 100 pple. To ensure most pple have something to bite during tea time or dinner, I cracked out my head thinking what would be best to bake to such large group of pple.
I enlisted S to give me a hand this time. The idea of doing small cornflakes and rice crisps cookies was fantastic. It took 2 short evenings to complete the task. We counted the cookies but I forgot the total amount! At least, about 300+++ cookies.
You would have noticed that I normally do round decorative cake. A big change this time.
Be creative this time and ventured to do a double layer rectangular cake. The fillings were pineapple jam and fresh cream. The decorations, as you can see, were strawberries, chocolate and colourful rice, smarties at the corers and 3 different colour flowers at the centre.
The 2 layered cake was moist victoria sponge cake.
In addition to the cookies and double layer rectangular cake, I decided to bake more- just in case the bakes were inadequate for all.
Baked an old time classic lemon drizzle traybake. Put lots of fresh squeezed lemon in it. That is what I called homemade and real lemon cake!
The other traybake turned out fantastic too. Really love the hazelnut flakes decorations.
Friday 8 October 2010
Cookies, Birthday Celebrations
COOKIES
This is my favourite cookies jar. I took me quite long to find this one. It is really cute! It reminds me of the cookies jar we used to have when we were little. The cap is so cute. Dont you just fall in love with it.
It is a good cookies jar coz it is transparent, big, light, air tighted. Do you want to give it a hug?
SAD TO SAY- someone broke my cookies jar. I was very heart broken. In fact, I was even more upset coz no one bother to inform or ring me. I was told by S that my very favourite cookies jar was broken during the student welcome party. Meow Meow really really miss my cookies jar.
Till today, I still have not find another beautiful cookies jar like this.
This cake is very rich in cheese. I used ricotta cheese for this cake. See, I am making effort to do some cheese related cakes though I once told you I am not a very good with cheese due to my traditional Chinese background.
Lovely moist rich cheese cake. :)
Look at this Cake! For those who not into baking, let me tell you that the baking of the cakes were easy but the decorations were tricky.
Chiffon cakes need patience- lots of beating to make it fluffy. Of course, with machines - everything is made easy! Thank God for that!
The bottom cake consisted of 2 layers and the upper cake consisted of 3 layers. The total of 5 layers.
Each layer was coated with minimal fresch cream and had their specific fruits. I cannot recall the sequence of the fruit layers but they were strawberries, kiwi, mandarins, pineapple, pears.
To make it nice, it requires time and effort to first, cut these fruits, then tucked them neatly and firmly in between the layers of the cakes.
The colourful external decorations were all fresh fruits plus freshly toasted hazelnut flakes.
You can see various colourful fruits like kiwi, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries,peaches.
The top was decorated with big juicy strawberries, colourful and chocolate rice and some smarties sweet.
- COCONUT MUNCHIES
- MELTING MOMENTS
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| Coconut Munchies |
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| Melting Moments |
C's Birthday. Since she is still in high school, I think giving cookies to her and thus she can treat her other friends too would be great.
Coconut munchies are really nice beautiful cookies. Crunchy coconut cookies.
Melting moments are just mouth watering. Made up from oats.
There were at least 150 cookies all together. Again, I lost count. Beautiful cookies.
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| My cookies jar- my favourite |
It is a good cookies jar coz it is transparent, big, light, air tighted. Do you want to give it a hug?
SAD TO SAY- someone broke my cookies jar. I was very heart broken. In fact, I was even more upset coz no one bother to inform or ring me. I was told by S that my very favourite cookies jar was broken during the student welcome party. Meow Meow really really miss my cookies jar.
Till today, I still have not find another beautiful cookies jar like this.
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| Cookies in jar |
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| Coconut Munchies & Melting Moments |
The cookies were placed alternatively and neatly in circular form inside the cookies jar.
Simply Fantastic. :)
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
- WALNUT CAKE
- FRENCH CHOCOLATE CAKE
- TRAYBAKES-SMARTIES CAKE & ???
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| Walnut Cake |
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| French Chocolate CAke |
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| Smarties Cake |
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| 2 Cakes and 2 Traybakes The monthly birthday celebration is here again.My schedule was really tight and Freya only informed me the day before. Managed to bake 2 cakes- walnut cake and french chocolate cakes. Also 2 large traybakes- one smarties cake and the other--- ooops, i cannot recall but definitely not chocolate cake. the chocolate is just the icing with mixture of nuts topping. |
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
- HAZELNUT MERINGUE CAKE
- AUSTRIAN CURD CHEESECAKE
- FRUIT CHIFFON CAKE- 5 LAYERS
- COOKIES
Aunt Amanda's daughter, C birthday.
I had already given her the cookies as present.
They wanted to throw a birthday dinner. She did not want me to coook but prefer me to bake instead.
Aunt Meili's birthday had just passed too and I was busy with my work thus unable to celebrate for her.
Decided to do some fresh bakes for them.
Since I love fruity and nutty cakes, I decided to do some colourful bakes. I love colourful things and life should be colourful and not just grey, white and black. It will be so dull.
These bakes turned out wonderfully. Enjoy the pictures :)
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| Hazelnut Meringue Cake |
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| Fresh Raspberries for fillings and decorations |
This cake was wonderful. Making meringue always enquire a bit more effort. It turned out beautiful. Of course, yummy. I just could not resist.
I was very generous with the hazelnuts. Hazelnut and meringue were wonderful.
Topping with fresh big juicy raspberries simply made the cake irresistable! Gorgeous!
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| Austrian Curd Cheesecake |
This cake is very rich in cheese. I used ricotta cheese for this cake. See, I am making effort to do some cheese related cakes though I once told you I am not a very good with cheese due to my traditional Chinese background.
Lovely moist rich cheese cake. :)
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| Fruit Chiffon Cake- 5 layers |
Chiffon cakes need patience- lots of beating to make it fluffy. Of course, with machines - everything is made easy! Thank God for that!
The bottom cake consisted of 2 layers and the upper cake consisted of 3 layers. The total of 5 layers.
Each layer was coated with minimal fresch cream and had their specific fruits. I cannot recall the sequence of the fruit layers but they were strawberries, kiwi, mandarins, pineapple, pears.
To make it nice, it requires time and effort to first, cut these fruits, then tucked them neatly and firmly in between the layers of the cakes.
The colourful external decorations were all fresh fruits plus freshly toasted hazelnut flakes.
You can see various colourful fruits like kiwi, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries,peaches.
The top was decorated with big juicy strawberries, colourful and chocolate rice and some smarties sweet.
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| Decorations |
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| Birthday Cake |
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| CAKES |
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| Delicious Hazelnut Meringue Cake with Fresh Raspberries |
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| Each Layer has different fruits |
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| Fresh Cheese with Sultanas |
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| Top View |
Blowing Candles.
We let the little girl blow all the candles though it wasnt her birthday. She looked at the candles and the cakes with great curiousity.
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