Sea Food

You can find these dried seafood in the shop at Ipoh Old Town.

This shop sells a lot of dried seafood and Chinese herbal.

Most of the ingredients here are for making tonic soup or casseroles.

Small sharks died before they get bigger !

sharks' bones 

Starfish

Dried cuttlefish

Gecko ( Wikipedia )(蛤蚧 ), it is good for the lung such as dyspnoea ,asthma, cough and impotence. 

A pair - RM15.00 

Toad , RM1.50 per piece

Little golden abalones

Fake Low Sugar Pandan Swiss Roll

What if you can't find any fresh  pandan leaves ( screw pine leaves) around and you would like to have some pandan flavour swiss roll ?

Then , I will get some pandan flavour essence ( photo 3) and green colouring to make a "fake" pandan swiss roll.

This fake Pandan Swiss Roll is low in sugar too. 

But, how about the taste ?

The taste is as"real" as the "fresh pandan leaves" pandan swiss roll:)

Fake Pandan Swiss Roll: ( 14 "X 10" X 1 " baking tray )
Ingredients:
4 eggs  ( separate egg yolks and white , 50 g each)
40 g castor sugar （ + egg white )- The sugar content usually is 80g and above ! This would be too sweet for me.
1/8 tsp  cream of tartar

30 ml water
40 ml corn oil
1 tsp pandan flavour essence
1/2 tsp green colouring

50 g cake flour ( or all purpose flour)
1 tbsp corn flour （ about 20 g)

Method:
1. Beat egg yolks with mixer for 5 mins. , speed 3.( highest)
2. Beat egg white for 1 mins + castor sugar +cream of tartar. beat 1 mins, speed 3 + corn flour , beat 1 min .
3. Measure water + corn oil + pandan flavour essence + green colouring.
4. + sieve cake flour into beaten egg yolk (1). ( in 3 times )
5. + liquid of (3) into (4) egg yolk batter.
6.  Combine ( 5) and  egg white foam ( 2) with spoon or spatula , stir evenly.
7. Pour the mixture into a greased paper baking tray.

Of Baking ( Preheat Oven ) :
Oven Temperature : 190 degree C ( Lowest rack , my oven Faber brand)
Timing : 15 mins(( lower and upper heat ) , then turn to upper heat ,10 mins to brown the top of the sponge.

Prepare whipping cream :
100 ml whipping cream + 1 tsp vanilla essence ( optional )

How to make into swiss roll ?
1. When the sponge is ready , let cool the sponge on a wire rack for 5 -10 mins.
2. Invert the sponge on a new sheet of  cake lining paper and tear off the greased paper.
3. Make 2 slits horizontally across the sponge at the side nearest to you with a steak knife - for easy rolling.
4. Trim off  45 degree the edge of the sponge at the other side with a kitchen scissor - the sponge will get roll up easily at the end.
5. Spread whipping cream and roll up the sponge.

Pork Curry and Stir-fried Sour Cucumber

Cooking pork curry is easier than cooking chicken curry , to me.

If I were to cook chicken curry, I need to remove all those visible fats on the chicken with kitchen scissors.  And it is time consuming and troublesome.

So, I cook pork curry most of the time.

Lunch Menu :

1. Pork Curry

2. Stir-fried Cucumber with salt and vinger

3. Dessert : Rice Biscuits

4. Coffee  

A Quick Breakfast

I only had 15 minutes for breakfast.

It was included making coffee, cut cheese slices, topped the biscuits with blueberry jam and eating them !

So, taking small size biscuits would be faster than eating 2 pieces of square bread.

Breakfast Menu :

1. 4 pieces of Wholemeal Biscuits with Blueberry Jam and Cheese Slices.

2. Sugarless Coffee

Breakfast : Chocolate Raisin Bread and Butter

It is better for me buy a loaf of chocolate raisin bread instead of making it myself.

But the fact is that I never try to make one.

Breakfast  Menu :

1. Chocolate Raisin Bread with Butter

2. A mug of sugarless coffee