The Unforgettable First Love

Don't be shocked by the name..haha..
Yes, the dessert name is 初恋的回味..
sounds sweet? :P
This dessert is learnt from "Beautiful Cooking II"..
The beauty chef, Kit Mak (she is really a chef, not artist) teaches some dishes..
I chose this, just simply because this is the easiest to make..hehe..

OK, let's go through my first all-by-own cooking process.. (except instant noodles)

Ingredients:
- cooking chocolate 200/250g
- eggs 2
- Marie biscuits
- chocolate powder
- dried fruits (e.g. strawberry, raisin)
- vanilla oil (this is to increase the flavour) - optional


Procedure:

How to melt cooking chocolate
1. Cut the cooking chocolate into smaller pieces, and put them into a small pot.
2. Put the small pot into a big pot of boiled water, and keep stir it to melt the chocolate.
(the temperature to melt chocolate is <100C, it's better to melt through the boiled water, so that it wont stick to pot)

To enhance the melted chocolate
3. While stirring the melt chocolate, add in the eggs and mix them well.
4. You can add in the vanilla oil as well, if you wish.

Main steps
5. After that, put the melted choc into a big bowl.
6. Add in the small pieces Marie biscuits and dried fruits, and stir again.

Packaging
7. Then, put the mixed-well material onto a piece of aluminum foil (look carefully, dun buy cling wrap :P), and wrap them into a cylinder shape. Make sure it is compact enough..
According to Kit, just imagine, if your first love got hole, how sad it is.....
8. You're almost done, just throw the roll into fridge for one night.

Final stage
9. The next day, take it out, unwrap the foil, please ensure it's completely unwrap (it's quite sticky), else you or your friend will accidentally eat the foil together.. :P
10. Pour the choc powder onto it, and cut it into pieces (it's advisable to be smaller than the photo shown below :))

End Product

Thanks to all my friends to be the white mouse.. :)
You guys are bravo!!! haha...

Tang Yuan Festival

Tang Yuan -- a dessert that represents reunion (yuan means round or complete)

They can be in different colours whatever you like..white, red, yellow, green, blue, purple, etc.

Nowadays, they even transformed to different shapes (provided you make it yourself, buying from the store most likely in round shape la, traditional ma..)

Remembered when I was in uni, Taiping kias like to have reunion party, since we are all from the same hometown, and fly to JB, so far away from home.

We bought all the ingredients needed to make the glutinous rice ball, with "gula melaka", peanut, milo.hehe...

For the very first half-an-hour, we all very "jeng geng" (normal) to make them in round shape (though got big size, and small size)..

After that, the real fox tail comes out, poker card shape (luckily not all 52 cards come out), toilet bowl, etc whatever we can think, and we can do, you will see in the pot.

Even can keep on laughing, while recalling all these funny funny things...sweet memories~~

Now, seldom have chance to gather having such happy party lo, uni life is already a past..

Mum not going to make any this year, that's why, I need t wake up at 7am, and go pasar to buy.

And that's why so early, i'm here to blog..hehe

I like glutinous rice balls!!