Recipes from Nancy and Twister

1) Earlier dont know how to cook this kind of mushroom ( gift from a friend during CNY), after saw Nancy's post http://nancymummy.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-post_25.html, immediately I tried her recipe, the taste was great.

2) I even tried Twister 's lemon chicken http://twister733.blogspot.com/2008/12/twister_08.html, the taste was great too. Best to accompany with a bowl of white rice.

Orange butter cake

After saw Twister's post on cake, and realized so long didn't bake butter cake, immediately I bake one. I done a rectangular shape and some cup cake.
I also bought a bottle of Whipped light cream and some colorful candy to decorate the cup cakes, kids are so happy to decorate their own cup cakes.



























Reciep to share


250g butter
200g castor sugar
4 eggs
1tsp vanilla
250g self-raising flour
1tsp of baking powder
1tbsp of grated orange rind
5tbsp of orange juice

Steps:-
1.Put butter and castor sugar into a mixing bowl
2. Use low speed to mix until even, change to medium speed and beat until light and creamy.
3. Add in the first egg, beat well after each addition of egg until creamy
4. Add in vanilla
5. Divide flour (mix with baking powder ) into three portions and add in gradually, use lowest speed to mix in flour.
6. Add in orange juice and orange rind, mix until well-combined
7. Pour into a greased baking pan, bake in pre-heated oven at 180c for 45mins.

Tulip, Keukenhof Garden in the Netherlands, final part

More flower photos:-

Admire this old couple who relaxed and enjoyed the scenery in this garden , hopefully I got a chance to visit again with my husband.

Tulip, Keukenhof Gardens in the Netherlands, Part 2

Here are the nice Tulip photos:-

In this garden, you will feel like you walk in the heaven.

p/s A lot of my office colleagues, take all these photos became the background of their computer.

I will publish other type of flowers in this garden in next post, stay tuned.

Bento set from Emily's Busy World

As promised by Emily, I received the Bento gift set from her on time.
She was so kind to add few extra Bento accessories for me. My kids are so happy to see these.
Thank you very much Emily !!!

Tulip, Keukenhof Gardens in the Netherlands, Part 1

Since recently so many blogger post on the flowers, this time, I also want to share some of the flowers photos.

I visited this tulip garden (actual name is Keukenhof Gardens) in Holland (The Netherlands) 3 years ago, I took the opportunity to visit this garden when I transited (9 hours ) at Amsterdam airport for a business trip to Brazil in somewhere mid of Apr. I just took a local tour guide at the airport, the distance from Amsterdam airport to this garden was less than 30mins.

I'm so lucky to have this opportunity to visit this world's largest flower garden, spread over 32-hectares and attracting over 800,000 visitors each year. This number is very impressive since the gardens are only open for a few weeks (full tulip blossom in month of Apr-May) each year.


1) These photos took when we are on our way to the garden. A nice sunny day with weather 13-14c.


























































2) We get a small girl and a dog be our models











































3) Crowd at the entrance to the Keukenhof Garden

p/s In next post, I will publish all the nice Tulip photos, stay tuned.

Handbag

Refer to Bakeling's post http://bakeling.blogspot.com/2009/02/2009-newest-handbags-trends.html on handbags, she requested me to show her my favorite "Nine West" bag.
I like this bag bacause the colour combination of white and black, and very special printing.

yam cake

My mother brought me a very good quality yam, earlier thought want to cook yam rice (after seen Nancy post), but last minutes I changed it to yam cake instead.
As usual, I enjoyed this delicious yam cake at my favorite patio area of my house.

Please pass the word around on this !!

Hi, please visit Emily's busy world http://emilys-stitch-in-waiting.blogspot.com/2009/02/please-pass-word-around-on-this.html, in support of a crisis shelter for women...
Thanks in advance for dropping her blog.

Hokkian fried "Loh Si Fun"

In a hot sunny day, I enjoyed my simple lunch in my favorite spot of my house i.e the patio area. I just fried a simple noodle dish, Hokkian style of "Loh Si Fun".

Nasi Lemak again !!!

This time I just cook "sambal ikan bilis" . I like this simple sambal, it must be added with a lot of onion and crispy ikan bilis, also must add quite big amount of sugar to get sweet taste.

I'm the winner of the 6th picture contest from Emily's Busy world

Yeah hu, I'm the winner of the 6th picture from 6th album tag contest (http://emilys-stitch-in-waiting.blogspot.com/2009/02/winner-of-6th-pic-fm-6th-album-tag.html) . This is my 2nd times won prizes via blogging. I'm now to say that Blogging is good for us.


Big Thank You to Emily for her kindness, may your blog be attracted more viewers. God bless you.


This is the 6th picture that I posted:-

Steamboat

After saw 温馨小屋 post on charcoal steamboat http://felvinc.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-post_06.html, I just realized that I have been so long never try this steamboat shop at Berkerly Klang, they also use charcoal to serve steamboat. Immediate the next day, we go there for dinner.

This shop is there for a long time, at least 25years old. They still maintain the quality till now, food serve there are fresh and their side dish e.g kam heong crab, fried glass noodle & etc are nice too.

1 ) Charcoal steamboat














































2) Why the soup there is nice, because they add fried lard "cu yau za" in the soup.
















3) The shop name is Restoran Makanan Boon Wah

p/s if today you don't have any idea where to take dinner for Valentine celebration, maybe this is a good place for you, cheap and nice.

2nd Bento

This is my 2nd time prepare Bento, my son Lucas having extra tuition class, thus prepare a good lunch for him.

It consists of:-
- chicken and mushroom spaghetti
- fried chicken nuget
- cut pear