Spongy Butter Cake

Ingredients

180g butter, at room temp
150g caster sugar
50g milk powder
140g all purpose flour
30g cornflou/cornstarch
1 tsp baking powder (sift tog w the dry ingredients)
1/2 tsp baking soda
3 medium size eggs, separated
1 tsp vanilla essence
80ml milk


Method

1. Preheat oven to 180 degress celcus. Grease a loaf cake tin with butter (I lined the bottom with grease-proof paper).
2. Baked in a tray of boiling water, the cake will come out really really moist.
3. Sift the flour, cornflour, milk powder and baking powder together in a big bowl.
4. Beat butter and sugar til creamy and fluffy. Add in egg yolks one at a time and mix to combine.
5. Add in vanilla essence and mix thoroughly.
6. Add in the sifted dry ingredients and mix to combine thoroughly. Add the milk and mix.
7. Whisk the egg while with 1/2 tsp of baking soda til soft peaks form. Fold into the batter mixture and combine thoroughly
8. Pour into loaf cake tim and bake for 45 mins. Turn the heat down to 170 degress celcius and bake a further 15 ins till a toothpick poked in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Cover loosely with foild if the top browns too much.
9. Take cake out of oven and let it cool completely in cake tim before slicing

Notes:-

• The milk powder could be omitted if you do not want a cake that is too 'milky' in taste. If you do that, then reduce the butter amount to 160g.
• When whisking the egg whiltes, use a metal bowl for best results. Make sure that the bowl is clean, dry and oil-free!

Braised Pork Belly

Saw this programme on TV - "Easy Cooking" and decided to try out the recipe since it seems so easy and delicious. And indeed, it's very easy and very very yummy.....

Forgot to take a picture.... will post it next time when I cook it again.

Braised Pork (very easy)

Ingredients
1kg pork belly350g garlic ~ $1.50 -chopped til fine
Sugar 200g ~ ½ - ¾ bottle of small bottle
Black sauce ¼ - 1/3 bottle
4 Eggs

Method:
1. Put pork (skin faced up) to cover the bottom of pot
2. cover with chopped garlic
3. sprinkle sugar on top, followed by black sauce
4. On stove for 1.5 – 2 h (if use thermal pot, cook for 1h before storing it in thermal pot)
5. Steam eggs for 20 min
6. deshell and put in pot with gravy from previous prepared dish and add in water.

Star fruit

1 Star fruit

2 apples

Handful of blue berries

handful of grapes

Ice cubes

water

A new Twist

My first attempt in the following fruit juice. YK loves it. So do the kids.
I am really impressed with how the combination worked out. Yummylicious!

2 apples
1 orange
handful grapes
handful blue berries
2 passion fruits
Ice cubes
Water

Pandan Cake

Another creation with the seasonal fruit - Dragon fruit

1 dragon fruit
2 apples
handful grapes
ice
water

Nowadays, I see what's in season in the supermarket. I just buy and then juice them. With the h1N1 bug around, we really have to take good care of our health, must juice more for all at home. Yue and Yu are having their bronze swimming exam next Sat, I hope they will stay in good health.

1-2 starfuit
2 apples
handful of grapes
Ice
water