psst... where r we going for our honeymoon dear?

Day 1 of abah and Umi's visit

upon arriving at our house, the first thing that attracted my father was these three little chubby, hairy and gebus kitten, Lily's little kitties. They are less than a month old.  Abah has always been cat lovers ever since I can remember and my brother, sister and I used to have a cat each when we were small. we named them Chomel, TamTih, cheloreng, and many many more....

my version of mee sanggul goreng for a hungry husband at close to midnite.

Basic ingredients for Asam Pedas:

red chillies, small chillies( chili padi), galangal, ginger and tumeric. 

This step by step guide on how to make Asam Pedas ( umi's version) is a guide for me, for my future reference. I don't fancy asam pedas but my other half does and every time we go back to my home towmn, my Umi never fail to cook this for him. As for me, she would cook either sup tulang, or ikan kerisi goreng plus sotong ( yang ada telur ) rebus with shallots and lemongrass....yummmmm....

blend them all and mix with the already blended mixture of dried chillies, shallots, garlic and prawn paste ( belacan)

just pour it into a pan ( no need to fry or saute it ), and some water and leave it to boil, don't forget to add in the lemon grass, bunga kantan and daun kesum, plus kacang bendi and a few wedges of tomatoes

taste it with salt, sugar and some tamarind sauce, add in fish ( can use ikan keli, ikan pari, in this case, we use ikan.....err, I forgot the name of the fish, need to ask my Umi..)

done! it kinda look like singgang to me, Umi once did another versiion, drier and redder ( the colour is very red and looks very hot ) than this version.

our lunch for that day, Asam Pedas ikan dotdot..., jeruk maman which Umi brought from Kelantan, sup tulang rusuk, sayur bayam, ikan bawal emas goreng, 

Dessert for me, since they don't really like pisang nangka, i made this pisang sira using the balance of the pisang nangka which i freid the day before. 

very easy to make, just slice the banana into two, place them in a pot, pour some water, just enough to cover the bananas, threw in a couple table sppons of sugar and cook them till the sauce or sugar syrup is almost dry....yumm, my favourite since i was small....

batrisyia helping mama , making ribbons for the door gifts.thank you dear

MAG-D macaroni au gratin for Farah, she wanted to try this after seeing the photos so often in the blog

plus 30 jars of cakes, still in the process of layering them....to be continued..

two three tiered in one day

Congratz dearies!

ivory roses on these three tiered cakes

three tiered ivory flowers wedding cake, red velvet, rainbow cake and choc and vanilla cake.

and three tiered red and white birthday cakes, vanila with blueberries filling, red velvet and chocolate moist cakes

CUPCAKES AND FRUITS

fruit basket ( with cupcakes too ) for her VIP guests who were staying at one of the hotels in Perlis.

'persembahan' for HRH.

DIRGAHAYU TUANKU.

DIRGAHAYU TUANKU

similar design to the one i made earlier, same cololur too, purple and white on chocolate cake with ganache

Thank you Ma'am

You made my day, beautiful ladies!

between 1.30 am and 6 am, I managed to make all these, plain bake cheesecake, blueberry cheesecake, oreo chocolate cheesecake, chocolate moist cakes, pecan butterscotch cake and marble cheese brownies.in the next few hours, we would be driving to KL, for a short break. Why? It's the school holiday ! My kids had been asking me to take a break after seeing how hard I had been baking the last couple of weeks. 

so, where am i now? not very far from our place, it was only about five hour drive from our place but that nite it took us much longer, say three extra hours longer.! We reached Kota Damansara at 12 midnite, after leaving Alor Staq at around 4 pm. The worst jam ever ( actually there was an even more worse than this ) but this is as bad. 

However, if this will make the kids happy, then, be it. We spent some time at one of the shopping malls here, me, bought a few books, yup, cake decorating books of course, got a few things for the kids too,, ,

my second day here was even better, had breakfast with my fellow baker at the Loaf in Subang Jaya. Spent a few wonderful hours talking and chatting and exchanging stories from the general topic , about the decreasing moral in the youth today, to the school system, to the maid issue, which left us cringing, knowing what we had both been through, almost too similar cases , to the one thing ( among others, of course ) that we both have in common, baking and cake decorating.
three hours passed , so quickly and it was already time to say goodbye, thank you kak jun for taking the time off to see me, till we meet again in cyberspace after this.

I had a few hours to spare before my next meet-up with yet another wonderful and dear person. so I walked alone int that big Empire Shopping Gallery, looking and admiring the window displays, and me, being me, just couldn't resist the temptation of buying a new pair of shoes. One shop that really melts my heart  was the shop with the lovely lace dresses for cute young girls.Those dresses made me wish that my little girl, Batrisyia is still a little girl, a two year old toddler, so that she can wear those gorgeous little lacy, ribbony dresses.

My friend, or rather, more like a sister to me, came at around two and we headed to another location in Shah Alam, where we had our lunch at a cosy little cafe at the SACC Mall..Again, another few wonderful hours spent together, chatting while digging in the roast chicken with potatoes and broccoli, ( which the lady forgot to make in the first place), but since we were in no hurry to go elsewhere, we wouldn't mind waiting.Tasted the cheesecake there, as usual, it was typical of me, wanting to taste how other cakes or cheesecakes taasted like and mmmmm, it was okay, not quite to my liking, but it was alright, but the roast chicken was good. I finished the whole plate!Thank you Kak Jee for taking your day off to see me, appreciate it.

Meeting and spending a few hours with two wonderful friends/sisters in one day, what more could a lady ask for. I am blessed to having known them, one , of whom I had only known the past three years , only because we both love baking and the other, for more than three decades, because we went to the same school and had been keeping in touch ever since.Three years and thirty years are just numbers, it felt like we have known one another forever!

There's yet another lady that I would wish and hope to see, another wonderful lady, in fact , all these ladies that have crossed my path have all been wonderful, I wouldn't describe them any other way. Wishfully I would love to see them all but my visit is very brief and I only managed to see only a few.

Thank you beautiful ladies, you have made my day!

red velvet fever

New cake on the block- PECAN BUTTERSCOTCH CAKE

someoone prompted me to try this cake, she said that it tasted so good, and asked me if I do this, and my answer then, about three weeks ago, was "No, i am sorry I didn't do this". But, if she asked me again, i will definitely say, "Yes, I do, how many?"

i had never tasted this cake before and had no clue how it tasted like but when i first sink myteeth into a scoop of this slice, it was an amazing feeling. OMG! No wonder she likes it, it just tasted heavenly! out of this world! the same feeling I experienced when I first had a bite of the OREO CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE! simply amazing! scrumptious!

layers of sponge cake ,generously topped with the butterscotch cream and sprinkled with caramelized pecan, covered with yet another layer of the butterscotch cream, last but not least, with a layer of the silky smooth and creamy white chocolate ganache. Need I say more!it tastes as good as it looks. It even melts the toughest cake critique, my other half, who is so fussy about cake, he even took a liking to this sinfully rich, creamy PECAN BUTTERSCOTCH CAKE.

what came out from my oven sometime last week

these represented some of the "heaven on earth creations' from Zue's Oven. We have red velvet with cream cheese frosting for th elovely nurses at the NICU unit. Thank you Hafiz

my first order for CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE, I made this for her birthday last year and I have always made this for my own indulgence, little did I knew that she and her son had been craving for this cheesecake fotr quite sometime and that day on 22nd May ( my birthday ) she ordered this for her son.Thank you balkis and Ayie.....indulge......

MCB foor her daughter's birthday

plus one MAG-D, macaroni au gratin -meat ( daging with seafood). Thank you Azlina

Sib baik ada extra MCB ni, si Ayah forgot his son's birthday., so Just wrote a simple birthday wish on th eMCB .

haa, what's this? didn't look like these came out from my oven, pulut kuning and rendang ayam.....hmmmm....ordered these from my neighbour for my friend customer.Thank you Balkis and thank you Kak Pah for accepting this not so last minute order.

bluberry cheesetarts, thank you Linda

after a long silence, mr brownies strikes again. Thank you Mr Din.

may 22nd is here...........Alhamdulillah.

this is the mystery 'cake' , actually chocolate mousse

"dikejar bayang bayang resah, 

bila hatimu masih tak berubah"....

the ringing tone ,Relaku Pujuk, by spider, from her blackberry woke her up.

" Ya sayang",

Happy birthday Ma,or was it happy birthday dear, or was it happy birthday sayang?

thank you, is it 12 midnite?

no, it's 3 am.

no wonder she could not really recall what he was saying, it was 3 am and she was half asleep or was it half awake?

what are you doing up?

i was about to go to sleep , just thought I'd call and wish you happy birthday.

Did the girls make you a birthday cake?

erm... did they? I don't know. i had slept here on the sofa since nine o'clock and I heard nothing, no sound of the mixer or the timer, no nothing. yilek, nehi..takdak....

or, did you lock the door?

no, I was sleeping downstairs, 

okay, gud nite sayang

love ya

and so now, that she's awake, she had to wake up anyway, she had to make a chocolate cheesecake . that was her plan before she dozed off on the sofa.she had asked her eldest daughter to take out the cream cheese out of the fridge, to leave it at room temperature but  most probably , the fatigueness and the tiredness of baking and decorating cakes for the past few days had taken a toll on her, and she slept the minute her head touched the softness and the comfiness of the sofa.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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thankfully her husband called, if not, she might have disappointed one young customer if she did not make that chocolate cheesecake.

So she went to the kitchen, and jeng jeng jeng, here's what she discovered.

what is this weight machine doing here. This is not its normal place.....hmmmm.She smelled something fishy....

something amiss, where;s her  rose fllour jar, it should be in between the cocoa powder and the self raising flour jar. could they really be making a birthday cake for her?there's her jar of rose flour, on the table, with other things, the bicarbonate soda, the big bowl and the strainer.

she was  wondering what they were making?

aha...looks like they used the hand held mixer too, with whisk still attached to it, with traces of egg white, could they be making chocolate mousse? or chocolate mousse cake?

let's see if there's anything in the chiller

found it!This, she did not make, therr's no order for oreo chooclate cheesecake that night, and she had not even started on her chocolate cheesecake yet. Could this be the cake that her husband mentioned earlier. Seeing this in her chiller, left a big smile on her face. At 4 am, she started working on her order for the cheesecake, knowing that someone had made her a birthday cake, for the first time, she did not have to make her own birthday cake, not that made one every year.........

She would have to wait till it is chilled properly because according to her daughter, it is called Rich Chocolate mousse..and needs to be cooled for several hours, .hmmm... chocolate mousse, her favourite..till then, she had to continue doing her things, preparing the ingredients for MAG-D, macaroni au gratin daging ( meat with seafood ) and MCB ( marble cheese brownies) for tomorrow.

can't wait to taste that Rich chocolate mousse......yummmmm......