Bamboo Charcoal Loaf

ingredients
500g bread flour
35g cake flour
70g castor sugar
1/4 tsp salt
8g instant yeast
320 ml warm milk (30 sec microwave)
2 tsp bamboo Charcoal powder
50 g butter

Method using breadmaker
* all ingredient need goes into the BM.
last will be flour and yeast.
- choose soft bread option.  Loaf baked all done in about 2.5 hrs

cheesy garlic toast

if you like pasta mania cheesy garlic toast  you could DIY something like this.

slice up a long baguette, spread on garlic herb spread and lastly sprinkle some grated or shredded cheese.  lay them on a tray to bake. bake till lightly brownish

Cinnamon Bread

Was pretty excited wanting to bake bread, I got this Cinnamon Bread premix from Phoon Huat.


After throwing everything into my bread maker and half way into making the machine broke down. I bid goodbye to my dear BM. I had to manually knead the dough. Thanksfully it turn out great, crispy on the outside.


1) Cinnamon Bread

2) All time favourite Cheese Bread


Ingredients
1 packet Red Man Cinnamon Bread Mix (5g dry yeast included)
50ml milk
200ml water
1 egg

Bread & Butter Pudding

Ingredients :
2 slices of bread
softened butter
1 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
1/2 cup milk
1 egg

Method
1.Grease side & bottom of a ramekin with butter

2. Butter the bread generously on both side and arrange in layers in the ramekin

3. Mircowave milk for 1 mins. Beat eggs inot the warm milk & immediately pour the mixture over the bread. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top

4. Bake for 20 mins or till brown & well risen

Bread & Butter Pudding

Hmm ... Bread & Butter Pudding sound good to me. A super quick & rushy work this morning for my son lunchbox.

Ingredients (2 portion)
1 slice of white bread bread w/o skin & spread with butter
10g sugar
1 egg
150ml milk
1/4tsp vanilla essence

Method

1. Cut the bread in cubes and arranged in a ramekin
2. Beat egg, milk, sugar & vanilla in a bowl
3. Pour the mixture into 2 remekin
4. Bake at 220c for 15 mins
   

Jun School Holiday Over

Time sure flies.....

Today kids are back to school. A sneak of son lunch box. Cheese Bread, M&M cookies & Cherry. Got the same items for my gals just minus the cherry.

My family misses my cheese bread & cookies. To have a head start for school today, my son requested for M&M cookies so that he could bring school and share with his friend.

I've use a different recipe for my usual cheese bread this round, result well received

Ingredient
500g bread flour
100g castor sugar
5gm salt
15g milk powder
10g instant yeast
1 egg
240g cold water
50g soft butter

Method
Sequence per Bread Maker - choose dough option

Mini Cinnamon Roll

A catchup posting of Mini Cinnamon Roll made for my colleague & family.

My mama like the texture of this bread due to the soft texture as seen here.Ingredient
500g bread flour
100g castor sugar
5gm salt
15g milk powder
10g instant yeast
1 egg
240g cold water
50g soft butter

Method
Sequence per Bread Maker - choose dough option

Filling
180g butter melted in room temp.
120g sugar
4tbsp cinnamon powder

Method

1. Chill the basic sweet bun dough for 50mins
2. Mix Cinnamon filling and set aside
   
3. Press flat and then roll out into a large square piece of dough about 1cm thick
4. spread evenly the cinnamon filling. Roll it up into a cylinder slightly tight and then cut into sections 1xm wide. Line flat on baking sheet
5. Leave the bun to prove for 50 mins
6. Brush dough with egg wash
7. Bake at 190c for 15-20 mins

Observation :
For mini cinnamon roll, it look beautiful when bake in muffin tray or mini loaf tin.
Be generous with the cinnamon filling. The look is beautiful, puffy effect.

Mini Cheese French Bun

I've always long to make this tempting mini cheese french bun (picture on the recipe book looks really tempting and yummy), but I held back due to the long proofing time require.

Today i took my biggest courage and started this new recipe bread making journey at 9am and out of the oven at 2.45pm. It's a new challenge for me (chinese written recipe), cos i got some steps in the wrong order :(

Ingredients (10 pieces)
200g bread flour
100g plain flour
2tsp Instant Yeast
1tsp sugar
1tsp salt
180ml warm water
1/8 portion extract of lemon juice

1cm cube chedder cheese (per perference)

Method (using BM)

1. Mix Bread flour and plain flour together and give it a lift so that air can get into the flour
2. Put water, lemon juice, sugar, salt, flour and lastly yeast into the BM dough function (Knead + Proof) estimate time is 1hr 30 mins
   
3. Cut ready dough cut and roll into 10 portion and let it rest for 20 mins in a enclose area or cover in glad wrap
4. Each dough wrap with 4-5 cube of cheese cube and shape it like a ruby ball
5. Put it on a tray cover with cloth and glad wrap for the 2nd proofing for 60-70 mins (to allow the cloth to absorb the water)
6. 
7. Sent dough into the oven for 5 mins at 230-250c, after use a knife to cut the dough and brush some butter on the cut portion so that the cut will look nice when baked
8. Spray some water on the dough so that the bread can absorb the mist and immediately sent to the oven to bake at 230c for 15 mins

Wow ! the effort is all worth it. The texture of the french bun is good, very crispy on the outside and soft inside. Next time i will do French Loaf using this same recipe but minus the cheese

2nd Attempt on Bread

This time round i follow the step for the Bread recipe closely this time, only difference is I used the BM to help knead. Not sure why ? it still didn't reach my expectation, I still prefer the traditional sweet bun dough recipe from Alex Goh.

Bread Making

Tried Alex Goh "Magic Bread" recipe for Basic Sweet Bread Dough. I didn't do a great job for this though the bread was edible. I would need to give it another try again, putting the right sequence using my BM.

Anyway this is the Cheese Bun that we did on Princess birthday.


Original Recipe from Alex Goh - Magic Bread

Ingredients
A
100g bread flour
70g boiling water

B
300g bread flour
100g plain flour
80g sugar
6g salt
20g milk powder
9g instant yeast

C
175g cold water
60g cold eggs

D
60g butter

Method

1. Add the boiling water from A into flour, mix until well blended to form dough. Cover and set aside to cool. Keep it into regrigerator for at least 12 hours
2. Mix B until well-blended. Add in C and knead to form rough dough. Add in A and knead until well-blended.
3. Add in D and knead to form elastic dough.
4. Let it proof for 40 mins
5. Divide the dough into required weight and mould it round. Let it rest for 10 mins and ready to use.

Otah Sandwich

Clearing stock for bread. Here's the joke, my son SMS my hubby to get him bead, instead hubby came home with a loaf of BREAD. *** faint

In order to put the bread into good use for the stomach and I have Muar otah at my freezer. So I did Otah sandwich on Sunday.

Toasted & Non toasted bread

Personally I like the toasted otah sandwich. So crispy

Ingredient

1 packet Muar Otah (Prawn) - cook in microwave for 5-6 mins

8-10 slice bread

butter (optional for spreading on bread)

Equipment

Electric Sandwich maker for toasting

Manual Moulded Sandwich maker for non toast bread

Cinnamon French Toast

Ingredient

(A)

1 cup milk

1 egg

1 tsp sugar

1/4 tsp cinnamon powder

a pinch of salt

4 slices of French loaf

butter for pan fry

icing sugar for dusting (optional)

Method

1. Mix ingredient A together
2. Dip bread into the mixture
3. Pan fry till golden brown

Serving Ideal

• Golden syrup
• Strawberry, grapes etc....

Chicken Corn Soup vs French Loaf

This is prince lunch menu for today soup in french loaf. As for princess she had her all time favourite macaroni and cheese with bacon (not shown here). What's for my lunch .... since I cooked 1 can of campbell soup and there's left over, so i just ate it with the french loaf the simple way.

A shot before sending the loaf into the oven
Ready to serve (yummy yummy)Ingredients :
1 small potatoes (cooked & diced)
1 slice of chicken fillet (diced & seasoned with a little black pepper salt)
1 small french loaf
1/2 can campbell corn chicken soup + 1/2 can water
Bacon Bite (optional)

Method :

1. Cut open the top of the french loaf, dug out some white bread so that to look like a bowl
2. Stir fry the chicken on the deep pan
3. Add in campbell soup, chicken & potatoes and cook till boil
4. Fill the bread bowl with soup and let it bake in the oven for a while to allow the bread to be crispy
5. After bake you may add in some bacon bite or some chive
   

Cinnamon Roll

My Friend borrow 美食系列15 Easy Bake by Alan Ooi from the library and i lent it from her. I loves Cinnamon Roll, the moment i saw recipe on Almond Cinnamon Roll. It's a die die must try bake for me. The only regret I had was... should have bake more, cos I only bake half the portion of the original recipe. True indeed the bread was soft and finally i got the yummy aroma of the cinnamon, though i omitted the almond nib & topping. My daughter loves it so much that she even reserved her portion for her lunchbox tomorrow.

I use the Bread Maker for the Sweet Bun Dough.

Ingredients
250g bread flour
50g caster sugar
2g salt
7g milk powder
5g instant yeast
1/2 egg (i used 1 egg)
120g cold water (1/2 cup)
25g butter (soft)

Method
According to the usual BM sequence & dough mode. The entire BM process was 1hr 30mins

Filling
60g butter
40g sugar
1tbsp cinnamon powder

Method

1. Filling :Beat the butter till creamy. Add in sugar, cinnamon powder mix well
2. Chill the basic sweet bun dough for 50mins. Press flat and then roll out into a large square piece of dough about 1 cm thick.
3. Spread evenly with butter cinnamon filling. Roll it up into a cylinder slightly tight and then cut into sections 1cm wide. Line flat on a baking sheet. Leave the bun to prove for 50mins.
4. Brush dough with egg.
5. Bake at 190c for 12-15mins until golden.

Toaster Flat Bread

A good recommendation from Food Lover for " Chinatown - Toaster Flat Bread "

Last night i bought this from Sheng Siong supermarket at special price of S$3.50 for a packet of 10 pcs.

What's the difference between Flat Bread vs Roti Prata dough (Good Question huh ....)

1) Flat Bread Western style and Roti Prata Indian style

2) Appearance of the ready made dough no different, except the size of the Roti Prata is bigger

3) Roti Prata uses pan and cook over the stove, whereby Flat bread uses Sandwich or waffle maker or toaster. (no greasing required)

4) Texture after cook, Flat bread is much thin and crispy

Make # 1 - using Sandwich Maker

Filling : - Ham & Cheese

Prince lunchbox

Make # 2 using Waffle maker

Filling : Mozzarella Cheese
Princess lunchbox

Roti Kosong

The texture of this roti is soft & nice, though the look is pale.

Ingredients

250g bread flour

160ml water

10g butter

30g sugar

3/4 tsp salt

1 tsp instant yeast

1 tsp bread improver

Methods

I let the BM do the work, it took 1hr30mins to make the dough, after which divide it into 9 equal portions.

Place it into a tray and cover with wrap and let it rise in a warm place for 30mins or the size double

* remember to egg wash the top of the bun (i had that omitted that result to pale looking) before sending into the oven to bake at 180c for 12mins

Pamerson cheese bread toast

This is Princess lunchbox today

How to make :-

1 slice white bread (cut to any shape)
spread with butter
Sprinkle or dusting it with Pamerson Cheese

Put it in the oven to toast till slight brown

Fairy Bread

Not much bake over the weekend, as FIL was hospitalise on Saturday night for stroke on right side of his body. Now his condition is slowly improving though the road of recovery will be slow due to his age.

Now back to food ...

Here's a plate of Fairy Bread took 2mths ago, during Princess birthday party.

Princess loves the Fairy Bread so much that she requested to be made for her lunchbox this morning.

Here's a little history of it ... Fairy bread is commonly served at children's parties in Australia & New Zealand. The origin of this Fairy Bread is not widely known, but it may come from the poem 'Fairy Bread' in Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, published in 1885. (Personally, i've not read this book)

The making of the Fairy bread is really really easy, all it needs is some magical touch to it . . . .

1. Spread a layer of margarine over a slice of white bread

2. Sprinkle with Thousand & hundred onto the spread

Princess 1st day of school lunch box

Today is princess 1st day of school - K1. I baked some chocolate chip bread last night, for the kiddos to bring school today. I'm using my last bake recipe Chocolate Bread


This time round, i added some chocolate chip to enhance the bite & taste of the chocolate bread

Princess is a small eater, so here's her mini lunch box

Year 2009 - 1st Day of School

Today is son 1st day in morning school, I'm really proud of him. He's making every effort to wake up early and being happy. He even act as my 2nd alarm clock to wake me up w/o lazing on bed. So that i could help get his lunch box ready for school, make his breakfast and sent him to take school bus. Suddenly i felt he has grow and mature.

Lets take a sneak here what he's going to eat later during his recess time today.
French Toast
Chicken Popcorn
Grapes

French Toast

Ingredient
2 slices white bread
2 eggs
1 tbsp plain flour
Peanut butter
Butter

Method

1. Beat eggs into the bowl until well mix.
2. Add in plain flour and mix well. Set aside for later use
3. Spread peanut butter on 1 side of the bread than butter on the other side and hold them together
4. Coat them with the egg batter
5. I used a non stick oil pan and had the oil omitted
6. When golden brown in colour remove from pan
7. Place 1 slice of butter on top of the toast or spread over it to give the toast a nice butter taste

* The balance batter i managed to use it for another 3 slices of french toast