Best recipes, foods, travel, photo blog - Part 3

Penang food bloggers dinner at Edelweiss

10 | September 28th, 2008 | Posted in Food & drinks

Hahaha, I have so many blogs, I can write a post each. The first post is on my personal blog. For this blog, I shall just put a few photos because the foods from Edelweiss is not halal so I have to put the food photos over at Food Haven.

As I told Lingzie, CK Lam and Huat Kueh of PenangTuaPui, so far, this is the best bloggers gathering that I ever had. I had been to a few bloggers meet and usually, it was quite a rush ‘hi and bye’ event.

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There are 26 of us food bloggers and their guests. When Lingzie put up all the URLs, then, I shall link them here as I do not have all the URLs. Meanwhile, here’s a short take on what we had last night.

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The bloggers brought their own handmade creations. Ah Shui brought some really nice chocolate brownies which she bake. CKLam brought lovely pineapple tarts. I didn’t manage to take a picture of the tarts because my sons ate them all before I manage to shoot the photo.

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This is one professional gathering because every little nice touches were put into the event. Each of us get a nice goodies bag with lots of goodies inside like cookies and food vouchers. We also had lucky draws.

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Food was great. For RM38, we get a glass of ice-lemon tea, crunchy toasted roti bengali with lots of cheese and garlic, a main dish and lovely apple flan with icecream plus coffee or tea.

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The most amusing part is how food bloggers love to capture every plate of foods. If the dish is not theirs, all will rushed over to table to snap a photo. Seen here is a photo my son took with his point and shoot camera, Nikon P4. The lowest right, in red shirt is me with my Nikon DSLR. Lucky I brought along my son so I have a personal cameraman.

See above in our red and olive green t-shirt are two Wordpress fans!

Watch out for my yummy smoked pork belly post in another blog (to link later)

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Can someone please tell Faridah Begum in Sunday Star her photos suxs?

7 | September 28th, 2008 | Posted in Food Review

For the longest time ever, I have wanted to rant about this horrible looking food photos found in the weekly Sunday Star. It puzzles me how this columnist gets her own column. Really. First, her recipes are nothing to shout about. Second, her ideas are nothing new. Thirdly, her food photos suxs max! Really.

Her food photos are a mess always. The plates and bowls she used clashed with the foods. For someone with a column of her own, can’t she use a bit of garnishing or whatever to dress up her ugly foods?

There is a lack of passion from her. It is the week before Raya and what recipe does she offers? Gulai Ayam and Thosai. Eh, ini kan Raya, bukan Deepavali lah. Can’t you find something ‘Malay’ to get into the mood? There are hundreds of dishes perfect for Raya but what does she offers? Thosai and Gulai Ayam that looks like some gulai served in Kamunting.

Think I over exaggerate? Look here. Or here. I also noticed that most of the recipes she used are based on pre-made sauces and soup sachets. Aiyor, this kind of recipe, we can just copy from the packaging lah! (an archive of her articles)

But that’s not the end of my rant. Someone from the same food section every Sunday takes bloggers’ blog posts and make it into an article. My food posts came up twice and I hate the fact that they never bother to ask me first. First article was my sesame chicken and the next one, was a food review of some mamak stall.

Sheessh….The Sunday Star, wth lah! Buy Faridah a better digital camera, can? Plus teach her about frames, how to crop, angles and lighting….Not that I am a pro but seriously, any of us food bloggers can come up with much more decent photos than your columnist who gets her own column, every week.

*ok, end of rant, grins*

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Recipe : Curry puff in a jiffy

5 | September 24th, 2008 | Posted in Curry & spicy foods, Recipes

I have always wanted to make curry puff because I love it so much. However, the thought of messing with the dough for the skin and the heat of deep frying them turned me off. So, this is the first time I attempted making curry puffs, using shortcuts.

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I use the frozen puff pastry from Kawan which comes in squares. (you can see the post on Kawan pastry, can be bought from most supermarkets) All I need is to fold the square into a triangle, seal the edges with some egg yolk, press the sides with a fork and make some holes for steam to be released (to avoid exploding and overflowing puff). Then, I give it an egg wash with the egg white and bake them for about 20-25 minutes at 200 degrees.

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So, what needs to be done is the fillings. Here’s my recipe for the potato and chicken fillings :

1) One potato, cut into tiny cubes and boiled till soft (but not too soft it breaks)

2) One tiny piece of chicken fillet, cut it tiny cubes too

3) One green chillies, cut into tiny rings (omit if you hate green chillies)

4) A stalk of curry leaves

5) One teaspoon of mustard seeds

6) Two teaspoon of meat curry powder

7) Seasoning like salt and pinch of sugar

8) One large onion, chopped into cubes

9) Some oil

Method

Heat pan and put in mustard seeds and curry leaves to pop.
Put oil, add in green chillies and onion
Add the potatoes and chicken plus all the seasoning and curry powder

Stir fry. Remove from pan and leave to cool down.

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To make the curry puffs, put a tablespoon on more of the fillings and sealed up the edges like mentioned above. Bake.

Do not put too much fillings to avoid the edges opened up, leaving an unsightly looking curry puff. If you have fillings leftover, just serve with rice as a potato dish.

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The curry puffs are so delicious! Try it, it doesn’t take much work. If you like you can also put hard boiled eggs quarters as fillings. However, it is rather hard to squeeze too much fillings into a tiny square.

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Calling Penang food bloggers!

3 | September 24th, 2008 | Posted in Food & drinks

Gosh, I forgot to make this post earlier. Anyway, it is too late to join us for a food bloggers meet this Saturday. Below is the email from Lingzie.

A few floggers and I are organizing a flogger dinner gathering on September 27 at Edelweiss Cafe.
The first one we had was in August at Hai Nan and we had so much fun, we decided to organize another bigger one this time. :)

Currently, we’ve spoken to Teresa and she has agreed to do a set dinner for us at RM38nett. She’ll close the whole place for our private function if we have 35 people and above.

Thank you!!

Best wishes
Lingzie

If you wish to join us, please ask Lingzie direct. I suppose she can still find a few more places. Here’s her post.

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Video of the hot, bubbling, boiling curry fish head I ate today

1 | September 20th, 2008 | Posted in Food & drinks

I was having lunch today and it is the regular place where we have lunch. So, there is really nothing new to review or any interesting pictures to take. However, the claypot curry fish head came boiling hot and it was boiling for a while. I suppose those who are not from Malaysia do not often get served with boiling curry fish head. So, I took a video of the boiling curry just for fun.

Take a look. Just a short video of a few seconds only as things get chaotic with all my sons passing the rice around and such.

This Dr. Bombay song, Rice and Curry is on Youtube so let me put up the catchy song as well.

Have a good weekend!

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