Curried Carrot Soup ala Lynn Roffey

Sheen – here’s my contribution to your 5 ingredient or less recipe. Easy to make especially if you have a hand blender, and nutritious. Don’t know whether appropriate for bulan puasa, but definitely will heat you up in winter.

Ingredients:

1 lb/600 grams carrots – peeled and cut up into sticks – doesn’t really matter which shape, just need to cut up so that cepat sikit masak. Or buy prepackaged cut-up carrots lagi senang.
2 cans vegetable or chicken broth (about 30 ounces or ..75 liter total)
1 medium bawang besar coarsely chopped
2 ulas bawang putih, coarsely chopped
Curry powder to taste (I guna half pack serbuk kari daging Adabi – this makes it really hot, which I like – so ikut suka seleralah).

Cara:

Panaskan sikit minyak, goreng bawang besar and bawang puteh sampai lembut, tapi jangan garing. Masukkan serbuk kari, tumis sikit (if too dry, add a little broth). Masukkan cut carrots, saute a few minutes on medium heat. Masukkan broth, bring to boil, then simmer 30 minutes. Cool slightly and blend. Kalau pakai hand blender, can blend directly in the pot. Otherwise, blend in a few batches in a regular blender. Garnish with what ever you like when serving – bawang goreng or kucai or sour cream.

Kalau pakai half a pack of curry powder, sure berpeluh bila makan.

Lynn, 8 Oct 2006

15th Ramadhan

We (Ami and us) had a scrumptious Indian meal just now - Tandoori chicken, pompadum + mango chutney + raitha (?spelling), fish curry, fried eggplants... siap try masala vadai which turned out fairly okay. The yellow drink you see is mango lassi - Mira's attempt .... sodap....

Tandoori chicken was from Chef Wan's book, fish curry was an attempt to follow Jamie Oliver's curry sauce, vadai came from our recipe book, lassi was from Hanieliza's website.  

Lala's Decadent Chocolate Chunk Cheesecake

Before I lose it, I'd better paste it here, so senang nak cari later. Kalau ada orang dah try buat, please post a pix. Lala's cake recipe goes like this...

18 OREO Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, crushed (about 1-1/2 cups)
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, melted
3 pkg. (8 oz. each) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup BREAKSTONE'S or KNUDSEN Sour Cream
3 eggs
12 squares (1-1/2 pkg. [8 squares each]) BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate, divided
1/2 cup whipping cream

PREHEAT oven to 350°F/180C if using a 9-in. silver springform pan (or to 325°F if using a 9-in. dark nonstick springform pan.) Combine crumbs and butter. Press firmly onto bottom of pan.

BEAT cream cheese and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add sour cream; mix well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating on low speed after each addition just until blended. Chop 8 of the squares of chocolate; stir into batter. Pour over crust.

BAKE 45 to 50 min. or until center is almost set. Run knife or metal spatula around side of pan to loosen cake. Cool completely.

CHOP remaining 4 squares of chocolate. Bring cream to simmer in small saucepan on low heat. Remove from heat. Add chocolate; stir until completely melted. Cool slightly. Pour over cheesecake. Refrigerate at least 3 hours or overnight. Remove side of pan before serving.

Store leftover cheesecake in refrigerator.

For the chocolate I use Lindt Excellence 70% Cocoa Dark extra fine.

1 1/2 bars to put in the cheesecake and the remaining 1/2 for the topping. Sour cream pun apa yang ada dekat supermarket.

14th Ramadhan

this is the pulut pagi we were talking about. Now i know why Gtote said not to rendam - bit soft. Would be nicer and sweeter if I had used all nise. Still, 2 out 3 kids liked it, so kira okaylah. 

13 Ramadhan

Sup tulang pakai Zurin's recipe - made last weekend, frozen and today baru makan. Scrumptious.

Never knew that bubur jagung is so easy to make - took me just minutes to put water in the pot, open 2 small cans of corn, rinse, keplok into pot, put a bit of coconut milk (i have that instant block), around 3 tblspn of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 tblspn sagu (have no daun pandan). Kacau2 sikit, left it alone simmering, few minutes dah siap. we ate it warm. Kids loved it. 

12th Ramadhan

Tried Delia's 4-nut brownies, which turned out to be one-nut brownie since tak cukup nuts. Pagi tadi did sagu gula melaka, from our recipe book (dah desperate - running out of easy things to do!) - only 1 out of my 3 food critics liked it. Rita, try pisang goreng (hot) with maple syrup... sodap....


 

11 Ramadhan

Tried this recipe - but somehow i think it does not rise to its name - apam is supposed to kembang, right? Ini pun I ikut petua Mik to leave for few hours. Anyway, made the sambal to eat with the apam... will know the taste in 5 mins when Berbuka time.

Apam cantik manis (mamafami fotopages)

1 ½ eggs – slightly beaten
120 g (4oz) caster sugar
120 mls fizzie drinks (7up, sprite,cream soda)
½ teaspoon vanilla essence
155 g flour
food colouring

1 tblspn sugar
paper cups

get steamer ready
beat eggs till fluffy – add sugar, beat till thick
fold in flour slowly, pour in fizzie drink, add vanilla
set aside 3 tbspn, add food colour
scoop onto paper cups, add coloured mix
add extra caster sugar on top
steam 15 mins.

monday 2nd october

Today am a bit adventurous - naan with "indian spiced fromage frais spread" - got it from the internet. Pengat is easy to do - santan, put it sugar (i used equal amounts of brown and white sugar) boil, put in pisang. Didn't have daun pandan. Some people put sagu to make it thicker.
 

Chinese Cuisine

The 2 members of tkc8084 cawangan manchester had a lovely berbuka yesterday - Ami's sweet and sour cod, hoisin beef with shittake mushroom and steamed veggies!
 

Brownies n kasui

here are 2 easy&tested recipes. They work, believe me.

Brownies (http://rin.fotopages.com/?&page=1)

250g butter 1 1/2 cups sugar 4 eggs 2 tsp vanilla essence 1 cup flour (if using self raising flour, omit baking powder) 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 3/4 cups cocoa 1/2 cup chopped nuts

Preheat oven at 180 deg. C. Line a 12 x 10 inch tin with aluminium foil & grease it. Melt butter over low heat. Turn off fire, add sugar & mix well with balloon whisk. Add eggs & vanilla essence, continue mixing. Add flour, baking powder, salt, cocoa & mix well. Add nuts. Pour onto lined tin. Bake for 25- 30 mins.

KUIH KASWI GANDUM (from mamafami / hanieliza fotopages)
Ingredients : Syrup : 5 cups water 5 tablespoons brown sugar 5 tablespoons white sugar Boil all the above ingredient and allow to cool. 2 cups flour 1/2 cup tapioca flour or cornflour 1 teaspoon edible lime (air kapur) freshly grated coconut a pinch of salt
Method : 1. Get the steamer ready. 2. Grease the tray (I used a 6" x 8" tray) with a bit of oil. Then layer it with a piece of plastic. This will make it easier to take out the kuih from the tray. 3. Mix well the syrup with flour, tapioca flour or cornflour and edibe lime. (I pour everything in the blender) 4. Pour it through the strainer and into the tray. 5. Steam for about 30 minutes. Allow to cool before cutting using a plastic knife. 6. Mix the grated coconut with a bit of salt and coat the kuih before

2 more dishes

Attempted apam balik yesterday - found Amy Beh's recipe. First attempt - rupa kureng sikit but the taste is definitely there! A ten-year-old can do it... (actually, a ten-year-old actually did it!). And today it's puteri mandi. Another fun-to-d0-with-your-kids item and requires only tepung pulut, water, santan, gula, garam. And colouring. Less than 10 items - fits my bill.  

The Food Blog

Ha ha, i've discovered how to do this. NOw to figure out how to post the recipes. Got this extremely-easy-to-do brownies from rin.fotopages. Bottom picture is a dish from our Pakistani neighbour. Something like thick bubur cacar 

The Food Blog

Mee hailam, baklava, freshly baked bread and kuih kasui

 

The Food Blog

The Food Blog
Rita, how do i add pics to this?

Sheena's Puasa Food

It's 4th Ramadhan today, 1427. Sheena's been hard at work in the kitchen producing these yummy things. In no particular order...

Sira Pisang ... a staple food.

Popiah basah for 3rd Ramadhan

Finally attempted this ... what's this? Tok haji serban isit?

Kuey teow, of course. 4th Ramadhan

Murtabak Mayford Road, 1st Ramadhan

And last but not least, tauhu bakar.

Waiting for more pix from Sheen and the rest. Send me an email and I'll make you a group member to post. Sorry lah ye, I kekurangan expertise, so the blog will have a very basic look ;o( but it's the food that counts!! ;o)

Happy blogger

rhy