birthday pictures

dinner at hog's breath
the 3 brothers
the beautiful girls in my life
~manja bag~
abang zy and abang jimmy....
bunny my dearest friend here.... thanks for everything :)
huah shin dear.... beautiful cake... and beautiful house mate too...
irene, my swimming partner and david, rat killer and super annoying friend :)

mua birthday cake...

thanks to huah shin and bunny, my beloved hs mates.... recipe from http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Ice-Cream-Tiramisu-Cake/Detail.aspx... we added a oreo layer.... and used tiramisu and caramel ice cream instead. was an awesome cake. heaps of expresso for coffee lovers. :)

bunny's butter cake

haha... i m very pleased with this master piece of mine although i must regret taste wise.... the butter cupcakes were a tad better. use normal granulated sugar. raw sugar is a no no.... happy burfday, bunny dear~!

priya's alien cupcakes

decided to surprise priya with some cupcakes.... hehe... bunny said they looked like aliens in silver spacesuits.... thanks to culinary princess for choc mud cake recipe....

375g butter

1 and 1/3 cups brown sugar

3 eggs

2 cups plain flour, sifted

1/2 tsp baking powder

2/3 cup baking cocoa, sifted

3/4 cup milk

200g dark chocolate, melted

1 bottle of caramel

1. preheat oven to 160 degrees celcius

2. beat butter and sugar for 8-10 minutes

3. gradually add eggs, beat well

4. fold in flour, baking powder and cocoa

5. add melted dark chocolate

6. stir in milk

7. 1 tps of caramel for each cupcake.

8. bake for 1 hour

lamb stew

felt bored of studying.... made up this recipe cause i was lacking a lot of ingredients in actual stew recipes....

so basically

marinate lamb in

2 tps of minced garlic
3 tbs dry sherry
1/2 tps of paprika
pinch of salt
few sprinkles of black pepper
1 tps of oregano

keep it in the refridgerator overnight.

2 potatoes - cubed
2 carrots - cubed
3 stalks of celery - chopped into bite size
cayenne pepper
worchester sauce
5 tbs bolognese pasta sauce
2 tps of minced garlic
olive oil
salt
pepper
3 cups of boiled water
2 tbs of corn flour

1. Fry minced garlic in olive oil till slightly brown.
2. add marinated lamb and stir fry for a while.
3. add 3 cups of boiled water, bolognese sauce, salt and pepper.
4. add in potatoes, carrots and celery.
5. stir occasionally.
6. leave to simmer on low heat for 1 hr.
7. mix corn flour with cold water. add to thicken stew.

butter cupcakes

this recipe is awesome.... best butter cake ever.... recipe from http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,186,144161-235198,00.html

banana cake

due to request from certain ppl, i baked banana cake. 1st round was not dat great. 2nd round... was absolutely perfect... recipe from culinary princess with a few modifications.

Ingredients

125 g softened salted butter

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 1/2 cup mashed ripe banana

2 tsp of pure vanilla

300g plain flour

1 tsp bicarbonate soda

1 tsp ground cinnamon

½ cup buttermilk or ½ cup milk

1 tsp lemon juice

½ cup walnuts, chopped

Method

1. Butter and flour a 20 cm square cake tin, then line base with baking paper. Preheat oven to 180 C.
2. Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
3. Beat in eggs, banana and vanilla
4. Sift dry ingredients and add to mixture, alternating with milk.
5. Fold in walnuts.
   
6. Spoon into tin.
7. Bake for 45 mins or until cake test clean
8. Cool cake in its tin on a wire rack for a few mins before cutting or storing in an airtight tin.

wanton mee

this is what i do when i m stressed.... cook.
recipe from http://www.malaysianfood.net/recipes/recipewontonmee.htm
didn't make any char siew... 3/5 stars for this recipe...

have CRAZY FAITH~!

today's WORD has been inspiring....

on the book of 2 Kings 6:24 - 7:19

the Arameans were laying siege on Samaria. it was so bad that people were eating donkeys' heads n their own children.... it was during the time of Elisha.... and the King of Israel in his helplessness said, "Look, even if the LORD should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?"

basically, the next day... the lepers went to the arameans camp and found that they had all fled in terror... and they left everything behind. and they went back to the city and reported this. and the king sent spies to check out the story and found it to be true. in their hurry to rush out of the city to the food, clothes and plunder.... the king got trampled by his people and died...

1. do we sometimes scoff wat God can do like this King? those who scoff will not inherit the promises of God. those who disbelief will not taste the goodness of God.

2. so we have CRAZY faith like Elisha? like the man in the new testament who said, " Lord, I believe. Help me in my unbelief." in the same way, I want to have CRAZY faith that God can bring back to life the dead, open the eyes of the blind and cast demons out... Faith doesn't make much sense and it may all seem ridiculous. logically, these things would sound totally outrageous. but God is bigger den my logic. He is able in all things to do the impossible... what more change my life, reach the lost, help me in exams, heal relationships?

Matthew 19:26
Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

Am i crazy enough to believe....

i can be more than i am today.... in my studies, in my relationships, in my spiritual walk with HIM....

YES~!!! :)