Big Apple Donuts & Coffee Obsession

Having little sweet treats during celebration =)

Big Apple Donuts: A box of 6 @ RM18

From left to right, top to bottom:

Tira-Cino, Tea-Off, Mumble Jumble, California Almond, White Cashew, The Alien

super love the donuts with nuts especially California Almond & Mumble Jumble =)

Revisited Coffee Obsession again as the foods are definitely worth the price~ Staffs are attentive and friendly too...one of my favorite pick for a hint of Western/Spanish indulgence!

Hawaiian Latte RM9.90 & a bottle of plain water

blue hawaii topped with iced latte...don't really like it due to it's awkward taste

Chicken Linguine RM10.90

sliced chicken with creamy sauce layered on linguine and seasoned with black pepper and parmesan cheese...

Yogurt Lamb Shoulder RM13.90

Two pieces of lamb shoulder lay on two pieces of toasted french bread, topped with mushroom, accompanied with some greens & pearl barley as sides and served with yogurt sauce

another flatlay of lamb shoulder

Pure Fish Ball Cafe, 广东茶室 & Jelly Beancurd

Pure Fish Ball Cafe @ Jalan Padungan offered affordable dinner set for 2 persons =)

Free 1 bottle of drink with the dinner set

Limited drink selection available such as Sarsi, Orange etc

The glass bottle was tall and definitely way too much for 2 pax

Dinner Set RM22

Stir Fried Cangkuk Manis with egg, Butter Chicken, Normal Fish Ball Soup & two bowl of plain rice. 

Both the cangkuk manis and butter chicken was good and delicious. I tried their fish ball soup twice and the fish ball soup tasted awkwardly bitter for both times! Avoid the fish ball soup and order tom yam soup instead if you do not want to get disappointed with it! Hope they will continue with this great dinner deal and offered much more food selection to boost more sales!

Tried out Kong Tung Cafe 广东茶室 @ Ang Cheng Ho

Cantonese Kueh Tiao RM8

served with fried prawn skewers, chicken pieces and probably their signature stuffed chicken wing with special ingredients

the fried kueh tiao seemed did not pairred well with the gravy =(

Mixed Vegetables Rice RM8

served with fried prawn skewers, meat with sweet braised sauce and stuffed chicken wing 

Waited for 30 minutes for my meal to be served. The foods was okay, just it was a bit oily and greasy as almost all dishes in one plate were deep fried/stir fried. The hygiene was rather poor. You will notice when you leave your table upon finishing, the birds will fly in, stopped by the table and savour the leftover before the staffs cleared up the dish. 

One sunny day, we went to 4th mile area thus dropping by Jelly Beancurd as I craved for some sweet stuffs!

Taro Beancurd RM6.20

beancurd immersed in syrup and topped with sweet & dense taro...it was canned taro, probably imported from Taiwan. I opted for no ice. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this refreshing dessert~

One Pan Pasta

Inspired from KampungBoyCityGal recipe and Martha Stewart recipe, I made a few attempts on One Pan Pasta~ I even bought the basil plant from market and intended to plant my own!

Although the basil plant seems to exhibit some abnormal growth by growing darken and burnt kind of leaves, some part of the plant managed to grow lusher! Hope it can grow more so that I can made fresh pesto sauce for my pasta!

My One Pan Angel Hair Pasta! 

Love angel hair so much because it takes around 2-3 minutes to cook only (count when it starts to boil)~~

Simple ingredients for my one pan bowties (one pax):

San Remo Bowties, Cherry Tomatoes cut into halves, Chicken Breast (sliced), Holland Onion & Minced Garlic

I also added in water (or chicken stock to make it more flavorful), one tablespoon of tomato paste/tomato puree (to make it turns red and makes it tastier), grapeseed oil (or any other good oil like olive oil), salt, white sugar (I added in personally as I think the pasta is a bit bland), chilli powder, ground black pepper and freshly plucked basil leaves from pot. Bring everything to boil (mine took around 15 minutes) until the pasta is al-dente!

Final garnishing: Parmesan Cheese & Dried Basil Leaves! 

Here's my easiest and quickest lunch boxideas for work! 

Any more simple and easy lunch box ideas to share?

KCH Clean Food

A very random decision to dine in KCH Clean Food@Rubber Road on Saturday night. I was late and both my dinner kakis were waiting for me. They sent me the menu while waiting for me to arrive.

Menu Part 1

Menu Part 2

Australian Premium Tenderloin Steak RM34.90

Lean cut of boneless beef tenderloin, served with green salad, steamed vegetables with mashed potatoes. The entrees comes with a creamy mushroom sauce at side~

Although the tenderloin portion was slightly small, we had a full tummy sharing 2 mains (I was late thus no picture of the other main) and 1 appetizer (salad) for three pax!

Chicken Salad RM16.90

Grilled Chicken Breast with organic salad, olive oil fat free mayonnaise 

chicken breasts in a bed of greens, tomatoes, onions with light sourish dressings

Help yourself with free flow of  chilled lemon water at the counter!

 The founder is actually a Muslim and lead a very active lifestyle. The restaurant features on fitness and healthy food concepts.

Self portrait photograph!

And another one by the restaurant founder (I guess so)!

Thanks KCH Clean Food for the lovely photo!

Homemade Loaf with Petrus PE6280

Sis bought Petrus PE6280 Multi-functional fruits and nuts dispenser programmable bread maker around RM200 couple of months ago online! After that, I developed strong interest of making our own loaf!

The bread maker comes with a fruits/nuts dispenser, a measuring spoon, a measuring cup & a bread bin

1. Just measure all bread ingredients according to the bread maker user manual, select bread size (500gm/750gm), degree of  burning color (light, medium, dark) and type of bread to make (such as European/British/French Bread etc). 

2. Eggs, butter, sugar, salt, milk, water, high protein flour, yeast, milk powder and those basic bread making ingredients. 

3. Play around the flavor with anything you love and have in the pantry/kitchen. 

4. However, you will need to wait for 3-4 hours for the bread to be done, and another 30 minutes to 1 hour for the bread to cool down, making a total of 4 to 5 hours before you can actually eat it! Patience, passion and waiting time is required~~

Pumpkin Black Sesame Loaf

One of my nieces favourite~

I even made pandan essence from scratch. Blend lots of freshly plucked pandan leaves with milk and strained the pandan juice out! Lots of job though...

Turned out to be someone purposely and nastily tear off the pandan bread without my acknowledgement LOL (our evil queen of the house aka my 4 years old niece due to she couldn't resist to have a bit of it)

Pandan Pumpkin Seed Black Sesame Loaf (spot the imperfect torn loaf?)

Should have put more pumpkin seeds cause it was so yummy and crunchy! The pandan fragrant was pretty strong but hardly can taste it once you munch it!

Almond Milo Oats Loaf

 My two nieces loves this!

White Loaf

Purple Sweet Potato Black Sesame Loaf

Green Tea Black Sesame Loaf

I also bought bread slicer and bread knife to make bread slicing easier and conveniently!

Placed the bread into the slicer and cut the knife along the grooves. The disadvantage of the slicer is it doesn't have other thicknesses whereby you can't customized your thickness of the bread you cut! If you adjust it manually, the slice will not be equal and nice.

Green tea black sesame after cut...So tempting~~

Any more ideas for the loaf huh? Perhaps sweet corn, cheese and ....?

Barnana Wine & Dine & Secret Recipe Cake

Barnana Wine & Dine is easily spotted along the Padungan Road.

Comfortable dining environment with dim lighting, music and plenty of picture as decorations

A pot of Apple Tea (RM6.90) to share 

Barnana Signature Bacon Rolls 8 pcs at RM14

Enoki/Needle Mushroom wrapped in Bacon Slices

the Enoki mushroom was super chewy but definitely not worth the price!

Lamb Bolognese RM19.90

the spaghetti portion was generous! Full of spices, tomato sauce and ground lamb. Great for sharing as it will be too swelling for stomach for one to eat alone.  

Grilled Chicken Chop RM20.50

two pieces of grilled  and succulent chicken thigh, topped with black pepper sauce and served with french fries and coleslaw (A very common of chicken chop!)

My dinner partner of that night

Total damage of the dinner inclusive of 5% service charge

After the dinner, we had cakes for dessert!

Secret Recipe Green Tea Cheese RM8.80/slice

first time having SR Green Tea Cheese! Always love the perfect pairing of green tea and cheese! The crushed biscuits base did a great job too!

Secret Recipe Chocolate Indulgence RM8.80/slice

nothing would go wrong with Chocolate Indulgence! Chocolate sponge cake with layers of chocolate and white chocolate cream filling.

another close up angle for the cake

Overall dining experience at Barnana was rather satisfactory and pleasant one. Staffs were attentive enough considerably 5% service charge was applicable. Food acceptance were ordinary and nothing much to shout about.