郭靓太煮私房菜：Custard Fruit Tarts

After many times of baking cakes...now my new challenge is to make a tart ~ a beautiful fruit tart!

Crispy Tarts Shell Ingredients: (makes 2 tart shell)

~ 1 cube of butter (abt 225gram)

~ 100 grams of sugar

~ 400 grams of flour 

~ 1 tablespoon of vanilla essence 

Custard Filling Ingredients: 

~ 400ml of milk

~ 2 tablespoon of custard powder

~ 1 tablespoon of sugar

Dressing:

~ Fresh Rasberries

~ Fresh Blackberries

~ Fresh Strawberries

Steps 1: Preheat Oven to 200'C. Then cream the butter and sugar 

Steps 2: Add in 1 tablespoon of vanilla essence and mix well

Steps 3: Add in flour in 4 times....100 grams each time. Mix well the flour to become dough.

add in more flour if necessary to make a smooth dough

Steps 4: Get the baking pan and press the dough evenly on the pan and baked in the over for 15 minutes

make an even wall abt 3mm

Baked the pastry in oven for 15 minutes or until golden brown

let it cool down and meantime prepare the custard

Steps 5: Dissolved 2 tablespoon of custard powder in 2 tablespoon of milk

Steps 6: Bring the remaining milk to boil and add in 1 tablespoon of sugar. Stir well

Steps 7: Reduce the heat over the milk and pour in the custard mixture. Keep stirring until it becomes thicken and glossy shine.

Steps 8: Pour evenly over the tart shell and keep refrigerated until the custard is cooling and harden

Steps 9: Fresh fresh berries are ready to dress up my tarts

Design No 1

Design No 2

Steps 10: Sprinkle the top with icing sugar when serving...so it'll looks more presentable~! 

郭靓太煮私房菜：Grill Salmon Fillet with Herbed Butter Sauce

Salmon are usually eaten raw...btw it also taste superbly good with grill fire~!

Ingredients:

~ 2 salmon fillet

~ 1 tablespoon of herbs

~ dash of olive oil

~ salt and pepper

Herbed Butter Sauce:

~ 2 shallots minced

~ 1/4 cup Chardonnay

~ 2 tablespoons of chicken stock

~ 1 tablespoon of white wine vinegar

~ 3 tablespoons of heavy cream

~ 2 tablespoons of chopped parsley

~ 1 tablespoon of lemon juice

~ salt and pepper

Steps 1: Preheat oven to 170'C. Wash and pat dry the salmon fillet. Ready on the grill pan. Sprinkle the top with some salt and pepper and the herbs then grill in the over for 30 minutes or until golden brown.

Steps 2: Sweat the shallots in butter until golden brown. Add in the Chardonnay, chicken stock, white win vinegar, lemon juice and simmer it until reduced by half.

Steps 3: Stir in 3 tablespoons of cream and whisk in the cold butter. Do not let the butter rest, have to keep it stirring else it will become oily. Season with salt and pepper.

Steps 4: Place the salmon fillet on top of the fennel and mushroom salads. Garnish with parsley and the herbed butter sauce.

Learning to make food presentation on the plate...from far its looks ok...ada standard...hmmm but still need lots of improvement to it~!

郭靓太煮私房菜：Fennel and Mushroom Salad

Today we shop at Jusco and saw the uncommon vegetables available on rack ~ Fennel. So then we decided to make the fennel and mushroom salad in a little french way ..

Ingredients:

~ 1 stalk of fennel

~ 1 shallots (chopped)

~ 1 cup of mushroom

~ pasley for ganishing

~ lemon juice

~ lemon zest

~ olive oil

~ 2 table spoon white wine vinegar

~ salt and pepper

fennel bulb

looks so much like a human palm

few stalk of mushroom cut into slices                                                 

fresh lemon 

Steps 1: Macerate the shallots with 2 tablespoon of white wine vinegar

Steps 2: Cut the fingers of the fennel bulb and slices it very thinly into rings. Cut the mushroom in slices 

Steps 3: Drain the shallots and toss with the fennel and mushroom slices. Dress with olive oil, salt, pepper, lemon juice and some lemon zest

Steps 4: Garnish the salads with pasley and parmesan cheese (optional).

A new kind of salads instead of the common caesar salads or coleslaw. Yummylicious!

反对莱纳斯稀土厂

最近闹的热烘烘的事件。。除了上个星期的王者辩论会，或拖车姐。。现在最重要的就是反对莱納斯稀土厂在关丹的设立！

如果还不晓得这是什么一回事，请看看以下的短片，对事件了解！

30年前，在霹雳怡宝也曾建有一间日本人所属的集团和本地企业成立的亚洲稀土有限公司。根据消费人协会统计显示，在当时短短的几年内，已发生了多宗离奇死亡案，除此之外，因辐射的后遗症，造成多名儿童患上血癌，先天脑残，孕妇流产，提高婴儿夭折率是全国的3 倍！

为了我们的后代，大家请重视这个社会问题，支持反对莱纳斯稀土厂在关丹建立！

郭靓太煮私房菜 ：Udon With Dashi

Easy as 1,2,3 ..this make 2 bowls of udon dashi

Dashi is japanese stock which becomes the base of many Japanese dishes and its also the classic base for udon soup!

Ingredients:

~ a handful of bonito flakes 

~ 2 stripes of Konbu (optional)

~ 2 pack of udon

~ 1 carrot cut into slices

~ 4 1/2 cup of water

~ 2 eggs

Seasoning:

~ 2 tablespoon of soy sauce

~ 1 tablespoon of mirin

~ 2 teaspoon of sugar

~ pinch of salt to taste

 luv this bonito flakes...yummy!

Steps 1: Bring the water to boil. Once it boils, turn the head down to maintain a gentle simmer. Put in the bonito flakes and the carrot slices ....let it cook for about 30 minutes.

Steps 2: Boil another pot of water and cook the udon. As follow the packaging instructions.
             When they're done, rinse it under cold water to stop the cooking.

Steps 3: Prepare the seasoning and add it to the dashi soup when its ready.

Steps 4: Ready to serve..put the cooked noodle in a clean bowl and strain the stock to the noodle and discard the solids.

 i added a small piece of grilled chicken and a half-boiled egg to add more yums~!

Simple and Easy meal prepared in 30 minutes. 

Astro Fest

Last weekend was the Astro Fest....and we are so lucky got invited by hubby's cousin to enjoy the free food and entertainment!

 We are Family....Astro Fest

 Free KFC

no wonder i-ctiy KFC got no more chicken...because all reserved for Astro Fest

so here no gaduh gaduh..instead very good and smiley face staff...

 Crocs also selling here 

Normal Price: RM209

Astro Fest: RM70

still they are earning...see how high is their margin for such pair of rubber shoesss...yaiks 

 Unique Books is selling at cheap price 70%...very worth to buy! 

 2 stages ...1 at east terrace...another 1 at west terrace

all malay rock band...where's the Astro Talent Quest Winner???!!!

 thanks for hubby's cousins...got the freebies and free food!

Annie in her lovely hairdband...queuing for roast lamb...keke...

 Astro Live EPL.....i still remember hubby said : "车仔炒车“..

it was the Chelsea match and the opponent is leading....keke

 Free ride to travel east and west ~ a mini train or trishaw

 Durian Buffet....but alamak...when we were there all the durian is GONE! GONE! no more d...

 cute & colorful 

 waterpool with float ride for the kiddies

 palm reader ~ Astro "苏民峰“

 palm reader ~ Astro ”麦玲玲“

this is err.....Ah Singh? 

 Exhibitions of Datuk Lee Chong Wei baju 

 Kasut Perlawanan Datuk Lee Chong wei

 Bumper Car also got!

 many stalls of food like a pasar malam ~ and its all FREE! 

however we were actually just had our reunion dinner at my mother's house....so we tried nothing there

 main api 

 酱大火拿来烧猪就好！

 hubby got pull out hehe

There were actually many more activities around free pedicure, manicure, foot massage, hair banding, mini games to win big hamper..sports activites......imagine it was just like a mini-genting within the Astro campus...*except the gambling table....heavy sweat after walking 1 round..huh

Astro is really making a lot of $$ that they could pay such good rewards to their staff....oh yes....we are all contributing to it every month! now im regret ....i should have tapao some of the food home and win more hampers back!