I modified my pau skin recipe from lilyng's recipe. Can also check out the recipes with photos here.

Dough A:
400 gm bleached all-purpose flour(remove 4 tbsp and replace with 4 tbsp of Wheat starch - tung mein fun) ** did not use bleached flour or pau flour as it is more expensive **
240 ml water
1 ½ tsp instant yeast.

Dough B:
100 gm all-purpose flour( remove 1 tbsp and replace with 1 tbsp of Wheat starch - tung mein fun)
50 gm sugar
10 gm shortening *used vegetable oil instead*
1 ¼ tsp double action baking powder

last week i did something crazy - i bought quite a lot of prawns - to be precize, perhaps around 150 middle size prawns. Of course they are frozen and can be consumed for quite some time as long as they reside in our freezer obidiently. But one thing i would like to try with it - drunken prawn soup :) so the search for recipe started and we were ready to try things out.

9th September 2006. ( Saturday)
We arrived in Fertilia airport at 8:30am. The bus to Alghero takes once every hour. The next one was at 9:15am. The ride to town took about 30 minutes. Our apartment is near the habour. The apartment is clean, the garden is cool and nice. There were two matters that did not comply to our order, firstly the apartment that we ordered is with a bathtub and the landlady swapped it with a shower apartment ( she said that the room is taken but to date I have not seen anyone checking in), and the second thing is it was mentioned that Internet access is included but she said it is not prepared because we did not specified it in our order and it is not possible to do it anymore! I was not really happy and felt "cheated" because these two were part of the criterias when we searched for our apartments. I tried not to let these bother me... but I think this is one of the risk of travelling? We can decide not to take the apartment but we did not book any other place, so not wanting to take any risks, we stayed.

I tried to make my first siew pau on Saturday. It was not very difficult and tastes pretty nice too. I think anyone can be successful during the first try.

after being "threatened" by tzeying[1], i think i better quickly write about our weekend "wantan mee" adventure to make her happy, and secondly to show off that i can also cook something .

it all started after i bumped into a site where i have then downloaded the wantan noodle recipe... we have then decided to try it out during the weekend. So there we were, bought all the ingredients we need and started our experiment.

Today is Saturday... other than telling that I cooked rendang I don't think there are anything more that's interesting.

Today is Saturday. Yesterday was a good day. Today is also a good day but I am pretty bored.

What is good ??? And how do we define good? Having clothes to wear? Having a shelter over your head? Not having to worry about decisions that will influence the whole world? Don't have to worry about where the next meal is coming from? Don't have to worry that your relationship is going down the drain? What is good? I don't know. I think all in all people would give you realtive answer. I think I am really bored to be thinking of all this? Or was it that my philosophical side demanding some attention??

Anyway... this is not what I planned to discuss. Let me tell you what I cooked yesterday.. perhaps that's something more interesting. I cooked nasi lemak with chicken rendang... well I think on Thursday... not yesterday.

I think it turned out quite good... well nobody complained and some one actually praised me for the beef rendang that I cooked today ( I had too much grany the chicken rendang, so I made beef rendang today).

I used more onions, ginger and lemon grass since I don't have coconut rustle (is that the right word for kerisik?) - but trust me coconut rustle does wonder :P

Here's the recipe:

ever know how people can make baked chicken? read on to know how we created our very own recipe...

Ingredients:
4 pieces of chicken thighs
8 pieces of chicken wings
enough potatoes and carrots, cubed
3 bombay onion, sliced
1 apple, sliced
butter

Marinate:
Soya Sauce
Salt
Pepper
Oregano
Cinnamon

Preparation:
1. First clean and cut chicken to desired size. Then put them all into a container to marinate with the marinate ingredients. Leave 30 minutes, then stir the chicken so that they get marinated thoroughly. leave for another 30 minutes