红茶熏鸡

那天在阿鸿的节目上又学到了一道菜，是一位马来西亚福建籍阿姨的家传菜，看起来味道挺棒的，就赶紧学了上来。

这道菜的名字大概是红茶熏鸡。材料有 红茶，白糖，甘蔗（切段然后再切成4瓣），粗盐，白胡椒粒（打碎），及熟鸡一只（蒸熟，母鸡为佳，肉质较嫩）或烫熟的花肉也可以。

1） 在肉上抹上盐和胡椒
2） 在一个大锅内（平底）放上一层锡纸，锡纸上放一些红茶及白糖适量，然后再放上甘蔗。
3） 甘蔗上放一片烤架。
4） 肉摆在烤架上。
5） 开大火至闻到烟味，然后转小火熏25至30分钟。
6） 然后把肉切片摆盘。

沾酱：蒜米 + 红辣椒 + 糖 + 醋

Update - Our New House

The construction progress of Seri Austin Deanna III as at Sept 2010.

Something unpleasant has happened lately regarding the progressive payment of the property. The developer has sent me a few invoices claiming for interest on late payment. That's funny, after taking housing loan from the bank, is there anything else to do with me on the progressive payment to the developer? Why should I be responsible for the interest incurred due to late payment by the financier? I have contacted the banker, so many times and the problem has not been solved yet. This is simply annoying. I shall update on this matter in detail soon enough once this issue is solved.

Something worth reading:

http://www.hba.org.my/articles/buyer_watch/biz_mag/2005/banking.htm

http://www.hba.org.my/faq/list.htm">http://www.hba.org.my/faq/list.htm

http://www.kpkt.gov.my/artikel/perumahan/eng06.html

Shares Dividend。。。"Entitled" OR "Not Entitled"

总是对股息的Entitlement有所疑虑，无意间在Cari论坛看到这么一个解说，我总算明白了。

All Types of Flour

High protein flour / bread flour / Strong flour 高筋面粉 面包 (中筋面粉加入面筋分（小麦蛋白/Wheat Gluten)来提高筋性)
All-purpose flour / plain flour 中筋面粉 包子、馒头、饺子、烙饼
Low protein flour / cake flour 低筋面粉 蛋糕、饼干、酥皮 (可以用面粉和玉米淀粉4:1的比例调)
Gluten-free flour 无筋面粉
Wholemeal Flour 全麦面粉
Self-raising flour 自发粉
Corn Flour 玉黍署粉
Sweet potato flour 蕃薯粉
Tapioca starch / tapioca flour 木薯粉
Corn Starch 粟粉
Rice flour 粘米粉
Glutinous rice flour 糯米粉
Polenta / yellow cornmeal 粗玉米豆粉
Potato Starch 生粉/太白粉
Baking Powder 发粉/泡打粉
Baking Soda/Bicarb of soda 小梳打粉
Parmesan Cheese Powder 起司粉
Custard powder 蛋黄粉/吉士粉
Egg white powder 蛋白粉
Cooked rice flour 糕仔粉
wheat flour 澄面粉
Green Pea Starch 绿豆澄粉
Wheat germ 麦芽粉
Wheat gluten 面筋粉
Cinnamon 肉桂粉
Gelatin 吉利丁/鱼胶粉
Glucomannan 蒟蒻粉
Natural gum powder 蒟蒻果冻粉
Cream of tartar 塔塔粉
Almond Powder 杏仁粉
Water chestnut flour 马蹄粉
Cocoa powder 可可粉
Grounded Cumin Seed 小茴香粉
Grounded Ginger 姜粉
Tumeric 黄姜粉
Meat Tenderizer 松肉粉
Grounded Nutmeg 豆寇粉

My Dream Car

My Dream Car。。。 HONDA CIVIC Urban Titanium Metallic

When would I be afforadable to own such a car???

打发蛋白的小撇步

原来打发蛋白也有秘诀，在网上找到了一个打发蛋白的小撇步：

步骤：
1。用打蛋器把蛋白打到呈鱼眼泡状的时候，加入1/3的细砂糖，继续搅打到蛋白开始变浓稠.
2。呈较粗泡沫时，再加入1/3糖。再继续搅打，到蛋白比较浓稠，表面出现纹路的时候，加入剩下的1/3糖。
3。再继续打一会儿，当提起打蛋器，蛋白能拉出弯曲的尖角的时候，表示已经到了湿性发泡的程度。如果是做戚风蛋糕卷，蛋白打发到这个程度就可以了。
4。但如果制作常规的戚风蛋糕，就还需要继续搅打。当提起打蛋器的时候，蛋白能拉出一个短小直立的尖角，就表明达到了干性发泡的状态，可以停止搅打了。

【戚风蛋糕】(分量：8寸圆模一个)
配料：鸡蛋5个(约50克/个)，低筋面粉85克，色拉油(无味蔬菜油)40克，鲜牛奶40克，细砂糖60克(加入蛋白中)，细砂糖30克(加入蛋黄中)
烘焙：170度，约1小时。

来源：『君之』的手工烘焙坊

简单好看又好吃 ～ 汤种戚风

我爱吃蛋糕，也爱做蛋糕，可是失败的例子比较多。

近来流行汤种，先是汤种面包，然后也有了汤种蛋糕。汤种产品，质地细致柔软，成功率也高。在网上找了个方子，看起来很简单，卖相也很好。

砂糖:70克, 水/牛奶70克 盐2克 油88克
混合后加热到60度(小奶锅边上起小泡泡,糖溶解了即可)

加入过筛的低粉130克,拌匀,就用人工打蛋器拌,不怕的,不会出筋的.(就让热气烫断筋好了)

加入蛋黄6个拌匀.此时的蛋黄液是细腻的流质(蛋黄一起下也没关系,很容易拌匀)

将5个蛋清加白醋打发后和蛋黄液混合,拌匀,大胆拌吧(时间不要过长就成)

倒入活底蛋糕模,八寸的.

进烤箱175度左右,30分钟后用签子试一下,OK~~

这是一个八寸蛋糕的量.烤的时候,会长成小山一样壮观.
出烤箱立即倒扣,冷却了回缩,刚好平平整整.

上面的量减半,用烤盘,就成了蛋卷中的蛋皮~~

方子来源：好R又

Yummy Yummy。。 咸蛋黄炒青蟹

除了虾，H 和我也爱蟹。在家乡的时候吃过某某餐馆的咸蛋黄炒蟹，那味道真是没齿难忘。我不晓得是哪间餐馆，因为是那美女大姐买回来的。

原料：
青蟹 咸蛋黄 生姜 葱 食用油 盐 味精 黄酒 淀粉

做法：
（1）把青蟹洗净，对切成块，拍上淀粉。
（2）起油锅，烧至六成热时，放入蟹块，炸至金黄色捞出。
（3）锅中留少许油，倒入咸蛋黄、青蟹，加入盐、味精、黄酒、生姜、葱一起翻炒，直至咸蛋黄裹在蟹块上

来源: 福建美食网

泰国冬阴功 Thai Tom Yam Gong

This is another personal favorite recipe of mine. The sour and spicy Thai Tom Yam Gong。。。
I especially love to serve it together with rice noodles. The taste is simple fabulous.



Ingredients:
500 gr shrimps and squids 虾和鱿鱼
1,5 l water 清水
Cilantro/coriander -- get the roots, set aside 香菜(芫荽)
onion 洋葱
2 lemongrass -- cut in 3cms 柠檬香茅
4-5 cm galangal root -- thinly sliced 南姜
Bird's eye chilies -- sliced 指天椒
4 kaffir lime leaves 泰国柠檬叶
2 tbsp vegetable oil 植物油
Lime or lemon juice 酸柑
Fish sauce 鱼露
Salt, sugar to season 盐和糖

Directions:

1. Peel the shrimps and keep only the tails. Keep aside the shrimp shells. De-vein and rinse under cold running water. Set aside

2. Heat the vegetable oil in a small pan, cook shrimp shells and coriander roots until the shells changing its color to red. Add the water and cook again for 5 minutes. Sieve the shrimp broth into another pan. Add kaffir lime leaves, sliced lemon grass, sliced galangal root, sliced bird's eye chilies. Cook and simmer for 10 minutes then take out the spice ingredients. Put the shrimps into the broth, season well with fish sauce, salt and sugar and cook until the shrimps are set

3. In each serving bowl, give fish sauce, lime or lemon juice and sliced bird's eye chilies (if desired) then ladle the soup. Serve warm and garnish with sliced cilantro/coriander leaves

Recipe and pictures adopted from Mindy's Daily.

眼光光，等天光 - 3ds Max

It's 3am now, and I am still awake. But I am not having insomnia right now. I am in the office, alone, waiting for the CCGT startup. I was told to be back in the plant at 12am, but somehow the plan has changed, the startup has been postponed to 3am because the boiler is not ready yet. So here I am, ended up doing nothing, simply just waiting for the startup. Yup, that's my job, wasting most of my precious time to standby for the plant. I really hate the "standby" thing.

I planned to take a short nap, but it wasn't successful, just as I've expected. Ohhh... I miss my bed and pillow. So instead of struggling to force myself to sleep, I decided to browse through the Internet for some information regarding the 3ds Max tutorials. My house is already halfway through the completion, expected to be completed by end of yr 2010 or early 2011. I have installed 3ds Max on my computer but I have totally no idea how to get started.

After googled for some time, and hah...... I found a few websites that are exceptionally useful.

3D Studio Max Lesson

Learn 3ds Max - Step by Step Architectural Modeling - by Kresimir Pernek, Croatia

Hair Pins

Just found out that bobby pins and hair pins are actually two different things.

I am looking for the 3 inch hair pins and I just couldn't find it anywhere.

Large Pores

The extremely large pores on my face are really annoying.

I think I shall get back on the ACV experiment, really hope that it would help, be it just a little shrinking will do. But this time I'm gonna dilute it enough so that it won't irritate my skin like last time.

Discovered a few products that might help to temporary reduce the pores appearance, pretty much a quick fix.

I'm so eager to get a professional treatment by Dr. Georgia Lee, but the cost is never going to be cheap. If I ever managed to get a good paid job in SG, scheduling an appointment with the Dr. will be the first thing that I will do. Well, may GOD bless me. I want so much to end this skin problem nightmare that has haunted me for nearly 16 years.

Dermacia Breathable Foundation

Clinique Pore Minimizer Instant Perfector

Dr. Young 毛孔隱形修飾霜 Pore Eraser Balm

適合任何肌膚

提供即時控油、遮蓋毛孔及平滑肌膚三大功效，用後能肌膚柔滑細緻，粉嫩無瑕，不泛油光，全日水嫩柔軟。隨後使用BB Cream可加強修飾遮瑕功效，達致貼面透薄妝容，補妝前亦可使用毛孔隱形修飾霜，確保毛孔及油光全天候隱形。

主要成份及功效：
♥ 矽膠彈性啫喱 – 能掩蓋粗大毛孔、填補粗糙皮膚表平滑肌膚
♥ 瑞士阿爾卑斯山草本植物精華及金鏤梅萃取液 – 能控油及收細毛孔
♥ 深海膠原蛋白 – 能補充膠原蛋白，緊實肌膚、增加肌膚彈性
♥ 維他命原B5 – 能強效保濕，並刺激纖維母細胞之增生

使用方法：
作為早上護膚程序的最後一步，取適量於指尖，以打圈形式局部塗抹於粗大毛孔或油光位置，如T字位。隨後可按需要全面塗抹適合的BB Cream，或隨時於補妝前使用。

Charming and Romantic hairstyle

Picture taken from blog.sina.com.cn

Simple and Gorgeous Hairstyle

Tie up the hair into a ponytail

Dig a hole underneath the hair tie and squeeze the pony tail (or braid) into the hole until it is all in neatly.

Finally, guard the hair with a beautiful hairclip

Pictures taken from

http://www.hanyajy.com/

blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_670be1560100hyea.html

我家也要有那么一堵挂满照片的墙

我喜欢的黑白现代厨房

图片摘自 http://www.alvhemmakleri.se/

On My Way to Sweet Dreams

Since sound and quality sleeping is such an imperative need of mine, I must buy a good & long-lasting matress for myself. As I am yet having much time to explore and search for a good one, I found a great website which could probably guide me through that...

小孩房的空间利用

图片来自 http://freshome.com/

好漂亮！这个也作个记录。

哟，这个我喜欢。作个记录。