Mosquitoes Plant & Basil

I am quite proud of this mosquitoes plant because we successful plant it in our condominium though sunlight is not so sufficient. However, It grows like a bush.
We got it during our trip to Cameron Highland last year. It is a nature mosquitoes repelling plant. It is quite effective to chase those mozzi away & of course environmental friendly. Besides that, it save us some $ .

By the way, we are replanting the Thai basil. For certain culinary herbs, we need to replant it. The aroma of the young Thai basil is more concentrate compared to the old one. We are please that the "baby" plants grow well. My daughter name it "baby" plants....heheheh...














The old sweet basil (for pasta) is growing well, so, we leave it alone at this moment.

Due to the balcony is almost out of place for me to plant more herds..sob......you can see how i utilize the limited space from the below pictures...

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Pizza...Pizza....

Pizza- it is pretty straight forward.
Everyone love pizza.....at least all my friends/family love pizza. It is so good when one can make her own pizza with whatever ingredients she likes. I make it with any available raw material in my fridge- fresh prawn, eggs, sausages, vegetables, more cheese, less cheese.....literally anything you like. Surprisingly, the vegetarian pizza is very good. Kinda hungry when i look at the pics ....

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Chocolate Banana & Vanilla Cup cakes

Chocolate & Banana is a match made in heaven couple. I love to use them in my baking because we can get the best banana locally. Of course you have to match it with the best chocolate in the ingredient shop- normally i will get the imported one :P.

It is a dilemma when comes to cakes - sugar rush vs kcal. Hahaha.....but this chocolate & banana cup cakes addressed both because it is low in sugar & low in fat. Of course, must leave out the decoration icing....therefore...i just decorated it with a pcs of slice banana on top & it turn out cute.

By the way, let me show you how do my kid eat her favorate vanilla cup cakes...of cuz with LOTS of LOTs of jam .....be it marmalade or strawberry jam. She love it & smilling cheek to cheek. Kinda envious....enjoy the yummy cake & burn the kcal when she starts running/ shouting the next moment. I wish i can do that.........

 Refer recipies:  http://www.joyofbaking.com/cupcakes/BananaChocolateCupcakes.html

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Daily Bread - French bread/ Baguette

This is my homemade daily bread- it is lean, eggless, simple & the best sandwich bread. I learned to enjoy this bread starting year 2006 when I can make a proper baguette...Finally... Pai seh....I normally add flaxseed (super healthy) & it is smell good when toasting in the oven. My daughter love it too - the toasted flaxseed baguette with LOTS LOTS of butter....hahaha....Then, i can hear she says yummy yummy & nicey nicey.

Of course the sour dough french bread /baguette is extremely yummy too. But it take quite some effort to make the biga. The bread taste sourish but it have another level of flavour. Some people love it but some hate it. Of course, i do love it. When the bread made with aged biga (almost 30 years), the taste is soooooooo nice, lucky me that i have a chance to taste it in one of the Aussie oldest bakery.

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Baoz Craze

The weather is so hot everyday & I have no appetite to eat. Therefore, last weekend we have decided to make these baoz. This is the 1st time I tried to make HK style baoz. The baoz turned out quite nice. The skin texture is perfect & the meat inside is just right. Of course need to practise more to make a "perfect baoz look" like the "sifu" in the chinses restaurant. Hehehe.....I guess it shouldn't be a problem after a few round of practice.

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Chap Goh Meh Party

Here are the mini cupcakes that we sponsored on the Chap Goh Meh Party in our condominium lately. It is the all time favorite moist chocolate mini cupcakes. By the way, we use the organic sweet basil from the garden to decorate the mini cupcakes & it turned out quite nice.

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My Little Garden

We have been trying to plant some culinary herbs (Sweet Basil & Thai Basil) in our little garden in the condominium. And, we did it. We can now add the organic sweet basil into the pasta/spaghetti. It feels so good to harvest the herb in our little garden.

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