Halloween Pastry

Halloween is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.

It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed.

Yesterday just bored at office and suddenly remember Halloween around the corner. So take some tissue paper and some wastepaper start decorated some Halloween mood on my desk. 

This morning wake up early and make some Mummy Puff Pastry to match the title of the day and as my Halloween day Breakfast.

Mummy theme on my desk area.

To make the Mummy Puff pastry you have to prepared as following 

- Puff Pastry 

- Sausage 

- Tuna

- Chili Sauce ( for mummy eyes decorated , you can use olive also can ) 

Making of Mummy Sausage

- Cut the pastry in line with width length 0.5cm ( or just cut whatever width length you like ) 

- Take a sausage and start to roll it irregular （Remember leave little bit space for the mummy eyes)

- Put in the preheat over bake 25 to 30 min with 180 ͒

Making of Mummy Tuna Pizza

- Cut the pastry in line with width length 0.5cm ( or just cut whatever width length you like ) 

- Make a round shape as base and filling up the tuna

- Put the cut pastry on top and cut the extra which excess the round shape. 

- Put in the preheat over bake 25 to 30 min with 180 ͒

New Family Member - Jolie Chan

Last few month we have new member to join in which is my younger brother's wife Shelly (Mai Phương Trinh). But this month we have another new member which is their daughter Jolie Chan Yuen Yao (陈婉柔). She born in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City on 27 Oct 2017 and weight is 2.9 kg.

She look cute and sweet like her mum Shelly, lucky the skin color not look like my brother.

 

Healy Mac's 12 Bar Cafe

Every time pass by this bar, i also never come in to have a drink. Today be invited after attended friend's wedding dinner and come to here for second round. 

Healy Mac's 12 Bar Cafe,located on the corner of Jalan Ampang, beneath the Oakwood Hotel & Residences, the latest "12Bar" addition to the Healy Mac's brand of Irish Bars offers the same warm hospitality and ice cold drinks but with the addition of live music featuring old established Malaysian musicians and upcoming youngsters in a beautiful environment from an award winning Architect firm, who also happen to be the partners.

Cheer..4 glass of Paulaner and 1 glass cocktail .

The Garden BBQ Buffet Steamboat

Birthday girl's always full of appointment, we celebrated Alice birthday in advance a week. We choose steamboat buffet as celebration meal. 

The Garden BBQ steamboat,located at Sri Petaling and they not only serve steamboat , they also serve BBQ and hot plate cook together.

They have many choice food. Seafood also include the mini lobster and crab as well.

I like their BBQ marinated food,taste is nice especially the squid.

 Mini Lobter

Steamboat and the Hot plate 

We just sit and keep turn and turn the BBQ food.

Quite enjoy and have fun also, but you body will carry the BBQ smell after the meal.

Happy Birthday to pretty Alice, hope she like the present which we give to her. 

October & November Birthday Buddy's Celebration

Normally we also celebrated the birthday at restaurant, cafe or some place. This round we make it little bit different, we celebrated at home. It'll be more comfortable and relax.

Thank you for my best buddy provide the place and decorated nicely for this party. The food mostly we call delivery and the appetizer and dessert prepared by our self.

Whole party meal

Nando's Chicken & dessert prepared by value owner.

Take away white & red sauce Pasta from the restaurant. 

Home made appetizer, Avocado salad & Crostini.

(Recipe ref: Avocado Tomato Crostini)

(Recipe ref : Avocado Cucumber Tomato Salad)

October & November Birthday girl ~ Lilian & Tracy 

Avocado Tomato Crostini

Crostini also is one of the easy appetizers in the meal or party. Crostini are an Italian appetizer consisting of small slices toasted bread and topping. The topping may include a variety of different cheeses, meat and vegetables.

Let’s make a simple Tomato Avocado Crostini.

Ingredient:

- Cheery Tomato

- Avocado

- Fresh Parsley

- Salt, Pepper

- 1 Fresh garlic 

- Baguette bread

Instruction:

- Slice the baguette bread and apple some olive oil on top and put in oven toast around 5 to 10 min.

- After baguette bread toast and rub the fresh garlic on top. 

  (make sure is warm temperature, if not when rubbing time the garlic don't apply on bread.) 

- Cut the cheery tomato and add in some chop fresh parsley and seasoning with salt, pepper,

  olive oil.

- Mashed avocado and seasoning with little bit of salt, pepper.

- Apply the mashed avocado on bread and topping with cherry tomato , then can be served. 

Steph's Homemade Avocado Tomato Crostini

Avocado,Cucumber & Tomato Salad

Salad is the best choice in the meal or in the party. I always make it as my potluck idea for the party. It’s easy and simple to prepared.

Let's try with the simple ingredient:

- Japanese Cucumber 

- Cherry Tomato 

- Onion

- Avocado

- Fresh Parsley

- Lemon 

- Salt, Pepper ,Olive oil

Instruction:

- Slice all the ingredient - Japanese Cucumber, Cherry Tomato, Onion and Avocado 

- Chop Fresh Parsley add intogether

- Squeeze half lemon juice in the salad

- Add in olive oil, salt & pepper as seasoning.

- Mix well then can be served.

Steph's Home Made Avocado,Cucumber & Tomato Salad

Tuna Puff Pastry

Tuna Puff Pastry is a tasty puff you always can found at the pastry shop . Why not bake it yourself and enjoy together with your family as breakfast or tea break .

Let's get the simple Ingredient :

1 can water tuna

1 pcs Onion (fine chop)

2 tbsp Mayonnaise

1 pk puff pastry

Instruction:

- Fine chopped the onion and mix together with tuna

- Add in mayonnaise as well and mix it well.

- Cut the shape or wrap the shape which you like with the tuna filling and brush the egg wash 

- Baked at the preheat oven with 180 ͒  , 25 to 30 min.

Ham Egg Toast Cup

Every time the breakfast idea of bread almost the same, it not the sandwich then will be jam filling.

Using the bread be the toast cup like muffin also a good idea to present the breakfast. 

Ingredient :

- 2 pcs toast

- 1 pcs egg

- 1 pcs ham

- pepper & salt

Instruction :

- Using the rolling pin roll the bread until flat and put it in the muffin tray 

- Divided the ham and put in as well.

- Bake it around 10 min with 180 ͒

- Take out the tray then crack a egg in the Toast Cup muffin and seasoning it 

- Bake it again with 180 ͒  with another 10 min.

Sauteed Vermicelli With Spicy Minced Meat 蚂蚁上树

Sauteed Vermicelli with Spicy Minced Meat is a classic Si Chuan dish in Chinese Cuisine.

This dish consists of ground meat, cooked in a sauce and poured over bean thread noodles. It is so called because the bits of ground meat clinging to the noodles evoke an image of anys walking on twigs

Ingredient :

- Glass noodles

- Ground meat

- Spring onion (chop)

- Garlic (fine chop)

- Soya Sauce 1.5 tbsp

- Soya Sauce 2tsp (for marinate)

- Pepper

- Salt

Instruction :

- Marinate the ground meat with soya sauce and put aside.

- Boil the hot water and cook glass noodles

- Cook it about 40 second and raise with cold water and drain it put aside.

- Cook the garlic until smell nice then add in the marinated ground meat fried it.

- Add 1.5 tbsp soya sauce cook a while

- Add in water cook it then put in the glass noodle , pepper , salt and spring onion cook until water

  absorb by noodle then can be serve.

Steph's Home Cook Sauteed Vermicelli With Spicy Minced Meat

Experience at ABC Cooking Studio

We grab a discount price going to ABC Cooking Studio to try their trial class. We paid RM 70 instead to paid RM 90 per person.

There have 3 types of trial class to let you choose, cooking, bread and cake.

ABC cooking studio founded in Japan and it also some studio in China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Korea and Singapore. Malaysia just started on last year December and located in Pavillion Elite K.L.

The environment of ABC Cooking studio is so nice and so clean. 

There have open window concept to let others people see clearly. 

The ingredient prepared by them before we arrived and the recipe note as well.

The baking teacher was so polite and explains the purpose of the ingredient. 

We choose bread trial class and they will teach us to bake 2 type of bread.

(cinnamon bread & ham bread).

Selfie with the bread which we bake our self. 

Seo Gung Korean BBQ Damansara Uptown

I quite enjoy to have BBQ at the Korean Restaurant, because mostly their staff will prepared in front of us. So we can enjoy chatting with family or friends and get more fun. 

One's of my buddy, she found a Korean Restaurant at Damansara Uptown area have promote the BBQ Buffet and the price only RM 33 per pax.

Seo Gung Korean BBQ Restaurant located at Damansara Uptown ( Damansara Utama) .

This ares all the time also crowded,  if you lucky you can found the parking nearby the restaurant. If not i'll recommend to parking at the Starling Mall or the Business building parking with connected with Starling Mall. It so convenient and have a lot of space. 

There have 6 type of meat unlimited refill for us to choose and also unlimited refill the side dish.

Denjang Amyeopsal

selection of marinated meats and different cuts. 

Steam Egg

Korea Pancake

Kimchi Soup

All the bbq cook by the staff and get ready to eat.

Use the green lettuce put add in the meat and sauce and fresh garlic.

Roll or wrap it together and eat, it so delicious.Really have to refill and refill. 

Sweet Married Couple

Sweet Buddies

Whole gang with their kids. 

Seo Gung Korean BBQ Damansara Uptown

Address : 55, Jalan SS 21/1a, Damansara Utama, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Phone : 03-7733 2058