McKantin

Friday, April 10, 2009

Steam Chocolate Cake

Want a home made cake? No oven? No cake mixer? Don't worry...try this one and you'll never regret.

(Excuse me, i just noticed a typo error in my picture)

I want to share a very simple yet yummylicious steam chocolate cake.

Source: zaima, cari.com-FnR forum, thanks zaima.

Ingredients:

A - mix and stir under low heat until sugar melt

1 cup sugar

1 cup cocoa powder

1 cup milk

1 cup oil (i use 1/2 cup melted butter & 1/2 cup oil)

1/2 cup condensed milk

B - sift

1 1/4 cup self raising flour

1 tsp soda bicarbonate

C - beat lightly

3 eggs

Method:

- Boil water in a steamer.

- Beat C (eggs) lightly, add A followed by B. Make sure all ingredients are well mixed.

- Place mixture in lined cake tin and steam for about 45 - 60 mins

- Cool cake on wire rack & top with melted chocolate (ganache)

Besides the cake, I also tried Talam Keladi, the recipe I got from bro rozzan's blogspot.

My first attempt, it was good but the colour doesn't look 'appetising' as seen here, the nice coloured one was by bro rozzan and the 'pucat' one was mine. Thanks bro, lain kali akan ku cuba lagi.

McK's talam keladi..............................................bro rozzan's

Monday, April 6, 2009

New Premier

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had taken the oath as the country's sixth prime minister on 3rd April 2009.

It was done before the Yang di Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin at the Istana Negara.

I read the facts in a newspaper and thought it would be good to have it here in the blog for future reference....for me and for others, as this is part of history of Malaysia.

Lists of Malaysia's prime ministers;

1. TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN PUTRA AL HAJ (Father of Independence)

(Aug 26 1957 - Sept 21 1970)

2. TUN ABDUL RAZAK HUSSEIN (Father of Development)

(Sept 22 1970 - Jan 14 1976)

3. TUN HUSSEIN ONN (Father of Unity)

(Jan 15 1976 - July 16 1981)

4. TUN DR MAHATHIR MOHAMAD (Father of Malaysia's modernization)

( July 16 1981 - Oct 31 2003)

5. TUN ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI

(Oct 31 2003 - April 03 2009)

6. DATUK SERI NAJIB TUN RAZAK

(From April 03, 2009...)

Thursday, April 2, 2009

apa apa saja

Agak sibuk sikit last week, so just manage to edit post & save draft, tapi tak tau nak tulis apa...

Semasa kemas kemas rak buku, terjumpa pulak buku ni. Actually, I bought these two books merely for the shape, not so much for the recipes in them. Sajala nak share......

On the 30th Mar recently, my eldest son, Alif presented his final year project titled Aqua Sanctuary. I went for two reasons; sent food that the lecturer ordered and to listen to his talk.

Well anak mak, not bad, it was a good presentation. Now you just have to concentrate for the written exams which is just two weeks away-good luck.

Tak elok cakap pasal sorang, nanti anak lagi satu muncung pulak...

Adil is now waiting to be accepted into college for his tertiary - good luck to you too.

The same week, Massy & Hasan came over and spent a night at our house. Tidur, bangun, makan, minum tu biasa lah tapi yang best nye is when Hasan asked to dip the 'cucur bawang' that I made that evening in condense milk! Usually we dip in chili sauce....

Ya tuan2, pelik tapi benar....

Red and White jelly

Red and White Jelly.

This is simply agar2 santan. I'm sure many know how to make this.

The only difference is I set about 1-1 1/2 cups of the white (agar2 with santan{coconut milk}) separately. Once set, cube them and put into the red ones.

I should have taken the picture from a better angle, sorry for the poor presentation.

Jalan jalan cari jalan

We drove to Ulu Legong hot spring, about 20 km from Baling town. It was an unplanned drive.

Nice place with hot pools, green surroundings. With a small fee to enter, accommodation is also available. We were informed by a staff at the entrance that most people come between 9pm-5am as it is cooler (the weather, not the water).

We did not dip ourselves in the hot water as we were not prepared, it was 11am anyway, there were only 5 people in the pool