Piping Practice

Since a holidays have been here, we wanted to have a small lovable Christmas cookies to celebrate. Plus, we can unequivocally have have use of of a season as a reason to have have use of of piping. Ive usually done flashy sugarine cookies a handful of times, though we consider we get a small bit improved any time we try them.

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So of course we done ice thickk thickk thickk cream cones for Christmas.

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Kidding. we kid. But we did have have use of of this ice thickk thickk thickk cream cone cookie knife to have something else.

I have a limited supply of Christmas cookie cutters, so we had to improvise, we see.

I similar to improvising.

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Simply spin it upside down as well as it makes a great bottom figure for Santa.

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Lots of Santas.

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I used a recipe in a book, Cookie Craft to have these chocolate sugarine cookies.

Click here as well as go to page 7 as well as 16 for a recipes.

P.S. we love this book. Its fantastic if we wish to sense a ins as well as outs of cookie decorating.

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So we used a figure of a cookie knife to lift several opposite Santa heads upon a sheet of paper. Then we done a few facial variations to assistance me practice.

My kind of homework.

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After a cookies cooled, we drew a faces upon a cookies with an succulent ink pen, anticipating this would assistance me when we begin piping.

I can trace. Im a great tracer.

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But not so great at piping. The drawings did help, though we have to tell we this stage had me a small worried.

They dont demeanour so hot, huh?

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I consider it would be easier with larger shapes, though.

The knife we used was about 3 inches tall. So a mustaches as well as such were unequivocally small.

Small for me anyway.

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But we piped as well as flooded forward.

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And thank goodness we kept going, With a assistance of a small sprinkles as well as sugarine crystals as well as an succulent ink pen they all incited out pretty cute.

I unequivocally consider a opposite textures assistance lift off a look.

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Some have lovable flushed cheeks.

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Some have big brows.

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Some have curly locks.

And a fun part is

if we shift a sketch upon a inside of a ice thickk thickk thickk cream cone figure as well as have have use of of opposite colors of stately ic! ing

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Youll finish up with a small of Santas small helpers.

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So, dont give up.

Pipe on. Practice makes good.

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Im still perplexing for perfect, though we consider we need to have flashy cookies some-more than once or twice a year.

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Guess Ill just have to keep playing.

It is honeyed fun.

And if we wish to play, too we can have up a downloadable template of opposite Santa faces using simple shapes similar to ice thickk thickk thickk cream cones, circles, or hearts as a bottom so we can have your own If we like.


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Albion, Jalan Berangan, Kuala Lumpur. Hail Britannia!

from Paranoid Android

(non halal)

After disappearing for three weeks, I returned to Changkat Bukit Bintang and was amazed by the changes. The dizzying turnover of restaurants along this small stretch of road matches an acne outbreak on the face of a pubescent teen. Engka Portobello has disappeared, which was disappointing as it served reasonably priced and delightful food. Reggae Bar popped up. Some new Spanish restaurant seems to be under construction next to Werner's.

A new restaurant that has popped up is Albion (which means the Islands of Great Britain, Gaelic, if I am not mistaken) which is located next to Bar Italia along the quieter stretch parallel to Changkat. Chic and smart, with a slightly spartan yet contemporary setting, it offers modern British cuisine and has been open for about 2 weeks now. The menu is not too terribly extensive, but please bear in mind that this is a new place and they are just breaking into the scene.


Starters are fairly interesting here. Besides the usual offerings of Parma Ham and Melon, there is Fishcakes with Strawberry Salad and Blue Cheese Salad. I had the Chorizo a la Plancha (which means grilled Chorizo in Spanish) and it came as a Bruschetta look alike with the Chorizo sausages bathed in sourish tomato paste and basil. The dish is no eye candy, but tasted delightfully fresh on a humid Sunday night.


For mains, I had seared duck fillet with Blackcurrant sauce. The duck was a little bit too tough but blackcurrant sauce that came with it was a welcome departure from the normal as the fruitiness of the sauce tempered the gaminess of the duck. The potatoes would have been better if they were Dauphinoise.


For dessert, I had the Toasted Mature Fruitcake (which was mature enough to vote in the coming GE) that came served with Vanilla Ice Cream on top of some candied pineapple rings. Although the fruitcake was nothing to shout about, but the way it was served with the pineapple was brilliant as it cuts down the satiety. Albion probably warrants some return visits again.

I am terribly excited about Cilantro's re-opening and must find time to dine there soon (although both the Queen and Goddess of KL foodblogs did not attain food nirvana there).


Just to end this fruity post, Rainier Cherries are available from Imbi market now! These are pale and pink and sweet, not the usual tart read ones that are used for cooking, but sold at an exorbitant price in KL.

Here's to wishing all of you a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

And I hope that your LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES THIS YEAR.




Augustdiners Learns To Cook (NOT!)

I know i know, i'm suppose to put up a Finale from Krabi Trip, but i decided to jump a car as good as instead write about this, since i figured a finale substantially would take me an hour to write, whilst this will only take 20 mins. Let's just contend i'm lazy during a moment, as good as am ideally contented with slapping a few photos as good as call it a post =P

As most as you love a food, you are pretty diseased in a kitchen. So you were happy to have Chef Ken overto support us inorganizing some dishesfor an unpretentious cooking during home for 40pax a single night.

Our menu of a night was quite simple:
Starters: A mix taste of Prawn Salad, Capsicum Pate upon Toast (which was delicious by a way), as good as cherry tomato salad with basil as good as mozzarella dressed with balsamic vinegrette as good as olive oil.

Soup: Pumpkin Soup, drizzled with thickk cream as good as italian parsley

Main: A Choice of Fillet Mignon with Blue cheese Sauce topped with Asparagus upon a bed of comfortable potato salad OR Grilled Lobster with sautee Brocollis upon a side

Dessert: Blueberry cheesecake as good as Cheese Platter

Here are some photos to share =)


1/ Crazieapple hard during work
2/ The neophyte from a single of a culinary art colleges came by to support Chef
3/ Our starters4/ Preparing to offer a next course


4/ Pumpkin Soup. The thickk cream kind of spread out in to a outrageous pile as my kakaks carried it upstairs for a guest. *urgh* remind us to do a finishing touches only after rock climbing up a swift of stairs
our Fillet Mignon, it was so yummy with a blue cheese sauce. we never whim Blue Cheese, but a salsa goes unequivocally good with a tender beef- baked middle rare.
Into a griddle it goes. How can cook make all look so SIMPLE



The finishing touch
Just witha elementary seasoning of salt as good as pepper

Topped with garlic-herb butter


My stream love: UMESHU- goes unequivocally good with Soda water
Andthe Love event with Patron Coffee Tequila, it's unequivocally good!!!
Thank God a cooking went upon smoothly, food was served upon time, andplenty of drinks toget a guestshappily drunk, as good as everyoneseem to suffer themselves very muchso appreciate you chef,what can you do without you =)can't wait to organize an additional a single soon!
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garlic butter roasted mushrooms

mushrooms in garlic caper butter

A repeat offender in the lede-burier category, let me begin with what matters: this is absolutely my brand new favorite quick as well as obsessively delicious approach to prepare mushrooms.

little browns

And now, the story. Once on the time, we was the vegetarian who loved going to steakhouses. A friends birthday would approach as well as out of affability to me, theyd begin articulate about gathering friends at the restaurant that had vegetarian options as well as Id beg them to go to the steakhouse instead. Its your birthday! we know we wish the steak! You merit the big fat luscious chunk of steak, Id try to coerce. Why was we such the weirdo? Because good steakhouses have even improved sides, as well as no make the difference how much the waiter sneered when we systematic them but the $50 centerpiece, we knew Id be removing some exquisitely poached asparagus hollandaise as well as roasted potatoes like we wouldnt believe. And mushrooms; we had broiled, buttery as well as garlicky mushroom caps at Sparks over the decade ago that we havent forgotten about since.

garlicked as well as buttered, ready to roast

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