Pandan Chiffon Cake

Another great cake with pandan flavouring! This cake is so soft, fluffy and light, I promised you really cannot stop at just one serving. Because it is really airy and light, it often deflated once it is out of oven. Few tips to avoid this situation are: do not use a non-stick baking pan and do not oil/butter the side of baking pan, only oil the base and stick a baking paper sheet just on the base. By doing this, it allows the cake to stick to the side when baking and once it is out of oven, carefully  flip over the baking pan with the cake still in it and let it cool in that position, hence the gravitational pull can help the cake to stay tall and not deflated. And this is why the reason not to use non-stick baking pan or to oil the side of the baking pan, because we don’t want the cake to fall out while it is cooling down 🙂

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Crispy Chicken with Coriander and Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce

This crispy chicken with Thai sauce is one of my husband’s favorite dish. However, I only cook this very rarely due to the deep-frying process. I try to avoid deep-frying mainly due to the fact it is a waste of cooking oil and the helluva cleaning up afterwards, really not due to health issue 🙂 In fact, most of my comfort food are deep-fried food!

I made this for CNY dinner last week and thought I should snap some pictures while cooking to share on my blog.

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Restaurant Review – Green Peppercorn in Sydney CBD branch

We all agree that Green Peppercorn serves really good Thai food. We’ve come to this place probably five times in the last 3 months, that ought to say how we love it!

We came here again last night for Chinese New Year Eve dinner with hubby, my brother and his girlfriend. I made reservation a day ahead thinking that it might be busy but turned out when we got there at 6.30 pm it wasn’t busy at all. There were only four other groups in the restaurant, I guess 6.30 pm is kinda early for dinner anyway.

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Hydroponic Project – Update 3

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A short update on my hydroponic project.

I have stuck a root part of shallot to the plastic bottle thinking that my chilli seeds will not germinate in it, and it such a surprise to find a tiny sprout coming out this morning. The shallot also looks good or at least it isn’t dying as far as I can tell 🙂

Now I will need to prepare more plastic bottles for transfering those little chilli sprouts in to when they are a little more bigger.