Try, Go, Eat and Share
What you do when you have some over-ripe bananas at hand? Make a banana bread or banana cake! 😀 my husband uses banana in his morning smoothies and sometimes, especially during the summer (I think), some of the bananas just went over-ripe too quickly. We try to reduce our food wastage at home, so usually we cut the bananas into chunks and place in a zip lock bag to be frozen before they gone too ripe.
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January 14th marks my birthday and I cannot be grateful enough for 30 years of blessings through ups and downs, for a husband who always supports me, for my family and friends, my colleagues, my mentors. All these people have made me who I am today, and I thank God for giving me chance of having them in my life.
I got a Fitbit One from my husband and a lovely earring stand from a good friend of mine. My husband also got me my favourite Watermelon Cake from Black Star Pastry.
If you have been following my blog, you can easily tell that pandan is our favorite flavour. It has that sweet fragrant and lovely green colour and is used a lot in Asian culinary especially South East Asian. In Indonesia, where I come from, pandan is used on numerous traditional sweet cakes/snacks/drinks for it’s smell and colour, there are some savoury dishes that also use pandan for extra fragrant; we can say pandan is a staple in almost every household.
At home, my mom likes to bake this custard tarts in the original flavour, just with a dash of vanilla extract. When I tried this first time, I divided the custard into two batches, one just the original and I add pandan extract to the other batch. Turns out my husband prefers the pandan ones and I, too agree with him. The pandan ones have that nice smell and I think they look pretty (read: unique).
This is actually a normal vanilla cupcakes that I added some green tea powder, hence green tea cupcakes. I think it is a nice variation, although I may have added too little green tea powder that the taste and fragrance is just barely there. It still makes a good company for cuppa tea 🙂
