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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Purple Sweet Potato

I like the purple color in the bread. It looks very nice. Maybe it's because I like this color^_^

Friday, January 06, 2006

Purple Sweet Potato Bread & Steam Meat Bun

Friday, December 23, 2005

This is my first time to use whipped cream. (I used to use icing for my cake decoration.) It’s so hard to handle. Well, even though the cake does not look good, we will have a nice desert in the Christmas Eve. ^_^

I am so surprising there are cherries in the supermarket. And it is not that expensive! There are just for my cake! I used my favor plum yogurt for the middle layer. I know he will not mind~ ^_^

Merry Christmas to everybody!

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Sweet Potato Bread

It is so hard to get use to the cold weather when you just came back from Asia. Snowing everywhere! It’s nice and disturbing. Snow is beautiful but I have to shovel. When I am lazy because of the weather, I am gaining weight. >_<

Christmas is coming, what I could make for it? I really hope I could bake some beautiful cookies or cakes. But I am so afraid failure is always around me. : P

Well, look at my breakfast roll, since having bake for a while, the shape looks so ugly…

Saturday, June 18, 2005

Steam Meat Bun (Raisin Yeast)

Going back to Asia! So exciting! But worry about my husband~ >_<

Friday, June 10, 2005

Steam Buns (Raisin Starter)

This is my first time to use my raisin starter to make steam buns. I was so nervous. The judgement time was when I open the lip of the steam pot. I was so afraid the buns would shrink! It was not that bad, but not perfect!

Green Tea (Raisin Starter)

Green tea flavor with walnut inside

zucchini with chicken

My husband's cooking~ very dilicious~ Well, I think if you don't need to cook and just sit and wait for food, everything will be dilicious! =^(OO)^=

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Sweet Potato (Raisin Starter)

I know they don’t look nice, but they taste not bad!

In the first one, sweet potato puree has 37%, white sugar, ginger candy, and water. In the second one, it has 17% sweet potato, brown sugar, 10% whole egg, cranberry, and the rest is water. From the ingredient, you can tell which one is tastier~ well; the first one can taste the sweet potato flavor, more softly. But the second one has the egg’s flavor; the sweet potato here is just for the texture, no taste at all!

I like the second one better, in my own opinion,
-- The bread with egg has the tender texture, smells good. The bread with only water is soft only.
-- White sugar is only for the sweetness. But the brown sugar gives the bread one nicer aroma; I think I will keep on using brown sugar only.
-- For the first bread, the sponge with Raisin starter raises 9 hrs (over night). But for the second one, the sponge with Raisin starter raises 9 hrs, and then in the Fridge over night. The following are the same - the 1.5 hrs for the first rise for the bread dough (with the oven warmed, around 30 C), 2-2.5 hrs for the second rise (room temperature, around 23 C).
Not only from the picture, I also can taste the second bread has more air in it! What a surprise discovery! How about extend the first rise of the bread dough in low temperature?
Hahaha… more experiment needed~ ^_______^

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Purple Rice (Raisin Starter)

Today, I read a baking book in Chapters. It says, the starter is unpreditable. Different people, in different house, at different time, can make different taste of bread! This is so true. And that is why I love my starter. It always give me surprise about the texture of my bread.

This time, I added 80G of cooked purple rice in the bread dough (300G flour). The bread didn't disapponted me. the texture is so soft, with the chewy purple rice. Nice~

Sticky Rice

These are not professional. But better than nothing! I am living in North America. >_< Miss mon's flavor So Much!

Monday, May 30, 2005

GreenTea (Raisin Starter)

I am falling in love with my Raisin Yeast! I am trying to use it everyday. To me, it’s alive. If I didn’t pay attention to it, it will play stubbing. The texture of the bread will task awful! But if I use my care to make the bread with the yeast, the yeast will be very happy! The bread is delicious!!!

Yesterday, I made two kind of bread with my Raisin Yeast. But they all fall! One didn’t rise well. The other one is, tasting so bad! I don’t know how to describe that texture, just tastes awful! >_<

This one is green tea taste with apricot. Even though it doesn’t look nice, but that is the texture I want! It’s soft and puff. The lightly sweet green tea taste with a little sour of the apricot, makes me can not stop to eat it. Feel so good when the bread is success!