Kitchen Aunty

Palate Cleanser

I feel like a palate cleanser. A refresher needed after a course during a meal. My absence is due to the fact that the beloved camera got totally busted during my trip to Angkor last year in May 2012 and also that I somehow lost my username and password for this blog.

Anyway, enough with excuses. Cooked a good black pomfret curry last night. Will have photos loaded with the recipe here soon.

Til then, happy eating!

Chinese New Year

Over and done with... sigh.. a good breather actually from all he hustle and bustle of being in Penang (though it is once a year). My mother always in the kitchen of our family home in Penang cooking lunch and dinner and thinking of what to cook for lunch and dinner as our family is huge, also counting all my cousins with their big feet and my sons' as well. Hah!

Anyway, I try to eat out as often as possible in Penang because I only go back once a year and that it is the only time I get to eat Penang food from the streets. Muar Chee at Gurney Drive, Nasi Kandar at Hameediyah, Popia (with the original crab meat) at Kek Seng, Assam Laksa at Air Itam, Wan Tan Mee at Genting (just behind behind our family home at Island Glades) and the list goes on of course. Til the following year..

The cupcakes above were made by my friend Margaret. It was too pretty to eat!

Chicken Pie

Homemade. Using store-bought frozen puff pastry.

The ingredients are :-
frozen Puff Pastry (ensure that it is thawed out before you start to roll out according to size)
300gms chicken meat, cut into thick cubes
1 big onion, sliced
200gms fresh button mushrooms / shitake mushrooms, halved
half cup water/beef stock or chicken stock
salt & black pepper to taste
4 potatoes, sliced half-a-centimetre thick
3 hard-boiled eggs, cut into chunks
1 head of brocolli (the brocolli will get cooked in the pie)
25-inch pie pan (non-stick is good)
rolling pin