Many Splendored Quick Bread - Zucchini Courgettes #3

I was curious about having so much veggie in the quickbread, or some of you might find it as cake. My tongue is confused just as well, haha. Quick breads are bakes that are basically prepared using the quick method, just stir the wet and dry ingredients together, like making muffins.

I was hoping my kids will eat it, but nope!

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Zuchinni Salted Egg Quick Soup - Zucchini Courgette #2

I cooked this dish based on another common quick soup in Cantonese cuisine, that is the Hairy Marrow Soup (毛瓜汤).

I thought, why not cook zuchinni or courgettes this way too! As they are squashes and taste soooo sweet.
I liked the result, and so did my kids.

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Summer Squash Pancakes - Zucchini Courgettes #1

Zucchinis and yellow squashes are expensive here. They used to be even more expensive, but now gone to RM6/kg. But when I saw them this time, they were on offer for RM2/kg. Yeah! I got myself about 1.2kg of yellow squashes and used 1kg to make these.

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Lydia's 6th Birthday Party

Around 3 weeks back, I organized a small party for Lydia who turned 6. Never before have I done a kid's party that is for kids. Well, I've done her other parties, but it was adult's majority, big majority. So the food had the adults in mind, more. This time, it was for 13 kids (5 didn't come), and a few adults.

I raced for days to clean up the house properly. I am quite a hoarder and it takes time for me to discard things, so this was a good push for me. And tried to bake some stuff that can be done in advance. So many things came to me that week, and each hour was sooo precious.

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MFF's over, and here comes..... AFF!

Hi Everybody,

Malaysian Food Fest was over and the last round up was done 2 weeks back.
I would like to take this opportunity to say something.

First of all, I would like to thank all my hosts.
Thank you for taking up the hosting request,
Thank you for their hard work each month and throughout preparing for the month,
Thank you for doing the intro and round up each month,
and most of all, Thank you for enduring it all.
The slashes from some people and the criticism thrown at them.
Thank you, thank you.

Secondly,
I would like to thank all who participated.
To Malaysians who are passionate about local food and to oversea participants who are curious about the food we have here.
Thank you for the effort to cook, and to share with us your culinary experience.
Some of you had been very supportive and very daring to try.

Thirdly,
Thank you to all who are silent supporters.
You read our posts, enjoyed the sharing and was glad to learn more about the food we Malaysians eat in each state.

2 years back, I never thought I would want to create an event like this. Personally, I had a plan to cover the state food by myself, as I was hoping to recreate the food I ate during my travels in the country. But it came to me, why not extend the fun to my fellow friends. I didn't expect the amount of entries the event would receive each month and it was truly truly encouraging.

The aim of the event, I believe has been met and I'm very very happy about it.
Thank you again everybody.

Now... some of you actually knew.. it's not going to end here.
Those of you who are on Facebook with me, knew.. I have something else coming up, but what?


It's Asian Food Fest!!!!

Please visit our AFF info page for more information about this event.

And you can LIKE us on Facebook.

And as the organizer, again.. I'm out in full force to support. I've started cooking my Asian dishes already, LOL.
I always plan in advance.
The dishes shown below are from 6 different countries, can you identify them?

See you on 1st October with Japanese dishes! 

Come and join in the fun!

Honey Peach Ice Cream - Stone Fruits #3

I made this a long time ago, before I got my ice cream maker.

The ice cream isn't as peachy as I hope it'll be as my peaches are not really that fragrant. You can use canned peaches if you want. I misread the recipe and pureed all my peaches, and so with the high moisture content in the ice cream, it wasn't very smooth.

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Quick Apricot Coconut Pie - Stone Fruits #2

A pie... how is it a pie? hmmm.
A coconut crust, apricot filling and covered with almonds? LOL. Don't ask me.

This is another recipe from my "good to see only" cookbook. I took the idea, and ditched all the liquids in the recipe, added in lime zest to boost the coconut and apricot, and changed whatever I think is the better way. The result was perfect for me. I wonder what will happen with that extra 1 cup of milk in this. It'll look like baked oatmeal I guess. It's already so moist now.... it will crumble if the golden base is not formed properly

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