Pork Floss Bun

中種面團 Starter Dough
Ingredients	Amounts
Bread flour	167g
Water	100g
Instant yeast	1 1/2 tsp

主面團 Basic Dough
Ingredients	Amounts
Bread flour	167g
Water	67g
Butter	40g
Sugar	40g
Skimmed milk powder	15g
Egg	20g
Salt	5g

Fillings: Pork Floss

1. With the help of a Breadmachine/Mixer, mixed the ingredients for Starter into a dough.
   The dough may be slightly dry and sticky but that is okay. Allow the dough to proof for 90 mins.
   
   
2. Combine ingredients for Basic dough (except butter) and knead into a dough. Tear the proofed Starter dough into small pieces and add into the above. When the doughs gets mixed thoroughly together, mix in the butter. Allow kneading till dough is smooth and elastic (Try stretching the dough to determine)
   
   
3. Cut the ready dough into 60g each and roll them into a ball-liked shape. Allow the dough to relax for 10 mins. When done, roll each individual dough into an oval shape and allow another proofing of 45 mins. (You may proof the doughs in the oven with 38 degree celsius set plus a bowl of warm water)
   
   
4. Bake the dough at 190 degree Celsius for 12~15 mins. Allow the buns to cool.
   
   
5. Spread Transparent mayonnaise onto the bun and topped it over with Pork Floss.

I finally took out some time for baking! I cannot imagine that I have not been baking for, I supposed at least 2 weeks :( I just hate it when work's piling so much that I do not have my own time to do things that I really like.

Though I was home rather late (OT-ing as usual), I decided to bake some bread for breakfast! I felt kind of guilty since I haven't been baking any snacks/breakfasts for my Prince Charming lately. I still have 1 and 3/4 packets of Pork floss to go, complimentary from my Mil cause she knows I love pork floss. I decided to make my own Pork Floss buns!

The Transparent Mayonnaise that I made the very last time were chilled in the fridge, so I heated a portion of them up and they were back to the sticky texture again. Prince Charming just love these mayonnaise so much that I applied a super thick layer for his buns. LOL.

I love how soft the buns were, even though left overnight, very fluffy too. I baked a total of 9 buns and only used 3 for Pork floss. Guess I'll be using the rest for other flavours, perhaps Tuna?

Up up into the sky - Singapore Flyer

Prince Charming's company organised a "Singapore Flyer Experience" trip on Saturday. The expected time to "fly" was about 6.30pm in the evening and guessed what? The weather starts to get gloomy at around 4.30pm and later on, I saw big splashes of water droplets from the sky.

I started to worry since the priority aim of my trip down to Singapore Flyer was to capture the beautiful city view! The rain might just blur out the visions :( Phew~ luckily the rain stopped just in time when we reaced our destination :D

I saw Popeyes! I always thought that they only has one outlet at the Airport, so I was quite happy that I can just pop by Singapore flyer if I have the crave for their so tasty mashed potatoes. There was this "Yakult Rainforest" in the center of the building, but well the floorings were wet so I did not get to enter the "forest". Within no time, we had to ride onto our Cabin into the sky! Excited!

The view was indeed gorgeous! The beautiful night view of Singapore = Superb!
Now, let the pictures do the talking ;P


World Biggest Ferris Wheel (At the moment)


Inside the Cabin


I love this expressway view, and look over at the future developments!


Night view of Beautiful Singapore


Night view of Beautiful Singapore

Itadakimasu!

Serves 1
Ingredients	Amounts
Raw salmon	3 small steaks
Salt	1 tsp
Pepper	1 tsp
Egg	1
Salt	a pinch
Mirin	2 tbsp
Cooked sushi rice	1 bowl
Teriyaki sauce
Ingredients	Amounts
Soy sauce	1/4 cup
Mirin	1/4 cup
Corn starch + Water	2 tsp + 3 tsp

1. Marinate the salmon steaks with salt and pepper. Set aside.
   
   
2. In a bowl, beat up egg, salt and mirin. Heat up a pan over low heat, pour the egg mixture over and stir vigorously. You should get small crumbles of cooked egg.
   
   
3. In a saucepan, pour mirin, corn starch and soy sauce and bring to boil over low heat. When the mixture starts boiling, arrange the marinated salmon steaks into it and allow simmering. The salmon should get cooked within few mins. Allow the salmon to continuing cooking in the sauce to enhance a better taste.
   
   
4. Scoop the sushi rice into a bowl, top with "crumbled" eggs and top it further with Teriyaki Salmon steaks. Pour some remaining sauce over and ready for serving.

This was the dinner for my Prince Charming. The intention was to make some salmon sushi but, i think that would be more work for me, so I decided to change it to doing a Teriyaki Salmon Don.

Prince Charming always like food that comes with a little sweet taste so I think that's the main reason he always love Teriyaki!

Pancakes, ice cream and sandwiches

I haven't been posting recently due to the holy-mama heavy workload that is piling and piling each day. *sigh* I miss baking+cooking :(

Anyway, here's what I managed to come up with recently.

Sunday - 13th July 2008



There was a Japanese food fair going on in Plaza Singapura and I happened to get this little bottle of Maple syrup. It looks kind of watery compared to the normal ones we see in NTUC or Cold storage, so I was kind of worried that it might not be as good.

Well, it was more of like an impulse purchase and I really do not want to leave it intact in my cabinet so, I made some pancakes in order to use it. ( I normally utilise my "stocks" when they are open, else they will just end up in my cabinet untouched!) I was wrong! The syrup taste really good! We finished up our pancakes in no time :D

I made some Cookies 'n' Cream ice-cream as well since there was some left-over heavy and whipping cream in my fridge.

This ice-cream turns out real good! I got the recipe from <冷凍甜品>.


Tuesday - 15th July 2008

Since I was really tired due to my over-whelming workload, I did not managed to baked any breakfast recently. Most of the time, I will get a packet of Gardenia Low fat Loaf from the supermarket and transform them into sandwiches.

My Mil gave me 2 big packets of Pork floss, so I make use of the flosses to create a Floss and Egg Sandwich. I stirred up some 透明美乃滋 (Transparent Mayonnaise) with the recipe from <爆紅人氣三明治> for the spread on the sandwich. The mayonnaise was really good, taste exactly like the one from Bread Talk!






*Updates*
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Recipes for Transparent Mayonnaise (透明美乃滋)

Ingredient A

• 100g, Fine sugar
• 5g, Salt
• 50g, Butter
• 450g, Water

Ingredient B

• 200g, Fine Sugar
• 50g, Corn Starch
• 200cc, Water

1. Combine Ingredient A into a big bowl and bring to cook over low heat. Make sure that stiring is done and that sugar and butter gets completely melted.
   
   
2. When mixture A starts to boil, combine Ingredient B into mixture A and continue to cook over low heat. The mixture will starts to thicken and get transparent in color. Allow cooling before using the mayonnaise.

Sigh

I'm still slogging my head off in the office!