Chinese New Year 2013

Blessed Chinese New Year to all from the Lais, Lims & Tsengs.

This is the BEST Chinese New Year I ever had so far. Thank You Jesus for a great family reunion and the abundant blessings!

Post Valentine Dinner @ Ferringhi Garden, Penang

Wild Mushroom Soup

Seven Heaven (Seafood platter for 2)

Beautiful restaurant. Delicious dinner. Awesome Fiance  ♥

Gong Xi Fa Chai 2012

CNY Eve:

Skipped church. Went to Sa Ee’s funeral in the afternoon. I miss her dearly but I am glad and confident that she is in heaven with our Father  from now onwards as she accepted Christ  the morning before the passed away. Thanks Lily for the salvation prayer. We had our first reunion dinner at Ah Ku’s house. Thanks Ji Ee and Mommy for the scrumptious food.

Ee Lid and Vi brought plum wine for all of us.

Mini glass. Toast!

3 generations playing memory game. And guess who won?

Day 1:

Gong Xi Fa Chai! My first angpow from Papa. Thank you! Next year onwards, I’ll give you and Mommy angpows *smiles*

Lotsa goodies at home for breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner and supper. LOL.

Home made ngaku chips

Photo taking before visiting Ji Ko’s place.

Love the smiles 🙂

Mommy’s CNY dishes

Gambar nasi pun nak ambik?

(Actually she’s taking shots of the dishes. Saja kacau.. hahaha!)

Jiu Hu Char

Assam Prawns

Stir Fried Taufu with Leek and Prawns

Chicken Curry

Day 2:

Visited HJ and Aun Ling. More goodies.

Macam-macam cookies nowadays. Biscotti pun ada.

Rich Chocolate Belgium Cookies

Crunchy Chocolate Cookies

Peanut Cookies. HJ’s favourite.

Look.. can’t deny, he’s really my ‘cookie monster’. Hahaha!

My cute sister

Posers.. *faint*

With Aun Ling

and Peter.

Day 3:

Visited Shen Shee’s house for her home-cooked Laksa and karaoke.

Day 4:

We have 2 special guests at our house; Yang Di-Pertuan LHJ and Duli Maha Mulia EY. Mommy prepared lots of delicious dishes. Thank you, Mommy!

House fly pun nak tumpang makan and our pro house-fly smacker in action. Dush!

Thumbs up. You pray for the food.

Feasting time. Evan’s not feeling well but praise God he recovered the next day.

Day 5:

Lunch at Hisago.

Complimentary Yee Sang

Vi mixed it for us

and we ‘goreng’…

Cili padi sushi

Grilled Saba fish with Teriyaki Sauce

Teppanyaki Chicken

Soba noodles

Spider Maki

Scallop Claypot Rice

Unagi Claypot Rice

Matcha ice cream with cornflakes

Family with Ee Lid and Vi

Evan’s first visit to Penang after many years… I supposed.. hehe

Relaxing

Gong Xi Fa Chai to all once again!

Dinner at Korea Palace on the 4th Day of CNY

Side dishes (free reload)

Kimchi stew

Octopus Bibimbap

Rice cake

Dessert (Not sure what it is but it tasted like sweet barley and rice soup)

We ♥ U 兔!

Specially dedicated to Mommy, Papa, Hooi Lee, Huan, Avery and Bradley…

Blessed Chinese New Year and we  ♥  all of you!

Peanut Cookies for CNY

Ingredients:

1 packet of peanut cookies premix (500g)

115ml canola oil (or any types of cooking oil)

Method:

1. Mix the premix flour and oil in a mixing bowl with finger tips until they are well-mixed and crumbly.
2. Roll the dough into small balls and place them on a parchment paper and baking tray. Use a chopstick and press gently on the top of the balls to make round indents.
3. Glaze with egg before baking.
4. Bake at 180 degree C for about 15 mins.

Chinese New Year Dish

Joo Hu Char

Chap Chai (Stir fired mixed vegetables)

Stir fried chicken with dark soy sauce

Steamed prawns with chinese wine and egg

Kiam Chai Ark T’ng (Duck and salted vege soup)

Blessed Valentine’s Day!

I thank God every time I remember you (Philippians 1:3)

Blessed Valentine’s Day De!

CNY Mandarin Orange Cake

Wow… it has been 3 months since I last baked! I am glad I managed to bake a cake with Mom and Xian on CNY Eve. We made mandarin orange cake. I adapted the basic butter cake recipe, added some orange juice and mandarin orange chunks. The texture of the cake is very fine but the mandarin orange chunks somehow melted, resulting a dense cake. The chunks turned bitter after baking. I am not sure why but I will not put orange chunks again into my orange cake in future.

Mandarin orange cake

The fine texture

Mandarin Orange Cake Recipe

230g butter

200g sugar

4 eggs

230g self-raising flour

1 orange (extract the juice and grate the zest)

2 mandarin oranges (cut into chunks)

1 mandarin orange (peeled into segments and removed all seeds for top decoration)

Orange colouring (optional)

Toasted walnut (optinal)

Method

1. Cream butter and sugar in a mixing bowl at medium speed till fluffy.

2. At low speed, slowly pour the eggs into butter mixture in 3 separate additions till well-combined.

3. Add orange juice and zest (you can add a little orange colouring if you want).

4. Gradually fold in flour in 3 separate additions till well-mixed.

5. Stir in mandarin orange chunks.

6. Pour batter into a round baking tin and arrange orange segments and some toasted walnuts on the surface.

7. Bake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.

8. Remove cake from oven and insert a skewer in the middle of the cake and if it comes out clean, it means it is done.

Blessed Christmas to all!

Dear Readers,

May this season help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men. Let kindness come with every gift and good desires with every greeting.

Blessed Christmas & A Happy New Year to all once again!