My plans to come back to Malaysia is confirmed! I will be arriving KLIA on the 21st of May (Mon) at noon and will be heading back to Houston some time end of June (have not got that ticket booked).
TCG Chairman, can we have TC? I am dying for some yummy food!
Girls, we can have a girl’s night out! Woo-hoo!!
See you all soon.
We had a great day Sunday. Adam’s colleague just moved into our apartment building and planned a house warming BBQ by the pool. So at noon we went over to Michele’s (pronounced Mi-kay-la, he’s Italian) with our cool box filled with beer and Smirnoff Ice and together with Michele and his cool box (with even more beer) we went to the pool to wait for more friends to come around.
Around 1pm the guys made a few runs back to the apartment and brought down a whole load of food. We had a feast that day. We were enjoying the food, drinks and sun until 6pm when Adam and I have to leave as we were invited to dinner at a friend’s house.
Dinner was awesome. Lamb cutlet, grilled tenderloin, salad and tabbouleh with loads of wine. Nothing can beat an evening with good food, wine and friends.
We ended the evening with some yummy chocolate chip cookies and a dented heart when I broke 2 of our crystal champagne flutes. 4 left and that means I have to go back to the store to get another set of 6.
It has been awhile since I blogged about my cooking. Some days I don’t cook tasty enough dishes to blog about and some days I just assume the food will not taste good and didn’t take any photos of it.
Lately I have been very diligent at taking shots of my cooking and hopefully that will start me off blogging about what I cook again.
My favourite dish this week - Chicken Pie with Asparagus and Mashed Potatoes. My first attempt at making this type pie and it taste delicious!
This dish is not all that difficult to make. You first cook the pie filling, fill them into a remekin, top it off with filo sheets and bake!
Pie Filling
Olive oil
Yellow onion - chopped
Chicken meat - cubed
Mushroom - sliced
Peas
Carrots - diced
Heavy cream
Half & Half
White wine
Chicken bouillon
Pepper
Dried oregano
First some olive oil to fry the onion. Once the onion is soft, add chicken pieces. When the chicken starts to turn brown, add white wine.
Allow the wine to evaporated a little, add the mushroom, peas and carrots. Once the vegetable is half cooked, add heavy cream, half & half and chicken bouillon. I like my chicken pie creamy, so I have more heavy cream than half & half. Stir them well, add some black pepper and dried oregano and let it simmer for about 5 minutes.
Remove from heat and fill the remekins.
Cover the remekins with fillo dough, one sheet at a time. Melt some butter, have a brush at hand and get ready to cover the pie.
Cut fillo sheets into the size required. Place one sheet on the remekin and brush some butter on the sides to help seal the remekin and then on the rest of the sheet. I repeated this step 4 times for each pie but some recipes online has 8 sheets of fillo, so I guess it’s entirely up to you.
When ready, put the pies into a 375F oven and bake for 15 minutes or until crust is brown.
Asparagus
Asparagus
Butter
Pepper
Preparing the asparagus is very simple.
Boil some hot water in a pan, once water is boiling hot put the asparagus in. When the asparagus turn into a beautiful green colour, remove from water.
Place some butter in a bowl and put it into the microwave for about 45 seconds or until butter has melted. Add some pepper into the melted butter and pour it over asparagus.
This is easy to make, tasty and very filling. I like the idea of being able to prepare the filling ahead of time so that when Adam is home from work, I don’t have to spend too much time in the kitchen.
I am not a fan of puff pastry which is why I used fillo. I don’t really like the taste of the fillo and I would like to try making some sort of crust the next time I give this pie another try. If you have any suggestions for the crust, please let me know.
After the SSA meeting yesterday, we went for lunch at Dessert Gallery. This place has a huge variety of cakes, cookies, brownies and cupcakes!
They have a deli as well but the main attraction here is the dessert. I had a cup of soup and half a sandwich which didn’t left much space in my tummy for dessert, so I bought some home to be enjoyed after dinner.
Yellow Cupcake with Chocolate Frosting and Yellow Cupcake with Vanilla Frosting.
Yellow means it’s butter cake. The frosting is so sweet, so delicious! It goes so well with the cake. The bites on the sugary icing is just yummy!
Our favourite of the 2 has to be…
The chocolate frosting is rich and creamy. The taste of real chocolate in that sugary topping… YUMMY!
This is my new favourite spot for cupcakes and they are only $1.95 each. There goes my plan to lose some weight.
