February 24, 2013

My Decorated Cake and Cupcakes


Oh my.. I just realized that I haven’t update my blog for more than a month. So sorry for my laziness these days. I’m trying to gain my bento power again, hopefully it will rise again soon.

Today, I will post my other hobby beside cooking and making bento… Do you know what is it? Yes..It is baking and decorating the cake. ^.^

Sometimes I received order for customized cakes and cupcakes from my friends, I’m not a pro yet but I love to learn and receive new challenges .

So..here are some of my cake works recently.. Thanks for my friends who already trust me to make the cakes. 


January 17, 2013

Beef Stroganoff

Hello, friends. How are you? Finally I update my blog again and this is my first post in 2013. ^^

Last week I bought a recipe book  Good Housekeeping “Fast and Easy 100+ Recipes from GH Around The World”. There are many interesting recipes there and I think I want to try some of them.  Today I try to make Beef Stroganoff that using tomato ketchup. It turns out great.. For lunch I eat it with mashed potato, maybe I will eat with pasta for dinner.


Beef Stroganoff
( Recipe from Good Housekeeping Fast and Easy 100+ Recipes from GH Around The World )

Ingredients:
½ kg beef sirloin, sliced into wide strip
¼ tsp liquid seasoning
¼ cup olive oil
5 cloves garlic, crushed
1 large onion, chopped
1 cup canned sliced mushroom
½ to 1 beef bouillon cube
200 grams Del Monte Filipino Style Tomato Sauce
1/3 cup sour cream
¾ tbs all purpose flour

Directions:
1. Seasoned beef with 1/3 tsp iodized fine salt, 1/8 tsp pepper, and liquid seasoning
2. Heat olive oil in a pan, stir fry meat in two batches until light brown. Set aside meat
3. In the same pan, add garlic, onion, mushroom, bouillon cube, and beef. Cook for 3 minutes, stirring continuously.
4. Add Tomato Sauce, ½ to 2/3 cup water, ¼ fine salt, and 1/8 tsp pepper. Simmer for 10 minutes
Combine Sour Cream and flour. Add to the meat mixture. Simmer while stirring for 3-5 minutes.