Home Baking - Peanut Butter Cookies

Wow, we've been spending half day doing 1 of the Chinese new year cookies which is peanut butter cookies. It looks great and taste nice too. If you have time, you can also do it yourself. :D Here is the recipe..

Ingredients: 

140 g plain flour

1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

115g butter, at room temp

165 light brown sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla esence

265 crunchy peanut butter (wow, expensive cookies if you buy branded peanut butter.. :P)

Steps...

1. Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt and set aside.
2. Cream your butter and sugar until light and fluffy using electric mixer. Add the egg and continue beating to blend.
3. In another bowl, mix the egg and vanilla, then gradually beat into the butter mixture. 
4. Stir in the peanut butter and blend thoroughly. Then, stir in the dry ingredients (#1). Refrigerate for at least 30 min...
5. Preheat oven to 180C.
6. Make round shape and press flat with a fork. Make a criss-cross pattern. Bake 16-18minutes until lightly coloured. 

Make the dough into ball shape. Then press flat with a fork. Make a criss-cross  pattern

Bake @ 180C for 15-16 minutes

Cool it down and ready to serve! :D

Roey&Lynn^^

Note to God

This is a wonderful lyric and beautiful voices from Charice... Praise the Lord. :)

Enjoy and welcome 2012... Hope God will put more tenderness in humans' heart because this world have so much went wrong.... Let's pray. :D

If I wrote a note to God
I would speak what's in my soul
I'd ask for all the hate to be swept away
And for love to overflow

If I wrote a note to God
I'd pour my heart out on each page
I'd ask for wars to end
And for peace to mend this world
I'd say, I'd say, I'd say

Give us the strength to make it through
Help us find love cause love is overdue
And it seems like so much is goin' wrong
On this road we're on

If I wrote a note to God
I'd say please help us find our way
End all the bitterness
Put some tenderness in our hearts
And I'd say, I'd say, I'd say

Give us the strength to make it through
Help us find love cause love is overdue
And it looks like we haven't got a clue
Need some help from you

Grant us the faith to carry on
Give us hope when it seems all hope is gone
Cause it seems like so much is goin' wrong
On this road we’re on

No, no
We can't do this on our own
So, so

(Give us the strength to make it through)
(Help us find love cause love is overdue)
And it looks like we haven't got a clue
Need some help (from you)
Grant us the faith to carry on
(Give us) hope when it seems all hope is gone
Cause it seems like so much is goin' wrong
On this road we're on

No, no
We can't do this on our own
So, so

If I wrote a note to God...

Jokes' Collection (Dec'11)

great! Agree...

Well, animal can't differentiate.. :D

But, we still believe it...

Tears of JOY

Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. One of the fruit i feel most is joy. Since i got pregnant, i feel so joyful. Feel with loves surrounding me. First was from my hubby. He cared for me.He was sensitive with my emotional and my needs. I feel thankful for having him as my hubby and my baby father. One of my colleague told me she hate to see her husband when she was pregnant. But i am totally different. I wish to stick to him and follow him around. I feel secured when he is around me. MY family, colleagues, friends cares make me feel so been loved and blessed.

Since this pregnancy.. i like to cry. But this is the cry from a joyful heart. Every month, i see him is growing up in my belly. He make me feel so blessed and loved. Every day and night, i imagine how he will look like. I pray, pray and pray so that he is healthy in my belly. I started to imagine future life with him around running here and there. I just hope my hubby and i will be able to provide a happy surrounding for him. He is just a beautiful and biggest blessing that God had grant us. Nothing can be compared to any blessings that God had grant me.  Four more months to go, mommy eagerly waiting for you outside. Mommy loves you so much, dear... :D  

Curry Puff 2!

Well, if you happen to read my wife's blog (Love of Curry Puffs) and my blog (Back Hometown Is really Nice) recently, probably you know that I'm making some curry puffs. I'm new in making curry puffs and I'm always trying.. :)

On the 26th Oct, I got the curry puff recipe from my mom through phone and make it for my wife to eat. Actually, it is nice looking, but not really nice to eat. haha! :P

Nice Looking but not nice to eat.. :P

So, what to do next?!

By creating chance to meet....

Yeah, MY PARENTS! I went back hometown last 2 weeks and ask my parents to show me how to do the curry puffs... I recorded down all their procedure and spent every single time with them during curry puffs session! I even have the video.. :) 
The only thing that I not manage to do well is the "flower" of the curry puffs.

Dad! You 're awesome! :D

Pastry and pre-cook curry puff

Shape of the pastry, why two layers? Hehe, I know the answer! :)

Nice "flower" of the curry puff from my dad

Ta Da!!! Well cooked! :D

By luck!!!   
My wife's relative! They come to visit grandpa and celebrate my wife's cousin's son birthday this weekend. So they stay at my house around 4-5 days. While we chit-chat, I mentioned abt my curry puffs that I made last few weeks ago and it was not taste so good... Wow, they gave so many advices and end up, they plan to teach me! What a golden opportunity! So, we buy all the cooking materials and make curry puff yesterday... 

(Allow me to intro my wife's relative and very very cute baby from my wife's cousin!)

My wife's "ah yi"

My wife and the baby.. :P

My wife's "ah kim"

The method is quite different from my parents but both also very nice. They also teach me how to do the "flower" of the curry puffs. I think, the biggest achievement would be the "flower" of the curry puff. I no longer need to use this...  I use my own hand to do the flower! :D

No need to use this to do curry puff

1st time to do the flower! Oh my God, what is that?!!Damn..

After improvement... :D

GAO DIM!

I think I grade myself as "C+" (just passed) at this moment! I will cont' to improve my curry puffs skills... See ya! :D

Roey

11.11.11

Do you guys aware that today is 11.11.11? Just post out here because today is so special... :)

What you are going to do at this time?
Date: 11.11.11
Time: 11:11:11

Back Hometown Is Really NICE!!!

I took Friday off to travel back to hometown last week. That day was really excited and full of energy to drive back home, even though it took us 6 and half hours, we don't mind at all. (I think we were around 2 months no back hometown)

We started to Zzz at 9pm and plan to wake up at 3am to start our journey. As we were too excited, we couldn't sleep well. You know what, I woke up without alarm, if I'm not mistaken, it was 3.03 in the morning! Haha.. :)

My wife and I craved for so many Terengganu foods... Err, I'm not the one having baby anyway, but I also "Idam".. Sorry, food craving.. :P
Below was the food list that we had targeted! Haha, so far, 85% successfully accomplished (Sounds like a mission...)

1. Keropok Lekor SukaRamai (Near Merang) - Accomplished
2. Chuan Kee Chicken Rice - Accomplished
3. Nasi Minyak - Accomplished
4. Nasi Kuning - Accomplished
5. Nasi Dagang - Left out.. :'(
6. Nasi Lemak - Accomplished
7. Ah Hoe Char Kuey Teow - Accomplished (My wife fav)
8. Last but not least, Our lovely mom's cooks - Curry is the best! - Accomplished

On these few days, my parents made us curry puffs... Wow, It was so delicious! I totally lost to my dad but, I'm very smart one, I took his video (like chef wan in the TV.. :P) and take back Penang and learn... Well, I'm serious... I took a lot of potatoes back, and plan to do it this weekend! :D

Oh ya, we also had steamboat together with my parents, ling's parents and my cousins... We ate until so FULL that we hardly can breath !!! My bro said, once we back home, sure got a lot of foods to eat, haha, I agree because we started it. :P

Pantai Batu Buruk... My dad CUTI and we plan to go to Batu Buruk beach to see sunrise but no Sun at all, cloudy day.. Anyway, Nice Nice, it was so comfortable. My bro not in because he said he wanted to study wor.. Haha, he is really hardworking.

Mom and Dad watching Us.. :P

Mom and Dad

老婆大人。。哈哈。。

Our lovely Batu Buruk Beach

6 ppl on the beach...

Ops, dirty feet, have a wash... :)

Almost done with my writing, I really miss my hometown. If can, I wish to go back forever. :)

Roey^^