Steamed pumpkin buns (steamed bread)

These steamed buns are made of wholewheat 100% & pumpkin.

Wholemeal Steamed Bun (Steamed Bread) & Lentil soup

Brown rice, lentil & mushroom soup. Serve with steamed wholemeal bun.

The steamed buns are made of 500g wholemeal flour, 6g yeast, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons honey, 2 tablespoons olive oil and water. They can be easily made by using the bread machine (using the knead function only). If you don't have a bread machine, you can still use the grandmum method-- knead by hand!
These are usually part of our breakfast, but sometimes we take these for lunch or dinner. They can be served with mushroom soup, lentil soup, dry shrimp sambal, lentil curry, , kadala curry , vegetable or meat curry. We usually make plenty of them (half kg of flour or more) and keep them in freezer.

4-angled bean (kacang botor) & shrimp sambal

This simple but yet very appetizing dish can be easily seen on most of Malaysian dining table. The Kacang botol are to be taken raw, accompanied by the dried shrimp sambal---and the're yummy!

Soybean curd pattie

The steamed bean curd can be served as it is or you may fry it prior to serving. This vegetarian dish is a good substitute for those who are tired of taking meat. It does provide superior nutritional value by having varieties of different colours of vegetables being added to the bean curd.

We usually make plenty of them and keep them in freezer & steam when it's needed.

It can be served with rice, porridge, fried noodles or even sandwiched in between two slices of wholemeal bread, as your nutritional breakfast.

Guang Chiang (Yam pattie)

Chinese dessert

Part of the ingredients for the traditional Chinese dessert.

This is our favourite dessert. It can be served hot or cool. No sugar is being added. Yummy!

Tapioca cake

Tapioca cake before bake.

Baked tapioca cake.

Soyabean Curd

Ingredients include dried oyster, dried anchovies (ikan bilis), dried shrimps, peanuts, cabbage, thousand- year-old eggs, salted eggs and rice.
Serve with raw young ginger, fried garlic, spring onion or fresh coriander. Great for party too.

Radish cake (brown rice)

The traditional Chinese radish cake is made of refined rice flour with white radish, shrimp and salt, but I usually make it with brown rice instead. It's precooked before steam, and then steamed for an hour, let cool (usually overnight), cut and fry.



Steamed brown rice radish cake.

Fried brown rice radish cake, serve with chilli.

Brown rice & wholemeal pancake

This high fibre brown rice & wholemeal pancake is added with grated coconut and stuffed with sliced banana, without any sugar being added.

Wholemeal potato bread

This wholemeal potato bread is added with raisin, sunflower and pumpkin seeds.

The adding of mashed potato to wholemeal bread makes it having lighter texture compare to wholemeal & rye bread.

Wholemeal & rye bread

Wholemeal & rye bread before fermentation.

After fermentation.
The wholemeal & rye bread is added with raisin, pumpkin and sunflower seeds. It's a high fibre bread.The bread is much heavier than the store's. But hubby and I have been used to the solid texture of this heavy loaf, so it tastes nice to us, especially when it's fresh from oven.

Cheese cake 1

This cheese cake 1 is fluffy as compare to cheese cake2. It's baked.

Palm Oil handmade saop

The palm oil soap, being the simplest soap, is made from NaOH, palm oil and water. We use either new palm oil or recycle palm oil for this soap.
It's a natural soap and without any harmful ingredient being added. New palm oil soap is used for my handwash clothing and also cleaning cooking utensils, but the recycle palm oil soap is used for other miscellaneous cleaning.
The saponification process for palm oil soap takes only 3 weeks.

Handmade soap with cocoa butter

Made of NaOH, Olive oil, coconut oil, cocoa butter, bee wax and water, this handmade olive oil soap takes 3 weeks to saponify and produces a light smell of coconut oil blended with the sweet scent of cocoa butter.

Hand made soap 2

The 3 cakes of handmade soaps are undergoing saponification process. After which they will be cut and can be stored for one to two years.

Wholemeal Pizza

The pizza dough is made from wheatmeal 100% flour. Sometimes I do away with cheese, it still tastes okay for me.

Cheese cake 2

This cheese cake2 has a very different texture and taste as compare to cheese cake1. It's creamy and sticky with a layer of crunched digestive biscuit at the bottom. It's unbaked, made with gelatin and cream cheese, and kept in fridge for setting.

Granola : ingredients 2

The other parts of ingredients for granola.

Granola : ingredient 1

The raw ingredients for granola are listed on the picture.

Granola (Baked)

Granola is our favourite snack, it's easy to make and high in fibre and excellent for breakfast or tea break. It can be stored in an airtight container or canister upto 3 weeks. The main ingredients are rolled oats, ingredient 1 and ingredient 2 (refer photos).

Prawn crackers (Keropok Udang)

Being one of our favourite crunchy titbits, especially great for party or festive occasion like Chinese New Year, these prawn crackers are made from simple ingredients such as tapioca flour, prawn, pepper and salt. These 4 loaves are fresh from steamer, they have to be hardened in fridge (usually overnight), sliced, dehydrated (usually sun dry) before fry.
The sun dried prawn crackers can be stored upto 2 to 3 years! But the tempting crackers just won't last any longer than a week during festive season!

Handmade olive oil soap 1

The handmade olive oil soap is our favourite soap for years. It's something that we will never go without.
Made by mixing NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide), an alkaline, with water, bee wax, and 7.5% palm oil, 92.5% Pure Olive oil, using a cold process, the olive oil handmade soap is full of pure, natural glycerin and it's lusciously different from the commercial bar. Glycerin is a natural by-product of the soapmaking process called saponification. Because it is a valuable commodity that can be sold to the cosmetic and other industries, the commercial soap manufacturers extract glycerin for a higher profit. What is being left behind is a soap without glycerin, which will dry out your skin. That's the reason people use moisturizer after using commecial bar.

But a handmade soap retains the glycerin which moisturizes your skin and provides a lovely, silky feel.

After an exhausting workout or a good day's work, it's definately a treat for your skin.....
We have a hard feeling for shower gel and shampoo after using the handmade olive oil soap.
The process of making is pretty easy and if you like baking or making pudding, this is for you! But it has to undergo a 6 weeks saponification process before you can use it.

Brown rice yam & radish cake

One of our favourite nutritious breakfast! It's also great for party or gathering. The traditional Chinese yam cake is made of refined (white) rice flour and yam. But I make it from brown rice with white radish added, on top of the yam, which render it a high fibre and nutritious snack. Serve with chilli sauce.

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I thank God for letting the unlimited scenic sunset glow standing in full view of the sky each day, which have cheered me up at numerous occasions......... and these are all given freely at no cost.........

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A mysterious red afterlight, like a forest fire.....

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A greyish and pinkish sunglow

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A gold & yellowish sunglow at dusk.

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I once discovered the charm of blue-black sunglow and like it as much.

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Sometimes the sunset will arrive at a moment when the colour of sunglow could be a bit monotonous, likewise is our life .....

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The fascinating afterglow will soon fade if you forget to pause and take a closer look.

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The mixture of the bright, dim and dark colour as well as the multiple colours of sunglow resembles our life which is full of sweet, sour, bitter and joy.....

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In minutes the afterglow changes! Our life is just the same, we can never foresee what will it be the next minute!

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I admire the natural beauty of the colorful and fast changing sunglow. Though the sunglow is beutiful but it will soon disappear. It reminds me of our life, no matter how great it is, it will still come to an end.

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I enjoy viewing the picturesque sunset glow each day from my house, and observe how God the Creator paints the sky in the dusk of every evening! It's free of charge!