Busy days

There’s nothing much to report here. I have been busy at work and home with of course work and getting ready for first day of school. My son seems really bored with not doing anything structured with the baby sitter and his friend. We have this sweet girl babysit him and his friend. They do…

Food Cake, Cake food

I do not know why I keep getting request to make food themed cake these days. Well it’s all started when I decided to make the taco and burrito cake for couple of my friend’s birthday. They both love Mexican cuisine and we went to had lunch at one Mexican Restaurant. So I put on…

Mie ayam – Indonesian chicken noodle

Been slaving 🙂 in the kitchen today. I made the chicken with mushroom, then the ground pork with sweet soy sauce, prepared the green mustard, green onion, cilantro for the topping for my noodles I made yesterday. the toppings / fixing for the noodle Then took my shower while I boil the water to cook…

Noodle / pasta / mie / bakmi etc etc

Noodle. Who does not like it? It comes in so many different forms and names. It’s that looooooooooooong stringy yummy thing. Spaghetti, fettuccine, linguine, lo mein, chow mein, rice noodle, pho, glass noodle, udon, soba, buckwheat, mie, bakmi, bihun and on and on and on. I never thought about making my own fresh noodle until recently. I…

Steamed sponge cake aka Bolu Kukus

Steamed sponge cake or should I say cupcake since it’s made in a little cup? Known as Bolu Kukus. It’s an Indonesian cake that is very famous, not only because it’s pretty looking, taste so good, kinda sorta healthy, and some people are “cursed” for having no success in making these cake smile.  Healthy? My…

We gotta start somewhere!

Hi y’all as Paula Deen says…The butter queen. I adore her. She is awesome I don’t know why but I have been thinking about Paula, her recipes, her story, her restaurant, her hard work to get to this point. She is amazing, at least from what I read.  Anyway, it’s gotta start somewhere..and I have always been…

Cake Balls grrrrrrrrrrrrr moment!

It is true when you are not in a full force mood on baking, better don’t do it at all. I was pretty happy with the first cake ball I made. It was moist, the coating was smooth and I used chocolate chip that time. So today after sent my husband to Kroger to get…

Cake Balls Obsession

It’s a cold Sunday morning. My DH and DS still asleep. I have done my running around to get my “cake balls obsession” ingredients this morning. Grab some donuts on the way, filled in my car with gas and I am here now blabbing.  Since I made those cake balls I am obsessed with them….

It so worth it!

The wait is over.. my patience is paid off now. I made 3 of the cake balls in a hurry this morning before I went to work. Gave one for my husband and brought the 2 other pieces to work. Right when I got to work my husband emailed me and said that was delicious….

Patience is a virtue

In this case, my patience could be a yummy treat for ones I love . Ok as I mentioned on my earlier blabber session, that I have done quiet a bit of research of these little balls call cake balls. Some of the people that had made them said it’s easy, some said the other way. From…