Experience with Potato Cookies at home

Potato cookies are the love of my family members. From mum to my youngest brother, we love it to bits. But the problem is, we only get to eat those cookies once a year.

So, mother and I make a team: Try and bake different type of easy cookies before Chinese New Year arrived in February. Thanks to this blog, we manage to trace the awesome recipe.

How was the experience?
Oh well, it was awesome because I never know that there are few ingredients with few simple steps to produce awesome, delicious and yummy cookies.

Everything went smoothly?

1. We made it like a cute big round ball. Yes, big. We forget that those cookies will expand when heating them in oven! So, there's the first thing we keep in mind when we bake it for the 2nd time.
2. The dough was extremely soft due to the fact that the ingredients are mixed into butter-icing-sugar-mixture when beating. Mother thought it was impossible to make it like a ball shaped initially. But it can that I think that's the unique part of these cookies.
3. Mother taught me to use the fork to press against the cookies to form shape. *Simple thing that I have no idea.*

Mother and daughter potato cookies:)

This is the recipe I found here:

Ingredients:

• Butter - 125g
• Icing sugar - 40g
• Potato starch - 125g
• Plain flour - 80g

Method:

1. Beat butter and icing sugar until fluffy and lighter in colour.
2. Sift in potato starch and flour, mix to form a soft dough.
3. Roll into small ball, arrange on lined baking pan.
4. Press with a fork.
5. Bake in preheated oven at 150C for 20 minutes.

 My brother said it was not bad.

This cookies are special. Because it's so soft until we will eat it non-stop, endlessly, without a big full-stop.

 

Happy Birthday Adeline, 201314 :)

Happy Birthday, Leng Lui Adeline. 

Actually, I never realize that 201314 brings such a special meaning for people who understand Mandarin.
I just remember 4th January is my dearest best friend's birthday....until

I intepret 201314 in Mandarin. Ahh, 201314 means 'ai ni yi sheng yi si' which means love you forever.

I am so happy that we both were the new students back in 2001. We have been friends for 12 years!  Luckily we both still live in Malacca and that's why I get to hang out with you and the buddies whenever we are free.

You are a sweet and kind person. I like your style. You are so brave and never afraid to speak up.

I appreciate our friendship. The 5H-6H buddies forever.

The buddies

The buddies

The buddies

Adeline and yours truly in 2010.

Happy Birthday my dear!

Melaka Raya Old Taste Becomes Fresh Taste

Sister was kind enough to introduce us to Melaka Raya Old Taste Cafe yesterday.
Ahh, I mean my real sister. I know some of my friends do not know that I have a big sister until I mention 'sister'.

There are so many OLD kopitiam: Old Town, Old Village, Old Malacca and Old Taste until my eyeballs repeatedly rotate in 360 degrees.

Old Taste transformed into Fresh Taste early in the morning. It feels nice to sit down with the morning fresh environment in the town, although town sounds more like a hassle and bustle city.

When it comes to food, I prefer not-so-oily food nowadays.
So sister ordered bread and a cup of coffee.
Mother ordered Nasi Lemak whereas yours truly ordered Fishball Meehoon and a cup of sugar free Milo.

What we think of the food?
Mother loved her Nasi Lemak. I simply loved my Meehoon soup. Never did I know that the soup was not so oily. Thank God.

My sister gave zero comment. Perhaps she always come to the kopitiam. Besides, she loved to nag and nag and nag ever since she was young.
So early in the morning, there is something wrong if she does not nag. I guess nagging run in my paternal family. So, I do not blame her now.

Me and Sister. We hardly take picture together nowadays. SO i guess this is a precious picture of us.

Sister with her morning breakfast.

I just love this. You gotta try it!

Mummy loved Nasi Lemak

If you are wondering where to eat in Malacca?

Come and try Old Taste Cafe in Melaka Raya.

"22th Birthday GiveAway"

Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am joining a GiveAway by Anis Athia.

There are so many awesome gifts to be given to the lucky winners. You may be the one of them.

Wanna join? Click on the banner[below] to enter the link:

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Good Luck to everyone.

"In Form 5, I want to ride motorbike to school"

Today (2-1-2013) is the day Joshua Lum go to secondary school, as a Form 1 student.

I woke up early to wish him luck and gave him RM 1 as a new beginning for his school journey. Mother had given him few Ringgit, so I can never give him more. Or else, he would buy some junk food in school.

It feels weird that he enters secondary school now. Deep in our heart, he is still a baby boy. Sounds silly but that's true. We went to his kindergarten, primary school and now secondary school.

Mother was worried that he would not adapt to this new school. Well, he is the diamond boy of my mother. The apple of my mother's eyes.

Big Josh surprised us with his new personality. He loves this school, although this is his first day. He makes new friends, go to the canteen with his new friends and starts to write on his notebook to jot down things to do.

He may not been in the top class, somehow what's most important is that, he enjoys his school, his class, his friends and teachers. So he will have the mood to study hard. That's all that matter, you know.

On the way back from his school, he saw few seniors went back with motorcycle. So he told my mother:" When I go Form 5, I ride motorbike to school."

There are good and bad. Good because he thinks far. Bad because he thinks of looking cool now.

Joshua with yours truly in January 2012

Temple in January 2012

1.1.2013

Today at 6.30am:)