Melonpan!

Melonpan

Japanese style bread with a crunchy, cookie layer on top and soft fluffy bread on the inside. I made it following this youtube video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z0e-GKJA10 for UNSW bakesoc!

Reminds me a lot of the Chinese pineapple buns, except minus the pineapple flavour

Cookies and cream cupcakes!

It's been so long since I last posted, been so busy with post HSC life, starting uni and everything else that I haven't really had time to bake. Well, I just completely forgot until someone mentioned this the other day to me, and I was thinking 'oh yeah'....

I knew it'd be another phase..

So here's what I made for the first UNSW " Meet and Eat " last week

Cookies and Cream Cupcakes!

So pretty much what you need is a plain vanilla cupcake as a base, add crushed or whole oreos on the bottom of the patty before you put in the mixture and bake as usual.

For the icing, I used buttercream (mix of plain icing sugar and butter), sprinkle some crushed oreos and top with a mini oreo.

Hehe, this is what it turned out like...

Success! :)

PS. I am really lazy to put in a recipe. Maybe I'll only upload photos for awhile

Excelsior International Cuisine (Kogarah)

Address:
Basement, 7 Belgrave St
Kogarah NSW 2217

Went to Excelsior Restaurant today with my family after tutoring, (another Saturday lunch)! And it was a pretty nice restaurant, well the food was nice so I thought it was a worthy of a blog post :)

The restaurant is focused on "international cuisine", meaning they serve food from a range of different cultures (I think there was thai, chinese, cafe style sandwiches, etc.)

I tried the "degustation meal" set (for $20) because it offered me 4 different courses :)




It started off with an entree (there were about 4 choices), but I chose the ox-tongue skewers that came along with a side salad. It was actually really nice!


Next, there was a soup of the day which happened to be a cream of mushroom soup..


As for the main, I chose a "minute steak" with pepper/mustard sauce..



The dessert was a rockmelon pudding with carnation milk and sago



As for my parents, my mum got a similar set menu except for a main she got a fillet of fish in creamy sauce with rice and veggies, whilst my dad got a baked pork chop rice





Overall, I must say that the quality of the food was good and the waiters there had excellent service. They all were really gentle and polite, worthy of tipping for sure ;)

The only thing is it's a bit hard to find if you're not used to the area (like me!) because it's underground in sort of an arcade!

I'd recommend going here!

Overall Rating: 8- 8.5 / 10 !

Le Petit Creme (French Restaurant) Review

Today, our French class went to a French Cafe for breakfast called "Le Petit Creme" @ 118 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst
The cafe itself isn't large, but the waiters and boss were all friendly (and french) which gave a generally friendly ambiance!




My friend and I ordered a Vol au Vent (Chicken and mushroom on brioche with a creamy sauce, served with les frites (chips) and a salad) and a jam crepe. It tasted delicious!!!



The chips were really good!! It reminded me of Smiths chips, except it was hot and had more substance to it. Was pretty exciting and new, I'd recommend it!

From what I heard from other people, their dishes were also very nice!!

Here is the French Toast and the Provencale Omelette:


Overall, I'd say that the food is lovely and the servings weren't that small (contrary to my expectations).

I'd recommend to go here for some casual, french style breakfast/lunch!

Communism Cake

In light of having studied many revolutions and such in modern history, I baked a communism cake! (Hammer and sickle) It's a two layered, chocolate and vanilla cake with choc icing in the middle!

Thought it'd be appropriate for the last modern class EVER! Graduating high school means on the way to equality between students and teachers ;) (ay ay?) (Ok poor attempt at a joke)

Hope my teacher likes it :P



Icing the cake was REALLY DIFFICULT. Just warning people out there, do not attempt to use glace icing to make patterns or anything complicated because it will most likely FAIL!

I iced the cake with glace icing (too lazy to make other types of icing), and then drew up a template of the hammer and sickle and TRIED to place it over the set glace icing and then ice it with the same thing, but it all just sticks together and the colour runs all over the place.

So, anyone who's lazy like me, DON'T BE! (If you want to do a good job)

COLOURFUL CUPCAKES!

Sugar = Happy!

Fathers Day (Late post)

I've been very lazy with this blog lately!!! (Ok, I've been on an exercise+eating healthy phase so really, there's not much to photo unless you want to see gross-looking healthy things)

Though, that does mean I SHOULD promote healthy living and post good stuff of whats healthy... just a thought :)

Anyhow, this is what I made my dad for father's day the other weekend!



Home made pizza (made the dough and all, which was FUN!) and roast veggies (like potatoes and carrots..:P )

Dough is so easy and fun cause you watch the yeast make the dough rise.

The base was a Gluten Free one too (no wheat/gluten) for special people who are on that diet. All you do is replace the normal wheat flour with GF flour :)