YUM - YUM Blog Award

I would love to thanks My Kitchen Snippets for giving me this YUM - YUM blog award. It was so sweet of her and I really appreciated it. I would love to pass it to the YUM-YUM blogs below:

Soy and Pepper
Kedai Hamburg
The Adventure of my cooking diary
Rainbows

Satay Dinner Again!

While replying to Cooking Ninja regarding my satay sauce and compressed rice, Evy walked by and saw the satay chicken. She loved satay chicken and of course requested that I make it for her. I was salivating looking at the pictures and reminiscing how good the satay sauce taste, so I told her I will make satay for dinner the next day.


Yummy and moist satay chicken! Help yourself ya!


My homemade compressed rice, seedless cucumber and shallot.


Peanut satay sauce. Dipping sauce for the satay chicken and accompaniment.



And guess what I ended out using? The Rasaku satay marinade & sauce mix!! I was pleasantly surprised with this brand because I was quite skeptical when I saw the satay sauce that came in the packet. It was in powder form and all I needed to add was water and oil. I was contemplating of making my own sauce or using this powder and decided to give it a try. The sauce looked okay when thicken, so I did a taste test and it was not too bad. But I wanted more flavor out of it and creamier in texture, so I added some creamy peanut butter and toasted ground peanuts into the sauce. Now it looked really good and tasted superb. I won't be hesitating in buying this brand again, just for convenience and it's authenticity in taste. If you want to try it too, you can buy it online at MyTasteOfAsia.com. I just checked the website and now this paste is on sales for $1.95! Grab it before it's gone!

Foodie Blogroll and Friendship Award

After seeing so many of my blogger friends joined the Foodie Blogroll, I finally joined the blogroll myself. It is a list where all the food bloggers are and it has expanded a lot since the last time I'd seen it. Feel free to join if you haven't done so and wanted people to know about your blog. You may join by simply clicking the "Submit your blog" link in the Foodie blogroll itself on my right hand panel.




I also want to thanks Beachlover for passing me this beautiful friendship award. Thanks ya! Friendship can be found and bond through blogging and is even sweeter with friend like you. I would love to pass this along to:

East Meets West Kitchen
Daily Affairs
Precious Moments
Saucing Around, Jo's Deli
Kedai Hamburg
Rainbows

Assorted Baked Donuts

I wanted to bring my bakes to share with our good friends in Broomfield. And since I really like this healthier version of baked donuts, I decided to make some to share with them. The variety of toppings I can put on these are endless. I managed to make some savory baked donuts this time by included pork floss and cheese. Added a little crunch with some cereal crunch with almond. I like it both savory and sweet. Of course this donut is still best consumed on the day it was baked.

Anyone wants to order a dozen assortment of baked donuts from me or not? ;)

Twice Cooked Pork

I bought some family size pork recently. It turned out some pieces had more fat than the other. I noticed some with three layers of fat too. Normally I would cut away all the fat, but how to cut when it had three layers of fat in between? So, instead of spent too much time slicing away the fat, I just cut them into pieces. Since these were some fatty pork, I thought of preparing them like in twice cooked pork.


First, I boiled them in boiling water until cooked. Then, drained and set aside. As for the ingredients, I used red bell pepper, scallion, dried red chili, garlic, LKK premium dark soy sauce, soy sauce, sugar, white pepper and sesame oil.


Can I say YUMMY!

Do you know what this is good with, a bottle of ice cold beer!

Salad with Sun Ripened Tomatoes and Dried Apricot

I need to lose some weight that I gained in Malaysia. So what is the best healthy choice for me to do so? I thought salad for lunch might be just it (of course plus exercise too). So easy to prepare and sure look like a healthy meal. I received two bottles of free Kraft salad dressing from Kraft Food. So it sure comes in handy for my salad. I used the Light Raspberry Vinaigrette with reduced fat dressing with the prewashed iceberg garden salad that I bought in the grocery store. My added touch would be the sliced sun ripened tomatoes and dried apricot in my salad.

By the way, anyone knows the difference between sundried tomatoes and sun ripened tomatoes? When I did the purchase I thought I was buying the sundried tomatoes until I saw the name on the packet later. Are they the same thing?

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Dear Readers,
Happy 4th of July and Happy BBQing where ever you are and enjoy the Fireworks!