Cheese & Chicken Springroll

Let me post another menu during this Ramadan.  I made this for Iftar and its delish!  This dish is so simple but yet so delicious. 

The recipe is as follows:

• Carrot (grated)
• Cabbage (grated)
• Chicken (minced)
• Big Onion
• Garlic
• Cheese (whatever brand you like, I use Cheddar)
• The popia roll
• Egg york

Thats it.  Very simple, those of the above are for the filling.  Just cook everything, except the cheese.  Only add the cheese before wrapping the roll.  Let it cool and wrap it inside.

Delicious!

The cabbage and carrot (I forgot to take pic of the cheese!)

The minced chicken

The cooked filling

The springroll before frying

Yummm...

UBD Offer Letter

This is the highlight of our day especially our daughter.

After applying for it in April, she got it.  She was accepted to study at our very own university, University Brunei Darussalam or UBD.  She will be taking Bachelor of Science and Majoring in Biological Science. 

She is esctatic and I am over the moon.  So very happy for her.  We expected it, there is no doubt in my mind that she will get through.  Looking at her A Level result she is infact on top of the pact to be accepted here.  So no doubt at all.

I supported the fact that she will study locally.  At the beginning of the year when she got her result, she has to decide to study locally or overseas.  I must confess that deep down in my heart I kind of dreading if she wanted to leave Brunei and study overseas.  I am not being selfish but to think of her not here break my heart but at the same time if thats what she destined to do then I will support her.  But now she will be here, I am so thankful :)  Although down the road we found out that UBD is offering what they call Discovery Year on her 3rd year at University.  Whereby this program (amongst other programs) offers the students a chance to study overseas at any universities around the world of their choice.  Which sounds so awesome.  So we are planning she will go for this.   Yay...

So excited. I am sure this is going to be a new beginning for her.  A new exciting and fun university life which I am sure will benefit her in the future.  Alhamdulilah.

Another new recipe to try..

During this Ramadan, I am planning to try a number of easy recipes for Iftar.  Something delicious and nice.

And after  the successful try of beef pastry puff last week, and since I still have a few frozen pastry in the freezer,I tried to bake what is called a Strudel.  I browsed the internet again and found so many variaties of strudels, and recently I bought a very delicious locally made strudel from a local online business.  Very simple ones with whipped cream and jams (strawberries, kiwi, mangoes and apples).

I was keen to try and see for myself how easy it is to make them.  And tadda....  below is the outcome!

Isnt that looks so yummy?????

Yes it is so yummmyyyy.......



Despicable Me 2

Before Ramadan again our daughter insisted to watch the sequel of Despicable Me which was also called Despicable Me 2.  We went on the first sequel in 2010 and I did enjoyed the film.

So without further hesitations lol, we went to watch the sequel and yes I still enjoyed it.  The return of Gru and his little girls and of course the cute Minions were the catch of this movie.  They were still halirious!  And how cute when the girls wanted Gru to find a girlfriend so that they could have a mother.  Although this time, Gru becomes a spy and was hired  by a Anti villian League to deal with some powerful criminals.   He was paired with another spy which was a lady and they fall in love, aaawww.... I love the touch of romance in the movie and how Gru started to have feeling towards the opposite sex haha.

Anyway, its a good movie to watch (although its a cartoon lol).  And it did well in the box office as well, so yay....

Ramadan Mubarak 1434

To all muslims around the world.  Happy Ramadan.  May Allah bless us all in His Barakah & Rahmah.

Beef Pastry Puff

My desire to bake continues..........

This weekend i tried my hands on making the beef pastry puff.  Which I think was quite easy.  Found a very simple recipe.  And it was even simpler when I used the frozen pastry puff which cut off so much time on preparing the dough.  I heard how notorious making the dough could be!  You got to get the right mixture and combination to get the perfect dough.  And you have to try so many times.  And I dont have that many time hahaha.

So I opted the frozen one and it worked wonders!!!

Make sure you thaw it properly first.  I advise you to thaw the frozen puff in the normal fridge overnight and then leave them in room tempature for about 30 minutes before putting in the filling.

The filling was simply using the normal curry with minced beef, potatoes and blended onions and garlic.

I baked them in about 15 minutes with 170 degress centigrate temperature on my oven.

And thats it!

The frozen pastry that I used

The filling

 

The pastry before going into the oven




The finished product



Yumm...