My 2nd attempt bread baking - Delicious Mini Milk Bread

15.05.2010 - Saturday

Hello friends...guess what, I finally makie it ! Yes I did it!. After the last failure on breadmaking, i never give up. I found another recipe from a blogger and with her detailed steps and easy ingredients, I finally managed to made the bread succesfully.

The texture of the bread is so fluffy, the mini size make it look cute. My daughter is so tempted to try it after she seen it out from the oven...so happy now.

If anyone of you would like to try this bread, please refer to this blog htttp://dailydelicious.blogspot.com and look for the recipe call Pain au lait : Delicious Mini Milk Bread.

Till then..happy baking!!

11.05.2010- My first homemade bread

Hmm...im not sure whether you all have this sudden mood to bake cake or bread? Myself do have such sudden moon which rather scary..especially to my maid cos she need to help out the washing part when im done ..hahaha.

As i said sudden mood..so this happen on Wednesday and i tried to make a bread and with no surprise, my bread is a total failured one. The bread is not fluffy and with strong yeast smell.

Sigh..so sad..

After google the bread problems, i reckon the following issues that caused the failure.

1) Recipe might have error - too much of yeast

2) Kneading time is not enough. As per other blogger, the kneading time at least 25mins.

3) Undercooked the bread . My oven temperature needs to be reviewed again.

4) Oven temp too hot and cos the bread gets brown quickly and the inner texture is not fully rose.

After knowing the above problems, i will give a try again. I've set in my mind that i must successful in bread making..worst scenario, invest a breadmaker...hahaha

Cameron Trip with Neighbourhood

Saturday ,08.05.2010 @ 2pm

Our neighbourhood (4 chinese couples including ourself) has make a trip to Cameron Highland for a nite stay. This is our first gathering and certainly bring all of us closer to each other.

We reached Cameron at 7pm and we went to Brinchang nite market to buy the vegetables for our steamboat. Well, as usual when we reach nite market you can resist the food there and everyone are eating the food sell at the roadside. Nevertheless, we still keep our plan happening and continue our steamboat in our rented apartment at around 10pm. This is the latest steamboat dinner that i ever had in my life. As you can imagine, how can our stomach fill up the steamboat stuff since we ate something at the market. So, we continue our steamboat session in the morning for our b'fast. Again, this is another new b'fast that i ever had in my life.

After our heavy steamboat b'fast around 12pm, we checked out and proceed to morning market for our veg shopping.

During this trip, my observation on our neighbourhood as follow.

1) Choo & Yoke Yin - Choo is a very humouros guy and he can easily make everyone laugh and is good to have him in the group . Yoke Yin is a very gentle and quiet lady . She do not easily open up herself to stranger.

2) Melissa & Sunny- both of them can talk alot if they want. Melissa is a very particular lady on cleanliness surrounding her. She is a very hardworking lady and she prepared most of steamboat stuff for us. Sunny is consider a talkative one among the men. He is not inborn with humorous character but he is good in entertaining everyone with all kind of subjects.

3) Lim & Agnes - Agnes is older than Lim of 5yrs. These couple do not talk alot, especially Lim.

He is a bit ego type cos i realised he don't look at your eye when he talk to you (with lady only).

He can be very friendly with guys but not ladies. Well, probably is a good sign so the ladies will not easily attach to him. I think Agnes has a strong character during working time as she need to handle 7 staffs under her. Usually a lady strong at work, she likes to be a little cat (siu nu ren) at home and let all the decision to be made by her partner That's why she can bear Lim's ego character..

Thats all about how i observed everyone in this trip, overall they are great and looking forward to have 2nd trip. Hmm...would suggest a better planning on second trip especially time management as this 1st trip is rather poor one...kekeke

Picnic at TTDI Park

03.04.2010 at 7.30am

We woke up early this morning and prepared ourself to go TTDI Park for picnic. This is the 1st time we been there and we all really like the place. Fresh air, many trees around, playground for the kids, clean & nice jogging track..most wonderful part is the small water stream from the hill. The kids had so much fun there catching small fishes, water and sand. Is really a very nice garden for city folks like us. I mean...there are many garden around us but this one is rather special and attractive.

Is a bit far for us who stayed in Shah Alam to go TTDI but i still think is worth to go once in a while..

When we are about to go home, the kids were asking when are we coming again??? They look so sad and worry that our next trip would be another year kind of thing. Well, in order to cheers them up I said anytime since is not that far..