🐉 Year of Dragon | CNY Goodies from AFamily

CNY is around the corner & the AFamily members sent over some goodies

Pineapple Balls, Butella Tarts, Love Letter w/chicken floss & Prawn Rolls from ZhenniKuih Lapis, Prawn Roll & 4 mini bottles of assorted cookies from IreneThanks Zhenni & Irene for sending over CNY goodies yearly without fail 💜

 

🐉 Year of Dragon | CNY Goodies from An Old Friend

Got a call from one of my old friend (doesn't wants to be named) informing that he has something for me, 

and it turns out to be homemade pineapple tarts.Thin, melt in the mouth crust and pineapple paste is also made from scratch!Supposed to be for CNY, but ... it was all gone within 3 days!

**Update on 07/02/24

Upon learning that I finished the bottle of pineapple tarts, he made 1 more bottle for me, and also gave me a bottle of salted egg fish skin

Ok, now this is safe to last till at least few day into CNY

**Update on 13/03/24

Haha... old friend went HK, gave me 老婆饼 and another bottle of pineapple tarts.

Blessed that after so many years, this old friend still remembers me during CNY

 

Year of Rabbit | Gifts & Misc

CNY goodies from friends

Goodies from ZhenniGoodies from Nizam & Irene. Thanks, Irene for also remembering that sis likes the sweet treat from Philippines Cute earrings sis bought from ShopeeAnd hair tie but I can only use it as braceletGoodies including pineapple tarts & angbao from QiufenPacked some goody bag for my current teammates

 

Dinner at Evelyn's

Supposed to meet le buddy for dinner at Tampines Mall but becos my little friend is having slight fever, I ended up going over to her house

She ordered pizza as she was out working the entire day & didn't have the time to cook, while I bought bbt. Wayne took the opportunity to make me drink with him cos he says le buddy is not very keen is drinking

And he says he's reserving that bottle of unopened Whisky for my house warming 😘 .. selfie with Meredith before she goes to bed.Thanks, Evelyn & Wayne for hosting dinner & CNY goodies

 

Milkfrost Bakes | Air-fried Nian Gao

Le sister has been wanting to eat Fried Nian Gao but as it's towards the end of CNY period, everywhere is out of stock for nian gao

I went to a lot of places & finally found at Chinatown market but the nian gao was kind of moldy. The shop owner didn't want to sell it to me but eventually sold it to me at $5 (instead of $8 shown on the tag) after I assured him that I won't complain or make a big fuss of it since I'm just gonna fry it & not use it for offering to the deities. 

Instead of the traditional method of coating with batter  (cos I don't have a good recipe of good batter) & deep fry (lazy), I use the puff pastry instead.Cut the puff pastry, roll the nian gao in it & into the airfryer at 180* for 10 minsand there it goes!I also tried using popian skin.But boom ... overflow cos the popiah skin a bit too small 😅

I shall stick to using puff pastry or maybe frozen prata next time. Or if you have any good recipe of batter for deep frying, please share with me!

 

Homemade CNY Goodies

Finally done with the CNY goodies!

1. Seaweed Popiah

Ingredients:

Seaweed

Popiah Skin

Egg

Method:

1.Spread the seaweed on the popiah skin with egg wash

2. Cut into small pieces & fry till golden brown

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2. Baked Cod Fish Snack with Seaweed

Ingredients:

Cod Fish Snack

Seaweed

Egg

Method:

1. Fold 4 strips of cod fish snack & wrap it with a piece of seaweed

2. Bake at 150* for 15mins

I also baked some without seaweed

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3. Pineapple Tarts

Ingredients:

450g Flour

250g Butter

1 Tsp Vanilla Essence

75g Icing Sugar

1 Egg

Pineapple Paste

Salted Egg Yoke (optional)

Method:

1. Mix flour & icing sugar together

2. Add butter, mix till resemble bread crumb

3. Add egg, vanilla essence, knead to a dough that will not stick to hand

4. Roll out & cut into circle

5. Wrap w/pineapple filling & glaze w/egg yolk

6. Bake at 180* for 20 mins

hmm... Somehow I stupidly used only 220g butter instead of 250g. In the end, the dough turns a little hard halfway thru. Thus, the dough breaks! The crust turns out a little like biscuit, but still taste quite good

I added Salted Egg Yoke cos I've been caving for the Taiwanese Pineapple Tarts. Sis used to by them from Taiwan when she is still flying with China Airlines.

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4. Sugared Popiah

Ingredients:

Popiah Skin

Icing Sugar

Method:

1. Roll the Popiah skin, seal with water/egg wash

2. Cut into pieces & fry till golden brown. 

3. Sprinkle with icing sugar

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5. Cornflakes Cup

Ingredients:

90g Butter

1/3 Cup Sugar

1 Tablespoon Honey

4 Cups Cornflake

Rainbow Sprinkles (Optional)

Method:

1. Mix Butter, Sugar & Honey in a saucepan & dissolve the sugar.

2. Add the melted mixture to Cornflakes & mix well; ensure all Cornflakes are coated

3. Scoop into small paper cups

4. Bake at 150*C for 12mins

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6. Fried Crabsticks

Ingredients:

Crabsticks

Method:

1. Defrost, air/fan dry 

2. Fried till golden brown

I've also previously finished a round of Love Letters (Egg Roll) but it's all gone already! Also wanted to bake Peanut Cookies, but do not have the time & energy to do due to my cough, sore throat & flu. 

I hope next year I have the time/ energy to do more of each!