McDonald's: Buy one drink, get another free (Lattes, McCafe Mochas included)

Every Monday Through Friday, from 2 to 5
Icy cold Cokes, McCafe Mochas, Lattes or Cappuccinos and More, Buy 1 get another 1 free!

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Sausage Bun Againnnnnnn!!! XD

This is a test run, basically I use same ingredient but random potion of it XD I think it is not so hard like before but still not as soft as the one I buy in store. I tend to believe it’s the bread flour now, I will try to buy other brand and try again, Overall is good!! Will try again when I buy new sausage XD

By the way today is CNY, Kung Hey Fat Choi and Happy Chinese New Year! YEAH!

Happy 4th Birthday Pinkberry. B1G1 Free Coupon

Click the picture and print the coupon! Enjoy

Happy 4th Birthday Pinkberry. B1G1 Free Coupon
The freebie starts 1/10 and goes on until 1/25!! Hurry!!

Chicken Supreme Pizza

Well part time job place get hour cut so very free now, so.... cooking! Today I made Pizza and Cookie. The cookie is good but same as what I made before, so I didn’t take picture and post it.

This Pizza is so good, I finally find a good recipe to make good pizza dough. Here is the recipe

Jay's Signature Pizza Crust

10" Pizza size
3/4 teaspoon active dry yeast
1/8 teaspoon brown sugar
1/2 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C) 1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons olive oil
1 cup and 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Jays-Signature-Pizza-Crust/Detail.aspx

1. In a large bowl, dissolve the yeast and brown sugar in the water, and let sit for 10 minutes. Stir the salt and oil into the yeast solution. Mix in 2 1/2 cups of the flour.
2.Turn dough out onto a clean, well floured surface, and knead in more flour until the dough is no longer sticky. Place the dough into a well oiled bowl, and cover with a cloth. Let the dough rise until double; this should take about 1 hour. Punch down the dough, and form a tight ball. Allow the dough to relax for a minute before rolling out.
3. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). If you are baking the dough on a pizza stone, you may place your toppings on the dough, and bake immediately. If you are baking your pizza in a pan, lightly oil the pan, and let the dough rise for 15 or 20 minutes before topping and baking it.
4. Bake pizza in preheated oven, until the cheese and crust are golden brown, about 15 to 20 minutes.

Note: I brushed some olive oil and added some garlic salt to the flat dough before I add the topping!

I cook my owe Tomato sauce
1/2 Onion diced
1 can 14 oz diced tomato
1 can 8 oz tomato sauce
1 can 6 oz tomato paste
1/4 cup sun dried tomato
1 tablespoon ketchup

It is so good and I cant stop eating it XD so my family and me finished the whole pizza!

Kitchens of India - Lamb Curry and Naan

Happy New Year !


Didn’t update my blog for awhile. I have been cooking just keep forgetting to take picture. Today I have a day off and cook and take picture! Well cooked few thing but only this India Lamb and Naan can be share XD ( Angel Food Cake failed… Chocolate cupcake with cream cheese frosting failed…. )_

The lamb is very easy to make cause it has a trick XD buying the curry paste from Amazon !

Kitchens Of India Curry Paste For Lamb Curry, 3.5-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)


The direction of how to cook the lamb with the paste is on the back of the package, basically


All I do is :

1lb Lamb Shoulder
Cut 1 medium onion to thin strip ( can add more since you can see on the picture, most of the onion is melted XD)

Sauté the onion until it is softened
Add the lamb and curry paste mix with 2 cup of water
Once ut starts boiling, turn the heat to low and simmer for 45-50mins with lid.
Keep aside for 5 minutes.
Serve hot.


About the Naan
2.5 Cup Bread Flour
1/2 Tbsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/4 cup water heated to 122F/50C
1egg beaten
2 tbsp melted butter

Sift the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt together
And put the flour mixture to electric mixer
The add the hot water and egg to the mixture, until it for a dough.
Take the dough out and roll it into a ball and return to the bowl.
Keep the dough in a warm place for 30mins.
Knead in the butter to the dough little by little.
Shape the dough to 10 equal balls.
Let it rise in warm place for another 1 hour.
Working with 1 dough ball at a time, flatten, then roll out into 7-inc/18mm circle.
Add to the hot pan and cook until brown flecks appear on the bottom.
Flip over and cook on the other side.


Serve Immediately

Blueberry Macadamia Nut Coffee Cake

I bought some Macadamia nut from costco XD want to make some chocolate chip Macadamia Cookie but then I saw this recipe on my new Cookbook, so I decide to try this instead of making cookie. This taste so good and very easy to make!

1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup whole wheat flour
½ cup firmly packed brown sugar (Original recipe call for ¾ cup)
¾ cup (1 ½ sticks butter, chilled and cut into small pieces)
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ cup buttermilk
1 egg
1 cup blueberry pie filling
¾ cup chopped macadamia nut

Make 1 cake
1) Place all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, brown sugar and butter in bow of electric stand mixer. Turn mixer to low and mix until butter is the size of peas, about 3 minutes. Stop and scrape bowl. Remove ½ cup flour mixture. Set aside.

2) Add baking powder, baking soda and salt to flour mixture. Turn mixer to low and mix 30s. Add buttermilk and egg. Continuing on low, mix just until moistened, about 30s. Do not over beat

3) Spoon batter into greased 13x9x2-inch baking pan, Drop blueberry filling by tablespoonful on top of batter; swirl into batter, sprinkle top with nuts and reserved flour mixture. Bake at 350F for 30 to 40 minutes or until light golden brown.

I cut ¼ cup of sugar since I don’t like thing too sweet, and since this is the first time I use the blueberry filling, I am not sure the filling is sweet or not (XD its not sweet at all!).

By the way I eat the cake without drinking coffee XD so the sweetness is perfect! If you plan to go with coffee maybe you can add that ¼ cup sugar back! Enjoy!

Potato Cream Corn Soup

Trying to make the Japanese Style Cream Corn Soup...... but it become may may version potato cream corn soup lol I am not sure what's going wrong but it still taste good just not the cream corn soup I had in Curry house XD

Here is the recipe
2 14oz can of Chicken Broth
2 14oz can whole corn kernels whole corn kernels
1 14oz can cream of Corn
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup half & half
1 medium size onion, diced
6 medium size potato, diced
1 bay leaf pint of nutmeg salt to taste

Equipment: immersion (stick) blender, regular stand blender or food processor

Put the diced onion and potato, 2 can of chicken broth, 1 can of whole corn kernels (w/o water), 1/2 cup milk, nutmeg and bay leaf in a big pot then bring it to boil and let it simmer for 1 hour. Stir occasionally)

Blend the soup with an immersion blender, or in a regular blender or food processor, until smooth.

Stir in the other can of corn (w/o water) and 1/2 cup half & half and bring it to boil. Serve hot! Enjoy!