Bunga Tongkeng/夜来香 - Edible Flower

Oh my kucing! Mamarazzi really 發花癫 ? Gone crazy about flower ah? On Wednesday morning she went to the morning market and bought these.

Papa asked for what? She said the seller told her that these are edible flowers. The seller said it's called 夜来香. Wah lau eh....luckily it is not called  夜香(poo).

Mamarazzi asked her gardening "kaki(s)" and they told her it's called Bunga Tongkeng/Bunga stokin/Chinese Violet/Tonkin Jasmine/Bunga Tangkal Ledang/Fragrant Telosma and the scientific name is Telosma Cordata.

When Papa heard the word Tongkeng he laughed and asked whether she knows what it meant or not. Of course she knows and the flowers doesn't have tongkeng ayam smell leh. In fact it has a sweet scent.

Her gardening members taught her a few recipes on how to cook this. Among that  :-

1) Cook soup- just some anchovies/mince meat/pork ribs, salt and egg with this.


2) Omelette

3) Stir fry with any kind of meat/minced meat or seafood like prawns and clams.

4) eat raw as "ulam".

Mamarazzi opt for stir fry with meat. Easy. Just slice the meat thin and marinate it with salt and soy sauce for half an hour. Chop some garlic. Put a bit of oil into the wok, fry the garlic till fragrant and add in the meat. When the meat are nearly cooked, just add the flowers. Done. Oh ya...just add a bit of salt to taste.

She asked me to be guinea pig taste wor but I said "no thanks". Papa tasted. Said nice. Last Mamarazzi taste. She said good also. Taste a bit like the stir fried lily bulb that she had in Cameron Highland. Only that these are not as sweet as the Lily Bulbs

 Papa told Mamarazzi not to cook all. Leave some for him to eat as Ulam.

 Eat as ulam taste sweeter than when it's cooked wor.

Yesterday she went to pasar (market) again; hunting for this flower. Lucky for her, yesterday there were two stalls selling this.

According to her gardening members, eating this flower is good for the eye sight. Feedback from her members is that now very hard to find this flower being sold in the wet market.

Came home ...made omelette.  Too stingy. Put too little  flowers coz she wanted to make soup pulak today.

Now she planning to plant this at home. Then harvest the flowers for cooking. Not bad leh....it would give out lovely scent and can be eaten . Just perfect leh. Gotta go to nursery in Sg Buloh to find liao. 

No-Knead Artisan Bread (Modified)

 

Funny title? Added "modified" coz copied and modified from Yee Ling's blog . Here is the link to her blog post for the complete and non-lausai recipe http://www.inhouseling.com/2015/08/ling-bakes-no-knead-artisan-bread.html.

Not long ago, Mommy Ling posted her No-Knead Artisan Bread recipe online. Hmmm.....and not long ago Papa pulak started to hint about making cibaitah cibata (how to pronounce ah? Nanti wrong pronunciation , people think I say bad word pulak)... Ciabatta? Chiabatta?

A look see to Mommy Ling's blog...she got a recipe that look like Ciabatta wor...Is it ciabatta? Seems very easy wor. Throw everything in..leave it overnight and then stuff into the oven for about 30 minutes ..kau tim... 

 Kiasu punya pasal. Saw can add seeds to the bread...so Mamarazzi also added whatever "bird seeds" that were in the fridge la...flax seeds...melon seed...chia seeds...sesame seeds..whatever nut and even rosemary.

Seems like the recipe calls for 1 : 2....1 cup water : 2 cups flour. Mixed everything together. Cover with plastic clinging wrap and leave it to rise overnight.

Next morning see...ALAMAK! Pop up so high and seems to so sticky geh...doesn't look like any photo in Mommy Ling's blog wor.

Fast-fast message sifu...lucky Sifu fast fast reply say memang is like that oh. Just sumbat into the oven will jadi one. 

How to "dust" the bread ah? Pakai hentam again la. Just scoop and throw into the flour la. Roll it around till not sticky then put into the oven lo.

Come out...uiks .... Sifu memang Sifu wor this Mommy Ling. Come out not bad leh. The "skin" crusty but inside soft.

Papa saw....hmm...apa lagi...he went and made scramble eggs lo....kept asking Mamarazzi have spring onions or not...errr....sorry la...haven't grow spring onion yet in the garden. Have to make do lo.

 Hehehe...tell you hor...flax seed very good for "digestion" and "detox".....at least for Papa case la. After eating that, the next day... very nice to go "toilet" leh. He said not lausai but just very "smooth" wor. *No eyes see*. I eat my cotton candy la.

Mamarazzi's agak-agak recipe :-

Ingredients :- 

2 cups of unbleached all purpose flour
1 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon of Edmonds' Sure To Rise Surebake Active Yeast
(expired liao in Feb. That's why put 1/2 teaspoon instead of less. But true to its name leh....sure rise leh)
1 cup of water
Agak-Agak Sprinkle of Chia seeds, flax seeds, sesame seeds, rosemary, raisin, walnut...(errrr...what else in the photo ah... Mamarazzi also forgotten liao.You suka wanna taruk what hentam aje la) 


Method :-



- Mix everything in a mixing bowl. Make sure it's big enough coz it will grow double the size from whatever lump in the bowl leh. Don't worry about the salt killing the yeast.
 - Add water and mix till sticky dough like you making Pan mee though not till the dough is smooth la. No need to knead mah.
-Use cling wrap and cover the bowl and set aside overnight. Mamarazzi stuff it into the oven coz it's "hotter " there than in the kitchen counter.
- Heat oven to 450 degrees. But our oven only have Celsius. So agak agak hentam to 200°C la. Mamarazzi also same like Sifu doesn't have cast iron pot. So just hentam bake cake container la. . Heat for 30minutes.
- While the containers having a sauna in the oven, Mamarazzi start playing with the dough. Scoop and throw into the flour. Tried to make it into a ball but it's just too lembik(soft). No eye see. Just cover it up and wait for the oven to beep la.
- Oven beep. Take out the containers. Put in the dough and cover it with stainless steel plates. Bake for 30minutes.
- After 30 minutes remove the lid and bake some more. At this stage must keep peeking at the bread. If see the surface brown , that means can take out from oven and put onto the cooling rack liao.


Sound simple hor? For the accurate and complete recipe, head over to Mommy Ling's blog la.  Oh ya...don't put so much flax seed like Mamarazzi ya.

Mamarazzi Bakes - Prawns & Eggs

 Not long ago Papa brought home some big prawns. I love it when it's simple stir fry with garlic and Soy Sauce. I can have my rice with the gravy. But always make that boring pulak. Change a bit la. Bake prawns pulak.


She said bake prawns are easy wor. Just chopped a few pips of garlic with some rosemary. Put a spoonful of butter into the pan then heat it up. Throw in the chopped garlic and fry a bit. By right have to chop the prawn meat too but she kinda forgotten about it. Put into the freezer to freeze up the butter so that it's easier to stuff the prawns.

Stuffed the prawns. Added some cheese on top. Put the prawns into the fridge and go fetch me from school. Came home just need to stuff it into the oven  and baked for 10 minutes. 
 

Due to her "agak-agak" recipe, there were leftover chopped garlic, rosemary & butter. Not to waste. Experiment pulak.

Not long ago she read how mommies tricked their kids to eat vegetable but making these "tarts" . No tarts pastries. Just hentam used popiah skin la. pour in the leftover stuffs and eggs. add cheese one top. Baked with the prawns.

Oppss.....oven too hot. The top of popiah skin burnt.

 Errrr...can eat or not punya ah?

Bottom looks okay. can lah...can eat la. Taste okay la...need to do some adjustment. Practise more then maybe she can make it nicer la.