tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16879950434872774832024-03-07T16:50:17.753+08:00The Kitchen Guardian....a walk in my life as a legal counsel in the day dealing with six growing kids and my bakeshop that operates after eight....KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.comBlogger428125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-42281378277635460832015-11-15T00:20:00.001+08:002015-11-15T03:43:52.534+08:00My Pavlova and I
Assalamualaikum everyone! Hallo and hi, i have been away far too long. I have been busy could be my excuse , but the truth is my blog is not in my priority list at the moment.
But I feel that I should write as I have been showing my students how to make pavlova... And recently the weather had been so humid and the pavlovas that I have been making using my recipe has become moist KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-84173577034092462752015-06-29T08:43:00.001+08:002015-10-21T05:57:27.627+08:00Two Years and We Are Staying...
Assalamualaikum and good morning! I have not been updating my blog and i'm not ashamed to admit that. I believe that at this age, I will do what I had to do and updating my blog was not in my top priority list. But, I have many things planned , hence, closing down this blog was not in my to do list.
On 1.7.2015 would mark my two years leaving full time employment... 2 is just a small number.KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-803803425001211612015-02-23T00:08:00.001+08:002015-02-23T00:12:49.171+08:00Being True To Yourself, Let's Bake Congo Bars!
A 3 tier Victoria Sandwich Cake with Swiss Meringue Buttercream and fresh flowers
Assalamualaikum and hiya peeps...days after my last post I felt the pressure coming to me. Yeah, it is not easy to live up to your words. I have started embarking on the things that I wanted to do and the necessary preparations on the projects for 2015 and 2016.
One of the goals was to test ie to bake KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-79692877444420403452015-02-11T17:28:00.002+08:002015-02-23T00:12:07.071+08:00About your passion .... and hello 2015 !
A picture of my second peonie that I learnt from Anissa, could not upload my pictures from my MacBook, lol...
Assalamualaikum and hello there everyone... sorry for the very long hiatus, I wouldn't promise that I will be here often, but, I hope I do not do another disappearing act. It is already February 2015, however, I think it is not too late to say hello 2015....for I haven't yet KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-57148066714561592552014-10-15T23:36:00.001+08:002014-10-15T23:38:22.514+08:00Close Your Eyes.........
Close your eyes, let me tell you all the reasons why...I think you're one of a kind...here's to you...the one that always pulls us through...always do what you gotta do...you're one of a kind...thank God you're mine....
I recently returned from my holiday in Paris...it was more of a baking holiday, I attended classes, explored new recipes, tasted new desserts, explored new favourites....KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-5483044979306810562014-06-24T21:36:00.001+08:002014-06-24T21:38:10.870+08:00One Year and Six Kilos Away.....Blessed Ramadhan To You!
Assalamualaikum peeps! I'm back (briefly) after a long hiatus. Well, when I quit work I thought that I would have more time to myself, but I got that wrong ....and no I am not complaining. I have been baking a lot, more than I expected...well, to make ends meet. But really, I just couldn't turn down orders, tak sampai hati....last Saturday I baked 12 cakes, 50 mini pavlovas, one pavlova and KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-90602251572179771832014-04-21T23:19:00.001+08:002014-04-21T23:55:14.934+08:00TKG
A macaron tower made with my student, it was her first experience making macarons!
Hiya peeps! It has been more than two months since I last wrote here. I have been terribly busy....well all the home bakers have been busy! However, I must make some jottings here as 1.4.2014 came, and left us, that marked a one year anniversary since I threw my resignation letter. Time passed by without you KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-52755410627706371372014-02-06T22:09:00.002+08:002014-02-06T22:14:36.264+08:00Team Work Makes The Dream Work
Hi ya peeps! Except for the Kuala Lipis macaron tower drama, I had an awesome most demanding week, last week. There were lots to be done, but thank god for the support that I got form my ad hoc team members!
...first there was the wedding fondant cupcakes' team, Zulaikha and Nadia dropped by my studio to assist with topping the cupcakes and covering them with fondant. Zulaikha also KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-69482732511470218182014-01-28T01:40:00.001+08:002014-01-28T01:40:16.039+08:00Hello February!
Hiya peeps! They say that time flies when you are having fun....I guess that is what I am going through now....it felt like yesterday that we hopped into 2014, and now we are in the last week of January already! What scares me is that I haven't written my goals properly for this year, erk! So...I might just drift into an auto doing mode....
...there are many things that I wanted to KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-6616340323336679002014-01-21T16:06:00.001+08:002014-01-21T19:29:25.328+08:00Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
Hiya peeps! As promised, here's the recipe for Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies I made a few weeks ago. It was basically melted chocolate with a wee bit of flour and eggs and baked to a chewy and gooey cookie!
Ingredients (Recipe is from David Lebovitz's Ready For Dessert Book)
450g bittersweet chocolate, I used Callebaut 58% cocoa buttons
60g butter
70g flour
1/2 tsp baking KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-22170345593945575702014-01-17T00:26:00.000+08:002014-01-17T04:38:22.122+08:00Swinging into 2014!
Hiya peeps! I have been away from this blog way too long that I don't know where to begin! It has been almost 7 months since I left full time employment, I don't miss it a bit except the friendship and companionship of my colleagues! But I do pop by Menara every once in a while for coffee or lunch....
I think I am getting into the rhythm of my new life now...yeah only now, but slowly... KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-75171025963237223692013-10-23T09:04:00.000+08:002013-10-24T09:15:16.468+08:00Banana Chocolate Pavlova .... when the rubber hits the road!
Assalamualaikum and good morning peeps! I am updating my blog because the house is quiet, I have to send Muhammad to the baby sitter but I have a few bakes to finish before 12! But then, I must share with you this....the chocolate pavlova and how I feel now....
It might seem scary , but I realise that now I am going through what I have been reading or what my Dato Shaz goes through every KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-3849012736680130972013-10-17T00:34:00.000+08:002013-10-21T07:22:59.258+08:00Devilishly Moist Chocolate Cake ..... I Am A Baker!
Hi ya peeps! I just realised that it has been almost 2 months since I last updated my blog! urgghhh! Yes, I have been busy, very very busy! Things move in flashes when you work on your own! I am not complaining, but I realise that you achieve more when working on your own....baking ...the baking business is doing fine alhamdulillah....Mondays were usually my rest days, but I have busted that KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-78013346034910100432013-08-14T01:26:00.000+08:002013-08-14T01:33:25.161+08:00Faith Food Fashion....Post Ramadhan....
Hi yaa peeps...it's almost a week when we first celebrated Eidul Fitri, and we are still celebrating. The mood is still strong, especially for the Johorian, I must say.
For me, since hubs and I have the luxury of choosing our off days, hubs have decided that we spent more time together in Pontian, Ayer Baloi....but I do not wish to blog about that apart from the new swimming pool that hubs KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-21925265937904696642013-07-22T06:32:00.004+08:002013-07-22T06:34:40.032+08:00Moving On.....
.....moving on does not mean that you forget the past, it means that you've accepted it and decided to live with it....
Well peeps, it should have been my off day today. But, I will be delivering this beauties as instructed by their beautiful sender (I am only but the baker, hi hi). This will be my routine for the next two days. Thank you the "tiger bank" for giving me this opportunity again:KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-44543981146170103712013-07-10T11:51:00.000+08:002013-07-10T11:58:54.382+08:00Let's Go To Madrasah Ramadhan
Salam Ramadhan and good morning! I feel so overwhelmed now...I haven't gotten use to my new schedule, and now I have a new routine, even though just for a month....I am not complaining except the part where I still haven't replied all the messages I received since Thursday...I'm so sorry ladies....I will reply them slowly but surely, inshallah...
You know when I decided to tender my KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-7897673006504724342013-07-07T23:38:00.001+08:002013-07-08T00:16:03.140+08:00Bakers' Day Off!
Salam and hi! I am slowly getting into the grooves of working on my own now. Haven't got a routine yet as I still run like a headless chicken especially from Thursdays to Sundays! The days seem shorter and I found that I have more things to do! But, I love the idea that I don't have to brace the traffic anymore in the mornings.
...I also realise that I have to shower immediately when IKGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-68745258619302790262013-07-03T02:21:00.000+08:002013-07-03T02:29:41.100+08:00A Walk In The Park....
Salam and good morning! It will be my third day of retirement today. Am I enjoying the 'freedom'...yeah I guess, but funny I thought I have been having this feeling all this while....I suppose this thought of me not going to work has been in me without me noticing it all along...what am I saying...whatever...it is already the wee hours of the morning....
My last day of KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-50292570823511286512013-06-24T03:28:00.002+08:002013-06-25T13:35:34.657+08:00Just Do It!
Assalamualaikum and good morning! I have just got up to do some baking. I have been doing this lately...got an early night to rise early to bake before I left for work. Easier...but having said that I have 2 more days to go to work, from 26.6, I will start my leave and officially 1.7.2013 I won't be a blue telco staff anymore.
Scared...of course, anxious? Definitely...but I am alreadyKGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-40605952301023497502013-06-12T18:40:00.000+08:002013-06-13T10:41:19.877+08:00Random Thoughts but Let's Go Places!
Hi ya you all! After almost a month in hiding, well sort of but done unintentionally, I wish to pen down some thoughts...a lot took place in a month period....thoughts change and new goals set!
...you know that apart from taking food pictures I love to capture moments...no not the wedding kind of moments but those moments that one cherish forever...I have tried doing that after I came KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-41715223064944541082013-05-20T20:31:00.001+08:002013-05-20T20:46:53.777+08:00The Baking Series....What I have Learnt!
I recreated the cymbidium orchids that I learnt in Bangkok! I'm not afraid of doing wired petals anymore!
Hi you alls! Yup! I call the classes that I have had so far, the Baking Series....I have started having the classes way back in March, April and May. I will have 2 classes in June, one of which will be in Kota Bharu, and another one possibly in Kuantan, before I break for KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-10414728571636634642013-05-03T15:24:00.001+08:002013-05-03T15:24:42.711+08:00Of Goals, the Polls and My (Children's) Future....and Dark Chocolate Mousse
Hi ya peeps.....the General Election no. 13 is just around the corner. I have never been really passionate about the election before, even though I never missed my duty to cast my vote. But, this time it is different, to me it is not about us anymore.....our generation is going into the retirement generation (well! I am retiring in about 60 days time!)...so, really it is about our KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-14404942766926982152013-04-29T11:35:00.002+08:002013-04-29T12:37:26.781+08:00A New Journey Begins....
Good morning peeps! Sorry for the very long silence...I have been very busy in the office and of course in the kitchen. My growing up kids also are demanding more attention....thank god for hubs who does the kids ferrying to extra classes and the laundry still! I take care of the kitchen and cleaning of the house. Even then, hubs organised my baking stuffs last weekend!
I KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-60763507710342333342013-04-09T13:01:00.001+08:002013-04-09T14:46:25.500+08:00Khob Kun Ka! Spring Gala Class With Handi Mulyana
"Khob Kun Ka" or thank you was one word that I thought was not over used in Bangkok. I just came back from my sugar flower class last night with the magnificient cake artist Handi Mulyana. ...and the experience was well worth more than the THB38,500 that I have paid! I joined my sugarpaste teacher Anissa in this class, yeay!
Our class was from Friday 5.4.2013 until Sunday 7.4.2013. We KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1687995043487277483.post-86870913354458923882013-03-19T15:52:00.001+08:002013-03-19T15:52:40.517+08:00When I Fall In Love.....
Hiya peeps! Did you know that when I started baking I slowly found my liking for fondant and sugar flowers. Then, I realise that the flowers that I wanted to do were peonies and rananculus. ....I have been blessed to meet my passionate young sugarpaste teacher Anissa who taught me this two flowers...I am so in love with this flowers! Now....phalaenopsis and double barrel KGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584884873788010452noreply@blogger.com3