Banana Bread

serve 4-5 preparation 10 mins cooking 30-40 mins

100 g self raising flour
50 g unsalted butter - soft
75 g brown sugar
50 g sultanas
12 g walnuts
1 whole egg
225 g mashed ripe bananas


1. preheat oven to 180C. rub butter into flour until combined.


2. then stir in sugar, sultanas and walnuts. followed by the egg and mashed bananas.


3. mix together well to fully combine ingredients. place mixture into mould, then into a preheated oven for approx. 30 mins.



comment:
i would rather say banana loaf than banana bread. i expected to have a loaf of "bread"... if i know it turns out like this, i will put the mixture into a cupcake mould... i think this will match more to my expectation :) anyway, it tastes really good!

Butter Cookies

makes 2 dozen preparation 10 mins cooking 10-15 mins

175 g unsalted butter
200 g icing sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
375 g plain flour
1 egg
1 egg yolk


1. line two baking trays. combine the butter, sugar and vanilla essence in a food processor until smooth.


2. add the sifted flour, and the egg and egg yolk and process to a smooth dough. wrap in parchment and refrigerate until firm.



3. pre-heat oven to 175C. Roll out the dough either on a lightly floured work surface to 6 mm thick.


4. cut out cookies with your favourite cutters. place the cookies on the sheets and bake for 10-15 mins. cool on wire racks.

the dough is too soft to cut the alphabet,
so i change the cookie cutter to flower and star
which is much easier...

storage:
in an airtight container for 5 to 7 days.

variation:
chocolate flavoured cookie - prepare basic dough, subsituting 2 tbsp dutch process cocoa powder for 2 tbsp of the plain flour.

[500 cookies, p.166]

comment:

• easy and kids-friendly
• adjust the sweetness yourself, 200 g is too much, i reckon.
  

Finally recovered....

back to work
back to normal

though i am still blur blur, should have recovered almost 90% :)

thanks for all the colleagues.

anyway, first day went back to work, straightly got into trouble... don't know why every time get caught must be a big one...

losing US$1m for the company, what will the boss do?...

good thing no one knows, bad thing the whole world know.... once again, what a good year end!

look too awful to work

have been stayed at home for two days, so bored... and thought i was ok to go to work.

this week was my turn to be on early shift. reached office, tried very hard to smile and make myself looked ok , however, everyone had the same comment : you look so pale!

no choice, but had to accept i was unfit for work. that's also explained why the doctor wrote me an extra two days M.C. and have to take medication for 7 days.... (need so long meh? but ah E and CY said, i'd better finish all, or else i might fall sick again...)

as long as i can recover before i leave for Mel, everything is ok for me... want to attend Lianne's graduation lei~

another unproductive day...

another sick day

stomachache whole nite, went to toilet >4 times during the nite...

i confirm i am really sick...

woke up at around 08.00, cooked some congee and went to sleep again.

13.00+ Maria and her hubby came and passed me some medi, bread and biscuits. felt so bad, we were supposed to yum cha with her parent-in-law after church... now didn't go and trouble people to bring food for me...

took the medicine, KO again til 19.00. wanted to get up, but no energy... felt like dying... i finally managed to get out of the bed and tried to cook my dinner.

ah E saw me. she looked so worry. then she insisted to cook some noodles for me. i kept saying sorry to her. she suddenly said "don't you say you're my daughter?" this really touched me hardly... tears almost came out...

tomorrow take a day off, hopefully, can get back to work on Tuesday.

so s.i.c.k...... what a good year end?!

woke up in the morning, body aching... thought it was because over exercising last nite... didn't notice it was a signal of my sickness...

having my driving lesson as usual, was not a good learner (i m not that kind good at operating machine person) + today's body condition. my driving lesson was the worst ever. scolded by the instructor... nearly cry... was questioned by him "do you want to have a lesson when you woke up in the morning".... er... i really wanted but... of coz, my answer was "yes".... but if i knew i was sick... i think i would have call him to cancel the lesson... rather to waste the money... = 3=

kept ignoring the signal, went to see my uncle and have an eye test, went to pharmacy to buy the prescribed lotion for my sensitive skin, took bus to Kofan's place and bought some sushi on the way.

by the time reached her place, i was completely K.O. took some medi then had a haircut. Kofan said she left for China for 2 months she wanted me to look good when i travel to Melbourne.

very similar to the last one, but this time change the colour to purple and cover all the highlights. :)

lying on bed at home after dinner with kofan. received a phone call, so happy, even not feeling well, it was worth to stay awake to talk 3 hours until 01.00.