Christmas Log Cake

I always wanted to make a decent Log Cake like other home bakers do. So after reading some tips and inspiration from those expert in M4M site. I decided to try making a Mini Log Cake using the clues and recipes that I collected. Actually when you start making it step by step it not as difficult as it looks.  I think the most challenging part is the spread the whipping cream or ganache evenly over the cake and assemble them to look like tree log. .

Lemon & Coffee Pork Chop

Saw this dish from a cookbook that I loan from the library. Decided to try out the recipe since we are coffee lovers and indeed the end result turns out well with hint of coffee fragrant, sweet and sour taste from the tomato sauce and tender bite of meat.

Steam Cod Fillet With Mushroom

Yeah finally I succeed in steaming Cod Fish Fillet using a very simple method with delicious outcome. The end result taste quite similar to those Cantonese style steamed fish with ginger and light soy sauce.

Steam Luo Han Guo Chicken

Saw this recipe from one of the TV show on 纵横中医三. In one part of this program, there is a cooking show teaching how to use Chinese herbs in our daily cooking to prepare nutrition and delicious dish. Below are some benefits of the herbs used:

罗汉果: Tastes sweet and of cool nature, it clears Heat, treats coughing and nourishes the intestine. e 玉竹: Nourishes Ying, moistens internal Dryness, stimulates Silva and quenches thirst. It heals coughing, treats bothersome thirsty, clears the internal Heat that harms Ying as well as Dryness and pain the throat.