Soft Bun

 Last Saturday, I baked soft bread buns, some are with hotdog, some are with custard and some are plain. I usually bake bread in summer as the temperature is high and good for proofing dough. When I baked my bread first time here in winter, it was a total failure. The temperature was low, below 60 degree F and the proofing failed. My hubby told me not to bake bread anymore as the breads are readily available at any stores. But I did not give up and baked again in summer. Oh, it was a great success. My relatives like them a lot and told me that it is same as buns sold in Chinese bakery.

My First Public Website for Non-Profit Organization

I finished my exams one week ago and I would be free for a week holiday. We often invite the monk, who live near my place, to our place and treat lunch or dinner. Recently, we asked the monk whether there was any website for monastry. He told us that he bought the domain name 5 years ago and one guy helped built website. But the guy was busy and stopped working on website. So, there has been only one home page for 5 years until now.

So, last Friday, I offered him to build monastery's website as I had a week holiday. I was busy working on website for this whole week. We worked until 11pm plus every night and spent most of my time on it. I did not even have time to post any of this week baking. Today, 90% of website is completed and only left with photos, videos and audio uploading and documentation. http://www.paramiusa.org/ is my first website running on public domain to be viewed by many users.  I feel good to have that opportunity to build website.

Burmese Banana Cake (Nget Pyaw Thii Shwe Gye)

 I like burmese banana cake, called Nget Pyaw Thii Shwe Gye. I miss this banana cake very much. I have not eaten it for very very long ago. I have tried it once by modifing Shwe Gye recipe I had. But I could not get the same texture and taste that I had in Burma. Recently, I joined  "Housewife" in facebook and I was browsing  photos - dishes submitted by fans of Housewife. Then, I found a number of burmese banana cake photos submitted by fans and they mentioned that they used one of fan' recipe, Ma Chit Ei Maung. The recipe in Burmese version is also available. ငွက္ေပ်ာသီးမုန္႕လုပ္နည္းကို ျမန္မာလို ဒီမွာဖတ္ရႈႏိုင္ပါသည္။ If you dont have burmese fonts or problem reading burmese fonts in your browser, click here.

Princess Cake for my niece Sofie's Birthday

I had not have time to update the blog recently as I just finished my exam on Tuesday. I made the Princess Cake for my niece Sofie's Birthday on last Sunday. I promised Sofie that I would make the princess birthday cake for her and this was my first time doing princess cake. I already found the stable birthday cake ingredient ratio and method. The cake texture is close to the cake shop here based on feedback from people who had them. My sister-in-law likes yam so I decided to make the yam cake based.

Tasmanian Lavender Muffin

 As usual, I went to Sayadaw's place to treat chicken broth, steamed fish and tasmanian lavender muffin. Sayadaw will stay here for 6 months and I plan to bring chicken broth, one dish and some desserts every Wednesday.

Last night, I was thinking what cupcake or muffin to bake for lunch treat. I suddenly remembered that I have some commercial style Australian muffin recipes. You must be curious how I got those recipes?

Burmese Tofu

March 2, 2010, I am going to sayadaw's place and thinking of what to bring for lunch, in addition of steamed chicken broth. I bought salmons this evening and will bake them tomorrow. I also wanted to try burmese tofu salad but I have to do the tofu myself. This tofu is different from chinese tofu and I like both. I think burmese tofu is originally from Shan state. If you have problem in reading zawgyi font in Internet Explorer, click here. The recipe in Burmese version is also available. တို႕ဖူးက်ိဳနည္းကို ျမန္မာလို ဒီမွာဖတ္ရႈႏိုင္ပါသည္။

Steamed Chicken Broth

 Last Sunday, I went to my aunt place as she invited a Sayadaw from yangon who is now in LA. I heard the conversation between people and monk and learned that he is weak and need some nourishing stuff to replenish body. Then I immediately know what to give him. You guess! steamed chicken broth.