Everybody love Christmas

I was flied to Australia during my semester break back in 2009 and had truly memorable times there.Christmas celebration in Australia is quite different from what we normally do in Malaysia. You will find those differences in my post. 

 Advent calendar. A special calendar to count the days of Christmas. 

D.I.Y decorations.

Christmas tree.

Deer made from tree trunk and branches. 

It's not difficult for you to see their creativity in decorating their homes. 

Santa stuck on the tree. 

Maybe it's time for him to reduce weight? 

It's all about eggs

I am so crave for eggs recently. It is the simplest dish to make I have to say.

1. Deviled egg. Halve the hard-boiled egg, take out the egg yolk, mix with mayonnaise and dash of pepper. Pipe the egg yolk into its original place. Sprinkle some parsley flakes on top.

2. Egg mayo crackers. Prepare a hard-boiled egg. Finely chopped the egg white and egg yolk. Combine with mayonnaise, dash of pepper and salt. Initially I wish to add some raisins. But later I came to find out that my stored raisins were out of stock. So I added Sunsweet prunes instead. Lastly, spread the mixture on crackers and sprinkle parsley flakes on top.

3. Chawanmushi.

Ingredients 

2 eggs 

150ml soup stock (I used tomato soup stock)

soy sauce 

pepper

sesame oil 

Method

1 Combine all the ingredients. 

2 Filter.

3 Cover with aluminium foil. Use toothpick to make some holes. 

4 Steam for 10 minutes. 

Poached Egg and Mashed Potato Breakkie

Mashed potato is an easy and simple dish. My younger sister love it so much and requested mashed potato as her breakfast every morning.

Mashed potato 

1 Peel the potatoes.

2 Cut them into slices. 

3 Slimmer potatoes over pot of water for 15 minutes. 

4 Mash the potatoes. 

5 Add butter, mayonnaise, pepper and salt to taste.

I understand that good poached egg should have running egg yolk and mine one seem overcooked. But that's what I want. I don't like egg yolk in its liquid form. So instead of poaching around 4 minutes, I prolonged to 7 minutes. 

Easy Poached Egg
recipe source: Simply Recipes

Ingredients 
Fresh eggs
1 to 2 teaspoons vinegar

Method 
1 First bring water in a saucepan to almost boiling. At this point, you can add one or two teaspoons of vinegar to the water. The vinegar will help the egg whites to congeal more easily.
2 Working with the eggs one by one, crack an egg into a small cup, then place the cup near the surface of the hot water and gently drop the egg into the water. With a spoon, nudge the egg whites closer to their yolks. This will help the egg whites hold together.
3 Cover.Let sit for 4 minutes, until the egg whites are cooked.
4 Lift eggs out of pan with a slotted spoon.

New Year Celebration @ Melbourne

Yesterday I was in the countdown crowd at Padang Kota Lama. The fireworks were fantastic but so sad my camera was out of juice. So I am going to post some old pictures of my 2010 New Year celebration in Melbourne instead.

It was a raining day. The Crown casino was like refugee camp. Hundreds and thousands of people rushed into it to save from getting wet.

We planned to spent our new year eve at Federation Square. However due to the heavy rain, we had to change it to the Crown.

Flinders Street Station. People were going back after the celebration.

Beth's Kitchen Open Now

Hi people. Beth here. It is 2011 and I have started to run my very first food blog. I am very much passionate in eating delicious food and taking good photo of them.  I do cook but not very often. I cook only for fun and in times of starvation (when my mother away from home and not leaving me any warm cooked food.) I will turn twenty-one in a couple months of time. But I do really love BENTO-making. I have a collection of cutie bento stuffs brought from 100 Yen.

I was born and raised in a family that speak mainly Mandarin and studied at Chinese-based primary and secondary school. I could talk and write well in Chinese undeniably. But when things come to English, I can tell you for sure I am not doing well on it. And at first, I quite hesitating on starting a food blog on Chinese medium or English.

Now you can see my decision. Life is the journey of learning. So why don't start learning from now. Who knows I might be a master in English one day.

HAPPY NEW YEAR and HAPPY BLOGGING.