text: Alesia, the home cook - Going back to basics of home cooked meals: June 2010
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  Cekodok (Cucur) Ikan Bilis / Savoury Fritters
  While the English love their scones with jam and butter, we Malaysian definitely love this yummy fritters for tea time. Almost everyone knows how to make this yummy tea time snacks, it's that easy! I made this during my schooling days and even sold some to my friends at school for some extra pocket money. And I remember I had to wake up at 4 am each time I made this because of the frying process plus I had to make minimum 30 pieces. But it's all worth it! Who wouldn't like deep fried yummy-ness filled with wonderful fillings. I can even have it as my main meal! I wonder if any of them still remember this hmmmm. Anyway back to the recipe, like I said it's pretty easy almost fool proof if you ask me. You can jazz it up with any type of fillings ; sweet (bananas) or savoury (ikan bilis/dried anchovies).
  3 tablespoons of oil and some for frying,
  1 cup of dried anchovies, cleaned and soaked in water for 10 mins
  1 teaspoon of curry or chilli powder
  1. Mix all the ingredients for the basic batter until you have a thick batter but if it's too gooey, just add in some water.
  3. Spoon into hot oil and fry till brown.
  4.Drain on paper kitchen towel and serve with chilli sauce. Best eaten while it's still hot and with a cup of kopi o or teh tarik :)
  Note : You can add bean sprouts, julienned carrots, diced potatoes, shrimps, chopped spring onions, sliced red chillies, or chives.
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  My favourite for tea time
  When I was younger, my maternal Granma would make a pot of black coffee (kopi O) for tea time and we would dip cream crackers into our small mugs of kopi O :)
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  I honestly think that the best meal to have when you're feeling under the weather is rice porridge with condiments!
  Stir Fry French Beans with Anchovies and Vegetarian Goose (Chai Siew Ngor)
  Pickled Lettuce and Preserved Olive Leaves
  A handful of sweet preserved chopped radish (soaked in water for 30 minutes, drained, washed and pat dry on kitchen towel)
  1. Beat eggs with salt and pepper until light and fluffy. Set aside.
  2. Heat oil in wok. Stir fry the radish and onion.
  3. Once the radish starts jumping around the wok or make popping sound pour in the beaten eggs.
  4. As the omelette starts to set, lift an edge of the omelette with your spatula and tilt the wok so that the runny unset egg mixture can run underneath and once it's set flip over.
  5. When the omelette sets, slide onto a plate.
  Stir Fry French Beans with Anchovies
  200gm French beans, sliced diagonally
  A handful of dried anchovies cleaned and washed
  1. Heat a little cooking oil in a wok.
  2. Fry the anchovies until crispy and set aside.
  3. In the same wok, stir fry garlic until fragrant. Add in carrots and stir fry for a minute before adding in the French beans.
  4. Once the French beans looks a little translucent, add the remaining ingredients except for the anchovies and cornstarch mixture.
  5. Simmer for a few minutes and just before you turn off the stove, add in the cornstarch mixture give a quick stir and add in the anchovies.
  I'd be posting the recipe for the porridge/congee in a different blog post only because it would be a mighty long post :) So it's not that bad to be sick when you get to enjoy great meal like this eh ;)
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  I joined this baking club on Facebook honestly out of fun and surprised to know their challenges aren't exactly that complicated at all. And for June their challenge was Vanilla Sponge Cake for daddy's (Father's day) and I decided why not. Below is the recipe by the founder of the club and my first attempt didn't turn out how I thought it to be and even though I'm quite sick, I decided to try making it for the second time seeing that Ashley wants them so badly and this time she helped me out a bit :)
  (Makes a 8 inches Round tin / 7 inches Square tin)
  1. Preheat oven to 170~C .
  2. Sift flour, baking powder and salt 2 -3 times. Set aside.
  3. Whisk egg whites with cream of tartar and salt until stiff peaks are formed. Add sugar and continue whisking until stiff peaks form again.
  4. In a separate bowl, beat egg yolks with melted butter, water and vanilla essence. Fold into the egg whites and combine well.
  5. Finally fold in the sifted dry ingredients and pour batter immediately into a cake tin lined with greaseproof paper. Bake the cake for approximately 30 – 40 minutes. The cake is done when the top springs back when lightly pressed.
  6. Remove cake from oven and let it cool completely before decorating it.
  Check out my album for behind the scenes in making this yummy cake.
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