#4 Pandan Chiffon Cake

Lovely cake for tea time. Its easier to make it with a electric beater. Saves the time to beat eggs with your hand.

Malaysian Pandan Chiffon Cake

* fits a 10" or 22cm pan or larger*

Combine in a large bowl:

6 egg yolks

100ml vegetable oil

50ml coconut milk/cream

1 tsp pandan paste diluted with 50 ml water (or 50 ml pandan juice)

Sift into the pandan mixture and fold until well-mixed:

190g/ 1 and ¼ cup + 1 tsp plain flour

170g/ ¾ cup sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

Using a separate bowl and electric whisk that are completely dry, clean and grease-free, beat the following for 5 minutes or more until a white and stiff meringue:

6 egg whites (there must be no traces of yolk)

90g sugar

1/8 teaspoon Cream of Tartar

Fold two tablespoons of the meringue into the pandan batter. Add the rest and fold thoroughly until well-combined. Pour into a dry ungreased chiffon pan and bake at 180 C (160 C fan-assisted) for 1 hour.

Remove from the oven and invert immediately (if your pan comes without the protuding tabs to support it upside down, invert the pan and insert the neck of a bottle or a metal funnel into the inner tube to balance). Leave to cool in this position and do not unmould cake until completely cold.

To remove, scrape all around the sides with a thin spatula and let the cake slip out gently. Scrape the bottom to remove the base/tube.

#3 Roasted Cauliflower Popcorn

When I was still a kid, I loathed vegetables, like any another child on Earth. I didn't dare to eat those greens , because some looked hard to chew (A little girl's excuse heh?) . I never ate cauliflower, pepper bells(I loathe the taste), broccoli, etc.

If I can recall, I absolutely loved to eat bean sprouts(Taugeh). I would follow my maid to the market ,when it was a walking distance, and help her to choose bean sprouts.

My mum wasn't happy with me not eating certain veges, but its my nature. I'm a picky girl.

When my sister was reading Flavours Magazine July-August 2009 issue, there was an article featuring Bob Blumer , the guy with the super-cool toaster van . I used to watch his show on

Travel& Living, lovely stuff.

There was this recipe called Cauliflower Popcorn. Its a simple way of eating those greens, a slight salty, sweet taste(from the natural sweetness of the cauliflower) , and for me, I like mine soft in the inside and slight crispy on the top.

Roasted Cauliflower Popcorn (Adapted from Bob Blumer's recipe)

Ingredients:

1 Cauliflower

1/4 Cup Olive Oil

1 Tbs Salt

Method:

1. Preheat Oven to 220 Celsius.

2. Clean and cut cauliflower into size of golfballs. (I usually make mine smaller)

3. In a large bowl, add cauliflower, olive oil and salt.

4. Toss thoroughly.

5. Line a baking pan(Shallow types) with parchment paper for easy cleaned up.

6. Roast it for 1 hour. Occasionally check on it and turn over to brown the other sides of the cauliflower. (The browner the florets, the sweeter they will taste. Its called caramelisation process)

7. After an hour, its done.

8. Enjoy!

#2 Tiramisu - A dessert too heavenly to be mentioned

Its quite heavenly, no secrets here. Creamy , luscious dessert, a sinful experience (All the cream and alcohol :O)

The tiramisu is truely one desset so heavenly, even my mulish brother fell to its witching spell.

Wicked dish, I call it.

My best friend's mom made this, and too bad there weren't much alcohol in this , although the underage blogger here wants to go alcohol all the way. Yea, All the Way. Hehhe.

Tiramisu means "Pick me Up" in Italian, yes, I'm picking up more of you next time, bewitching thing!

Thank god I'm going to learn to make this after the exams. The Amaretto will finally come to a use! :)

#1 - You Know me, you don't know me. You don't want to know the real me.

Welcome to Teenage Gourmet .com!

OK, this isn't my first blog, I must shamelessly admit to the whole wide world aka WWW.

Oh, how embarrassed am I. I'm gonna turn into a pink tomato, and it doesn't helps that my cheeks have the blush of cherry blossoms in Spring. Yea, I'm that Pink.

Its my third blog! Well, my primary blog Walking Behing This Alley is a nonchalantly blog of me ranting about well, everything on Earth. Uh oh. Not so good! But its filled with photos of anything cute* that I can find. Feel free to browse through a blog filled with rants of a teenager with growing pains. (How deja-vu to you adults, isn't it?)

* I do mean ultra-super duper cute, kawaii japanese adorable cutesy-ness here.

Ok, enough with me ranting. My, my , I have so many things to say!

This blog is mainly going to be about my adventures with anything and absolutely everything to do with food. Be it checking out a new restaurant(High schoolers don't do that often, heck!), trying out new dishes, baking and anything good that I have , well, its all destined to appear here, on Teenage Gourmet.com! (Maybe I should change the blog link one day.. hmm). And a good place to improve the English language. (Globalisation people!)

I have a fabulous best friend who we both love food , or should I dare say, we both are food gourmet. Our mums are extremely hillarious, with my mum and her specialty in Chinese cooking and her mum's magic with Western cooking, there's always room for improvement.

Both mum's will call up when each has a enquire about the other's specialty, and all end up to one going to the other's house, letting the little girls play. Oh, how shameful we are, gossiping, while the mummies are gossiping too.

That's all for now, my first food post will be posted up tomorrow!

We're all hungry people, after all!