The next thing I'm going to change will be my Header. Will need to create one with photoshop first. Hope I'll get that up and running soon. Else this current header looks horrendous with my background.
Oh... And you noticed my 'More than you ever wanted to know... About me' section? :-)
Guess what I made yesterday... TAU SUAN.
Decide to make it as the recipe looks really simple. Like a 5 mins job. Turns out... Well actually I'm sure it's still a very simple dish but for me... I spend hours trying to get the texture right.
That stupid recipe says add in sugar then sweet potato flour to thicken. I kept adding sweet potato flour consistently till I used up like half a packet and it's still really watery. Suddenly, the syrup thickens. Phew... Finally...
And... It continues to thicken and thicken and thicken... STOP! But it wouldn't stop. Sonn, I'm left with a very thick gluey goo. Opps... So, I kept throwing out the goo, adding water, adding sugar, throwing out the goo, adding water, adding suger
And I continue the 'throw out the goo, add water, add suger' routine for an hour before it's finally decent... Think the secret trick is to give the syrup 10 mins to slowly thickens up before you decide if it needs more flour. Okie, so maybe it's not so much a secret trick. So maybe, most people knows that. BIG DEAL. :-p
Well, at least it taste like tau suan. Bought the yu tiao from the chinese supermarket. 80p each!!! What a rip-off. No choice, just got to pay for that expensive yu tiao as what I like best about tau suan is not the tau suan itself but the yu tiao. It only taste nice after it's soggy with the syrup.
On the same evening, Damus and Angel cooked this herbal chicken. Very good. Next cooking adventure: I'll try the Pork Chops that they made last week. They are now officially my cooking tester - they try out recipes and if it's good I'll try it shortly. Haha...
