Banana walnut muffins

Haha.. the baker in me is calling for me to bake.. so today i try out the banana walnut muffins!!

Muffins is one of the easiest thing to bake and one can hardly go wrong.. for those 1st time baker, i will recommend u to try out muffins ;p

Banana-walnut muffins

235g all purpose flour
185g sugar
90g walnuts, coarsely chopped
1½ teaspoons baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
125ml walnut oil or canola oil
1 large egg
2 – 3 medium to large very ripe bananas, slightly mashed to yield 315g
3 tablespoons buttermilk


Preheat oven to 190 degrees. Grease 10 standard muffin cups with butter

In a bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, chopped walnuts, baking soda & salt.

In another bowl, whisk together the oil, egg, mashed bananas & buttermilk until blended.

Add the dry ingredients and beat well until evenly combined and creamy.

Spoon the batter into each muffin cup, filling it level with the rim of the cup.

Bake until golden, dry and springy to touch ( 20-25 mins) Transfer to wire rack and let cool for 5 minutes. Unmold the muffins serve warm with butter.

***Walnut oil – excellent for baking, very nutritious and high in unsaturated fat. Do not use toasted walnut oil. To prevent oil from becoming rancid, store it in the refrigerator, keep up to 3 months***


P/S: i didn't buy walnut oil, just used the oil that i have at home which is canola & sunflower seed oil.. keke.. the result turn out good also, and i read from alot of website cautioning the baker not to overmix the batter when u are combining the dry & wet ingredient together, around 12 -15 strokes will do, don't be too disturbed by the lumpy mixture or traces of flour, cos over-mixing will cause the muffin to be very hard.

Braised Noodle

Found the receipe of Braised noodle on www.wokkingmum.blogspot.com and decide to give a try as it was relatively easy.. but realised halfway if i followed the exact recipe, my dish will turn out quite bland so did a little adjustment here and there and it turn out okie, can still improve but it's alrite.. hmm... wokkingmum is really very healthy, cos she uses lesser amount of seasoning..

Sunday breakfast

Hit by a pancake craving therefore decided to make some myself this sunday morning...

used nissin pancake mix, 1 egg & 150mls of milk, whisk it together and using a non-stick pan, fried the pancake for 2 mins... TASTE GOOD!

(next time i shall whisk it more so that the pancake can be lighter, and i shall add bananas to my pancakes)

cooking for my family =)

Chiang.. .chiang.. chiang... chiang.....







Presenting the 1st complete dinner i cooked for my family as shown above, there are,

• Stir-fry cucumber with prawns
• Sliced pork with ginger
• Steamed egg with century & salted egg

Simple dishes but took me 1hr & 15 mins to finished cooking it..

comments from the family,

AH MIN ( the brother) -- passed la... edible

MaMa --- nice, but the pork abit salty, but if go with the rice, it's okie, pork is tender.

ME --- not bad, but the pork really abit salty, must go easy on the black soy sauce next time.

OVERALL --- dinner finished by 3 of us, thumbs up for me, haha.. i'm so proud of myself ;p

so what to cook next??? i'm looking forward to my next cooking session.. haha..

Foot & hand wrap ;p

Did some D.I.Y hand & foot wrap today... the picture above is the product of my DIY.. keke..
bought a book recently by a S'porean author Coreenna Ong titled 'Nature's spa'. The idea of using natural ingredient appeals to me, and the ingredients used in the book are quite straight-forward and easy to get and the concoction easy to blend, therefore decided to give it a try and see whether it really works or not..

Ingredients used today:

• 1 fully ripen Avocado ( haha.. my 1st time buying avocado, didn't know how to choose. anyway, ripe avocado is dark green & feels soft)
• 2 tbs of lemon juice
• 1 tbs of olive oil

Step 1 : mash the avocado to smooth puree

Step 2 : add lemon juice & olive oil. Mix well

Apply a thin layer to either yr foot or hand, use cling-wrap to wrap it after application, then wait for 1hr before removing it. wash off with tepid water. Dap dry.

This concoction is supposed to remove roughness & dead skin cells from hands & feet, while supplying skin with nutrients & moisture.

Verdict: tried it on both of my feet 1st, quite useful, the dry skin really did flake off, feet looks whiter & smoother than before =)

tried it on the hands next, abit of a torture cos with both of my hands wrapped up, can't flick my hair, can't scratch my itchy ears... hee.. tahan only 35 mins & i remove it, hands still feels dry, think it works better for my feet, then again, my hands are really dry from all the hand-washing at work, so i guess will need many many more 'therapy' for it to get smoother... haha..