FamilyTreasures

Mille Crepes

Have you heard of Mille Crepes?? It's a traditional cake which is rarely seen nowadays.. A colleague of mine ordered 2 sets the other day and unfortunately I didn't get to taste it as I was on MC.. bohoo.. review from another friend said that it was unordinary and the taste was nice! she ordered oreo and cheese flavored mille crepes..

so what is this mille crepes cake??

Here's what it is: 20 (as opposed to 1,000) lacy crepes layered with clouds of whipped-cream-lightened pastry cream. The top crepe is spread with sugar and caramelized like creme brulee. A fork plunged into a slice slides like a shovel through fresh snow. You get a whiff of smoky sugar, then layer after silky-sweet layer.

taken from: NewYorkTimes

There were online shops in Penang, KL and Johor that sells them. Not wanting to pay much for the whole piece of cake, I instead went to search for recipes.. Not many variations found and the recipes quoted by most bloggers came from the link above. Anyway, so I thought of giving it a try.. Indeed it was a fun + tiring experience flipping and frying the crepes.. I didn't use too much cream, afraid it would make it taste dull.. Also, since I don't like the taste of custard and definitely not my husband (i think i boiled the milk too long until it became a custard like structure instead of creamy), I tried adding some oreos to the cream and reduce the quantity of sugar needed. The taste wasn't that bad.. as my friend would rate it 7.5/10.. it's missing a lot of cream in between the layers.. but the taste was almost there.. enjoy!

btw..i do see that the pics are so much sharper.. SLR do wonders..! too bad i'm not that interested in learning how to use it properly.. automatic setting is the way to go!

Cinnamon Roll

This is my long overdue post.. i am very slow in updating the blog. I don't remember when this was.. but this is one of my fav recipes.. cinnamon rolls.. simple and tasty.. i usually don't make the icing.. it's too sweet.. tried it before and pour it over the top of the roll after it cooked.. can't endure the sweetness.. since the icing is pure sugar.. not healthy too!! recipe taken from betty crocker's baking book.. i forgot to take the pics after it was baked..

camera went kaput

I've had my Sony DSC-WXX (don't remember the exact model no...the one that was 8 megapixel??) for a few month after the 1 year warranty ended.. and suddenly the following had to happen.. searched the internet for any known defect/recall issues with their image sensor and was hoping that what I found applies to my cam as well..

http://www.imaging-resource.com/badccds.html

After talking with the Sony service center recep. they said that there's no such thing.. so bohooo.. Anyway, i sent it to be repaired hoping the it doesn't cost much.. after a week.. they said that it's repaired.. and they didn't need to replace anything.. there goes my RM 20++ just to have their technician fix it.. maybe if i were to disassemble the whole thing myself, i'd be able to fix it with FOC assuming that there were prob something loose or what not.. n'way lesson learnt.. try fixing it first (since it's not already covered by warranty) if possible.

Sewing project

I have sewn a few things... Most of them being simple:

skirt

short/pants

bag

curtains

Most of the things I sew are things that are useful, not purely for decoration purposes... Sewing isn't that too difficult but it does require your energy, time and dedication.. I am the type of person that likes to finish sewing the whole piece in a day or 2 and not more.. If it got extended, then it'll probably be neglected and become an unfinished object.. That is why I only do my sewing on the weekends where I can dedicate the whole day just to get over with it.. Usually, I'll cut all the pieces for all projects that I'd be working on. And the sewing will be done on another day where I try to finish all those that has been cut.

Most of the sewing that I do comes from patterns that are either from sewing book or sample of clothes that I already have.. It is easier having an example than just imagining how it would turn out in the end.. A sketch would sometime helps too.. Anyway, here are some of the completed pieces..

These bags were made based on the pattern found in madebyrae.. credit goes to her!

Pets story

I love rabbits... I remembered when I was small, I would ask my dad for a rabbit. Sadly, the rabbit that he brought back didn't last long.. Instead, I had a tame monkey as a companion, given by a friend, i think.. At that time, our house were surrounded by jungles on a hill. We had placed the monkey in its own cage at the back of the house. His name was "Acu". Cute little monkey who likes to feast on bananas.. We had him for a while until the day that we had uninvited visitors barking loudly in the middle of the night for our "Acu". That was the last time we had a 'real' pet. I don't consider the cats that come to my parents house as pets.. because they came just to have their meal or have shelter but were not really friendly. My mom likes feeding them with leftover foods and they just keep coming, even after we left him quite far off from the house (> 1 km), they'd still come back..

Fastforward... with the agreement of my husband, we started to take in rabbit. During that time, we were staying in an apartment and there were only me and him. So, we got ourselves a cute baby rabbit for RM30+ and put him in a cage which actually costed more than the rabbit itself. It was really cute, and I was able to clean his cage myself.. After a while, Hamzah came and the rabbit got bigger. I cannot tolerate his poop anymore and my husband cannot tolerate it as well. So, we decided to let go of the rabbit

Now, that we have moved to a bigger place, we continued or shall i say, restarted the rearing of rabbits. It has been more than a year and we have seen soo many baby rabbits appearing. To date, there are > 13 rabbits in our yard.. maybe I should create a family tree for this rabbit family, which started with 3 + 1.

Here are some latest piccies...

My big fat stromboli

I got this recipe from one of my Bread book (Publisher: DK). The recipe was simple and easy to follow. The bread turns out soft and good. But i guess it was a bit too huge?? Nevertheless, it was really yummy.. i used mozarella, mushroom and some herbs as the filling..