Donut Suria

Salam to all,

Happy leap year everyone ;)  Wouldnt it be great that if those born on this day only gets old every 4 yrs hehehez.  I know that it will be hard for the teenagers bcos when I was at that age, I wanted to grow up to be an adult so much.  Right now, at this age, I wish I can turn back time.....haizzz.  Anyway, I didnt do any leap of joy today.  Just went to Hamilton to visit aunty Eton and did my groceries at the same time.

It's been two days in a row that I made these donuts.  Yesterday, hb requested for them and asked me to fill the donuts with whipped cream. I didnt photo the donuts yesterday as I couldnt be bothered to cos I know that I will be making them again today.  I made them again today as aunty Eton requested for me to bring her some donuts when I visit her today.  I've been using this trusted donut recipe all the time since its so easy to remember the ingredients.  They come in 3s and 2s.  I didn't have much time left and needed to hurry to Hamilton just now and didn't get to take 'pretty' photos.

Source : Mamafami
Ingredients
(A)
3 cups flour
3 tblsp caster sugar
3 tblsp shortening
3 tblsp milk powder

(B)
200ml lukewarm water
2 tsp instant yeast
20ml water extra - if needed

Method
1) Mix well all the ingredients B.
2) Pour into ingredients A and knead until smooth and shiny.
3) Roll to abt 1/2 thick and cut with a donut cutter.
4) Leave to proof for abt 30 mins or until double in size.
5) Fry on  medium heat till golden brown.
6) Coat with sugar.
As usual, I skipped step 1 & 2 and used the breadmaker to do the hard work for me ;)


Summer has been too wet and cold with a few very fine, hot days this year.  Our chillies didnt grow in abundance like last year's :(  Apart from the weather, I have to blame hb too and he does agree that it was partly his fault hehehez.  He didn't prepare the soil properly this year, no compost and no after care.  He was really rushing to plant them.  Out of 20 plants only 12 survived and they were only little......

I prefer red chillies here as the green ones can be easily bought from the supermarket or the asian shop.  The red chillies are more expensive.  Saw them at supermarket just now and they cost $46 a kg yellpp!!!! Ahamdullilah these ones in the planter box are turning red.  Up to date, I've harvested 3 red chillies in total yeayyyy!! :ppp  Will share photos of corns next time....they are ready to be harvested......

Banana Doughnut

Weather for Te Awamutu today

Season :
Summer
Forecast :
Cloudy
Temp : 35°C | 15°C
Current :
Chance Of Rain
Temp : 19°C

Salam, Kia Ora...

Tonight, the NZ sky is brightly lit by a full moon.  Whenever the moon is full, I can hear wolves howling....hahahaz. Like real huh :D (if I'm not wrong there are no wolves here, no snakes & scorpions either) too much watching Vampire Diaries!!  Just getting frustrated with VD actually :( next week, is season 2 finale.  Haiizzz they just took a break before Xmas, aired again towards the end of January for 5 or 6 episodes and now they are going on a break again.  Argggghhh!!!

Btw, I saw this yummilicious easy peasy doughnut recipe at Izah's blog while blog walking one day.  Originally the recipe calls for mashed pumpkins.  Not really a big fan of pumpkin, in fact I don't really like them...hehehez.  I've decided to magically change the mashed pumpkin to a cinderella's coach instead.  Oooppsie I mean to mashed bananas...hehehez.  I totally agree at how Izah described the doughnuts, being soft and how easy it was to make.  Don't have to proof the mixture.  Just dump everything in a bowl and fry away ;)

I made them this morning at abt 10am, there were still some leftover at 10pm.  I had a bite and guess what....it was still ohhh so soft ;)  Definitely will be making these little beauties again.  This is what u call a NO FAIL doughnut recipe.  Thank you Izah for sharing the recipe.....

Source : Izah Muffin Lover / Cooks.com

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder (I used double action)
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup sugar
1 cup mashed banana
1/4 cup milk
2 tbsp oil
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1 egg
Oil for frying

Method
- Sift flour, baking powder & salt together into a bowl.
- In a bowl add sugar, mashed banana, milk, oil, vanilla essence & egg and whisk with a fork until well combined.
- Add combined wet ingredients into the the dry ingredients until moistened. Then fry in hot oil, medium heat (dropped by tablespoon).

Enjoy the rest of the weekend everyone....*oooowwwwwww*

Me Te Aroha...With Love,
Anie ;)

Kuih Keria (Sweet Potato Donut)

Weather for Te Awamutu today

Season :
Summer
Forecast :
Rain
Temp : 23°C | 20°C
Current :
Raining With High UV(7) Warning
Temp : 21°C

Did anyone miss the sheeps :D ??

Salam, Kia Ora...

How's everyone?  Enjoying the weekend?  I'm back again *grins* sorry that its been quiet from my end.  No Korean drama marathon this time but we went for a short trip as hb was on 1.5 weeks annual leave.  We planned to go to Kawhia beach for fishing yesterday but the weather finally packed up and decided to rain the whole day yesterday and....today. 

Back to reality today, back to slaving in front of the stove to cook dinner ahakkss :D  No more eating out, no more takeaways...booohooo.  Hmmzz but not complaining at this moment, the temperature is much cooler.  Just hope that we will not be affected by flood as its been raining non-stop the whole day with strong gust, insyaAllah.  Some parts of North Island are affected by floods  :(

Anyway, I had a few gold kumaras~~sweet potato stashed in the potatoes & onions basket for almost 2 weeks now.  When I took them out just now, a few roots were already growing...hehehez.  Before they turned into something else, I thought I should make some kuih keria.  There's 3 types of kumaras here : red, orange & gold.  I used the orange kumara before and they were not good :( I had to add tonnes of flour before I could shaped them.  They also turned out hard, ugly and irregular.  These gold kumaras are the best ;) the kuih keria turned out soft, well shaped and still taste sweet potato-y hehehez.

Source : Nasi Lemak Lover.  Thank u for sharing this recipe ;)

Ingredients (Makes 18 pcs)
250g sweet potato, cooked and mashed (I used 400g)
50g all purpose flour (I used 80g)
15g glutinous rice flour (I used 30g)
A pinch of salt
1tbsp water or adjust accordingly ( it depend on the type of sweet potato you use) (I did not add)

Method
1. Combine all ingredients and knead till smooth dough.
2. Weight dough 30g each and shape it into small ball.
3. Flatten the ball, made a hole in the middle of the dough, and shape it like a donut shape (don’t need to use donut cutter).
4. Heat oil in a wok, deep fry sweet potato ring over medium flame till golden brown. Dish out and drain.

To coat Kuih Keria:-
1. In another clean pot, cook 1/3 cup sugar and 2tbsp water until syrupy and thick. Add fried sweet potato ring and coat well.
2. Serve warm with a cup of tea or coffee

Note: The above flour and water ingredients are just for your reference only, this is because different type of sweet potato have different texture of dough, you need to adjust the flour and water accordingly. Sometime I don’t need to add water but have to add more flour instead, personally I prefer the gold kumara aka sweet potato.

Thank you peeps, for dropping by my humble blog while I was away.  I will return the visits tonight after dinner, we are having homemade fresh fish and chips cooked by my personal naked chef...yummzz yummzz :D

Me Te Aroha...With Love,
Anie ;)

Donut Suria

Weather for Te Awamutu today,
Season :
Spring
Forecast :

Clear

Temp : 22°C | 14°C
Current :
Sunny With Strong Wind

Temp : 22°C

Salam, Kia Ora...

These are the donuts that I made for Auntie Eton yesterday.  I like this donut recipe bcos its so easy to remember.  The donuts turn out so soft and airy and it still stays soft the next day.  Jannah is crazy abt donuts herself and she will only eat the plain ones, no sugar, no topping.  She had 6 donuts and kept coming up to me for more.......@_@

I lost my mojo today....it's 5.30pm and I still haven't got any idea what I am gonna cook for dinner.  Yikkkesss........indo mie goreng sounds yummmy for lazy days like this....kekekekez

Source : Mamafami.  Thank you Mama, for sharing this recipe.

Ingredients :
(A)
3 cups flour
3 tablespoons milk powder
3 tablespoons shortening (I just use butter)
 3 tablespoons castor sugar

(B)
200ml lukewarm water
2 teaspoons instant dry yeast
20ml water ~ extra if needed

Method :
1. Mix well all the ingredients in B.
2. Pour into ingredients A and knead till smooth and shiny.
3. Roll to about 1/2 cm thick and cut with the donut cutter.
4. Leave to proof for about 1/2 hour.
5. Fry on medium heat till golden brown.
6. Coat with sugar.

I skipped step 1 and 2 and just dump all the ingredients into my breadmaker and let it do all the hard work....hehehez.  It was a cold morning to proof the donuts.  I proof them in a 50 degrees C oven.  It took only 15 mins for the dough to double in size.

As we couldn't stay long yesterday, my doggie bag consists of these 2 yummilicious snacks and a whole raw marinated chicken which I have to grill myself...hehehez

Righty ho, off to the kitchen now....Vampire Diaries on tv tonight.  Take care everyone.......

Me Te Aroha, With Love...

Anie ;)