Baking, Making and Cooking

It was a day of baking cherry cap buns, making muah chee and cooking some honey braised pork belly. The first two were a success, but the latter was a total flop!

The cherry cap buns were using the recipe from my BITC workshop. Basically, it's just a sweet dough bun with pre-fermented dough by adding a sweet crust on the buns. However, instead of using the recipe for the topping, I use crumbles as the toppings and decorated it with cherries.

Then I procceded to make some muah chee. I used the recipe from The Little Teochew, which was really fool-proof and simple to make. My time spent was on toasting the peanuts, and grinding them. It was quite difficult to grind them as I had overly done it and it became peanut paste. I had to do them rather carefully. Those that turned into paste, I kept them separately and intend to use them as peanut spread. It's also not easy to grind them so finely. I really wonder how Grace did it so well. The microwaved muah chee turned out very well, thanks to Ju's detail instructions.

After making the muah chee, I attempt on making honey braised pork belly for dinner. However, due to my over-sight on the size of the pork belly being used, it turn out too dry and hard, and close to being charred. The pieces of pork belly was almost solid hard! See how good I am to turn it solid hard?  I used 500g of the pork belly. So you can say that I practically fed the bin with 500g of pork belly, plus all those seasonings. It's so disappointing!