Recipes by Gadget

  • Pau Dough: Make Your Own

    Pau Dough: Make Your Own

    It’s been a very long time since Kak’mbang and I made pau. Back when we were still living in Terengganu, every so often we would buy boxes of Blue Key flour and make chicken mushroom pau. Kak’mbang made the filling and I was on pau dough duty. Freshly steamed buns would then be sent…

  • Pandan Coconut Bread

    Pandan Coconut Bread

    Been meaning to make this for a while. I used homemade pandan extract using the leaves growing in Mummy’s garden, which wasn’t as strong or aromatic as I’d hoped. I’ll make this again using store-bought extract, and perhaps another time using the water from making the pandan extract in the yukone. The rolls were…

  • Breadmaker Brioche

    Breadmaker Brioche

    One day I was inspired to make brioche. So many articles and recipes, and many look super complicated or time consuming. Tempting, but not very suitable when I don’t have much time on my hands. After a few rounds of experimenting with other recipes and modifying them for my Kenwood BM450, I went back…

  • Easy Dinner Rolls

    Easy Dinner Rolls

    Over the long weekend I wanted to take my breadmaker for another spin, when Kak’mbang suggested this recipe she found on Youtube. These dinner rolls looked fairly easy to make, and uses basic ingredients most people readily have in their larder.

  • Malted Sultana and Apricot Bread

    Malted Sultana and Apricot Bread

    More breadmaking fun! This recipe came in the recipe books of both the BM250 and BM450, and I’ve been wanting to make it for a long time. The problem was finding one ingredient – malt extract.

  • Grandma’s Red Bean Filling (Inti Kacang Nenek)

    Grandma’s Red Bean Filling (Inti Kacang Nenek)

    If you are attempting the gauntlet that is my late maternal grandmother’s legendary kuih kacang, you can either fill it with store-bought red bean filling to significantly cut the prep time, or you can make it from scratch following her recipe which has been passed down through the ages.

  • Cranberry, Almond and Walnut Bread

    Cranberry, Almond and Walnut Bread

    I had leftover natural yoghurt in the fridge I’d like to clear out before it goes bad. Looking through the recipe book that came with my Kenwood BM450 machine I saw this recipe, and I had all the ingredients (or their substitutes) on hand, so here we are.

  • Italian Herb and Parmesan Bread

    Italian Herb and Parmesan Bread

    After years of using my trusty Kenwood BM250 breadmaker, I did the stupidest thing. I let the breadpan sit in a sink filled with just a couple of inches of water. It wasn’t that much water, but it was enough for rust to build around the paddle rotator, and it became stuck. No amount…

  • Weekend Cooking: New York-Style Bagels

    Weekend Cooking: New York-Style Bagels

    It’s so hard to find good bagels in KL. I can name a couple of bakeries selling it, but can’t say they are particularly spectacular. One day I had a major craving for bagels, so I looked up a few recipes and picked up the one by Sophisticated Gourmet, which didn’t seem too complicated…

  • Air-Fried Caramel Banana & Coconut Spring Roll

    Air-Fried Caramel Banana & Coconut Spring Roll

    Kak’mbang and I were just chilling out one day talking about food (because why not), and she mentioned this yummy looking recipe she found on a random can of F&N sweetened condensed creamer.  Only the ingredients list was on the can, but spring rolls stuffed with bananas and grated coconut and drizzled with sweetened…