Homemade Pizza on Aloha Friday

For me, baking bread always take a longggg.. time.. so, I will only bake bread when I feel like it. haha :) Waiting for an hour to let the dough raised, and knead it, and wait for another hour, and knead it again.. I just hope that the bread will turn out great every time I finished. :) So far, I am lucky, the bread always turn out great and I would like to continue to make bread.

Today, I want to make pizza. As usual, I think I am going to take about an hour to make the pizza dough, but GUESS WHAT! I found this Quick and Easy Pizza Crust Recipe online! it only take me about 30-45 mins to finish the entire Pizza! I don't really believe the crust will turn out great because bread doesn't usually turn out great if you are lazy and not following the steps.. but this one is an awesome one!! I really didn't spend too much time and it tasted so good!

That's my pizza! can you see the crust! it's so crunchy!!

Ingredients:

1 cup warm water
2 teaspoons of dry yeast
1 teaspoons of sugar
2 1/2 cup of bread flour
1 teaspoons of salt
2 teaspoons of olive oil

Steps:

Put 1 cup of warm water in mixing bowl
Add dry yeast and sugar, stir it, let the dry yeast mix sit about 10 mins
Add bread flour, olive oil and salt, mix it well.( I just use my hand to knead it until it become a dough, only 3 mins)
Let the dough sit around 5 mins
Put the dough on a slightly floured surface, roll it on pat it to your preferred shape, mine is rectangle
Put on any toppings you want
with LOTS OF CHEESE!! :):)

Bake 15mins to 20 mins in an 450F preheated oven! :):)

Done!

I promise this is a very easy and quick recipe and the crust does taste good! I don't want to say this but my husband and I finished the whole thing!

you can go to this site: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/quick-and-easy-pizza-crust/detail.aspx if you need to visualize the procedure. :)

ENJOY BAKING!!

64 days before baby come.

Sorry, Haven't been updated my blog..

New semester has finally started. From now on, I can reduce my work hour to 25-30 per week, until my maternity leave.. :) 

Recently, I am feeling more tired, however, couldn't sleep well.. any suggestions for me? Doctor recommend me to do some exercises.. haha! I know I should~ Maybe I really should start swimming soon.

64 days before baby come.. I talked with my baby girl more often, telling her how much I love her already. even though I get emotional sometimes, I still try my best to control my temper when things frustrated me.. I hope she will be a happy baby girl :) To be honest, I am very nervous and excited at the same time, finally I am in the stage of being a mother,I am also worry if I will be a good mother, but I am sure I will learn so much from it.

Alicia Au Yeung, mammy and daddy can't wait to see you. stay healthy and remember we love you!

Super lazy dinner - potato puff!

To be very honest, work is driving me crazy and I am very tired. However, looking at my tummy growing every day makes me happier. It is 28 weeks and 3 days.. I can't wait to see my baby soon! so far, she is very gentle to me, not kicking me very hard. so, hopefully, she will continue to be a gentle girl. :)

Alright, I have bought this puff pastry couple weeks ago and finally able to use it..For me, Sunday is always the best day to bake because I have more time and so I can enjoy it.  However, today is General Conference Sunday, hubby and I both woke up at 6am, went back to sleep at 8am till 10am, and finished up our last session of General Conference till 12pm. Then we start our brunch, Yummy peanut butter french toast. It is going to be our General Conference family tradition. :):)

Since we both woke up early and didn't take a nap, when dinner time came.. I was so dead, therefore, instead of cooking a fancy meal.. I just made this very lazy dinner - potato puff with salad.  Hubby loves it! ( He love potato and anything that is with potato..haha!)

All you need is to make mashed potato, whatever flavor that you like, I would say garlic mashed potato would be the best! :) and put it on puff pastry, wrap it up! and put it in an 450 Degree oven, baked 20 mins! DONE!

Very Easy and Lazy meal, eat with Salad so you don't feel guilty too heavy! (an excuse to eat more than 1) whaha!

ENJOY BAKING!

Peach Cobbler

Peach Cobbler

Aloha Friday again... which means... Baking Time!!

Peach Cobbler, I tried once when I went to a ward party long time ago.. I still remember this fresh baked peach cobbler served with French Vanilla ice-cream!! Super Ono!! Since I have got all the ingredients on hand.. Why not just try to make one by myself tonight!


1 cup of self-raising flour
1/2 sugar ( add 1 cup of sugar if you are using fresh peach)
1 cup of milk
4 Tablespoon of butter
1 can of peach (you can use fresh peach)

Yes! that's it! that's all the ingredients

Steps:

If you are using fresh peach, make sure to sweeten it a little bit, just put peaches in a small pot, add sugar and little bit of water, low heat until sugar melted.

Melt the butter

Combined Self-raising Flour and sugar, add milk little by little, add melted butter the last, MIX WELL.

Bake it in 375 degree for an hour. :) Done and Happy Baking!!!!

A Day off from work and My Very 1st Dinner Roll..(Fail)

I didn't feel well this morning and decided to take a day off from work.. a little sick can make me feel so weak during pregnancy... I can't take any medicine, all I can eat are fruits, veggies, and all kinds of food that can boost up vitamin to fight against my sickness... Anyways, I did take some rest, but later decided to wake up and move around, I feel so dead to lay on bed..

Since I always want to try making dinner roll, this is a good chance.

I don't have a standing mixer, all I use are my hands, to be very honest, it is very tired to kneed the dough..for a standing mixer, it took 7 mins, medium high speed to make a good dough. I only spent 5 mins to kneed the dough, that's why it didn't turn out great..(not the taste, but the texture is not fluffy and soft).. haha! HOW MUCH I WANT A STANDING MIXER..

This is the result:

 As you can see, my roll is not as soft as it should be. These might be the reason:

1. Not enough kneed
2. Too much flour
3. Dry Yeast didn't activate in right temperature.

The taste and texture is just like regular bread.. but just NOT QUITE LIKE A ROLL.. =.=





Oh Well.. my first time , hopefully I can try again in the future.. Yes! not very soon because I don't think Mr. Au-Yeung would like try out my dinner roll over and over again.. I will try something new so he can get excited to try it too~ :):)

Although it didn't turn out great! I enjoyed the process! It helps me to forget about the sickness!! :) So.. Enjoy Baking!!

Ham and Cheese Croissant

Since I was called into the Primary, one of the best part on Sunday is always being able to listen to the children singing, their voices always touched my heart. Today, they performed during the sacrament, even though they don't remember all the words of the songs, but they have brought the Spirit in the sacrament. Children can easily invite the Spirit, especially when they are singing.

I know my baby loves that too, she seems so peace when the children are singing peaceful Primary song but get so excited when they are singing wiggle songs like "pop corn" or "snow man". haha! :) I hope she will as happy, as smart, as righteous as the children in my Primary. :)

Well.. Of course I won't finish this post without sharing what we have tried today. I have bought this from foodland yesterday and tried to make ham and cheese croissant, according to the original recipe, it should be made by puff pastry.. however, puff pastry is seriously expensive in foodland, so I decided to buy this: 

2 for $5 ONLY!! GOOD DEAL

I am sure the texture is a little bit different, but hey! it tasted great! very easy meal, you can make 8 of them from one roll of crescent, Look at the result:

Look at that FAT CRESCENT!! YUM YUM

  

Just buy the Crescent, wrap with HAM and Cheese of your own Choice, I would say choose ham and cheese that is not too strong of the flavor, because this Crescent dough has a little bit salty flavor. Preheat the oven 375 degree, bake for 15 mins until it is golden brown! Super Easy! Good Appetizers or Great snack! ENJOY!!

 

First Try - Classic Butter Pound Cake

After all this stresses from work in the past week, I can finally get off from work earlier today, therefore, I decided to make some dessert for myself and of course my dear husband. Happy Baking again. 

Classic Butter Pound Cake

 

 

Ingredients:

Freshly baked! :)

½ Cup of Unsalted Butter at room temperature
3 Eggs (Large Eggs with stronger egg flavor, if you don't like it too strong, use medium egg)
½ Cup of Milk ( you can use sour cream or yogurt)
1 ½ Cups of All Purpose Flour
¼ tsp of Baking Powder
1/8 tsp of Baking Soda
¼ tsp of Salt
1 Cup of Sugar
½ tsp of Vanilla Extract


Steps:

Very moist and have a slightly crunchy top

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Spray/butter a 9 by 5” loaf pan.
2. Use electronic mixer to mix Butter and sugar first, then put egg, mixed until it is smooth and fluffy, don't over mixed
3. Add Milk and Vanilla Extract ( I started to use spatula to mix it to avoid over mix the mixture)
4. Put flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix Well
5. put it in loaf pan, bake for 1 hour. Test if it is cooked by sticking a toothpick in the middle, if comes out clear, it is ready to serve!
6. Keep an eye on your pound cake! don't over bake it!

ENJOY IT!! 

Husband is happy now.. so I am happy too! and I guess baby is happy too! :) Next time, I will try Cinnamon roll. first time to make it. hopefully it turns out great! YAYA!