~Happy Chinese New Year ~2014

Wishing You a Happy and Prosperous 

Chinese New Year

Have a Wonderful and Joyful

 Chinese New Year Celebration

May the Year of Horse bring

 Good Health and Good Wealth to all of us.

光陰似流水，又一年，

馬年到了，祝大家

歡歡喜喜迎馬年，萬事如意平安年，大吉大利順新年

馬年快樂,安康

馬年吉祥, 如意

馬年大吉,大利

馬上发财

~Peanut Cookies~ (2014)

Peanut cookies is all time favorite CNY cookies in my family.

A MUST have cookies.

Today Chinese New Year eve, i'm sure everyone are busy.
busy preparing re-union lunch or dinner
busy shopping
busy cleaning
those still on the way going back home town ,drive safely.

This is the final post for all my CNY 'goodies'

Wishing all my followers, readers, friends....

Happy Chinese New Year
GONG XI FA CAI

~Star Cookies~ (2014)

Is 'Star' shape so i name it Star cookies...hahahaha

when i bake Pineapple tart left quite a lot pastry dough 

so i take out my 'Star' shape cookies cutter

chop chop chop.....

so another type of CNY cookies

This year i baked and fried quite a lot cookies and snacks.

let my families enjoy more variety...

GONG XI FA CAI

~Pineapple Tart~ (2014)

Pineapple Tart another must have cookies......

Pineapple in Hokkien "Ong Lai" mean "good luck coming"

with this post i wish all of you have the best luck for coming year.

Recipe??? please refer my last year post

http://mycookingnbakingdiary.blogspot.com/2013/02/pineapple-tart.html

~Butter Cookies~ (2014)

Butter Cookies a must have CNY cookies in my house. i like this melt in the mouth butter cookies, this year put red cherries and chocolate chips for decoration.

Recipe please refer to my last year post.

http://mycookingnbakingdiary.blogspot.com/2013/02/butter-cookies.html

Wishing all of you 

"Happy Chinese New Year"

~Post this butter cookies again just a record for me what i have bake for 2014 CNY~

~Fried Cod Fish Strips~

Last year CNY my friend give me this Fried Cod Fish Strips....i non stop eating it...i buy a few packs of

Cod fish strips (大发鱿鱼丝/ Da Fa Fish Fillet ) when offer.

I 'tide' up the cod fish strips when i watch TV program, take a strip round it and use another strip to 'tide' it.

after tide up all heat up a wok of oil deep fried it.......be careful  when fried very FAST turn brown.

 "Baked Cod fish strips " VS " Fried Cod fish strips"

I prefer  "Fried" version

~Crispy Seaweed Rolls~

This year i try out a lot new CNY snacks also available in market. a big thank you to all the bloggers share out all yummy, non stop  bite snacks. This fried crispy Seaweed Rolls quite popular .

i made this because of the 'baked cod fish strips' i still have the seaweed....so don't waste it go buy a pack of spring roll skin and i can have another type snacks...hihihi

Ingredients

*Seaweed (cut about 2inche width each )

* Spring roll skin 1 pack

*1 egg white

***Need a chopstick and scissor

Method

~place the seaweed in the middle of spring roll skin

~roll up the spring roll skin with chopstick

~brush some egg white at the end of spring roll skin 

~pull out the chop stick

~ use scissors cut into small pieces 

~heat up oil and fried it

***keep in container.....once eat will be non stop***

~Baked Cod Fish Strips~

This year i  saw this 'baked Cod fish Strips" appear in many blogs and FB also  a lot peoples post. It look simple so i try it out. Since i bake pineapple tart left over some egg white so i  buy a pack of 'Cod Fish Strips' (大发鱿鱼丝) and a pack of  Seaweed.

Ingredients

*Cod fish Strips

*Seaweed

*1 egg white

Method

~take 2 cod fish strips, i fold in both end to center use the seaweed strip wrap over, apply some egg white on the seaweed roll it tight

~Bake at preheated oven 140C 8-10mins or till golden brown.

~Leave to cool and keep in an airtight container.

 A simple CNY  'tidbits'

~Honey Cornflakes Cups~

I'm not stop blogging....busy for the past 3 months and seldom bake cake. I know my follower will be disappointed i didn't update my blog for 3 months+, 'sorry'....Chinese New Year just around the corner. i will post up all my Chinese New Year cookies. Actually this 'Honey Cornflakes Cups' is the last item i bake but i post first.

It's a simple and fast , not require any baking skill!!!!!

You just need 4 ingredients if you plan to do some simple bites for chinese new year still got time.

Ingredients 
1 box (150gm) Corn Flakes
50gm butter
2 Tablespoon honey
Red glace cherries (cut into small piece)
small paper cups

Method
- Melt the butter in a bowl
- Add in honey mixed well
- Add in Cornflakes & Cherries mix well till all coated with the "butter honey" mixture
- Put the cornflakes into the papercups one by one
- Bake in pre-heated oven 150C, 10-12mins
- Cool it down and keep in air tight container

Easy??? Try it out!!! Kids will like it.