Lazy Sunday

Today is another lazy Sunday but semalam had a craving for nasi dagang pulak. Recipes dari Mat Gebu so please make way to blog Dapur Tanpa Sempadan for those yang nak the recipes. What a great blogger this Mat Gebu is. His recipes are all marvelous, tried tested and absolutely yummy. Made the kari ikan salmon last night (no ikan tongkol here and mackerel dah habis stock kat supermarket belakang rumah so had to make do with salmon). Pagi ni attemped the nasi part and since I had 2 versions, kukus and non-kukus, I did both sebab takut pulak the kukus one tak menjadi nak makan kari yang dah siap tu dengan apa pulak. So to be on the safe side also did the normal version via rice cooker. Verdict is everybody suka yang the kukus version. I suppose memang original recipe calls for kukus pun and alhamdulillah mine turned out fine although renyah sikit sebab kena kukus and keluarkan balik to mix with the bawang, halba, santan and what not, gaul and then kukus balik. Tersangat la renyah and next time I'll just stick to the rice cooker version. Tengah makan nasi dagang Hakeem reminded me that he's been asking fro pizza for many-many days. Looks like malam ni menu pizza pulak but tak sepenat buat nasi dagang sebab tukang uli dough aka BM will do it for me.

Anyway, Ida aka Widdy Wid wanted recipe Orange Pound Cake and while I'm at it here's also another recipe I tried last week. The kids liked them katanya very lemonny and moist, so here' both the recipes which I found on the internet but have truly forgotten from where. So, thousand apologies for not mentioning the names of the original recipe owner here.

ORANGE POUND CAKE

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar, divided
• 4 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
• 1/3 cup grated orange zest (6 oranges)
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 3/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice, divided
• 3/4 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°.

Butter and flour 2 loaf pans.

Cream butter and 2 cups of sugar in a bowl

Mix in eggs, one at a time; add zest.

Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.

In another bowl mix 1/4 cup orange juice, buttermilk and vanilla.

Add flour and buttermilk mixture alternately to the batter, beginning and ending with flour.

Divide between 2 pans and smooth the tops.

Bake for 45 minutes or until tester comes out clean.

Cool for 10 minutes.

Make syrup while cake is baking.

Syrup consists of remaining 1/2 cup sugar and 1/2 cup orange juice.

Cook these two together over low heat till the sugar is desolved.

Spoon over cakes and then allow them to cool completely.

Blueberry Lemon cake

Ingredients :

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 cup sugar

2 large eggs

1/2 cup milk

1 cups blueberries

zest of a lemon

1 tsp vanilla extract

Lemon Glaze:

1/3 cup sugar

1/4 cup fresh lemon juice

Directions :

Pre-heat oven to 180C(350F)

Grease and flour 9 by 5 metal loaf pan

In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt

In large bowl, in mixer at low speed, beat margarine and sugar until just blended

Increase speed to medium, beat about 5 minutes until light and creamy

Reduce mixer speed to low, add eggs 1 at a time, beating after each addition until well blended, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula

Add in vanilla and lemon zest

Alternately beat flour mixture and milk into egg mixture, mixing until just blended

Gently stir in blueberries

Smooth batter into loaf pan

Bake loaf 1 hour 5 minutes, until toothpick inserted comes out clean

Cool loaf in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes

Remove from pan and place on wire rack

With skewer, prick top and sides of warm loaf all over

Prepare lemon Glaze : In small bowl, mix lemon juice and sugar. With pastry brush, brush top and sides of warm loaf with lemon glaze

Cool loaf completely on rack