Sunday, October 31, 2010

Banana Chiffon Cake


Ingredients:

80 g     all-purpose flour
½ tsp   baking powder

4          egg yolks
10 g     sugar
A pinch of salt
40 ml   water
30 ml   vegetable oil
90 g     bananas, mashed (I used about 2 small bananas)

4          egg whites
40 g     sugar
¼ tsp   cream of tartar

Methods:

1. Beat egg yolks, sugar, and salt until light. Add water, oil, and mashed bananas. Mix well.

2. Add in flour and baking powder. Mix until well incorporated. Set aside.

3. In another clean bowl, whisk the egg whites until foamy then add cream of tartar. Whisk until soft peak then gradually add in sugar. Whisk until stiff peak.

4. Using a rubber spatula, fold in 1/3 of the whites into the banana batter until well incorporated. Gently fold in the rest of the egg whites by half.

5. Pour the batter into the chiffon mold. Tap the mold lightly to get rid of any trapped air bubbles in the batter.

6. Baked in preheated oven at 170 C degree for 45 – 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.

7. Remove from the oven and invert the mold immediately. Let cool completely before unmolding.


Notes:
1.   I reduced the sugar from my usual 50g because of the sweetness from the bananas.
2.   Would be best if you use over-riped bananas, the cake will be more flavorful.
3.   Roughly mashed the bananas or add in some small chunks for bananas for texture, if you prefer.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

What We Ate in Tokyo, Japan 2009 (Part 3)

Our ekiben when we took the Shinkansen to see Mount Fuji.

At Asakusa:
There are lots of stores along the street (Nakamise and Shin-Nakamise) from the Kaminarimon to the Sensoji Temple. They are famous for their senbei. The fresh grilled senbei are absolutely delicious. Wish I could try each and every one of them.
Fresh dango too. Another must try! And there are some stores that sells deep-fried manjyuu. We did not try it but there was a lot of people queuing to buy it.

Monday, October 25, 2010

What We Ate in Tokyo, Japan 2009 (Part 2)

More pictures of food! =D

JAL in-flight meal
About 8 hours flight and this is the only meal @_@
I was starved D=

Green Tea Diet Coke - yum. My Sis hates it.
(I am a bias Coke fan)

Banana milk. Love it. Even my Sis that don't like milk AND banana loves it. (She's bias too - she thinks every "Japan-related" food is good)

Kaiseki (traditional Japanese multi-course meal) @ Mikura at Mark City Shibuya

We ordered two set. The largest and the smallest. xD We were very satisfied. It's a splurge though.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

What We Ate in Tokyo, Japan 2009 (Part 1)

Pictures of food we ate (and saw) in Tokyo, Japan (2009). My Sis and I went to Japan for the first time and we were ecstatic! Our mission: EAT!!!

Stopover at Narita, we stayed in Hotel Nikko Narita. Dead tired but we were determined to go out and eat something!!! We took the shuttle bus to the AEON Shopping Center.

Dinner in a food court @ AEON Narita Shopping Center

Curry udon. It was okay.











Spicy tsukemen. We definitely prefer this.









Couldn't resist >.< All hail Kimura-san.