I love Vietnamese spring rolls. They take up so much time to prepare..making the sauce, laying out all the the vegetables, cutting the noodles, making the spring rolls. The foods you’ve made is inspiring me to do more cooking. Recently I got into cooking by myself, it’s so much fun=)
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It didn’t take us that long to prepare cos we didn’t use many herbs – none of us like veg anyway 😛 We had a bit of mint and basil that we picked from the garden, but otherwise we just had lettuce, bean sprouts, and vermicilli. We used Hoisin sauce so it just needed to be heated up in a saucepan and sprinted with nuts and that was it! The longest thing to do was cook the pork and prawns, but since the pork was so thin, everything took about 5 mins anyway.. it’s the washing up that was hard cos there were so many plates 😛
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Here’s a recipe I’ve got for making the sauce for the Vietnamese Spring Rolls:
You will need the following:
1. Peanut butter – the type where you can still see the peanut.
2. Hoisin sauce
3. Water
4. Flour
5. Salt
6. Sugar
Mix these up, let them simmer for a little bit and then let the mixture
cool down. That’s your sauce 🙂 Don’t put too much flour, salt and sugar.
The flour is for thickening up the sauce, the salt and sugar are for
flavour so use them to your liking. As to how much peanut butter, hoisin
sauce and water – I guess experiment to your liking.
Robbie
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Wow! Is it necesssary to do that? I mean, does it taste different to plain Hoisin sauce? Cos that’s what I used and it was ok.. so just wondering hwo different it would taste by doing that. I’ll have to try that next time we make Vietnamese spring rolls 🙂
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I love Vietnamese spring rolls. They take up so much time to prepare..making the sauce, laying out all the the vegetables, cutting the noodles, making the spring rolls. The foods you’ve made is inspiring me to do more cooking. Recently I got into cooking by myself, it’s so much fun=)
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It didn’t take us that long to prepare cos we didn’t use many herbs – none of us like veg anyway 😛 We had a bit of mint and basil that we picked from the garden, but otherwise we just had lettuce, bean sprouts, and vermicilli. We used Hoisin sauce so it just needed to be heated up in a saucepan and sprinted with nuts and that was it! The longest thing to do was cook the pork and prawns, but since the pork was so thin, everything took about 5 mins anyway.. it’s the washing up that was hard cos there were so many plates 😛
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Here’s a recipe I’ve got for making the sauce for the Vietnamese Spring Rolls:
You will need the following:
1. Peanut butter – the type where you can still see the peanut.
2. Hoisin sauce
3. Water
4. Flour
5. Salt
6. Sugar
Mix these up, let them simmer for a little bit and then let the mixture
cool down. That’s your sauce 🙂 Don’t put too much flour, salt and sugar.
The flour is for thickening up the sauce, the salt and sugar are for
flavour so use them to your liking. As to how much peanut butter, hoisin
sauce and water – I guess experiment to your liking.
Robbie
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Wow! Is it necesssary to do that? I mean, does it taste different to plain Hoisin sauce? Cos that’s what I used and it was ok.. so just wondering hwo different it would taste by doing that. I’ll have to try that next time we make Vietnamese spring rolls 🙂
yipes.. i’m going to have to cook for myself next year when i’m off to uni. sounds like so much fun for you! i don’t know how i’m going to manage. the only thing i can make is scrambled eggs, and those never turn out fluffy the way they’re supposed to be;)
Cooking IS fun! And if you think you’re not much of a cook – just follow a recipe and you CAN’T go wrong 🙂
For eggs, did you try mixing in a little butter and milk in the mixture before cooking? It makes them fluffier and creamier..
yipes.. i’m going to have to cook for myself next year when i’m off to uni. sounds like so much fun for you! i don’t know how i’m going to manage. the only thing i can make is scrambled eggs, and those never turn out fluffy the way they’re supposed to be;)
Cooking IS fun! And if you think you’re not much of a cook – just follow a recipe and you CAN’T go wrong 🙂
For eggs, did you try mixing in a little butter and milk in the mixture before cooking? It makes them fluffier and creamier..
i made black velvets
i turned 40 on march 31, so i made black velvets, that is champagne and guinness extra stout, yep, worked for me
Re: i made black velvets
Hey HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Good thing you weren’t born one day later or it’d be April Fools, hehe 😛 Actually I have a friend who’s an April Fool’s baby and she has SO many tricks played on her every year 😉
i made black velvets
i turned 40 on march 31, so i made black velvets, that is champagne and guinness extra stout, yep, worked for me
Re: i made black velvets
Hey HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Good thing you weren’t born one day later or it’d be April Fools, hehe 😛 Actually I have a friend who’s an April Fool’s baby and she has SO many tricks played on her every year 😉
::drools::
As my dad likes to say, “You are a CHEF DELUXE!” Hee hee! About the only things I’m good at making are baked sweets. I’d really like to try those mini sausage rolls, though! They use Vienna Sausage, right? Are they the regular (pork/chicken/turkey) kind or just chicken based?
Re: ::drools::
Hehe! Yeah all I’ve done so far is baked desserts too.. the sausages I used are just those canned cocktail sausages – mine’s a can of 25 and I think they’re chicken sausages, but I dn’t see why you can’t use any other type of sausage!
hey bev,
that’s my pic…pls give me some credit if u wanna use it ok?
thanks
Diane
Oh sorry about that! I saw it on another site and got the pic from there, not on MUA. Is the quad any good? I can’t wait to get mine.. the design looks adorable.
from malinda? yeah i let her use the pic =D..never mind i edited the pic already anyway
back to the topic of the quad..it’s really cute but very small..same size as the CC/lipgloss duo? but the colours are unique to me..unlike any exsisting stila eyeshadows..the mint green has gold shimmer though..i haven’t used it yet..can’t bear to! =D
Yeah 🙂 How did you get the quad btw? I thought it wasn’t sold in SG yet? The quad looks sooo pretty though – the colors are all pastel and girly and I especially LOVE the pic of the angel girl. Dyou know if there are any other items in the range? My friend (who works at Stila in SG) is sending me a sample of the angel light foundation but I’m not sure if there are other products out there.. Hey how much is the quad anyway? hopefully cheap 😛
i bought mine in Japan when i was there last week…there is also a whitening powder foundation in the range..that’s it i think..i heard it’s cheaper in SG..$48 but there are only 40 pieces avaliable
just an update..all the angel quads that were brought in here have been reserved already..yikes that was fast
Argh.. hopefully my order was placed in time! I told my friend to reserve one for me and hopefully she got my email before they were sold out.. $48 is not bad at all for it!
i hope so coz i heard that all were sold out within half an hour or something like that
fish can keep for more than a week if you leave it in the freezer. but once you defrost it be sure to cook it.
i’m getting the angel quad in a swap soon, can’t wait! 🙂
Me Hungry Now… 🙂
That sounds super yummy… Do you have the recipe(s)? 🙂
~ Fiona
Re: Me Hungry Now… 🙂
For the madelines? I lost it! 🙁 But basically I beat 4 eggs with about half a cup of flour, half a cake of butter, then added some sugar and the juice of half a lime. Mixed everything up and dropped it in mini-muffin moulds and popped in the oven for 5-10 mins!
Re: Me Hungry Now… 🙂
Thanks… now I’ll have to go shopping soon… LOL 🙂
~ Fiona
yeah u can leave the fish in the freezer after buying them. They’ll remain quite fresh after defrosting. Just make sure you dont take it in and out of the freezer. (ie. if u decide to cook it, then dont change your mind after taking it out!)
::drools::
As my dad likes to say, “You are a CHEF DELUXE!” Hee hee! About the only things I’m good at making are baked sweets. I’d really like to try those mini sausage rolls, though! They use Vienna Sausage, right? Are they the regular (pork/chicken/turkey) kind or just chicken based?
Re: ::drools::
Hehe! Yeah all I’ve done so far is baked desserts too.. the sausages I used are just those canned cocktail sausages – mine’s a can of 25 and I think they’re chicken sausages, but I dn’t see why you can’t use any other type of sausage!
hey bev,
that’s my pic…pls give me some credit if u wanna use it ok?
thanks
Diane
Oh sorry about that! I saw it on another site and got the pic from there, not on MUA. Is the quad any good? I can’t wait to get mine.. the design looks adorable.
from malinda? yeah i let her use the pic =D..never mind i edited the pic already anyway
back to the topic of the quad..it’s really cute but very small..same size as the CC/lipgloss duo? but the colours are unique to me..unlike any exsisting stila eyeshadows..the mint green has gold shimmer though..i haven’t used it yet..can’t bear to! =D
Yeah 🙂 How did you get the quad btw? I thought it wasn’t sold in SG yet? The quad looks sooo pretty though – the colors are all pastel and girly and I especially LOVE the pic of the angel girl. Dyou know if there are any other items in the range? My friend (who works at Stila in SG) is sending me a sample of the angel light foundation but I’m not sure if there are other products out there.. Hey how much is the quad anyway? hopefully cheap 😛
i bought mine in Japan when i was there last week…there is also a whitening powder foundation in the range..that’s it i think..i heard it’s cheaper in SG..$48 but there are only 40 pieces avaliable
just an update..all the angel quads that were brought in here have been reserved already..yikes that was fast
Argh.. hopefully my order was placed in time! I told my friend to reserve one for me and hopefully she got my email before they were sold out.. $48 is not bad at all for it!
i hope so coz i heard that all were sold out within half an hour or something like that
fish can keep for more than a week if you leave it in the freezer. but once you defrost it be sure to cook it.
i’m getting the angel quad in a swap soon, can’t wait! 🙂
Me Hungry Now… 🙂
That sounds super yummy… Do you have the recipe(s)? 🙂
~ Fiona
Re: Me Hungry Now… 🙂
For the madelines? I lost it! 🙁 But basically I beat 4 eggs with about half a cup of flour, half a cake of butter, then added some sugar and the juice of half a lime. Mixed everything up and dropped it in mini-muffin moulds and popped in the oven for 5-10 mins!
Re: Me Hungry Now… 🙂
Thanks… now I’ll have to go shopping soon… LOL 🙂
~ Fiona
yeah u can leave the fish in the freezer after buying them. They’ll remain quite fresh after defrosting. Just make sure you dont take it in and out of the freezer. (ie. if u decide to cook it, then dont change your mind after taking it out!)
in the words of homer simpson
butter up that bacon, now bacon up that sausage…
barts reply,
but dad, my heart hurts…
homer says..
do it… “while shaking fist at bart”
in the words of homer simpson
butter up that bacon, now bacon up that sausage…
barts reply,
but dad, my heart hurts…
homer says..
do it… “while shaking fist at bart”
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I love Vietnamese spring rolls. They take up so much time to prepare..making the sauce, laying out all the the vegetables, cutting the noodles, making the spring rolls. The foods you’ve made is inspiring me to do more cooking. Recently I got into cooking by myself, it’s so much fun=)
Re: .
It didn’t take us that long to prepare cos we didn’t use many herbs – none of us like veg anyway 😛 We had a bit of mint and basil that we picked from the garden, but otherwise we just had lettuce, bean sprouts, and vermicilli. We used Hoisin sauce so it just needed to be heated up in a saucepan and sprinted with nuts and that was it! The longest thing to do was cook the pork and prawns, but since the pork was so thin, everything took about 5 mins anyway.. it’s the washing up that was hard cos there were so many plates 😛
Re: .
Here’s a recipe I’ve got for making the sauce for the Vietnamese Spring Rolls:
You will need the following:
1. Peanut butter – the type where you can still see the peanut.
2. Hoisin sauce
3. Water
4. Flour
5. Salt
6. Sugar
Mix these up, let them simmer for a little bit and then let the mixture
cool down. That’s your sauce 🙂 Don’t put too much flour, salt and sugar.
The flour is for thickening up the sauce, the salt and sugar are for
flavour so use them to your liking. As to how much peanut butter, hoisin
sauce and water – I guess experiment to your liking.
Robbie
Re: .
Wow! Is it necesssary to do that? I mean, does it taste different to plain Hoisin sauce? Cos that’s what I used and it was ok.. so just wondering hwo different it would taste by doing that. I’ll have to try that next time we make Vietnamese spring rolls 🙂
.
I love Vietnamese spring rolls. They take up so much time to prepare..making the sauce, laying out all the the vegetables, cutting the noodles, making the spring rolls. The foods you’ve made is inspiring me to do more cooking. Recently I got into cooking by myself, it’s so much fun=)
Re: .
It didn’t take us that long to prepare cos we didn’t use many herbs – none of us like veg anyway 😛 We had a bit of mint and basil that we picked from the garden, but otherwise we just had lettuce, bean sprouts, and vermicilli. We used Hoisin sauce so it just needed to be heated up in a saucepan and sprinted with nuts and that was it! The longest thing to do was cook the pork and prawns, but since the pork was so thin, everything took about 5 mins anyway.. it’s the washing up that was hard cos there were so many plates 😛
Re: .
Here’s a recipe I’ve got for making the sauce for the Vietnamese Spring Rolls:
You will need the following:
1. Peanut butter – the type where you can still see the peanut.
2. Hoisin sauce
3. Water
4. Flour
5. Salt
6. Sugar
Mix these up, let them simmer for a little bit and then let the mixture
cool down. That’s your sauce 🙂 Don’t put too much flour, salt and sugar.
The flour is for thickening up the sauce, the salt and sugar are for
flavour so use them to your liking. As to how much peanut butter, hoisin
sauce and water – I guess experiment to your liking.
Robbie
Re: .
Wow! Is it necesssary to do that? I mean, does it taste different to plain Hoisin sauce? Cos that’s what I used and it was ok.. so just wondering hwo different it would taste by doing that. I’ll have to try that next time we make Vietnamese spring rolls 🙂
yipes.. i’m going to have to cook for myself next year when i’m off to uni. sounds like so much fun for you! i don’t know how i’m going to manage. the only thing i can make is scrambled eggs, and those never turn out fluffy the way they’re supposed to be;)
Cooking IS fun! And if you think you’re not much of a cook – just follow a recipe and you CAN’T go wrong 🙂
For eggs, did you try mixing in a little butter and milk in the mixture before cooking? It makes them fluffier and creamier..
yipes.. i’m going to have to cook for myself next year when i’m off to uni. sounds like so much fun for you! i don’t know how i’m going to manage. the only thing i can make is scrambled eggs, and those never turn out fluffy the way they’re supposed to be;)
Cooking IS fun! And if you think you’re not much of a cook – just follow a recipe and you CAN’T go wrong 🙂
For eggs, did you try mixing in a little butter and milk in the mixture before cooking? It makes them fluffier and creamier..
i made black velvets
i turned 40 on march 31, so i made black velvets, that is champagne and guinness extra stout, yep, worked for me
Re: i made black velvets
Hey HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Good thing you weren’t born one day later or it’d be April Fools, hehe 😛 Actually I have a friend who’s an April Fool’s baby and she has SO many tricks played on her every year 😉
i made black velvets
i turned 40 on march 31, so i made black velvets, that is champagne and guinness extra stout, yep, worked for me
Re: i made black velvets
Hey HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Good thing you weren’t born one day later or it’d be April Fools, hehe 😛 Actually I have a friend who’s an April Fool’s baby and she has SO many tricks played on her every year 😉
::drools::
As my dad likes to say, “You are a CHEF DELUXE!” Hee hee! About the only things I’m good at making are baked sweets. I’d really like to try those mini sausage rolls, though! They use Vienna Sausage, right? Are they the regular (pork/chicken/turkey) kind or just chicken based?
Re: ::drools::
Hehe! Yeah all I’ve done so far is baked desserts too.. the sausages I used are just those canned cocktail sausages – mine’s a can of 25 and I think they’re chicken sausages, but I dn’t see why you can’t use any other type of sausage!
hey bev,
that’s my pic…pls give me some credit if u wanna use it ok?
thanks
Diane
Oh sorry about that! I saw it on another site and got the pic from there, not on MUA. Is the quad any good? I can’t wait to get mine.. the design looks adorable.
from malinda? yeah i let her use the pic =D..never mind i edited the pic already anyway
back to the topic of the quad..it’s really cute but very small..same size as the CC/lipgloss duo? but the colours are unique to me..unlike any exsisting stila eyeshadows..the mint green has gold shimmer though..i haven’t used it yet..can’t bear to! =D
Yeah 🙂 How did you get the quad btw? I thought it wasn’t sold in SG yet? The quad looks sooo pretty though – the colors are all pastel and girly and I especially LOVE the pic of the angel girl. Dyou know if there are any other items in the range? My friend (who works at Stila in SG) is sending me a sample of the angel light foundation but I’m not sure if there are other products out there.. Hey how much is the quad anyway? hopefully cheap 😛
i bought mine in Japan when i was there last week…there is also a whitening powder foundation in the range..that’s it i think..i heard it’s cheaper in SG..$48 but there are only 40 pieces avaliable
just an update..all the angel quads that were brought in here have been reserved already..yikes that was fast
Argh.. hopefully my order was placed in time! I told my friend to reserve one for me and hopefully she got my email before they were sold out.. $48 is not bad at all for it!
i hope so coz i heard that all were sold out within half an hour or something like that
fish can keep for more than a week if you leave it in the freezer. but once you defrost it be sure to cook it.
i’m getting the angel quad in a swap soon, can’t wait! 🙂
Me Hungry Now… 🙂
That sounds super yummy… Do you have the recipe(s)? 🙂
~ Fiona
Re: Me Hungry Now… 🙂
For the madelines? I lost it! 🙁 But basically I beat 4 eggs with about half a cup of flour, half a cake of butter, then added some sugar and the juice of half a lime. Mixed everything up and dropped it in mini-muffin moulds and popped in the oven for 5-10 mins!
Re: Me Hungry Now… 🙂
Thanks… now I’ll have to go shopping soon… LOL 🙂
~ Fiona
yeah u can leave the fish in the freezer after buying them. They’ll remain quite fresh after defrosting. Just make sure you dont take it in and out of the freezer. (ie. if u decide to cook it, then dont change your mind after taking it out!)
::drools::
As my dad likes to say, “You are a CHEF DELUXE!” Hee hee! About the only things I’m good at making are baked sweets. I’d really like to try those mini sausage rolls, though! They use Vienna Sausage, right? Are they the regular (pork/chicken/turkey) kind or just chicken based?
Re: ::drools::
Hehe! Yeah all I’ve done so far is baked desserts too.. the sausages I used are just those canned cocktail sausages – mine’s a can of 25 and I think they’re chicken sausages, but I dn’t see why you can’t use any other type of sausage!
hey bev,
that’s my pic…pls give me some credit if u wanna use it ok?
thanks
Diane
Oh sorry about that! I saw it on another site and got the pic from there, not on MUA. Is the quad any good? I can’t wait to get mine.. the design looks adorable.
from malinda? yeah i let her use the pic =D..never mind i edited the pic already anyway
back to the topic of the quad..it’s really cute but very small..same size as the CC/lipgloss duo? but the colours are unique to me..unlike any exsisting stila eyeshadows..the mint green has gold shimmer though..i haven’t used it yet..can’t bear to! =D
Yeah 🙂 How did you get the quad btw? I thought it wasn’t sold in SG yet? The quad looks sooo pretty though – the colors are all pastel and girly and I especially LOVE the pic of the angel girl. Dyou know if there are any other items in the range? My friend (who works at Stila in SG) is sending me a sample of the angel light foundation but I’m not sure if there are other products out there.. Hey how much is the quad anyway? hopefully cheap 😛
i bought mine in Japan when i was there last week…there is also a whitening powder foundation in the range..that’s it i think..i heard it’s cheaper in SG..$48 but there are only 40 pieces avaliable
just an update..all the angel quads that were brought in here have been reserved already..yikes that was fast
Argh.. hopefully my order was placed in time! I told my friend to reserve one for me and hopefully she got my email before they were sold out.. $48 is not bad at all for it!
i hope so coz i heard that all were sold out within half an hour or something like that
fish can keep for more than a week if you leave it in the freezer. but once you defrost it be sure to cook it.
i’m getting the angel quad in a swap soon, can’t wait! 🙂
Me Hungry Now… 🙂
That sounds super yummy… Do you have the recipe(s)? 🙂
~ Fiona
Re: Me Hungry Now… 🙂
For the madelines? I lost it! 🙁 But basically I beat 4 eggs with about half a cup of flour, half a cake of butter, then added some sugar and the juice of half a lime. Mixed everything up and dropped it in mini-muffin moulds and popped in the oven for 5-10 mins!
Re: Me Hungry Now… 🙂
Thanks… now I’ll have to go shopping soon… LOL 🙂
~ Fiona
yeah u can leave the fish in the freezer after buying them. They’ll remain quite fresh after defrosting. Just make sure you dont take it in and out of the freezer. (ie. if u decide to cook it, then dont change your mind after taking it out!)