Jemput-jemput Pisang

My parents never came to visit me whilst I was studying in Perth. When mom and grandma finally did come over, it was during convocation week. I guess all the times my mates family came over and spent time with them, I was a tad envious and wished my family was there too.

Anyways when mom and grandma came, they started cooking on the get go. I was a senior resident advisor in Trinity a residential college in Perth, I had the choice of spacious rooms, but I chose to remain to my good old Hull Wing where a beautiful old oven and stoves resided. I had two rooms, a tiny room and another room filled with all sorts of spices and herbs and belacan which i used as a lounge.

Mom and grandma cooked up a storm that week in Perth. Cooking Asian home style favorites like Assam Pedas Ikan, Singgang Serani, Sambal Tumis, Fried Vermicelli and the most memorable of all the jemput-jemput udang(prawn fritters), that week my mates were always in my lounge room eating. We’d all pile up on the mattresses on the floor and watch bollywood movies on my Compaq Laptop. Memorable times! Home cooked food in a long while soothes homesickness. One of my kids Raj, still can’t forget mom’s jemput-jemput udang and when he finally came down to Singapore, he was hugging and gushing to my mom how he missed those jemput-jemput.

Mom made jemput-jemput pisang (banana fritters) today, and it made me remember all these memories and how much I missed my friends.

Mini Chicken Sausage

So this morning we had a delivery of helmets to ITE Simei. The appointment was at 9am, I slept at 630am, so I incoherently told my brother, “mmpf cannot open maa eyes lah”. Or something along the lines of that. So mom, bro and dad went instead. So when I eventually could open my eyes at 10am, they were still not back yet. So I decided to make my brekky, grilled cheese toast which I have been craving since I watched an episode of “Man Vs Food Nation”, was not a success coz the pan was too hot. Who screws up grilled cheese? Me apparently  , still it was some what edible and cheesy. Mom came home half hour later freaking out that she might have left something burning on the stove. I shouted out, nah just me your bimbotic daughter. Mom saved the day, she bought me lots for brekky. Laksa and my favourite, mini sausage rolls! So these sausage rolls are from Swee Heng, a Chinese bakery with halal certification from MUIS. They’re located at Geylang Serai Market. I think they have quite a few bakeries dotted all over our little red dot (Singapore). Anyways back to the sausage rolls, they’re like puffy soft pillows. Unlike their Australian counterpart which uses puff pastry, this was using a sweet bread roll. Yumminess!

Bostock

The first time I tried this delightful almond creation was when mom and I came upon it at Canele. At The Bread Project today, there was a full tray of bostock resting on the shelf. We bought five pieces, for the five of us.

Alright this is what I have to say about The Bread Project’s bostock, it’s out of this world, instead of just a sliced of brioche or challah topped with almond cream and almonds, this was a sandwich! A not so sweet almond cream mixture, mmm frangipane, slathered between two slices of brioche, topped with a generous amount of the almond cream, a nice handful of almonds, baked in the oven till perfection and then dusted with icing sugar.

As you bite into the bostock, there’s that nice crunch that you’d hear similar to when you bite into a meringue or a macaroon. The almond cream topping was baked till it was golden crisp! The edges of the brioche sandwich were crispy too, and as you take another bite, you get to the soft almost tender almond cream filling. Hmmm there’s four more bostock left in the paper bag mmmmmm

The Bread Project is located at :

174 Joo Chiat Road
Tel: 64409228

Open: Mon to Sat, 10 am till 5 pm