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Weekend in Batam: Documenting Our 3-Days Family Adventure

My Inspiration Behind This Trip I’ve always held onto a personal goal: to bring my parents on at least one proper trip out of Singapore every year. Something that would give them that genuine holiday excitement; that specific thrill of packing a proper suitcase and getting their passports stamped at the border. My dad actually has a long bucket list of places he’d love to see. But realistically, time and age are catching up, and we have to be very mindful of my mum’s physical pace, mental and stamina as well. Long-haul flights just aren't as feasible anymore, so I have to be intentional about finding destinations that are comfortable yet exciting for them. The spark for this specific trip happened when I passed my dad a pile of Batam travel brochures. As we were flipping through, one specific image caught all of our attention: the Pink Beach .  When I headed down to the travel agency to get more details, my mind was set. Not only did the itinerary offer a perfect, manageable pace f...
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Culinary | Baking Galore - Not anymore...

A little emo but I am just gonna make my weekend a fruitful one with bakes each day. With the help of Panasonic SD-P104 Breadmaker I bought this year in January. Let's get started.

Chocolate Raisin Bread Loaf

Ready to proceed!
After 2 hours, it is ready!
Hi! I'm popping out of the bread pan.
Nice loaf. Finally after so long.
Ready. Sorry for the lousy slicing.
Ingredients:
  • 250g Bread Flour
  • 25g Butter 
  • 1 tbsp Brown Sugar 
  • 2 tbsp Cocoa Powder 
  • 1 tsp Salt 
  • 1 Egg
  • 130ml Cold Water
  • 1 3/4 tsp Instant Yeast
  • 60g Dried Raisin
Method:
  1. Add all ingredients into the bread pan except yeast and raisin in order. Put the yeast and raisin into its respective dispenser.
  2. Select Menu no. 2 for Rapid Bread and also the Raisin function. about 32-39 mins, it will sound to indicate that the raisins are dispensed and if you wanna add additional ones into the bread pan, do so and press start again.
  3. After 2 hours when the bread is done, remove from the bread pan and leave it to cool.
Tip(s): Please get a good bread knife. I regretted not investing on one. Gonna get it soon.

Adapted from Panasonic Cooking book.


Pizza

Ready for fermentation. Not some perfect round shape I did.
After an hour of rising. Nice shape. Never expect so big.
Before
After
Dough Ingredients:
  • 280g Bread flour
  • 15g Butter
  • 1 tbsp Brown Sugar
  • 1 tbsp Cocoa Powder
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 190ml Cold Water
  • 1 tsp Instant Yeast
Method:
  1. Add all ingredients into the bread pan except yeast in order. Put the yeast into the dispenser.
  2. Select Menu no. 10 for Pizza dough. Complete the process in 45 mins.
  3. Press Stop when done and take the bread pan immediately to prevent further fermentation.
  4. Divide the dough into your preferred portion and roll into balls. Cover it with cloth for 1 hour.
  5. Roll it into your preferred shape on the cooking paper and poke holes on the dough with a fork.
Toppings:
  • 1 tomato, sliced
  • 1 red capsicum, chopped into cubes
  • 50g sliced white button mushrooms,
  • A handful of shrimps and squids (your preferred amount)
  • 2 strips of bacon, in small bits
  • 3 cheese slices, in small bits
  • Sambal shrimp chilli and ketchup as the base sauce
Pre-heat the oven at 200 deg C and then bake for 15 mins. And it is ready.

Tip(s): Letting the dough set still for an hour is really the ideal timing as it rises nicely as compared to those for only 20-30 minutes. Tried and Tested. See the 2nd photo.

The dough and toppings are meant for 3 pizzas. Have you tried before cocoa pizza dough? It tastes just the same as the norm but more brown in colour.

Adapted from Panasonic Cooking book.

Wanted to do some mini buns but only to realize that, 
I HAVE RUN OUT OF BREAD FLOUR!

Spoil my mood. But chill... leave it till next week. Boo... Bye!
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