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I love the little animals which I pasted around the box and I hope they will help to comfort and cheer up my dear friend with their smiles... :)

Anyway, what goes inside the box is another batch of vegan choc cupcakes...
I managed to find another recipe for a vegetarian cupcake from Allrecipes.com (http://allrecipes.com/recipe/vegan-cupcakes/detail.aspx) and gave it a try by replacing 1/4 of the flour with chocolate powder. I made other replacements such as using white distilled vinegar, soy milk and olive oil also. I accidently cut back on the amount of sugar used too.

I actually made a first batch of vanilla cupcakes using this recipe and they taste of flour and look like 'huat kueh'. Haha... But this batch of choc cupcakes tastes better. I like the taste of soy milk actually... But I think I still prefer normal cakes afterall. :)

How do you bake cakes without eggs?

Eggs has been an essential ingredient whenever I bake cakes. However, I was planning to bake something for a friend who is on a vegetarian diet and had to bake something without the use of eggs. I searched the internet for a perfect recipe and found the recipes for vegan choc cupcakes with many reviews from Allrecipes.com.

While reading the reviews, I realised that for strict vegetarian, there seems to be a need for all natural ingredients. To be safe, I followed the recommendations such as replacing normal flour with unbleached flour and normal sugar with raw unrefined sugar.

The cupcakes turn out looking like muffins. My oven temperature was not stable during the baking process, not sure if it is the result of not baking for more than half a year. Haha... Anyway, this cupcake was full of chocolate goodness... too chocolaty in my opinion. Also, it has a little bit of flour taste and a weird aftertaste. The weird aftertaste might be from the use of vinegar. I might have under-mixed the batter, which resulted in the flour taste. Anyway, this is a recipe which I personally will not try for a 2nd time. I did not even give it to my friend...

Japanese Curry

I remember I suddenly felt like cooking Japanese curry after reading a few posts on it. And one fine day, while shopping in the supermarket, I got the ready-made packet of paste... but it sat in my cupboard for a very very long time.... but still, I finally made it...

Along with it, I cooked healthy brown rice, unhealthy fried pork cutlet and some vegetables for dinner...

There is another bigger box of ready made curry paste sitting in my cupboard... I wonder when I'll cook them.

20 March 2011...

The Menu:
1. Cereal Prawns
2. Fatty Pork Belly (to be dipped in light soya sauce & chilli sauce)
3. Steamed Fish Head
4. Mushroom Soup
5. Vegetables with Abalone Sauce

Another dinner cooked for my family. This time round, using leftover ingredients in my mum's fridge as she hurt her hand and could not cook previously. Can't remember how it tastes like but should be edible and quite good... haha... :P