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  1. Jake, the carrot cake recipe that I’ve been using conveniently dumps everything into a large mixing bowl. I don’t bother with an electric mixer and just combine all the ingredients by hand with a big wooden spoon.

    In a large mixing bowl whisk together these dry ingredients:

    2 cups all purpose flour

    2 cups sugar

    1 teaspoon baking powder

    1 teaspoon baking soda

    1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

    ½ teaspoon salt

    Then add:

    3 cups shredded carrots

    1 cup vegetable oil

    1 teaspoon vanilla extract

    4 eggs

    ½ cup chopped/minced pineapple

    ½ cup chopped walnuts

    Blend all the ingredients until well combined. Pour and equally divide into greased and flour baking pan(s), one bundt pan or 2 round 8’ pans.

    Bake for 30-45 minutes depending on pans used. I like to do the toothpick thing to check the center.

    We don't have very good firm cream cheese here, but I always try to frost with what we do have available, by mixing about 2-3 cups of powdered sugar into 8 ounces of cream cheese and 50 grams of softened salted butter, adding 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract at the end.

    I'm having the last slice as I type, and it's still good and moist after a few days.

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  2. I'm not that wild about carrot cake myself, but my husband would be a wildman if I didn't make it at least once a year. So I do. As the end of Ramadhan approaches I proceed to hand shred carrots (not too finely) and bake a carrot cake following a recipe a friend gave me, it's got chopped walnuts and pineapple, not crushed but hand chopped fresh pineapple.

    It's a cake I've been baking for close to two decades...(only about twenty times :laugh: ) Usually baked in a bundt pan, this time I decided to make layers.

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  3. Lunch today was chicken milanese.  I coated the chicken in flour, then egg, then a mixture of bread crumbs, garlic, chopped flat-leaf parsley, salt and pepper.  The salad on top (tomatoes, romaine hearts and red onion) was dressed with a simple red wine vinaigrette (red wine vinegar, mustard, olive oil, parsley, garlic, S&P).  It was really yummy and quite pretty, too.  Especially when set against the background of the city as viewed from my window...

    Megan, I think I love you.....tears are rolling down my face. Your photo and post makes me so homesick! :sad:

  4. OKAY, Spaghetttti, we've salivated over the pictures long enough---what's in all those gorgeous side trays?  Rice toppings?  Photography says the dishes are all wonderful.  Details, please.

    And is that leaf-weaving a taught-in-the-kitchen art?    Just lovely.

    :raz::raz: Rachel Rachel!!! The meal centered around beef.

    Starting at about 8 o'clock and going clockwise: acar, or pickled matchstick veggies. Cukes, carrots, shallots and birdseye chillies.

    Next up is sweet soy sauce with some chopped chilllies & shallots.

    Following that is roasted peanut sauce.

    The five o'clock tray holds fried, diced beef liver cooked with garlic, shallots, spices, soy sauce, red chillies.

    In the center is a beef curry, very aromatic with coriander, cumin, cinnamon and thickened with candlenut paste.

  5. Ramadhan is over. Eid Mubarak!

    Ketupat is traditional in our family. Grains of rice are loaded into these coconut leaf packets and boiled for about 4-5 hours.

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    To achieve rice cakes like these:

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    We usually have a chicken stew with lots of coconut milk gravy, but since many were concerned with avian flu, we decided to have beef satay. (Pre-grilling)

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    Delectable desserts.

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