Mont Blanc (sweet potato version)

Firstly, Happy holiday to myself!!!! \(^o^)/

I have exactly 14 days of holiday starting from last Thursday....

haiz...only 14 days.....

alright, i tell myself must fully utilize these valuable days.....

I kinda abandoned my dear oven for quite a long time....

so I decided to bake something beautiful and delicious and definitely SWEET... =]

Searching for recipe online and I found a French dessert, Mont Blanc

Instead of using chestnut, this recipe uses sweet potato....

I had all the ingredients needed at home....

oh yes! you are the chosen one....Mont Blanc (sweet potato version)

lots of work to do....

preheat the oven....bake the cake base....boil the sweet potato....make the sweet potato puree....whip some fresh cream....assembly cake + cream + sweet potato puree

voila....

It doesn't look like traditional Mont Blanc at all............. >"<

The sweet potato puree looks like mustard..... =/

I had hard time piping the puree and I couldn't pipe it perfectly straight....

I think it's because the puree is a bit dry. I should have mixed more cream into it.

Nothing I can do anymore, so better taste my first not-so-traditional Mont Blanc

first bite.....hmmmmm...............I smell egg......

the cake is soft and moist even though I forgot to brush some cake syrup on top of the cake before assembly....

I can taste sweet potato in it....the whipped cream is very light and it helps to combine all the flavor......

All I can said is "OMG........It's so delicious!!!!!!"

It definitely taste 10 times better than it looks, NO exaggeration.

I thought it might be subjected to personal taste bud....

BUT BUT BUT....all my family love it too. =D

I'm so flattered when my sis complains that I made so few and she wants to eat more....

hehe.....

hmm....what I shall make tomorrow.........

Field Trip to KLIA Air Traffic Control Tower

See this tower whenever I go to KLIA and I always wonder does it looks like what we see in TV up there...

As a committee member of UNMC IEM Student Chapter

I got a chance to get up there! =D

father of a friend of the club's president is the person in charge of KLIA DCA (Department of Civilian Aviation)

that's why we have this chance that most people wanna get... \(^O^)/

it's a whole new different view from top of the tower....

we can see the whole airport and everything around the tower...

we were told that even Genting Highland can be seen from the tower if the weather is good....

we have an air traffic controller to explain us the operation and procedure of clearing the landing and departure.... (but not this guy in the picture, he is busy)

it's so amazing that just by looking at the system, we can know which plane is about to land, which one is about to take off....every detail about a particular flight can be check from the system...

we look at the computer screen, check which plane is coming (it appears as a moving dot with its flight code) , and then slowly you will see the plane stated in the system is coming to land on the right runway.....

it's so fun to see the jet queuing on the runway waiting for it's turn to take off...

the jets look just like toy plane...so small and cute....

they have to line up because one runway only allows one jet at a time....

another interesting thing we were told is that they will usually let smaller jet to take off 1st if there are two jets wanna take off at the same time, to avoid "traffic jam". It's because big jet takes longer time to take off and the smaller one has to wait for around 3 minutes after the big jet take off...

it's an interesting & unforgettable field trip....

wish we could do more of this in next semester.... =]

oven-dried tomato

stress stress stress......

exam is coming very soon....

study everyday......

吊颈都要透下气 的...

my own way of de-stressing.... =)

cooking!!

this time I try to make oven-dried tomato....

just cut the tomato.....

sprinkle some salt on the tomato......

120 'C for about 2 hours.....

leave cool....

bottle and pour enough oil to cover....

tadaaaaaaaaaaa.................

I don't have olive oil in stock...

so I use normal peanut oil + a clove of garlic to give hint of flavor...

tomato done.....

stress released.....

back to study.... =)