Leche Flan tips

Image via WikipediaMy wife cooked for our Christmas and New year dinner simple dishes, but which are not really simple to cook. These are our native dishes, and so native that wherever Filipinos go, whichever continent they land their feet on, the food follows.

Here we are in Singapore at the moment, and she made leche flan (egg custard). We've seen 2 prevailing recipes, the one as the standard method, and the other with honey. So she tried the one with honey.

It turned out that the honey should not be mixed with the base custard, but with the topping only. At any rate, what she made was super!

Of course, others may use coffee to put in a bitter taste that will balance the otherwise all-sweet custard taste. And on the other hand, some will use lemon rind instead of using coffee. Well, the coffee is just for the topping, while the lemon rind goes to the base custard mix.

She used lemon rind, and she scraped more than the usual. I could say I liked what she did. it is like eating a mentholated custard - sweet, bitter, with a bit of a kick left in the mouth.

And why do some include the egg white? As I've seen it done in the provinces, it is to
1. make the custard firmer; using only egg yolk makes the custard very soft, which some desire, of course.
2. produce more leche flan. I mean, the egg white is about 1/4 or 2/3 of the whole egg, so if you add that, you'll end up having leche flan by 1/4 or 2/3 more than what you'd get when you use only egg yolks.

So that's all about it! Enjoy!

 

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A new hob and a new hood

Image via WikipediaWe're moving in to the new flat by 1st Week of December, approximately, and that means all the works would have been done by that time.

One thing that we needed is a new hob and a new hood, and we've been looking around, hunting around for some much-needed promotions or sales that will most probably gave us a chance to still get a good pair at the lowest price.

Well, there has been some promotional items going on, but the sales, they are not so good. I mean, we are late most of the times to take a look at the items on sale, and the 'good ones' have been taken up already, leaving us with what others refuse to take...

Not until this month, our better chance didn't come... and thanks to Mayer. Well, Mayer is one of the shops that's been promoting their items by giving a package deal of a hob and a hood for a lower price than when these items are individually bought.

This time around, their prices are lower when bought individually... and rightly so, because it is their 23rd anniversary here in Singapore.

Now, what attracted us even more is the fact that some items were on PWP promotion: purchase either a hob or a hood, and you get one of these (sink or a pressure cooker) for only $23. How's that?

We checked with the salesman, that if we bought a hob and a hood, will we e getting 2 pressure cookers? 'Yeah, yeah, that's possible,' he said.

We left.

We came back the next day, and made the selection, and finalized the purchase.

When he is entering the details in the system, he seemed to see something that made him say, 'I think you can only get 1 pressure cooker...' and of course, we were surprised.

I looked at the my wife, and she quickly replied, 'Put them in separate invoices!'

That solved the problem.

I mean, it would have been OK if we get 1 sink and 1 pressure cooker, but we wanted to get 2 pressure cookers and no sink - there's no use for the sink, and we are giving the pressure cooker as a gift.

So if you are at this time hunting for a good hood and hob, both of quality and price, go to Mayer. We bought our oven 3 years ago, and we're not regretting that decision.

Enjoy!

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