Coffee Banana Trifle recipe

This is a easy, it just needs assembling. Target time: 30-40mins.

Need:

250gm instant custard

cold milk

2tbs of instant coffee (i used malaysian white coffee)

1 coffee swiss roll

500ml whipping cream

Bananas

1) Follow instructions on instant custard packet. Instead of water, replace with milk. Dissolve instant coffee with little hot water. and add to custard. Taste, set aside.

2) Whip cream up. Set aside.

3) Cut swiss roll into rounds of 1/2 cm. Now we are going to assemble.

Line a glass bowl (see picture) with swiss roll, then custard, then bananas, and cream on top.

Repeat again with swiss roll, custard, bananas, and cream. Repeat till full, but make sure cream ends up being the top layer. Smoothen it out, and chill for 4 hrs or till your friends arrives in the evening.

Unexpected Guests- after dinner dessert

Rather than doing the usual, there's something classy and simple enough to do... a dessert that can really wow your friends. This is what i made: Coffee Banana Trifle !!


Many of my friends can't have coffee at night, but they absolutely love coffee, so this is an alternative. The recipe in the next post...

simple entertaining-unexpected guests!!

If you had a phone call in the morning from friends who say that they will drop by after tea/dinner, what'll you do? Well, friends are friends, and the right thing to do is to entertain them. The next thing to do is to think about what to entertain them with, the usual thing of coffee and biscuits?

Hot hot hot! Game

Our "hot and spicy" party must be complete with a game. This is played while eating the meal. The pros of this game is that you find out your tolerance towards spicyness and find out more about your friends too!! :0)

Preparation: While your friends are waiting around for the meal, get them to write out questions that they want to ask each other. After that, fold them up and put them in a box or bowl.

Rules: You have to finish your meal, including the soup.


Start playing:
Player A takes a question from the box, writes his answer behind the paper. And announces the question. The other friends have to try to guess the answer correctly.

If the neither of his friends can get the answer, player A will serve the punishment. Punishment is a tsp of Sambal added into their noodles.

The end is since all of you are eating the noodles and adding sambal to it as you go, it becomes hotter and hotter, and the one who gives up in the end, loses.

If player A doesn't want to answer the question, the other friends each add a tsp of sambal into his bowl!!

***if fire comes out from your friends mouth symbolically, stop heat with milk or a piece of bread, chew it slowly and it should stop the heat.

Tom Yam (Yum) Noodles recipe

Need: (serves 4)

Instant Tom Yum Paste (see pic below)

Fresh red chilli X 2 (sliced)

Garlic, onion

Chicken broth (How to make it?? -note below)

150gms Glass noodles

Bunch of coriander

This needs tasting expertise, you've to taste as you go!! :0)

Ok, for 4 people, we need about 12 cups of chicken broth, or about 2 L. Bring it to a boil in a pot, and add chilli, garlic, onion.

After 1 minute, add in 3 tbsp of instant tom yum. Taste. If it's too diluted, add tom yum paste, if not spicy enough, add more fresh chilli.

When you're satisfied with the taste, add in the glass noodles. Please note that the glass noodles will soak up a lot of the broth, and the noodles cook fast. So, about 1-2 minutes should be sufficient.

Serve immediately and garnish with coriander.

Note: Chicken broth

The easy way using slowpot - Put 3 drumsticks and add water 4cm above chicken. Put on low for 6 hrs, high for 4. Shred chicken later and put in with noodles.

Note2: Try this with vermicelli and glass noodles together!! Wow!

Picture on right is the instant tom yam, on the left is sambal that can make your noodles even more spicier. Sambal is Not to be added to the soup, so, serve separately, for eg, in the centerpiece bowl.

Hot and Spicy Menu

This menu is very simple, and everything can be done in 15 minutes. Check out the recipes, and you'll know why. The drink of lemonade is to help cope with the heat. And the dessert is to help cool down. Recipes next...

Main:
Tom Yam Noodles

Drink:
Lemonade

Dessert:
Ice cream (to cool down)

Game:
Hot hot hot!!

If you're wondering what that middle thing is, the centrepiece bowl is suppose to have sambal. (next post will have the pic of which sambal i use)

Simple entertaining-Asian "hot and spicy" party

I like hot and spicy food, and Malaysia is full of it.
A lot of spicy food like sambal, curries, take some time, but i wanted my friends and I to have a quick meal.
Hence, this week's mini party theme is "hot and spicy". Menu next...