GOING GAGA WITH COCONUT AGAIN......

Another coconut and greenly thingy again........LOL

Uncle Lee, compliments from me your favorite Durian Coconut Tarts.

My dearest Kak Queenie,  Pandan flavor coconut tart for you, your FFC

Coconut  Tart

Pastry ( make 28 pieces)

360 gm flour
60 gm icing sugar
2 egg
2 tbsp custard powder
180 gm butter( chilled)

Method for pastry

1/  Sift flour, custard powder and icing sugar.
2/  Cut the butter into cubes. Use you fingertips to rub the butter and flour until it resembles breadcrumbs.
3/  Beat egg lightly, add the egg into the flour mixture and mix lightly until pastry starts to bind together. Avoid overworking.
4/  Wrap with cling wrap and chill for 15 mins.
5/  Roll  the  pastry out thinly and evenly, cut with a ring cutter. Press the pastry lightly into tart mould. Trim the edge to remove excess dough. Prick base of each tart lightly with a fork.
6/  Bake the tart shells in pre heated oven at 150 deg c for 10 mins.
7/  Remove from oven, fill tarts with coconut filling to about 90% full.
8/  Bake in pre heated oven at 180 deg c for 20 to 25 mins until pastry is cook and top brown slightly.

Pandan Coconut Filling 

180gm fresh grated coconut
40gm melted butter
40 gm castor sugar
1 egg ( beat lightly)
2 tbsp condensed milk
1 tbsp water
1/2 tsp pandan paste (optional) OR REPLACE BY 1 TSP VANILLA EXTRACT
Note: This quantity is for 14 pieces of tarts

Method
1/  Melt the butter, then mix  all the ingredients together and keep side for later use.

 For all my friends to love Pandan Coconut Tarts

For all my friends who love Durian Coconut Tarts

Coconut Durian Filling

140 gm salted butter
160 gm castor sugar
3 eggs
200gm durian flesh
200gm fresh grated coconut
2 tbsp thick coconut milk

Method
1/  Cream butter and sugar together, stir in egg one at a time.
2/  Add the durian flesh, coconut milk and stir well.
3/  Add the grated coconut and mix well.
4. Fill the partially cooked pastry case with the filling.

My Permanent Resident Got Bird-napped

Caught my doves in the act doing the hanky panky act... kissy-kissy

These pair of doves became permanent resident when they flew to our apartment 3 years ago. They are free to come and go as I don't cage them.

They fly back everyday for their breakfast, lunch, dinner sometimes tea break. Most times they do stay overnight sleeping on the pomegranate tree. Their favorite fooling around spot is the air cond compressor unit and pomegranate tree.

Dad & mum sleeping...zzzzz.ssshhh... don't disturb.

A couple of weeks ago, I was curious my doves stop coming back and not hearing any cooing sounds of the doves fooling around. Then my hubby found out there's a bird-napper in our neighborhood. My doves got bird-napped, we got no proof to finger point him but my hubby saw him lure the doves at the car park.

Past week I was very sad, missing my doves. Out of the blue, last Thursday afternoon one of the baby dove returned. Yeh... I was so glad and happy to see my dove again.

But poor little fellow lost his appetite and was cooing all the time looking for the parent and other sibling.

My doves doing yoga balancing, LOL

My doves best portrait of the year.

Three things you can't recover in life

THE MOMENT  after it's missed.

THE WORD after it's said.

THE TIME after it's wasted.

Have a nice week ahead to all my friends.