Booth @Being ME Conference, MATRADE

Last year I went to Twins of Faith Conference at PICC, Putrajaya and  the conference was very beneficial and it did make me aware of certain things that I'm unaware of before and it also did make me wanne be a better muslim afterwards. This year around, Mercy Mission held another conference which is a Muslimah only conference. I intended to join as a participant at first but suddenly my eyes caught a link that reads this "HIRE A STALL".

Suddenly there's this crazy idea pops out of my head! Hey why not I try setting up a booth!

When I first visit the site I was soooooo nervous! I already brought an extra table and a table cloth and it still looks empty. So, that night my sister print out a pennant banner just to cheer up the booth. And it did get a lot of head turns and "wow" from passers-by during the setting up.

And Alhamdulillah all the stuffs are sold out! My first booth experience was really fun. And I owe my family and friend a BIG FAT THANKS! They were very helpful along the way. From my aunt who lent me her two tier oven *yes mine is just too small to produce booth standard quantity items :"( *, my mom and sister who have helped me go here and there and helped me assembling things, my cousin who lent me her trolley and table and a friend who drove me all the way from my house to matrade and helped me with the booth too.

I got sooooooo nervous that morning wondering how's people response and how the sales are going to be. But Alhamdulillah everything went beyond my expectation. The hard work of opening a booth are all worth while.

Perhaps, for certain people a booth is just a booth but that is not it for my first booth. It requires a lot of hard work and it gets tougher when u realize u don't have a big enough oven to start with, an ample storage to keep the raw materials and to keep the output. I was really pushing myself through. But it did make me realize how hard people work just to earn money. It did open my eyes wondering how hard people work just to get a rice of bowl for their families by the end of the day and how their kids have to sacrifice their time and energy to helped their parents out. And how *ok this is a bit too emotional for a booth experience*

What I'm trying to tell you is this is absolutely different from working part time at secret recipe and tutti frutti or all the hard work during 4 years of law school. School is totally off the list (finishing up homework is quite a rare event back then) Unless I have bakery business equipment I don't think I would want to go for a booth like yesterday in a near time.

Anyways, I am putting my first booth experience on the top of the most adventurous things I've ever done list!

Ok u can stop making that "errr?" face now. I have my own definition of adventure fyi :P

Quiche aux champignon

I've done quite a lot of baking lately but I don't have the mood to blog about it. And you know what happen next when u r not in the mood: u keep postponing until u forgot all about it.

So right now as I'm typing I'm actually waiting for my mum to bring home mushroom and cream to make mushroom quiche- talk about not postponing things :p

I was drooling over it since I skipped the part where the chef was actually making it on tlc few minutes ago *sigh* I thought skipping that part would save me from craving over it but I was wrong!

Mushroom Quiche Ala Wawa

For the crust:
100g chilled and chopped unsalted butter
Flour-start with 1 cup and add as you go
An egg

1. Using your finger tips gently rub the butter and flour.
2. Add more flour until it forms crumbs.
3. Then when it forms crumbs and the dough doesn't stick to the bowl, add in the egg and mix well.
4. If the dough is sticky add about 1 tbs flour (or more) and mix until it doesn't stick to the hands nor bowl. 5. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Open Evidence book and study while waiting :p
6. Next, press the dough into a 9 inch pie dish.*I know I know u should roll the dough first but consider this the wawa style~ lol*
7. Pull excess dough and put a baking paper on top. Place rice @ beans and bake for 20 minutes at 190 dc until crust turns golden brown.

The filling:

2 tbs butter
1 onion- dice
1 can of 200g button mushroom
Ground pepper
Ground Nutmeg
Salt
100 g Mozarella cheese
3 eggs
200ml dairy whipping cream

1. Heat the pan, put in butter, melt it and put in onion until golden brown. Then put in mushroom, pepper,salt and nutmeg to taste. (You can substitute mushroom with something else e.g. chicken, meat etc) Set aside.
2. Lightly whisk eggs and cream and put in the #1 ingredient. Mix well. Pour onto the crust.
3. Bake for 30 minutes at 200 dc or until the filling is set and the top turns golden brown.

Yeah when u cant resist the guilt of not studying, u should keep the book close to u just so u feel better ;)

P/s: my mom is kicking me out of the house because I am just too lazy to study for the finals which will start next week :( She said I'd better off be in the campus with my friends. She just can't trust me alone with the oven right now. Bribing her with apple crumble or cupcake no longer work these days..sheeeshhh.. T_T

Chocolate genoise

The genoise should be brushed with chocolate syrup but I skipped that part because I don't have cocoa powder in stock :"(

Recipe from Rose's Heavenly Cake page 189