Today’s Jellyriffic “Get Your Jelly On” Challenge entry will give you a real kick!
Yesterday’s Sirap Selasih Konnyaku Recipe was all about taking a favorite drink and jellifying it. With today’s White Coffee Konnyaku, we’re going old school…or should I say “Old Town”, as in Ipoh.
When Nate and I first discussed taking part in Royal Selangor’s “Get Your Jelly On” challenge, we were not sure if we could blog every day for a whole month. I was more uncertain of creating jellies for a whole month.
If you are a long-time follower of our blog, you will have noticed that I hardly make jellies. There was only one recipe on our blog for Rainbow Jello and that was it. It’s not that I don’t make jellies, it’s that most of the time, I just use ready made jelly powders and serve it once it’s firm. There’s nothing much to blog about that.
However, now that we’ve been challenged to do this, it’s been quite fun brain-storming ideas on what we can do with these molds. We’ve been thinking about all types of different ways to use the molds (and some of them include non-jelly recipes). Generally, I figured that anything that is good to drink is probably also good to eat as a jelly. As I thought of that, I wanted to try making this particular jelly–Sirap Selasih or Rose syrup with holy basil seeds.
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“If you’re thinkin’ of being my brother / It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white”
Many years ago when we had come back to Malaysia for one of our semi-annual visits, Nate and I were out for lunch one day. It was a hot day and Nate was feeling like a refreshing cold drink of soy bean milk mixed with grass jelly (cincau). I don’t recall where exactly we had gone for lunch (though I believe it was Bibi Chik in Petaling Jaya), but what I do recall with great clarity was what the wait person said when we ordered the drink:
Memories of the fantastic dessert platter served to us at Pah Ke’s Chinese Restaurant in Kaneohe, Hawaii sparked the idea for this dish made in Royal Selangor’s pewter Jelly Mould. I really enjoyed Chef Siu’s “soy milk custard” and wanted to try to make it myself one day. The Jellyriffic “Get Your Jelly On” Challenge seems like the perfect opportunity to make my own soy milk panna cotta.
Fortunately, the lovely Ravenous Couple Hong and Kim just posted their Soy Milk Panna Cotta with Red Wine Sauce just as I was beginning to look up recipes. After getting some advice from them, I set out to make it.