Tak usahkan nak update, nak kemas meja pon tak sempat!! Tolong!! *Siapa nak tolong buatkan term paper?*
p/s: Sila klik image utk paparan lebih jelas :p
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Showing posts with label Searching for my niche. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Searching for my niche. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Update?
Tak usahkan nak update, nak kemas meja pon tak sempat!! Tolong!! *Siapa nak tolong buatkan term paper?*
p/s: Sila klik image utk paparan lebih jelas :p
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Pleasure of cooking (IV)
Salam,
Bunyinya macam poyo saje, hanya karipap. Tapi, ini attempts ke 7 saya and successful!! Before this, semuanya liat @ rapuh sangat sampai saya tak boleh canai, tak boleh kelim, kena guna acuan dan terus goreng. Owh happy nya saya!! At least bila saya ada anak nanti, boleh main masak-masak buat kuih hahaha. Kelim saya memang buruk, tak apa. Practice make perfect. Lepas nie pulun buat chiffon cake pula!!
Ini karipap special untuk Imran. Dia hanya makan karipap inti gula. Ya, GULA!!!
Bunyinya macam poyo saje, hanya karipap. Tapi, ini attempts ke 7 saya and successful!! Before this, semuanya liat @ rapuh sangat sampai saya tak boleh canai, tak boleh kelim, kena guna acuan dan terus goreng. Owh happy nya saya!! At least bila saya ada anak nanti, boleh main masak-masak buat kuih hahaha. Kelim saya memang buruk, tak apa. Practice make perfect. Lepas nie pulun buat chiffon cake pula!!
Ini karipap special untuk Imran. Dia hanya makan karipap inti gula. Ya, GULA!!!
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Friday, January 28, 2011
pleasure of cooking (III)
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
comfort food
Makan bubur memang senang, tak payah kunyah lama-lama dan boleh terus telan. Masak pun senang. Saya bukan teruja sangat nak makan bubur nie walaupun Cik Lurpak baru tayang kat blognya itu. Dah seminggu saya gastrik dan demam, maka saya tiada pilihan :(
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Pleasure of Cooking (part II)
Salam,
For the last couple of days, I made up for my missed Ramadhan fasting. So BIG excuses to lauk biasa-biasa a.k.a telur goreng or fried rice. On Sunday, I made cod fishcake. I had to mix the flesh with bread crumbs and spring onions and pepper since the frozen version of the cod that I bought at Walmart pretty much resembles the succulent Spongebob Squarepants. I also put some efforts into cooking cheesy wedges, but Lord, the result crushed my appetite! The cheese gravy was watery in spite of a block of cheese that I put in there.
The very next day, I tried to make cream puffs. (I found a very easy and nice recipe from this website). Rasa memang sedap yet mine were leper and not that fluffy. So another failure tailing another. (Tu yang alwaysgive up malas nak masak!)
This morning, when I cleaned the refrigerator, I found packets of simmer sauce given by my BFF when I went back to Malaysia about two months ago. Since she works at Brahim's, she had given me a big box containing all the Brahim's products (initially I only took 2 packets - adat orang Melayu mesti malu-malu kan - but she insisted I took them all). I never tried any, so I randomly choose a packet labeled " Malaysian Nyonya Sauce". Cooking has never been easy like this, I cut and campak chicken and potatoes into the gravy, poured a cup of water, watched TV and came back to check the dish 20 minutes later. When Imran tasted it, he liked it so muchhhhhhhhhh that he asked me where I got the recipe. hehe terpaksa la bocor rahsia, karang dia suruh masak lagi, CONFIRM tak jadi hehe. Next time boleh order package yang ini, senang kerja memasak ku!!
For the last couple of days, I made up for my missed Ramadhan fasting. So BIG excuses to lauk biasa-biasa a.k.a telur goreng or fried rice. On Sunday, I made cod fishcake. I had to mix the flesh with bread crumbs and spring onions and pepper since the frozen version of the cod that I bought at Walmart pretty much resembles the succulent Spongebob Squarepants. I also put some efforts into cooking cheesy wedges, but Lord, the result crushed my appetite! The cheese gravy was watery in spite of a block of cheese that I put in there.
The very next day, I tried to make cream puffs. (I found a very easy and nice recipe from this website). Rasa memang sedap yet mine were leper and not that fluffy. So another failure tailing another. (Tu yang always
This morning, when I cleaned the refrigerator, I found packets of simmer sauce given by my BFF when I went back to Malaysia about two months ago. Since she works at Brahim's, she had given me a big box containing all the Brahim's products (initially I only took 2 packets - adat orang Melayu mesti malu-malu kan - but she insisted I took them all). I never tried any, so I randomly choose a packet labeled " Malaysian Nyonya Sauce". Cooking has never been easy like this, I cut and campak chicken and potatoes into the gravy, poured a cup of water, watched TV and came back to check the dish 20 minutes later. When Imran tasted it, he liked it so muchhhhhhhhhh that he asked me where I got the recipe. hehe terpaksa la bocor rahsia, karang dia suruh masak lagi, CONFIRM tak jadi hehe. Next time boleh order package yang ini, senang kerja memasak ku!!
The must try Brahim's Malaysia Nyonya Sauce.
Ada rasa mild curry, ada rasa lemak cili api pekat, masam2. Sangat sedap!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Pleasure of cooking (and eating!)
When I arrived this part of the world 2 and half years ago, I have a policy, "tak masak, tak dapat makan" since there is no halal restaurant around. I was half vegetarian and half seafood-tarian for a quite a while, until Imran joined me a year later. We then drove to and fro the nearest city, Dallas, which located about 6 hours of driving (bear in mind, Texas is about 4x larger than Malaysia) to get our halal meat supply. Occasionally, we ate at Chinese buffet until I forbid myself to go there anymore. Not until a year later when a Pakistani opened a groceries store with halal meat supply.
It is not that I am not into cooking, but I do prefer house chores. It gives me such a headache to think about what to cook, and importantly, what not to. I consider my other half as a picky eater. He is totally against seafood because of their hard shells and bones, so he eats only fish cakes, prawn balls, squid / calamari or filleted tilapia. Whenever I cook my favorites: asam pedas with a lot of daun kesum or masak lemak cili api with salted fish and pineapple or pre-grilled chicken and potatoes, I have to fry sunny side eggs for him. He won't even eat the dishes if I replaced the ingredients with his favorite proteins. He has fried foods on top of his list, from fried chicken, fried crispy sliced beef, battered squid or oyster mushroom, or anything with tempura flour. I am lazy enough to cook separate dishes for lunch and dinner, so there is no way that I will cook separate dishes every time he refused to eat my favorites. Consequently, I end up cooking the same dishes that suit both of our appetites, all over again: fried rice, stir fry vegetables with scrambles eggs, nasi lemak, beef or lamb rendang, beef / chicken goreng kunyit WITHOUT vegetables. He loves neither mee bandung nor mee rebus, so my only option is mee goreng basah or bihun sup.He dislikes any kuih talam or karipap or bubur kacang, but he likes anything extra-sweet like jelly or kaswi without grated coconut.
As oppose to him, I was born in a state where food selections are varied enough to eat different food each mealtime, for at least a month. I hardly ate at kedai tomyam until I was in my degree years. My late grandmom was indeed a good cook, and Lord, I miss her serunding kelapa with beef bits, botok-botok ikan, urap pucuk ubi, asam tumis sayur keladi and sipu sedut, sambal goreng jawa and off course, her best-in-the-world nasi ambeng. During hari raya, we ate ketupat with ayam masak kicap instead of rendang, kuah lodeh and nasi beriani. When my dad slaughtered cows during raya Qurban, we would request the satay usus susu (yes, you heard it right). My dad said it is pretty tricky to get that usus susu, and not many people know how to do that. Silap hari, dapat benda lain hehe. He then marinated that long usus,weaved it to a cleaned coconut frond (bukan lidi tau) and grilled it like one cooks lemang. It tasted creamy and off course fatty. Bila makan, penuh lemak-lemak kat mulut hehehe. But that was really yummy!! Sometimes when my dad went hunting, he would bring back napuh or deer or birds. He often brought back ikan sungai like patin, tapah and belut (bukan bela kolam punya). Good gracious, I miss those foods! I hardly recalled when was the last time I had them.
When I stayed with my aunt, she made kuih for me on daily basis. I still remember, she was complaining to her friend that she was still making karipap for me even when she was sick, because I would throw my tantrum- mengaruk menghempas diri ke lantai if I didn't get to eat her kuih. I was only like 6 years young that time, hahaha! No wonder people around me nicknamed me as FaraDebab!
Well, for today, we are having (again) fried rice with sambal tumis telur. Sudah, jangan nak berangan banyak-banyak pasal makanan, p buat kerja sana!
It is not that I am not into cooking, but I do prefer house chores. It gives me such a headache to think about what to cook, and importantly, what not to. I consider my other half as a picky eater. He is totally against seafood because of their hard shells and bones, so he eats only fish cakes, prawn balls, squid / calamari or filleted tilapia. Whenever I cook my favorites: asam pedas with a lot of daun kesum or masak lemak cili api with salted fish and pineapple or pre-grilled chicken and potatoes, I have to fry sunny side eggs for him. He won't even eat the dishes if I replaced the ingredients with his favorite proteins. He has fried foods on top of his list, from fried chicken, fried crispy sliced beef, battered squid or oyster mushroom, or anything with tempura flour. I am lazy enough to cook separate dishes for lunch and dinner, so there is no way that I will cook separate dishes every time he refused to eat my favorites. Consequently, I end up cooking the same dishes that suit both of our appetites, all over again: fried rice, stir fry vegetables with scrambles eggs, nasi lemak, beef or lamb rendang, beef / chicken goreng kunyit WITHOUT vegetables. He loves neither mee bandung nor mee rebus, so my only option is mee goreng basah or bihun sup.He dislikes any kuih talam or karipap or bubur kacang, but he likes anything extra-sweet like jelly or kaswi without grated coconut.
As oppose to him, I was born in a state where food selections are varied enough to eat different food each mealtime, for at least a month. I hardly ate at kedai tomyam until I was in my degree years. My late grandmom was indeed a good cook, and Lord, I miss her serunding kelapa with beef bits, botok-botok ikan, urap pucuk ubi, asam tumis sayur keladi and sipu sedut, sambal goreng jawa and off course, her best-in-the-world nasi ambeng. During hari raya, we ate ketupat with ayam masak kicap instead of rendang, kuah lodeh and nasi beriani. When my dad slaughtered cows during raya Qurban, we would request the satay usus susu (yes, you heard it right). My dad said it is pretty tricky to get that usus susu, and not many people know how to do that. Silap hari, dapat benda lain hehe. He then marinated that long usus,weaved it to a cleaned coconut frond (bukan lidi tau) and grilled it like one cooks lemang. It tasted creamy and off course fatty. Bila makan, penuh lemak-lemak kat mulut hehehe. But that was really yummy!! Sometimes when my dad went hunting, he would bring back napuh or deer or birds. He often brought back ikan sungai like patin, tapah and belut (bukan bela kolam punya). Good gracious, I miss those foods! I hardly recalled when was the last time I had them.
Botok-botok ikan, image googled. Dah cuba search for the satay usus susu, but I guess no one else besides of our family eats it hahaha.
When I stayed with my aunt, she made kuih for me on daily basis. I still remember, she was complaining to her friend that she was still making karipap for me even when she was sick, because I would throw my tantrum- mengaruk menghempas diri ke lantai if I didn't get to eat her kuih. I was only like 6 years young that time, hahaha! No wonder people around me nicknamed me as FaraDebab!
Well, for today, we are having (again) fried rice with sambal tumis telur. Sudah, jangan nak berangan banyak-banyak pasal makanan, p buat kerja sana!
Friday, December 17, 2010
Kuih talam
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