Thursday, September 27, 2012

Kachang Phool

Hmmm people must be thinking ... raya  was over long time ago but i still have guest over to my place.  This was our post Raya. (Puasa tak cukup raya sampai post sakan ... tsk). My primary school friends and family came last sat.  I did not manage to visit them during the festive season so we planned this get together not too long ago. 
Alhamdulillah everything when well.  I was quite happy that they managed to squeeze some time to come over to my place.  Tina was not able to join us cos her lil girls were not well.  But its ok there's always another time.
I'll post some photos once Munira upload it hee hee ya ... too busy chatting till we forget to take pix ... lucky Munira brought her camera ... so we took some shots before we end the day.



Ingredients:
1 can Foul Medames
150g minced beef
1/3 cup of tamarind juice
2tbsp meat curry powder (Babas’ brand + abit of water to make a paste)
1tbsp blended dried chilli
Blend:
  • 5 red onions
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • ½ inch ginger

Salt and Sugar to taste

Side Ingredients:
Egg, sunny side up
Onion (diced)
Tomato (diced)
Green chilli (sliced)
Lime (cut into 2)
Ghee (melted)

Method:
  1. Heat oil, sautee the blended ingredient for 3 to 5mins then add the blended chilli cook thoroughly, add curry powder and minced beef, mix and cook for 10 to 15mins mins add 1 cup of water.
  2. Once the mixture boil add tamarind juice.  Add salt and sugar to taste. Lower the heat til the gravy thickens.  Add in the Foul Medames (I’ve blend it to smooth paste or you can just mashed it with your hands.  Up to individual) Stir and cook for another 10 to 15 mins and off the heat.

To Serve:

Scoop the gravy on a plate, put 1 egg sunny side up, scatter some diced tomato, onion and chilli.  Drizzle some melted ghee and squeeze 1 lime juice accompany it with French loaf or normal white bread

Source: tiffinbiru

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Keema

Open house Day 3: Paternal Family ... Thank you ALL for coming =D

There's no photos for this cos ... I FORGOTTEN to take ... ler ... 

Source: FN

Ingredients
·         2 tablespoons vegetable oil
·         1 onion, minced
·         8 ounces ground veal
·         8 ounces ground lean beef
·         Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
·         2 large cloves garlic, minced
·         2 firm, ripe tomatoes, diced
·         1 tablespoon minced gingerroot, or 1 teaspoon ground ginger
·         1 teaspoon Garam Masala
·         1 teaspoon minced fresh hot green chilies, or to taste
·         3 cups frozen peas
·         1 lemon, juiced, or to taste
·         2 to 3 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro, or to taste
·         Indian flatbreads (rotis) or tortillas, as an accompaniment
Directions
In a nonstick skillet set over moderately high heat, warm the oil until hot. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes. Add the veal, beef, and salt and pepper to taste, and cook, stirring, until no longer pink. Add the garlic, tomatoes, gingerroot, Garam Masala, and chilies, and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes. Add the peas and continue to cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes more, or until flavors blend. Stir in the lemon juice and cilantro and correct seasoning, adding more salt if necessary. Either transfer to a bowl and serve with warm rotis or tortillas or spoon Keema down center of bread and roll up like a burrito

Roti Kirai - 'Spider Web'

Open House Day 2 : Maternal Side of the family.  Photo courtesy by Mazri mynotsolittlecousinanymore. I made roti kirai with the new bottle I bought online.  It was fuss-free.  Ibu helped with the mi birthday.

All in all I am so happy that almost all my family came ... My granny came, my aunties and uncles, cousins, niece inside the tummy, friends ... I had an awesome weekend.  Lots of love.


Source: Rozzan
Roti Kirai aka 'Spider Web'

Ingredients
1 kg Plain flour
300 ml evaporated milk
950 - 1000 ml water
3 eggs
3 tsp salt
a bit of colouring (in this case a made 2 different batch 1 is yellow and the other is purple)

Methods:
Mix everything in 1 bowl and sieve so there’s no lumps.
Heat a flat pan sprinkle a bit of oil or use a non-stick pan =)
photo was taken from here.
Use the equipment and drizzle it in circular motion or up to you.
Please do not walk away from the pan as it cooks really fast …30s to 1min depending on the thickness
And fold it … that is also up to you too … =D

Chicken Curry

Bahan-Bahan
1kg of wings (or whole chicken cut into 8 or 12 parts)
Blend till smooth:
·         2 large onions
    4 cloves garlic
    1 inch ginger
10 tbsp curry powder BABAS
1 onion (sliced)
5 star anise
3 cardamom
2inch cinnamon
Oil for frying

200 ml santan (I did not put into my curry)
3 potatoes (cut into quarter)
2 tomatoes (cut into quarter)
Salt to taste

Method:
Heat oil.  Sautee sliced onion and curry powder till soft.
Add in the blended item, mix well. Cook it for 10 – 15mins.
Add in the chicken and add 2 to 3 cups of water.
Add in potatoes … once the potatoes are fully cook add in tomato and salt.
Simmer it for 5mins and off the heat.


Mee Soto

Our house was officially opened last friday.  Yup it was almost a week, still have not gain my energy back.
Invited a few close ones ... Thank you all for coming.

Hubby and Wife: Fad & Yana
Family: Fuzz, Liz & Lil Qisha
Family: Rizal, Diana and there 3 lil boys


Source: Joscorpian
Mee Soto

Ingredients:

1 (1.75kg) chicken
6 cups water
salt to taste
600g fresh laksa noodles
300g bean sprouts, tails removed

Grind into a fine paste:
1½ tbsp coriander seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp fennel seeds
1 stalk lemon grass, sliced
1 thick slice lengkuas
4 candlenuts (I don't have this)
8-10 shallots
1 tsp white peppercorns

For garnishing:
10 shallots, cut into fine slices and fry till golden brown
spring onions and celery, finely chopped
potato cutlets, fried
shredded chicken

Chilli Padi Sauce:
¼ cup birds-eye chilli, wash and remove stalks; grind fine and pour some dark soya sauce over it.

ilah: 4 red chili, a handful of chili padi, 5 cloves of garlic, kichap manis, 5 lime juice.  Blend everything and taste =)

Method:
  • Put whole chicken, ground paste, water and salt in a large pot. Bring to the boil. When boiling, remove chicken and keep stock aside to use as soup for the Mee Soto.
  • Put the chicken on a tray and roast for about 20-30 minutes at 190°C (375°F) until light brown. Shred chicken when cool.
  • Bring a large pan of water to the boil. When water is actively boiling, put in noodles and bring back to the boil. Continue boiling till noodles are cooked, then remove noodles.
  • In the same water, scald the bean sprouts.
  • To serve: Put the noodles in a dish, sprinkle bean sprouts and shredded chicken over it then add soup and garnishing. Serve with Chilli Padi Sauce.
Source: HighOverHappy
Begedil
Ingredients:

2 medium-sized russet potatoes
¼ cup cooked minced beef (seasoned with a little cumin or just salt and pepper)
¼ cup crispy fried shallots
¼ cup spring onion, sliced thinly
2 eggs
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground white pepper
oil for frying
Peel and boil the potatoes. Mash the potato and add the beef, shallots and spring onion. Season with the salt and pepper. Mix well and shape into balls about 2 inches wide. Roll the balls well between your palms to ensure that the patties are compact and will remain intact when frying. Press the balls so they flatten a little on two sides. At this stage, you can freeze them. Do not defrost when you are ready to eat them - fry direct from the freezer.

Beat the eggs in a bowl. Heat oil to medium heat. Dip each patty in egg before frying them. After about 3-4 minutes, turn them over and fry until golden brown.

Makes 18-20.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Caramel Cake

I've done this before ... the link is below. Erm I think previous attempt was much better.


Click here for recipe.

Ferrero Rocher Brownie

RICH . CHOCOLATEY . YUMMMMOOOH!!!
Source: Kak Rima


For Brownie:
113g unsweetened chocolate; coarsely chopped - Kak Rima used 55% valrhona (I used normal choc)
96g unsalted butter, cut into cubes
250g sugar
3 large eggs
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
120g all-purpose flour
12 Ferrero Rocher candies, sliced in half


For the Nutella Buttercream:
60g unsalted butter, softened
1/3 cup Nutella
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
150g confectioners' sugar (icing)
2 tablespoons heavy cream



DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 165deg C. Line an 8×8 inch baking pan with foil and spray with nonstick cooking spray.

2. Microwave chocolate and butter in a large bowl microwave-safe bowl at medium (50% power) for 3-4 minutes or until butter is melted - i melted butter and pour it over my valrhona

3. Stir until chocolate is melted. Whisk in sugar, eggs, vanilla and salt. Gradually add in flour; stir until just combined.

4. Spread 1/2 the batter into prepared pan. Add an even layer of Ferrero Rocher candies and cover with remaining 1/2 of brownie batter. Bake for 30 minutes; do not over bake.

5. Remove to cooling rack to cool completely.

6. Prepare the Nutella Frosting. In a medium bowl with an electric hand mixer, cream the butter and Nutella until fully combined. Add in the vanilla extract, confectioners' sugar and heavy cream and mix on low speed until all sugar is incomporated. Turn mixer to medium-high speed and beat the frosting for about to minutes. The frosting will be thich, smooth and creamy. Frost cooled brownies and slice before serving.

The Shepherd's Pie


Not your normal Hari Raya dish but my mom requested for 2 medium trays of shepherd's pie.  

I also have some friends asking for this recipe ... I like to make changes from time to time cos there's no right or wrong shepherd's pie.  This recipe has gone a lot of changes ... in school, Secondary 2 to be exact, it was a super basic pie ... its just potatoes season with salt and pepper, filling was minced chicken, onion, garlic, salt and pepper and abit of butter to finish off ...

So you see this recipe has evolve for the passed 16yrs ... and I kept adding more ingredient to the recipe ... to make it AWESOME!

  • Boil potatoes for 1 to 1 1/2hr depending on the quantity and size of the potatoes
  • Once cooked, drained and peel the jacket (if you boil together with the jacket). Season with salt and pepper.  Butter and milk are optional. Mashed and mix till smooth or leave bits and pieces of chunks are ok too.

Potatoes:
potatoes - use russet potatoes (scrub clean and boil with jacket on til cook)
salt and pepper to taste

  *Optional
soft butter
milk
parmesan cheese


  •  Minced meat (I used beef - the choice is yours)
  • Garlic and ginger - chop, onion - diced
  • *Optional - Tomatoes, capsicums, mushroom (put can, don't put also can, put other things also can)


  •  Seasoning - Tomato sauce, salt, pepper, black pepper
  • *Optional - Blended chili
  • Oil to fry


  • Sautee garlic, ginger and onions
  • Once soft add in the minced meat
  • Mix well
  • The liquid will come from the meat cook til the liquid dry up


  • Season with salt and pepper
  • Continue to cook it for 5mins
  • *Optional - add blended chili (can omit) and cook it for 10 to 15mins or until its well cook [add black pepper once its half way cook]

  •  Off the heat
  • Add tomato sauce and the *Optional ingredients such as tomato, capsicum and mushroom
  • Mix well and put aside ... let it cool before use

Use a good quality Mozzarella Cheese!


  • grease aluminum tray, pyrex or oven-prove dish with butter.
  • take 1/2 of the potato mixture and line the bottom of the dish
  • then take a generous amt of filling and layer it on top of the lined potato mixture
  • cover it with mozzarella cheese
  • take the remaining mixed potatoes and cover the filling
  • dot the top with butter (I have none left hahha)
  • add generous amt of mozzarella cheese on top.



Bake it for abt 10min on a pre-heat oven of 190C or until the cheese has melted and turn golden brown

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Kek Lapis Cadbury (1st try)

1st try ... Its not that successful I guess ... and its super thick ... might try again ... will see how lol.



Source: Rozzan

KEK LAPIS CADBURY

Bahan-Bahan
500 gm mentega
10 biji telur
150 gm gula
100 gm tepung biskut marie
1 peket santan serbuk (50 gm) [I did not use this but I use 150g of biskut marie instead)
100 gm susu manis
180 gm tepung gandum
coklat cadbury secukupnya (saya gunakan cokelat Van Houten) [I used cadbury and I think need to get 2 box for 1 batch)

Cara:
1) Pukul mentega dan gula hingga kembang.
2) Masukkan telur satu persatu hingga habis.
3) Masukkan tepung biskut marie, tepung gandum, santan dan susu. Gaul rata.
4) Bakar lapisan pertama hingga masak.
5) Ratakan adunan untuk lapisan kedua dan susun coklat cadbury.
6) Bakar hingga masak. Ulang hingga habis.

Gunakan Loyang 9”x9” (saya gunakan 8"x8")

Catitan Saya:
1) Saya buat dua lapisan berwarna dan cuma bubuh cokelat pada setiap lapisan (plain) ketiga jer. 2) Gunakan api grill sahaja dgn suhu kira-kira 200 darjah Celsius.
3) Masa membakar kira-kira 1 jam 20 minit.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Almost Famous Cookies

For this coming Raya ... this is the only cookies I made (want to send to LA ... fuuuh I've never been to LA before but my cookies will reach there anytime soon... LOL!).  Cos MIL has her stash for Raya goodies and my friend, Nurul gave me Cornflakes Macaroons.  I do not want to bake more cookies cos last year was such a waste.  So I am contented with small amount of goodies this year.

But ... this year I will try some of the cake recipes that I saw online.  I hope it turns out well lah.




Ingredients
250g salted butter,softened (i used SCS)
200g light brown sugar
1/4 tsp salt 
1/2 tsp coffee oil
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup oats,processed to bits in a chopper (i put nestum instead)
1/4 cup ground almonds (i omit this)
1/2 cup of your favourite nuts,chopped finely (optional)(i put in chopped hazelnut)
1 pack of Nestle Tollhouse semi-sweet chocolate chips OR chocolate chunks 
300g self-raising flour 



Method

This is the most important step,at least 2 hours before,or the night before,beat the egg with the vanilla and the coffee oil to infuse or you can do this the night before,refrigerate it then bring it to room temperature before baking.

Preheat oven to 160C.

To the softened butter,beat in the sugar and the salt to combine. Beat in the egg and stir in the processed oats,ground almonds,optional chopped nuts and the chocolate chunks. Sift the flour and fold it in,this dough will not be too stiff but not too wet either.

For small cookies,place half-tsp of the dough,spaced slightly apart on the cookie sheet and bake for 9 to 10 minutes.

For large cookies, place rounded tbsp of the dough spaced apart on the cookie sheet and bake for 20 to 22 minutes.

Cool completely and let it sit overnight in an airtight container,this is for the flavour and fragrance to develop further.


Source: Kak Rima @ www.bisousatoi.com

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Mee Hong Kong


Source: Dillaila

My method of cooking is slightly diff from Dillaila. If you want to try her method, you can click on the link given.

Ingredients:


Kway Teow
4eggs (I did not put)
Pepper
Salt
4 cloves garlic (minced)
5-6 chilli padi
3tbsp corn flour (I put 1 tbsp)
Veggies (optional)
Seafood/Chicken (prawns & sotong)
2-3tbsp Oyster sauce
3 cups water or just enough
Oil for frying

Methods: (My method)
Sautee garlic till light brown
Add in seafood or/and chicken meat (add a little bit of water)
Once half cook add corn flour (mix corn flour with a bit of water)
Add in veggie, chili padi, oyster sauce and pepper
Once the gravy thickens add salt

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Ayam Goreng Kunyit Daun Kari

Quick and Easy recipe from Che Mat Gebu.



Source: www.tiffinbiru.com

Ingredients:


1/2 chicken, cut into bite size
1 tbsp turmeric powder
Salt to taste
1 clove garlic (pounded)
1 large onion (cut into rings)
1 stem of curry leaves (just the leaves)
1 large red chili (julienne)
1 green chili (julienne)
1 garlic (julienne)
1 lemon grass (bashed)


Method:

  • Clean chicken and prick it with fork.  Add turmeric, salt and pounded garlic.  Mix and marinate (put in the fridge for 1hour or use it instantly.
  • Heat oil to fry chicken. Medium heat and put the lid on for slow cooking. Don't need to be crispy. Take it out and put on kitchen paper.
  • Pour out the used oil keep just enough for stir-frying. Sautee curry leaves, garlic and lemon grass til aroma. Add in onion, chilis. Stir til the onion swell.  Add in the fried chicken and mix well.

Monday, July 23, 2012

Cake and Cookies

It is so easy that you are not able to screw it up hahah ... Second attempt was much better than the first.
I hope ibu likes the cake.  Since she likes messy cakes, I try to make it as messy as possible lol ... 
This is my first layered cake.  It was very hard to stake it all up ... cos it slides off ... but I managed it some how lah ... 


Since ibu do not like dark chocolate, I used milk chocolate dots for the chocolate ganache. All in all it was a success.


QUICK CHOCOLATE CAKE

9" square tin greased and lined
Preheat oven to 175C

Ingredients
450g  castor sugar
224g  all purpose flour
96g    cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 large eggs - slightly beaten
240ml milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water

Method:
In a large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients with a whisk ensuring that they are properly mixed. Make a well in the center and add in eggs, milk, oil and vanilla extract. Whisk this well to ensure that there are no lumps for approximately 2mins. You may use an electric mixer at low speed. Lastly add the boiling water to the batter and continue to whisk carefully. Mix well.

Pour batter (may look alittle runny) in prepared tin and bake for about 30-35mins, or till skewer comes out clean when checked at the center of cake.

Source: Sheen Mars

The ganache I doubled the quantity cos I worried that I can't cover the whole cake... But in the end I have excess.

Ingredients:
160ml heavy cream
283.5g chocolate baking discs / chopped chocolate

Method:
Quick Ganache
  • Place chocolate in stainless steel bowl, set aside.  Heat cream in a small saucepan over high heat until just boil
  • Pour hot cream over chocolate, stirring until smooth

Source: Sarah

I have left over ganache so I decided to use it as cookies filling.  It looks sooo chocolatey cos I do not have enough 2tbsp of red colour hee hee ...



Red Velvet Polka Dot Cookies
Makes 30 cookies
240g butter, softened
300g granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
220g all-purpose flour
96g cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 tbsp red food colouring (I put in 1 cap full that is why its not red enough hee hee)
1 (11-ounce) white chocolate chips (I omit this cos I don't have any =D)
Preheat the oven to 176 degrees C. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and sugar until light-colored.  Add the eggs and vanilla and beat until fluffy and light.
In a small bowl, use a fork to mix together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Use the fork to break up lumps of cocoa powder. Add the dry ingredients to the butter in the mixer a little at a time, mixing well after each addition and occasionally scraping down the sides of the bowl. When the dough is thoroughly mixed, add the food coloring, beating until the dough is a dark red color. If you have some place important to be or just had a manicure, I’d recommend wearing gloves. That red food colouring will show up in the oddest places. When the dough is evenly colored, stir in all but about 1/2 cup of the white chocolate chips until mixed in.
Scoop the dough onto the lined baking sheets using a 2 tablespoon cookie scoop or spoon. Place the cookies apart from each other to allow room for spreading. You will have enough dough to use on a third pan of cookies after these have cooked. Wet your fingers and lightly press down the top of each cookie mound, then press the remaining white chips into each cookie to create the polka dots. The cookies spread, so press a lot of chips into the cookies.
Bake the cookies for 10–12 minutes until firm in the center. Cool on the pans for a few minutes until firm, then remove to wire racks to cool completely.  When one pan has cooled, repeat with the rest of the cookie dough. Stored in an airtight container, the cookies will keep for several days.

Source: CSMonitor

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Chocolate Chiffon Cake



Source: Basic Kitchen


Ingredients
115 g dark, semisweet chocolate
1/2 c (125 ml) water
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup (140 g) flour
1 tsp baking powder
5 eggs, separated
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence

Preheat the oven to 350 F/180 C.
Break the chocolate into square and put with the water and salt put in the microwave over for 15s or until the chocolate melt (it should not take more than 30s).
In a bowl, mix together 1 cup flour and baking powder.
Grease a 24 cm baking tin. 
Put the egg whites into a bowl and beat until soft peaks. Fold in sugar.
When chocolate mixture has cooled, add egg yolks and vanilla. Stir in flour and baking powder mixture until well combined.
Gently fold into egg white mixture.
Pour into prepared pan and bake for 30 to 45 minutes or until a tester comes out clean.
Let cool and then ice with chocolate frosting (I dust icing sugar on top).

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache

My baking mood is back!


QUICK CHOCOLATE CAKE


9" square tin greased and lined
Preheat oven to 175C

Ingredients
450g  castor sugar
224g  all purpose flour
96g    cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 large eggs - slightly beaten
240ml milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water

Method:
In a large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients with a whisk ensuring that they are properly mixed. Make a well in the center and add in eggs, milk, oil and vanilla extract. Whisk this well to ensure that there are no lumps for approximately 2mins. You may use an electric mixer at low speed. Lastly add the boiling water to the batter and continue to whisk carefully. Mix well.

Pour batter (may look alittle runny) in prepared tin and bake for about 30-35mins, or till skewer comes out clean when checked at the center of cake.

Source: Sheen Mars




Ingredients:
160ml heavy cream
283.5g chocolate baking discs / chopped chocolate


Method:
Quick Ganache

  • Place chocolate in stainless steel bowl, set aside.  Heat cream in a small saucepan over high heat until just boil
  • Pour hot cream over chocolate, stirring until smooth

Source: Sarah

Cool the cake on the cooling rack, once cool, pour the ganache on the cake.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Pandan Chiffon Cake

I baked this over the weekend.  Recipe taken from Saji magazine.


slightly heavy


Recipe from magazine



Ingredients:
200g castor sugar (what I had left lol)
240g plain flour
125ml corn oil
7 eggs (separate the white and yellow)
1 tsp pandan essence (I don't have pandan leave lying around the house)
3tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cream of tartar


Method: 
  • Preheat oven to 180C. 
  • Grease the cake pan with butter
  • Use a large clean bowl, making sure there’s no water or oil in it. Beat the egg whites with an electric mixer until bubbles form. Add the cream of tartar. After mixing well, add the 1/2 of sugar in three batches, about one-third at a time, and beat well between additions. Continue to beat until stiff peaks form.
  • Beat the egg yolks with a balloon whisk and mix in 1/2 of sugar and add a few drops of pandan essence
  • Sift in cake flour and baking powder in three batches into the egg yolk mixture. Mix well. Lastly, add corn oil. Set aside.
  • Spoon out 1/3 of the beaten egg whites and fold into the egg mixture. Lightly fold in the rest of the beaten egg whites with a spatula, until just combined. 
  • Pour into the cake pan and bake in preheated oven for about 45 - 55 minutes.  A needle comes out clean when inserted in the middle. 
  • Remove cake from the oven. invert the pan immediately. Allow it to cool completely. 

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Ayam Masak Kicap Lada Hitam

Its a No-Work Monday for me ... erm ... not exactly true cos I still do laundry ... clean and cook ... hee hee ... Still suffer from weekend-coma lol ... 


My mom was to busy to entertain me yesterday so I decided to googled the recipe instead.
Source: Tiffin Biru

Ingredients
10 pcs of wings (other parts of the bird also can)
2 Onion (Sliced, round)
2 Red Chili (cut into 2)
2 Green Chili (cut into 2)
4 Potatoes (sliced medium thickness)
3 cloves garlic (bashed and chopped)
1/2 inch ginger (sliced)
1/3 cup of sweet soy sauce
2 tbsp black pepper sauce
1 stick of cinnamon
1 star anise
1/3 cup of water
Spring onion to garnish

Method:
Marinate chicken with tumeric and salt, marinate it for 20 mins and pan-fry half way and drain the oil
Fry the potatoes til golden brown and drain the oil
Using the same oil sautee garlic, ginger, cinnamon and star anise, once there's aroma add in the black pepper sauce and chicken.  Mix well and add water and sweet soy sauce.  With low heat let it thickens.
add in the onion, chili and potatoes and mix well.
Add spring onion for garnish

Here are some of the photos taken on sun for the lomo-matrix event.






Sleepover - Games - Movie Marathon

Over the  weekends we had sleep-over session with some friends ... Played Jenga ... Uno ... watched movies ... and lots of food from peanuts to chocolates ... popcorns and ice-creams!

I baked Cheesy Mish-Mash for the 2nd time.


Ingredients:
Fried Wedges
Cooked Minced Meat
Pan-fried Turkey Bacon
Pizza Plus Cheese

Method:
Deep fry wedges / Cook Minced Meat / Pan fry Bacon and cut into bite size.
Mix everything season with salt and pepper and a tsp of oregano.
Put in a grease proof pyrex dish and cover it with mixture of cheese.
Bake it for 15 to 20mins once the cheese melted and golden brown.

A super long Jenga session ... 32 stories high ... on a lazy susan ... 


They bought me Dr Marten, Mary Jane's Shoe!!! for my birthday.... I love it.


Morning Breakfast we had Nasi Lemak... (Smell bunch lol)



Ingredients (My mom's version)
Rice
Coconut Milk
Salt 
Ginger (bashed)
Lemongrass (bashed)
Pandan leaves (a knot)

Method
Wash the rice properly.  Add all the ingredient mix well.

Sambal Tumis
Blended Dried Chili
Belacan (toasted and grind)
Blended Garlic 
Blended Onion
Sugar
Asam juice
Oil for frying

opt*
Ikan Bilis
Prawn
Egg
Peanuts

Method
Heat oil, fry chili, onion, garlic and belachan (low heat for 30 - 45mins) with constant stirring. 
Add asam juice cook it for 5 to 10mins.  
Add Sugar.  Let it boil for a while and off.
Add the item of ur choice (ikan bilis, prawn, egg, peanuts, fishballs) or u can choose to leave it empty.