Not So Wordless Sunday

Ju sms-ed and said that she's coming over to send some cake. I baru je nak bukak pintu, tengok2, kelibat Ju dah hilang. Nasib baik Ju turun semula dari kereta. Rupanya she was in a hurry, nak ke airport, untuk pegi menunaikan umrah. So, for the next few days, takde la orang yg nak bagi aku cake nanti.. huhuhu.. gonna miss you Ju!

Aku simpan cake yang Ju bagi dalam tupperware kat atas microwave. Tiba2, masa aku tengah tengok cerita Leap Year, aku nampak Shariff holding a huge cut of cake in his hands. Rupanya, dia ambik bangku kecik, panjat almari untuk dapatkan cake tu. Macam tau2 je dalam container bekas ice cream tu ada cake. Sambil makan, mulut dia cakap "Sedap!". Ishk! Shariff!!

 

The cakes. Kek lapis tu dibuat oleh Zarin. Merasa lagi air tangan Zarin :)

 

Comel tak mug tottoro tu? Lawa kan? Sadly, aku cuma ada 2 je.. huhuhu

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Sambal Goreng Pengantin

The first Sambal Goreng Pengantin I tasted was kat rumah As. Masa tu aku pegi visit dia for raya. It was delicious! Aku memang suka sangat2. I asked As, sapa yang buat and she said mak angkat dia, orang Singapore. Then, two years back, aku pegi open house rumah Layla, mak dia pun buat the sambal goreng pengantin jugak. Mak Layla pun org Singapore. I guess orang Singapore ni memang terrer kot buat sambal goreng pengantin. According to Layla, sambal goreng ni is a must dish bila raya. Aku rasa macam nak masak everyday je sebab sedap!!

The reason tiba2 je aku bersemangat nak buat sambal goreng pengantin is because I want Iman to eat hati unta. Two days ago, kebetulan masa aku pegi Jusco nak cari 50% off lamb slices (sorry Ju, memang takde jual pulak on that day), aku ternampak paru yang dijual at 50% off. With hati, paru, daging and udang in stock, aku dah terbayang2 sambal pengantin yang sedap tu. Pagi semalam, aku mintak makcik ton tolong rebuskan hati, daging and paru dan aku pun memulakan projek membuat sambal tu.

The recipe for the sambal aku dapat from en. google. When I showed it to Layla, dia kata sama dengan recipe yang mak dia guna. Tapikan, seperti biasa, aku tweak the recipe sikit, ikut selera aku. Thank you tuan punya recipe! Memang lepas ni aku akan buat lagi dan lagi dan lagi. And I love hati unta! Takde bau rumput dan hamis macam hati lembu. Pastu the texture is different dari hati lembu. But, Iman pulak tak suka. Nasib baik dah masuk dalam sambal, dia boleh makan.

 

Sambal Goreng Pengantin

Adapted from Singapore Local Favourites.

Bahan2

Bahan A - rebus, potong dadu dan goreng tak terlalu garing. 

1/2 kg daging lembu

1/2 kg paru

1/2 kg hati lembu (but I used hati unta)

 1 kg medium size prawns - kupas kulit (udang tak perlu rebus, just goreng terus)

Bahan B - blend together

8 tbs cili giling (cili kering yg direbus dan diblend)

3 biji bawang besar

10 ulas bawang putih

6 batang serai

2 inci lengkuas

Bahan C

250gm santan pekat

2 tbs asam jawa

2 cups bawang goreng

1 tbs belacan

5 biji cili kering - potong serong dan goreng. 

garam, gula, nisang

Cara2

1. Panaskan minyak, masukkan belacan dan goreng hingga garing kemudian masukkan bahan B. 

2. Tumis bahan B hingga garing. Bila dah garing, masukkan santan pekat dan air asam jawa.

3. Biarkan santan merenih dan keluar minyak serta kering, baru masukkan bahan A, garam, gula dan nisang

4. Kacau rata bahan A dan masukkan cili kering yg digoreng serta bawang goreng.

note : I like my sambal pengantin kering just like mak angkat As buat. Tak suka kalau basah macam rendang. I reduced the usage of santan sebab aku tak suka rasa lemak santan yang overwhelming.

Sharp Warehouse Sale - 12th March

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Nasib baik ada pakcik Google Map, senang keje I, tak payah nak lukis peta.. hehe..

ops! ni oven yg I beli, RM130, brand new.

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The sale starts from 8am or 9am. Tapi, by 7am, dah ramai yg menunggu. As I mentioned earlier, tokey kedai letrik yang ramai tunggu sebab small appliances brand new murah time ni besides peti sejuk, mesin basuh, kipas etc yang more than 50% off.

Week 10 ~ Body For Life

This is my week 10 of Body For Life program. Rasa macam nak pengsan bila nak kena pikir apa nak makan etc. Normally we'll stick to grilled fish, tuna sandwich, or anything seafood. Hubby is blood type AB, so I cant prepare beef or chicken dish. Every 2-3 days, we'll have lamb sandwich. Yesterday aku pegi Jusco, hoping to get slice lamb at 50% off, tapi takde pun. Sedih je rasa. So semalam, aku beli paru je. Ingat nak masak sambal pengantin hari ni. Err.. tapikan, aku tak penah masak sambal pengantin. Mampu ke aku buat?

Back to my body for life program. Aku rasa aku takde vast improvement macam dulu. Dunno where I did wrong. Or maybe sebab I'm older now and with PCOS, the progress is much slower. Kadang2 rasa demotivated jugak bila tengok progress is not as what I expect it to be. Hubby dah kurus by a lot! He can wear seluar size 33 now. ME? err.. I think I'm still further away from size 28. Lemak2 di monggeng ku just refused to go away. Argh!

Starting from this week, hubby wants to add new exercise to our lower body exercises. Instead of just deadlift, squats, abs and claves, he'll add another exercise for inner thigh. Mampu ke aku nak ikut? On Monday I increased my lower body weights, sampai hari ni kaki aku sakit giler. Bila nak solat, punya la seksa.

Semalam, adik aku, Mas, bagitau that Sharp is going to have a warehouse sale on Saturday. To those yang nak beli barang Sharp at a very low price, sila la ke sana ye. My advise, those yang nak beli barang, be there at 7am sebab by 8am tu, dah penuh kereta especially tokey2 kedai letrik. Memang murah sangat barang2 Sharp time tu. And semlm, Mas email new staff price offer for month of March. Aku tengok 35L convection oven is selling for RM130. I think I wanna start baking kek lapis and macarons. So, I'll start with a small oven dulu. :)

Photo taken 2 weeks ago when I was in Terengganu. Ni baru balik from Cardio at TER. Muka je nampak kurus, so kena ambik gambar muka dulu :D

Yay! PC dah sembuh

Phew! setelah berbulan2 PC ni tenat, takleh nak on, last nite finally hubby fixed it. Lega aku bila PC aku dah boleh guna. I've been using this PC for more than 6 years. Rupa paras memang tak berubah, cuma isi perut je berubah.. hehe.. Selalunya hubby akan upgrade the mother board, processor etc cuma the casing and the monitor je still sama. Last nite I suggested him to buy me a new flat screen monitor. He said "that will be the last in my list of things". Grr.. Tension je.

Now I need a new external hard disk. The current external hard disk, 500G, dah penuh dengan movies and drama korea. Ada byk lagi movie yg aku belum transfer to external hard disk. Ishk! bila la agaknya aku boleh pegi to Low Yat ni? PC Fair is coming rite? I think I'll wait for PC fair.

Err.. apa aku merapu pagi2 ni? The truth is, kepala aku rasa kembang je. Maybe sebab aku selsema kot so rasa macam dalam twilight zone. Dah la last nite Shariff tido sini. Bila pakcik tu tido sini, aku memang tak lena tido sebab dia akan nak bertempek dengan aku, menyebabkan aku rasa rimas yang amat. Hubby on my right, Shariff on my left, aku tersepit kat tengah. I was supposed to wake up at 2am, bagi Iman her nebulizer, but I was too tired to bangun sebab I couldnt sleep well last nite. Kesian Iman..

French beans version malas (This photo has been sitting on my desktop for few months dah :) )

A New Kind of Sandwich

I'm writing this with a sore throat and a runny nose. Maka, tak boleh la nak tulis panjang lebar. Lagipun lepas ni nak exercise dan start spring cleaning the house. Hubby wants our room to be dust free. Boleh ke? ermm.. Iman came home yesterday still wheezing. Her wheezing didnt go away even after 7 days at the hospital. So we will have to make sure the environment kat rumah ni, as less allegen as possible.

Since we embarked on the low calorie diet (thank you K.Min), we're becoming sandwich people. Nasi dah jarang makan sebab makan sandwich lagi senang. Aku suka coz it's so easy to prepare. 2-3 kali seminggu, hubby akan makan sandwich kambing. Kalau dengar, mcm gross je bunyi kan? Tapikan, the filling yang aku buat tu, sedap! kalau tak makan, memang menyesal. Especially bila letak a bit of chili sauce and mustard. How did I prepare my kambing? Aku guna the exact recipe as the Tavuklu Pide toppings.

The filling

Makan dengan pita bread

The sandwich! sedap!

The Recipe ada kat sini

Filling ingredients
1/2kg of lamb, minced roughly.
2 medium size onions. Chop roughly.

4 clove garlic. finely grated/ chopped.
1/2 bunch chinese celery. roughly chop.
1/2 tbsp Cayenne pepper
1 tbs black pepper
2 tsp salt
2 whole tomatoes - roughly chopped
1 red Chili - roughly chopped
2 tbs Olive oil

1 dried basil leaf - crushed
 

Mix well the ingredients

1. Heat the skillet with 2 tbs of olive oil, masukkan semua filling and fry til dry.

Not So Wordy Sunday

I'm having running nose, coughing and sore throat. I guess that's the result of being cooped up in this small hospital room for the past 7 days. At least, the stay is quite bearable now with neighbours come and go. Since Iman kat sini, dah 4 kali tukar neighbour. Dia sorang je yang tak balik2 lagi. When can she go back? I really have no idea.. *sigh*..

 Iman's doudou. Missing legs, stitches all over the body, but still disayangi Iman sepenuh hati.

Yesterday, I received a bad news from an Ausmat friend, Onn. Onn bagitau that our Ausmat friend, Lela, passed away yesterday morning at about 6.30am due to breast cancer. I was shocked, speechless, sadden by the news. It made me realised how precious and fragile life is. Lela as aku remembered her, was someone yang sangat lemah lembut, pakai tudung labuh, always wearing black/brown colours, pakai glasses. I'vent seen her for almost 20 years. The last was, before kita org fly to Australia. And I'll not be able to see her again.

It's a wake up call to me. Aku kena be more proactive dalam mencari kawan2 yang hilang. The truth is, aku dah dengar about Lela being not well since last year, tapi aku tak make any effort to contact her. Padahal she's on facebook. The only time I wrote on her wall was yesterday, after her demise. Sedih kan? Argh! menyesal? yes! menyesal yang amat. 

Semoga arway Lela dicucuri rahmat dan tergolong dalam hamba-hamba yang beriman. Al-Fatihah.

Tiring Saturday

Day 6 in the hospital is no fun especially to Mama! Argh! Letih and cranky, I wanna go home. The problem with iman is that, dia tak demam, but wheezing pretty bad. How to solve that?? Huwaaaaaaaaaaaaa....

The Kitchen Guardian: Make Delicious Macarons At Home...Yourself!!

Weeeee.... K.Yani is conducting a hand's on class on macarons. Jom join! :D

Remember the Macarons made by K.Yani and Ju last Sunday? Haaa.. you can make those too tapi kena la join K.Yani's class.

Aren't they pretty?

The Kitchen Guardian: Make Delicious Macarons At Home...Yourself!!: "Yes! Let's all make Macarons at home ourselves...I can assure you they are delicious (maybe even better than those that you get from your fa..."

Baking Class with the Girls - Part 3

The baking class was done on Saturday. The truth is, I wasnt in the mood at all to do the baking class. Tapikan, kesian pulak kat the girls coz dia orang dah beria2 nak masak, excited sangat2. I was pressed for time sebab earlier that day, I had to run errands and malam pulak, ada birthday party for Nila and Aude. Kesian kat Zuleika la sebab she came all the way from Bangsar and kena balik cepat sebab kita org nak keluar.

Since I was press for time, I decided to bake Chocolate Chip Cookies. Mula2 nak guna recipe kat blog Zarin, the one yang from allrecipes.com tapi lepas baca reviews, kena buat few tweaking, maka aku decided to try out another recipe from allrecipes.com jugak. The cookies turned out great! The kids love it! Hubby yang supposed to be on strict calorie diet that day, menghabiskan sebekas cookies. Rasanya ada la more than 400 calorie dia consumed. Nasib baik ler cookies yang the kids buat tu kecik2 dan comel2 je. I kept 1/2 of the dough in the fridge, cuma guna 1/2 je.

The 1/2 yang aku simpan tu, aku buat cookies on Sunday. I went to Ju's house, hantar ketupat sotong. Ye la, Ju dah baik hati tolong hantar macarons earlier, kena la aku balas kebaikan Ju tu. Kan Ju kan? And guess what? I tasted Zarin's kek lapis cempedak yg sangat moist tu.. hehe.. Akhirnya merasa jugak air tangan Zarin. I gave Ju some of the cookies. Panas lagi cookies yang aku deliver ke rumah Ju sebab the cooled ones dah habis di makan oleh hubby. Makan cookies lagi! Nak marah la ni. Nasib baik la Sunday is our free day.

Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe adapted from http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/The-Ultimate-Chocolate-Chip-Cookie/Detail.aspx

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 2 1/2 cups packed brown sugar (instead of brown sugar, I used gula merah, sedap! )
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 4 tablespoons milk
• 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 cups white & dark chocolate chips
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (I omitted this)

Directions

1. Cream sugar into shortening. Add milk and vanilla beat until fluffy. Blend in egg. Then add dry ingredients and mix well. Stir in chips and nuts.
2. Drop by teaspoon onto greased baking sheets and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 8-10 minutes for chewy cookies or 10-13 minutes for crispy cookies. ENJOY!!!

My Amazon Purchase

As promised, below are the photos of my amazon.com purchase. The photos were taken in a hurry coz aku kena rushed balik to hospital to Iman. I left her today at 11am, lepas Dr. Zarin did his ward round. I had to go back, nak exercise plus ambik Iffah from school. K.Siti went back to Kedah sebab her father is gravely ill. For the past few days, K.Siti la yang ambik Iffah from school. Thank you so much K.Siti.

 

 New Leaf - 2 sets

 Kak Ta's Country apa tah, cant remember the name. Ada 3 sets

 Mok's and K.Nor's French White, ada 2 sets

 Amazon.com bengong, silap antar design. I'm selling this, ada 2 sets. Cherry Blossoms

 My first ever nordic baking pan.

 The pyrex tu ada 10 pieces, and I got free 1 non spill cover. Yay! Good bargain!

 My T-Fal! Love it! Though I havent got the time to use it, still love it! :D

 Mok's corelle, White something, cant remember. Ada 3 sets.

Nila's & Aude's Birthday Celebration!

Hubby was invited to attend his friend's wife' and daughter's birthday party on Saturday. Actually, hubby takmau pegi sebab dah tau, kalau pegi sah2 makan banyak punya. Dah ler saturday is not our free day. But I told hubby, Panjang is one of his best friend, kalau tak pegi nanti, kecik hati panjang.

The birthday party was at 8pm, but kita orang keluar rumah lambat sikit, lepas maghrib. We arrived at The Lodge at 8.15pm. Ingatkan dah lambat, rupanya hubby's friend, Panjang, lagi lambat. It took quite a while before the party started. Ramai guests yang tak tau kat mana The Lodge tu. Aku pun blur. If I had known that it's near the old St Mary's school, then aku sah2 takde masalah nak mencari. Nasib baik sesat tak lama. From our house, it took us about 15 minit je pun utk sampai kat situ.

My mistake that nite was, I forgot to bring my camera. So, gambar Nila and Aude ni adalah from Nila's facebook. Sorry ye Nila, I totally forgotten to bring my camera. We went home at almost 11pm. Iman and Iffah dapat teddy bear cake, but I asked Iffah to give her teddy bear cake to Suhaimi (hubby's friend). Suhaimi ada 2 year old son, and I'm pretty sure his son was delighted dapat the teddy bear cake from the kind hearted k.iffah. Iman awal2 dah makan her teddy bear cake.

Panjang & Nila, thank you so much for the sumptuous Thai cuisine malam tu. The seafood tomyam was excellent, I love the chicken, hate the butter prawn though coz it's too salty, loved the tofu a lot and definitely loved the pulut kuning and rendang made by Panjang's sister.

My Amazon.com stuffs.

Remember last time aku post dalam blog about the items that I ordered from amazon.com? Kalau nak baca, boleh la ke sini ye, http://dairimama.blogspot.com/2010/12/hunting-for-bargain-versi-meroyan.html

Anyway, barang aku dah sampai tadi. Tengahari tadi, Suzana called from US, bagitau that barang will arrive in the afternoon, and boleh di ambik lepas 9pm. Berkobar2 aku bila dengar macam tu. Terus aku bersemangat untuk tinggalkan anak yang sakit itu, dan balik ke rumah kejap untuk ambik barang. Hahahaaha... cruel tak mak ni? Aku tinggalkan Iman dengan the sister/nurse on duty. Lagipun memang nak balik rumah ambik baju pun. Alang2 dah ambik baju, aku ambik la sekali barang2 tu kat rumah parents Suzana in Melawati, which is just 5 minutes from my house.

There were 9 boxes all together. Berat pulak tu. Nasib baik ler aku pegi dengan hubby, dia la jadi tukang angkat barang. Balik rumah, I had to open all boxes sebab nak check semua barang sampai. Ada barang yg missing. Suzana cakap, amazon.com sent it to them lepas dia org dah ship barang balik ke Msia. Urgh! Tension betul! So, terpaksa la aku tunggu next shipment, which maybe in July. Ju, kalau nak order the french white set, nanti bagitau ye.

Oh ya! I did buy the T-Fal cookware. I bought Hard Anodized 12 pcs cookware. It was selling at US$79.90.

I cant wait to use the cookware and my nordic pan. Apa aku nak masak this weekend? Eh lupa! Iman still in the hospital. Tak tau la boleh keluar ke tak weekend ni. I miss home.. Tomorrow aku will upload the photos of all the periuk belanga and pinggan mangkuk tu ye.

 Kalau nak masuk fb, terpaksa menggunakan telepon sebab wifi signal weak sgt kat sini

 Muka  budak yg sakit.

I like the new Tawakkal Hospital, lawa!

Iman hospitalized.

Iman is in hospital and her mama is so depressed sebab kena share room dgn org yg tak reti nak respect other people's need to rest. Iman badly needs her sleep coz she hasn't been able to sleep for the past few nites. Aku ended up having severe migraine sebab nak marah punya pasal. Seriously, aku mmg tak paham dgn some ppl punya attitude. Hospital utk org Sakit bukannya utk bersuka ria, pastu bila bercakap, tak reti nak cakap slow2. eeeeee.... Geram giler!!