Posts Tagged ‘cookery’

Dinner

// February 1st, 2009 // No Comments » // personal

Grilled chicken & tomato, with mushroom sauce

Grilled chicken & tomato, with mushroom sauce

Fairly easy to do. Normally I take 2 pieces but today I didn’t have lunch so there you go. Wish I had more green vegetables in the fridge – pepper and the like. Besides, I intend to stay up all night tonight to finish up some pending tasks so I need the energy boost.

I didn’t catch any sleep last night, busying myself watching Christina Aguilera’s Back To Basics tour. Whoa some tour! And then I tried installing Gyach. I have it running now but oh my god what an ass that app is. I should submit patches or something.

Tomorrow I’ll have grilled steak, maybe. And at night grilled seafood. Yeah! Ever since my mom bought me that grilling pan the kitchen felt like heaven now. I mentioned to her only once that I had been looking for that pan, when I already had forgotten about it, it’s on my bed one day. Hmm… mothers are timeless! For the record I did make an effort to buy it myself and I didn’t ask her to buy it for me, but every time I found one it’s like RM500 or something. Why in the world people high-price these days.

It’s been so long since I had grilled pineapple. Sweet caramelized pineapple slices, dipped in chocolate sauce… oooohhh…. tomorrow it is!

If it’s up to me…

// January 15th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // bookcrossing, personal, travel

… I would grow and sell mushrooms. Yah that’s what I’d do. By mushrooms I mean the food, not anything else. I would eat them everyday. I never did like mushrooms, not until I met Adda 2 years ago in 2006 (we stayed together in a house with Siti for 4 months). She would put them in everything we cook, even in sambal udang! Amusing to think about it now but it was good nonetheless. There’s so many type of mushrooms. The only one I don’t like so far is the one that looks like taugeh. Eww… I couldn’t get it to taste nice enough for me to swallow. But yea I put mushrooms in everything I cook these days, well, most of the time. But you can’t get fresh mushrooms easily here, not if you’re looking at pasar malam. Even at Giant or Tesco, they only have it in cans which always works for me. But I’m not that cerewet (I’m a self-professed low maintenance person). The fresh ones are usually more expensive so I usually give it a pass.

Last Tuesday I went to pasar malam here in Putrajaya. I LOVE grocery shopping! Looking at the seafood that night oh wow – the fish were all fresh, the squids, shrimps, crabs etc. They smell like they had just been brought in from the sea. Last time when I was living with Adda and Siti, our house was near the beach. So you can imagine how excited I was everytime we went to the pasar after work. There were 3 of us so we bought alot for a week. Now I’m only buying for myself – no fun. And I found myself actually like to cook. I enjoy planning my meals everyday.

So I made that caramel pudding again today, without accidents this time, thankfully.

Had eaten it halfway when I took the pic. Sweeeeeet sweeet thing. The pic didn't do justice, I should've use white plate to bring up the colors.

I took a panadol today and feel asleep right away. Loooong and deeeep sleep. Woke up at 5! Kinda late to do anything for the day so I just made myself some snacks and wash my clothes and sweep the floor. So now I feel like going to bed early for a change. I’m still reading Band of Brothers. Lots of spelling mistakes but what a book. I’m drawn by the individual experience during WWII, not just talking politics of winning the war. The series was great but the book offers so much deeper insight of what happened. Like LOTR, if you’ve read the book, you’ll understand the movie much better.

Next in line should be my borrowed pilates book and again Cecilia Ahern’s Thanks for the Memories. You know I never noticed the book stall in Street Mall of Cyberjaya. The books are new and really cheap. I got 2 books for RM50 that day. If it was a normal bookstore it would’ve cost me around RM70. That stall has all the new books I see on New Arrival shelf in MPH.

And I finished reading The Child Called It by David Pelzer. If it didn’t state that it’s a memorial/non-fiction book, I would’ve thought it was fiction, how brave of the author to put such gruesome details to sell the book. But yea it is a memorial and I was stunned at the end how on earth did he make it alive. Inspiring piece, I must say.

Come to think about it, I haven’t registered the books on bookcrossing.com yet! Alright. Toodles you blog readers – read a book.

I burned my finger

// January 5th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // personal

Was making that delicous yummy looking caramel dessert and somehow managed to get a little drop of the sugar caramel on my finger. I think I got second degree burn or something. Searing pain and it still hurts like hell!!! You know how high the temperature of burnt sugar right? It’s over 100°c.

But I got 4 mini cups of desserts in return.

I had a calm weekend, quite unexpected but I treasured every moment of it.

Post-mortem

// August 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // personal

So here’s the post mortem of everything.

Hmmm…. my dad bought me a PDA. Well, not really a PDA but he gave me the money to get one. Was joking (but a little bit hopeful) when I asked him about it yesterday. So this morning I was all smiles driving to work. Came in late (5 min) but who cares these days. It’s tiring traveling from Telok Panglima Garang. Have to wake up early, be out of the house early, have to spend so much time alone driving,  just to get in office before 8.30am. Urghhh cut me some slack. What a cruel way of robbing someone’s life. What an unnecessary babbling to start a day.

My brother is home right now before going back so I want to play all available LAN games with him and Otel even if it continues way after my bedtime….. heheheh…. If I bring back my laptop, there’ll be 4 machines enough for us all but sadly Mueh is not a gamer at heart, maybe can ask abah to join us? Ooohh brings back Diablo memory.

Mom baked a cake after so many years – yum yum chocolate cake with very creamy, tasty, delish chocolate sauce. If we had pineaple slices last night, I would’ve covered them with sugar and bbq them until it’s golden and then dipped that sweet stuff into that even sweeter choc sauce! Strange how I don’t eat chocolate (the bars and ice creams) but I eat choc cakes, choc muffins, choc sauce. My mom bought me a baju kurung, from the look & feel of it, it looks expensive. Not that it matters, maybe it didn’t cost much but she knows how to pick stuff that will look good. Besides, she understands my taste, so all the more better.

Throughout August, I discovered a good spot for shopping – tapak-tapak convo di seluruh universiti di seluruh negara. Oh you wouldn’t believe the prices you could get there. Almost all major unis convos are over now. Normally you can find clothes and tudung at student’s price – I got 2 shirts for RM25 that would set me back RM70+ in shopping malls. Recently when we went for Otel’s convo (now where did I put the pix), my mom bought this fluffly unbelievably very  ‘cuddlable’ pillows. They’re made from goose feathers, the soft ones on the breast side, normally retails at RM290++ each. We got it at RM34. See the huge difference there? I’m sure you’ve heard of second hand stuff from hotels – this is one of those. We took home 6 pillows, 2 bedsheet (I think) and something else made from Egyptian cotton. Go google for Egyptian cotton and you’ll get the idea. All below RM1k.

Well known Pelita Alam, main shop in Tambun if you know where that is. Basically it’s a great place to find home furnishings especially if you need furnitures for new home and stuff. You can get RM40k bed for RM2200 – good bargain right there.

And good bargain also exist in the form of eBay. Do not underestimate the power of eBay regardless of you being a seller or a buyer. You can easily get addicted to eBay. I like to purchase all my cosmetic stuff there. Real cheap. Go browse and test the real thing in shops, go back home and buy them online. Malaysians don’t offer alot, yet, but it’s growing and I like that.

Just for the record, I don’t like the way papers trashed Anwar Ibrahim – they should have 2 sides of the story. Anyway, I don’t believe the sodomy allegations. It’s just preposterous! Like my mom said – “Tak masuk dek akal!”. By the way, last night on RTM1 there was a documentary of some sort on ISA detainees and they showed their everyday lives etc. All I can say is, kalau masuk tv mesti la tunjuk yang baik-baik saje. An interview with a detainee also all gave good comments. There was a short appearance of ex-detainee saying stuff like “ISA membantu membentuk sahsiah saya kini bla bla bla..”, haiya that guy was in for the shortest moment. Get someone who had/have been there for years. Anwar spent his 6 years there. If you are to showcase the real news, get it from real sources. Hape lah!

I’m going to be absent the rest of the next 2 week starting this Friday. Thanks to my team for being understanding – see I told you they’re great people. My camera still with friend, so I’m going to lose the chance to snap pretty pix…. *sigh* … Doubtful to borrow from friends coz I feel they’ll be abit reluctant parting with their cam more than a weekend, unless they have extras. So will snap pix and save in my real memory I guess.

My shoes are not here yet! Why oh why? Been waiting anticipating… Shucks.

Oooohhh am surprise at the lenght of this post here. Well like I said, it’s post mortem of everything.

Weekend activity

// July 21st, 2008 // No Comments » // personal

Well most of them spent watching tv but I took some time to make these! Stuffed mushrooms. Oh yum!


Also made chocolate muffin but no pics. I made more than we could eat so I brought some today for people at the office.