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Desert for today

cawanpink — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:02:45 +0000

Made 3 of these today.

OooOOooohhh. Yummiest.

i walked away only for a few seconds, it was still in pristine condition, came back and found out that somebody had been naughty!

A quick post on chocolate drink

cawanpink — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:23:55 +0000

I don’t really like chocolate much – I don’t go gaga over it like other girls do. But these… add a little sugar… oohhh… come to mama!

Do you know how delicious these taste?

Beef burger

cawanpink — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:11:59 +0000

Homemade beef burger

Dead easy to make. Cooking is easy and quick if you plan your way around it. I made alot of patties for quick snacks at night.

The recipe?

Beef burger (6 patties)
400gm ground beef (pick a fresh, good one)
2 stalks of coriander leaves
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 tsp ground cumin seeds
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
1/2 tsp ground coriander seeds
1 tsp oyster souce
1 egg
Some mushroom (optional)
Some green vegies (optional)
Salt to taste

Heat a grill pan. A bit of olive oil, cook halfway through on each side. Leave to cool on rack. Put in a plastic container, keep them in fridge.

Whenever you feel like having a snack, light up your stove. Over medium heat, put in about 1 tbl of cooking oil in a flat pan. Take the burgers out from the fridge, right into the pan. Cook until dark brown on each side.

Serve with watever you want. They’re burgers, they mix with (almost) everything. Greens, tomatoes, cucumber, cheese, olives, mustard, ketchup, onions, etc.

Can you guess what kind of drink is that?

cawanpink — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:03:19 +0000

Magic concoction

Last time when I was so sick that I kept on throwing up, this actually helped it to stop (as in it stopped the puking part, but I still got admitted to hospital for a few days). Also, if you plan on having looooong day or looooooong night – I’d recommend this. I’m loving it.

Ketupat palas raya 2009

cawanpink — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:36:19 +0000

This year is Penang’s turn. Usually main raya dish would be ketupat palas, ketupat nasi, rendang and kuah kacang. And laksa!

When we’re tired of ketupats and rendangs, there’s gulai ikan mayong…. oooohhh sedapnye!

p/s: I want KFC.

My homemade burgers

cawanpink — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:07:36 +0000

6 patties of beef burgers on fire!

Yeah it’s the second time around. This time, one ingredient is missing – coriander leaves. But all is well, they’re still tasty! Beef burgers are dead easy to make. All you need is ground beef, an egg and salt & pepper to taste. That’s the base, then you can add anything you want really. Using your hands, shape them into circles, press it down between your hands, and into the pan. You can either fry or grill them, like I did, on medium heat. Well I prefer grill since I love the charred grill marks there.. yum!

Charred grill marks - oohh!!

My burger ingredients include button mushrooms, some green vegies, green chillies, garlic & onion, cumin seeds, ground black pepper and coriander seeds. Easy peasy.

I only half-cooked them since they’re for sahur for the next 3 days. Or maybe they’re for late snacks at night. I’ve been hungry for the past few days.

Apollo

cawanpink — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:51:01 +0000

Just a quick post. My favorite little snack deserves a picture in my blog.

They smell sooooooo good!

They have been around for so many years, since I was small. Today they come in white chocolate too but I like the original one better. I think even the packaging has always been the same.

Dinner

cawanpink — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:38:44 +0000

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!

I love big bags

cawanpink — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:55:36 +0000

Yea I love them all. They’re so practical, can be a little bit heavy but it’s not like you’re carrying it with you all the time. So out of boredom tonight (more like I was looking to do something silly before I start doing my work) so I took a picture of my handbag and turned it upside down and started scrounging for whatever it is that has been living in there. I was quiet amazed at how much I can squeeze everything in there all this while.

My mom bought me this bag

Stuff in the bag

In my bag currently:

1 little notebook/organizer
2 sachets of Nescafe 3 in 1
my purse
coin purse
camera
a tiny box of Clorets
2 pens (black and red)
couple of movie ticket stubs
a necklace
a pair of earings
a bottle of shower gel (it’s for my mom)
a pack of plastic bandages (to wrap around my burned finger)
a lighter
a RM5 Nando’s voucher (ang pau from Mr. Foong =/)
2 movie vouchers
my namecards
a couple of membership cards
1 tube of vaseline
my ’skema’ goverment nametag
1 pack full of jelly sticks!
some misplaced coins
my handphone
some receipts
my car keys
my house keys

and that’s it. Sometimes I even have a book in there. Looking at the list, the most techie stuff I have is my phone haha! Everything else is normal lah for a simple girl.

I just remembered something. I was planning to apply henna last weekend because the one I have is almost gone. I always put it on my left hand. Now that one finger is recuperating on the spot where henna would’ve been applied on, so can’t do. Else there’ll be big black circle on my middle finger, not so nice leh. Problems with henna on right hand is that it attracts people’s attention eaaasily.

I feel sleepy now but have to make up time for some work. I watched tv just now – darn. Damn you magic box. Time stealer.

If it’s up to me…

cawanpink — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:41:46 +0000

… 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.