August 10, 2008 at 3:33 pm
· Filed under Chef@work, Ramblings
what you need:-
2clove garlic – chopped
1 bombay onion – diced
1 large tomato – diced
1/2 can tomato puree
2tbs chilli sauce
Salt and pepper to taste
a dash of sugar
1 bay leaf
a dash of italian herbs
squid – cleaned and cut
prawns- clean devained
any white meat fish fillet – clean and cut to chunks (i use lemon sole fillet)
1 Lobster – cleaned and cut into half
1/2c water
How you do it:-
- saute garlic and onions until fragrant
- add in the tomato, bay leaf and italian herbs – stir for a while
- add in all the seafood except the lobster – stir until seafood is almost cooked
- add in the tomato puree, chili sauce and lobster stock- stir
- add in salt, pepper and sugar – simmer until the sauce is slightly thickens. – ready to serve
To Prepare the lobster:
- Clean lobster, put it in a deep stewing pot.
- add in the 1/2c of water
- if you like you can add in a dash of salt
- close the lid, cook for a good 20 minutes of until done.
- when done cut lobster to half then topped it on the fettuccine, dress it! and serve
I prepare it this way because i don’t want to complicate it so much as it may loose its marvelous taste (its naturally sweet and tender flavor) so i keep it simple.
just look at the juicy lobster meat…yummm~
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August 10, 2008 at 2:53 pm
· Filed under Ramblings ·Tagged chinese food, fish, veges
Last night we went to our makcik’s new restaurant in Mahkota Cheras. The ala carte food was good but the Chicken Rice, dim sum and the paus or Baos get the 5 stars from me. why? coz it simple taste authentic…(not that i’ve eaten the non halal chicken rice but i’ve tried the same during my visit in South Africa) Malay’s version of chicken rice is different from the chinese..ingredient wise, the way they cook it all not the same! therefore the taste is different.
We also tried:-
- Baramundi fish cooked in Chinese style curry – this dish taste somewhat like asam pedas but more creamier, it is also cooked with egg plants and tomatoes.
- Buttered Prawns – this dish taste the same like others but they use small prawns i persoanlly like it better if its large prawns
- Stir Fry Asparagus with Prawns – this is rather a spicy dish but appetizing as there’s a touch of sweetness to this dish so its almost like sweet and spicy
- Shitake Mushroom with Garden Veges – Cooked in a thick clear gravy, very tasty.
- Pau – this you have to try the pau bread is so fluffy…yumm yumm
mmm…maybe i’m too excited coz i rarely found a Halal Chinese food but if you found one might as well try it!!
Baramundi Fish Cooked in a Chinese Style Curry
Shitake Mushroom & garden Vege cooked in thick clear gravy
i wouldn’t mind eating this the whole day…
this si my son eating fried wantan mee
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August 7, 2008 at 6:11 am
· Filed under Ramblings
fewh…back safe and sound…we went to Bandung yet AGAIN but this time it was just me n hubby and 58 other people from hubby’s office. it was hubby’s company family day outing. they took a tour package so we haven’t been able to ‘really shop’ coz we’re constantly on the move. what a shame!
the tour is not that great coz we’ve been there and the service is rather poor. our flight got delayed on our way back for 2 hours! without any compensation so we all ended up very very hungry as we’ve missed our dinner. at first we thought that we could just buy the inflight food but it turned out that it was all sold out! the only thing available is the mee in cup. and another thing, the moment i set my foot in the AirAsia Indonesia plane i got nervous really really nervous… wanna know why? simply because when i look around i saw as if everything is falling apart. i mean the seats are literally falling apart, the cushion covers, the tables the seats has became un adjustable it was horible. and during take off and landing there was a kind of exploding sound that really made my heart jumpped.
the whole experience reminds me of the saying ‘you pay peanuts you get monkey’ that came to mind…eventhough MAS is expensive but i sure do think that its all worth it…but then if its AirAsia Malaysia it was all good, everything is great…
anyway…all in all we did had our fun, the hotel (Perdana Wisata Hotel) was way MUCH MUCH better than the last time (Thank God).During our stay, we came across severy unusual sightings…i managed to capture some of it i’ll post it when i got the pictures from my cam recorder.
this bunting /poster was taken at the hotel. they were hosting a sunday gospel. look at the poster carefully…what do you see??? “Gereja ALLAH baik” now since when Allah got gereja? or since when the church and Allah are related?
there’s more but you’ll just have to wait for the pictures.
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July 31, 2008 at 3:33 pm
· Filed under Ramblings, other craft projects ·Tagged sulam tangan, thread embroidery
my tudung project is finally done yeay… got bunch of lavender inspired flowers using french knots (rare design) and some swarovski crystal beads scattered but i still have more to finish…if you wanna buy its for SALE RM95 + RM4 for postage (total of RM99) in KL market price is up to RM230
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July 31, 2008 at 3:27 pm
· Filed under Ramblings
yesterday i took my son for a movie at GSC Alamanda. we went to watch Batman…yeah i figured that he’s been a very good boy lately , i feel that i should reward him. at first i was scaptical if he’ll remain a ‘good boy’ while watching the movie but i decided to just give it a try…otherwise i’ll never know if he can be brought to movie thetre or not…
he was so excited coz he loves batman (he also love ben10) he was singing in the car (which i can hardly understand what he’s singing about…) i bought us the ticket and we’re like 1/2 an hour early. so we hand at the GSC lobby, and he was amazed with all the movie posters especially BAtman, wall.e, ice age 3…he was like mommy mommy look at this…i’m holding wall.e’s hand, i’m under batman etc…
Then finally we went in…we was so excited then they showed some movie preview. the 1st preview was SUSUK…*laughs* daniel was like mommy!!!hantu laaa~ the people around me shoooshing me i was embarassed yet felt it was funny.the he went on to say mommy mana lampu? lampu dah hilang, he grabbed my hand so hard…heheh i tried to calm him and told him that Batman is coming…
he laughs (what a good sport he is)…he watched in halfway then he slept another half of the time. well at least he’s not making any scene.
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July 29, 2008 at 5:43 pm
· Filed under Beads Embroidery, other craft projects
you must have been wondering what have i been up too lately especially on the craft side of the world…i’ve been busy making dinner bags with beads and stuff…and i’ve just finally finished making them*fewh* what a relief! it all started when i was browsing some blogs and flikr, and i came across some really cool stuff like handmade handbags and a whole bunch other stuff. i was inspired! so the very next day i went out for craft material hunt and the rest is history. so here they are and its all for sale!!
This handbag is hard to make coz i use satin…and for me satin is not an easy material to handle but the outcome its always gorgeous that’s why i use it anyway. This Beautiful white handbag is RM135 (inclusive postage)
Oriental inspired Handbag, i use cheongsom fabric for this one as i was thinking or rather going for china town/oriental so here they are RM135 inclusive postage
Closeup at the beadings
bottom view
I have few more handbags but imageshack is acting up so i’m having trouble posting the pictures. Apart from handbags i also made my baby a nappy sack, a set of pillowcase and a selimut (gosh words fails me for this one..i can’t remember what selimut is called in english) for my son, table runners one of it is with ribbon embroidery but i’ll just have to up date this gradually…so check me up one in a while 
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July 29, 2008 at 4:58 am
· Filed under Chef@work, Ramblings ·Tagged brownies, cake, cupcake.recipe
What you need:
(A)
125g chocolate chips
125g butter
(B)
2eggs
300g castor sugar
1tsp vanilla essence
(C)
115g flour
This is how you do it:
- pre heat oven160c. line baking cases in a muffin tin
- melt ingredient (A) using double boiler. then set a side and let it cool
- beat ingredient (B) until thick and pale.
- Add (A) into (B) then fold in ingredient (C) gently until well mix.
- BAke for 25minutes. let it cool then decorate.
this cupcake brownies is good on its own…you can serve it warm (i personally like it warm and eat it with ice cream)
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July 20, 2008 at 2:55 am
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the other night, we had dinner at Saloma Bistro entertaining a friend from Australia. to make story short i hated the food. it was awful! the chicken curry was tasteless, the prawns were rotten…it was mushy for God sake!
It think it was linked with Concorde hotel and that’s made me wonder why did the kitchen management let this things happen? coz Saloma Bistro is a Tourist attraction its where you can have supposedly Good dinner with some cultural entertainment. I honestly felt embarassed with the food and regretted bringing Sue to the joint. Its embarassing coz i’ve seen this sort of dine in concept in Bali, China, Europe and they did a good job entertaining and the FOOD is delicious (of course it is coz you’re supposed to impress the tourists)… like in China they even have a proper stage, ‘proper’ means with sufficient props and backdrops and i was entertained… but what Saloma had was just several dances with minimal explaination of the dance origin etc. this just shows that Saloma have very little knowledge of culture.
Even so i was glad that my 2 year old son had his fun. He even went up to the stage to dance the ‘Pocho pocho’ dance (this is not even Malaysian, its Indonesian’s)
That’s my son on the stage with his uncle doing the Pocho Pocho dance.
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July 15, 2008 at 2:18 pm
· Filed under Chef@work, Ramblings
This month is a special month for my family as most of us were born under the cancer sign i.e month of July…and so for this special occasion i though that instead of eating out, why not have a special and not to mention ‘rare’ family dinner or something…well at first i thought that we should have a big party but it seems that the birthday boys are VERY busy so we couldn’t its a shame tho’ i’ve planned a whole lot down to the invitation cards and party activities…(lets hope they won’t be as busy next year) i supposed next year would be a better year to celebrate in a big way coz my dad ‘will’ celebrate his BIG 60 next year…so i guess it’ll be more appropriate…
anyway with that thought in mind i had 8 lobsters air flown from Sabah for this occasssion (well i also have large prawns from Sabah, lamb & steak from Australia). i know i know i may be a bit over my head right now but my hands are aching to bake, cook something extra ordinary…so i thought why not? its my Dad’s, hubby’s and lil brother’s birthday…the celebration will take place this saturday night and i’m thinking BBQ 
today i’ve made a ice cream bomb dessert for this saturday. i’t have to make this ahead of time or else i won’t have enuf time for something else.
ok i have lobster but i still don’t know how to cook it…any ideas?
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July 11, 2008 at 7:49 am
· Filed under Chef@work ·Tagged chicken soup recipe, chicken stock, Soup recipe
ioh this chicken soup is so wholesome and its good for the sick…and my daniel is still having the flu…i know i know its been quite sometime now…i too wonder why he’s still sick.took him to the doctor and got another round of antibiotic…sigh~ all these medicine must not be good for him in long term…anyway he’s alot more thinner now due to lack of appertite this is the only foor he’d take with his rice or mee or pasta…why? beats me…but all i know is that he’s more enercetic after eating it…it must be the soup right? at least i’d like to believe that…
for this recipe i recond you to use only organic chicken…antibiotic free chicken for therapeutic purpose.
Chicken Soup
1 stick carrot cut into bite size
2inch of celery finely cut
2 potatoes diced (bite size)
2 tomatoes cut into large wedges (the redder the soup the better so more tomatoes are allowed)
3/4 chicken cut into small piece (you can add more chicken if you like)
1 clove garlic sliced thinly
1 inch ginger sliced thinly
1tbs oil
5ooml water
salt & sugar to taste
black pepper *optional
methods:
- heat the oil in medium heat and saute the garlic and ginger until fregrant.
- add in water, chickenand salt to taste. let it simmer.
- then add in all the other ingredients, occasionally stir the soup
- let it reduce the soup a little then its ready to serve…
its like making chicken stock except that we don’t use bay leaf here.
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