LONGED FOR HOME COOKING

Bendi Goreng

Telur Masak Kicap

This is the reason for my disappearance, house renovations. Mom took an opportunity on her holiday in Kuala Lumpur doing some maintenance to our old house. The house aged 28 years now, as same age as my sister, Jubet. We moved here after she was born. Jubet has two beautiful children now.. Afiq, my favorite nephew and Sofea, a cat's lover.
You know, being in a place which is ful of memories, makes you feel trapped in the past. The house captures so much of the good old days. Good beautiful moments, sadness and also disappointments. Well, I don't deny there are few black incidents happened in this old house besides the sweet and the unforgettable. Ironically to say, that I still cherish my good old days even though the bad old days are so terribly disappointing.. The sweet one is invulnerable to vanish and blacken by the tears and losses
I have spent one week in cleaning, rearranging and sorting stuff in the house. It's time consuming, I have no time for my leisure and my blog is left not updated ....! My brother bought take-away dinner for me on his way back home everyday. It shows how much the renovations has taken the priority over my cooking and baking...!
But today I am really tired of eating regular and monotonous outside food. I cooked simple dishes as long as it can treat my urge, longing for home cooking, Especialy home cooking cooked by me and myself....
Simple Dishes as Telur Masak Kicap and Bendi Goreng serve with warm plain rice...Nice....!

Telur Masak Kicap (Fried Egg In Soya Sauce)
Ingredients :
2 eggs
Onion
Chili
Soya sauce
Salt and pepper
Cooking Oil

• Fry eggs and put a side
  
• Heat oil and saute onion and chili
• Add in soya sauce, salt and pepper
• Pour on eggs and ready to serve
  

Bendi Goreng (Stir Fry Lady's Finger)
Ingredients :
Lady's finger
Garlic
Chili
Salt
Water
Cooking oil

• Heat oil saute garlic and chili
• Add in lady's finger
• Add in water and salt
  

EMI'S WEDDING

27th Dec 2009 In Memory

Time passes by really fast but I can never forget the good times I had in my childhood, the cries and laughter, fighting and teasing, food and jokes. Still fresh in my memory, I hardly gather with those childhood friends but when we get together the time seems to stop, feels like during those memorable days and nothing ever changed... We talked and laughed, fun and happiness of our childhood days has never fade. I can see it from the faces of my brothers and sisters... my cousins, when we were talking to each other the remembrance from the past flashing back in my memory. Then I started to get the pictures of old days, picnics, holidays.... Looking at them with my childhood eyes, so young and cute.. Shafie loves crying so much, he always cry even for no good reason..! Idah is the petite one... Shara is the talkative among us... Emi is one of our closest cousin brother, we grew up and had kinder fun together..... And today our Emi is having his big day, having his own family and he looks so handsome...!
I baked a cake for him as a weeding gift... Its a token for the memoir of an everlasting childhood days... I am so much happy for him and I had fun taking a trip down to memory lane.....!

BREAKFAST WITH SUGARSPICE

Bee Hoon Goreng

One fine morning, peaceful and quiet... far from the sound of running vehicles and honks, only the weather is warmer than yesterday. Here in Jitra especially around Bandar Darulaman and Kelubi is like having 'Breakfast Feast' every morning as early as 6.30 right untill 9 am. What ever you crave for your breakfast, just name it and you can get it as long as you know where is the right location. All you have to do is to stop from one stall to another stall, a lot to be chose... varieties of traditional cakes, lontong, nasi lemak, mee soup, soto, laksam and roti canai... Fried Bee Hoon is one of the popular breakfast meal, I am not so favor of it but if fried rice... I will never SAY-NO...!
Well, this Fried Bee Hoon reminds me a lot to someone, it's his favorite and he doesn't mind having it everyday. And guess what...? He was on rice diet and significantly the result is very positive, he lost weight. But off course he still go for rice only once a week, and still can enjoy oily and greasy food which is YUMMY, mouth-watering and for not having it is totally unacceptable resistant..!
Fried Bee hoon is a light meal, thin rice noodles with some chicken meat or beef and beansprout served well with omelette and crispy fried shallots. For every one person serving of Fried Bee hoon contains 294.2 cal while a complete one day meals including breakfast, lunch and dinner is equivalent to an average of 1500 cal.. bee hoon three times a day can reduce your calories intake up to 600 cal...! So if you are on diet, this is the right choice...

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JOJO'S SUPPER

Crab Stick

Last night I fell asleep earlier than others, slept soundly until I was awake by some noise coming from the kitchen. It can't be bugler because the house is very bright with all lights still on and sounds from television was very loud. Even a bugler will think twice to enter a house which was still so alive in the middle of dark black night, it's 3 am in the morning.... I was really surprise to see Jojo is cooking crab stick, and he insisted me to post it on my blog because he was so proud of telling me that he used butter instead of oil to cook ....! Crab stick or filament crab stick is not really a crab in a stick! It's a stick made from flour and few other ingredients with no crab in the list. It is added with crab or seafood flavor and if you noticed, you can see there are separable thin filaments attached to one another. These filaments will be like a piece of sheet and rolled, wrap in plastic and cut into pieces. This plastic is to avoid the filaments from breaking when it is cook in boiling water or soup, the thin filaments shall separate from each other.... By the way, in this case the crab and the stick are two separate items... Do you know that...?

GHANI CHAR KUEY TEOW

Ghani Char Kuey Teow

Last two days me, Shara and kidos went for a dinner outside. We went to the famous char kuey teow restaurant in Bandar Darulaman town. It's Ghani Char Kuey Teow Restaurant, they have fans all over Malaysia. Some can even drive up here or stop over if they are passing Alor Setar just to enjoy the char! A lot of people eating and queuing up waiting to take away their chars home... And the place is lively where a lot of youngsters and ia hang out for students from UUM staying some where near by. MMMM... I wonder what is that Ghani guy's secret ingredients...? The taste is so nice and you will always remember it and sure will seek for the same char again and again... What can I say, it just so delicious.... !

BUKIT WANG'S WATERFALLS

Bukit Wang Waterfalls

Today is just extremely hot to be inside the house waiting for the day less sunny and goes darker... And what a waste for the children not to spend their holidays with relaxing activities such as picnic at waterfalls and exploring mother nature! We prepared some simple take away food, eggs and sardines sandwiches and Ayamas Black Pepper Chicken Cocktails... nice chicken cocktails, except for it's pungent and spicy taste! I wonder how can Donut and Jojo love and enjoy eating it...? MMM.... Some one's bad food could be some one's likes ya...
Bukit Wang is located not far from our house, which is about 20 minutes by car. The journey was really enjoyable, we passed through villages and paddy fields. It was so green and what an eye's catching scenery! Every where is less people walking around, maybe the weather is too hot outside... My self was feeling this burning sensation on the skin and I hardly say that I was enjoying making my self tanned while driving the car.... :p
When were almost reaching bukit Wang, could see so many cars heading to the same destination... While searching for a good spot to picnic our selves, we walked on the walk way and it was cool, birds chirping and water is running. It's a gratitude to the mother nature and what a wonderful and noble job of those whose working very hard in protecting mother earth... Applause for them... good job!

SUGARSPICE RAYA 2009

Hari Raya hari yang mulia
penuh bererti kepada kita
Tua muda miskin dan kaya
Menyambutnya dengan gembira...

2009 20th Sept...Jojo's birthday falls on 1st Hari Raya Aidil Fitri.. We prepared a Black Forest Chocolate Cake for the birthday boy. As usual, at home we shall have Nasi Briyani served with Ayam Masak Merah, Daging Rendang, Sambal Sotong and Dalcha. We also have Nasi Impit, Masak Lodeh and Kuah Kacang...Idah's favourite... Udin and Sham, one is never enough for mom's cooking...(...Macam biasa bertambah je...Sodap..) Laksa is one of our menu on Hari Raya, complete with condiments..(..Shafie and Wawa memang suka sangat laksa...hari-hari makan laksa mak tak boring-boring pun...mmmm...memang sume orang makan tak berhenti-henti lah...)
Everybody had so much of fun and ate so much! It was so lively with the sounds of laughter and cries...Sarah, Afiq and Sofea, most attentions are given to them.. Those days Donut and jojo was having that luxury position but now they are my grown up prince and princess.. We only have till end of the week, then everybody shall leave to KL... I am gonna miss Hari Raya again..Can't wait for raya to come again.....

SLAMAT MENYAMBUT AIDIL FITRI

MUMMY LUV U!

Happy Birthday Jojo

Black Forest Cake..Layered with fresh whipping cream and dark pitted cherries,nice with grated dark chocolate . Good for any occasions.. (..Birthday jojo falls on hari raya...so this is his birthday cake..Happy Birthday jojo...Mummy luv u so much!...)