Acara Memasak - Sarapan

Semalam i masuk gelangang lagi acara memasak, every fortnightly (Friday morning) my opis ada acara bersarapan bersama whereby kita ada group yang akan membeli sarapan untuk everybody, so pagi tadi giliran my team lak. Selalu nya kita order je dari mana-mana kedai lah yg kita suka but this time around ada request untuk i masak rendang ayam kerana the last time i cook this dish for breakfast was last year and since then i tak sempat untuk masak sebab i nak kena sent my little princess to school dulu kan and so coincidentally ari ni my girl tak gi sekolah sebab cause Children Day so bila ada request tu i relented lah, ok lah masak.

My friends over here memang suka benor ngan lauk rendang ayam (versi my Indonesian heritage and not the normal rendang) every time kalau ada kesempatan either i masak for them here or invitation to my house diaorang ni mesti request lauk ni, prebet betul diaorang and they like to eat with bread so kuah nya i nak kena lebihkan lah. Even akak i pernah tanya kelakar nya sarapan pagi makan rendang ayam, gasak lah diaorang yang nak makan.

The last time round i cuma masak 2 paket kepak ayam i.e 4 kilo but this time around dah makin ramai orang so i kena masak 3 paket kepak ayam i.e 6 kilo! untuk 35 orang, i dah macam masak untuk kenduri. Semalam nasib baik lah my mak metua tolong i kisarkan cili kering and also defrost the chicken wing for me kalau tak kul 12 malam pun i tak abis masak lagi so lepas je sholat maghrib i terus masuk dapur and start the cooking and by 10pm i dah abis masak, phew! Pagi tadi i cuma masukkan santan and daun kunyit untuk the final touches. Sampai je @ my opis tadi my boss dah menuggu and he says that he purposely postpone his flight back to China sebab dia nak makan lauk i and alangkah hapi and gembira nya i bila i tengok all friends makan dengan seleranya and licin abis rendang ayam i.

Cook n cook n cook n cook............

Masak urgh.........dah penat dah, asyik masak je!!!! Ia nya bermula 2 hari sebelum hari raya sampai lah semalam, asyik masak.............jer. Even my little princess keep on asking me ibu why do u have to cook all the time and why u cook a lot, well apa nak buat nak dah memang keje ibu memasak!!

Minggu lepas my mak metua requested that i masak another round of hari raya dishes sebab genap 1 week hari raya so last Thursday after my maghrib prayer i terus masuk dapur untuk masak but terbantut kejap sebab ada tamu so terpaksalah lah layan tamu dulu kan i cuma dapat masak 2 macam lauk, rendang ayam and serunding itupun kul 12 baru abis so i got about 5 hrs of sleep je before heading off to work, hai hari tu Tuhan aje yang tau betapa ngantuk nya mata i nasib baik lah tuan besar i ada meeting in the afternoon dapat juga i membelit sekejap, kejap je tido about 20 minutes jer. Balik rumah i lintang pukang lagi masak sambal goreng sebab my mak metua nya niece dah on the way so u can imagine i ni dah mcm octopus!! On saturday i tak peduli lepas sholat suboh i sambung tido i woke up @ 10am, mak metua dah risau sebab her nephew nak datang and i belum bangun lagi untuk masak lauk lodeh, nasib baik lah i dah prepare all the bahan2 the night before so bangun je i boleh terus menumis. Not a problem, tamu i sampai kul 11.30am and semua lauk dah siap.

Finally my girl got the chance jalan raya both saturday & sunday and she got to wear her new baju kurung and her pink kebaya. But on sunday sampai je rumah i dah nak kena mula acara memasak lagi sebab kawan adik ipar i nak beraya and my mak metua dah tak leh nak masak so i lah yg nak kena masak so what i did i tumis rempah ayam masak merah and mak metua i cuma tolong goreng ayam and mix with the gravy and i siapkan juga the rempah untuk masak lemak for me to cook bila i balik keje so senangkan tak yah nak kelam kabut. Huh penat betul lah, sekarang i got this throbbing headache for the past 3 days that does not want to go away dah makan panadol pun tak jalan, i think its because of me not having enough sleep and rest.

I think i nak amik cuti, hide somewhere and give myself a good rest and sleep..........but where???

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

Selamat Hari Raya, hai dah 4 hari kita menyambut nya baru lah ari ni i boleh mengupdate and berceloteh sikit because i dah back to work sebab tu lah i boleh mengupdate. I was on leave last week on Wednesday and Thursday. Hai cepat betul masa berlalu tup, tup dah raya. Oi bukan main penat lagi rasa badan and i've been sleeping late since Tuesday night, ari tu i buat kek kukus and i slept @ 3am! nasib baik lah anak i cuti sekolah so apalagi mak ngan anak both sleep thru sampai kan ke pukul 10.00, pas tu start lah engine i memasak, 1st dish i start untuk masak kuah ayam, this is a must have dish kalau tak my DH akan berontak and untuk memasak nya take hours and hours of cooking sambil-sambil tu i masak serunding. Lepas tu i buat bergedil and dah 2 tahun i tak buat so this year my DH request so nak tak nak terpaksa ler buat and tido kul 2 pagi. The next day engine i start from kul 7 sampai lah waktu berbuka i terperok in the kitchen memasak and i tak kemas rumah i langsung which my adik ipar yg buat, fair lah kan i masak dia yang mengemas and my DH pulak bersihkan the playroom and our bedroom, i cuma tukar the bedsheet je at night tapi penatnya bukan main. I masak lauk :- Ayam keluak, sambal goreng, sambal tumis udang, sayur lodeh, bergedel and serunding. Rasa penat hilang bila look at my family face eating lauk-lauk yang i masak with gusto, they love it.

Untuk Hari Ray kedua pulak rumah i kena serbu by all the aunties, uncles and cousins, my tamu start from 3pm sampai lah ke 11 malam. I masak additional dish on that day daging beefstik and also sayur lodeh again so fresh lah kan. Semalam pulak tamu i still datang non stop but i tak masak anything special sebab ada lauk belen kan i cuma tambah sambal udang je.

I akan mula start my berjalan raya end of this week, i told my mak metua since Hari Raya this year falls on a weekend kita sambut tamu je lah senang sikit kalau kita nak berjalan the following week sebab most of the relative dah berkunjung rumah kita and she agrees, ok lah tu.

Ok lah I dah nak kena sambung keje i ni, before i log off i nak tayangkan gambar putri i taken on the 1st day sebelum bertamu ke rumah abang long I.

Cute kan, with her big flower hair clip and pink colour shoes

Raya oh Raya

Hai diam tak diam raya dah nak dekat dah, next week Friday to be precise. As for persiapan ok-ok je lah, baju i dah beli sepasang, cukup lah tu as for my little princess pulak i beli kan dia tiga pasang, dua baju kurung and 1 kebaya, her pink colour shoe and a hair clip with big flower pink colour pun i dah belikan cuma tinggal satu lagi je, her pink colour handbag. Oi anak i sorang ni pandai bergaya sekarang, she wants everything to be in pink. As for both my DH and I biar kita berdua simple je asalkan anak i yg bergaya. She comes first, her needs is more important. As for baju babah this saturday baru nak gi beli.

Oh ya my DH finally bought a simple dining table for our home, terperanjat kan rumah i tak ada dining table. My DH and I luv to have big wide space for our little girl to run around so we decided not to have any while she is growing up and since kita pun hardly have our meals together as a family and we have our meal at a different time so my DH decided not to have any. But this year he decided to buy 1 because dia tak sanggup tengok my mak metua having hard time bangun bila berbuka duduk bawah so he relented and anak i pun dah besar so finally for the past 1 week my mak metua happy sangat2 dpt makan on a new dining table.

BTW I dah mula my baking mission. So far i dah buat kuih tart, tart gulung, makmur and chocolate chip cookies and also sarang semut, this is a must sebab my DH nya favorite and its looks like my little girl nya favorite too sebab semalam dia keluar masuk dapur asking for sarang semut, ibu i want some more, i like this cookies very nice. Hai bila anak dah puji mcm ni rasa penat terus hilang.

Tadaa........my sarang semut

I tampalkan resipi nya skali

6 oz mentega
6 oz tepung gandum
4 oz tepung castard
4 oz gula halus
1/2 sudu teh vanilla essence
1/2 sudu teh baking powder
Chocolate rice secukupnya

Tepung gandum dan baking powder diayak bersama. Pukul mentega, gula halus dan vanilla essence hingga ringan pas tu masukkan tepung gandum di selang selikan dengan tepung castard.
Bulat kan doh beberapa bahagian kemudian beku kan di peti ais. Selalu nya i akan buat dough nya one night before, leave it inside the fridge for one 1 day and bake it the next day. Bila dough dah beku baru senang untuk memarut. Isikan di kertas cawan yg kecil dan taburkan dengan chocolate rice. Bakar di over 160 degree celcius lebih kurang 20 hingga 25 minute. Senang kan.

Malam ni pulak i akan buat biskut dahlia, ni semua menu my mak metua, dia yang tentu kan biskut apa nak buat and i sebagai menantu cuma ikutkan je lah and dia nak buat biskut-biskut lama. Ok lah got to go now sebelum my boss muncul depan mata i i better log off.

Eh before i go i nak show my little girl in her uniform with her best friend in her class

YOG Update

Ops terlambat update on my 1st YOG experience, dah abis dah pun YOG and all sportsperson dah balik dah negeri masing-masing kan baru lah i sibuk nak update well its because i got tons of work to clear!!! Ni pun curi2 mengupdate tau.

It was really an overwhelming experience, i really did not expect so many people/Singaporean interested in watching boys playing but i was wrong. In fact the stadium was packed and i think it helps boost the boys moral and my little princess was really enjoying herself and she tak nak ketinggalan siap ngan pakai her red jersey and white jeans untuk menunjukkan her support towards the S'pore team. But sayang kan kita kalah and tak dpt masuk final but anyway the boys did a very good job and they manage go clinch Bronze medal and it is very good considering they are all under 15. You go BOYS!!!

Ni i lampirkan gambar my little princess with the clapper that we receive, enjoy betul dia main ngan benda ni.

YOG, here we come..........

Yes we are going to watch one of the games for the inaugural YOG this Sunday! We are going to watch Soccer Semi-Finals Boys. My little princess is super duper excited and she been asking me everyday now, when are we going YOG bu sampai penat i nak jawab her repeatedly question.

As you know lah in schools the children are informed about YOG so bila kita keluar and she saw the posters on the streets she will shout YOG, YOG. Initially my DH intend to bring my girl to watch the opening ceremony but the ticket is quite expensive and everyday my girl been telling her babah that she wants to watch YOG so finally she got her wish. My little girl is exactly like her father she love sports tak kira lah, bola ke, golf ke what ever her father watches she watches too she is turning into a sports buff. I tampal kan gambar anak i with her YOG doll, her aunty yang belikan.

This is the YOG ticket folder ngan complimentary MRT card

Tadada....the tickets

Sori lah kalau the scanning kurang baik, anyway will updates in detail next week on our experience being there in the flesh the very 1st YOG!!!

OMG!!

OMG its been more than a month and now I'm back updating and penning down what ever in my thoughts or brain if its is working cause i have been sick for the last 5 days! urgh!! Hold and behold its fasting month and its the 7th day already! wow time do flies man.........and i must remind myself that my little princess birthday is coming, according to the muslim calendar and that is the 23rd Ramadhan because lately i am getting more and more forgetful, maklum lah umur dah meningkat kan, oh tidak.............

This year i took half and hour early time off knocking off work, like the previous years when my baby is younger i took an hour but now that my girl is 4 and she is able to entertain herself and my mil would be able to prepare simple meal for breaking fast and as for dinner i will do the cooking after berbuka lah. As for persiapan hari raya nope not ready yet. I am not going to buy any new things to add in to my hse deco cause i like my house to be as simple as possible. Baju raya pulak i beli yang dah siap, senang tak yah susah-susah beli bahan and nak cari tailor to jahit, cause kalau tak menjadi and i tak nak pakai abis lah nanti my the DH akan mengamok so to make it simple buy the ready made one. This year my girl choose pink colour, she's into pink now and her favorite sentence is girls likes pink, boys like blue, so next week we will do our shopping for baju raya, so for 1st day raya i satu famili akan berwarna pink, ha, ha, ha and this year my girl ask for 2 baju kurung, pink and purple and 1 kebaya and she did ask for a pink colour shoes, hopefully the slip on shoes that i saw at Gap still in stock will drop by this Saturday to check it out.

As for my working life, hmph the truth is i really drag myself coming to work everyday. I think i need a fresh air but i can't quit now cause my DH is taking his degree and he did mention to give him 2 more years and aft that i am free to do anything i want so for time being i am enduring my everyday crisis at work, sabar je kan, cari rezeki namanya. Oh ya i nak tayangkan gambar anak dara i in red and white sempena national day celebration.

Dah besarkan anak mak......and cute lagi..........

Ok lah got to go, apalagi nak selesaikan keje-keje yang been calling my name and will try to come back as often as i can ciao....