Congratulations....!!!

i've just found out that our dear fren finas had just delivered her 1st baby girl today @3.05 pm after being in labour for 24 hours...CONGRATULATIONS babe...welcome to motherhood the wait it finally over...:D cant wait to see her when we go back to kl!!

Lemon Chicken

This is my all time fav dish of all time...a must dish i have to order in any chinese restaurant i go to...however, since we got here we still havent found a good chinese place, theres alot of em here but its chinese with ataste or middle east...not appetizing at all, so yesterday i have decided to try to make my own lemon chicken, i found a recipe from amy beh and made some adjustment and it turned out fabolous, the chicken was crispy and the sauce was just rite. Its worth a try..i even brun my arm makin this..teehee..

Lemon Chicken ( enuff for 4 hungry peeps )
#courtesy of amy beh & modified by me

3 chicken breast - cut into thin strips
2 lemon - squeezed for juice or 1/2 cup of lemon juice
3 tablespoon honey
3 tablespoon brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon castor sugar
1 chicken maggi cube
1 1/4 cup water
salt & pepper
2 heaping teaspoon cornflour
1 1/2 cup of plain flour or tapioca flour ( i used plaine flour )
Oil for frying

Chicken
- Marinate the chicken with 1 egg,castor sugar,sesame oil,salt & pepper and 1 heaping teaspoon of corn flour set aside for 30 mins.
- Once marinated, coat the chicken with flour and fry in hot oil.

Lemon sauce
- Add the lemon juice and let it simmer for while
- Add in the chicken cube that has been dissolve in 1 1/4 cup of water, bring it to a boil
- Add in the honey and sugar bit by bit. Once u have acquired the taste u want stop adding anymore sugar.
- Lastly add 1 heaping teaspoon cornflour and let its thickens and add some salt & pepper to taste

Pour the sauce over of the chicken and serve.

P/S- I noticed that the flour doesnt absorb the oil...which is really good!

isnt it ironic???

my song for this week is hey there delilah...and its been in my head constantly and i cant make it go away...i want to take it out of my blog but then i still want it on its addictive....:D, like 2 sec ago i was going on my kepochy check on bestie's blog...looks like she has finally made her long time promise for banana bread pud...looks yumm too...i was reading and reading and i started asking myslef if my blog still open somewhere on the desktop????...hmmm coz delilah is still playing...notstop....check punyer check...i found out that i was not the only one that was addicted to this delilah...hahahaha...teh its poison......but good poison!!

puds rocks!

Al-fatihah......

al-fatihah to little Nurin...and my condolences to her family...parents esp....

Im writing this with a very heavy heart....its unbearable to even imagine what she had gone thru for alll those day that she was missing and to finally be found in such a state...this is just evil....what is wrong with pll...doesnt this holy month even mean anything anymore...

i remember calling mama last week..and she was telling me to watch safeia well coz there alot of kids missing in KL and she mention little Nurin...since then i have been following up her news on the net..but since sharizal has beeen sick..i have neglected my news. On wednesday sharizal told that they found a little girl body that been brutally abuse and killed!!!! and my 1st question was...was it that little girl..Nurin????? and he told me that the parent said that it was not her and...i was relieved....but yesterday her told me that it was her....and my heart just dropped..how could this had happenned...how how how...???

a mummy to a baby girl myself...this is my biggest fear what has the world come too?? i dont know...

nurin's families has set up a blogspot for her since she has been missing...this might be thow teh story ends for Nurin..but there thousand of kids out there that still havent been found and still waiting to know what thier fate is....
http://www.nurinjazlin.blogspot.com/

a day at the hospital

Caveman was really sick yerterday, he couldnt do anything but lay in bed, called so many doctors and no one could see him any sooner then 830pm....yes 830 pm...now i understand how ramahdan works in cairo...arghhh!!!!..so i had to call the emergency room in a hospital and see they would take him in alhamdulilah..they say yes....please take him in and we will have a look..and off we go to the hospital...which is 1 hrs & abit drive from the house....way beyond the pyramids and the city.

we got there and the dr was waiting...thank god! We did the all the checks and alhamdullilah everything seems to be normal...the dr said he had and allergic eruption...yes...like a volcano erupted in his systems from the medications that the previous dr gave him 3 days back.....which explains the rashes and nausea and the pain is from the muscle spasm and urenal infections....at least now we know whats going on....

we got home and was asked to rest in need for at least 3 days....:D

i just hope he gets better soon..:)

P/S - safeia...said air and cucu today.....!!!!

Chocolate Cake & Sotong Goreng Tepung

this cake is really sedap...and senang yang teramat..u dont even need a cake mixer or a food processor...just manual labour...good way to work that flabby arms!! hahaha...anyway i got this recipe from a fren's fren and tried it yesterday. 1st i was abit sceptical about it coz the mix was really watery..but i realise thats what makes its soo moist and yums...

u have to bare with me on the recipe as it was copied down from YM...

CHOCOLATE CAKE

Pre heat the oven to 250 DegC

1. 125g butter + 1 cup of boiling water + 1/2 teaspoon salt + 1 teaspoon nescafe - melt together in a soucepan..once melted, this mix should make 1 1/2 cup, so u will need to add enuff corn oil to make this mix 2 1/5 cup.

2. 2 eggs ( beat ) + 2 cups castor sugar + 1 1/5 cup evaporated milk - whisk this together in a bowl

3. 2 cups of plain flour + 1 teaspoon sodium bocarbonate + 1 teaspoon baing powder + 1 1/5 cup cocoa powder - siff this together

4. Add 1 and 2 together and mix well

5. Add 3 and 4 together in a big bowl and mix well. Stir in slowly in one direction until everything is combine together and no bubbles appear.

6. Once everything is mixed, pour everything is a baking tin that been buttered and powdered. and Stick it in the oven for 45 min to a hour.

Choc topping

100 g cooking choc
35g butter
60g condense milk

boil all this together until melted and pour over baked cake.

Serve with some vanilla ice cream...yummmsss
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made this on the 1st day of puase...and i think its even better then 'ah choons' sotong goreng tepung..hahha ( those u lived in sitiawan will know which ah choon im taking about)

here goes...

SOTONG GORENG TEPUNG

1 bowl of sotong/calamari - sliced and cleaned
1 egg whites - beaten
2 1/2 cup of plain flour - season well with salt,pepper and some crushed dried chilies to flavour the flour
1 cup of cooking oil

Add in the sotong in the beaten egg whites and then coat it with the seasoned flour, do this until u finished all the sotong and deep fry them until brown.

P/S - I was told that `ah choon' uses tepung ubi instead of plain flour...but it will meletup letup sikit when u fry!!...i want this tauhu goreng recipe!!! .......

its 4am and im still up...

just cameback from the hospital...my caveman is in pain..poor thing...yesterday the doctor diagnose him with muscle spasm ...and i had to give him the jab in the bottoms, which i did and this afternoon he was in more pain then yesterday..then at 1am he couldnt even sleep so i took him to the hospital.....mind u the hospital looks like something that u will see in a 2nd world war movie...i wouldnt say that its dirty but it just doesnt look very sterile..hmmm...anyway the dr say he will fine insyallah..we was still in pain when we got home but now he is finally asleep...and i cant sleep anymore...i think ill wait for sahur and subuh and the go to bed....my eyes are getting icthy now...

gonna makan sahur now....have a good weekend!

Ramadhan al Kareem-fasting days and festive nites...

the last time i fasted away from Malaysia..was when i was at uni....i still remember breaking fast in class with a bottle of juice and bar of choc....only to comeback home to halls to a plate of takeaway from the chippies down the street...sedih kan..tapi thats uni life....this year will be the 1st time fasting away from home...but as a wifey and a mummy and im starting to think like mama now....plannning out what to cook for 1st day of breakoffast and...the next..etc...funny actually..i use to never care wat to eat as i know they will be good food on the table when i comeback from work!
in cairo...ramadhan is very big....apparently its more meriah the ~EID itself...all the lampu lip lap are up now..and everything single shop..even the tiniest corner shop is fillled with nuts, dates, dried figs...macam macam..i wanted to buy some the other day and i couldnt make up my mind...berjenis jenis kurma! and of course not forgetting all the ramadham lanterns...i havent got one in my flat..maybe ill get one...:)

the working times here during ramadhan has changed too....everyone finished of at 2pm....enuff time for a little siesta before buka puase...one of my cairenese fren told me that, during ramadhan, they hardly sleep....some even sleep after Sahur..some just eat all nite...some pray all nite..some just wander in the streets...shopping malls are super packs these days...i went to carrefour yesterday and it was impossbile to even push a trolley without bang in the next trolley!!..ARgghhhh.

so too all...muslims..`RAMADHAN AL KAREEM'

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I have decided that i like this one better!!!!...stickin to this.....

The Ladies Club

i went to my 1st ever morning coffee on friday at the Four Season at the Al Gezira. The hotel was really posh and beautiful no wonder it cost a bomb for anite stay, the hotel is also facing Cairo Zoo....that be an interesting scenery wont it....wake up in the morning and u open your curtains and voila....harimau menguap...badak berendam.....monyet makan pisang etc...hehehe i never been to the zoo before but i was told by a caironese that the zoo is not the best place to go....well i love zoos even though its not exactly London Zoo, ill probably give it try and bring bubbles for a visit she loves animals.....

never in my life have i been to place where there are women from all sort of nationality in one room, im serious theres 1 from almost every country in the world.Since it was 1st time, i had a fren of my to wait for me at the door...dah la 30 mins late i didnt want to make a grand entrance to a bunch of peeps i dont know. i walked in and i saw gwen...looking alike a stepford wife and i was thinking in my head..shitz...im under dress bugger! abit too late now aint it..so i went ahead..everyone really dressed up for these occasions..the blings...the bags...the shoes..mak ai!!! they all look prim and proper totally the ops of me.......but these ladies groups are really good esp for those who have never been out of their country and have no frens, its a good place to meet pll..anyway it was an interesting morning as well as an eye opener for me....i even put my name down for golf lessons...hows that!!!!

p/s :- got a lime green top over the weekend.....dont ask me y i got it .....i was under the influence!!! :D

Malaysia meets Indonesia

we invited wendi,dewi, wiwin and zahir for dinner on friday...of course samira was there too, but she's more like a permanent resident at our place hahaha.it was really good nite the highlights was the peach and pear crumble and gossip gossip from malaysia and indonesia..........of course it started with ashraf sinclair smooching an indon atress..i cant remember her name something bunge kut, i personally havent seen it yet then it went on to siti nurhaliza...saleem iklim....and padi laa....and then it everyone got pretty excited when my caveman mentioned Inul...again i havent seen goyang inul before,i know she has a mean goyang and sexy but i thot it was probbaly like Shakira or Beyonce kan....so i laterr that nite i went to youtube and search for inul and i was super suprise...giler aaa goyanag die.macam nak putus pinggan! and no competion to shakira!!! yang lawak too goyang die tak syncronize to her movement at all lyrics pun yaaa ampun!!!..not my cuppa tea. Apparently now she is not shaking her booty that much but she has a chain of karaoke place.

anyway, back to the better higlights the peach and pear crumble!

Peach & Pear Crumble - 6 peeps

5 peaches sliced - u can use the can peaches too ,1 big can and drain the juice
2 pears slices
1 lime or lemon
1/4 brown sugar
1/4 white sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon power
1/2 tablespoon nutmeg powder
1 tablespoon cornstarch

preheat over at 220 deg C
mix all of this together in a bowl and leave it for 1 hr for the fruit to soak all the juice and sugar. Then put it in the over for 10 mins.

for the crumble topping
1 cup o all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
14 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 salt
6 tablespoon chilledd butter
1/a boiling water

mix the flour,white and brown sugar,baking powder and salt together. Then add the butter blend it using your finger tips and add water bit bit until it just combine.

put the topping all over the peaches & pears, and sprinkle some brown sugar and cinnamon powder.

bake it for 30 to 40 mins until the topping is all brown and nice.

Serve with vanilla ice cream ....yummmssssss

beef meat ball soup

i still have 3 more days to fast before ramadhan starts....and i think my lil's sista is catching up on me too...so i hope i finish it before she arrives......if she everr does!!...i was abit traumatise lastnite when a fren suddenly suggested that i could be u know...but i told her that its pretty impossible considering the days that caveman was in town and the amout of action that i get this month..hahahahaha i dont think so!!!....still its s a scary thot...another bubbles...hmmmm...eventually i would like to have a another one or two more bubbles..but...not now not soo soon...i still wanna spend more time with just bubbles for now...:D
i decided to change my template, apparently theres not much to choose from and i was bored at looking at the polka dots everyday...and my bestie has the same one too...so i settle for this one for now...until i find da' template!

all above was written yesterday...but i never got to finished it..hahaha..pergi carrefour for my stocks and then pergi salon...caveman balik...after 2 weeks i was beginning to look like a cavewoman jugak...takkan!!!!!

so to recap what i wrote semalam...hehhehe my lil sista came this morning after breakfast...soo im still good for now!!! haha...so samira i told u that it was impossible! :D.

anyways.......i learned how to make this yummylicious beef meetball soup yesterdy... ate it once at samira's house and it was yumss....recipe nenek die so sebelom i lupa, bettter put it down somewhere bubbles cant tear....soo here goes

beef meat ball soup (recipe enuff for 6 not soo hungry peeps and 4 for really hungy peeps)

(A)
1 medium onion }
5 clove of garlic } roughly
a few slice of ginger ( optional ) } blend all this ingredients
2 tablespoon of jintan ( whole cumin ) } together
2 tables spoon of corn oil }

(B)
500g of mince meat ( will make around 25 to 30 balls )
1 egg
5 tablespoon flour (this varies make sure that the texture is sticky and can hold the meatballs if not it will break once u fry them)
salt and pepper to taste

add (A) to (B) and mix well, once u have the texture just makes the meatballs and fry them till they are all brown.

(C) Soup
1 small onion ( sliced)
25 clove of garlic (chopped)
1 soup bunjut ( soup tulang or soup daging )
1 maggi cube ( beef or vegie )
1 packet suhoon or glass noodles ( no soohoon here )
some bawang goreng for garnishing
1 tablespoon corn oil
1 ltre water

1. fry onion and garlic until brown
2. add all the loose item in the soup bunjut packet in and fry for awhile until fragrant
3. add water and the soup bunjut in and let it simmer
4. add the maggi cube in and leave it to boil
5. when the soup is ready, add all the meatballs that you have fried together with the sohoon.
6. let it boil for 5 mins and its ready
7. add some bawang goreng before serving


terima kasih nenek samira and of course samira! :)