Modified Laksa Kedah Samira

Samira...i miss you !!!!!

A few months back...we had a laksa fever...well samira did and it got to me. We were eating laksa almost every other day..if its not at her's and its at mine. Of course the laksa is not as good as those back home, but considering where we are and our degree of laziness of skinning the fish, i think its pretty yumss..
I open my cupboard today and i saw stacks and stacks of mackerel in brine and i immediately thot of.. samira, i can still here her voice " ambik reena..ambik semua, yang nie sudah dapat nanti camner nak buat laksa "..so i took all that they had on the shelf, crazy women!

Samira is not here anymore and everyday when i take my girls for a walk and pass they old flat i get very emotional..bubbles will say " thats hanna's house but hanna goes on the aeroplane already" sedih tak..the dumonts are more like a family then friends to us and we miss them dearly...we even have to look for a new Monoloply partner...unless we can convince Marie and Meshary to play! :).

So before i forget the recipe...i better keep it here :-

1.
4 medium size red onions
2 handful cili kering
belacan
a few cili padi

blend all this together with water enough to cover the ingredients.

2.
6 cans of mackerel in brine
Put everything in the blender with some water and blend.
what i did was blend 3 can til smooth and 3 can abit coarse

3. Then in a pot put the blended cili paste and the blended fish and mix well. Once everything is mixed add water about 3 litre or as u desire kalau nak pekat u can kurangkan the air.Cook in low heat and add a few stalk of daum kesum and bunga kantan ( which is didnt put since i didnt have any in cairo...so what i substitute with a few stalk of mint ) also add a few assam keping.let its boil til cooked.

4. for the toppings - timun, cabbage, red onions, lime, egss all sliced and i also make some crispy kerepek ( 2 tsp plain flour + 1 tsp rice flour + water = mix and fry in hot oil )


This will easily feed 8 to 10 hungry peeps..:)

The danger of crocs

U know how in Malaysia, they put up sign of no crocs by the escalators and how they can be very dangerous? Well they are!!...it almost caught my foot last Friday. Mind you if my crocs was slightly smaller then they were, my foot is probably crushed and bandaged now. I was lucky that they were a little bit big for me.

This is how it happen. I was standing on the escalator and when i was about to step up, my cros got caught and it got caught on the inside of the escalator, i tried to get it out but it was completely stuck. The escalator continued to move till the end and it stop. It was quite embarrassing when everyone had to walk up..hahaha..so i when i finally took my shoes off...this is how it looks like!!...

scary innit...my bubbles wears this shoes everywhere...

completely chewed up..

I was completely freaked out..i was imagining blood spurting out everywhere...it was close. Do be careful when u wear these shoes..i love them they are great to walk and very comfy but they are not for the escalators...the beach...a walk in the park..excellent...escalators..please think twice. Like many of you...i didn't believe it before but just look at the picture...horridkan..

I need a new shoes...:)

Its been a long time since..

Looking at my last entree ...I'm ashamed of myself. Its been 4 months since i wrote anything here and that 4 months passes by like a bee...this year is almost gone. This year by far being the most traumatic year of my life so far. This year i have been tested in different ways..from the promotions,pregnancy,caveman,baby lulu,bubbles and then the job cut...i have 2 months to go in this year and I'm wondering...whats next?could i handle another test? insyallah...

Yes..i have been laid off from work..5 days before hari raya..awesome innit? completely throw my raya off..and if it was not for my family, i think raya will probably be me sleeping it off. It took me a while to realise that i no longer had a job...a job that i love doing despite of the pll i work with..a job that i spend more time with then my own family...a job that i had for almost 7 years almost all of my friends are from the company and i meet caveman through the company...all that is gone when they decided that i was too much of a cost to bear..is this fair? then again...in business its all about the cost isn't it? For days i keep asking myself...didn't i work hard enough?? what could i have done to secure my job?? Was it becoz i was on maternity leave and had a baby?? I don't know, or maybe it was time to move on, maybe it was sign for me to look for something new or change my life since my life seems to have been revolving around work and not the other way around. i believe in faith and if this is where faith takes me...then i accept.

So i have decided that i will take a year off evaluate life and nurture what i have.

I hope its not to late " Selamat Hari Raya & Maaf Zahir Batin " to my love ones..

Baby lulu's 1st meal...

Oct 1, 2009

Baby lulu's 1st solid meal...yumms