Hari Raya Korban in Cairo

Selamat Hari Raya...sorry this entry is abit delay...i got sick after raya...i guss too much of the good stuff!!!

It was quiet raya for us..caveman went for prayers at 6.am..(.yes here they do the sembahyang raya after Subuh..) then he was off to work..i made some dessert for dinner and ayam masak merah...and just chilled at home...with bubbles...
We had some frens over for makan-makan as always...my caveman made Nasi Beriyai Johor Ayah...and i was well impressed..it as really good! of course it will never be the same as ayah's but it was close..im soo proud of him! but i forgot to take some picture...darn!

Eid-Adha here is very big..almost everyone that can afford to sacrifice will sacrifice at least a a goat or sheep and this year i get to witness something very different then what i normally see in Malaysia...over here we get to see sheep..goat and cow..being slaughter by the street..next to your house...in front of your house or even under your house..we were lucky that...none of this business was happening in our flat..but for samira & hadrien..they had to succumb the blood and smell of animal being slaughter as they were doing it under their flat...

I guess everyone has their own was of doing things...

Mama dearest Kuah Kacang & Lontong

What would i do without my mama..i would be pretty helpless. I called her up raya eve to ask for these recipe...i cant be home so i was determine to bring home here.:D

who knows i might still need it for next year...uwaaaaaa i hope not!!!

i was salving myself in the kitchen to make these well at least the kuah kacang..but it was worth ed!

Kuah Kacang ( Peanut Sauce )

1 kg peanuts - fried with no oil unti brown, skin removed and crushed to small peices (you could also put i the FP and pulse it til its crushed but not grounded)

A.
25 peice of cili kering (more if ulike it spicy)
3in ginger
6 cloves garlic
6 shallots or 2 big red onions

Blend all this ingredients together.

B.
4 tsp oil
5 stalk of serai/lemon grass, bruised
3/4 cup of asam jawa (tamarind juice)
4 cups of water
Salt to taste
8 teaspoon of Sugar (add this bit by bit until u got the taste u want)

Fry Mix.A until naik bau and garing
Once u see the oil starting to float, add the air assam jawa and water and serai.
Let it boiled for about 5 mins and add the crushed kacang/peanuts in with salt and sugar to taste.



Lontong (Sayur Lodeh)


2 terung (cut in small peices)
a bunch of long bean or green beans (slice thinly)
3 medium carrot (sliced)
2 packet of tempe (slight fried)
2 packet of tofu (slight fried)
6 clove garlic
2 big red onions
2 inch of kunyit hidup or powder if u dont have any
4 cups of water
2 tsp of oil
1 can of thick coconut milk
salt and sugar to taste
1 maggi vegie cube (optional)

1. Blend the garlic,onion,kunyit together with 1 cup of water. Then tumis/fried til naik bau.
2. Then masukkan air, garam and gula
3. Once boiling add, carrots, terung,beans,tempe and tofu
4. Let it boil for about 5 mins and add n the coconut milk and vegie cube(optional)and boil until for another 10 to 15 mins.

And thats done!

Aidilfitri Di Perantauan.....Cairo 2007

now i know how tired mama gets every time raya comes..its not easy to prepare for it..the cleaning the cooking..etc..i fell asleep on the couch til 6am pagi raya and the 1st thing came to my mind was..Sh*Ts..my kuah kacang i forgot to put them in the fridge!!! luckily they are still good..alhamdullilah..i was slaving myself to make the kuah kacang the whole day!

we did the duty calls back home...everyone else is already berhari raya...:(. sedeh but i managed to control my pearly drops. hahaha..1st time! the thing is that if i start weeping..then mama will starts too and it will be too emotional..so its better this way! adek..being in the UK dah raya on friday...so when we called him he was getting ready to go to London for hari raya.

woke bubbles up.and got her ready..she was excited!..I'm sure she doesn't know what is raya, but i think she was surprise that we are going out for walk walk so early in the morning :D and she was excited to put on her new shoes we got her...:D

the venue was Dewan Malaysia Abbasiah Cairo...its like Malaysian hall la kire nyer...we miraciously got there on time...8.00am on the dot. 1st time in cairo had i seen soo many malaysian.in baju kurung and speaking melayu..it was very exciting..after sembahyang raya...the place was pack with Malaysian..and the food was very Malaysian too..satay, ayam masak merah, nasik...karipap..and seri muka..the green and white kuih.overall it was a good raya, of course nothing can beat hari raya in malaysia but this is good enough...

P/S- got invited to some open house...woohooo more foodies!!

cookies for raya

samira and i decided that we should not mengelat even more by buying cookies for raya..so today we had our cookies project!. we managed to make 2,choc chip cookies and biscuit arab ( i have declared that biscuit arab is the easiest biscuit in the world !!)..the choc chip were very popular with the hubby..they kept asking for more!...and thanks to my super FP, i didn't have to slave my man power to uli the dough! :D.

remember once upon a time...sometime last year there was an email on famous amos choc cookies???....i junked mine..but samira kept it hahaha so we tried it and its almost as good!! although i must say it a very expensive cookie..kalau nak menjual memang byk pakai modal..no wonder famous amos cookies are expensive! anyway..for those who did junk that email...this is your 2nd chance to copy it and try....

Famous Amos Choc Chip Cookies

2 cups of butter
4 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups brown sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal ( measure it and then grind it in a blender til fine)
50g choc chips
1tsp salt
400g cadbury choc bar ( grated )
4 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
3 cups chopped nuts ( your choice )
2 tsp vanilla extract

Cream butter and both sugar
Add eggs and vanilla
Mix together with flour,oatmeal,salt,baking powder and soda.
Add choc chips, grated choc and nuts.
Roll into small balls and place then two inches apart
Bake for 10 mins at 375degC

this recipe makes around 110 pieces. :)

Biscuit Arab

2 cups flour
1/4 sugar ( measure and blend to powder)
Ghee ( add bit by bit until u can make a soft dough )
1/4 castor sugar ( milled to super soft powder ) - for coating


Mix the flour, blended sugar and ghee to a soft dough
Roll them up to small balls
Place them on a ungrease tray and bake for 150degC for 15 mins.
Once done, cool them a little and coat them with the castor sugar


the flat smells soo good now....:D

2 days to hari raya.....

2 days to go....and we are geared up!!!..

had an interesting day today...1st we went to pick up our raya food..the ketupats and rendang...yummsss i still havent tasted it though, saving it for D day! then sherli took us downtown to attaba sq to get some fabric. The street is filled with fabric..i see some very nice cottons for baju kurung...next raya i know where im buying my baju raya...winks!...i got some really groovy fabric for my big pillows for 14 L.E per meter..that would be like Rm9 per meter...murah giler cant wait to see how they turned out.

it was fun..but when i got home i was knackered....fell asleep on the couch and when i woke up it was 5pm!! SH*Ts...i was suppose to go over to samira to help her cook for the sudanese visitors and now its 30 mins to buka puase..but we managed to pull it thru like always and the everything was gone...well done samira!


P/S :still feeling horrible about not going back..:(

5 day to Hari Raya!!

it was really hard to put and listen to my this week addiction...sedey giler....uwaaaaaa i want my mama....

since we will be spending raya here...there soo much to do! this will be a challenge...my mind and body wasn't prepared for this...it was prepare for raya in KL with mama's food!!!.. i guess now there will be changes....i will have to prepare for raya now.

so far..I've come up with a Hari Raya Menu..rendang daging..lontong...and kuah kacang. I cheated abit on the rendang and nasik impit...i got someone to do it for me :D...i will not screw up our raya with a bad rendang! hopefully the rendang i ordered will do the job!

called mama today and got the recipe for lontong and kuah kacang...doesn't seems too hard i think we can pull it off and also i found the recipe for biscuit arab..requested by the pregnant woman..samira :D. I will probably try to make choc chip cookies and sarang semut if i can get hold of the recipe..

i think i will start tomorrow..kalau rajin..been feeling really lazy theses days!

we are not going home for raya..:(

its Monday and there is still no news....we had no choice but to change the dates on the tix before its too late...and the sad thing is that the next available flight it on the 24th!...2 weeks lepas raya...:(. The hardest part was to let the gran parents know the bad news..esp the gran mama's but its out of our hand..I'm hate this!!...to make myself feel better...i keep telling myself that there's a hikmah behind this...at least now we are all going back together insyallah.

looks like i will miss bestie's engagement on the 20th..:(. i would tell her to postponed it but it wouldn't be fair...soo I'm just gonna shut my gob this time...although im sure she will be reading this hahaha and she will know! so last nite..soo to make me feel better about not going home...i've decided to make myself some brownies...and amazingly it was a success!! i took the recipe from Nigella Feast..and it was delicious i kid u not!!!...its all soft and gooey unlike those hard brownies u get in famous amos or Starbucks....this is the brownie!!! that made me happy...we ate it till we could eat no more i still have some more for tomorrow..:D

Gooey brownies (make 25 brownies bites)

375g butter
375g dark choc
6 eggs
350g castor sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract
225g plain flour
1 tbsp salt
250g white choc buttons ( i didnt have any..so i chopped up some white choc into chunks...it didnt really melt, so make sure u chop the choc really small )
50g choc chips ( optional )

Pre Heat oven to 180 degC

1. Melt the butter and choc in pan over low heat.
2. In a bowl, beat the eggs together with the castor sugar and vanilla extract
3. Let the melted choc to cool a little, and then add in the the egg& sugar mixture and beat well.
4. Fold in the flour and salt, then stir in the white choc and choc chips
5. Pour in the mixture into a balin tin that has been line with foil.
6. Bake for 30 to 40 mins depending on how good your oven is. Once the top is dry and had turn a lighter brown color turn the oven off and just let it sit in the oven for another 10 min before taking in out.
7. Cut the brownies while still warm.


P/S: it tasted even better the next day!