From Muar with Love

Being a hard core coffee drinker, I would try any type of coffee that came into my attention. Be it local or imported coffee. Chawan Restaurant has an array of local coffee and I have tried most of the coffees that they served. But one local coffee that really catches my attention or my taste is the 434 coffee from Muar. It has a strong local coffee smells and tasted so nice I keep coming back for it.

Since I have moved to Cheras, I have not been able to satisfy my craving for 434 coffee anytime I want. Tried to keep some stock but all the supermarkets that I frequent to does not have any on their shelves. Lucky for me, I have an old friend who still resides in Muar thus upon request she delivered one big bottle to me and it's for free..yeay!!!!

And guess what???? they do have a website (http://www.saikee.com/) and I can actually order online.

Keep some for myself and I gave some to my other coffee drinker friends.

Sharing is caring, am I right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you darling for the treat

Food and Friends at Bandar Sri Putra

Life is always a big circle and as long as we live and breathe in the same air of the same country we are bound to meet with each other be it planned or unplanned.

A friend is coming down from Kelantan for her training in KL and we take the opportunity to meet up and dine with some other friends at a friend's house whom we have not met for I believe 18 years.

 

I don't remember ever being chatty with her back then in Malacca but we are now. She said I was a bit stuck up back then but the truth is I always feel that I'm not at the same par with most of the girls there. Most of them are pretty, genius, witty and well to do. Well I'm none of the above hence I don't communicate as much with some of the girls back then and in a way I have projected a wrong side of myself.... I guess.

Well, how I perceived myself will always be different from how people view me. People have their own opinion and they are entitled to it whether we like it or not.

 

The story here is after a long 18 years, we finally got to meet up and know each other and be friends despite of our differences. And the best part is as long as there are opportunity we will grab it and will make the best of it.



 

 

 

 

Prawn Olio with tricolor Fettuccine, Baked Tricolor pasta and Sushi by the host.

Chocolate brownies by Aju

Life is never complete without dessert.

Kiwi & apple fruits, Gingerbread chocolate and Green tea Kitkat

Beef Lasagna

Sushi

Samosa

The best part is the company

Baked pasta with tricolor pasta

Old Folk Remedy

Woke up with a sore throat and blocked nose. I know after this the cough will slowly sink in and the headache will started to knock my head like a hammer...ppfffttt!!!!
Hate it when it happen. My friend told me to marinate lemon and ginger slices with honey. Mixed with warm water and drink it every now and then.
Had to be on medical leave yesterday.
Hope the cough will be over soon.

Beef Lasagna

Requested by my sister since she's a fan of Italian's food but prefers the cheaper version.
I took a shortcut way with the pasta sauce. Bought a big jar of Prego, add in some herbs, minced meat, slice olives and mushroom and wallah.... it's all done.
It might not be as nice as a real home made pasta sauce and all but enough to satisfy our craving for lasagna.

Ingredients :
Meat sauce :
400gm minced meat
1 big bottle of Prego pasta sauce
Olive oil
Onions (diced)
Slice black olives
Slice Mushroom
Mixed Herbs
Black pepper and salt to taste


Method :
Sauteed onion in olive oil
Add in minced meat and stir
Pour in Prego pasta sauce, mixed herbs and mix well
Add in olive and mushroom.
Add in black pepper and salt to taste

Cheesy Sauce :
Butter
Cheese
Flour
Milk
Black pepper and salt to taste

Method :
Melt butter and add in flour
Remove from stove and then add in milk and mix well
Put it back on the stove and add in cheese
Stir until it thicken then add in black pepper and salt to taste.



First layer of lasagna sheets then meat sauce and followed by cheese sauce. Pile it up until you have 3 sets of layer. The last layer should be cheese sauce. Cover it up with shredded cheese and baked at 180C until cooked.

Lost and Found

I went to a local university in 1995 and I came across a bunch of people that some I came to be closed with. There are some also I would know them by face but not by name or vice versa. Others, I might have known them by reputation or maybe introduced from far by my roommate. Along the way, we went through with our lives back then and after graduation, we went our separate ways, living our own lives. Some or maybe a few we might still keep in touch. Others, might have been forgotten.
Who would have thought that after 15 years, some of us are united again by a technology...an android phone applications. Well yeah, the catalyst might be one of my old uni-mate whom I'm quite closed with during my degree years. She invited me to join in this group chat. It feels awkward at first cause some of the girls, I might have not spoken to before. And there one or two that I'm quite close with and it was a joyous feeling to be able to connect to them again.
We started communicating about lives, about our children, things that happen in between, my favourite topic...food, even politics and of course religion. We have our differences, our ways of handling our lives but we still come to term with each other and compromise on the differences. We will still try to meet halfway.
This is the good thing about people that we could actually call friends. On how we lost them sometime ago and it resurface again into our lives, bringing all the experiences that we could share.

Saucy Prawn with Capsicum

Another simple dish that I took from the internet. It was long time ago hence I couldn't remember from whom I took the recipe from.
The family loves it, so it's a done deal for me.

Ingredients :
prawns - clean and deshelled.
1 large onion - slice
1 red capsicum - slice
coriander leaves - thinly slice
3 cloves garlic - pounded
2 tbs chilli sauce
1 tbs sweet soy sauce
1 tbs oyster sauce
1 tbs fish sauce
2 tbs blended dry chillies
salt and sugar to taste

Methods :
Sautee garlic and onion until fragrant. Add in blended dry chillies and stir until evenly cooked. Add in prawn, chilli sauce, oyster sauce and fish sauce. Mixed well and stir until prawns are cooked.
Add in capsicum and coriander leaves and mixed. Remove from heat and serve with hot rice.

Compartmentalise

Compartmentalisation....easy said than done. Especially with the female genders. I'm not trying to be sexist though I am a female. But being a female I would know how emotional we female could be. It's the reality. We females, always feel passionate in everything we do hence the outcome will yield a spectacular result. We put our heart and soul into our life, work, people around us and we will also channel our energy in our communication as well. Hence when anything happen, it will be a really hard thing to separate ourselves from the emotion that we are in.
And the rambling ends!

Dried Kurma Chicken

I wanted to cook something simple due to the time constraint hence when I went through the internet I saw this recipe but it calls for squid but since what I have defrosted are chicken cubes so chicken cubes it is. Got these chicken cubes from Tesco Kajang and it looks pretty enough to be eaten so I grabbed 1/2 a kilo for me.

Ingredients :

1/2 kilo chicken cubes or you can use small chicken cutlets
1 large onion, slice
2 green chillies, halve but I don't have it at that time so I didn't put it in
2 tomatoes, slice into wedges

Mixed with a bit of water to make a thick gravy
2 tbs kurma powder
3 tbs sweet soy sauce
2 tbs dark soy sauce but I don't have it at that moment so I didn't put it in
2 tbs oyster sauce
3 tbs tomato sauce


Pounded
3 garlic gloves
5 shallots
2 cm ginger
5 dried chillies - soak and cut into small pieces so we can pound it easily

salt and pepper to taste

Method

Heat oil in wok. Sautéed pounded ingredients until fragrant. Add the mixed sauce and chicken. Make sure the chickens are all covered with the sauces then cover until the chickens are tender.
Add green chillies, onion and tomatoes and stir for 2 mins.
Season with salt and pepper. Simmer until the sauce thicken.
Remove from heat and serve with hot rice.

Sundried Tomato Linguini with Salmon

Another dish from Giada at home. My son loves it....well atleast another person in the house loves it besides me. A mixture of sundried tomato, basil and olives.

Lemon Pavlova With Berries

I'm so fascinated with foodnetwork until I will not let anyone else watch other channels. I love Giada at home. I think most of her recipes are quite easy to follow.
The best thing is I could get the recipe over the internet as well.
I have been thinking about pavlova eversince I couldn't eat at Ben's. Apparently they are out of stock even though it is only 1pm when I met my friends over lunch last week.
Well, it is not Ben's level but at least I got to eat pavlova.

Ayam Masak Merah Ala Magribi

Haven't been writing for quite sometimes. And haven't been cooking properly for sometimes as well.
Been going through my new sought recipes and will start to try cooking them.
One of many recipes that I've tried is Ayam Masak Merah Ala Maghribi. Not sure whether it's going to be a hit with the kids but let's just try.

Ingredients:
10 pcs chicken (small cut)
2 cm ginger - finely chopped
2 tsp black pepper
1 tsp saffron
3 cloves garlic - finely chopped
2 onion - finely chopped
1 cm cinnamon stick
2 tsp coriander powder
1 can tomato soups
2 tbs honey
1/2 lemon juice
salt to taste

Method :
Sautéed onion, garlic, ginger and cinnamon stick
Add in chicken and coriander powder.
Keep on stirring so that all the mixtures will fully covered the chicken.
Closed the wok and let the chicken's juices flow out. But we need to stir it once a while.
Then add in the tomato soup, a bit of water, honey and saffron.
Let it stew until the chicken is tender then add in lemon juice, pepper and salt.