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.

You've Got Mail - Quote

The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many something, so thank you.

I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella

Synopsis 

I've lost it. :( The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus's family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming, I've lost it. The very same day. Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive!! :)

A couple of glasses of bubbly with the girls at a charity do and Poppy's life has gone into meltdown. Not only has she lost her engagement ring, but in the panic that followed, she's lost her phone too. As she paces shakily round the hotel foyer she spots an abandoned phone in a bin. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number with the hotel staff. It was meant to be!

Except the phone's owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesn't agree. He wants his phone back, and doesn't appreciate Poppy reading all his messages and wading into his personal life. As Poppy juggles wedding preparations, phone messages and hiding her left hand from Magnus and his parents, can things get any more tangled?

 

Review 

 

 When I first read this book, I knew how this book would end. Well, a girl going to get marry, lost her ring, found a phone and met a guy. The outlined of this book is so obvious that this girl will fall in love with this new guy that he has just met and felt like that his fiance is not the ONE.

What I didn't count in is that the her journey in this book of how she found out that her fiance is a commitment-phobic and and just using her to prove a point (though at the initial stage I suspected that one of her friend is the thief).

Overall, it is a definitely a fun experience and I could not stop laughing all the way reading this book.

Kinsella did it again!.

Life Mask - Emma Donoghue

Synopsis :
Set in London during the late eighteenth century and with the French Revolution as its bloody and passionate backdrop, Life Mask tells the tale of three women caught in a kind of love triangle.
Donoghue’s fourth novel is formed around a fictional recreation of the relationships between a group of real-life historical figures. Eliza Farren is a Drury Lane actress whose virtue is her most prized possession. Her long-running relationship with the twelfth Earl of Derby has never progressed beyond conversation and the occasional hand-touching as it is always played out under the watchful eye of her mother. Derby is a married man, although estranged from his wife, and this chaperoning is a situation devised (as much by Eliza as by her mother) to keep Eliza’s reputation intact. Anne Damer is a successful sculptor who meets and befriends Eliza. She is unable, or unwilling, to acknowledge that she has lesbian feelings towards Eliza, despite the obvious warning signals, and here the story takes off.


My Thoughts :
It is bit boring at the initial stage of this book. Not much of excitement until at the later part whereby the rumors of Mrs Damer's situation has caused the friendship or perhaps relationship between her and the rising actress of Miss Eliza Farren to drifted apart. I was not familiar with the word "sapphist" until I googled it up.
Pretty intriguing plot towards the end.

Just another reason for food....

One thing my colleagues and I have in common is food. How we love food and love to spend for it. One of the day, when we feel like cooking something, we would just dished up anything and share it with the rest. Last week,it feels like pasta day hence the Meatball Pasta and Prawn Olio. One of my colleague made a superb Red Velvet cake with Cream Cheese frosting. Coincidentally, it is one of our colleague birthday so it is another reason to have these food.

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Lunch

Last week, my colleagues and I plan to have lunch at Publika. We drove out around 12.50pm and we actually reached Publika at approximately 1pm even though I was driving my precious old Kancil.
Round and round we went looking for parking and we ended up spending about 15 min just to look parking but to no avail. I got tired of driving around in the parking lot and we are seems to be competing with other people for a parking space and finally I gave up. Told my colleagues, that this is a waste of times and but we still need to eat. Next choice, we went to ChillaCup and luckily they managed to prepare the food within 10 mins.

Seafood pasta

Fruit waffle with vanilla ice cream

More Than Words

Coffee of the day

I was kinda late this morning, thanks to Euro 2012. Don't have time to sit for good breakfast and I really need to pump in some petrol. Warning lights are blinking ferociously since yesterday evening. And lucky for me there is a drive through Mcdonalds at MRR2 Shell Station.

Nasi Kerabu House

This is a long overdue post. There is a new place called Nasi Kerabu House open at Sri Gombak area. I have been meaning to try it but could not find the perfect time. One day, he just popped up at my office and off we go to try this place.
If I'm not mistaken the yellow rice is called Nasi Kerabu Tumis and the blue rice is the normal nasi kerabu.