Have some Mee Siam

One of the great joys of homecooking is I get to experiment with varieties of ingredients readily available in our supermarket shelves. I love to try out new recipes that I came across when browsing the net. Saturday lunch was no exception. Aiming with the list of ingredients to make Mee Siam, my sister and I went through Tesco’s shelves to buy santan, cucumber, lemongrass, bunga kantan, red chillies and fresh prawn for the dish.

We took our time making the gravy that have a terracotta-like color due to a mixture of chillies, santan and the salted soya bean (taucheo).

I topped the Mee Siam with some shredded chicken, prawn, squids, fried shallots, boiled egg, cucumber and some other condiments. The gravy has some tanginess to it due to the tamarind and some calamansi lime that we added in. I quite like the overall taste of the dish as I think the flavour mixed really well… What a moorish dish for a lazy Saturday lunch.

Steamed Siakap

I was craving steamed fish and browsing through the cooking books prompted me to make one of my own. Here is the finish results. The smells filled the house that day and me and my sisters have great time making this steamed fish.

We used young ginger, carrot, chillies and lots of onion and garlic that have been julienned.

Looking thru my window..

It has been raining for the past few days and I'd managed to capture this photo which I think is pretty beautiful. The droplets were quite big and it was raining heavily that day.

A bowl of laksa penang....

On Tuesday, arming with a list of ingredients needed to cook Laksa Penang, I went to Tesco with Intan. We headed straight to the fish counter and were disappointed to find that the mackerel fish (or ikan kembung as it is locally called) was not fresh.
We tried our best to find the better looking fish among the baddies and managed to get some.

After getting the bunga kantan (RM2.90 for 2 pieces !!!!) and some daun kesum we headed back. All three of us chipped in to cook the laksa penang. It smells so good and I keep dipping the spoon to taste the gravy. I put lots and lots of daun kesum so mine smell heaven. The gravy was very thick as we use lots of flakey mackerel. With some boiled egg, crunchy cucumber and pineapple, the laksa tastes divine. The gravy is harmoniously balanced between spicy and sour. Thanks to my two sisters, we can eat a nice hot bowl of laksa penang lots of thick gravy. Yummieee....

My favourite fruit

isn't it red and juicy....

All work and no play….

Damn it’s weekend and I’m stuck at work trying to get the station up and running. My sister kept asking me what it so important at work that I have to use my off day to work. She gave me a frustrated look when I say I can’t go with her to the mall. Sorry….

Yeah.. It was me and Tony in the line trying to fix the problem but we’d exhausted our idea already. We called it a day after two days of cranking our head. I’d successfully wasted my weekend :( and I’m not happy about it. No amount of pizza can make up for the lost weekend.

One of the managers was with us when we were troubleshooting the station and hopefully he understood the problems that we are facing. I understand that they are desperate to get the products out of the pipeline but they need to understand the reality. We are in deep shit!!!!!!

Doopp!!!

Scorpio (October 24 – November 22)

“You could be taken by surprise once you realize just how strongly you’re attracted to that one particular person. This does not go say that you should act out your feelings, but you could entertain the thought”

This is the excerpt of my zodiac prediction for this week. It is kinda interesting to note this at this time around. How true could this be, I don’t know as I haven’t been truthful to myself let alone other people…. Let see how true this is