okay..i think i wrote long time ago that I'd post up my cooking recipe here....got so lazy to do so and now since i've nothing to do..i might as well jst post up some pic of my cooking and baking, but without the recipe. I'm just plain lazy...

Here it goes...

1)Nasi Tim Ayam (Steam Chicken Rice)

2) Risoles

3) Lumpiah Basah

4) Nasi Ayam (Kai Fan)

5) Steam Herbal Chicken (My Super Fav Dish)

6) Cream Puff (Kue Sus)

7) Steam Pork & Shrimp Dumpling (Super yummy)

8) Breakfast Made by Hubby

9) Vietnamese Spring Roll with Fish Sauce

10) Mini Steam Sponge Cake with Chocolate Powder (My fav)

11) Ayam Rica-Rica (but still not spicy enough)

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That's all so far....

Simply let me know if interested to know about the recipe, but all of them can easily be found in the net. Just google. That's my new 'teacher'

Have realized i've not update my blog for about 1 week already. Guess I'm jst not that diligent to update it everyday like how i always take my multi vit everyday.

Last week I successfully arranged a surprise birthday celebration for hubby. Well....hubby thought we were all jst gathered up having picnic on the park, but it was actually for his birthday. So happy....got sunburn at a shape of U-alphabet on my back, big red shape which has turned to black color and peeling now. hiks...

The weather was perfect on picnic day. Bright, sunny but not hot nor cold. Few days after that, the weather turned upside down. It's cloudy, cold and always looked like it's about to rain. All the squirrels hide up in the 'warm house' and haven't see them for 1 week already.

Funny enough, on last Sat, we actually saw them came out and running around. After Hub and I had our own Sezhuan Steamboat at home, I saw something ran across the side pathway. I went out to see what's that and there I saw a young coyote carried something in it's mouth up to the backhill. I guess it was a dead bird coz it's black. It cant be the squirrels coz the squirrels are brown, and i hope the bird was dead indeed.

But I was so afraid it was the squirrel. I followed to where the coyote went...and there I suddenly saw the 2 squirrels jumped around the trees around me (so near) like monkey. So ya.....pathetic day but quite fun. There I saw coyote just got its lunch and squirrels jumping around like monkey.

After the super spicy sezhuan steamboat, I made Vietnamese Spring Roll for hubby. Never eat one of those before, but tried to make it after much googling for the recipe. Apparently it's very easy and super healthy. Hub also made an oatmeal cookies for us. It's also so yummy.

On Sunday, I was somehow got itchy and inspired to make a mini sponge cake from this Indonesia recipe book that Hub bought from indo. It's a recipe for those street snacks (straight translations). It turns out so yummy and soft. Hub and I love it so much. For me it's a little bit too sweet, but Hub think it's jst nice. I've actually reduced the amount of sugar. The recipe required 550grams of sugar and i just used about 300-350grams. But....the sponge cake didn't rise up nicely and evenly. Some of them lopsided than the other.

I've later realized that sponge cake i just made is actually the type of sponge cake the Chinese used to put for pray during Chinese New year. I dunno what it's called, but i remember they have this brown and white color type of sponge cake that open up like flowers. I remembered my mom always make that during CNY and on some praying rituals. Gosh..so happy I could make that coz i really love that type of sponge cake that I could only eat once a year. Whenever it's time mama has to make for CNY, I'd ask her to make a big giant size one and many2 small sizes for me alone ^^

Would like to post some of my cooking recipes (11 first) in here along with the pictures. Often I don't measure my ingredients to the last details, I'd just eye ball it. So, I won't be listing the exact amount of ingredients to be put in.

Good luck in trying and do let me know what you think.

1) Grilled Pork Rib, Sauteed Prawn & Brocolli

Ingredients:
- Pork Rib | - Prawn
- Brocolli | - Garlic
- Salt + Pepper | - Spring Onion
- Flour | - Dry spices for meat

Method:
- Marinate pork with salt, pepper & dry spices (at least 30mins)
- Boil salt water. Once boiled, put brocolli inside for 1-2mins
- Chopped garlic, stir fry until fragrant, pour brocolli in. Add salt just a bit, cook for about 1-2mins. Done.
- Stir fry garlic until fragrant, put prawn, cook until prawn is cooked (pink).
- Add bit of margarine (I used vegetable spread), sugar, and flour. Mix it all until praw are sticky (means sugar & flour are mixed). Done.
- I used electric indoor grill to grill the pork. Very easy. Just grill each side until tender.
- Once done, squeeze 1/2 lemon on it. Put BBQ Sauce. Done. Serve on plate.

2) Grill Pork Rib with Tomato & Red Pepper (Very Easy)

Ingredients:
- Pork (marinate with salt, pepper & dry spices)
- Slice Tomato & Red Pepper (seed remove)
- Lemon

Method:
- Grill the sliced tomato & Red pepper until tender.
- Grill the pork until tender (cook).
- Squeeze lemon over it. Put BBQ Sauce. Serve on plate.

3) Grill Pork, Sauteed Sweet Apple & Battered Vegetables

Ingredients:
- Marinate pork with Salt, pepper & Dry spices
- Slice Apple, Asparagus & Red Pepper

Method:
- Cut Asparagus into 1/2 1st. Put inside boiled hot water for 1-2mins, to soften the stalk.
- Dip asparagus & red pepper into egg, then cover it with flour to deep fried. Done.
- On hot wok, put margarine and apple. Cook for 2-5mins until apple bit soft.
- Put sugar, mix. Then put flour and mix until all soft, sticky and brown. Done.
- Grill pork each side until tender. Once done, squeeze lemon & put BBQ sauce. Serve.

4) Steam Curry Chicken with Rice

Ingredients:
- Chicken | - Curry Powder
- Carrot | - Onion
- Garlic | - Cilantro (Coriander)
- Salt & Pepper | - Sesame oil

Method:
- Marinate chicken with salt, pepper & curry powder (20-30mins). Boil water to steam.
- Chopped carrot, garlic & onion into small sizes.
- Stir fry onion until soft, add garlic, cook abt 1-2mins until cooked/fragrant.
- Tear off aluminum foil into small-med square size, put marinated chicken in middle, add garlic+onion, carrot, cilantro & 2 drops of sesame oil inside. Wrap to cover.
- Once all wrapped, put on to steamer (make sure water is boiled already).
- Steam for 40-45mins. The longer it's steamed, the more juice the chicken will produce, and the tender the meat will get. Once cooked, it's done. Serve on plate.

5) Balado Egg (Telur Balado)- Very Easy

Ingredients:
- Boiled Egg | - Green & Red Chilies
- Garlic | - Tomato
- Salt & Pepper

Method:
- Cut tomato, garlic & chillies into small sizes. The smaller the better. Can also blend if lazy.
- Stir fry garlic until fragrant, add chillies until it smells spicy.
- Add tomato, until it's soft. Add boiled egg.
- Mix until all blended well. Done. Serve on plate.

6) Balado Chicken (Ayam Balado) - Very Easy

Ingredients:
- Same with Telur Balado, except change egg with chicken.
- Salt & Peppe

Method:
- Marinate chicken with salt & pepper.
- Make some cuts on chicken so it can get cooked inside.
- Heat oven to 375F. Add the chillies mixture on to the chicken. When it's hot, put chicken inside.
- (If it's chicken breast, I will suggest to boil it 1st until it's 1/2 cooked, then only put into oven. Otherwise it'll get dry)
- Oven for around 30-45mins. Check to see if chicken is cook before or after it. If not, put it inside again until it's cooked. Once done, serve it.

7) Chicken Kebab (Easy)

Ingredients:
- Chicken | - Red pepper
- Tomato | - Onion
- Garlic | - Salt & Pepper

Method:
- Marinate chicken with salt & pepper (abt 30mins).
- Cut tomato, red pepper & onion into bite sizes.
- Peel off garlic's skin and cut into 1/2 only.
- Soak skewers into water (they said to prevent it getting burn)
- Insert chicken, tomato, red pepper, onion & garlic into skewers. Arrangement depend on individual. For me, I alternate it. Chicken, garlic, red pepper, chicken, onion, tomato, etc.
- I grilled onto electric indoor grill. Grill per side for about 3-5mins until meat is cooked. Done. Serve.

8) Grill Pork, Sauteed Sweet Apple & Vegetables

Ingredients:
* Very similar to recipe no.1
- Marinate pork with salt, pepper & dry spices
- Slice Apple, Asparagus & Carrot
- Garlic, Flour, Margarine

Method:
- Let pork marinate for about 30mins. The longer the better.
- Put asparagus into hot boiling water (fire off) for 1-2mins to soften the stalks.
- Stir fry garlic until fragrant, add carrot and asparagus. Add salt & pepper to suit taste. Done.
- Put margarine on hot wok, add apple, cook abt 5mins.
- Add sugar & flour into it, mix constantly for 1-2mins only. or until apple is soft, sticky and brown. Done.
- Grill pork each side about 5mins until cook. Done. Serve. (I actually oven the pork for this recipe and the mean is too dry and chewy. So I recommend grill it instead).

9) Steam Tofu with Pork (Very Easy)

Ingredients:
- Cold tofu (I used silk)
- Ground (minced) pork
- Garlic & Carrot
- Salt, pepper, red pepper flakes (chili powder), & Soy Sauce.
- Cilantro & Spring Onion.

Method:
- Boil water into steamer pot.
- Cut garlic & carrot into small sizes.
- Stir fry garlic until fragrant, add pork. Cook until pork is cooked all over (brown).
- Add carrot, soy sauce, salt, pepper & chili powder.
- Mix until all blended & cook. Abt 2mins.
- Pour cold tofu on plate/bowl, pour cooked pork on top.
- Put on steamer, let it steam for just 2mins. Take out.
- Chopped cilantro & spring onion, pour on top of pork. Serve.

10) Fried Chicken using Sinar Pagi Spices with Home-made Chili

Ingredients:
- Marinate chicken using the spices (bought from Indo, but can be any spices). For about 30mins.
- Chili, Garlic, Tomato & Lemon.

Method:
- Boil water. Once boiled, put marinated chicken inside until water almost gone (sauce thick).
- While being boil, take out blender (I used traditional chili maker when I crushed it into small round stone thing).
- Crush/blend chili, garlic, tomato together. Add salt, mix it again. Add sugar too if it's too spicy.
- Squeeze bit of lemon (1tsp), mix, taste according to your taste/ability. Done.
- Once chicken boiled. Hot oil on wok until very hot.
- Put chicken on it (use pan cover so oil won't splatter all over).
- Cook each side until brown. Once done, serve with chili.

11) Spicy Pork with Lettuce Cup (Very Easy)

Ingredients:
- Ground Pork | - Carrot & Tomato
- Lettuce & Cilantro | - Garlic
- Soy sauce, Pepper & Chili Powder

Method:
- Cut garlic, carrot & tomato into small sizes.
- Stir fry garlic until fragrant, put pork into it. Cook until pork is cooked all over.
- Add carrot & tomato, stir about 1-2mins. Add soy sauce, pepper & chili powder. Stir abt 1-2mins until all blended. Taste it according to your taste.
- Wash lettuce leaves/cups. Drain and shake excess water.
- Serve on plate.
- To eat: scoop meat on to lettuce cup, fold to small size, eat.

In this hot Wednesday, I really have no inspiration whatsoever to write any Dhamma quote.

So yesterday interview went okay....unfortunately they really need an expert in networking to setup the networking system in their new building that they are planning to move into by this year.

They told me that once they have moved to the new building, I'd be extremely suitable to work for their company. Oh well....I jst hope I could get either F1 or H1. whatever it is as long I can get legal visa status to stay here with my hubby...
Otherwise I've to go back Indo for at least 4-6months before returning here again

Last night I planned to make homemade beef burger for today's dinner. But after much searching for the recipe, most of them requires the beef to be grill, broil or fry. None of them offer healthier option. So I'm thinking of trying another recipe instead.

Tonight I'll be making Spicy beef in lettuce cup instead. I came across this recipe from the net and I find this is a much healthier option that the burger coz less oil involved and no carbs (from the bread).

It sounds very simple. Simply stir fry the beef with the ingredients and serve it with lettuce to wrap it with. That's all. Shall take pic of it and put up in my blog.

Lately I've been thinking of selling my knitting projects in the net..but no idea where to post it. I doubt I could generate any sales from my blog alone.