第一次煮白鸡饭

家婆给了我一只甘榜鸡，之前煮过了咖喱鸡，这次想煮些别的。朋友建议我煮鸡饭。我就上网查了菜谱，发现很简单。不过也不可以马虎，越简单的东西越难做。

交代了工人早上五点起床时就煮鸡汁，方法很简单，就把鸡骨，鸡头和鸡脚 ；一粒大葱切成四板，一粒马铃薯切成四半，一条红萝卜切成四块；把全部材料放进锅，放水，放胡椒粉和盐，大火滚后，小火煮四个小时。

再来就是鸡肉的部分，把鸡肉洗后放盐腌，半小时后洗掉放干再放盐腌，半小时后洗掉放干。

再来是饭的部分 - 米洗后放干，把蒜头，葱头和姜切碎；放油炒后把米放进去炒一分钟（间中我有加麻油和盐）过后把米放进饭锅，把鸡汤放进锅里，把鸡肉放在米的上面（水不能掩盖鸡肉，大概把鸡肉盖四分之三就可以了）。 这个部分我做得不好，因为我放太多的鸡汤，所以米有点烂。过后我把鸡肉拿起来，盖着keep warm，米也变成不会那么烂了。

一把饭煮熟后，就把肉拿给张郎试吃，他很厉害，说我好像水放太多，不过是可以吃。哈哈。。知道煮成后，我就急忙出门了。张大女到家吃后就line message我说 mummy, the chicken rice is super very nice. 有吗？？当我到家时，饭剩下小半碗，然后肉剩几片。满怀期待的吃了起来，哇，真的很淡叻，不好吃啦，虽然鸡肉有熟啦。下次可能要放多一点盐了。张小女说不好吃。哈哈哈。。。下次再试试吧。至少我向张郎证明鸡饭是可以全部用饭锅煮的。因为前一晚，他一直说我要煮的方式不对，应该把整只鸡拿去煮汤，然后再拿鸡肉起来切。而我是把鸡切成大块状，放进饭锅跟米一起煮。

                                                                                  全部的材料

熬了四个小时的鸡汤，有点淡

                                                                                煮好的鸡肉

开始煮了

2015，从隆回乡后，都是帮佣煮给孩子们吃，鱼，肉和菜，面粉果，粥。通常只是煮下课时带去学校的食物，和午餐放学回来吃的食物。晚餐我们通常会去店或在外吃。在家煮的食料都是我每个星期去卖菜的店买的。我没买过鸡回来煮，因为觉得农场鸡有很打很多针，然后店也会吃到，有时去外面吃也是会叫的。所以在家里我完全没有买鸡回来煮过。如果买kampung鸡，只卖一整只，而且我不知道该怎么煮其他部分的鸡（平常我用腿和腿边肉来煮的）

再来，去年新年生了张小郎，生活多了一个小瓜，我就忙上加忙。再来厨房的通风很差，很热，所以没什么事我都不去厨房。去年年尾，张郎把厨房装修，把湿厨房搬到最后面（原本最后面是按摩房，搬去隔壁了）。以前的湿厨房就变成饭厅。中厅再也不是像以前一样，是饭厅，也是孩子做功课的地方。

我很喜欢新的厨房，很通风。即使煮得油油也不会弄到整间热热的。心血来潮，就买了咖喱的酱料，去买了一只Kampung鸡，今天自己gym完后亲自下厨。大家都很爱吃，还嫌我煮不够多。最后全部被吃光光。现在才发现没有拍照。不过下次再拍吧。

星期日我还做了久违的cheese cake呢。也是因为oven是新的，没用过，就想要用用看。

接下来我还要煮更多更多，孩子们和张郎都很爱吃我煮的。我很开心。 不过等我有mood先。

小叮当蛋糕

张小女的生日快到了，她的最爱是小叮当。每年我都会去蛋糕店定做蛋糕。我上网查了查，小叮当的模型蛋糕多数是用糖精做的，不过我也必须定做一个比较大的，大概3公斤左右。因为在家乡人比较多。

今年我打算也在她上课的地方帮她庆祝生日（应该会是在农历生日庆祝）。因为她很喜欢上课，也可以记住多数朋友的名字，然后看到朋友的家人也能认得出是谁谁谁的爸爸，或妈妈，或阿公。可见她真的上课上得很开心。而且我们今年年底可能举家搬回家乡，所以我想为张小女在她学校庆祝，让她留下美好回忆。

今天我才有这个想法的（要让她在学校庆祝）。所以我必须准备25分小礼包让学生们带回家（这个很容易的，在家乡买得到）。然后我必须打印邀请卡（其实是小小张的纸，给学生的家长知道有庆祝会，那他们就会带礼物来）。再来就是蛋糕了。

我想25个小朋友，如果我做25个cupcake，他们也容易吃，也不会吃的满地。好！决定了是cupcake后，上网查小叮当的cupcake。果然让我找到一个蛮容易做的，决定先试试做看做的好不好。刚才傍晚去蛋糕店采购一些些东西后，刚才吃完晚餐就在家开动了。顺便一提，今天张爸临时决定来隆，明天要带他看医生。所以就出外吃完餐。

小叮当cupcake材料如下

2 cold eggs

180g plain flour

2 tsp baking powder

100ml fresh milk

2/3 tsp ovalette

125g castor sugar（我用普通的brown sugar)

1 tsp vanilla essence

 取自http://mimibakeryhouse.blogspot.com

 

 把以上的材料放在一起，用搅拌机搅拌6分钟（用中大的速度）。然后再把成品分成四分，一个是原味（这个需要比较多），然后黑色+成品 （不需要很多，需要来画眼睛和嘴巴），然后蓝色+成品 （小叮当头的颜色）， 最后就是红色+成品 （需要一点点来做小叮当的鼻子）

                                              取自http://mimibakeryhouse.blogspot.com

看似简单，当我来做时，真的是很难啊，尤其是我的画画很差，画得很难看（我来不及拍照），就直接放进锅蒸15分钟。

然后变成这样。

                很好笑是不是？不过孩子们都看得出是小叮当。那个黑色我想我放的不够多色素

                                            这是其余的材料，这个做的来得容易的很多

                 这是我放进烤炉的，想试试做出来会是什么样，完全走样，哈哈哈

这cupcake说实在，还蛮好吃的，口感和味道都刚刚好，想发糕一样。孩子们都很喜欢。看来下星期三我有得忙了。

Long time no bake

It is been a long time since i last cooked and baked something for the family as the water rationing been going on for almost two months. So i am back again with baking. I am making chocolate cupcake but different ingredient from last time.

Ingredient:

• 120g butter
• 100g brown sugar (this is a reduced amount, its original sugar content is 180g)
• 140g HL milk (original ingredient is evaporated milk)
• 1egg, beaten with fork
• 60g plain flour or cake flour, either is fine
• 30g cocoa powder
• 1tsp baking powder

Combine sugar, milk and butter in a bowl over another pan of boiling water. Stir until sugar is dissolved and butter is melted. Remove from heat.

                      Add beaten eggs into the butter-milk mixture and stir to mix evenly.

 Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder into another mixing bowl, then pour in the egg batter and combine until evenly mixed (cake batter is runny).

                                      Prep up the steamer and heat up the water till boiling.

                  Steam over medium heat for 45min (or 15min in cupcake (oven, 180 Celcius).

 Note:

• I have also added some chopped toasted almond and walnuts topping right before steaming.
• If you have extra that can't be finished, you can keep them in the fridge and steam them for another 2-5min before serving, they are as good as fresh.

 Let's pray it turns out to be a tasty one!! finger cross!!!

下大厨

自孩子开学以来，都还没真正的煮一餐。所谓的煮是新菜色。这个礼拜带了很多材料来，所以我又要绞尽脑汁开炉啦！

今天我的主菜，臭豆炒虾。 材料有小辣椒6颗，蒜蓉少许，臭豆两包（个人而异），鲜虾6只，酸酐3粒（取汁） - 这是我第一次写菜谱，之前没写得这么详细，不过这次要记录下来，不然我会忘记的。照平常炒菜，只不过酸酐汁是在上桌后才淋在上面的。

再来两道菜是煮给孩子吃的。华人式蒸鱼 - 鱼片用酱清，盐和胡椒粉腌至少半个钟头，放姜片在上面。酱料有酱清，胡椒粉，糖，麻油，黑酱油（我没放）。在这，糖是必要放的，因为效果会让你意想不到。然后把酱料撒在鱼片上就下锅蒸煮20分钟，就好了。。

这一道其实之前做过，不过我没记录。这是猪肉粒。将猪肉，马铃薯，菜切碎， （碎肉要先腌过至少半小时），搅拌在一起。用手捏成粒状，下锅炸前，粘一粘玉蜀黍粉，和较较饼碎（kakapia）。这道深受孩子们的大爱。这道菜能让孩子吃到菜，这也是我的目的之一。上次煮我放虾碎。

有没有看到一点青青的？是菜来的。哈哈哈。。 为什么只有两粒？这是给小女儿的分量，只要她肯吃完，我就非常开心了。

报告完毕，谢谢收看。。

Time to wake up.....

No more dreams, i told myself, so i got no choice but to face the reality. Yesterday was quite difficult for me after all the memories coming back alive. I took a wrong turn while driving, wasn't really in proper shape. Today i am much better, baked butter cookies in the morning and made dinner at night. I fried pumpkin with salted egg for the first time, it is not as crispy as i thought but overall it tastes ok. Perhaps that's the only way for me to occupy myself without much dreaming allowed.

In order to keep in line with the latest games, i couldn't believe i am playing Clash of Clans now after seeing Mr. Teo burying himself with the game all day long. My game cell is very weak because i couldn't even attack an easy enemy. I am just too lousy for Mr. Teo. I must admit that, ain't a good game player...anyone would like to share their experience in this game? please do share with me because i hope to fight and win the battle.. by myself...without Mr. Teo's help

hahahaahhaha

Today is an anniversary of a private and confidential moment of us. May we all live happily and healthy forever...cheers baby....

Cooking and Baking

Today, I have prepared to cook curry chicken by using different paste. But Mr. Teo called and told me he has appointment tonight so not coming back for dinner. Luckily i was just finished preparing all the ingredients and haven't cook yet. However, he called me again at 7.30pm saying he is coming back for dinner because he needs to shower before going out. So i quickly take out all the ingredients from fridge and cook ALL BY MYSELF. It tastes very super nice.

LOOK!!!!!!!! i was actually eating it while blogging... Mr. Teo says it smells and tastes very nice, like indian curry style....

I use the Mak Nyonya curry chicken paste. Really nice.....am impressed.

Also i bake German Cookies but i believe i used the wrong base, shouldn't use the aluminium foil for it, but it tastes heaven....hehe

TA DANG!!!!!!!!!!!!

Start taking order now, who wanna buy cookies from me? fast fast fast!!!!!!!!!

My First Cup Cake Attempt

I always wanna make cup cakes for so long and already bought the ingredients much longer before i go for China trip. Seeing ingredients lying down in the cabinet, and today is a rainy day (which means it wouldn't be too stuffy if i use oven), so i decided to give a try.

I googled the recipe and did not really follow all the measurement, all by my sense.
Ingredients - flour, egg, butter/oil, salt, sugar, vanilla extract, almond extract (i didn't use this one because couldn't get it in bakery shop), baking powder, paper cups, cocoa powder, milk (optional)

It looked very nice but it is tasteless. However, my two daughters are my super fans, they love it to max, keep wanna eat more. Thank you darlings.....

Blessed

As the mee hun kueh that i cooked previously had overwhelming responses, i decided to do it again yesterday to serve my family. This week we came back one day earlier than usual as Mr. Teo having dinner to attend on Thursday night. So i am having one more day in hometown.

Initially i planned to cook in my parents house, but then after several discussion, we decided to do it at my sis's place. When i reached, two dough for mee instead of mee hun kueh are already made by the maid, i then make the dough for mee hun kueh. (the difference of mee and mee hun kueh is mee hun kueh's dough is only using flour and water with salt, whereas mee's dough will have addition of oil and egg).

I cooked the mee and mee hun kueh served for one person one by one instead of one big pot for everyone. I am glad that everyone enjoyed eating it. Mr. Teo never get tired of it, but i already felt boring by making and cooking it. So i didn't really eat a lot this time.

Good thing is my temper really improved a lot. I suppose it is because of the cooking that i involve. Less quarrel, less shouting, less sadness, i hope my life will be in that way or better in the future.

p/s there is something good going on next week (hopefully it will really come true) finger cross*

又煮咯

前几天，我家工人用了刚买的Asam Pedas酱料煮辣鱼。我试喝了那汤，觉得还不错，就决定再买几包酱料，煮给张郎吃。就昨天煮了辣鱼和炒青菜，张郎把全部都吃得精光，还加饭呢。可惜我忘了拍照。

今天我煮面粉果，这一次，除了炸江鱼仔和葱头外，其他的都是我一一包办。我用了江鱼仔煮汤头，味道真的很不错，清淡。这次是我第一次煮这面粉果，说真的，还蛮不错的。我喜欢，孩子也喜欢。就不知道张郎喜不喜欢。他会迟些回来 。

材料： 面粉和加了盐的白开水 （我没用油和蛋）

用了大概半公斤的面粉，搓了大概半小时

大女儿非常喜欢，连续吃了好多

这是我的，我把三分之二给了大女儿吃。 料全归我。

Fish Porridge

I was very busy for the past two days as FIL went for minor operation in KL. After operation he continue to stay with us till we go back to hometown again. So i need to take good care of him. I was quite headache with what to cook for him to eat because chicken and egg is out of the question. Luckily there are still plenty of fish left in the fridge, so for lunch, i made fish porridge and for dinner, i plan to cook mee hun soup with fish.

As i never cook fish porridge before (although i got some idea on how to cook), to be on the safe side, i consulted my second cooking master, Ms. Jing. She roughly told me on the steps to cook and ingredient needed which really helps a lot.

I am glad that kids love the porridge, i hope FIL also love the porridge too and speedy recovery too.

Anniversary dinner

As i am not feeling so well, and Mr. Teo is not feeling well too, we decided to have a simple home cooked dinner at home on this special day for us.

I fried some chicken (by using corn flour), two piece of fish with soy sauce with some fried garlic and mix vege with prawn and taufu. When Mr. Teo see the dishes served, he asked whether we are celebrating anyone's birthday? yes indeed. We had some cake after that. He bought three pieces of Secret Recipe cake and i already bought two pieces from the same place yesterday night already. I planned to give Mr. Teo a surprise by waking him up at 0000 but i was too tired and sleepy and i missed the time.

We are all very full now, but deep down i feel very happy.

I am the real chef for once....

Yesterday i cooked the main dish of the dinner for Mr. Teo because he came back home without informing me earlier. The whole situation was me and the kids were staying in the living room upstairs, and maid was cleaning the kitchen downstairs. All out of of sudden he walked up from stairs and i quickly jumped up from the couch then rush to the kitchen. I kept blaming him for not informing me in advanced like what he used to do. Maybe he want to give me a surprise? nah.....i just think too much....

As the ingredients were not all well prepared yet, i told the maid to do the cutting and washing while i do the cooking. Luckily the maid was clever enough to take the marinated chicken out from the fridge before i asked her to do so. So here it goes, i cooked the coca cola chicken with potato. I took about 20 minutes to cook this dish. Jill gave me this idea and i found it really easy.

Ta Dang.......here it is......coca cola chicken. seriously, this is the first time  i cooked and tasted it. I have heard of it but never try before. It turned out  not a bad one. Mr. Teo couldn't tell it is the magic of COKE. He thought i used some can sauce and he didn't say it tasted super nice. I will try Guinness Stout next time.

And so, this is the dinner served yesterday, Coke chicken, broccoli with fish ball,  and pumpkin soup with rice.

I am not the chef

Recently i have done a lot of cooking (to be precise, not i cook). Yesterday i cooked seafood curry with Madam Lee's curry paste. The outcome is good but too bad the paste is too little. I will store more paste at home in the future.

My family has a more healthy lifestyle recently. As the medical report shows bad result on certain areas, Mr. Teo finally agreed to have breakfast before leaving for work everyday. But i will spare his weekends, else i think he will get bored very soon with such a plain but healthy meal. I hope we will maintain this healthy lifestyle as long as we can because money can never buy us health and our precious time.

Do you think your living and eating lifestyle is healthy? For me, happy and healthy is too good to be true.

又下厨咯

昨天本来没有大煮， 所谓大煮是住煮给张郎吃的。傍晚六点知道他晚上没有应酬，就叫他回家吃。本来以为他不会要回来吃，很意外他答应了。我真的很开心，因为外面的事物很多味精，虽然很美味，可是不健康。 自家煮的也是很好吃，新鲜出炉，又健康。 也许他对我煮的东西越来越信心。其实这是我第三次煮罢了，也难怪他以前一直很怀疑我的厨艺。

知道他会 回家吃后， 赶紧检查冰箱有些什么菜。刚好剩下一片鱼，一些菜豆和鱼圆。张郎是肉食动物，所以一定要有肉。 决定煮鸡肉后，却没有头绪怎么煮。上网查了还是没有心仪的菜色。看到Sheryl 和 Jill 还在线上，就问他们的意见。他们分别建议我蒸和宫保。 我对宫保很有兴趣，Jill 很好，把全部的步骤都告诉我。然后我灵机一动，想到还有一大包意大利面还没解决，就起了宫保面的念头，越想越起劲，就这样决定了晚餐的菜单。

过后就带两个小瓜去了附近的Giant，买了一个鸡腿和几条辣椒干和一瓶HL。回到家后把鸡腿起肉，然后阉了一下，就准备煮了。 首先我先煎鱼，配上炸脆的姜炒黑豆油。然后就煮菜豆鱼圆 （鱼圆是主角因为菜豆只剩一点）。最后就是炒宫保意大利面了。有点小可惜就是我忘了将鸡肉过烧水去油。所以张朗说油了点。煮了后发现辣椒干没我想像的辣。不过很合小孩的胃口，他们吃的津津有味的样子，除了这三道菜外，张朗还把小孩早前吃剩的炒饭吃到一干二净。我真的很开心（觉得自己很白痴，又不是好吃到。。。。可以开店，自己开心自己爽。）可是看到张朗从晚回家到回家吃饭，真的很开心他为这个家做出的改变。我希望他知道我的用心，都是为了大家的健康。

没有很好吃的样子，不过不难吃。下次要用小辣椒

有很丰富吗？

Can't wait to post

I am sweating all over after the curry chicken is done although i don't really do the cooking, but the weather and the heat really almost make me crazy. Why am i interested in cooking curry chicken all out of sudden? First, curry is my daughter's favorite. Every week she will surely tastes curry for at least once during the weekend in hometown. I always feel guilty that i'm not the one who cook and always hope and want to try out cooking curry for her one day. Second, i am hoping to build a better temper through cooking, i don't know how well it works or how true it is (it is not tested or result from research) but i just got a feeling that it will work on me, hopefully.

So i'm using Ayam Brand curry powder which i do not really recommend because it doesn't turn out what i expect it to be. Maybe Jill is right, i should use the paste type. But there is still another pack of curry powder lying in the kitchen cabinet. I will cook again after the school holiday when i am back in KL.

V couldn't wait for her daddy and try the curry with the rice.
Me : So tell me how it taste? Is it nice? (praying hard that she would love it)
V: Yes, it is nice. (actually it is not fully cooked yet at that time but she just couldn't wait any longer with the nice smell of curry running around the house)
I try the rice myself, it really doesn't taste that nice actually, it isn't as tasty as i thought, and i think her acceptance level is too low, which is good for me. hahahahhahaah......
After shower for the kids and settle them down in front of tv, V suddenly utter: mummy, i love you and i like you, because you cook curry for me. I feel very warm deep inside my heart. Darling, i promise i will cook more and more new dishes for you and LV.

Second challenge, i hope Mr. Teo will like it. Then i am able to convince him to come home more frequent for dinner instead of eating out.
Yes!!! he just tried it and he say it tastes not bad. OMG i am sooooooo happy!! i then take some rice and get a bite too. it really tastes very nice. (i didn't really try just now) But then according to Mr. Teo this is more to rendang than curry. hahahahahahaahha...... who cares? as long as it tastes nice right?

 How was it look like? Do you wanna taste it?yum yum!!