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Black Pepper Beef

Ini entri pertamaku 2011 ni. I'm not sure how often I can update this blog this year, last year was not so succesful. I was only actively updating my blog in December. The reason ..... it was semester's break. No students around, ada le celah sikit nak update blog masa lunch time or after 5pm. My first entry is the Black Pepper Beef . Resipi ni sebenarnya dah lama juga terpendam (pic lama dalam koleksi). Kalau ikut label dalam simpanan, ianya adalah semasa CNY2010. Betulla tu kot. Anyway, Here it is. Resipi ni disesuaikan dengan perencah Black Pepper Maggi. Bila perencah tu dah abis, cuba2lah buat sendiri. Ok jugak. Ingredients 1/4 kilos of topside beef (thinly sliced, marinated with salt) 1 inch of ginger (sliced thinly) 2 tablespoon of black pepper (bottled) 1 tablespoon of corn starch (mixed with some water) 1 onion (cut into rings) Spring onion & Red chillies for garnishing 2 tablespoon of cooking oil. How to: 1. Heat the cooking oil in a pan. Fry the ginger till fragr

Asam Tumis Ikan Patin

It was about 6.30pm. Ring! Ring! Ring! My handphone was ringing. Terkejar2 aku mencapainya. 'Assalamualaikum', pendek salamku. "Makan ikan patin tak?", tanya suara dihujung telefon. Siapa pulak la ni yang tiba2 terus tanya pasal ikan patin ni? Tak boleh nak salahkan sipemanggil sebab aku yang bersalah kerana telah ter'delete' semua nombor rakan taulan, sedara mara dari memory handphoneku. 'Errr.... tak makan. Tapi Azwan suka.", jawabku sambil sudah boleh meneka pemanggilnya, jiranku. "OK, saya hantar.", balasnya ringkas. Tak lama lepas tu, loceng rumah berbunyi dan jiranku telah terpacul di pagar bersama satu plastik kecil yang mengandungi Ikan Patin . Alhamdulillah. Rezeki yang Allah berikan dengan tidak disangka2 selaras dengan doa yang kita baca melalui ayat seribu dinar. Begitulah cerita yang telah diringkaskan tentang bagaimana ikan patin yang telah mati ini sampai ke rumah ku. Kena sebut yang telah mati sebab kami bela ikan pa

Malaysian Style French Toast

I made a french toast for breakfast this morning. But ... Malaysian Style French Toast. Maksudnya, ada sedikit kelainan. Pandai2lah meng'alter' apa-apa yang patut. Tambah dan kurangkan resipi asal memang hobi. Pinjam istilah blogger masakan paling famous di alam maya, Cik Mat Gebu dengan Dapur Tanpa Sempadan nya, ' menderhaka pada resipi ', itulah hobi aku. Dah siap2 masak, cik Abang pun turun, eat the breakfast and off to work. Ada la tiga keping lagi yang tertinggal dalam pinggan. Dalam hati aku, 'kejap lagi, nak naik ke bilik, ambik kamera dan snap foto roti ni. boleh upload dalam blog'. Sebelum naik ke bilik, aku buat kerja lain yang patut dibuat sebelum pergi kerja. Dah siap semua, aku pun naik ke bilik untuk bersiap-siap pergi kerja. Setelah siap siaga untuk pergi ke ofis, aku capai kunci kereta, kunci rumah lalu terus keluar menuju ke kereta. Setelah enjin dipanaskan, aku pun terus meluncur keluar pagar menuju ke jalan raya untuk ke ofis. Tiba2!!! ak

Pulut lemak & kari udang

Tengok gambar to betul-betul. Look closely, closely, closely.... What can you see? Yes, it's the glutinous rice served with prawn curry - itu bahasa orang putehnya, Bahasa Melayu kita 'Pulut Lemak dengan Kari Udang' . Have any of you tasted it before? This is my first time. My husband went for breakfast shopping one morning when we were at my hometown, Kg Pertama, Permatang Pauh, Pulau Pinang. He bought few packs of 'nasi lemak' (as he thought so). To be exact, he bought 10 packs!!! Amboi! Sarapan pagi sampai 10 bungkus????? Well, the packs were so small, kata orang tua, dua kali suap dah abis. 60sen je sebungkus. All of the 'nasi lemak (as he thought) were packed differently. Some in pastic and newspaper. Some were packed in the banana leaf like the one you see above, and there are also some that were packed in banana leaf and newspaper. We understand that different packaging means a different content - the varieties of nasi lemak. We were wrong when we fou

Ayamas Chicken Burger Wrap

Salam all, It was a tiring day yesterday. We went to KPT Putrajaya at about 10am. The presentation which suppose to be at 11.30am only begin at 1pm. Fuhh!!! What a waiting ...... Finish the session at 2pm. Solat, and had lunch at almost 3pm. By the time we reached the faculty it was already almost 4pm. Reached home at about 6pm, I immediately send the kids to Ustaz Firdaus's house for their Quran session. By that time, I was already in a SUPER TIRED zone. Came back from the quran class, Sabrina's tummy was making noise. Cries to be filled. Ibu ... was too tired to move to the kitchen. What worse is that ibu has not figure out what to prepare for dinner........ Huh.... I walked slowly to the refrigerator, digging into it to find something that can satisfy their hunger pang. Aha! I found 'Roti Arab'. Yes! This can be made into a sandwich wrap. I dig further and found the Ayamas Chicken Burger. That's it! We will have Chicken Burger Wrap tonite!!! The Ingredients: 5 p

Colourful Organic Pasta

Salam, Have you ever seen a colourful pasta??? It's my first time. I found it from a COsway store. It looks very tempting that I bought a packet of it (quite sometime already). Cooked it before but never got the chance to snap a photo of it. So, this time, I make sure I take a photo of it. Futhermore, this is the last stock available in kitchen storage. It has three colours - pink, blue and yellow. It claims that the colours are based on organic plants not artificial colours - just hope that it's true. What do I do with the pasta??? I fried it with some dry mushroom, vege and minced meat. It's lovely. The pasta itself tasted good. The ingredients: 1 handfull of pasta - boiled and dried. 2 table spoon of olive oil 1 clove of onion 2 cloves of garlic 1 red chilli - sliced 3 dried mushroom - soaked till soft and sliced 2-3 table spoon of minced beef 1 tomato diced Carrot (sliced thinly) - amount is up to your own taste Capsicum - sliced Black pepper and salt to taste Herbs fla

Toast & Egg for breakfast

Salam All, Just would like to share a very simple breakfast that I normally managed to prepare in the busy morning. Al-maklum la ... kurang rajin nak prepare yang dahsyat2, furthermore everybody is in a rush to enjoy the breakfast ... biasanya telan je asal perut beralas. However, i would like to begin with a healthy breakfast that i had during vacations. Tara!!!! .... How is it???? Healthy isn't it? Fruits, salad and olives. Mmmm .... marvelous! I love olive, but they did not serve many of it which I have to dig for it. But ..... this is normally serve as the appetizer only!!!! I had many more other things (there goes the 'healthy' items). This is also another breakfast that really enjoy when on vacation. Omelet. Simply delicious!!! (Bukannya susah pun, boleh buat sendiri kat rumah je ...., tapi biasa la kan yang orang buat jugak yang sedap). And now to the one that I prepare back home. Scramble egg with tomatoes. I learn to cook this from my brother when he came back from

Buah Belinjau

Salam semua, Pernah dengar nama buah ni tak? Buah ni memang famous bagi aku semasa zaman kekanakku di kampung dulu. Tiap2 pagi lepas sarapan, misi utamaku adalah untuk mencari buah belinjau ini. Tapi yang dicari adalah yang masak ranum dan jatuh ke bumi. Tujuannya adalah untuk dibuat kerepek. Proses pembuatannya unik (at least to me). Ha .... inilah rupanya buah belinjau yang hampir masak. Kalau dah benar2 masak, buah ni akan berwarna merah dan gugur ke bumi. Masa tu lah kita orang akan berebut2 kutip. Especially time lepas hujan. Sumber foto: Dedaun Alam Lepas kutip, kulitnya yang dah lembik tu dibuang meninggalkan biji yang bersalut kulit keras. Kemudian biji yang macam kekacang ni akan digoreng tanpa minyak sampai agak2 masak. Ni memang 'real life' punya main masak-masak. At the age of 5 years old, we all dah menggoreng biji belinjau ni, but of course mak sebagai mandur tak jauh dari situ. Bila dah agak2 masak, buah ni dikeluarkan. Dan part yang

Isu Copyright

Salam all, Kali ni nak sembang2 je dulu. Belum nak update hidangan terbaru. Baru sempat nak blog hopping. Singgah kat blog K.Ummi dan terbaca pasal sebuah blog yang suka menepek resepi dan gambar2 dari blog lain. 'Ter'bederau jugak aku sekejap. YE la, aku dulu pun masa mula-mula berblog masak-masak ni, mempunyai tujuan dan nawaitu yang sama dengan siempunya blog yang menjadi sebutan k.Ummi tu. Memang niat baik betul, untuk memudahkan diri sendiri. Ye la kan ...kalau copy & paste dan letak dalam Word file , lepas tu lupa nak print, lepas tu balik rumah dan nak masak resipi tu, takkan nak patah balik ke ofis kan? Nak jengah semula ke blog asal yang mempamerkan resipi istimewa tu, dah lupa la pulak urlnya. Jadi, nak senang cerita, aku pun create satu blog yang aku tepek resipi2 yang aku berkenan tanpa ada sebarang niat untuk menciplak hasil kerja orang lain. Dan aku juga pada saat itu 100% yakin, blog aku tu tidak akan ada makhluk yang berkunjung. Agaknya, itulah niat siempun

Spiral Potato

Looks delicious??? Yes, it's very crispy if eaten immediately after frying. How to make it?? Very simple. A potato was carefully cut into spiral. Make sure you did not break it. Soak it in a salty water. Before frying, dip the potato into a batter of flour mix with water and some chilli flakes. Deep fry it till golden brown. Take it out and leave on the kitchen towel to dry. Ready for consumption. How to make sure that the potato does not cut off totally??? I don't have an answer for that because .... I did not make this. I bought it from a stall in Port Dickson. It looks so tempting, I just could not resist it. According to the girl who is selling it, they use a special machine to cut the potato into spiral. If I did not make it, how do I know so much about the process of making it? I asked the seller. After asking so many questions, I can see the sellers gossiping about me (there are three of them) ... Perasan kot ??? No, I am sure they were talking about me because they were

Coconut Pancake aka Lempeng Kelapa

Assalamualaikum and good day all, I love this pancake aka. lempeng. In the northern part of the Peninsular (Malaysia), some call it PekNga . Sounds so weird isn't it? Well, it is actually a combination of 'tem PEK di bela NGA '. See, how creative our ancestors are. Not to mention about all the creative dishes they have invented. Wow!!! Tak boleh celen (challenge) nih!!!! Now, close your eyes, imagine yourself on a rainy morning. With hazy eyes, suddenly there's a smell of black coffee, triggering your nostril, followed by an appetizing scent of the fresh grated coconut. Hmmmmm ...... I am hungry again (baru sudah lunch nih!!!). The Ingredients: Approximately 6-7 table spoon of fresh grated coconut (preferably not an over riped coconut) 1 egg beaten 1 teaspoon Salt 1 1/2 cup Plain Water Butter for baking on the pan How To: Place the coconut in a bowl. Add egg, water and salt. Mix well. Heat the pan. Once heated, put a table spoon of butter. Scoop the mixture using mediu

Instant Noodle

This noodle is not branded as Maggi, Ho Liau, Ibumie or any other. It is my self made instant noodle. Why instant??? Because all the ingredients are ready, just waiting for the chef (can I call myself a chef??? hahaha ... perasan sekejap) to cook. At least I am the chef in my own kitchen ---- betul kan??? The Ingredients 1 packet of wet noodle 3 cloves of garlic 3 cloves of shallot. 1 onion chicken or beef stock chilli paste (cooked) 1 piece of chicken (sliced) 1 fried tofu (cut into cubes) 5-7 prawns (depends on your likes & dislikes) 1 stalk of green leafy vege 1 tomato (cut into wedges) 3-5 table spoon tomato ketchup 1 teaspoon sugar 2 tablespoon cooking oil salt to taste red chilli, spring onion, coriander leaves & fried shallot for garnishing How To: Pour the cooking oil onto the wok (I like using the wok for this cooking). Fry the sliced shallot and crushed onion until brownish. Add in the sliced chicken and prawns. Fry for a little while. Not too long as it will spoil

Fried Squid with potato

Hmm... this is an overdue entry. I even forgotten when I cooked this dish. I browse through my photo collection and come across this photo and feel like posting an entry about it. My kids love this simple dish. Fast and easy to cook. Busy moms! Here you go ... get some ideas: The ingredients: 6 or 7 pieces of squid, cut into three parts (for a large squid or two for a smaller squid), then slice lightly (do not separate it) on each of the cut pieces to form a design on the squid. Next, marinate the squid with some salt and tumeric powder. Let it rest for a while. 1 or tomato cut into wedges and fried. 1 Onion cut into ring 2 cloves of Garlic - crushed some spring onion and red chilli for garnishing 2 table spoon of cooking oil How to: Fry the garlic till yellowish. Then add the squid. Once the squid is cooked, put in the onion, potato, and red chilli. Mix well in the wok for only few seconds or 1 minute. Turn off the stove, add the spring onion and whalla!! .. ready for consumption.

Ala la Roti John

As mentioned in the previous post, Atikah only manage to have one pancake, therefore ibu had to be creative again to satisfy her hunger. Peeping into the bread container were few buns bought initially to make burgers for the kids, now, let's turn it into something else. Wanted to make Roti John, but too lazy to take the minced meat out from the freezer and defrost it, therefor I made the simpler version of it .... the A la la Roti John . How to: In a lightly beaten egg (2 eggs), add some chopped onion. Slice the bun into two. Spread some butter onto each of its surface. Dipped the buttered surface into the egg and put on a heated pan. Pressed the bun slightly so that the onion stay onto the bun. When slight brown, lift it from the pan. Garnish with some finely chopped cabbage. Can be eaten with chilli sauce/ tomato sauce/ mayonaise/ thousand island. Hmm.... not bad! Bravo Ibu! Two dishes in one morning for breakfast.

Eggless Oat pancake

Wondering what to prepare for the kids this lazy Sunday morning. Ayah is not at home. so it's just the kids and me. Hmmm...... let's make something that everybody can eat. The ingredients: Self raising flour Fresh milk 2 tablespoon of instant oats Pinch of salt 2 tablespoon of sugar How to: Mix all ingredients to form a batter. Adjust the fresh milk to the thickness that you preferred. Heat the pan (preferably non-stick for easy maintenance). Pour a full spoonful of the batter onto the heated pan. Once the topside shows some bubble shaped surface, turn the pancake. Wait till golden in colour and lift from the pan. Serve with honey or syrup. Sabrina likes it, Hakim loves it, Atikah only had 1 piece to give away for her little siblings.

Bergedil Ayam Rangup (Ala la Chicken Fritters)

Sometimes kids are bored with chicken in it's ordinary form. So let's make it extra-ordinary. I made Bergedil Ayam or can I call it chicken fritters? The ingredients: Chicken breast (minced) Potato (sliced thinly and fried) A tablespoon of corn flour Salt & pepper (to taste) parsley (if you like) Tempura flour (mixed in water) Cooking oil How to: Put all the ingredients except the tempura flour and parsley into a blender. Blend till mix. (Do not overblend as it will turn the chicken quater-cooked). Once mixed, take it out into a bowl and add the parsley. Form the ingredients into small balls and a bit to flatten it. In another bowl, mixed the tempura flor and water to form a batter. Heat the cookig oil. Dip the flatten ingredients into the batter and fry till brownish in colour. Whalla! Simple isn't it. I use the tempura flour to replace the egg which people normally use as my dear Sabrina is allergy to egg. As a result, i got this crunchy chicken fritter(at least the o

Potato Omelette

This is suitable for those who are in a hurry (like me, always) and also when you already ran out of cooking ideas or you have a surprise visitor for dinner and lunch and the chicken or fish are still frozen. By the way, I have this entry in here before, but no harm posting it again, correct? (sorry for the blur image, as I said earlier, in a hurry) What you need: 2 eggs beaten (add pinch of salt & black pepper) 1 potato (peel & sliced thinly) Cooking oil Spring onion How to: 1. Heat your non-stick frying pan (I used the small one - enough for two eggs) 2. Fry your potato (I arranged it nicely onto the pan and let it fry. 3. Pour in the egg mixture. And let the center of the egg set. Make sure a your stove is on a low medium heat, Or you will burn the bottom of your egg before the center is properly set. 4. Garnish with spring onion before the egg set completely. (You may put a lid on the frying pan for a fast cooking) And ... it's ready

Sardine Sandwiches

Running out of ideas to cook, I thought of making sandwiches. The kids used to like it during last Ramadhan. And, Alhamdulillah it's proven to be their choice of food to begin their iftar with. Just to make sure the kids get a balance diet, I add sliced tomato and cucumber to the sandwich. What you need: 1 can of sardine Some cucumber and tomato (sliced thinly) Onion (diced finely) Salt to taste Lime juice How to: Just mix all the ingredient together. Sandwich the sardines, tomato and cucumber in between two slices of white loaf. (You may add mayonaise if you like, I did not because my lovely Sabrina is allergic to egg). Sometimes, simpler is the choice!!!

Oils for cooking and frying

(Source of info: Wikipedia) (Source of photo: http://www.womansday.com) Not satisfied and not happy with the earlier findings about cooking oil, I stop by at Mr Wiki's place on Cooking oil and found this: Oils that are suitable for high-temperature frying (above 230 °C/446 °F) because of their high smoke point include[citation needed]: Avocado oil Rapeseed oil (marketed Canola oil or, sometimes, simply "vegetable oil" in the UK) Corn oil Mustard oil Palm oil Peanut oil (marketed as "groundnut oil" in the UK) Rice bran oil Safflower oil Sesame oil (semi-refined) Soybean oil Sunflower oil Alhamdulillah, at least the sunflower oil is listed. However, corn oil is a better choice for frying. But, remember never use olive oil for high temperature cooking. It is only for medium temperature (above 190 °C/374 °F) cooking. Hopefully, our family are eating healthy and HALAL.

Vege Fritter aka Cucur Sayur

For day 13 of break fast, I made some vege fritters for the family (that is the side dish). The main dish was Nasi Lemak Bebas Santan (which I will share in the next entry). I am the only one who loves the fritters. Hubby will have some, but MUST have it with the groundnut sauce or sugar. Since the rest of the family member can enjoy their Nasi Lemak Bebas Santan, I can enjoy my fritters. To me, it has some nutritional value except that it is a bit oily ( but I use the sunflower oil for frying ma... ) A search on the internet about sunflower oil landed me with this interesting facts ( http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0860/is_n1_v52/ai_8252703/ ): Sunflower oil is very high in polyunsaturated fat. Next to sunflower, it is the highest -- its fatty acid composition ranges between 64 and 68 percent. From a nutritional standpoint, this is desirable, because as mentioned earlier, polyunsaturates are the source of essential fatty acids necessary for the production of prostaglandins. But

Atikah's Special Double Burger

For the 9th Ramadhan, the kids opt for a western break fast. They wanted a home made burger, Well, Alhamdulillah , simple task for me. But as usual, Atikah will not be satisfied with my ordinary burger recipe, so she made some modification to the recipe. This is the burger in making. If you look closely, you can see that the burger is going to be wrapped in the egg which has been mixed with evaporated milk, black pepper and sliced cheese. The finish product? Had not enough time to take a shot of it as I was too busy with other preparation. And after azan call for maghrib prayer, it was all too late as the burger peacefully rest in her intestine. Atikah is most of the time creative with food, if she has the mood for cooking (which is very seldom).

Fried Grouper@Garoupa in Three Sauces

Yes we had fried grouper@garoupa for break fast yesterday. It looks something similar to the one you can see on the left side. But, that's not the one that entered our digestion system. I got the photo from the internet. But, I never knew that it can be VERY big. Some facts about grouper@garoupa that I gather from the internet (Wikipedia). ==================================== The word "grouper" comes from the word for the fish, most widely believed to be from the Portuguese name, garoupa . The origin of this name in Portuguese is believed to be from an indigenous South American language. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Australia, the name "groper" is used instead of "grouper" for several species, such as the Queensland groper ( Epinephelus lanceolatus ). In the Philippines , it is named lapu-lapu in Luzon , while in the Visayas and Mindanao it goes by the name pugapo . In New Zealand, "groper" refers

Chicken Black Pepper

Aha! Cooking again. Alhamdulillah, I am finally cooking again in my home sweet home, in my newly uplift kitchen. Alhamdulillah again. Last Sunday(15th August 2010) was my first day doing a 'real' cooking for the family, especially for the berbuka. Since moving back into the house, there are so many things happened. Moved back-in in a flash, kenduri, I fell sick for almost 2 weeks (as usual, especially when I am very tired), went to Dungun for the Programming and Multimedia Competition, and followed by taking care of Sabrina who was admitted to a medical center. Fuhhh! What a hapenings. Sabrina was discharged on Friday (13th August), not enough time for cooking, Saturday, the cabinet team was busy installing the kitchen cabinet (stove off again...), only Sunday I started a 'real' cooking for the break fast. But, chicken black pepper wasn't the menu for Sunday (I forgot what I cooked that day, getting old already - hey! its my birthday today, memang da

Instant Pizza

This is an instant pizza, made for my kids 'food pack' for school. The kids like it, ibu is happy because it is easy to make. Ingredients: Few slices of sandwich loaf (I used Gardenia) Sliced cheese (mine is Cheesedale - if not mistaken), sliced thinly. (Grated cheese will also work). Sausage Capsicum - sliced Sauce (Mix all): 1 table spoon of tomato sauce 1 table spoon of oyster sauce 1 table spoon of spaghetti sauce 1 table spoon of chilli sauce (if u like, but not for my kids) How to: 1. Spread the mixed sauce onto the sandwich loaf. 2. Arrange the sausage and capsicum. 3. For the top layer, arrange the thinly sliced cheese. 4. Baked in the oven 180 degree for about 10 minutes. Off the kids to school with a healthy food during recess. But belief me, they will still get something else fromt he canteen which are more tempting.

Sardine Pie

I've wanted to bake a pie for quite sometime. I've collected several recipes but never have the strength to try it. After collecting so may recipes, the next step was to buy a pie baking tray ( tak payah pun tak pe .... kalau rajin ). But .... my desire was put to a 'pause' mode as my microwave oven was malfunction...... After some persuasion, my husband agreed to get a new one ... so .... no more reasons. So here it is .... prepared at 9.30pm. Completed the baking process at almost 12 o'clock midnight. Thanks to Mama Fami for the recipe (who took it from Reens). For the crust : (a c&p) 400 g flour (sifted) 200 g margarine pinch of salt 7 - 8 tablespoons water (from the fridge) Method : For the crust : 1. Margarine + flour + salt, make into breadcrumbs. 2. Add water till soft dough is formed. 3. Divide into 2 portions and let it rest for at least 20 minutes For the filling, I used: Cooking oil I can of sar