A heartiest breakfast

A partial american breakfast this morning. This weekends we have open house invitations. There was one yesterday, today we have two. Orang kata empty ur stomach to give room for the food. But I don't want to take the risk, especially for the first event today, when the organiser are expecting 800 people to come. Perghhh...
K la, den nak breakfast.

Beef stew

Yaya was helping me with the lunch (cum dinner) preparation. Ringan sikit keje den. Our freezer is almost empty, we only have some pieces of chicken, some beef and one ikan kembung. We already had 3 chicken meals in a row this week, so I decided to cook the beef. Malas pulak nak goreng sayur kan, and that's only leave me with one option. A soup/broth, a complete diet in one meal. ahahhahaha... And so I cooked....eh terlupa I have a sous-chef...

What did we cooked sous-chef??

This beef stew is my sistah's recipe. I tried to find the recipe in my hard drive, but couldn't locate it anywhere. I knew the ingredients, but not sure how much and whether I have everything. Anyway, I cooked it based on how much I can remembered it. So here is the recipe:

My sistah's beef stew:

Ingredients (sesedap rasa aaa):

Beef cut into cube. I used gravy beef (ada tulang-tulang sikit)

2 brown onions, diced

3 garlic, diced

Carrots, potatoes cut by yaya (hahahha... I mean cubed)

1 tomato, cubed

Mushrooms, green peas

1 cube of knorr's beef stock

3 tbspoons of olive oil

Water

4 tbspoon of all purpose flour (plain flour) mix with a little bit of water

ground black pepper and salt to taste

Method:

1. Heat the oil than saute the onions and garlic until translucent.

2. Add in the meat. Mix well.

3. Add in diced tomato and water, enough to cover the meat.

4. Cover the pot, and leave it until the meat is tender under medium heat.

5. When the meat are tender, add in the carrots, potatoes, beef stock, and pepper and salt to taste.

6. Lit it simmer under low heat, until the potatoes are cooked.

7. Add the flour mixture, mushroom and peas. Then let the gravy thicken.

8. Serve hot with plain rice or better with some garlic bread or toast.

adik said...."mama....ngok.. buah buah" and pointing at the carrot peeled by yaya.

And I said, "bukan buah la dek... sayur"
"ooooo...aaaa yoooor..." adik replied.

Adik insists that we called her "baby adik" everytime we called her dedek/adik/thirah....

"bibi adik laaa...bibi adikkk..." she would say while patting her chest.

yours truly,

I bow and say "Thank You"

Remember that "misteri blog ini" entry? I did requested some of you to do the tag (for those who have not done it ye...and for those yang belum tu...ehem ehem huhu). Anyway it has been awhile since I last visited my friend's Jas blog. So when I was reading her blog today, I came across the homework I left her, and answering question no. 5, she wrote....

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5) Apakah pendapat anda mengenai blog kepada pemilik blog yg tag anda ini?

It covers a variety of topics. Maturity is evident from her writing. Unlike my blog that is. I especially like the entries where she covers cake recipes. How I wish she's near so that I can taste a bit hehehe

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What captured my attention is the word maturity...well (ku terasa macam tua sangat la jas) I hope she is referring to the content ya, but not like orang tua membebel wakakakakkaka...because I do membebel in here from time to time. Anyway was flattered at the same time.

Actually the pleasure is mine. Writing is a passion, and I thank all of you for visiting and reading my rambling ya. Terima kasih banyak-banyak. I gained a lot of new friends from blogging. Hope the friendships do not end here, and hope to see you, my friends in the real-world.

And about the cooking bit....hehehe... like I said, I cook to soothe myself :D. Plus we don't have anything to do/go in the weekend, and the kitchen is equipped with an oven. So with all these reasons I work myself in the kitchen, to put my mind away kejap :D. Don't know if I will be the same back home (no oven kat rumah laa). Tapi kalau dapat share makan-makan memang seronok kan.

Wokeh, I was fasting yesterday, and for iftar I prepared blackpepper beef, a recipe given by my friend Gee. Thanks Gee for the recipe, something new, and delicious, mmg rasa kuah steak laaa, daging pun takde rasa macam kering tau.



So, have a great weekend ya. Am sure need to work on weekend, but am looking forward for the premier of Harper's Island on Sunday. Terngiang-ngiang suara budak perempuan tu, "one by one...." hehehe. But I read the review, it is beyond expectation, hope I have different opinion.

Sweet and sour beef

Bored with all this fruit picking stories ekkk... sorryyyy... couple more entries to go.. But today I will skip the Stanthorpe's stories and back to the mundane story of cooking.

I have no new baking project last weekend. Only baked a banana cake for atang's lunch box. This time I add a handful of raisins into the mixture, just to improvise a bit :D.

And this is not a baking story (duhhh!! I just realised the title gave away already, silly me). Anyway, yesterday, I was fasting, have a few more days to replace my uzur day during last Ramadhan. Soon the Ramadhan will come and stay again ya... Time flies. So for yesterday iftar, I cooked Daging Masam Manis aka Masak Merah. I got the recipe from Kak Liza's blog.

Ingredients (my DIY ya..hehehe improvise based on what I have in the kitchen. Again this is more like approximate measure (agak-agak la ya)):

About 300gm of gravy beef, thinly slice the meat
150 gm tomato ketchup (about 3 tablespoons)
150 gm chilli sauce (about 3 tablespoons)
20 gm tumeric powder (about 1 teaspoon)
cooking oil for frying
I add 1 tablespoon of chilli paste aka cili boh (kasi pedas sikit)

Then slice;
1 brown onion
3 garlic
Ginger the size of ur thumb
1 carrot
and some sweet peas

For garnishing;
1 red chilli
1 green chilli

Method:
1. Marinate the meat with the tumeric powder for a little while.
2. Heat the oil and saute the chilli paste. Then add in the meat, and fry until cook.
3. Add in the ketchup and chilli sauce.
4. Mix in the onion, garlic, ginger, and salt and sugar to taste. Stir well.
5. Then walla....ready to eat (sodap makan paneh2 kan). Served with hot rice, and omelet.



So, sweet and sour beef for dinner tonight?

Black Pepper Mushroom Steak

Remember, one of the last week entry where I wrote about a Halal butcher at Stone Corner. At the butcher, we bought some steaks, and that night I prepared Black Pepper Mushroom steaks.

I marinated the steaks meat with Master Food Smokey BBQ sauce. I washed and cut some potatos (without removing the skin), and baked them together with the steaks. Then I boiled some carrots and broadbeans.

And for the sauce, I improvised the recipe I got from Kak Liza's website. Ala, improvised ikut apa yang ada kat dapur laa...ahahahhaha....

Amacam, Black Pepper Mushroom Steak tonight?!