Long time no post?

Heh...Sorry for not blogging in a while...I've been battling all sorts of issues that I did not have time to write this... I found out that I'm preggers! Hooray for me! Oh no wait....but then again we're not sure if this one's a keeper... Oh well... I'm happy and I'm trying my best not to do any extreme sports so that the little chipper will stay. I'm going for my first preview of the "Peanut" in 2-3 weeks. It's so exciting I cannot wait! What will it look like? hmmmmm?

Teh Sambal Ikan Bilis (Loosely Anchovies)

Original recipe:

1 Über large Onion
1 dl of Anchovies (dried and salted kind you can find from Asian stores)
1 clove garlic
6 shallots
3 Tbs of Tamarind Juice (Make this out of tamarind paste, the kind that has still the seeds in them)
10 large dried chillies (soaked)
Prawn paste (I would not recommend this) (optional)
Salt and Sugar up to taste

Method

• Fry the ikan Bilis until crisp and put aside
• Grind the prawn paste (ewww) together with shallots, garlic, deseeded (why the hell?) dried chillies. Slice über onions into rings.
• Heat about 2-3 tbs of oil (don't use olive and don't even try margarine <__<)
• Fry the grounded paste until fragrant, then add sliced über onion rings.
  
• Add tamarind juice, salt and sugar
• If it seem to get a bit too dry you may add a few tbs of water
• Cook, stirring occasionally until gravy thickens.
• Add Ikan bilis and mix well
• Serve with steaming hot Nasi Lemak

El-Modified version

1 Über large Onion
1 clove garlic
8 shallots
3 Tbs of Tamarind Juice (Make this out of tamarind paste, the kind that has still the seeds in them)
10 large dried chillies (soaked)
Salt and Sugar up to taste

Method:

• Grind the shallots, garlic and dried chillies (not deseeded) together. Slice über onions into rings.
• Heat about 2-3 tbs of oil (don't use olive and don't even try margarine <__<)
• Fry the grounded paste until fragrant, then add sliced über onion rings.
  
• Add tamarind juice, salt and sugar
• If it seem to get a bit too dry you may add a few tbs of water
• Cook, stirring occasionally until gravy thickens.
• Serve with steaming hot Nasi Lemak

Teh Veggie Curry! (vegan friendly)

1 clove garlic (big clove or single clove garlic)
4-5 shallots
3 tablespoon of cooking oil (not olive oil)
1 1/2 tablespoon of water }
2 tablespoons of curry powder (preferably the Malaysian type ;) ) }For mixing
1 litre water
Salt to taste
1 cm Ginger
1 dl coconut milk
2 carrots
1 big potato
1/2 cauliflower
1 zucchini
1 Aubergine
1 block hard type tofu or few pieces of fried tofu
(you can replace with any vegetable you wish as well)

Method:

Chop garlic and shallots to itty-bitty pieces. Put the water into the curry powder and make into paste (not soup PASTE!) Then fry the garlic, shallot and ginger mix in the heated oil in low heat until fragrant. After the garlic, shallots and ginger mix is ready, fry in the paste. Make sure the stove heat is very low when frying...fry for 5 mins. Pour the water a little at the time until the paste dissipates, about 500 ml. Then add the coconut milk. Now add the vegetables that take a longer time to cook first putting in the zucchini and aubergine. Add a bit of salt at a time. Then add the rest of the water and leave it to boil on low heat for another 10 mins with lid on.

A sunshine away

I woke up this morning cranky...wondering how this day would go. As I look out the window while trying to concentrate on my billions of documents I notice that this day is rather gloomy... It didn't bother me much because I love gloomy weathers, but for some reason this autumn-y afternoon I felt some chills down my spine. Rather depressive.

Anyways, I headed out to my daily task not thinking any further what the day will be like. I thought hey it's Friday after all, what could go wrong? Ahem...yeah famous last words... There are things that bothers my mind that no one can possibly understand. If you had x-ray vision all you'd see in me is turmoil (no I don't mean the warlike kind of turmoil, silly! More like a ball of yarn getting immensely tangled with no way to untangle but to cut bits and pieces off it). Well that's just me...I feel tired at this type of situations...Hence I'm sleepy...I just want to sleep and not wake up....It would be perfect if I could have 20 hours of uninterrupted sleep eh? ;) Okay back to work with me...I really need my entire presence to complete these massive amount of documentation. Blegh :/...

First blog

I normally write notes and not blog but today I decided to give this a try....Is it working?

Testing...1....2.....3.....