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Kerabu Kobis (Cabbage salad)

 Assalamualaikum ..... Hello there! Anybody at home??? I has been too quiet, tooooooo quiet for sooo lonnnnnng. I smiled when seeing that there was only one posting in the year 2020. Each beginning of the year, I promise myself to be an active writer or blogger ... but never gets fulfilled. Too busy? Too lazy? Well it can be for many reasons. So .... let's mark an entry for 2021, and see if many more to follow. This is a pretty simple recipe to make. The only effort. required here is to thinly sliced the white cabbage. This three ingredients salad is nice to have with rice or on sandwiches (you can strain it after a while). The ingredients: Pieces of white cabbage - soak in a plain water for about 30 minutes. This will make it crispier. The thinly slice it. 1 large Onion and red chillies - also thinly sliced. Put everything in a bowl. Season it with vinegar (any kind will do), salt and sugar. Balance the taste. Mix well. Refrigerate it for few minutes.  Here you go ... a tasty...

Briyani Rice Hentam Sajalah

Assalamualaikum I wanted to prepare Nasi Briyani for Iftar the other day, but we did not have any Briyani Spices at home. Added with the laziness to step out of the house especially in this Movement Control Order season, I need to quickly think for some option. My solution is to mix my own spices for briyani. Hoping for it to work. And .... yesss, it works, Alhamdulillah. The ingredients for the rice: 3 cups of Basmathi rice - washed and drained Chicken - cut and washed *2 tablespoon kurma powder *1 tablespoon chicken curry powder *mixed both, add some water to form a thick paste **1 large onion ** 2 cloves of garlic ** 1/2 inch of ginger **Blend all ingredients 1/4 cup evaporated milk Salt for seasoning some Saffron to end it Enough water For frying :  shallot,  cinnamon stick, star anise and clove,  1 piece of pandan leave Ghee Method: In a hot pot, heat the ghee (or cooking oil or you can add both ghee and cooking oil), about 2 tablespoon of it. As I am using Noxxa, i ...

Chicken Pie - Modified!

Salam all, its back to school bento again. But, ibu was too busy for something fancy. Therefore, please satisfy with this quick fixed menu. First, the fillings: 2 chicken breast - chopped 2 potatoes - diced 2 carrots - diced 2 onions - diced (Can also add celery if available) About 4 table spoon  or fresh milk or cream 1 table spoon of multi purpose flour Salt and pepper 1. Saute the onion till tender, add the chicken meat and potato. let it cooked and tender. 2. Add the onion 3. Season it with salt and pepper 4. Add fresh milk or cream 5. Thicken it with multi purpose flour Whalla --- the filling is ready! Now for the pastry. As it is a fast to cook version, therefore ibu opted to using the ready made pastry from Kawanku. There are many other brands on the shelf, all are equally good to be used. Ibu lined the small pie mold with the pastry, add the filling and later cover the top with some strips from the same pastry dough...

Kentang pedas

Assalamualaikum.... Having an add-ons dish is a bonus to a meal. This hot potato in sambal is a must try. 1 potato cut into wedges and fried 1 tbs chilli paste 2 tsp sugar 1 tsp vinegar 1 tbs cooking oil 1 onion - minced In a heated oil, add the chilli paste. Cook well. Add sugar, salt and vinegar. Let everything dry a bit. Add the fried potato wedges. Mix well. Simple yet delicious.

Lasagna Modified!

Air fried red snapper

Assalamualaikum.... Its red snapper again. Well.... i bought an almost a kilo red snapper's tail and there's only two of us. As usual... I will always find the easiest way and approah to cook.... the fastest too. And this is what i make using the air fryer. Healthier insha Allah. 1 slice of red snapper marinated with the salt and tumeric powder. Then sprinkle some olive oil. I laid a piece of aluminium foil so that the fish will not stick to the wire rack of the air fryer. I raise the edges of the foil so that any excessive oil will not drain to the bottom of the fryer. This is for easy cleaning too. Then i placed the fish. Set the temperature to 160 and time for about 15 minutes. I turned the air fryer on. And.... whalla! The fish is ready. It is so juicy and tender. For the french beans... i cleaned it. Put into the skillet and sprinkle some olive oil. Turn the heat on and begin turning or flipping the beans (as they cooked very fast). When ready, just add pinch of salt...

Snapper tail soup

Salam... Its Friday. Its home-cooked lunch. And today is not a so good day. I woke up at the wrong side of the bed.... i was dizzy. But ...i still lunch for my day, so i opted for something simple and fast. The fish soup. I have half snapper in the freezer. The tail woul be nice for a soup. Ingredients: 1 fish tail 1 inch ginger - sliced 1 onion - sliced 2 garlic - crushed 1 tbs whole pepper Cooking oil for saute 1. Saute the onions, garlic, ginger and pepper in a lowly heated cooking oil. 2. Add 1 glass of water. Wait till boil. 3. Add the fish tail. 4. Season. 5. Garnish with spring onion and cilantro. Done! Bon appetite......

Lamb stew for dinner

Salam... It might look tempting... but believe me, its left overs. I had some left over lamb stew from the recent qurban which I kept it frozen in the freezer. As I am still lethargic, i dont feel like cooking. Some twisting here and there might do some trick to turn this left overs to become a mouth watering dish. Therefore I decided to have the stew with some croutons, garlic bread and some grilled broccoli. I reheat the stew on a slow heat. While reheating, i began washing my broccoli, cut it, drizzle with salt and pepper and... in it go into the heated oven for about 5 minutes or so. Then I move into preparing the bread. I quickly spread the garlic butter onto the loaf and toast it over the stove on a gridle. Next is to prepare the croutons. When buying a loaf, the outer layer was seldom touched by the family except the mother, that is me.... so I decided to turn it into an inresistable dish - croutons. I simply cut it into small squares. Then, using the same gridle, after toa...

Buttered Crab

Assalamualaikum Lets crabbing for today. We plan for seafood dish for today: the crab and bamboo clam For bamboo clam, its going to be cooked in chilli, what about for the crab? After a long discussion, we opted for something very simple. The buttered crab. Not battered but buttered. Alhamdulillah the experiment was a success. It tasted good. You can enjoy the sweetness of the crab unlike if it is cooked in a gravy. Buttered Crab 5 crabs; cyt into half and washed 5 garlics - crushed Handful curry leafs 3 table spoon butter Pepper 1. Heat the wok. And add butter. 2. When the melts, quickly add crushed garlic and the curry leafs. Fry till brownish. 3. Add crabs. Put the lid on. Let it a while until the crab is well cooked (or to your liking). 4. Sprinkle pepper. It' s ready..a short cooking a preparation time PLUS its delicious. Bon appetite. Wassalam.

My Nasi Daging

Assalam. I know it has been a long silence. That's normal as I am not a hardcore blogger. Doing this just as a stress-free activity ☺. And today is A Nasi Daging on our get together meals. Lunch when everybody is around.  I made some dalca too to have with the Nasi Daging but did not snap a photo of it. In fact this photo is the only one I had managed to snap before everybody hungrily feasting it. My recipe: 3 cups of rice 1/2 kg Beef 1 large Onion and garlic - sliced 1 inch ginger - sliced The three stooges - cinnamon, star anise and clove 1 tomato - cubed 2 table spoon of cooking oil 2 table spoon of kurma powder Boil a half kilo beef in the Noxxa pressure cooker for about 45 minutes for tenderness. Make sure the boiling water will be sufficient for cooking the rice later. Meanwhile, in another pot, saute the onion, garlic, ginger and the three stooges in a hot oil. Add tomato. Then, I added some thinly sliced beef and the kurma powder. Add some water. Cook ti...

Bitter Gourd for Vegetable

Cucur Carrot

Assalamualaikum, This is my breakfast. It is the 'Cucur Carrot'. Malaysian is famous with CUCUR. With Cucur Udang, Cucur Bilis, Cucur Jagung, and Cucur Kodok@Cekodok. The base for these cucur is the same. It uses the same batter. Only different in its flavor. The batter differs from one cook to another. My base (batter): About 1 cup of water About 3/4 cup of multipurpose flour A pinch of salt to taste 1 large onion sliced thinly The batter must not be too runny nor too thick. If it is too runny, it will trap lots of oil when frying. If it is too thick, it will be hard when cold. Through experience one can get the correct consistency just by looking at it. Some people use the cold water to mix the batter and others use the hot water. But I simply use the plain water. Almost on alternate mornings, I will make the carrot juice or any other fruit juices. When juicing carrot, the residue is plenty. I thought it is a waste to just through the...

Bubur gandum dan jagung

Cekodok Labu

Sup sawi ringkas

Sardine in Tomato Sauce the Noxxa way

Assalamualaikum... Alhamdulillah I finally made it. Sardine in Tomato Sauce. It's easy but I did not put enough urge to do it before. What you need is: 4 Fresh sardines (you can also use mackerel) 1 large onion - chopped 1 large tomato 1 laddle of chilli sauce 1 cup water 2 laddles of tomato sauce Salt and sugar to taste Clean the fish. Add all the other ingredients into the pressure cooker. Set to HP for 90 minutes. Beep. Beep. Beep. It's ready. Whalla..... Wassalam

Miang Kham

Sambal udang kering dua terung

Assalamualaikum .... Sambal lagi??? Sambal memang mudah dan ringkas. Ditambah pula dengan mulut ni yang sukakan kepedasan, menjadikan sambal memang dekat di hati. Untuk juadah tengahari yang sepantas kilat pada hari-hari Jumaat, sambal seringkali menjadi pilihan. Dan kali ini kita persembahkan Sambal Udang Kering bersama Dua Terung. Terung pipit (belanda) dan terus panjang. It's marvelous. Terus pipit ni boleh dikatakan hasilbumi yang 'petik dan masak' kerana pokoknya subur menghijau di bahagian depan rumah. Asal pokoknya tumbuh secara tidak sengaja, bila dialihkan ke tanah, Alhamdulillah ianya memberikan rezeki untuk kejiranan. Inilah yang dikatakan tidak sia-sia berbudi pada tanah. Better not blabbering too much. Now lets get down to cooking business. It's the recipe: The ingredients: (this is exactly how I did it) 1 handful of 'terung belanda' 1 brinjal (terung panjang) 1 table spoon of blended dried shrimp * 1 large onion (d...

Pajeri Nanas

Assalamualaikum Pajeri anyone? Pajeri is the sweeter version of curry. The main ingredient is still the curry powder, but it add sugar for the sweetness. And pajeri is normally made with vege fruit. You can make it with pineapple, 'kedondong', or even the round brinjal. What you need are: The vege fruit that you like 1 large Onion 1 inch ginger 2 garlic * blend all the above in a blender till fine  2 tbs curry powder (meat) Coconut milk 2 tbs Coconut paste (kerisik) 1 tbs sugar Salt To stir fry: Onion and ginger (sliced thinly) Cinnamon, star anise, clove 2 tbs cooking oil 1. Stir fry the stir fry ingredients in the hot oil till brownish 2. Add curry powder mixed in the blended ingredients. Cooked well.  3. Add your vege fruit (pineapple). Cook till tender. 4. Add sugar. 5. Add coconut oil. 6. Add salt to taste 7. Add the coconut paste just before you turn off the heat. Thats all. Wassalam ....

Fluffy pancake with strawberry compote

Assalamualaikum Good morning everybody. Let's have breakfast. It's simple pancake today. But i enjoyed it with the homemade strawberry compote. Alhamdulillah. After several blogwalks, I decided to try this recipe from the famous Cik Mat Gebu's Dapur Tanpa Sempadan. And as usual with my own measurement and fittings: 1 egg 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup plain flour some fresh milk to the correct consistency pinch of salt Simply add everything in a bowl to form a batter. Later, ladle it onto a non-stick frying pan. You can see it will start bubling. Flip it.  Wait till the other side is golden colour too then remove from the pan to your plate. Its delicious to enjoy it hot or cold. For the strawberry compote, I search several recipies too. And decided to give a try since I have quite a lot of strawberry from the recent trip to Cameron Highland. Wash the strawberries and rinse thoroughly. Cut the them into half. Put i...