Pork & Shrimps Satay with Tamarind Glaze

Hi all, I'm back with a simple recipe which its well received by my family and friends. Last weekend we had a small gathering with friends at my house. I've prepared some grilled chicken wings with lemon grass, grilled prawns, some desserts like blueberry cheese tarts and tiramisu. Well, this satay was the most welcome dish during that day. All were gone before the gathering ends..haha! I'll make more for the next one ya...^^

The recipe only needs few ingredients:
600g minced pork
100g minced shrimps
1 tsp ginger powder
3 small pcs galangal (chopped0
15 stalks lemongrass (wash & clean)
1 gloves garlic
50g coriander leaves
1 tsp ground tumeric
1 tsp freshly ground black pepper

Glaze:
1 tbsp tamarind puree
1 tbsp honey
ground black pepper to taste

Method:
- Place all ingredients except lemon grass stalks, meat, shrimps and glaze in a blender and pulse until combined.
- Mix the blended ingredients with the meat and shrimps. Mix well and leave to marinate for 1 hour.
- With wet hands, mould each portion around each lemon grass stalks into shape of a sausage (about 3-4") long. (like the picture shown above)
- Prepare the glaze. Preheat and overhead grill.
-Brush satay with glaze and grill, turning every 3 minutes until well cooked / browned. Takes about 8-10 minutes to cook. Serve hot!

For outdoor cooking, grill over medium-hot coal. It may taste better with the coal grill.
This was so nice and everyone started to ask for the ingredients, so here you are my dear friends. Sorry to take such along time to post...hehe!

Cheers!!

Bloggers Gatherings During CNY

Happy Valentine's Day!!
Anyway this post is not about Valentine but it's the bloggers gathering we had during this Chinese New Year. Althought there were not many of us, we do had a great fun day!! With all the good yummy foods, we actually ate from 430pm to 930pm...haha! I'm starting my diet already...haha! Shall we have another soon? I'm so looking forward to meet up again and hope the others who miss this can join the next time.

A potluck for this gathering, and here's the yummy delicious food we had!

"Yee-Sang" by Sonia, Nasi Lemak Lover
Pickled Cucumber by Venorica, Quay Po Cooks

Vietnamese Springrolls by Swee San, The Sweet Spot

Nasi Kerabu by Swee San, The Sweet Spot & Wendy, Table for 2

Lemon Grass Chicken by me

Otak Otak by Venorica, Quay Po Cooks

"Nian Gao" Puffs by Tracie, Bitter Sweet Flavours

"Bak Kwa" by Wendy, Table for 2

Ispahan Mini Cakes by Swee San, The Sweet Spot

Red Bean Soup by Tracie, Bitter Sweet Flavours

Pandan Lemon Grass Drink by me

Pei-Lin , dodol-mochi brought her rojak, but sorry Pei-Lin, I forgot to take a photo of that...;p

After a warm bbq, we hanged out at my place. We had a good chat until no one noticed how time flies. I wish there will be more to join us the next time, and a longer time to chat....;p

Cheers!!

Nice Moment

Well well...look whose there? We, bloggers had a nice chatting and dinner @ The Curve, PJ here last weekend. This was fun and I really hope that we have more time to chat next time. Well, with friends with the same interest is not that easy to find, and I'll treasure every moment I spent with all of them.

Even there were only five of us...me, Swee San (The Sweet Spot), Pei-Lin (Dodol & Mochi), Sonia (Nasi Lemak Lover) and Wendy (Table for 2), we had lots of fun!! And of course our kids were there too. I'll make sure my girl will not be that tired if she tag along next time..haha! (sorry gals, she used to sleep early...;p)

Here's some picture I took that day but too bad...miss the super yummy nice cake Swee San brought, and the yummy pancake from Pei-Lin...haizz..:( That was too delicious, that I kept munching and forgot about taking picture of it. A delicious snack that I love from Wendy, gula melaka coconut! I'm eating some right now..haha!! Have to eat very slowly or else the whole bottle will be gone in minutes! Oh and that's the butter cake Sonia brought...yummy!

(Btw, these pictures was taken before we started eating...lol)

Mmm...and alittle gift from me. A small paper cups with light clay top. Well, again forgot about the picture! It's not hand made by me, but I've been looking for it since our gathering has been confirmed. I like them so much so I guess my friends will like them too..;p

Hope to meet up again soon..^^

Wonderful Moment!!

Hi everyone, here's a wonderful moment that I would like to share with you. I never thought of bloggings can be that exciting! Really excited!! We had a meet-up section this afternoon with some other food bloggers whom we didn't meet before. We know each other only leaving few lines on our blogs, and that's why I was very excited with this gathering.
I started blogging only since last year April. And its all influenced by a good friend Bee Bee from HoneyBeeSweets. And of course I learned alot from her. And because of her, I got to have this opportunity to join the gathering..:) Thanks Bee Bee, my dear dear friend!

Here's some photos that I'll like to share..:)


Meeting up @ MidValley

A beautiful flower for each of us by Nyonyapendekmelaka.
Yup, its on my dining table...;p



Packets of "bak-kut-teh" and "bunga telang" from Sonia
These are my favourite...yummy!




These are from ElinLuv
I don't really know what are these call, but at least I know how to use it! haha! My girl already wants me to make one for her tomorrow..:)

Sorry for the miss out bloggers, I'm too excited to post this, and I totally forgot about the list!

All of us in the gathering are:

Bee Bee of Honeybeesweets

Elin of Elinluv's Tibits Corner

Gertrude of My Kitchen Snippets

Swee San of The Sweet Spot

Tracie of Bitter Sweet Flavours

Pei Lin of Dodol Mochi

Sonia of Nasi Lemak Lover

Joanna ~ Elin's daughter

Joslynn of Petite Nyonya

Quinn of Quinn's Baking Diary

& me of course..:)

Very thoughtful gifts. Love them all! I really feel bad that I didn't bring any exchange gifts along..:( Will probably do it better when we meet up the next time..;)
Thank you so much ladies!
Cheers!