Mamma's home cooked food@Taiping

My aging doggy always shows his excitement whenever any of us come home. He was all smiles here, while I tickled him. Haha. Crazy fella. I love him to bits.

Only during CNY time! Will we see this actively sold/ cooked. Mom sliced the 'kuih bakul' slices and dipped them in beaten eggs, before sending them into the deep fryer. Yummmss....

Father truly bless me with a great family. Mom always cooks the dishes we loved most whenever any of us are home. She knows I love to eat fish. Sweet and sour spicy fish. Better than so many restaurants here in KL.

This is what we call a real prawn fritter! Many restaurants serve real crappy small sized prawns, or fried with overly used oil. "Someone" always steals my fritters whenever I get fresh stocks from home!

A view from Maxwell Hill at midpoint. Even for someone like me who exercises quite often, I was panting hard and sweating all over hiking up hill using the hiker's way rather than the tar road. My heart was pumping real hard and all I could think of was to reach the end point asap. 30 minute hike.

CNY Eve Reunion Dinner@Demona's home in Taiping

 Apek Shandy greets Giong Hee Huat Chai! My dog will only raise his front paw when there's food dangling in front of him. Useless fella...

 Sometimes the best food come in the most humble way... Roast pork from Aulong market. Really, really good pork. All raw, jumbled and packed in plastic and wrapped with old newspaper. Unlike the nicely presented, well laid roast pork in chinese restaurants.

 

My house being the hub every CNY gathering. Relatives from all over drove up to Taiping. Not enough space to park in the compound.

 

 My cousin brothers getting all steamy and hot by the charcoal heated grill. Cousin sisters and aunts, sit back and watch while sipping icey cold drinks. And 'patiently' waited for the food.

 We had all kinds of grilled meat: Chicken wings, stingray, salmon, prawns, fishballs, meatballs, sausages, porkchop, burps!

 

Tender juicy fattened chicken wings. Yums! Meat marinater chef cousin brother of mine, brought his trademark herbs all the way from KL. Respecto!

 

 On top of marinating all those meat, he also made sangria. According to him, the key ingredient is the lemon slices. Pretty nice to drink, especially over spicy hot grilled food. As expected, I was one of the only few ones who enjoyed drinking. The rest of the boys went hardcore and followed my dad to bottoms up shots of hard liquor. Jameson and JW Black Label, finished in 1 -2 hours, leaving behind boys puking by the drain and some other happy high. Spirit of CNY!

Gigantic piece of pork chop... all for me and me only!

I collected all the bones and one dog became lucky this CNY, bones supply for 1 week. Lucky Hazel!

Home cooked versus outdoors

Which do you prefer?

Spicy fried maggigoreng ayam by a talented indon lady? Or...

Demona's humble tomato puree chicken with mushrooms?

Home cooked tomato puree chicken fillet

Decided to cook something from home for dinner.

Blended some tomatoes and chopped some into small pieces.

With a little touch of sicilian herbs and spices, whoa-lah! A meal fit for a simple italian wannabe.

Total damage: chicken (rm7) + tomatoes (rm5)

A picture of me doggie. Brings smiles to your face eh?

Home cooked food from taiping.

One weekend in taiping, 2 days = 1 kg addition to body weight.

Needless to say, all food prep by mothers are always oh sooooo goooodddd.

Demona mama: responsible for pork curry, deliciously thinly sliced. Pork ribs, so so flavourful. Soy chicken, boneless and delicious.

Dogma mama: home made charsiew with the best meat and xo sauce. Home made yongtaufu of bittergourd and self planted brinjals. Sliced pork fried with soy sauce.

See you again on CNY!

Post - food poisoning food@Home

Two nights ago, I suffered from a bad case of food poisoning. Woke up in the middle of the night with an open tap, and the tap was my mouth. Could not stop vomiting until 6 plus am, I had no choice but to see a GP.

GP was always my last resort as most of them are con artists. I still have not found a good GP in KL.

As there aren't many 24 hour GPs available, especially nearby, the only choice was the GP in Bangsar. Which was another conartist also. The doctor, instead of giving me what fitted me most, asked me if I wanted an anti-vomiting injection or tablets. I wanted whichever method that would be the quickest to stop the vomiting.

The doctor asked me to relax my bum, and I told her I am nauseous, and nervous as I had not had an injection in years and I exercise, of course my bum would be tense. In turn, the doctor told me that, "Hey, you wanted injection right? This is what happensla"

I"m like, "Zzzzz..????"

It did not stop the vomiting, as I continued puking when I got home. From then on, I had been sleeping for a good two days with a few small wake-up intervals in between. My aunt came to visit, I got up to eat, and then it was back to Snooze-land.

Finally I'm slightly more alive today. No more foodventuras for the moment.

Be a good girl, boil some vegetables : mushrooms, cabbages, carrots, onions, garlic and some chicken.

Man .... and New Year is coming!

Come on tummy, heal heal heal heal!

p/s: Oh yeah.. this was HOW I cleared by bowels.. painful experience.

Home blended apricot peach smoothie

With both special occasions near by one another (Christmas and New Year), needless to say, EVERYONE is overindulging. Myself, a sinner also.

Excess spicy food, excess chilli, excess alchohol, excess junk food/chips, excess meat, under-excess water = constipation.

I decided to blend my own smoothie hoping to help me in my bowels.

Bought some apricot yoghurt, milk, peaches and bbbbbllllleeeennndddddddddddddd into one delicious smoothie :)

So much more delicious and fruitful than the ones you have from the juice bars. And oh yeah, a lot more cheaper too!

But did it help me clear my bowels? No...... but something else did. In a horrible, nasty, suffering way (To be continued....)

Home cooked food for lunch at office

Economy crisis, all lost to wine and korean food.

Weight crisis, all lost to the food above.

Time to diet on ... Body and money. Aih

Home cooked chicken mushroom stew

One of those days where I seek therapeutic cooking :)

I love the allrecipes Iphone app. allows you to mix and match your choice of ingredients and search for recipes that fit them all.

I cooked this chicken mushroom stew based on one of the recipes found on this app.

It turned out quite delicious, and I was really proud of it. The chicken might have tested even better if I let it stew longer. The above stew was a result of a 30 min simmer.

I've added along tomato paste, tomatoes, mushroom slices.

This pot of stew could last one hungry soul for 2 days :2 lunches, 2 dinners. cost saving!

The final home cooked meal of 2010 before crossing over to 2011

Foodventura is back on track!

Months and months of missed out foodie picts. Looking back at them, made me realise how blessed I was to have been able to fill my tummy with all these good food.

This was my home cooked breakfast on the final day of 2010. I woke up early, prayed and read the Redemptive Series book and gave thanks for a fullfilling year.

Then.... off to make a hearty breakfast with a hot cuppa brewed coffee :)

This was by far my best-est ever caramelized onions. I was extremely proud with the brightly purplish softened sweet onions. Scrambled eggs mixed with cheese and milk.

Every bite was a bliss.

One sip of hot brewed lavazza coffee.

A perfect way to end the year.. with prayers, and a perfectly done breakfast meal.

DIY meh-hi-co meal@Home

Tadah! Hungry scavenging eyes proved themselves useful this time around. With palates fit for kings and queens.. but with pockets fit for paupers, the "Reduce to clear" corner sometimes bring tiny blissful joy :) And today is one of those tiny blissful joy days!

Quesadillas from RM 24.99 to ....RM 0.99! 3 days to expiry. No ploh-blemmmm, they can be finished in 1 - 2 days. In the sack it goes.

Some kiasu indian apek saw and kiasu-ly wiped out the last 2 boxes. Grr...



The quesadillas also came along with salsa seasoning, perfect to enhance the minced pork purchased from the grocery store. With a little help from grated aged cheddar.. SALUTE! to a great effort of a DIY meh-hi-co meal!
Saucy spicy salsa pork stuffed quesadillas won't be perfect without an icey cold beer with a chilled mug. A perfect pint, ala Franck Evers?

CNY @ Dogma's house

2010 CNY was a short trip back home, and a pretty quite one as the weather was excruciatingly hot and dogma fell ill half of the time.
the above, was what dogmama brewed for dogma, a doubleboiled american ginseng, for almost everynite in taiping

FanGrilled Pork, Marinated 24 hours in secret home sauce: Smokey, Sweet. This is one meat that satisfy even the Neanderthals

Smoked Duck Slices from Taiwan with chopped Chinese Celery: Saltish and Exotic,you dun get this at any mom and pop shop

MOm prepared a feast for one of the reunion dinner with relatives.

Home Baked Bread Courtesy of RP's Recipe@YY's home

Demona: I've always enjoyed listening to RP speak of her baking adventures. Besides her never failing to speak with passion on her baking sessions (even if the finished product may end up as a big boo boo), she incorporates in lil' DIY tips and tricks, homemade to-do or not-to-do rules and these almost always gets me trilled and excited and motivates me to want to try baking with the given recipes.

I lack major experience when it comes to bread baking. When she gave me the recipe of the butter bread in which she swore her life (jk!) on its super-ultra-unimaginably tasty aspect, I'd thought I'd given it a try since it is also a part of my future dream of running a famous bakery. I should learn more from her if I want to make this dream a reality one day.

Demona: Worrying that I might have over beaten the dough, I lost patience and tenacity and poured the dough into the bread batter mould. At first, it did look fine to me, I assumed the batter was thoroughly beaten already. However, the cake turned out being a little soggy even though the hint of sweetness taste was truly... very well locked into the dough.

Demona: My first butter bread! Though the shape of the bread is way off the normal charts, but its taste could superseed certain bread that are commercially made today. I know what I needed to improve on if I were to re-do... beat the batter until its really smooth and light! Then I would have a really soft, light bread than the one above which was still a little heavy and damp, but a fairly delicious taste!

HomeCook@Kinrara

Again is the season for budgetary food experience. Equipped with a decade old oven in TS's gigantic mansion, we decided to cook a few dishes at home to liven things up...

First up was Dogma creation: Slow Grilled Chicken Breast topped with caramalized onions and melted cheddar cheese... sprinkled with some crushed black pepper and mustard sauce.. Oohh laa laa....The taste sure lives up to the dish name !

The assorted condiments that goes along with it: Ketchup, McDonalds Grape jelly and Freshly peeled local lime
Dessert: 3 jumbo sized local mango: Sweet to the bone!


Carbo Dish: Toasted wholemeal bread with omellete and mustard sauce..

Shiok..
Simple Dishes perfect Wishes

Demona's Departure Breakfast Treat@Dogma's crib, KL

Demona: Kayu-Pokok-like Dogma was an angel today. Before my departure back to Singapore, he "SACRIFICED" his morning sleep, draggggggg-ed himself out of his little dreamzone, slogged his way down the stairs and headed into the kitchen to make some warm, hearty breakfast!

(although Dogmama prepacked all these lovely dishes for him, and they were nicely stored in the freezer, so Dogma's job was to de-frost 'em and left the rest of the work to my tiny portable oven. But.. oh well.. breakfast served in bed, oh wait.. in couch I mean, this lady here ain't complaining!)

Demona: Thick, chunky slices of beef nicely tucked in between to slices of white bread toasted till the edges were sealed. The beef slices were tender, well marinated with some chinese spices I suppose, as its taste gave me an Oriental feel to it. His mama's really one good cook also. Totally different style from my mom's. I think every living person on this earth will always brag about his/her mother's out-of-this-world delicious cooking, eh? :)

Demona: Dogmama's culinary skills ain't just limited to Taiwanese dishes. It spreads around the globe! She went "An Yong Hai Sei Yo" in her cooking too! The two side dishes behind were actually her home made kim chi. No wonder Dogma kept mentioning how "healthy" he looked when he was a kid. THIS: Dogmama's great cooking, I am almost fairly, quite, 99.999999 % sure was the main reason why.

Home made prawn crackers@Demona's mama

Demona: No one makes better prawn crackers than me mama's! Anyone wants to take orders? haha. Actually I rather not. The process of making these lil' crackers right from scratch really roughen her hands and makes them sore. I'm sorry guys! Best-est prawn crackers ever! and only Chuah and Chuah clan alone can have this priviledge... and of course, occasionally others who are around me when me mama makes me some. *winks* Dogma, eh? I remembered you chomping down these lil' cracker jagger goodies :)

Mommy's crackers come in two flavours, original and spicy ones. I believe I've posted on this once a long, long while ago. But, who cares :) I never get bored of telling people about how great my mom and her culinary skills are!

Home made beef noodles@Dogma's mama

Yawning Hazel Guarding the entrance to the Kitchen..
ME... NEED>>> FOOOOOOOOOD says Zack
the Precursor --> Vege, meat ball Soup..Oriental Style
The Main: Thick, juicy beef soup complete with beef tendon, beef brisket and radish stewed to perfection.
Check it out again. The killer beef noodle in Taiping..
Mom always made the best beef noodle i'd ever eaten...period..
This time it was made even better by the perfect choice of white noodle coupled with the thick concentrated gravy.....
Doused it with a dash of chili oil, and you are on the staircase to heaven.