Life in a month: recipes, mini getaway and getting ready for Ramadhan!

Hey peeps!

Several weeks update, cause I'm lazy like that.

Last four weeks:

Hello there!

We had fun this week.

Lots of cooking, cakes and what not.

I cook chicken porridge on Monday , Mushroom soup and cheese toast on Tuesday, Lasagna on Wednesday, chocolate cakes with icing on Thursday, and Friday - .

Cik Keyaan now freaking active, and was missing daddy as daddy went on boys holiday on the weekend.

Last night, he finally could sleep well and not waking up every hour.

Me and my bff ate out on Saturday, and as we put Cik Keyaan on his chair, he put one leg up, and I snap a pic!

Recipes as below:

Chicken Porridge with side egg

300ml Chicken broth

Strips of chicken

Spring onion

Fried onion

Egg

Rice

Salt and pepper

1 onion, minced

2 garlic, minced

Oil

Heat the oil in rice cooker, throw in the onions and garlic and translucent, then put in the broth, and the rice. 

Wait until it fully cook.

Serve with egg, a sprinkle of spring onion and fried onion.

Mushroom Soup and Cheese Toast

Cheese toast : 

Get a french bread, slice into 2cm thick, put the cheese on top of the bread and bake.

Mushroom soup:

Ingredients:

I use three different mushroom, the usual white one, the black/brown tip and the shitake.(300gram)

25 ml Heavy cream 

500ml Chicken broth

2 large onion, chopped

3 garlic, chopped

3 tsp butter

salt and pepper.

Get a large pan, and melt the butter in it. 

Throw in the mushroom for about 8 to 10 minutes, next put in the garlic and onion. 

Once the onions turn translucent, put in the broth. 

Simmer for another 15 minutes or so, next, blend half to 3/4 of the broth (I blend all, because I can't follow a simple recipe). 

Then, put the blended broth in the broth again, heat it up and pour the heavy cream. 

Ready to serve. 

Baked potato

Ingredients:

4 flat potato

Half cup spring onion

A cup of cut up hotdogs

Cheese

Salt and Pepper

Boil the potato until they are soft but not breakable.

Cut the top open, and scoop the potato out in a container.

Mash it up, and put in the other ingredients.

Spoon it back in the potato and put some cheese, salt and pepper, and baked for 15 mins, depending on your setting.

Ready to serve.

(The above pic is the left over of the potato jacket, which we just baked in another pan)

Lasagna with mushroom, beef and spinach.

I made two, four week ago and three weeks ago.

Ingredients:
1 packet of minced beef, roughly 300g
100g spinach
150g mushroom
1 packet lasagna
1 bottle of prego sauce
1 large onion, minced
2 garlic, minced
Oil

In a pan, heat up some oil, and put in the onion and garlic.
Next, put in the minced beef until it turns brown.
Put in the mushroom.
Lastly, put in the prego sauce.

Wash the spinach and dry it.

Cheese Sauce.
Heat up 150 ml milk, and pour in 4 tsp of flour. Whisk.
Put in 50g or more cheese, Whisk.


Take some of the beef sauce, put in it a shallow pan, next line the lasagna, and the beef, spinach and cheese sauce.
Layer until you have at least 3 layers.
Baked in oven for 35 minutes, depending on your setting.
Ready to serve.

Chocolate Cake with Frosting

Ingrdients:

200 gram Flour

150 gram Sugar

1 tsp Baking powder

1 tsp Bicarbonate 

75 gram Cocoa powder

175 gram Butter

2 Eggs

2 tsp Vanilla

125ml Milk

Mix in butter, sugar, egg, milk . 

Once nicely incorporate, put in the flour, cocoa, vanilla, baking soda, bicarbonate. 

(Or since I'm lazy, I put everything in the mixer and blend it all together)

Next, put in the pan and baked for 35 minutes, depending on your setting.

Baked Spaghetti

I just made spaghetti, toss it in prego sauce, put some green peas, put it in a pan, put some meatloaf on top, sprinkle the cheese, walla~

Last three weeks:

We went to Batu Layar, Johor on Sunday.

We did BBQ and went swimming for hours!

We went to beach spontaneously, so there's a lot of thing we didn't pack!

Like knife, towel, fire starter for BBQ, utensils, toys for Cik Keyaan, plates, cooking oil and such.

But we did have a blast!

Here's some of the pics we took the other day:

Arrived at destination and took pics of us! Cik Khyru is trying to work out the BBQ.

Us after all the swimming

I gave Cik Keyaan his first cucumber to eat and then he played with it..

The wrinkle toes.

Cik Keyaan with Daddy

His cute giraffe swimmer. 

Sandwiches. Yums...

The other food that we bbq.

Last two weeks

Cik Keyaan got his bunny, Tiramitu from my sis, Khadijah.
He love it, now always hugging him when he's sleeping.

I craveee for Nasi with Durian.
My late Dad loved nasi, santan, gula and durian so much.
Once he's gone, no one else make it anymore.
But I did.
And it was amazing after nearly two years without it.
I'm going to do it again.

Last week

Ramadhan!
Since the first day I break fast in my mom's house, so we ate a lot!
First day was a lot of kuih, cendol, kathira, n my mom made nasi with daging sate.
Second day was nasi with sambal udang, ayam, murtabak, a lot of kuih, katira.
Third day was mee rebus tulang, a lot of kuih, air jagung, kfc, murtabak.
Fourth day was nasi minyak, ayam merah, daging briyani, acar, katira, kuih2, abc and air mata kucing.
Fifth day was Kenny Rogers.
No pictures was taken cause we are freaking hungryyy.

On the fourth Ramadhan my sis belanja us wayang.
Including Cik Keyaan!
So first time Keyaan, 7m2w going to cinema.
We watch Despicable Me 2.
I taught he's going to sleep or cry.
He did neither!
He freaking loves it.
He sit on me like I'm a plush sofa, and watch the whole movie!
OMG.

So yeah, that's all the update for a month.
I have drafted a few, but didn't manage to finish it.
So I guess combining all in here would be great. Lol.
Have a great Ramadhan everyone!
Blessed you!

A week of being housewife *with recipe and DIY!*

Hello Hello!

Being a housewife is no easy feat! 

One, I'm constantly bored.

Two, read number one. :p

So what do I do?

I've cooked, I've cleaned, I've tidy up.

I make this for lunch :

Mee with soup and hotdogs: 

And then there's the perfect scrambled egg:

Three eggs, one cup of milk, salt and pepper to taste.(combined all, make sure to beat as much air in it as possible)

Take 2 tsp of butter, melt it on your frying pan.

Once the butter melted, pour the batter in.

Let it stay for half a minute, then start scrambling slowly, until all the batter become solid.

Add additional ingredients as you prefer (key : cheeseeee)

Lift the egg to dishes and eat! 

Yummiesss!

And then I make fries. Freaking delicious!

To make it, you need to cook it not once, not twice, but thrice!!

Cut the potato into strips and soak it in water + salt

Cook it in enough water and salt until the water boil over. 

Strain.

Refrigerated them until they are frozen ( a bit)

Fry them with lower temperature until they turn light golden.

Strained.

Refrigerated again.

Fry them on higher temperature until they turn golden.

Add pepper and salt if you want.

But without them also it take so freaking good.

The inside is fluffy and the outside is crispy.

Oh Oh...yummiesss~

Next, I think I posted before about the closet mom gave for the baby right?

Unfortunately I don't like the angry bird plastered on top of it.

So I decided to do something with it:

The closet: 

The paper that I chose to change the look: 

First, take out all the screws for the knob.

Next, put on the double tape on the offending drawer: 

Take them outtt: 

The put on the paper, top first, then smoother it down.

Next, put back the knob.

(The picture is not rotated. Sorry!* 

And the result: 

Tadaa~

 

It does looks better and grown up a bit, isn't it?

The next thing I tackled is the crib!

My brother gave me money to buy the mattress the other day, so we went and bought it, with white mattress protector and a white linen.

The plastic is still in the picture!

The tiger is a toy we get as we donate to WWF, and the other toy is a free gift when we bought the rocker.

So both of the toy is free!

Next I try to put all the cloth diaper that I bought in one place, and it looks freaking cute!

Only 9 in stash, and most of it are Grovia, 2 is newborn and 6 is the usual one. I got four of them half price!

Woohoo!

Then hubby bought barut for the baby (ten of them!) and their are all washed, primed and waiting for the baby to arrive!

And last but not least, I was watching tv when then baby shoving his ass on my right side of stomach.

Can you see his butt? :P 

Okay for now, I'm gonna right another post on how to past your time *while waiting for the baby to arrive*

Craving for Domino - No more!

During Hari Raya my siblings all came back, so we had a lil feast on Saturday night.

My first sis belanja makan makan at Domino!

Yummiesss

I bought the regular classified chicken and a large meatloaf pizza.

*To be honest, I usually eat this by myself. muahahaha. Thankfully the second sis already belanja McD's new set that afternoon.*

This was taken before the food arrived.

Second sis and hubby

Mom, Nazirah, Ahnaf and first sis

Hubby and me *and one lil baby*

And I'm sorry there's no food picture, cause as soon as the food arrived, we gobble everything up.

Muahahhaha.

Healthy juice competition

This is ours~ 

Will post the recipe!

Giddy with excitement!

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The (winning) recipe:

3 navel oranges

2 sorbet

2 carrot

half a water melon

enough water, sugar to taste.

To make:

Cut all the skins from the oranges

Fill it in blender, blend until fine

Put in diced carrot

Put in sorbet

Pour into jug.

Clean the blender, blend the watermelon.

Filter the pulp, and pour the juice into the jug.

Tadaa~ 

Double layer juice, which is perfect!

XD

DIET : Cookies Raya Recipe : Honey Cornflakes

The yummy honey cornflakes!

Hi all,

Yesterday I made this honey cornflakes for Raya and some of you asked if you could buy from me, but since I'm not well enough to make too many (aka, I'm too tired to sit for a long time), so I'm posting this recipe for all of you other!

Enjoy it piping hot!

Ingredients:

1 cup honey

1 cup fried nuts

4 teaspoon sugar

250g butter

2 of those big cornflakes boxes

How to:

1. Fried the ground nuts until golden. Leave until cool. Once cooled, dispose the shells.

2. Pour honey and sugar inside frying pan (the biggest you can find) and stir until all the sugar dissolve

3. Pour in the butter. Once melted, pour in the fried ground nuts.

4. Drop the content of the cornflakes boxes and stir them all!

5. Drop them into cute cupcakes holder

6. Bake for 10-15 minutes on 170' setting (for my oven, you may have different setting, try it out first or you ended up with charred cornflakes..like my first batch did)

7. Let it cool and put it away in storage box!

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Bahan bahan:

1 cawan madu

1 cawan kacang tanah(digoreng)

4 sudu gula

250g mentega

2 kotak besar cornflakes

Cara Cara:

1. Goreng kacang tanah hingga keemas-emasan. Bila sejuk, buang kulit. (ramas2 & tiup. Keje paling leceh tp best!)

2. Panaskan gula dan madu, pastikan gula cair 

3. Masukkan mentega. Bila dah cair, masukkan kacang tadi.

4. Masukkan cornflakes, and kacau rata2.

5. Masukkan dalam cup kertas bunga comel2

6. Bakar dalam 10-15 minit dgn kepanasan 170' (lain oven, lain setting. Oven sblom ni, setting dia 200,20 min, oven y ni walaupun comel, tp panasss. So, kejap je bole masak dah)

7. Sejukkan dan susun dalam bekas dan sorok! Kalau tak, tak raya la kuih tu.

Bestnya buat kuih ni, kita bole tambah2, contoh mixed fruit ke ape ke, byk la. 

Yang ke2 best, tengah masuk dalam cup, masuk dalam mulut dulu separuh masuk mulut. Nyummy!

Selamat mencuba!

InsyaAllah sy upload biskut2 lain jgk nanti :D

DIET : Gulai Lemak Tempoyak Udang and Sup Sayur (Prawn in gravy and Vegetable soup)

Yesterday, since we( me and housemate) are fasting, so we were cooking some delicious and easy recipe which we just made under 45 mins!

Recipes as below :

Prawn in gravy

Half scallop
2 onion
3 garlic
3 lemon grass
2 turmeric leaves
1cm turmeric or 2 tsp of turmeric
Salt to taste
14 prawn
4 red chili
Coconut milk(half a box)
1 tsp tempoyak 

Blend onion, garlic, turmeric, salt, red chili and water. Next, heat up 2 tsp oil, and cook the blended ingredients. When they smell good, put in lemongrass and coconut milk. Add 100ml water. Once it boiled over, put in 1tsp tempoyak, stir and put the prawn and simmer until the prawn is cooked. Lastly, add in turmeric leaves.

Vegetable soup

Half a broccoli
4 young corn shoot
1 carrot
Half of scallop
2 onion
3 garlic
Salt to taste
Anchovies
Water


Blend onion, scallop and garlic (To save time, I blend all the garlic, scallop and onion together, then take half out for vegie soup and half for prawn's gravy). Heat oil and simmer the blended ingredients with anchovies. Next, pour water, salt, and carrot in. After the carrot half cooked, put in young corn shoot and broccoli. I also put in 3 prawn to taste. Simmer again until boiled and walla~

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Gulai Lemak Tempoyak Udang

Setengah biji bawang besar
2 ulas bawang kecil
3 ulas bawang putih
2 helai daun kunyit
1cm kunyit atau 2 sudu serbuk kunyit
Setengah kotak santan
Air
Garam
14 ekor udang
4 biji lada
3 batang serai (dititik)
1 sudu tempoyak

Kisar bawang2. (untuk mudah dan cepat, kisar bawang untuk gulai dan sup sayur, asingkan separuh untuk sup sayur, dan masukkan kunyit, garam dan lada, kisar sekali lagi). Panaskan minyak, dan tuang bahan yand dikisar. Panaskan hingga naik bau, letak santan, serai, dan air 100ml. Kacau supaya santan xpecah. Masukkan 1 sudu tempoyak. Kacau. Masukkan udang dan daun kunyit y dihiris halus. Siap!

Sup Sayur

Separuh biji bawang
2 ulas bawang merah
3 ulas bawang putih
1 batang lobak
Separuh broccoli
3 ekor udang
4 Jagung muda
Garam
Air
Segenggam ikan bilis

Kisar bawang putih, bawang merah dan bawang besar. Panaskan minyak dan tuang bahan dikisar dan ikan bilis. Panaskan sampai naik bau, masukkan air, garam dan lobak merah. Bila lobak hampir masak, masukkan jagung dan broccoli dan udang. Kacau dan biarkan mendidih.Siap~

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Life is definitely good. XD

DIET : nasi goreng telur mata

Finally taking break after all those folding boxes, snipping n gluing, and blah blah. Non stop working! Will continue after this. x.x

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Fond weakness : milk choc apollo

I could eat millions of this! Tahan nafsu Katie!

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Birthday & Swings

Hey peeps~

Thursday was S bday, so we celebrate it at Secret Recipe. 

I got the full fibre cheesecake(heaven) n she had blackforest

D Foods! yummyyy

D food (inside our tummies)

D bday girl~

And today, went to hospital to visit my dad, n since kids can't go in, I have babysit these two daredevils:

They were playing swings and keep on asking me to push them!

The kids

So fun!

Weee~

My dad looks better, more cheerful, and keep making plans for my special day.

I bet he's excited to let go another and d last daughter!

So yeah, just finished one of the deco (the pom poms)

Next, will be the hantaran stuff.

Bought the egg box for favors.

What else?

zzzz

Yeah I should catch some sleep...

but am too restless!

haiz, anyway good night peeps.

Have a great day tomorrow yah.