A lil weekend getaway

Hello there.

Over the weekend we went to Batu Layar, Desaru for a lil picnic with Syida's fam.

It was very windy, and we only dare to play at the shores only.

Keyaan was especially scared of the sea because of the wind and high sea.

Although he walks a lot the other day, in a blink, baby grows sooo fast, aren't they?

On our way there

Keyaan and Khyru walking around

Ayam percik kelate

The wives~

Hot dog

Ikan bakar

Anak nippon

Tukang masak & Tukang makan hihi

Wanted : A Fridge

Salam and good day great people.

Although this has been my thoughts with hubby last year, this year we're bringing it up again.

Since we still didn't get our house.

Currently I have a one door Panasonic fridge, which is full and packed most of the time.

I'm pinning for Sharp's refrigerator with side by side door.

Isn't it a beauty? Sigh~

At least with moreee compartment like this, I'll hopefully be more organized.

The cost runs from RM3500 to RM7000.

For business, in case I'll have a bakery cum florist, I would like to buy a four door fridge. I surveyed it's around RM3600. 

Which one should I buy first? 

Hmm...

Love,

Kate

Hello, new year. (halfway through the first month, already!)

Hello everyone.

I have neglected this blog as I'm too busy living my life.

The last time I wrote in this blog was back in August, and hello new year!

Four or more months!

Well, I have been busy, I'm doing a weekly dowry rental for Johorians and Singaporeans, I've been busy with baby and maintaining the other blog, maintaining my household with lil ones that just turns one.

I've shared my wishlist in the other blog, and I'm still as restless as ever.

Less bitchy? Perhaps.

I'll try to update once in a while I hope, but for now, head over to my other blog about more on my business side.

I'm going to update more on house organizing here, maybe perhaps especially when I get my own house. 

Right now, although my living room and kitchen is still organize, I need to do something about my craft room!

I'll take some pictures tonight and hopefully will update when I organize it more. 

Talk to you soon. :)

Kate.

Eating Healthy :15 Aug 2013

Fourth day of food diary(15 Aug 2013)

250ml of Actifast (Drank with chrysanthemum tea -bad, too many sugar :( )

1 medium kiwi

Snack(am)
1 medium orange

Lunch

250ml of Actifast

Red coral salad with Egg omelette
200ml orange juice

Snack(pm)
1 medium orange

Dinner
1 Kiwi
Ayam penyet (Thigh and drumstick)
1 Nan cheese
10 satay
Another tandoori thigh
Warm tea
5 durian
(So not healthy eating at night, but I'm guessing will be like this for another week. Its all open house and this and thattt)

Water Intake
250ml + 250ml + 200ml + 350ml+ 350ml + 200ml + 200ml = 1800ml

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Healthy Recipe

Egg Omelette

Ingredients

3 eggs

A cup of red coral and baby butterhead, chopped

Salt and Pepper to taste

A splash of olive oil

How to

In a small bowl, beat up three eggs with salt and pepper

Chopped red coral and baby butterhead and combine with the egg

In a skillet, heat some olive oil, then pour the batter in

Flip the egg so both sides cook well

Serve with red coral salad.

Eating Healthy :14 Aug 2013

Hi everyone!

So yesterday I've bought a few stuff for this week food intake as well as I'm going to post how much I spent on everything, since hubby ask me to.
I will also post the recipe of the meal that I made as a compilation of healthy recipe.

So I've talked to Winnie and one of her friend suggesting an oat powder before breakfast and lunch. 

Which I did and bought the Kordel's Actifast 35 oat powder.

The breakfast was okay as I drink with cold water

The lunch, not so, as I puked the last half out, because I tried using warm water and it became disgusting slimy stuff. x.x

This is the actifast oat

So here's the list for week one (14 Aug - 17 Aug)

Kordel's Actifast - RM65

Salad butterhead - RM4.99

Red and green coral - RM5.29

Green kiwi (6) - RM9.90

Navel orange(a bunch of) - RM10.90

Thousand island - RM6.90

Parmesan - RM15.69

Cod fish - RM15.23

Salmon - RM6.71

Lemon(1) - RM0.99

Sweet potato (3) - RM3.48

Egg (10) - RM5.29

Cabbage (1/4) - RM3.59

Total week 1 : RM153.96

And third day, I'm eating:

Breakfast:

Actifast 35 oat + 250ml water

A medium orange

Snack (AM)

1 medium kiwi

Lunch

Actifast 35 oat + 250ml water
1 warm tea - RM1

Salmon and Egg Salad

Dinner

Well the dinner is ..not diet at all.
I went to open house, so I ate:

1 Burasak
1 1/2 cup of nasi lemak
7 udang
7 biscuits
half cup of sayur lodeh
half cup of rendang
1 small piece of chicken curry
3 glass of fizzy drinks

Water intake:

250ml + 250ml + 200ml + 900ml + 350ml + 600ml= 2550ml

Healthy Recipe :

Salmon and Egg Salad

Ingredients

1 head of butterhead lettuce

1 slice of salmon

2 boiled eggs

1 spoon of parmesan cheese

How to
Fry the salmon with no oil, until the color change to more opaque, flakes.
Boil 2 eggs and crush them.
Put in the salad (baby butterhead lettuce), crushed eggs and salmon flakes and toss.

In denial - Obesity

The lack of sizes in clothing department.

The lack of interesting clothes to wear.

The increased size.

The increased appetite.

The increased clothes-i-love-but-i-can't-wear.

Finally, this picture:

Our raya 2013 picture where I no longer have cheekbones, and added another chin.

I'm so deep in denial and good food, that my weight scaled up from 70 ( 3 years ago) to...

91kg...

Mother of all horror!

What happened??

It's not an overnight process, I guess I'm just used to eating out so much that it becomes uncontrollable.

So now, I'm taking my life back, put it on track, and will be making a difference.

I need to, as my husband and son need me.

Not the fatty, obese me, but the old me, slimmer than now.

I look ugly in picturesss.

I'm stressing out~

Luckily hubs and my bff Winnie is encouraging me, goes as far as asking her friend who is pro in losing weight.

Thanks babe.

I'll try to do my best!

I have successfully given up buying magazine (four months and counting!)

If the magazine which is my life and blood since I can't even remember when I could kick out, so does this!

I'll be documenting this, and today is DAY TWO.

But I did a few mistakes already. 

Haha.

First, day one lunch - KFC. because all the shops are closed

Dinner - Kue tiaw with egg - Kue tiaw is a no no

Day two - Lunch - Chicken chop - oily oily fried stuff

Other than that, I'm drinking and not snacking!

Which is amazing, since I snack a lot.

So yeah, no more snacking!

Good Luck, Katie!

^__^

Start date : 12 Aug 2012

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!