Sunday, September 4, 2011

Loving it

Recently, I'm crazily in love with using Instagram from my iphone.

Instagram is really easy to use, it has different kind of filters, really easy to upload your photos to Facebook, Twitter and Flickr! Just one click!

If you have notice on the right side of my blog, there's a section I named "Daily Excitements". That's the place that I will upload photos pretty much on-the-go. It's like my mini photo blog that I will update daily! (Well, hopefully :P)

Anyway, I've been busy around the house cooking and cleaning. After a whole day of doing things around the house, we were amazed that we were able to cook 4 meals that day!

This is what we did on Sunday..


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We made Char Siu Rice for Breakfast. Yes.. My favourite Sorrowful Rice again.. from God of Cookery. :P


From Instagram

Then we did a couple of hours of gardening. cutting grass, pulling weeds, get rid of a few dead plants.


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Then back to the kitchen, clean & scrub the mussels then cook it.


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So during lunch time, we had Chilli Mussels with garlic bread.


From Instagram (My sister asked why is my soup black. Okay people, it's because I used a filter on it. The soup is red, so don't freak out)

And for dinner, we had Asam Laksa! My cousin Eileen came over too for dinner.

I made a stupid mistake while preparing this dish and the story goes like this. I bought a packet of Asam Laksa paste from Swansea Market, I put the paste and water into the pot to boil. I had a tiny sip and thought, Hey! I should put more prawn paste in there to make this soup base "TO THE NEXT LEVEL"!! So I looked in the pantry for my recent bought bottle of prawn paste! I was so happy, I scoop a big spoonful of it and stir it in...

Then I took another sip.

O_O <---- Horror face

My soup taste like Rojak!!! OMFGLOL ok it's freaking not funny.
So happen Joe was there while I had this face O_O
I looked at him and said HOWWWWWWWW!!!!

He looked up the recipe online, and told me we have all the ingredients at home. We ended up chopping the ingredients and make our own Asam Laksa paste from scratch.
Oh and Joe saved my pot of Asam Laksa soup too. :P
Thank gowd.



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After dinner, I made the custard for Eileen's Puff Pastry. Nom nom.


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The last cooking of the day is Carrot cake made by Eileen and Joe!


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A big one!

Amazing how much we can do in 1 day. hahaha
*Proud* :D

How was your weekend? :)

Friday, September 2, 2011

Doraemon Door to the Rescue!



Do you remember Doraemon? The famous Japanese cartoon that aired on TV every week night? Well, in Malaysia anyway :)

He is the best robot cat ever because he has all the cool stuff in his pocket! Whenever you are in trouble, he will get a tool from his magical pocket and help u solve the problems!!

The one that I like the most is the DOOR! With that door, you can go anywhere you want!
Places like France!! Paris!!! New York!!! Japan!!! No problem!
Isn't it awsome??

But probably the only place you don't wanna end up is here...




Ops! :P

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Taste #5 Umami Paste



Has anyone tried this Umami Paste?? Apparently it is known as the fifth taste, after sweet, sour, salty and bitter, and gives dishes that extra flavour kick.
In today's The West Australian paper, they mentioned Umami Paste has an intense flavour with a combination of porcini mushroom, parmesan cheese, anchovies, black olives and balsamic vinegar.
I am going to get this Umami Paste soon! You can get it from The Grocer in Claremont or online at jonesthegrocer.com for $6.95.

Hooray! I'm excited!! hehe


More info here if you wanna know more about it.