Pengat Pisang

MY THOUGHTS

To win a man's heart is through his stomach. Is this true? It works for me though. He loves it when I cook and groan whenever I pass the job to my maid.

What is so difficult about cooking especially if there is a maid to assist you in the kitchen?

THE RECIPE

This is my hubby's favourite

Coconut milk (almost half of the pot. I prefer using the Vision pot. You could simply put the pot on the table.)
Gula Melaka (one whole lot. Pound it a bit so that it would melt faster.)
Sagu (this will make it slightly thicker. My hubby prefers a thick sauce.)
Daun Pandan (one piece is enough.)
A pinch of salt (people say that you need to add in a bit of salt if you are making something sweet.)
Banana (slice the banana but not to small. Slightly bigger than one's mouth. Add this in when the Gula Melaka is hundred percent melted.)

**My hubby loves to have this dessert cool rather than hot.)

POINT TO PONDER

Sometimes we are really fussy. At times, we need to let go. However, I could not stop being meticulous as I need to make sure that whatever I spend is worth it. Most people do not like it - this includes the salesman. Should I be worry about it?

Soto Ayam

MY THOUGHTS

My second daughter requested for Soto Ayam, a dish which I don't quite like. Thus, to cook it is something which is not possible as I do not know how it should be tasted like. Still, remembering an Ustaz's advice, fulfilling someone's wish especially your own child is something the parent need to do while the child is healthy. Often, the Ustaz reminds that parents only try to fulfill the child's wish is when the child is really sick and then later, when the child is no longer around, the parents start to regret.


THE RECIPE 

Pot - medium sized metal pot.
Chicken (If you do not wish to boil the whole chicken, choose the part with a lot of flesh. Boil the chicken.
              Once the chicken is cooked, take it out and tear out the cooked flesh into small strips.)
Ginger (slightly bigger than my thumb. Peel off the skin and bruise it. Put it into the chicken broth.)
Lemon grass ( I used two. Clean and then have it bruised.)
To be pounded: (to be added into the chicken broth)
- Jintan manis (1/2 tablespoon)
- Jintan putih (1/2 tablespoon)
- Ketumbar (1 tablespoon)
- galangle (slightly smaller than my thumb. Preferably, it should be getting the same treatment as the ginger but as mine has been sliced and dried, I decided to pulverize it.)
Salt
Black Pepper (1 teaspoon - pounded)
White pepper (quite a lot of dashes)

The sauce:
Chilli Padi ( about ten)
Garlic (about 6 cloves. Blend the two items but instead of adding water, replace it with soya sauce. Then
           pour the blended items into a pot and have it boil.)

Begedil (an essential item when having Soto.)
MInce meat (one cereal bowl)
Potatoes (about 6 large ones. Cut them up like oranges and then fry them. Later, you mashed them up. This
                is followed by adding in the mince meat.)
Fried Onions (Put in about 2 1/2 tablespoon of it into the mixture(
2 eggs
White pepper
salt
Flour (1 ladle scoop of it)
**mix all the ingredients well. Then make balls out of the mixture and deep fry them. Make sure the oil is hot before putting them in.)

Serving:
The soup
Garnishes (stripped chicken, sliced spring onions, blenched beansprouts, compressed rice.)

POINT TO PONDER

As a muslim, are we expected to tolerate with every rubbish that people throw upon us? Ideally, I suppose so but, at times, you just cannot take the bull-shit (excuse the language). Just to please the boss, we simply put down a figure and hoping that our boss will be impressed.

           I could still remember SIGS late headmistress used to say 'If you wish to do something, do it well or else don't do it at all.' However, this is not the case nowadays. Figure first, the action comes later. If people remember, we do it. If our boss forget, we should forget.

Bee Hoon Berkuah

MY THOUGHTS

I do appear to bold and brave. Some  say I would be able to face anything. Some of my acquaintances who are holding the same positions often believe that I could solve any kind of horrible problems that they are facing. Little do they know that I am scared most of the time.

THE RECIPE

It has been quite some time since I could post the pictures of the food that I cooked. Ever since I took over my husband's handphone, such luxury is no longer for my pleasure.

Today is the forth day of fasting month and the first day too for me to cook for my children after so many ....

Bee Hoon (My maid made a mistake by soaking the whole packet. In actual fact, just two 'plank' would be
                  enough.)
Cooking oil (about six tablespoons)
Chilli Boh (once the oil is hot, put in five tablespoons. Stir it until you see the colour change.)
Peeled prawns (3/4 cereal bowl of it.))
3 tauhu (cut them into small pieces. FRY them first. Make sure they are light brown in colour.)
**Add in the Bee Hoon after the prawns are properly cooked and the fried tauhu is well coated with the chilli.
Beansprouts (pinch off the tail before cooking.)
Soya sauce (add in just enough. )
THE SAUCE:
Cooking oil (once it is hot, you start putting in other ingredients)
Garlic (about three cloves. It would be good if you could pound them finely together with the tauchu but do make sure that the garlic changes to yellow first. )
TAuchu (two big tablespoons.)
Water (Add in four mugs full)
**let it boil.

POINT TO PONDER

When we were having our dinner, my youngest announced his dislike towards bee hoon. I was shocked as this has never came to my attention.

Well, being a mother of five, it is surely not easy to please every individual. Every one seems to have their own taste.