hello churros!

May 16, 2012
Posted by Whimsy Loft

My last post was slightly more than a week ago.

Not much of sewing was done – just one (will share later), but I manage to do quite a lot of cooking. I made Assam (Tamarind) Prawns just 2 days ago, but I don’t have a photo for it. Was too excited to dig in and wallop the prawns Yesterday I made Wholemeal pancakes. Also no photos.

This morning, I decided to make Churros for breakfast. Recipe from here. I saw it on AFC (Asian Food Channel) and it looked easy enough to make.

Turned out good ! Slightly on the sweet side which I don’t prefer, but overall it is yummy!

My Churros turned out VERY crispy because I use a very small piping tip – which is the only one I had.

Oh ya, there this Sew Mama Sew Giveway happening on 21st of May, and I have decided to join! You can read more about it here and maybe decide to join too?

Ok, have a great day. I’ll be back later today (hopefully) to blog about my new space at home.

Unleaven bread

April 2, 2012
Posted by Whimsy Loft

Last weekend, Mom baked some unleaven bread for her Seder Meal. It was a great event! And the bread tastes yummylicious! ^^

This week is the Holy Week… Easter is coming!!! For me, it is a week of making changes.

I will start by cleaning out my room, repainting the walls, and rearranging my crafting loft. There is a lot of cleaning to do. All the messiness has accummulated for one year now.

It will take some time because there is really really a lot of mess, and I need to balance this with my day job. I really don’t have much time in hand. I’m embarrass to even show the “before” photo hehe… but I will definitely show the “after” photo ^^. Well, this will be in my agenda for this week.

Meanwhile, lunch is in the making. These vegetable are just so colourful !

I’m off to fry some rice with vegetables now.

Seder Meal – Charoset making

March 30, 2012
Posted by Whimsy Loft

Mom is preparing a Seder Meal for our church RCIA group. Easter is coming ! We’re almost ready to get a whole bunch of people Baptised!

The kitchen is in a mess… hehe… because Mom is making Charoset, also known as Haroset.

I love LOVE LOVE this Haroset.
I eat it like jam on bread, and sometimes with pork (just like we have meatballs with jam… the ones we find in Ikea).

It’s very easy to make.
Cook some cut apples, brown sugar, yellow and black raisin and cinamom in a pot. Add a cup of red wine if you like. We don’t add wine. It is fine.

Ones soft and cooled down, throw them into a bleander to mash them up. Fold in some finely chopped almonds. There, it’s done!

Here’s a photo with showing the finely chopped almonds:

This link here shows the menu of a Seder Meal, which is very close to what Mom prepares every year.

Roti Jala and Curry Chicken

March 20, 2012
Posted by Whimsy Loft

The focus here is the Roti Jala (Netted Crepe).

It’s my first time making this.

Here’s the recipe:

Flour, about 3-4 cups
3 Eggs
Milk about 3 cups
Pinch of salt
Pinch of tumeric powder for colour
Water about 2 cups

There’s really no measurement, I just mix everything and added flour till I get the consistency that I want. It should be slightly watery but not too watery, so that the batter will flow nicely from the mould to the pan.
If you want to know how a Roti Jala Mould looks like, just google it. It’s a yellow cup-like thing with 5 nozzles. Hehe…

I made my curry chicken really light and watery. The reason is to have lots and lots of curry sauce, which we can drink like soup. That’s how my family like to have their meal.

Everything is “banjir”. Banjir means flood in Malaysian language. We Nyonyas use this word to describe an eating habit that we like to pour lots and lots of sauce on our rice, to make it look like it is flooded.

rambling.in.manglish.

March 4, 2012
Posted by Whimsy Loft

Completely random and in manglish (malaysian-english).

I think most of you already know that google retired the Google Friends Connect for wordpress in Nov 2011, and in replacement created this thing Google+. So guess what yours truly here didn’t know about this until just a few weeks ago.

Yada yada yada… to cut the cerita (story) short… I lost all my network on my Google Friends Connect. See the box on the right of this site that says “my friends”… KOSONG!!!! (empty!!!)… my beratus-ratus kawans all lost… (( don’t know where to find them back… macam mana oooo????

And because of that I created the FB pages lah… want to use the Google+ also don’t know if can trust or not… nanti kaput like the Google Friends Connect apa macam? So I think FB more stable and at least I know how to use it mah…

Google did say can import my network using API… but WHAT is API… api? fire? Ini yours truly mmg not savy in all this stuff so lantak lah I don’t want to try. Biar cam tu sj, I will use my FB to network.

So, this is what I made for dinner yesterday. Cinamon pork ribs (lots of sauce cos my family loves sauce, a true nyonya way of eating is to drench your rice in sauce! )

And okra in oyster sauce with ~~lots of~~ garlic.

All that cooking done while I baked my Kuih Lapis (layered cake). Bila senang nnt I post the recipe for the cake. Yo people, good night!

Cook more, right?

February 22, 2012
Posted by Whimsy Loft

I mentioned that one of my aspiration is to cook more right?

Well, yes! I’ve been on a Nyonya food rampage of late. Been cooking {authentic} Penang Nyonya food since 2 weeks ago; and stalking some Nyonya restaurants to try out their food in order to compare them to mine ^^

If you don’t know what Nyonya food is, please read here and here.

My paternal Grandma was a Nyonya from Penang, and most of the dishes I cooked is what she has either taught my Mother or myself.

Here’s some of the dishes I have cooked recently:

Ondek-ondek (Glutonous rice balls filled with palm sugar):