♥...A Bunch of Roses from Secubit Garam...♥

Yeeeeeehaaaaaa!!! I got roses...I got roses!!!

It came all the way from Terengganu...from Kak Nor @ Secubit Garam! She has one lovely blog with huge collection of finger lickin' good dishes! I knew Kak Nor even before I started blogging via Myresipi. We shared good rapport until now. I always consider her as my 'sifu'! Still remember I was asking so much questions about puddings. Well...I was a newbie then.

I mistakenly thought that I was following her blog all these while. Her blog was always in my bookmark list and also at my bloglist. Thus, I found out while checking some stuffs at my blog dashboard yesterday. I was listing down every blog that I follow and happened to find her blog was missing in my reading list! I jumped into her blog to click on follow, but what a miracle!!!! I happened to be her 1000th Follower!!!  That's so cool na...

In conjunction with this, she has gifted me a lovely bunch of roses! Thank You so much Kak Nor!!! I'm really happy to have known you in this cyberworld. You are such a kind person!

♥...Awards & A Tag...♥

It's time to clear my pending homework before New Year tomorrow. Yes, I'm talking about the awards and tag that I suppose to collect and post in my blog. Thanks a ton to all the lovely hearts for passing me these awards! Not sure if I deserve them all but appreciate your thoughts!

Starting with the awards I received...

Suja Suganathan from Kitchen Corner

 

Kak Hana from Hanamemories & Kak Nur from My Little Kitchen

 From Kurinji Kathambam

Jay from Tasty Appetite

I'm tagged by Priya Sreeram from Bon Appetit with some questionnaire...here's my answer!

Q 1)  Who or what inspired your Food Blogging Journey?
A thought to share my recipes and to learn more from others.
Q 2)  What was the very first dish you cooked for your spouse/loved one ? What was the reaction?
Nasi Lemak. The rice became like porridge! My Hubby's reaction...stayed cool!
Q 3)  What is your idea of a romantic meal ?
Prepare all my Hubby's favourite dishes and lid up a gorgeous candle!
Q  4)  Name any major disaster in kitchen ?
Nothing happened so far...touch wood!
Q 5)  What are your favourite dishes?
Fried chickens, sardine/mackerel curry, mutton dishes.
Q 6) One favourite restaurant and why ?
Amarin Heavenly Thai, Midvalley Megamall. First class Thai cuisine for me!
Q 7) Do you have a New Year's resolution- and will you be sticking to it ?
I'm still thinking on that, hahaha! And if I do, will make my best to stick to it. 

Thank You Very Much!!! 

 

♥...Chocolate Cheese Cake...♥

Baked this cake some time back and I completely forgotten to post it! How could that be??? I saved the images into another folder of mine by mistake...hehehe! Luckily I found it now...

Still remember I baked this cake in a real rush. Was busy with something else at that time...can't remember what though!

Recipe is from my dear blogger friend...Kak Dayang Jack! She is one of my long time friend in blogging world, as well as my blog's first follower! She loves to cook and bake various type of cakes. I tried many of her cakes before, and it'll be always a success. Thanks KakDayang for yet another cool recipe!

  
CHOC CHEESE CAKE by Dayang Jack

Ingredients (A)

• 150gm self raising flour + 40 gm cocoa (sifted together)
• 170gm refined sugar
• 3 (A) sized eggs
• 180gm butter

Methods :~

1. Beat eggs and sugar until light and fluffy under maximum speed. 
2. Meanwhile beat butter until white and fluffy. Combine egg mixture with butter and beat under medium speed. 
3. Add cocoa powder and mix well under lower speed. 

Ingredients (B)

• 250gm cream cheese
• 60gm sugar
•  1 egg
•  1 tsp vanilla essence

 Methods :~

1. Beat cheese until fluffy. Add sugar, eggs and vanilla essence. Beat again until fluffy.
2. Pour the mixture A and B alternatively into a greased and floured cake tray.   
3. Bake at 165C for 1 hour.

I added some chocolate frosting on the cake! Yummyyyyy...

Read more: http://dayangjack.blogspot.com/2009/07/choc-cheese-cake.html #ixzz19UBORW6c
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution

 

♥...Days & Nights at The Legend International Water Homes, Port Dickson...♥

Hi friends, how U all been? All good I hope...some might be very busy with Christmas tomorrow na. So here am wishing A Merry Christmas to all my blogger friends, readers including silent ones and fellow followers! Ho ho ho!!!

Well, today I'm gonna share some photos of our recent holiday at The Legend International Water Homes in Port Dickson. This was our second visit to the hotel. We first went there during my hubby's last break. And we decided to go again on his next break, which we did! So, what has been pulling us to the hotel again and again? There's no beach to swim around though the villas are on the sea.

It's actually the private pool every villa has! Yeah my kids just loved the pool, so do me and hubby. We've been inside the pool much longer than the bed! We spent our days and nights in the pool. It's so private that U'll forget the time!

We spent 3 days 2 nights at the the lower unit of Grand Pool Villa this time. Facilities were so satisfying with 2 king sized beds, dry kitchenette, big private pool, free wifi etc, etc!!! U may want to check out their website HERE to see more details. The food was okay!

Some pics to share!

The pool

Rain shower

Dining

From the room

Wooooshhhh!

The villas

Our beloved kids..

 

 

For your kind information, Port Dickson is where I born! So the place is nothing new to me...hehehe! My one and only Grandma and maternal uncle families are living there still.

♥...Yoghurt Mutton Curry...♥

Mutton is my second favourite dish after chicken. Made some curry this time using plain yogurt. The curry was much creamier and of course it tasted yummy! Hehehe...

As usual, I made the curry a little thicker too...

YOGHURT MUTTON CURRY by love2cook

Ingredients :~

• 1kg mutton ( I used boneless) 
• 2 tsp turmeric powder
• salt

• 5 garlic cloves *
• 8 shallots *
• 1.5 inches ginger *
• 2 lemongrass stalks *
• 1/2 tsp fennel seeds
• 1 pc cinnamon stick
• 3 cardamom pods
• 1 star anise
• 1 large onion ~ sliced
• 2 large green chillies ~ sliced
• 1 curry leaf stalk
• 1 lemongrass stalk ~ slightly crushed
• 2 potatoes ~ cut each into 6 
• 3 tbsp chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp corriander powder
• 1/4 tsp fennel powder
• 1/4 tsp cumin powder
• 4 tbsp plain yogurt
• 2 tbsp corriander leaves
• salt to taste
• cooking oil

 

Method :~

1. In a pot, mix meat with turmeric powder and salt. Add some water and let it boil for 20 minutes. Keep aside. (U may also use pressure cooker)
2. Blend ingredients marked * with little water.
3. Meanwhile, heat oil in wok and saute fennel seeds, cinnamon stick, cardamom pods and star anise until fragrant. Add sliced onion, green chillies, curry leaves and lemongrass, stir for 3 minutes.
4. Add in the blend paste and stir. Cooked covered for 3 minutes.
5. Add mutton pieces together with some broth (water from the boiled pot) together with potatoes. Mix together, add more water if needed.
6. Add chilli powder, corriander powder, fennel powder, cumin powder and salt. Mix thoroughly and cook covered for 10-15 minutes or until mutton and potato cooked.
7. Mix in the corriander leaves and yogurt. Let the curry boil for 5 minutes. Check for seasonings, add salt if needed.
8. Transfer to serving dish.

Sending my Yogurt Mutton Curry to Shaz and Tummy's Muhibbah Malaysian Monday...

My previous entries to the event :~

Nasi Lemak Bungkus
Prawn with Quail Egg Sambal
Easy Baba's Murukku
Chocolate Mousse Pudding

♥...Friday Food Review ~ Lemon Butter Cake...♥

Like I told you before, I simply love butter cakes...the more original is alway the best.

Of late, I've been baking butter cakes quite regular. Just trying out all the recipes I found on net. This also helps me to clear my loooooooong bookmark list.

Butter cake with a cup of tea or coffee is always perfect. And a Lemon Butter Cake is nothing the less. Gosh, I baked this cake twice already now! Tastes so yumm and delicious. Glad to see my family enjoyed the cake..me too!

Thanks a bunch to Sonia@Nasilemaklover for sharing her recipe. The original recipe has lemon glaze, but I skipped it. The cake alone is super duper yummy! Again, I did not wait for the cake to cool before slicing, that's why you can see lots of crumbs on the plate. Gonna bake this often for sure...

Sonia, please allow me to C&P the recipe here for future reference.

LEMON BUTTER CAKE by Sonia@Nasilemaklover...
*make 1 loaf tin

Ingredients:~

• 125g butter
• 100g sugar
• 1 lemon, finely grate the rind
• 2 large eggs
• 175g self-raising flour
• 4tbsp milk

Lemon glaze ( I skipped this)

• 3 tbsp sugar
• 1 lemon, extract juice
• 1 lemon, finely grate the rind

Method :~

1. Beat the butter with the sugar until fluffy.
2. Add in the eggs one by one, then add in lemon rind, mixing well.
3. Fold in the flour and milk, combine well.
4. Pour the mixture into a loaf tin lined with greaseproof paper.
5. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180°C for 40mins.
6. Mix sugar and lemon juice and cook over low heat till sugar dissolved, add in lemon rind, set aside.
7. When cake done, remove cake from the oven and prick all over with a skewer.
8. Pour over the lemon glaze over the hot cake.
9. Ideally to leave cake to set overnight, to have better flavour.

 

 Lemon Butter Cake..anyone????

♥...Rishie's Graduation...♥

Rishie finally graduated from his kindergarten, Smart Reader Kids Bandar Bukit Tinggi, Klang. To mark this grand event, an Annual Concert cum Graduation was held in Crystal Crown Hotel on Sunday, 12th Dec'2010.

Themed "1 Malaysia", the whole show was simply mind blowing. Kids and parents had a real blast throughout the day. A well-organised event from the management. Hats off!

Some pics on the day...

Teachers at the reception...

1 Malaysia Musical Treat...

Entrance to the ballroom and the buffet...

Opening act by the kids...

A speech from Rishie before tea break...

Rishie and friends walked with pride to receive their scrolls...

Rishie graduated!!! Congrats dearie...

Here comes Jack...

Rishie with fellow SM 6 mates performing for a Tamil song...

Truly 1Malaysia performance from the kids...

Teachers performing..yeah gelek gelek!!!

Principal Mrs. Chelvi joined in...hip hip hurray!

Last but not the least...Ashika, future Smart Reader Kid...

Sweet memories to treasure...

With Teacher Lee (SM 5)

With Teacher Vani (SM 6)

With Principal, Mrs. Chelvi

Best buddies...Qing Yau, Rishie & Akmal

With Kavethrra

With Akmal

The Scroll and Graduation Photo...

We, parents of Rishie would like to thank the Management and Teachers of Smart Reader Kids, Bandar Bukit Tinggi Klang for their kind hospitality, love and care towards our son from his day one in the centre (May 2009 - Dec 2010). We are proud to say that Rishie is super ready for Primary One, knowing he has got the best foundation and will excel in the coming years. I'll personally miss the teachers and those lovely kids. Will miss taking Rishie to and fro the centre too!!
Thank You and hope to see U all again!

Dear parents living nearby Bandar Bukit Tinggi Klang who wished to send their kids for pre-school programmes, may contact:~

Smart Reader Kids
Bandar Bukit Tinggi Klang
603-33233969