What do you do when your neighbour gives you food yang memang langsung tak kena kat tekak you? We've got a really nice and friendly Afghani family who's been our neighbour for the last year and a half. We all tak lah rapat sangat dengan diaorang but kalau jumpa akan bertegur sapa and kadang2 tu bertukar2 dishes and cakes and desserts. And dah a few times jugak lah they gave us this rice dessert ala2 kheer (Indian rice pudding) and their version of pilafi and meat kofta.


Maybe sebab my palate dah biasa dengan kari and beriani yang so full of rempah ratus and dengan santan and pedas. So, bila makan kari and beriani Afghani style yang memang takde chilli and takde rempah ratus sangat2, terasa lah hambar nya. Diaorang memang tak makan chilli langsung so tu yang kari dia tak spicy enough for us :-). Selalunya we all akan tambah our own kari or sambal to the pilaf that they gave us daripada terbuang aje kan, hehehe. And the rice pudding pulaknya, ada rasa macam kurang sikit, macam tak cukup susu or something like that. And neither the Other Half nor I minat sangat kat rice pudding ni. The first few times, we all makan lah jugak the rice pudding tu a bit. But bila dah selalu sangat dapat, tak larat dah nak makan. Last week we got 1 big container of it and sampai sekarang masih ada lagi dalam fridge tu tak bersentuh sikit pun! I should go and check kan to see whether it's still edible or not, hehehe......


I'm not saying yang apa diaorang masak tu tak sedap, cuma tak kena dengan our tekak aje. Most probably the food that we gave them pun agaknya tak kena jugak dengan tekak diaorang kan and entah2 masuk Cik Tong jugak, hahahaha...... It's the same with the food I cook, for us, kena sangat lah dengan tekak we all but ramai yang tak gemar langsung tengok our food sebab memang tak kena dengan their taste. Tu yang kadang2 bila I make or bake something for others, rasa takut jugak kalau tak dimakan and terus masuk tong sampah, hehehe.


So, macam mana ye nak buat dengan our neighbours ni? I memang lah tak kan sampai hati ever to tell them that we don't want their food. Yang boleh we all buat setakat ni cuma accept their food gracefully and put it in the fridge aje and wait for it to become inedible naturally, hahaha...


Probably if I give them our dinner tonite, they will straight away throw it into Cik Tong. Even the Little Misses tak gemar the dinner I made for the Other Half and I, I made a completely different set of dinner for the Little Misses :-).

This was our dinner, spaghetti marinara while the Little Misses had meatball wrap. Nasib baik weekend so bolehlah Mummy jadi restaurant cooking different food :-). Tak ramai rasanya yang minat spaghetti marinara ni compared to spaghetti bolognese, hehehe....


Ini pulak the muesli slice that I've baked every weekend since school started. Kiranya untuk snacks for the Little Misses and the Other Half during recess and at work. Kalau dulu, I selalu aje beli muesli bars for the Little Misses for school but since I've found out yang it's so easy to make them at home, I've been making them myself. And I can put whatever cereal and nuts and dried fruits I like in them. Setiap Monday, the Other Half will take a container of muesli slice to work and he'll go through them during the week. Tak payah kah dia susah payah keluar to the shops to buy snacks and munchies bila dah ada muesli slice ni. Bolehlah I use the money saved to buy something else kan, hehehehehe....... ;-).