Nasi lemak, instant noodles and roses

Kisah dua beranak yang terjadi masa they were swapping their ice cream around…

Bapak nya: I want this ice cream because I think this is the english toffee one.

Anak nya: How do you know it’s english toffee?

Bapak nya: Because of their accent.

Anak nya: Eh? Ice cream has accent?

Emak nya: hehehehehehehehehe……….. .

Nah sejambak bunga for those of you who understand the joke .

This morning, instead of just taking photos of the roses, I was offered the roses as well to take home. I pun apa lagi, terima dengan tangan terbuka lah, hahaha. Tu yang ada sejambak bunga at home .

Kalau tak nak sejambak roses, you can have the single ones below.

See, mosquito pun suka kat roses kan!

I know it has blemishes on the petal, but it is still pretty to my eyes .

And untuk sape yang tak suka roses or bunga2 ni, layan lah gambar our dinner ye.

Ini nasi lemak dinner on Saturday night.

Ini pulak dinner instant noodles with stry fry beef n chicken n veges malam ni.

Cooking pizza in the BBQ

How’s your Sunday everyone?

Mine is the same except there was a food ‘fair’ at the masjid tadi. Just a few tables selling the usual malay food.

What did I buy?

Karipap as usual, padahal ada frozen karipap I baru buat on Friday in the freezer! But I tak tau lah kenapa, everytime I nampak karipap, mesti kena beli jugak, hahaha. So I bought 5 pieces which was $1 each. Terer kan karipap kat OZ ni, $1 each, hikhikhik. But they were big and makan 1 dah terasa lah a bit kenyang jugak. I beli 5 sebab The Little Misses love karipap and diaorang aje makan 2 each .

Then I bought kuih ketayap. Kat sini ketayap they jual 4 keping for $3.50. Since The Little Misses and The Other Half suka ketayap and I cuma buat ketayap masa bulan puasa aje, terpaksalah I beli 8 keping ketayap tadi. Can you imagine bayar $7 for 8 keping ketayap! Sure buntang mata Mak Abah I kalau tau .

Then I bought popia goreng pedas for $1 each. I bought 2, 1 each for me and The Other Half. Then I bought mee rebus for me to have for lunch which was $4.50 for a small container but it was very filling for me. The Other Half I tak belikan any meal sebab he wanted to have the nasi lemak leftover I made last night for lunch.

And since lunch dah makan asian food, malam ni for dinner, I made pizza.

But this time instead of baking them in the oven, we baked them in the BBQ using the hood to keep the temperature stable like an oven.

It came out really crisp and we could imagine that it was a ‘wood-fired’ pizza, hehehehe…..

If you nak tau how to bake pizza in a BBQ, this is the link.

And baru lah I tau yang if you want a crispy-based pizza, you dont add sugar to the dough ingredients. But if you like your pizza a bit bread-like, you add a bit of sugar masa buat dough tu.

I did all the preps and his job was to keep an eye on the temperature of the BBQ ‘oven’ and also making sure that the pizzas don’t get burnt (which I think is the most important job, hehehehe.).

Going in….

After 13 minutes in the BBQ, it was crispy and perfectly cooked.

Nampak yummy tak?

I could only finish 2 pieces sebab still kenyang lagi from lunch, heeee….

Rain, tornado, flooding and puddles

We had the best rain of the year today!

Siap ada mini tornado lagi tu! But in another suburb about 5 minutes drive from my house.

Dari malam tadi, BOM (which is our jabatan kaji cuaca ) dah bagi warning yang there might be a thunderstorm this morning between 6-10 o’clock.

So, The Other Half tak jadi lah naik beskal pergi kerja pagi tadi, he caught the bus and train instead. Which was lucky for him or else memang akan basah kuyup and sejuk menggigil2 lah dia kalau naik beskal.

And the storm came at 8 o’clock when semua orang tengah bersiap nak hantar their children to school. Memang terasa macam kat M’sia aje tadi masa tengah driving in the heavy rain, hehehe. Except that it was freezing cold lah and kena pasang heater in the car .

Punyalah jakunnya we all tengok puddles everywhere and some flooding on the roads. Miss 7 and Miss 12 and their Mum went ooh and aah bila nampak puddles and the ‘rivers’ of water. Ye lah, nak tengok hujan pun susah kat Perth ni, lagi lah banjir kan, hahaha. Nasib baik lah my car tinggi lah jugak so tak lah stuck in the floods.

And the journey to school yang normally will take around 10-12 minutes, pagi tadi took us about 30 minutes. We got stuck at the traffic light at the corner of the school for 10 minutes. Miss 12 dah gabra sebab takut lambat sampai kelas and dapat ‘pink slip’ for being late. I said to her that all the teachers will understand if anyone is late today.

And then when we finally got to the carpark, the walk to Miss 7’s class that took 2 minutes made her kasut lencun. Badan tak basah sebab pakai raincoat but kasut basah kuyup sebab there were puddles everywhere.

Nasib baik her teacher was so nice and made a temporary clothes dryer infront of the wall heater for the students to hang their soaked socks to get dry .

Miss 7 was so happy to take off her shoes and socks and went barefooted in her class tadi, hehehehe. But classes here semua ada wall to wall carpet so tak lah sejuk their feet.

And it had been raining on and off the whole day today.

But instead of masak wintery food, I masak Summer food malam ni .

I made oven baked chicken drumsticks guna recipe from here.

And seperti biasa, makan dengan oven baked chips and steamed veges aje.

Our favourite kind of food, simple to cook yet filling .

Roses galore

Hari ni I cuma masak scrambled eggs and bread aje for dinner so instead of tayang makanan orang malas tu, I tayang gambar bunga rose banyak2!

Tadi I pergi rumah Ustazah tu lagi and kali ni instead of mintak izin nak ambik bunga dia, I mintak izin nak ambik gambar bunga dia, hikhikhik. Dia kata, nak ambik gambar pun mintak izin jugak. I kata, mesti lah sebab tak nak lah nanti dia heran tengok I tertonggek2 kat laman rumah dia kan, hahahah.

Layanlah ye gambar some of the roses kat rumah tu.

Ini baru separuh aje, tapi dah macam2 kaler kan.

The really pale pink rose. I just love this colour on the roses!

the pale yellow.

 

The orange ones. I think they are 2 different types sebab the look slightly different kan.

Bunga ros kembang semangkuk .

the red crimson one. Kalau ada secret admirer bagi yang ini, sure hati akan dub dab dub dab, tidur tak lena, makan tak kenyang, mandi tak basah .

 

the dual coloured pink rose which when it blooms, it will become this shape.

Another pink one.

The pale purpe rose.

It was quite windy when I took the photos of the roses this morning, tu sebab ada yg macam slighty blurry a bit.

To all the visitors of this blog,

Sila lah ambil any of the roses above for you to letak kat mana2. Nak print ke, nak letak as your PC background ke (kalau nak lah), nak buat hantaran ke .

Jangan segan2 ye!

PT meeting in high school

Esok ada parent teacher meeting at Miss 12’s school so all the students will be ‘released’ early from school so the teachers and parents have the whole afternoon to see each other.

They gave us the info about the parent teacher meeting about 2 weeks ago and the parents have to go online to set the times to meet up with the different teachers. And they say that we might book the appointment times after the students reports been distributed.

Zaman technology kan, mana main telpon2 or tulis surat nak jumpa cikgu. Semua main online aje sekarang ni, hehehe….

I asked The Other Half whether nak buat appointment awal2 dengan any of the teachers tak. The Other Half kata wait until their term progress report comes out baru lah set the appointment. Tunggu punya tunggu, hari Isnin semalam baru dapat the report which we are very happy with. The Other Half siap kata kat Miss 12 kalau she keeps it up throughout the year, he’s definitely buying her something nice.

(What about me? I punya progress report pun sentiasa cemerlang, all rounder gitu, nak lah present jugak, hikhikhik .)

Pastu, we all saje lah went online nak tengok ada tak lagi slots available to see any of the teachers, tengok2, semua slots dah filled up. Nasib baik Miss 12 nya report ok so tak lah rasa terkilan tak dapat jumpa her teachers. What if results dia teruk, macam mana nak jumpa kan since all the times’ taken.

Rasa macam bad parents pulak sebab tak set up times to meet the teachers but how were we supposed to know that you have to book early even before the report comes out.

All these new things you have to learn when you have kids in high schools kan.

Malam ni I masak baked pasta for dinner.

(it is very difficult to take photos at night time without a good lighting. Dah lah sekarang ni cepat dark.)

I cuma sauteed chopped onions, garlic, chopped zucchini and mushrooms in olive oil until masak, then added some beef mince and cooked until brown. Then I added a jar of pasta sauce and simmer for about 15 minutes.

Then in a bowl, I mix the cooked pasta with the sauce mixture until nicely combined. Then I added chopped up bocconcini cheese into the pasta mixture. I also scattered some bocconcini on top of the pasta.

Pastu, baked it in the oven at 180°C for about 15 minutes.

Bila keluar, jadi lah macam ni.

And bila dah letak kat pinggan masa panas2, nampak lah the steam coming off the pasta and the melted stringy bocconcini between the pasta .