Miss 4 1/2 dah makin beransur baik, Alkhamdulillah... But malam tadi still tak cukup tidur sebab muntah and nosebleed lepas coughing so kenalah tidur dengan mummy lagi lepas tu. The other half dah berapa kali kena tidur on the futon selepas balik from Singapore ni and esok pagi2 buta dah nak kena fly off to melbourne for a nite.... Sian dia, hehehe....

Harini last day of autumn here and the weather today was really spectacular, with thunders and lightnings and strong wind and rain the whole afternoon. The little misses I think must have forgotten what lightnings look like and what thunders sound like sebab memang dah lama sgt takde thunderstorm kat sini. So, tadi dua2 melekat depan tingkap tengok lightnings and the rain. Kalau budak2 kat M'sia dah tak heran tengok kilat and guruhni.

Both of them dah excited sangat nak pergi cuti2 Malaysia in a few weeks time. Last time we went back was 2 years ago so the little misses have grown up quite a lot during that time. Their cousins kat M'sia pun dah makin besar. Tapi sayangnya rambutan kat rumah nenek and atuk baru aje berputik sekarang so takkan sempat masak while we are there. Miss 9 lah yang kesian sebab it's her favourite fruit. Selama ni we all cuma makan rambutan dalam tin aje kat sini and tunggu balik M'sia to eat the fresh ones. I told her that there's always rambutan kat pasar so we can buy them for her bila balik nanti (hopefully dah adalah orang jual rambutan kat pasar masa we all balik nanti!).

Dinner malam ni was sushi and udon in clear soup. Dah lama sangat2 tak buat sushi ni, selalunya kalau buat mesti guna smoked salmon tapi hari ni just buat chicken sushi and tuna sushi. Ingat nak buat miso soup tapi takde miso paste so just buat clear soup with dashi stock aje, jadilah.....

Miss 4 1/2 masih tak sihat lagi hari ni but takdelah meragam sangat dia ni kalau sakit which is quite good. I only have 2 daughters but memang sangat berbezanya those two. Miss 9 jarang sakit and bila sakit takdelah seteruk bila Miss 4 1/2 sakit. I can't remember the last time Miss 9 ponteng sekolah sebab sakit, maybe 1 day a year probably if that. But Miss 4 1/2, it's the other way around, tahun ni aje dah berapa hari dia tak sekolah sebab batuk or demam and it's only May!


Last term lagi lah teruknya because I was called to the school a few times because she suffered allergic reactions at school. Padahal, everyone in that class was told that there are a couple of children in Miss 4 1/2's class with peanut allergy (including her) so no one is allowed to bring any peanut containing food into the clasroom. But I guess adalah a few parents yang terlupa about this fact and sent the kids to school with peanuts and Miss 4 1/2 accidentally came in contact with it so she immediately puffed up at school. So, kenalah I dropped everything and rushed to the school to take her home. Bila dah a few times that happened, I pun tension lah so straight away jumpa the principal to air my gripes. I told him if it happens again, I'm taking Miss 4 1/2 out of that school to enrol her in a 'nut-free school'. So, he had to send another notice to all the parents about the peanut policy and Miss 4 1/2 sekarang ni bila time lunch, she had to sit alone by herself with a teacher eating with her. She's not allowed to sit with her classmates sebab manalah taukan, still ada parents yang hampeh and tak ikut rules. Sian jugak bila dengar dia kena duduk sendiri masa lunch with her clas teacher. But bila tanya Miss 4 1/2, dia sikit pun tak kisah sebab dia kata dia special sebab tu dapat duduk dgn her teacher, hehehe....


Another thing with Miss 4 1/2, she cannot cry terlebih2 or cough lebih2, dia straight away akan muntah..... Aggghhh tension nya bila dia mula menangis, we have to quickly calm her down, kalau tak, keluarlah segala isi perut balik. There's a bucket in this house that we call "the muntah bucket", hehehehe......


Oh yes, I forgot, apart from the throwing up and the peanut allergy and the eczema, she's also prone to nose bleeds when she's been playing otuside too much or when she's got a fever. Tu yang memang susah betul bila dia sakit. Like this time, ntah dah berapa kali dia muntah selepas coughing bouts and dah berapa kali she had nose bleeds in the past few days, tu yang Mummy tak boleh tidur lena.....


I know, I know, terlebih2 pulaknya rambling malam ni, hehehe..... Saje je nak luahkan perasaan :-). Kat mana lagikan nak luahkan perasaan kalau bukan kat my own blog.


Anyway, back to tonite's dinner, the other half has a dinner function tonite so I made jemput2 udang and mee goreng for the little misses and mee rojak for me. But I had to eat my dinner after Miss 4 1/2 has gone to bed sebab I nak makan rojak dgn kuah kacang. Nasib baik lah memang jenis tidur awal so by 8 dah masuk tidur, tak lah kelaparan I menunggu,hehehe... So sementara tengah tunggu dia nak masuk tidur tadi, I baked some muffins, orange n poppyseed muffins. But memang sejak dari dulu, everytime I buat muffin tak pernah dia nak menggunung, membukit pun jarang, selalunya naik sikit like road hump aje, hahaha.... But tak kisah lah kan, asalkan rasa nya sedap, naik menggunung pun kalau rasa kureng tak guna jugak kan!









p/s: masz, resipi esok2 lah ye, penat dah sebab banyak sangat berceloteh malam ni,hehehe...

Miss 4 1/2 is still sick today so she stayed at home with me. Rasanya seminggu dia tak pergi sekolah ni but at least baru pre primary bukan high school so takpe lah nak ponteng lebih2, hehe... Nanti nak balik M'sia pun kena ponteng lagi. The schools here don't really mind kalau budak2 nak take so many weeks leave from school to go on a holiday because for them, pergi holiday tu pun kiranya belajar juga sbb the kids normally will learn new things masa on holidays. Miss 9 dah banyak kali juga lah 'ponteng' from school for up to 4 weeks at a time sebab balik bercuti ke m'sia since she started kindy. Nak buat macammana kan, dah hidup perantau, hahaha....

Dinner malam ni nasi minyak sempoi with daging kambing masak briyani (from MyResipi), baked chicken and sayur goreng. Daging kambing tu utk the adults sebab Miss 9 memang tak makan anything spicy and Miss 4 1/2 tak lalu makan sejak sakit ni.

Dah 2 malam tak cukup tidur sebab Miss 4 1/2 demam and batuk so malam ni memang lah tak boleh berceloteh panjang sebab mata dah kuyu sangat2. Satu harini tak berhenti2 yawning, kalau dapat baring ni, sedapnya, zzzzzzzzzzz............

So, malam ni cuma nak buat tayangan amal my new Swatch and nak post gambar dinner as usual. Kalau tengok from the kind of Swatch watch that I've just bought, berapalah agaknya umur I ye, hehehe...Like I said yesterday, teringat kenangan silam and macam nak balik semula ke alam remaja :-). Memang tak padan betul dengan my age but I really like the design, nak buat mcm mana kan but who cares anyway!

I like the colour blue obviously :-)

Tonite's dinner: pasta bake with spicy sausages.

Buat Apam gula melaka resipi Che'Iza from MyResipi for afternoon tea. The other half said it's his favourite cake for morning/afternoon tea sebab dia kata the taste is like bread sikit and kek at the same time. I guess mat saleh kan mana ada kuih nama 'apam', hehehe.... But memanglah simple sgt2 nak buatnya and sedap sebab tak manis sangat and guna yeast so tu yg rasa n bau macam bread sikit. Buat satu loyang, bila balik from picking Miss 9 up from school, dah 'hilang' suku dimakan dek the other half and Miss 4 1/2, hahahaha.....

The other half came back from Singapore safely at 1.30 this morning, nasib baik lah terjaga masa dengar the cab in front of the house, kalau tak, kenalah dia knock on the bedroom windows, hehe... The little misses were really happy to see daddy when they woke up in the morning :-). I can finally wear my new Swatch watch that we bought at the duty-free shop masa antar dia haritu. Ingat lagi masa student dulu, giler2 nak beli Swatch watch kat duty-free everytime balik M'sia for holidays. I can't remember what happened to the Swatch watch i bought a looong time ago, hmmm..... Tetiba haritu, teringin balik pulaknya nak pakai a Swatch, nak jadi remaja balik agaknya, hehehe....

As you know, I'm the queen of lists, my lists nak balik M'sia ni are getting longer by the minute, hahaha..... Some have been ticked and a lot more still needs to be ticked! I need professional help with my list making habit :-). On one of things on the lists of 'things to do' is to unpack the summer clothes. Sekarang ni tengah autumn and nak masuk winter kat sini so all the little misses summer clothes have been packed away nicely in vacuum bags but bila nak balik M'sia ni kenalah unpack the summer clothes again kan sebab nak bawak bercuti ke M'sia, bertambah keje eden! Tu yang makin bertambah busy sekarang ni...

Anyway, dinner malam ni was laksa / mee kari. The other half pegi Singapore bukan makan asian food, melantak seafood western style aje. Dia kata bila lagi nak makan buffet style and everything was already paid for. Memang betul pun, sapelah larat nak masak 20 dishes in small amount every nite for dinner, takde keje! Tu yang malam ni dia tak kisah makan mee kari, hehehe... Siap bertambah lagi tu!

Khas untuk Masz, resipi Apple Pie (shortcut version) & Chocolate self saucing pudding

Apple Pie

Pastry:
1 3/4 cawan tepung gandum
1/4 cawan gula pasir
1/2 tsp garam
140g cold butter, chopped
2 1/2 - 3 sudu besar air sejuk (from the fridge)

-Dalam food processor atau mangkuk besar, satukan tepung gandum, gula pasir dan garam. Kacau/ pulse hingga bercampur. Taburkan chopped cold butter ke camouran tepung tadi dan ramas menggunakan jari sehingga berbentuk breadcrumb. Atau jika menggunakan food processor, pulse sehingga bercampur sebati
- Renjiskan air sejuk ke campuran butter & tepung dan pulse sekejap2 sehingga bila adunan pastry di tekan between 2 jari, ia akan stick together. Jangan ramas lama2 or else adunan pastry akan jadi keras.
-Alihkan 3/4 adunan pastry ke pie pan/ mangkuk pyrex pie yang disapu butter. Tekan2 adunan ke bottom and side of the pie plate sehingga rata dan sekata dan agak mampat. Masukkan ke dalam freezer for 15 mins jika ada masa.

Apple filling:

6 biji golden delicious apple saiz sederhana(klu takde, boleh guna campuran apple hijau dan apple merah tapi 3 biji cukup).
2 tsp lemon juice
2 sudu besar brown sugar (boleh gantikan dgn gula caster kalau takde brown sugar)

- Peel kulit dan buang biji apples dan chopped up atau slice thinly. Masukkan ke dalam mangkuk dan sprinkle dengan lemon juice dan brown sugar dan gaul. Tak payah masak.
- Keluarkan mangkuk pie dari dalam freezer dan tuangkan apple ke dalam mangkuk pie.
- Kemudian, taburkan 1/4 adunan pastry yang selebihnya rata2 ke atas apple filling jadi macam crumble.
- Bakar pie in a preheated oven at 180ºC for about 30-40 mins until golden brown.

( kalau nak apple filling tu lebih lembik, bolehlah dimasak for about 15 minutes sebelum tuang ke atas pie sehingga apple tu lembut sgt2. But sy suka yang still crunchy skit)


Chocolate self- saucing pudding

go to http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/7789/chocolate+self+saucing+pudding

but saya double resipi kuahnya sebab kami suka yang banyak kuah, lagi sedap bila sauce dia lagi banyak di bawah pudding tu. Dan jangan sampai terlebih masak sebab nanti kuahnya akan kering dan puddingnya akan keras.

Khas untuk Nabialishad , resipi kebab & roast rosemary n garlic roast potatoes

Minced Kebab

Bahan2:
500g minced beef/lamb
1/2 brown onion (bawang yang besar tu), chopped finely
2 cloves garlic, chopped finely
a handful of fresh italian parsley/flat leaf parsley (kat m'sia panggil daun sup), chopped finely
1-2 batang mint leaves/ daun pudina (kalau suka, nak letak lagi banyak pun boleh), chopped finely
1/2 tsp paprika powder (klu nak tukar dgn chilli powder pun boleh tapi nanti lagi pedas lah)
1/2 tsp cumin powder /serbuk jintan putih
garam secukup rasa, about 1 tsp

Cara2:
- Dalam mangkuk yang besar, gaulkan kesemua bahan2 menggunakan tangan (ala2 jamie oliver without the tangan kiri :-)) hingga betul2 sebati.
- Kemudian menggunakan metal skewers atau lidi, shape the mince mixture around the skewers agak mampat supaya tak berderai semasa meng 'grill'. Nak besar mana terpulang pada diri sendiri but jangan tebal sangat, takut tak masak bahagian dalam.
- Grill sehingga masak .

Rosemary n garlic roast potatoes

bahan2:
750g - 1 kg kentang (lagi ramai orang yang nak makan, lagi banyak kentang nya)
2 tsp chopped fresh rosemary leaves
1 garlic clove, chopped finely
olive oil
salt n pepper

Cara2:
- Kopek kentang dan potong 4. Masukkan ke dalam periuk dan tambah air hingga just menutupi kentang2 dan masak atas dapur until just cooked about 10 minutes. Jangan masak sampai lembik sebab nak roast lepas ni.
- Drain the potatoes until kering dan masukkan semula kedalam periuk tadi dan put the lid on. Kemudian goncang2kan periuk sedikit to get the rough edges around the potatoes. Jangan goncang kuat sangat sampai hancur potatoes tu pulaknya. Rough edges ni lah yang nanti bila kita roast the potatoes akan buat dia jadi crispy!
- Transfer the potatoes ke dalam greased roasting pan dan taburkan chopped rosemary n garlic and drizzle with olive oil. Kemudian gaulkan guna tangan.
- bake it in the preheated oven at 190-200ºC for about 30-40 minutes depending on the size of the potatoes.