Assalamualaikum,


dan hai,

It's been awhile from the last post right? Rather than cooking, baking or else. ehemm (movie-ing all day)

Part of it, I build a mini garden on spacious balcony. At first, I put it on our air-cond fan area outside our room. As they show progressions and grew so well, I transferred it to balcony area for getting more suns and space to grew more.

Just now, There are curry tree, chili tree (not yet produce), and bird's eye chili ( cili padi). I think it has been 6 months or above since I stay here, curry tree are my early starter to grow as I need it so much in a week especially when I cook curry (gulai ikan, pajeri terung, kari ayam). :D

Last few months, I want to find a good breed of kaffir lime tree. As early batch with curry, it can not survive in two months time. I thought it must been already dying when I bought it. So, just take time to find a good ones in Peladang. Usually there is flea market every weekend. I just bought there.

Alhamdulillah, everything is good, actually it only take your little time and effort to make this happens. So for me, I grew this for my preparations for next Eid-Fitr's day. Just need a to grow turmeric. I need turmeric's leaves for rendang.

My latest addition is to grow mint leaves. Hehe. For 1st phase I can call it succeed! Alhamdulillah. Can supply mint leaves to my morning tea. *happy dance*

For a new project, I tried a different type to grow the root. Also get it ready for leaving it in a week, so I have to prepare their own water supply. When I start with mint, it shows a good progress, the leaves became wider and look fresh! Just learnt here and there to make it happy greens alive! Maybe I will share with you how to do it on my first phase. Later k?

Ok that's for now. I hope it can stay still in a good conditions. Plan to go hometown for a week. Phewss~

The Best Blog 2015 in Malaysia!

Assalamualaikum,


dan hai,

Source : Malaysia Social Media Week (MSMW)

Do you have favorite blog that you couldn't miss single day to follow? Now this is the time to NOMINATE your favor ones or as many as you can, as they have many categories!

So now Malaysia Social Media Week (MSMW) organizing this event for rewarding the best of the best blogger on each year. You can head to their Facebook Page : Malaysia Social Media Week (MSMW) for more info.

or

If you already got some blogger to nominate you can head to their website, Malaysia Social Media Week (MSMW).

and please,

no nomination or voting for me okay, my blog is too moderate!

Good Luck!

SCAMMERS alert! Citibank Credit Card

Assalamualaikum,


dan hai,


Zaman sekarang ni, semua perkara nak mudah dan paling best kalau yang dapat FREE ye dakk? tapi,.. tapi,.. kalau nak dapat free tu kena la usaha juga ye dak? walau MLM sekalipun yang banyak komplen psal penipuan lah, join jadi ahli secara paksarela, banyak uollss,. T___T lupakan ajelah.

Banyak duit untuk waktu kritikal di Malaysia ni heaven, lagi-lagi bila semakin maju teknologi semakin menjadi-jadi KEHENDAK nak mengikut peredaran zaman kekdahnya. *lol* Lagi menggalakkan kehendak liar tu bila dok tenung FB dan Instagram kan? Bila orang tu tunjuk gambar sat ja, hang da p berebut nak jugak! haha.. saya la tu, kisah Terjebak tu..

Bila kehendak dah menjangkaui kemampuan jadi ginilah, hutang sana sini, loan CC lagi loan personal lagi, jangan loan dengan AhLOng sudah ya, tak pasai tinggal merana xsudah. Cumanya, bila kita ingat dah reda psal scammers ni, macam tora datang lagi, kalau org tu kita kenal boleh la polis p tangkap, ni hang p report saja, xda hasil, duit hilang, bazir aayaq liuq ja. Oopps, kuar pulak slang utara. haha.

Kesinambungan cerita terjebak tu, saya nak share psal kejadian malang tak berbau di waktu orang sedap membuta. Kebetulan juga taktaulah sapa yang share yang saya terbaca Blog NameeRoslan psal isu scammer ini jugalah. Kisah NameeRoslan {sini}

Kita layang dulu screen short bawah ni, ak geram jugak, jumlah bukan sikit, cukup untuk kitorang beli return flight tiket ke Penang tau! T___T

3 page ni aje yang saya print screen, yang lain tu start dengan US$1 la kan, bila convert duit kita RM4  okay, dalam pkul 3 pagi, siapalah yang berjaga. Mula tu memang start dgn $1 then bila dah lepas payment tu, kemain diorg main swipe swipe ajer.. cehh..

Sedar pun bila dah bangun semayang subuh, macam biasalah kan bini selalu check HP laki kot ade something yg menarik, haha. ok tak, malam tu memang kitorang tidur awal, husband tak sihat, jadi isterilah tolong check handphone kot la ada apa2 perkara urgent pasal kerja.

Tapi bila buka tu, amik~ ada 7 transaction termasuklah yang ats tiga ni. Pkul 3 pagi?? heelloo~ takkanlah pepagi buta nak shopping ye dak, sedap ajer berdengkur lagu dondang sayang, mestilah no, this is something bad and it's real!!

So after solat, husband call centre, yang dorang kata transaction tu dah lepas pun, macam mana dorang boleh dapat no CC and security no kt belakang tu pun pelik. Katakanlah ada generator code yang boleh generate no CC and Security pin, sorang tu kutipla dalam RM700, kalau beribu orang? haa tak ke jutawan segera dengan hanya klik-klik curi duit orang!

Astaghfirullahalazim, mengucap je lah, nak marah lebih pun tak boleh jugak, owner CC tu tgok macam cool jek, tapi dalam hati tuhan saja lah yang tahu macam mana,.. huhu..

Kesimpulannya, hentikanlah pembelian secara talian! yang international lebih parah! sentiasa aware dengan mesej telefon anda ya..

Sudahnya, CC tu terus batal, disebabkan transax without tac num juga.. yg biasa dr sms notify tu, transax tu dalam siasatan pihak CC bank. So kita back to square again. Guna la wang kertas ya..

T____T

p.s Baru scam CC, belum lagi scam yang terjerat percintaan dlm FB, just wonder how we as woman boleh terpedaya dengan percaya 100%? siap meminjam dan menipu ahli keluarga. If one my family mem or myself yg terlibaty, I feel so betrayed, and I will betrayed to my husband like that, I just don't want to dissapont anyone.

WW : #1 Terjebak!

Assalamualaikum,


dan hai,

just came in my front door this morning...

something that I give a thought for having it, and..

actually, it's not on my list to have it,...

there it is...

Sofina 3, Sometime's handbag inspired by Vivy Yusof, and all sold out in just two hours at Fashionvalet website together in Sometime page, and I just can't imagine, that I am in a group of crazy ladies who dare to buy this handbag!

lol

At last, count me in..



#sofina3 #sometime #byvivyyusof #fashionvalet #fv

payment thru PP, and there are one scandal of PP and gang of CC, will be giving out details on next post!

Beehoon Soup with Homemade Fish Balls

Assalamualaikum,

dan hai,

Occasionally when we had heavy rice-day, I decided to take it less into rice noodles. It's still the same, but, I believe I took it lesser than rice grains. I'm a little bit of health conscious okay. haha.

It's a simple dish, that you only need a soup, and some blanched rice noodles, some vegetables and not to forget Chili sambal  or spicy dip soy sauce.

So, last few days, Hazila from My Small Kitchen had posted Koay teow soup with homemade fish balls, and that's giving me an idea for a quick dinner dish. I always do some easy and fastest dish for dins. You can check Hazila's versions in HERE.

Let's see my simple Beehoon Soup with homemade fish balls recipe, below. My not very own recipe of fish balls you can click HERE. This time, the only difference is I add some veggies into it. Just small cut of carrot and celery. Taste? still good but with veggies, it's more healthy versions of fish balls.

 Beehoon Soup with homemade Fish Balls

source : Hazila ( My Small Kitchen )

Ingredients
Fish Soup
Fish Balls
1 tsp   fish sauce
Beehoon
Mustard leaves
Fried Garlic
1  tsp  sesame oil (for fried garlic)

Instructions
1. Blanching rice noodles or beehoon (alternative to instant noodles), and mustard leaves.
2. Leftover of boiling water from making fish balls can be use, if you don't have. You can boiled a handful of anchovies. After it boils, add in the homemade fish balls or store bought ones.
3. Add in some salt to taste, and a teaspoon of fish sauce. Boil it again.
4. Serves with Blanched noodles, vegetables and fish balls.

Fried Garlic
1. Heating 2 tbs of cooking oil on a pan, add in  2 cloves of chopped garlic and sesame oil.
2. Fry garlic until it turns brownish. Off from pan. Leftover oil can be use in fish broth or into the soup, it's up to you.

Please enjoy your hard-works!


Good Luck!

Homemade easy Potato Wedges

Assalamualaikum,


and hai,

We had rice-kind-of-a-day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. So I was totally full at all. For only a day, I've just so tired of eating a rice, but beware for diabetic patient, you're suppose to decrease your white rice, excessive of rice intake will produce more glucose. You might search on health.org then.

After carbs-day, another carbs will took in, but I make it for snacks. It's easy and fast to make, and quite healthy cause you don't need to fry in oil, air-fried in the oven. Someone post it on the blog or, you may find it on Yummly.

Baked Potato Wedges

serves two
Time : Approx 1 hour

Ingredients
5     pcs  Holland Potato cut into wedges
2     tbs   Olive oil
1/2  tsp  salt
pinch of paprika


Instructions
1. Potato wedges boiled until half cook. Approx. in 20-25 mins.
2. Strained wedges, put olive oil and stir well. Then, add in salt and paprika stir well and bake in the preheat oven at 160°C for 30 mins. *depends on your oven's performance
3. Ready to eat!


It's just a simple dish. enjoy!


Good Luck!

Easy and Fast Baguette

Assalamualaikum,


and hai,

I have no idea, how is the spirit of diligent came into myself. *lol* Looks alike you can call a spirit came to you by just like that! and so, I diligently made a baguette for first trial it's not bad though, hence there are need more improvement to make a good baguette.

The first step of all, I need a Google for searching a good recipe. A VERY good recipe for a beginner like me to succeed. Fortunately, I bumped into this website called SAVEUR {here}. It's food magazine, they had a chefs too.

So what is SAVEUR?

SAVEUR is a magazine for people who experience the world food first. Created to satisfy the hunger for genuine information about food in all its contexts, the magazines emphasizes heritage and tradition, home cooking, and real food, evoking flavors from around the world (including forgotten pockets of culinary excellence in the United States). It celebrates the cultures and environment in which dishes are created and the people who create them. It serves up rich, satisfying stories are complex, defining and memorable.  More about SAVEUR in HERE. 

Guys, it's a good website that I found, maybe it's already familiar to some of you. There had a lots of great recipe that need to try. I bet you got salivated and drooling all over, they really had a very nice and good pictures of food too.

My trial was not good enough, some mistake happens. haha. So let's share the baguette's recipe here.

Baguette

Source : Saveur ( Four-Hour Baguette )

**Altered a bit cause only two of us have need to finish it**
makes two baguette

Ingredients
1/2  cup   Luke warm water ( around 35-40°C)
1     tsp    instant yeast
2     cup   all-purpose flour ( approx. depends on dough)
1 1/2 tsp  salt
Canola oil for greasing
1/2  cup   ice cubes

Instructions
1. . Whisk together water and yeast in a large bowl; let sit until yeast is foamy, about 10 minutes. Add flour, and stir with a fork until dough forms and all flour is absorbed; let dough sit to allow flour to hydrate, about 20 minutes. Add salt, transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface, and knead until smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. Transfer dough ball to a lightly greased bowl; cover bowl with plastic wrap, and place bowl in a cold oven. Let dough rest until doubled in size, about 45 minutes.

 2. Transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface, and shape into an 8″ x 6″ rectangle. Fold the 8″ sides toward the middle, then fold the shorter sides toward the center. Return dough, seam side down, to bowl. Cover with plastic again, and return to oven; let sit until doubled in size, about 1 hour.

3. Remove bowl with dough from oven, and place a cast–iron skillet on the bottom rack of oven; position another rack above skillet, and place a baking stone on it.

4. Heat oven to 475°. Transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface, and cut into three equal pieces; shape each piece into a 14″ rope. Flour a sheet of parchment paper on a rimless baking sheet; place ropes, evenly spaced, on paper. Lift paper between ropes to form pleats; place two tightly rolled kitchen towels under long edges of paper, creating supports for the loaves. Cover loosely with plastic wrap; let sit until it doubles in size, about 50 minutes.

5. Uncover; remove towels, and flatten paper to space out loaves. Using a sharp razor or paring knife, slash the top of each baguette at a 30–degree angle in four spots; each slash should be about 4″ long. Using the corner of the parchment paper as a guide, slide the loaves, still on the parchment paper, onto the baking stone. Place ice cubes in skillet (this produces steam that lets the loaves rise fully before a crust forms). Bake the baguettes until darkly browned and crisp, about 30 minutes; cool before serving.

Good Luck!

Resepi Asam Pedas Untuk Dia...

Assalamualaikum

dan hai,..

Sekarang ni mesti tengah trend asam pedas, lol!

XXX ini bukan promosi drama Asam Pedas Untuk Dia XXX

As a Johorean katakan, asam pedas ni tak lari mana dengan melaka. Makanan faveret kot. Tapi jangan tak tahu, ramai juga yang tak boleh nak masak ikut piawaian sendiri macam kat kedai, slurpp. Kecewa kan?

Haha.

Saya pun macam tu jugak dulu, bukan pandai masak, pelbagai blog dan resepi, tips lagi nak bagi masakan asam pedas tu sedap dan ummpphh! Yang penting kuah tu jadi pekat, sedaaapppnya.. *exaggerate* sikit.. Biasa yang jadi rujukan tu blog Che Mat Gebu dan kak Ita. Dah lelama tu pandai sendiri la kan nak ejas nye..

Asam pedas pun antara menu wajib kami di sini, selain Kari Ikan versi Utara, versi utara siap bagai kan? hehe. Cikgu asal yang ajar ni orang utara, jadinya pandaila jugak masak kari ikan versi utara gitu!

Kebetulan dalam minggu lepas, encik K bawa balik Ikan Mayong. Bila kat Labuan ni, saiz tu memang besar sangatlah, dalam 2-3kg seekor utk yg kecil ye, yang besar tu adalah dalam 8-10 Kg. Biasanya yang dapat tangkap dalam saiz kecil kategori 2-3kg untuk yang rajin pergi memancing.

p.s Orang Labuan tak makan ikan mayong ni, jadi kt sini, ikan tu jual murah, sekilo RM4 atau bagi saja sapa yang nak. Alhamdulillah.

Ikan mayong ni, mudah saja nak cuci, tapi leceh sebab besar sangat. Yang pastinya yang jadi tukang siang tu encik K. Hihi. Saya masak je takda masalah, just say it bebehh!

Oklah, panjang cerita sudah. Mari saya share resepi Asam Pedas Mudah Confirm jadi. Haha.

Resepi Asam Pedas Dengan Ikan Mayong

Ikan Mayong 1kg
Bendi
Terung
Bunga Kantan
Daun Kesum


Bahan Blend

1/2        labu bawang besar
7-8        labu bawang merah
4-5        ulas bawang putih
1           biji tomato (1/2 biji kalau masak sikit)
1"          belacan bakar
1"          kunyit hidup @ 1/2 tsp serbuk kunyit
1/2 tsp   pes asam jawa Adabi
2    tsp   Garam
1/2 tsp   Gula
sedikit air dan minyak untuk blend


Bahan Tumis

1/2 labu bawang besar - dihiris
1/2 tsp biji Halba

Cara Memasak

1. Cuci bersih ikan, dan toskan. Panaskan minyak.
2. Bahan blend perlu dikisar untuk ditumis hingga masak.
3. Minyak sudah dalam keadaan panas, tumis hirisan bawang besar. Kemudian biji halba, tumis hingga naik bau dan masukkan bahan blend tadi.
4. Tumis hingga pecah minyak dan masukkan bahagian kepala dahulu dan bunga kantan. Masukkan juga kepingan isi ikan Mayong.
5. Bahan yang ditumis telah masak elok dan pecah minyak, ikan pula sudah separuh masak. Masukkan pula 1/2 cawan air (ikut nak kuah cair atau pekat) dan terung jika ada.
6. Bila sudah mendidih, masukkan bendi dan tomato. Didih selama 2-3 minit. Tutup api.
7. Sedia dimakan dengan nasi panas, telur dadar goreng dan sayur taugeh goreng.


Good Luck!

p.s I miss lontong, nasi kerabu, pasembor, nasi kandar.. so many on the list!

ULTIMATE ways to be TOP blogger!

Salam dan hai,

Happy Chinese New year!!

It's not late for wishing my Chinese's friends.

Well, my holidays just spent at home and doing the same routine. As my husband didn't get any straight days leave on last week. Half day working in the office! :D

My tryout recipe turns just so-so as I bake and cook some separate dishes straight away from other bloggers. Repeating a recipe will do soon, insyaAllah. Haha, mistakes do happens when you're not ready and not planning it well. Learn from mistake is the best isn't it?

Fine interest in blogging

**continue**

sorry for missing in action for awhile, hihi..

Set A Goal

It's tend to your ultimate goal in blogging, or the reason why you had started in writing online obviously. In this kind of medium, there are lots of pros and cons. But when it is up to their personal writer or blogger, we have the right to choose what kind of medium or genre you want to read or tend to blog about it.

A soft reminder for my self, what you wrote or what you express on social network, especially in blogging, it's easily to spread by readers when they just had click ONE button, 'SHARE'. Therefore, these will be serious action, serious responsibility when you publish some 'INFO' that will driving you into false or true statement. Beware guys!

Back to the square, it is you what you wrote, and it is you to what you have decided on story line or statement you shared.  Then, it's your goal afterall!

Spices of Genre

Comedy, daily journals, cookbook or etc. Do at your best genre to kill it and nailed it. As for mine, you can see, this, my afterall that sometimes include it all. No specific genre that I carry it along for a blog. Most of the times I would love to share recipes and my experiment or anything that could benefit others.

Hence, I don't have any talent in writing but, you can, you can create your style of writing by adding spices, yeah, right away! But don't add too much that you accidentally revamp the whole structure sentences and will misunderstood by readers. Just try the easy peasy one, such as some sense of humor.

Earning Cash

This is some of famous blogger do as their full-time blogger, earning from the advertorial post they wrote about. For beginner like me? You just have a long way to go baby, unless there are quick steps that you can gain thousands of follower visit your blog on every seconds!

1) Repetitively do a blogwalking - You just need hop to hop another each blog by help them click their advertorial campaign banner, and do please drop a comment!

2) Start syncing your blog with other social media - Google plus is a good help for you to grow, don't forget to share on each post you had published in pinterest and twitter, Facebook too (if you don't mind to share with your family members).

Exaggerate Headline 

Yes, you're right. Especially for a NOOB. In search engine, there are lots of blogpost, article and so much news that literally the same, but one that be caught your attention is the headline of the post.

because I am, when I do searching or when using Google, I tend to use strong keywords, e.g ultimate, the best ever, guaranteed . It is kind of promising and convincing people who are looking the right one. Nevertheless, it's an indirect way of promoting your blog and to keep traffic high.

That's my simple tips on blogging, and I am pretty sure you had done almost of it, hihi. Suppose I should post it last week, but I've been so busy with some jobs. I hope this will help you to keep blogging and keep traffic too.





Good Luck!

P/S It's so late that, Chinese already waiting their Chap Go Meh (15 days after Lunar New Year day)