TST Family Day 2011

Another successful event organised by the committee of

Taman Seri Taming.

Cheers :)

FBB Finance Department Raya Gathering 2011

The shots speak louder than words.  Hope you will enjoy watching this.

Cheers :)

Lunch for In-Laws on 18/09/11

Feel so bad for not able to go back kampung for Raya. Instaed my parents in-law came for a visit yesterday.  They did not stay this time.  It is a very short notice and I'm not able to bake her favourite cake ie. Sugarless Fruits Cake.

For Lunch we are having Nasi Minyak with Mutton Curry, Pajeri Terung, Prawn Petai Sambal and Rendang Chicken without coconut milk.

Mutton curry from one of the mamak shop near Cheras Perdana.  The gravy is very nice and the mutton is tender.

Pajeri Terung from an eating outlet in Giant Connaught.The gravy is thick and the brinjal is grilled to prefection. She has taught me how to cook it but you know lah with all ingredient is like a pinch of this and that, a scoop of this and so on. Anyway at time is best to get it from the cook.

Sambal Prawn Petai.  Ingredients are 800gm Prawn (Shell off but tail on), 100gm Petai, 1 no Tomato (cut 6 wedges) and for the gravy blend 8 cloves Shallots & 3 cloves Gralic, 5tbsp Chilli Boh, 3 tbsp Tomato Ketchup, 1tsp Tamarin Paste, Salt & Sugar to taste.

As for Rendang Chicken, I use back the same recipe from my earlier post which is Beef Rendang without Coconut Milk.










All goes well and ends well.  Bon Appetite..........

Cheers :)

Q's Mee Bandung

It's just a Mee Bandung.  But there are lots of version depending on the cooks.  I'm not aware of the origin of this dish.  I've try many stalls and restaurants around town and all taste difference from one another.

So this is my very own version of Mee Bandung.

I use 300gm chicken fillets, 200gm squid, 200gm prawn (L), 6 eggs, 1no carrot, 100gm round cabbage, 100gm sawi and 3 pkts of yellow mee.  For the gravy I use (blend all together) 50gm shallots, 4 cloves garlic, 100gm chilli boh, 200gm tomato puree, 50gm ground nuts, 50gm dry shrimps, 2 ltr water, salt and sugar to taste.

Cheers :)

2011 Raya Open House

It's Raya Open House again and is time for get together, meet-up with old friends, food, drinks and etc.  We just had our open house last night and it is trilling.  We did not set-up canopy and are praying and hopping that it will not rain during the event.  Sigh............ it rain the whole morning and stop in the afternoon and started again in the night.  Lucky for us is that when it start to rain most of our guest already left leaving behind are only our close friend and neighbour.

The spread for this Raya is a simply menu.

The guests start to arrive as early as 7.20pm and by that time my husband and I were not even ready yet.  We excuse ourselves and quickly get ready before more of our friends arrived. The event start well and ends well.  By the time we clear and hit the pillow is already 3 am in the morning.  As matter of fact, most of our event we hosted ends around this time.  

We do not expect anything in return from our friends.  But being Malaysian we always love to share. Thanks a lot for all this lovely gifts

To all our friends, we wish to say thank you to you and your family for spending time with us to make our 2011 Raya Open House a successful & remembrance event.  He hope you and family did enjoy the spread and hope to see all of you soon.

Cheers :)

Q's Beef Rendang without Coconut Milk

             Usually when mention rendang, we will always say oh my god so
             high the calories.  Well now we could enjoy rendang minus the
             high calories (omit the coconut milk) and it still taste nice. 
             Give it a try.

             Ingredients
            (A)

            1 kg     Beef cut cube (also suitable with Chicken or Prawn)

            4 tbsp  Meat Curry powder

            3 nos   Potato cut chunky cube

            2 pcs    Lemongrass (pound)

            2 tbsp   Thick soya sauce

            1 inch   Block brown sugar

            2 tbsp  Pounded Desiccated Coconut

            2 tbsp  Cooking Oil

            Salt and Sugar to taste 

(B) Blend

            8 nos    Shallot

            4 nos    Garlic

            15 nos  Dry Chili 

           (C)

            2 pcs      Cinnamon stick

            5 pcs      Cloves

            3 pcs      Star Anise

Method

            1.      Heat oil in a wok.

2.      Fry in ingredients (B) & (C) and stir fried until fragrant

3.      Add in beef and pounded desiccated coconut. Mixed well

4.      Add in 1 liter water and potato cook in low heat

            5.      Add in salt and sugar to taste

6.      Steamer until beef and potato is cook and the gravy is thick

7.      Serve hot

BBQ on 2nd day of Raya

It is 2nd day of raya thinking that I can do marketing. But I'm wrong.  The market look 90% empty.  All you can see is people selling clothes, pots & pans, a vegetable stall, a dairy stall and yu char kueh stall.  So there goes my plan. 

Don't know what to cook for the night, I stop by the dairy stall and get a few items for steamboat.  Then I bought some yu char kueh and nasi lemak.  Omg, the triangle packing nasi lemak that use to be RM1 is now selling at RM1.40 per packet.  What is happening.  Taking advantage of the festival session?

In the end the we did not have steamboat for dinner but BBQ as propose by my husband.  So off we go shopping for BBQ.  Can you imagine, have to go to three hypermarket just to get the items? 

The kids invited their friends to join us.  We have Chicken Wing season w Mc Conick seasoning, Lamb marinate with yohurt, Fish Fillet wrap w banana leaf, Chicken Sausage, Otak-otak and Burger.

The most enjoying event for the night is BBQ Marshmallow.  The kids love it. 

Cheers :)