Tuesday 26 May 2009

Diya Is Older…

I just realized That Diya is already 1year and 8months! She has grown soooo much! So lovely to have her with me all the time and watch her grow like this. I always get to see all her 1sts... first sound, first smile, first turn, first crawl, first step, everything! Lucky me to be able to see all that during my first experience becoming a parent...

She listens better to me, behaved well most of the time and best of all very understanding… sometimes if I cry of tiredness or stress ness or even just upset over some things, she seems like understands and came to me pat me on my hand... Very touching. How can I ever live without her, now that I have been loving her so much...? I can never imagine my life without her anymore... everything I have in mind or plans will include her or else mission aborted ahaks!

She LOVES Kung Fu Panda so much and the other day I took her out to the movie place in Cineleisure where they have all this movie characters model kind of thing. Surprisingly she was so scared of it! Once I put her down I had to run away and snap her pictures! She does recognize the cartoon though, few attempts on the Kung Fu action and RUN away from it! Ahahah… sooo funny that time.




She likes to play peek-a-boo with me every time she sees small kids play area anywhere. There she was at the IT centre where they have a kids area so parents can shop there happily while the kids sits there.. They also provide a computer there for the elderly kids perhaps. Everywhere I go I will have her with me. She is my version of “GUCCI” handbag!

Pergedil!





Ingredients:

3 Potatoes

2 tbs minced beef/Chicken

1 tbs fresh ‘daun sup’

1 tbs fried shallots (optional)

2 egg

Seasonings – salt and pepper

Some bread crumbs or biscuit crumbs

Method:

Boil potatoes until soften and mashed, let cool aside. Clean the beef and once potatoes are cool add in the beef or chicken and ‘daun sup’, fried shallots, add seasonings. Lastly crack an egg and mix everything well. Make them into small balls and let it set in the fridge for about 15 minutes.

 Frying;

Heat little oil in a non-stick frying pan, beat one egg and add seasonings in a small bowl and another bowl the bread crumbs. Roll the ready made pergedil balls in the egg and coat with crumbs, quickly fry in the pan and serve hot.

Saturday 23 May 2009

Hair Products..

Lately I have been soooo bz to make time for hair at hair salons. But still I need to TLC (Tender, Loving, Care) of my long hair.. After flipping through magazines and I finally decided on a few hair products and off I went to get them!

I got myself the Schwarzkopf, Gliss Kur Range-Total Repair shampoo for my daily wash and the Elseve royal Jelly hair mask from Loreal. Also I got the Elseve, Damage Care range with concentrated reconstructor leave in treatment. Surprisingly these products are not as expensive as I tot it would be..


Back home excited mostly, I straight away tried all the products that nite and with my magic hair tools; hair dryer+Vidal Sassoon with clip hair brush+Vidal sassoon steam hair iron I started to blowdry and groom my hair. The products were amazing and worked well on my hair! Even After 3 days my hair still smells good and behaved well…

I don’t need to go hair salons after all, just few hours couple of days in a week will make me look as good and best of all I feel good too! So try out….

Mini Pizza!

Ingredients:

Basic:
Few Pizza bread or Frozen Pita bread will do just good..
Pizza sauce or pasta sos will do great too.
Tomato sos
Onions
Smoked sausages-chicken, turkey, beef …
Frozen mixed vegetable/ canned pineapples
Mozarella cheese or any pizza topping cheese

Filling:
Chiken mayo, chilli tuna, varies of vegetable(for vegetarian pizza)-capcisum, chilli, brinjals etc.., beef pepperoni, seafood-crab stick, prawn meat and any other things you love to eat. Just have little bit more imagination…

Sauce:
Thousand island, satay sauce, pasta sauce/pizza sauce …

Method:

Slice open the pita bread (I like my pizza thin and crispy) and layered on a baking try greased with some olive oil so the bread won’t stick on it! And now the FUN begins… spread the base sauce to your likings, Diya loves tomato base so my pizza will be pasta and tomato sauce based. Top the bread with some sausages, onions, mixed vegetable and lastly loads of cheese! Don’t over load the bread or else it will be difficult for you to eat..

Get the oven ready for bake and just bake until the cheese melts entirely and the bread gets crispy.. about 15-18 minutes!


Friday 22 May 2009

My Peach Caramel Pudding!





~~~~ CARAMEL PEACH PUDDING~~~~

Ingredients:

1 tin condensed milk(susu sejat)
1 tin of water
1 tin peach
3 eggs
2 tbs sugar
1 tbs custard powder

Caramel:

½ half cup sugar
1-1/2 cup water.

Method:

Caramel;
Melt sugar in a non-stick frying pan until it gets brown; dark brown and quickly pour in hot water. Be careful at this time as it can pop out and don’t get yourself burnt. Stir well and put aside to cool. I hate making the caramel sugar so instead I use the LYLE’S GOLDEN SYRUP maple flavor where you can get at any bakery supplies store. It’s a lot safer and saves more time and taste superb too!
Pudding;
Mix all ingredients in a large bowl (except caramel ingredients) and stir well. Make sure only soft stirring and no bubbles coz we only want smooth surface. Stir until the eggs are well blended in. pour a thin layer of caramel syrup or maple syrup then only pour pudding mixture in a baking dish with a strainer to get rid of all the lumpy stuff. Again make sure no bubbles once everything is in the casserole dish or any other oven safe bakeware.

I always use steaming method for my pudding coz I feel they become softer and nicer. You can also use the oven and bake until its cooked but must use the bath method or else your pudding base will easily gets burnt. Bath method means put your casserole dish in a deeper baking tray and fill the tray with hot water before you start baking in the oven. So then steam or bake until well cooked.

Let cool aside and start slicing your peach and later when is cool enough arrange the peaches on the pudding as you like and pour more caramel syrup. Keep refregarated and serve cold!

After Jog Dinner…

That evening my sister and I went for an evening jog around our gated housing area… Of coz Diya was with us! We jog while she sat in her stroller. We had to jog a little fas as she easily gets bored in there ahahaah… Then we jog.. jog.. and more jogging ehehehe…

Later after the long slow run we felt for SALAD and my sis keep telling me how the new ‘Shanghai Salad’ at TGIF being her new favourite thing to eat! So, waiting for Abg Harry back from work and later off we go to Plaza Damas TGIF!

I like the out let here better as it is more quiete and more families dining in rather than happening and noisy eheheh…

at first I could’nt choose between the shanghai salad and TGIF’s famous ceaser salad with grilled chicken.. Tempted with other table’s menu tho I finally settled down on the shanghai salad! Sweet kinda of sour (hope you readers understand what I mean eheheh…) dressing with peeled oranges scattered on the plate among the grilled chicken breasts; SUPERB!

I finished the whole huge plate of the colourful leaves and still helping Diya with her food! Ahahahha… meaning to say I eat for TWO! I don’t feel that bad as I had few hours of good jogging before ehehehe…


Diya had her own mini dinner… two mini burgers with orange and fries… She really had FUN with her food especially the fries! She behaved well that nght and sat quietely beside me (maybe shes scared of Abg Harry; who knows) ahaks… she had whole half o the bread, half burger meat and a bunch of FRIES, other than that the food goes to ME! Ahahahaha…

Later we took her for the kiddie ride nearby and she insists staying in the car until she finishes all mommy’s coins! Still fresh and hyper, we brot her jalan-jalan little bit more and strait to the car… Nice FOOD and nice exercise for the both of us…..


Tuesday 12 May 2009

Happy Mother’s Day Mumy!

We had an early morning that day… woke Diya up for her morning bath but she keeps running in the room and end up on my bed! Nice pose though… ahaks! Playing with my makeup bag and refuse to shower; I simply grab her and off to the bathroom!

Then rush to my mom’s place in Gombak for ‘makan’ along came with were my sister and her family also for ‘makan-makan’. I made my mom her favorite cake; Marble Buttercake and my sister got her the Crab Tree shampoo set which my mom LOVE sooooo much!

So much of FOOD!!




My Marble Buttercake gift for my mom

Butter cake with swirl of dark chocolate batter… yummy…
After lunch and all the nice food and deserts we went to 1 Utama ‘jalan-jalan’ and I got myself a pair of running shoes for me to jog and hopefully loose weight. Not to forget Diya got a pair of cool Nike shoes for running and soccer ball also!



So the next day we all went jogging early morning and Diya enjoyed her time at the children’s playground with her soccer ball… never seen her so happy playing like this day, she runs all over the place while clapping, shouting, attempts to jump up and down and more running!!!!



Later that evening I baked my family recipe of Chocolate Chips Cookies which I use to sell loads of them in the past; for my sister’s mom’s day gift and few other frens who’s celebrating it also… yeah, I definitely can bake so my baking has always been the best gift ever to anybody ehehheh…


…HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY…

Wednesday 6 May 2009

My Beef Curry

Ingredients:

300g stew cut beef (or any cut you prefer)
1 inch ginger(bruised)
Rempah 4 beradik –bunga cengkih, kulit kayu manis, buah pelaga ,bunga lawang
1 tbs garlic paste
1 tbs shallots paste
1tbs chilli paste (optional)
1 tbs beef curry paste
2 tbs coconut milk
1 lemon grass(serai), bruised(dititik)
1 potato cut into 4.
Few curry leaves

Method:

Heat oil and fry rempah 4 beradik with curry leaves, ginger and lemon grass. Be careful it will pop quite much! Then add in all the paste and fry until ‘pecah minyak’ and fragrant. Add in the beef and potato and a little water, let boil until beef is tender. Keep adding the water. Lastly put in coconut milk and continue to cook for few more minutes

You can enjoy this beef curry with French bread; just make the gravy thicker!

Ayam Masak Merah

Ingredients:

Few cuts of chicken
1 potato cut into 4 pieces
1 inch ginger bruised
1 big onion thinly sliced
1 lemon grass bruised
1 tbs garlic paste
1 tbs chili paste (optional)
1 tbs oyster sos
3-4 tbs tomato ketchup
Little brown sugar and salt to taste.

Method:

Deep fry chicken with turmeric powder and salt until cooked. And continue with potatoes and put everything aside.

Heat oil and start with garlic paste and chili paste, until fragrant. Add in ginger, lemon grass and fry few seconds more then pour on all the sauces; oyster, tomato and sliced onions. Cooked until the gravy thickens, you can opt to add in a little water. Always use hot water so the temperature will maintain the same. Lastly put in all the fried chicken and potatoes and served Hot.

You can match this dish with my other vegetable dishes and get a nice express and complete meal…

Pajeri Terung Sedap!

Ingredients:

2 Small Brinjals( I always get Organic ones as they are smaller in size)
2 tbs shallots paste
1 tbs garlic paste
1 tbs chilli paste (optional)
Rempah 4 beradik–kulit kayu manis, bunga lawang, buah pelaga and bunga cengkih
Few biji sawi (black pepper)
2 tbs brown sugar and salt to taste
1tbs kerisik (coconut paste)
100ml coconut milk(diluted)

Method:

Cut brinjals into smaller bite pieces and soak under water while you prepare other things to cook.

Heat oil and stir fry all the paste, chilli, garlic and shallots and also rempah 4 beradik including biji sawi until fragrant. Add in brown sugar and salt to taste. Pajeri is meant to be a bit sweeter so be generous on the sugar heheheh… Now u can stir in coconut milk, coconut paste and brinjals. Cook until the gravy thickens and serve hot!

Pak Choy Oyster Sauce.

Ingredients:

1 bunch of Pak Choy Vegetable
1 tube of egg tofu
1 tbs garlic paste or few cloves of crushed garlic
1 tbs oyster sos
1 tbs corn flour (mixed with little water)
Few drops of sesame oil.

Method:

Deep fry egg tofu until half cooked and put aside.

Heat oil and stir fry garlic until fragrant and quickly add in oyster sauce because garlic gets easily burnt. Then continue to fry few seconds more and add in the egg tofu and pak choy. Add in a little water to make the gravy and lastly add in the liquid corn flour and sesame oil.

Serve while still hot!

Sambal Ikan Tenggiri


Ingredients:

2 pieces small size Tenggiri fish (Ikan Merah or Ikan Jenahak will taste good too)
1 Onion thinly sliced
2 tbs garlic paste
5 tbs chili paste (depends if you prefer spicy or not)
1 tsp belacan powder or paste
1 asam keping
1 tsp brown sugar and salt to taste.
Few drop of dark soy sos (for the dark red color effect)

Method:

Deep fry fish with turmeric powder and salt and leave aside.

Heat oil and fry garlic, chili until brownish and cooked. The chili needs more time to cook so no worries... add in belacan paste or powder, asam keeping and half of the onions. Keep frying and add in seasonings. Little sugar will do great to balance up the spiciness of the chili. Add the balance of onions and a little bit of hot water for some gravy and drop bit of dark soy sos for the color.

Now serve the sambal sauce on top of the fried fish or if you like can just mix everything together heheheh…

Tuesday 5 May 2009

9 Months of Pregnancy

Wanting…

The moment I conceived my baby I can’t wait to get checked and confirmed me being pregnant. I got few testers and still negative… sad… but recently I have been eating a lot, can’t tolerate certain smells but not too strong still manageable and doubtful hehehhe… Then I thought; what the heck just get myself to the hospital and get everything done instead of me being puzzled most of the time. Wallah… I AM PREGNANT!

News

I was shaking when I got out of the doctors room… shivering still and I drove back home…. The first person I told was Debbie, my only life friend and she goes... what? Ahahahha… only us understands that tone… heheh... Later told my hubby and of coz he’s glad+proud as ever could be hehehe. The next day I tender my resignation heheheh…

Craving

My 1st craving food was char kuew teow! At first it doesn’t matter so much but the craving gets worse every hour... I just got to have it! Woke up dady to be still he never bothered. I lay down again in bed and still can’t stop thinking of the bloody food. Ini tak boleh jadi ni I say; bangun la bawak saya makan char kuew teow! Saya tak tahan la pening asyik pk nak makan ni. Bangun la! And I started to cry… at that point I MUST HAVE CHAR KUEY TEOW! It was 5 in the morning and the only place I know to get late night food was Bangsar and so we drove there… just a little taste and I was sooooo relieved!


Love and Hate

I love to cook sooooo much! At that time I feel like having a boy so in my mind was ‘oh my baby nanti jadi chef kot?’ heheheh…. Everyday I must cook. Until one day I started to sell rice packs! Everybody love my cooking… until i'm 7 months I still pack rice for lunch for office people and everybody started to worry me being too pregnant and doing all heavy work and so I stopped… Another thing I love so much to do is walk. Everyday after the heavy cooking still I will go to the mall and walk sometimes the whole day even… I also love English sopras. My have to watch that time was ER – Emergency Room and favors Dr Carter. Everyday and night I have to watch the series. On Sundays I will do marathon series on ER!

I hate to watch any Hindi movies during my pregnancy. Serious! Let’s say I try to ill get headache on the spot. So I only watch English movies and very motherly type like always on hallmark channel. Then later I start to watch cartons which I never favor of any of them before… another thing I hate the most is the smell of deodorant and armpits… huhuhuhu… I can never tahan my own smell till one day I call Debbie up and cry to her; how ni bie aku tak tahan bau ketiak aku sendiri huhuhuhu… ya ya… funny but it was soooo true. She as usual full with information told me to get crystal salt type deodorant which has no smell and neutral. Oh again my problem solved! Until now I still wear the same crystal thingy heheheh…

Waiting

So there is me and my baby inside me growing… I eat more everyday and gain more every minute! Food that I never like to eat change to I love to eat and food I love to eat change to I can’t eat that! Everyday all I do is walk in malls, or flea market, I cook still for family only and started baking too, at night I always have problem to sleep so I’ll watch TV until the TV watches me… heheheh… I never take any medicine no matter how sick I was; not even light cough syrup. Was so scared any drugs can harm my baby, so if I get sick I will just bare till I’m well enough to walk in malls again...


Its time!

It was on fasting month and we were having our ‘sahur’. I cooked some over the night before and reheat everything in my mini microwave early morning. It’s not so difficult for me to wake up so early coz I can hardly sleep. I wanted to have my slice of pizza from last night and suddenly I feel like my period is coming! I looked down n checked, slight blood on my panty and very wet! I panicked and started to cry… why I am crying there was no pain at all just little blood n water jerk! I slowly get my self clean and finish my slice of pizza (hehehhe, still can makan), change clothes and off to the hospital.

Labor

It was around 8.30 and I was only 2cm opening huh? How many hours more? at first I only feel like period pain but little stronger but as minutes passes by the pain becomes greater and worsen. By 9.30 it was only another cm more opening! My GOD! Give me epidural! And there later was I with Debbie visiting me in the labor room, we had some laughs while waiting me to fully open.

Push!

My gyne finally arrived from his vacation in Melaka as I insist to have him instead of other doctors on duty heheheh… Now I’m fully ‘opened’ and ready to have Diya! They switched off my ‘magic pain killer’ the epidural and within few minute I start to feel the PAIN ahahahhha… they can see her head down there like a 50 cent coin and keep saying to me sue, berak! Berak! As I only feel like to berak that time every time the contraction come heheheh… then doctor came in and start to ‘work’ on me, I can see he tried vacuuming Diya out twice attempt and still cant. After 3 hours in there finally he decides to CUT me open! Their main concern is to save the baby first! Now everybody’s face starts to change! Doctor went out and explains the complications I was having and I’m pretty sure everybody started worrying already….

Diya was borne…

They got me ready for the operation theater and moved me on a stretcher straight to the operation room. There the music was on and everybody was so calm and relaxed while joking among them. My doctor came in with his tool bag and spread them on my leg instead of having everything on a table where I can see them. He was so cool and very understanding of how ‘penakut’ I was so he made things very calm and peacefully even hide the scary tools away for me… after awhile I can feel Diya pop out and after few seconds I can hear the lovely tiny winy little cry she made! I expected a loud cry like I always see on TV but instead it was so cute and just a little cry. They took her to me and show it’s a GIRL and strait away cleaned her.

Her head was slightly squared due to twice attempts of vacuuming

She already opened her cute big eyes…






After two days borne.


She had jaundice so we were stuck there for a week.




First day at home and we introduced her to ‘cat’…. And our lives begin...




Sweet memories of having Baby Diya Zafeerah