Our Home

The only thing that I like about staying in Senawang is this hilly view from our home. It’s very soothing to look at. Everyday when I drive out from our home to the main road and when I drove back, I would be greeted by the hilly mountains. 2 side of our house is surrounded by mountains, all I see here is mountains, trees and flat lands. Unlike when we staying in PJ or Subang, everywhere is so congested with cars and buildings and billboards. Should enjoy this scenary more before we go back to Subang for good. The house we staying now is not our own property. No point invest in a small town like this as we are not going to stay here forever. Tried to make our house as cosy as possible, but since it’s not our own, a lot of things is still not up to what I would like it to be.

I should brush up my photography skill to capture the beauty of this scenary. Anyhow, my camera is those 2.0megapixel one. *sigh*

Cooking Went Wrong

My cooking don’t always turn out to be alright. Just last week, 5 nights of cooking, 2 ended as a disaster.

The day I bake the suji butter cake. The cake after cut, it smashed easily and doesn’t hold into nice pieces. The colour of the cake is not brown enough and it took me more than 1 1/2 hours instead of 45 minutes to bake it. Maybe something wrong with the oven. I’m suppose to soak the semolina in milk for 6 hours, but too late when I knew I have to do that, so I did the short cut and skip that step. Maybe that’s why the cake didn’t turn out how it should be.

The other night I wanted to fried those little drumstick. Bought 12 from Giant. During cleaning the drumstick, realize it’s not that fresh. Maid told me it smell a bit and it look a bit pale blue-ish. (Things in Giant is not always fresh, eventhough I bought the chicken on the day it’s cut – according to the date printed on the label) Thought I can use the ready made deep fried flour for coating to cover the smell, but I realize my stock is running low, and I don’t have enough flour to coat all the 12 drumstick. I’m running late and don’t have time to make my own flour coating, just made do with what I’ve , end up the smell still there after deep frying. So 9 drumstick all goes fed to the dustbin.

Wanted to steam 3 type of eggs, prepared the normal egg, again run out of time, wanted to go fetch hubby ( didn’t get the maid to prepare earlier, I was too glued in front of the pc and forgotten to instruct her what to do and what I wanted to cook), told maid to cut century egg and salted egg and sprinkle on the egg and asked her to steam it then I quickly hurried out. When the egg is served, realize something amiss. Maid has forgotten to add the salted egg, so the taste is different than what it should be. Maybe I’m in a hurry to go out, she didn’t hear me right, at that time already kelam kabut and my Malay not that good…so communication problem. That night with 2 failed dishes, hubby went out to tar pau “kon lou min” for supper. Lucky he never sour face.

Last night again, not an impressive dinner. Tried to make this Fish, Aspargus and Mushroom Parcels. I don’t have almond flake and asparugus, thought can skip that. After steaming the fish wrapped in foil, the dory fish ended up tasteless, because the mushroom must have absorbed all the gravy. Must use mixed herbs next time.

Another dish, “Thousand Layer Bean Curd Roll”. I don’t know if I have got the correct bean curd skin. I have damped the skin, but still find it hard to roll up the pork and prawns filling into it. The skin is so dry, it cracks and not able to roll up. Panic. Quickly phone my mum for SOS. Mum told me in order to rescue the dish, make some flour paste to deep fried my bean curd roll as if doing goreng pisang. End product, bean curd roll does not taste like what it should be, and it doesn’t look presentable, but the taste is still there.

I tend to panic and lost my cool when things I plan do not go as I expected. I always want to make sure dinner is on the way or ready by the time hubby is home. I can get disoriented when everything is out of way.

This weekend is my cooking rest day. Yeah!! In-laws are coming over to stay over the weekend. Invited them over as tomorrow will be JS’s school sport’s day. She will be participating in a dance. Her first public performance!

Sleep Talker

Like hubby, JS talks in her sleep. (Is it in the genes??) She did it again last night. I heard her saying ” I touch touch touch” , “Mummy, cut the balloon, mummy, cut the balloon”.

This happen so frequently but I have yet to find out a trend of its reoccurance. I know it only happens to hubby when he’s very very tired. For JS I still don’t know if she’s overstimulated with the day activities , or she hasn’t got enough nap during the day. Sometimes I can figure out she said, it’s something related to the morning activities we have done at home or in school. Sometimes I don’t know what she says, and there are times that it’s just bits and pieces of what happening , been put together and what she says doesn’t really make sense. It can be quite funny sometimes, so as when hubby is sleep talking. Good thing is that they don’t sleep walk.