A Homemaker’s Diary

I have been having 2 days off from cooking and as the result, I have been suffering from starvation and makan tak puas syndrome..huhu!

I was about to go to sleep just now when I browse through the cooking topic in one of the forums I usually read everyday. Normally I will only read about crafts and sewing and see whether any new items like perfume and tudung interesting enough to be bought, heh!

I think my motivation to cook has just been renewed. I think starting from tomorrow I will start making list of dishes that I will cook in November. In my mind, I’m drooling about sambal petai with udang, kari ikan, sambal telur (boiled then fried)..I think it’s time we pay a visit to the Pasar Borong Selangor looking for fresh ingredients. And it would be yummy to have ulam with sambal tempoyak and ikan masin goreng as well. I feel like cooking all these kampung recipes because I am sick of the usual menu that I always cook..heh!

This is what happen when you think about food with empty stomach..huhu!

I wish I could have this choice every day, to be able to have buffet lunch and dinner whereby I can choose all kind of salad to put in my plate.

But then if every day you were given the same array of food you might want to have something else, right? hehe..

Check out those purplish raw beet. It is full of betacyanin which is also a powerful cancer-fighting agent. It was the first time I had sliced raw beet in salad and I love them so much. But Hubby thought they tasted weird..huhu!

I was doing my craft work downstairs while watching Supernatural. I was thinking to go to bed early tonight but then my favourite cooking related show – Fixing Dinner was on air at Discovery Home & Health channel. So I decided to wait another 30 minutes to see how this week’s family cope with their eating and cooking issues.

I realized that when you are too busy, juggling your life and your family schedule, being able to eat at home is like a luxury especially when you are able to eat your home-cooked food which you and everyone else in the household like the taste..(not some take away pizza or KFC to fill up a starving tummy..haha!)

Well, actually cooking is not that hard but having to spend the extra time to sort out in term of preparation and cleaning up the mess in the kitchen after the cooking and dining is what turn off most people from cooking. So with Fixing Dinner, the busy family are able to plan what to cook throughout the month and know what’s ahead in their menu. I like the fact that most of the dishes are so easy and simple to prepare. Maybe I have to think of something more Malaysian taste to add to my own Fixing Dinner program.

For this week despite my busy plan, I decided to try to cook at home as much as possible, mostly because I am sick to think on what to order at the restaurant. Plus if I am cooking, I don’t need to dress up to go out for dinner. But maybe during the weekend I will take some time off to focus on my crafts order that is nearing the dateline..huhu!

I took this picture of jemput-jemput udang about a few weeks ago (or was it months? huhu!). Nevertheless it could still be a valid picture because just now I had this for supper as well.

This prawn fritters are among the easiest things to cook and yet the taste is just great to savour. Make sure you dip with chili sauce Maggi..great for tea time or supper!

Of course I don’t use my hand to jemput the flour mixture (it’s something that people call as batter, right?), I use the spoon instead so the Malay translation for my prawn fritters should be “sudu udang” instead of jemput-jemput..haha!

Never mind, ignore my nonsense..I’m just too tired of thinking the right words after writing all the sponsored posts. It’s time that I go off to bed and wake up at 2pm tomorrow..haha! Oh, come to think of it, I still have some leftover of the batter in the fridge. Maybe I will fry some for tea..nyum nyum!

If there is one thing that I hate waking up early for errand it would be my growling hunger for food. And it’s worse since I have no motivation to whip anything just for the sake of my tummy alone. Unless Hubby is coming back for lunch or dinner, then only I have a valid reason to push my butt to the kitchen. Well, you can say I cook not because I want to eat, I love cooking if people that I love would love to eat the food..haha!

Now I’m starving for heavy meal. Blame this on my lady of leisure day out yesterday. I did not go to KL as per my initial plan. Instead I spend the morning sleeping. Guess the aging body could not take 2 days outing in a row, huh! Must continue my Pilates regime soon if I want to stay active and fresh.

This is the picture of Bihun Singapore I cooked last April. I have changed the recipe according to my preferences but the main idea of bihun singapore is still there. If only I could eat food pictures ( I have a lot of them in my PC for the update on my Food Blog), my starvation problems would be settled fast..haha!