Beef Rendang

i opened up my fridge as usual when close to dinner preparation time, and again, always wonder wat to cook for the next meal...being a house wife, we always has similar anxiety! which is, running out of idea wat to cook, rite?

I found there is still half pound of beef cube left in my fridge...suddenly think of to cook Beef Rendang, why not give it a try? i quickly click on my favorite blogger, Rasamalaysia.com to check out her Beef rendang recipe..OK! although i dun hv the whole list of ground ingredient ready in my pantry, but i decided to cook it to clear my beef and spice stock.

So, here u come my Beef Rendang...still look OK lah hoh? the only ingredient i lack of in my rendang paste is Kaffir Lime Leaf, some spices like Clove, Cinnemon Stick. I substitute coconut milk with my 2% fat fresh milk too, since no more coconut milk left.

If u r not a beef eater, try Chicken rendang, it is as tasty as well. For authentic recipe, check it out on here:

http://www.rasamalaysia.com/2008/09/beef-rendang-recipe-rendang-daging.html

Nasi Ulam

I got the reicpe from my Recipe Book

The ingredients, the ulam-ulam i prepared includes Basil leave, Coriander leaves, Lemon grass, shallot, fried dry prawn, fried and grated anchovy fish, toss grated coconut, fried shallot, toasted belacan, red chili/cabai burung and fish sauce.
Cook rice as usual and add in some fresh tumeric root to enhance the yellow color in the rice

Blend/mix all the ingredients together and serve hot or room temperature. The garnishing is optional. U may oso squeese in some lime/lemon juice if u want to hv more sour taste to stimulate your taste bud.
The original recipe of Nasi Ulam called for more ulam (raw herbs/leaf) which may includes duan kesom, ginger flower, kaffir lime leave, and many many more. However, there is no right or wrong in create your personalised recipe as long as the flavour is there.

If u r interested to try out, pls get the comprehensive recipe from here:

http://kuali.com/recipes/viewrecipe.asp?r=611

自制手工粗板面 (Home made Pan Mee with Anchovy broth)

今天相约了淑君自制手工板面。我负责熬小江鱼上汤，她则负责打面和切面。她也是在美国第一次“处女作”！但效果很不赖！淑君她家是山东籍，从小就跟妈妈学做面条和包饺子，基础从小就打好！就算来到美国，也不愁没有家乡味的面条吃啦！

这是刀切出来的板面条

淑君选用上等台湾制造的中筋面粉

面条烫好咯！配上小江鱼汤，撒上香菜，就是一碗香喷喷的大马式板面。

Outing in Historic Marshall Gold Discovery, Coloma CA

Thai Food Recipe and online cooking video

If u are a Thai Food lover, u shd not miss this website:
http://www.thaifoodtonight.com/thaifoodtonight/home.htm

Check out their steps by steps online cooking video, it is very easy! there are almost 30 dishes introduced in this web, which is pretty famous among we Malaysian.

Try out and share with me your thoughts later ya!

Thai Style Basil Fried Rice served with Tom Yam soup

Basil (九层塔), is a kind of herbs that i like to add in, in any kind of my cooking, shd it be Chinese, Thai or Vietnamese. It's aroma is unique, but not everyone can accept it easily, some crazy for it, some just wanna leave it alone. Vietnamese and Thai cuisine make use lots of Basil in their daily cusine that makes their food so much diff from Malaysian or Chinese food.

As far as Chinese food is concern, the only basil recipe i know off is Taiwanese style 3 Cup Chicken 台式三杯鸡. Taiwanese does eat quite a number of basil in their daily dish, they do use basil to make fried basil egg too. I hv tried these 2 Taiwanese dish b4, it is surely an delicious cusine if u are a basil lover.

The very 1st time i tried Thai Basil Fried Rice was 2 months ago when we were in Vacaville for Outlet shopping. The weather is so warm and we were so hungry at lunch time. My husband was using the GPS to search for nearest Asian restaurant and we found a very small size Thai cafe in one of the non prominent street of Vacaville city. We decided to make it a try since Asian food is always our priority whenever we hunt for food in the US. Not to say Western food is not good, but rather, rice and noodle is our Asian daily essential food what!

I ordered the Thai Basil fried rice in this small little Thai cafe, while my hubby ordered Pad Thai (Thai Style Fried Kuoy Teow). To my surprise, their food is so authentic and so much awsome and it is totaly not Americanized to suit to Ametican taste bud. Ever since that, i decided to give this recipe a try at home...since i hv all the ingredient ready, which includes Basil leaf, Thai red chilis, chicken meat, fish sauce and red/yellow bell pepper. Another "a must" garnishing ingredient is coriander leaf (香菜). It goes well with thai fried rice and the tom yam soup.

Tom Yam soup in this case, is only a supporting role to me. Without a Tom Yam soup, how can i say i hv cooked a complete authetic Thai meal as my dinner?

For the Tom Yam soup, it is best u smash one lemon grass, add Thai chili and Kaffir Lime Leaf in your soup base b4 u scope in the Thai Tom Yam cube/paste. Ingredient could be chicken, prawn or anything u delighted.

Serve hot and enjoy!

Doughnut 爱心甜甜圈

Lily, Thanks so much for your awsome easy made doughnut recipe...i follow thru all the steps and it is successful! Passion for the food is the key success i guess. Every mom shd give this recipe a try, your kids sure will like it and to "die for it":)

I used to remember, when i was a little girl, will sure requested my mom to buy me sugar doughnut selling in the bakery stall in Pasar Malam. I doubts any kids will resist such delightful snack huh!

If u want recipe, kindly visit my good master chef blog: http://lilyng2000.blogspot.com/2007/05/doughnuts.html.

This has become my real live recipe book whenever i wanna cook something which is as authentic as Malaysian flavour meal.