Sambal Tumis Petai di Dundee!!

Sebagai rakyat Malaysia, tiada yang lebih sedap daripada sambal tumis petai...kena pulak dengan nasi panas....huuuu..kecur.....

Birthday Cake Luqman and Izzat

Strawberry Cream Almond Cake

I'm personally proud of this cake because it's actually not what I plan in the beginning. Mula-mula nak buat almond layer cake and ice with vanilla cream...Tapi oleh kerana tersangat letih setelah 2-3 minggu berhempas pulas kat lab, tertidur la pulak masa tengah bakar kek..dah hangit skit kek...rasanya sedap, tapi agak keras.....keesokkannya baru dapat idea untuk buat strawberry cream and ice with vanilla cream...tak sangka jadi cantik pulak...cam kat kedai kek..

Totally Chocolate

With great chocolaty in mind, this cake is all about chocolate. Chocolate sponge ice with chocolate ganache and covered with white and dark chocolate shave..dan cherry dip in chocolate at the corner.....rich....

Butter cake

But for me, nothing better than plain butter cake and a cup of tea after a long hard day at work....

Jantung, Popia and Udang

Jantung

Sejak duduk Scotland ni, ni lah first time jumpa jantung..tu pun ihsan tuan kedai...dah bosan jugak makan ayam jer atau daging..ikan pun susah jumpa..kalau ada pun salmon, haddock, sesekali bolehlah siakap.... bila dah dapat jantung ni apa lagi..masak kicap la yang paling sedap sekali...

Popia Goreng (Spring Roll)

My popia somehow different sikit. I like it small (bite size), not too much filling supaya ianya lebih rangup dan tahan. Kat sini agak mudah nak buat popia sebab boleh dapat kulitnya dari kedai Pak Matt Dundee. Selalu kalau buat, simpan dalam peti, so bila teringin, tinggal goreng jer....

Udang Masak Asam

ni udang experiment Amirrudin....dia jumpa resepi dalam majalah saji...not bad, tapi dia sendiri tak makan....takut langgar undang-undang persatuan gout semalaya..........

Donuts

How do like your donuts will be....chocolate, susu pekat manis or with sambal tumis ikan bilis.....donut coklat kegemaran anak-anak, donut makan dengan susu pekat manis kegemaran bapak and donut with sambal kegemaran ibu (dan Fizzy).

Resepi Donut

Bahan

1 tbsp dried yeast

4 tbsp caster sugar

150 ml milk- warm

250g plain flour

1/4 tsp salt

50g butter- melted

1 egg

Method

1. Mix yeast with 1/2 tbsp sugar and 2 tbsp warm milk, biarkan 15 min (yeast mixture akan berbuih)

2. Sift flour, salt in large bowl. Masukkan 1 tbsp gula

3. Buatkan lubang ditengah campuran tepung, tuang yeast mixture, milk, melted butter dan telur.

4. Adun sehingga sebati dan uli. Tutup mangkuk dan biarkan adunan selama 45 min (atau saiznya naik dua kali ganda)

5. Di atas permukaan yang di tabur tepung, uli adunan selama 5-6 min, bahagikan kepada bentuk yang disukai (ball, ring etc).

6. Biarkan selama 30 min or double the size.

7. Goreng menggunakan minyak yang banyak (api jangan terlalu besar)

8. eats as you prefer...

Aidil's Birthday Cake

We had a little treat for Aidil's 11th birthday. As usual he wants a chocolate cake and I make my usual chocolate cake (chocolate layer cake) and frosted with double cream and finished it with chocolate button and chunks. Bob helped with the button with half of the buttons goes into his mouth.....what a typical Bob....

Clementine Cake

Clementine Cake...refereshing

Kat Scotland ni selain daripada apples and pears, oranges pun banyak jenis (kebanyakannya imported). One in particular called clementine agak sedap dan manis. Limau ni jenis yang senang kupas kulitnya...kat Malaysia pun ada kut tapi different variasi. Tapi bila dah selalu beli, budak-budak ni bosan la pulak, selalu tak habis makan. Satu hari terbaca resepi kek clementine, so try buat..not bad at all....

Mee Udang Dundee

Dah lebih setahun kat sini, kadang-kadang rindu jugak jalan-jalan cari makan kat mesia. Macam-macam boleh makan, mee udang, mee rebus, tomyam, hailam, ratna etc. Gerai makan almost none kat sini..kalau nak makan ala gerai, kena la buat sendiri. Kali ni teringin makan mee udang, walaupun udang berkulit ni agak mahal, tapi sekali sekala boleh la....

Rojak (makan dengan kuah kacang)

Kadang-kadang kalau ada keraian (birthdays, usrah, etc) rojak jadi pilihan (ada orang panggil rojak melaka, orang terengganu panggil rojak ayam) sebabnya senang nak dapat bahan untuk membuatnya. Selalunya it consists of cucur udang, kentang rebus, telur rebus, timun, salad, kadang-kadang ayam panggang dan kuah kacang. Kacang tanah memang senang dapat kat sini.

Masak and me

I always cook, to begin with..no matter where or what kind of function... Kalau ada kenduri kendara pun selalunya end up kat dapur instead of buat bunga telur ke...kemas rumah ke...Masa mula-mula kawin, mertua buat kenduri kawin anak sedara (rasanya?)..mula-mula join geng bunga telur, tapi ntah cam mane end up kat bangsal belakang rumah tolong makcik-makcik buat pajeri nenas. Tak lama lepas tu (lama gak la, dah ada anak 3), masa kenduri kahwin adik ipar, mak mertua buat lawak mintak tolong masak lauk pengantin...gelabah jugak, tapi join venture dengan mak de, menjadi jugak akhirnya.

Masak di rumah dengan masak on the go (outdoor trips), is something different. Bila memasak kat 'field' ni, simplicity is the key. My first exprience was masa masuk ROTU, tapi yang tu very minimal sebab semuanya dah di pack. My really first experience was masa trip ke Taman Negara Pahang bersama-sama USM's Biology Student Society. Masa tu I was not assigned to the masak group, tapi sebab tak tahan tunggu lama, entah apa diaorang buat...kelaparan menunggu..

My truly experiences cook outdoor is during field trips while I worked with UMT marine biotech group. Masak kat pulau...very valuable experiences and because we were at the island, fresh resources aplenty.....

Muka Dapur (with Ina and Ika)

As the series of event masak-memasak continue, I picked up considerable good skill especially dalam masakan berlauk and couples of desserts, but my cakes are far from perfect, except for kek gula hangus and kek chocolate...but after we moved here in Scotland, cakes become my new obsession (not too obsessed), maybe because tak berapa confident nak beli kek kat kedai which always have elements of liquer in one way or another, tambah pulak kat sini banyak bahan yang sesuai untuk buat kek and dessert...


Restrictions, stresses and pleasure creates creativity. Restriction due to tak boleh nak beli jer..Stresses;...you name it... phd in medicine, kids, husband, peers, language, weather; Pleasure...some people says if God does not make food for both pleasure and necessity, human will die of eating (some do really die...).

KITCHEN RULES

• If you empty it- FILL IT
• If you dirty it- CLEAN IT
• If you open it- CLOSE IT
• If you spill it- WIPE IT UP
• If you cook it- SHARE IT