Freestyle Cooking

Yesterday I got too bored, had nothing much to do. I also happen to be hungry so what else? Off I went to my kitchen to cook something for me. To be honest, there wasn't much options in my kitchen. Checked in my freezer, there was a new unopened packet of vegetarian soya chicken, just grabbed it right away. I took out about 10 pieces of the chicken, 1 red onion, 1 potato, cut and shredded all of them separately and put them in a bowl and it looked like this:

After that, I broke 1 egg into it, seasoned it with salt and pepper, mixed it all up, and 'grilled' it on my tosai kalle :p (a flat pan used to make thosai since I had no grilling utensil) with some oil. Final result is this:




It was not bad actually. You can eat it on its own, but I find it tastier when you eat it with Gardenia bread or any other bread with chili sauce in it of course! Yummmmaaayyyyyyyyyy!!!!

Lamb Sliders

Came across a cool recipe over the internet. Lamb Sliders. Simple and delicious. Basically ground lamb mashed and grilled, sandwiched between 2 breads. Small cute burgers. I'm amazed at the simplicity of cookery and its art, for we can come up with such simple dish but very tasty and tempting at the same time. Of course, that lamb sliders go with your cold Special Brew on a Saturday night while watching football. Muhahahahaha. Beauty.

*note: credits to the author of this video, Mr Paul Rinehart of Florofilm. http://www.onlinecooking.net

Ammale Kokkoi!!!

Kuih, cakes, desserts, that's what I love. But I'm not the kind of person who goes for the fancy gourmet style desserts or cakes, I'm more into the old-school conservative tea time delicacies. You know, the ones that you mum makes for the teatime on a sunny Tuesday evening. Accompanied by the good ol tea with milk, of course "tarik"-ed. Banana cekodok, the dark brown fried round balls. How about anchovies instead of banana? Prawn? Wait a minute, I've never had any prawn cekodok before, haha. One of my favourites is the random shaped light brown fried anchovies with onion thingy :p or more typically and affectionately called kokkoi. You dip it in a hot Maggie chillie sauce, and open your mouth as big as possible and bite the biggest part of the thingy you can. I just call it kuih to be simple. Don't miss that hot nice teh tarik made by your mum. Watch some nice clippings of tamil movie comedies on Sun TV while having the tea and kuihs at about 5.40pm with your mum and baby niece. That's another bits and pieces of life that I call..simply, life.

Chicken Rice

I'd be sitting in my hostel room playing FIFA with my buddies, screaming and having fun while the clock shows 5.00am. We hadn't been sleeping the night before, playing games, chatting away on the internet, laughing, teasing each other, just lazying around and being bumps. When it's about 6am, we'd know it's time for a hot and fresh chicken rice and that's the perfect time to get hungry.
In recent times, if there is any place you ask me to recommend for a good chicken rice, i'd recommend the great Dengkil Chicken Rice :-D Daaaamnnnn, it's the taste of superiority. There's nothing like going to Dengkil with a bunch of 6-7 buddies cramped in a car, joking, teasing and laughing together, sit in a big group on a round table. Ayam campur char siew besar boss! With the kicap manis and the kicap masin. The kacang tanah (groundnut) soup, sometimes turnip soup. And a good ol hot chinese tea if it's raining or iced chrysanthemum tea if it's a warm weather. The rice is so delicious you can eat it on its own. The roasted chicken, with sweet roasted pork. Heaven! The chilies. The moment your food arrives, you pour the beautiful kicap masin on the chicken and pork and kicap manis on your rice. Drink some soup, and also wet the rice abit with it. Scoop the chillies into your rice. You take a whole lot of the chicken and pork, mash them abit in ur rice, and put the beautiful piece of human creation into your mouth and chew away the overwhelming taste of mixed rice, chilli, chicken, pork and soup. Fairly noisy people around you, the weather, the food, friends. Now that's...what I call life.

Midnight Supper Tips

Hungry at midnight? Don't know what to eat? Try these simple and tasty recipes from me!

Maggie goreng (15-20 mins preparation duration, for 1 person)

What you need:

• 1-2 packet of Maggie mee (Mamee is recommended cuz Maggie taste like wax, though all instant noodles taste like wax but i don't wanna get there now)
• 1 large onion
• 2-3 garlic (optional)
• 1 type of any vegetable you got in ur fridge (also optional)
• some udang kering (dried shrimp, optional also)
• 1 egg
• black pepper
• some vegetable oil or olive oil (or butter if you like, depends on your mood)

How to prepare:

1. Throw in the Maggie mee into a pot of water and boil it. Keep the seasoning powder.
2. Wash off the udang kering and bash it up.
3. Pour a little bit of oil into pan and heat it up.
4. Chop the onions garlic, and vegetables to small pieces. (you can also bash up the garlic if you like, it's all your choice babey!)
5. When the oil is hot enough, throw in the udang kering and fry them until they're cooked. Take it out and keep aside.
6. Add oil into the pan and add the onions and garlic into the pan and stir until its brownish.
7. By now, your Maggie mee should be boiling, so dry off the access water and throw the Maggie mee into your pan and stir away like a professional chef :p
8. Then, arrange the mee so that you leave a hole in the middle, and pour a little oil into it and break the egg into the hole. Cover the egg with the noodles and wait for a few seconds.
9. Then, throw a right amount of the Maggie seasoning powder into the pan, and mix it all well.
10. Now you can throw in your udang kering and veges into the pan.
11. Mix and mix and finally season it with some black pepper. Serve it on a nice plate and with a can of Coke. If don't have, ice water would be cool. Your midnight Maggie goreng is ready to be served! ^_^

Egg Sandwich (5 mins preparation duration, for 1 person)

What you need:

• 1 egg
• 2 slices of bread (Gardenia is ideal)
• chilli sauce
• black pepper
• butter
• oil

How to prepare:

1. Pour oil into pan.
2. While waiting for oil to heat up, you can butter up the breads on 1 side each.
3. Break the egg into the pan and fry away. (you can also beat the egg first, depending on your mood)
4. Add salt as desired.
5. Take off the egg, place nicely on bread #1.
6. Pour chili sauce on the egg.
7. Add black pepper.
8. Cover with bread #2.
9. Eat.

Hope you guys enjoyed my simple recipes! Ciao!

Food

Everybody loves to eat man. We live to eat. We eat to live. So why there must be restrictions on what we eat? After all, we don't know when we are gonna die rite? Maybe you will die tonight, maybe I will die next week, maybe we all will die next year cuz the earth will be sucked right into the sun on one fine lovely day. Do you wanna regret why you didn't have that beautiful pink roasted pork chop with sweet potatoes the other day??? Cmon!! Eat whatever you feel like eating man!! You wanna eat that grilled lamb? Go ahead!! You wanna have that chocolate cake with raspberries on top? Dig in!! Eat all you want and enjoy your life dude. Cuz life is all about food. Aaaaaahhhhhhh.