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Weekend Cookout


Weekend was filled with cooking! Okay I cheated on Sunday cos we went my mum's house to cook haha, but Saturday itself was tiring enough!

Invited in-laws ++ over for Husband's famous chicken rice and I made sago gula melaka. MIL made sweet sour fish too which was yummy! We wanted to make stir fry vege but at the last minute our stove's spark wasn't working!! Like wth! Oh wells. Luckily the chicken is all cooked! Maybe I'll make the stir fry today for sahur. So after 2 pots of rice, two kilos of chicken fried, three times of boiling sago, 5 big bottles of bandung, we ended up with one messy kitchen but it was all worth it! I am so fortunate to have a husband that cooks well :)

Then we went to Geylang after that. Ha. The mandatory, not-my-fave-place-to-visit bazaar. And time flew while we were there! We didn't realise it was almost midnight! Poor Junior fell asleep in his pram :( I wasn't in any shopping mood at all because I was worried about Junior. Anyway! We got for him 1 set of baju kurung, kain samping and capal! No songkok though cos he really really hates to put anything on his head.


Junior trying out his Hari Raya outfit haha! Too cute :) We'll be in dark blue, but I realise all our blues don't match -_-" Oh wells.

Sunday we celebrated my sister's birthday, had lotsa food and mango cheesecake from Eatzi which was totally yummy!! She specifically requested for a mango cheesecake, but most shops don't sell those. Thankfully Eatzi does and it's just nearby! Yummy ok! Light, creamy sweet cheesecake. I think my family will be ordering more cakes from them.

Oh! And Junior is officially walking already! He turns 13 months today :) Seeing him wobbling while walking is just pure joy. We went Giant on Saturday and we sat him in the trolley's child seat, but after a while he wasn't happy so I took him out and carried him, and after a few minutes he started fidgeting again! Turns out he wanted to walk haha. So I let him stand, and he pushed the trolley haha.


He's such a big boy now, little Junior's growing up :)

Here's the recipe for sago gula melaka, but you could reduce the gula and coconut cream portion cos I have leftovers. No photos not even iPhone's cos I was in a hurry.

Sago Gula Melaka

1 pack small sago, washed
300g gula melaka, chopped
2 small cartons (90ml each) Kara coconut cream
2 pandan leaves
Pinch of salt (I excluded, but I'd imagine it'll be yummy)
  1. Boil a big potful of water. Once water is boiling, pour a third or half of the sago pearls in. Do note that if water isn't boiling, the sago will stick to the bottom. Cover the pot, let it boil for about 15 minutes or until the white pearls are colourless. I repeated this three times to get all sago to be boiled.
  2. Drain the sago pearls, and transfer to containers of choice to let them cool and take shape. I used about 10 ramekins,3/4 filled. Refrigerate once cooled.
  3. Melt the gula melaka in low heat with 3/4 cup of water, not covering the pot. Once all sugar has melted, you'll end up with gula melaka syrup.
  4. Heat the coconut cream in a pot, with a little water and salt and the pandan leaves tied in a knot. Once boiled, get it off the stove.
I find that with one ramekin of sago pearls, you only need 1 to 1 1/2 tbsp of syrup, with 1 tbsp of coconut cream. Which means I'm left with lotsa coconut cream and gula melaka syrup left. Haha. Well I have some bananas, pengat pisang tomorrow maybe! :)
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