Wake Up and Smell the Cake

Recording my plantui progress. Bought on 11 November 2017, planted Thai basil on 12 November 2017 and coriander and kale on 14 November 2017. Or maybe I should count as 15 November 2017 since 14 was on sleep mode only. 17 November 2017, day 2. Seeds not opening up yet!! WHYYY. Day 2. I see sprouting! This takes faster to grow than the other 2. I see growth here as well! Day 6 I do hope the coriander will grow! Maybe it'll take longer. Will update at the 10th day, when the lights are supposed to change.

Finally FINALLY I got my indoor gardening set thanks to dearest Husband! :) Was aiming for clickandgrow and plantui, and we settled for plantui though more expensive, but can fit 6 pods at a time and the light seems better. So YAY! I've been trying to grow herbs at my home but since we're not at home most of sunlight time, we can't grow much. I tried pandan leaves but it eventually died, mint grew but more of a survival thing rather than growing fully leafy. All these because we don't put our plants in direct sunlight, and our windows are tinted. We have money plants though, which I put in the sun only on weekends but those plants can survive anything so those don't count. HAHA. With my very own plantui I hope to grow my own herbs! I started out with Thai basil on Sunday (cos who wants normal basil when you have Thai basil!) and yesterday I added in 1 pod kale and 2 pods coriander. Will be updating on the progress soon! So far I see that the thai basil se...

We were watching Asian Food Channel, Cooking for Love programme and the menu for the day was rawon (slow cooked in the oven!), ikan pepes and durian creme brulee. I'm actually interested in the dessert, but Husband wanted the ikan pepes. So the next day he went to the market and then we prepared the fish together. Original recipe is here , but we kinda adapted it cos I wanted to try a hand at masak campak-campak and master it. Also I know there's many variations of ikan pepes but we absolutely LOVE this. So here's our recipe, which was just nice to cover 3 medium sized ikan merah. Ikan merah is a good fish since it's so soft! Ikan Pepes To blend: 2 onions 7 garlic 2 inches ginger 2 inches galangal 6 candlenuts 2 inches tumeric 10 red chilis 6 cili padi 4 cm sq belacan 4 lemongrass (stub keep for later) Other ingredients: 2 blocks gula melaka 2 asam keping 1 1/2 tsp salt 16 lime leaves 2 tbsp coriander powder Blend all the to-blend ingredien...

Such a belated post but just had to record this down. The Husband loves mozzarella cheese sticks from Swensen's, and recently we found out the kids love them too! So I tried to recreate it at home, since I already have the coating ingredients (children LOVE  homemade chicken nuggets ). First try had the mozarella melting in the oil, so the second time I did double coating and increased the heat such that the coating will cook quickly. I used 2 egg, cornflour, panko breadcrumbs and a mix of the following spices: smoked paprika, black pepper, salt, cajun spices, garlic powder. And mozarella, of course. Here's the first attempt! Cheese melted out, but super yummy! So second batch, made with double coating i.e. cheese in flour, then egg, then flour, then egg, then panko mix. Take that Swensen's! HAHA. Of course it's not as neat as Swensen's cos that's like machine made and all, but I think I did well!