What's for dinner

I know my blog is in a mess. It consists of things, everything that I can think of. That is life. That's why I don't have a specific theme for it. I just called it a life blog.

So today, I'm in the mood for recipes. So I'll write about ingredients and how to cook it right.

Here is a picture of my dinner I had yesterday.



I did the mashed potatoes first.

Ingrediets and methods:
Quantity of ingredients is all up to you. How many person you are preparing for, how soft/salty/mushy/wet you want it, its your choice. While you are adding in the things, you should alwiz taste it and add when neccessary.

Few potatoes - steam it or boil it till soft.
Then mash it with any utensils you can find from the kitchen. (I used a Ramlee burger press and a fork)
Mix it with butter, cream ( I used whipping cream), milk (cow milk) and season with pepper and salt.
Tips: milk and cream is to create the consistency you want.

Next, the minestrone.

Ingredients and methods:
Quantity is again up to you. Not too many because you are making soup, not spaghetti sauce.

First chop some onion, celery sticks, carrots, potatoes, zucchinis and a few cloves of garlic. Then stir fry all the ingredients in a wok with a lil oil before adding in 2 tins of chopped tomatoes. Cover the contents with water. Add in some chicken stock (optional) and leave it to simmer for about an hour (longer if you want the ingredients to be softer). Season with pepper, salt, oregano leaves.

Next, chicken chop.

Ingredients and methods:
Chicken for the chop and spices to marinate. Again, the choice of chicken part and spices are all up to you.

Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper for a few minutes. Cover it with flour before deep frying. Alternatively, roast it! (Tips: Kenny Roger's chicken is marinated and roasted with thyme! dont believe me? go smell some thyme)

Cut some cucumber, lettuce, tomatoes to add in some fibers.

Finally, garlic bread..

Cut baguette (loaf from france) and spread with butter and freshly chopped garlic. Add some italian herbs if you like. Then toast them (as burnt as you like).

Would you like to have some dessert for supper?
Make this.. Green Apple Bread Pudding (recommended by a silai friend of mine)
It's fast and convenient..and requires no special skills!

Go get the recipe from : http://www.asianfoodchannel.com/recipes_details.php?urlname=green_apple_bread_pudding

When it comes to baking, the recipe is the queen, you have to obey it!
So, be good, just follow the recipe carefully and it will turn out to be something like this:

Why are silais fat?

Sometimes you just can't blame silais (general term for sedentary housewives) for being fat. I said this because I got the chance to experience my mom's lifestyle (the silai's style) ever since (or accidentally?) I started nesting at home.

First thing in the morning, do the routine everyone does i.e. brush teeth, wash face. The difference between silais and non-silais is that we (the silais) will read newspaper while waiting for bowel movement instead of eating breakfast because we silais have all the time in the world. We can eat whenever we want, shit whenever we feel best.

Then at 2pm we watch the daytime show on 711 - "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (a DAYTIME show is created especially for people like us) together with all other silais on the other side of the world.

Later on, we would sit down and think of what to cook for dinner. Sometimes, it can be brain damaging just thinking of what to put in the wok. If our mood is good, we bake!

After the whole process of defrosting, seasoning, wok heating, stir-frying, washing and finally serving, we bath before dinner while we wait for other family members to come home.

Right after dinner, we will again crouch in font of the idiot box (and hide away all the remote controls) to watch WAH LAI TOI (and only WLT is allowed) from 8pm till bedtime (which is ANYTIME up to us). Alternatively, silais sometimes choose to do "youtubing" or for those pro-politic silais they will start having discussions based on the latest, hottest topics from www.malaysiakini.com with other silais (who are youtubing half-way);-)

This routine then repeats itself again and again.. (waking up and sleeping late is the best part.. at least for me).

If you read carefully, exercise is seldom (or should I say never ever was) in our routine but watching tv covers most part of it!

So, you can't blame silais for being fat (they just can't find time going to clubs because its just too far a driving distance for them and talking about those gym machines which many silais have bought home..they just somehow don't seem appetizing anymore). Unless the silais are staying in houses (perhaps in mansions/castles) which have compounds big enough to contain an olympic-sized pool or a park wide enough to play golf, they should not have any excuses to be fat. But then again, silais at that level can just throw cash at the surgeons to cut off whatever they don't want and add on what is not enough and they will end up just looking all fine and richer than before.

Anyway, life is unfair, the rich gets richer and more beautiful in simpler ways. So, live with the fact! Silais will eventually grow fat unless they have 25hours a day or have more than enough cash to throw at the plastic doctors!