Kerabu Sotong & suhun - inspired by Chef Wan

Pembaca setia dan pengkomen nombor satu blog pwincess dee, tidak lain dan tidak bukan, adalah Encik Mon. Terima kasih diucapkan :)

Entry kali ni khas untuk Encik Mon yang memberi feedback yang dia tak boleh nak tinggalkan komen sejak dua menjak pwincess dee menggunakan blogger apps tu. Kirenye entry kali ni ditulis menggunakan laptop yang uzur muzur tu lahhh .... sebenarnya, pwincess dee dah perasan ade bbrp function kat blog tak seberapa pwincess dee ni dah mula malfunction ... tapi apakan daya, takde masa dan kepakaran nak belek dan rectify satu-satu .... lagipun takde follower sangat pun .... kalau betul2 takleh bear dah .... kita carik alternative lain insya Allah 

cheh chehh .... intro macam ucapan menang award la pulak kan .... hiks ... udah la tu. 

I mentioned in my previous entry that the kerabu sotong at 1 Market by Chef Wan adalah sangat superb....maka, pwincess was inspired by him to make my very first kerabu sotong....pulak tu, bahan semua ada .... senang la sikit kan nak memprojek. Encik Mon rajin belikan pwincess sotong, although dia tak dapat nak makan sangat sotong tu. Sotong sini dalam $3.50 ++ dapatlah 4 ekor size M. Pernah tu, beli baby octopus, $4 dapat sepeket penuh .... kenyang pwincess makan sorang2 a few times. cuma sayang tatau caner nak buat chuka iidako ... kalau tak, dah boleh try test dahh....

Kerabu sotong ade banyak version .. pwincess cuba resipi Kak Hanieliza ...as pasted below, with a few of my own notes for refence :

Kerabu sotong & suhun

500 g sotong sederhana besar

50g suhun (direndam dan dicelur dengan air panas)

3 sb jus limau nipis

1 sb sos ikan (boleh digantikan dengan kicap + 1 sk kiub ikan bilis dihancurkan)

garam (jika perlu)

2 pokok daun ketumbar (racik kasar)

Bahan Tumbuk:

3 tangkai cili api

3 tangkai cili merah

2 ulas bawang putih

Bahan Mayang:

2 kuntum bunga kantan

1 labu bawang besar

1 batang timun kecil

3 tangkai cili merah

Cara:

1. Sotong dibersihkan, dibuang kulit dan dipotong bulat.

2. Masukkan sotong dalam kuali dan masak hingga keluar airnya.

3. Masukkan semua bahan dan dalam mangkuk dan gaul mesra.

4. Rasakan masam masin manis nya.

Nota: 

1. Masa masak sotong jangan dimasukkan air nanti sotong tu akan jadi berkuah. Ini kerana sotong mengeluarkan air.

2. Lepas step 2, toskan sotong dan air rebusan boleh digunakan untuk goreng mihun dsb.

3. Refrigerate before serving. Sedap makan as cold dish nyumss.

Pwincess guna baby octopus untuk kerabu sotong kali ni. ada yang pwincess potong walaupun dia dah memang bite size, dan ada jugak yang dibiarkan sekor sekor macam tu. saje tanak amek gambar baby octopus tu pasal masih teringat cite ngarut yang circulate kat internet about a granny mengandungkan baby octopus lepas makan live octopus ke something like that. how gross.

Birthday celebration at 1 Market by chef wan

Penatnye type...last2 ghaib. Ni malas nak gune blogger apps nih...laptop pulak tgh tak sihat and nmpk mcm mmg takkan sihat balik...tu yg lama x blogging tuh...hmmph. 

Anyway, Encik mon treated me to a dinner buffet at 1 market by chef wan for my birthday this year. 1 market by chef wan is the first ever restaurant opened up by the celebrity chef and it is located at plaza singapura. 

It got me very excited. Initially i thought the restaurant concept was somewhat similar to marche's,but it's the typical buffet style with several food stations. 

When we arrived,there was a long queue. Luckily we made our reservations earlier. There were so many choices of food but i really enjoyed the cold seafood range and since it's dinner,the oysters were there too. Ada alaskan crab,poached salmon and so many more!

my first encounter with this siput....

We didnt know what the texture should be like,since it was the first time we eat it.,,,isi nya pecah2 dan susah sgt nk kua dari shell. Later we discovered in batam that the texture shouldnt be like that...

Little button also enjoyed a variety of food that night...

I also adore the kerabu station. The kerabu sotong is to die for!love it love it. I also love the sambal belacan here. 

There are also live stations where you can place your order and the chef/personnel will prepare it for you. One thing though,the person manning the spring roll station was so.... Slow that we had to wait quite some time for our spring rolls ...

The restaurant is located at level 4 and the nursing room,washroom is just nearby and a surau is provided. 

Us- digesting the food...

Thank u so much mon,love you~

Bingka susu

My brother in law was in langkawi and we thought of asking him to buy us the pemanggang ajaib. My mom have one and is useful for grilling,frying,etc without much mess..,in fact ia sgt berjasa semasa pwincess tgh berpantang dulu...

*foto ehsan google

Dah ada pemanggang ajaib,kena lah ada buku resipi menggunakan pemanggang ajaib jugak...betul tak...alasan sbnrnye tu hehe. Type je kat google,terus kua buku resipi by chef hanieliza. Elok2 plak dia baru publish buku tu 2 jan 2014...baru sgtlah di pasaran. Kita pun beli...dan belek2. Tgk2...selain dr boleh masak nasi dlm pemanggang ajaib tu,masak kek,bingka,muffin semua pun boleh!ajaib btul la tu. Dalam tu ada resipi bingka susu...me tak penah dengar mahupun rasa. Ni yang mula nak experiment ni...

Tgk bahan2 pun senang...so trylah buat. Tapi buat macam bingka biasa,dalam acuan bingka dan dibakar in the oven. 

Resipi dirujuk dari kak fida myresipi as pasted below. Gula just pwincess reduce jafi 25g. 

Bahan-bahan ( Loyang 8 X 8 in / 9 X 6 in )

• BAHAN A : -
• 1 cawan susu cair
• 3/4 cawan susu manis
• 50 g gula pasir (opt)
• 1 cawan tepung gandum - diayak
• 2 biji telur
• BAHAN B :-
• 500 ml air (2 cawan)
• 100 g mentega / majerin ( 6 1/2 sb)
• 50 g tepung kastard (5 sb)
• 1/2 sk esen vanilla
• 1/2 sk garam

Cara-cara

1. Satukan bahan A dan ketepikan
2. Satukan bahan B dalam periuk dan kacau rata. Masak hingga pekat atas api perlahan.
3. Masukkan bahan A ke dalam adunan yang dimasak, kacau rata dan masak terus hingga pekat lagi. Matikan api.
4. 
   Tuang adunan ke dalam loyang yang telah disapu mentega dan bakar pada suhu 160C selama 30 - 40 min atau hingga permukaan kuih garing.
5. Biar kuih benar2 sejuk di dalam loyang, potong dan boleh dihidangkan. Kuih boleh disimpan dalam peti sejuk jika ingin dimakan dingin.
6. 
   Adunan boleh juga dibakar di dalam acuan bahulu pecah lapan

Inilahh hasilnya.....mcm ni rupenye rasa bingka susu....sedap gak. 

Of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Song Fish Dealer and Salmon Porridge

Salam Jumaat ... semoga hari kita dipenuhi dengan barakah-Nya :)

Arini nak blog about ikan :)

Kat sini, boleh dikatakan ikan yang paling common dan mudah dijumpai di supermarkets is 'batang fish' dan toman fish. chinese pomfret, red snapper,salmon dan seangkatan dengannya bukan takde, tapi kena pegi retail stores yang jual ikan-ikan tersebut. ikan kembung, selar kadang-kadang je ada....or perhaps mmg ada banyak cuma timing kita berbeza, who knows ?

So ... I was googling, batang fish ni apa, encik Mon pernah belikan dan rasa macam ikan aya but I found out later that batang fish is actually spanish mackerel, or ikan tenggiri whereby, some people even call ikan tenggiri as tenggiri batang; hence the fish is called'batang' . Following my research, I later came across 'Song Fish dealer' facebook page of which I found myself giggling over with encik Mon ... they even have roadshows and currently on 'moving out' sale !

On the same note,a few days earlier,we watched a documentary called,"Jiro dreams of sushi". Apart from the admirable storyline,we were taken away by Jiro and his seafood dealers who were very knowledgable in their own niche. 

So this Song Fish Dealer reminds me to one of Jiro's fish dealers....We decided to check it out ... oh boy, the fish shop ada bermacam-macam jenis seafood and quite cheap!rambang mata ok ...

We bought a few packets of salmon cuts,shrimps, baby octopus, threadfin and golden pomfret. Too bad they prohibit photography in the shop.

I was excited to make salmon recipes for my little button ... so the next day, I referred to the fish porridge recipe by wendyinkk but did a slight adjustment that suits us as below:

For porridge:
2 Tbs rice (I used calrose rice)
16 Tbs water (didn't have measuring cup or weighing machine at that time)
1 stalk of spring onion; separated into white and green parts, finely sliced

Cook rice on stove with the white parts until all the rice absorbs the water and become porridge.

For fish:
A small portion of salmon or any kind of kid-friendly fish
A bit of crushed garlic

A dash of ground pepper
1/4 tsp sesame oil

Mix garlic and sesame oil with the salmon and steam for 10 minutes. Once cooked, leave it to cool and flake it with fingers. Watch out for any bones.

To serve:
Scoop the porridge into the bowl, garnish it with the green parts of spring onion and flaked salmon.

Scratched by a Cat

Nearby our home is a medium sized grocery shop where you can buy most of the necessary items for daily use. I was just gawping at this huge aloe leaf sold here ... but didn't think much of whether to get one in the future for its medicinal properties or not.

The following day, on our way out, we came across a stray but tamed-looking tabby cat, and let little button played with the cat for a while when the cat suddenly turned ferocious and bite while its hands scratched him. Poor baby. It happened too fast, in just a blink of an eye.

Little button was bleeding, and we quickly washed the wounds. The area where the cat bit him was quite deep ... we applied dettol and put on hansaplast. Little button only cried when the cat first bit him ... but surprisingly not when we applied the antiseptic. 

That evening, after his bath, I applied fusicort cream to his wounds and remembered of Aloe vera. We went to the shop and bought one leaf. I referred to video below on how to handle the leaf and applied on little button just before bedtime.

The next morning, after 1 application. teruk, kan?

Hopefully this gel will do wonders to my son's wounds. We are monitoring him in case there's any fever or infection. But he is one brave boy, I should say. No whining, no crying at all.

DIY Woody Toy Story Costume for Year End Class Party

I've been meaning to blog about this but never quite found the time to do it properly ... so, here goes :

Dec 26, 2013

Lil button's year end class party

As the previous year, the class teachers gave us an invitation card for I1 year end class party, complete with the theme and activities planned for that day. The theme was 'Wild wild west'.

Oh wow.

We were excited. I mean, I am excited ... but I thought Encik Mon biasa-biasa aje. I started to imagine clothes that lil button own at home and whether any of those can fit into the theme. Encik Mon cakap, "wah ... lil button nak jadi woody toy story laaahhh..." . I started to google woody toy story costume and found quite a lot of reference in personal blogs and youtube tutorials. I am totally ecstatic!

We refer most of the Woody Costume tutorial from here and the cowhide vest from here .

First, we took a look at what we already owned that we could use. Lil button already got a pair of jeans, so checklist, tick!

Next, it was a coincidence when we were window shopping at FOS and stumbled upon a yellow shirt. We bought it straightaway although Woody wears a long sleeve yellow shirt.

It was also a good time to drop by at textile shops ie JAKEL because of the sale season since it was school holiday and end of year. I wanted to buy Felt but the sales people in JAKEL did not understand what Felt is. Our mistake as well ... we often hear malaysians say Kain Felt, so naturally, we will go to kedai kain to get kain. Later, we found that kain felt is available at kedai menjahit. hihi. So anyway, back to JAKEL, since they do not have felt, I asked for any type of material that has a cowhide print. Muka tersenget-senget ... pastu macam paham dan kata, ada!ada! Lega sket hati ni kan ... so I added, even better if you have it in velvet. velvet? Baldu lah .. oo baldu.... ada!ada!

We followed the salesperson excitedly ... susup sasap ... and then...tadaaa ...... he showed us leopard prints material. adui. kita kata nak corak lembu. ditunjuknya kita corak rimau. aummmmm

kensel plan. kita beli corduroy in the end. with black jersey material and red coloured cotton. bersemangat ni nak menjahit costume woody.

Then, we went to Bunga Reben. This shop has most of the things under one roof. I discovered that Felt is sold here. must make that a mental note. tehehehe. We bought yellow and tan coloured felt material, oversized buttons, UHU, special thread for thick materials and these cost Encik Mon a few puluh ringgit. uhuh .... the vest better be nice ... otherwise I would feel guilty towards Encik Mon ....hoho

By now, I think we have almost everything to execute the d-i-y Woody Toy Story Costume except that we lack of the accessories that would totally complete the look. The cowboy hat, buckle and set of pistol and holster. ahhh.......

The buckle can be diy. pistol and holster, not a problem. the big problem is the cowboy hat. We have scoured in and out of shops but couldnt find a toddler's sized cowboy hat until one day, after paying our groceries at Tesco Mutiara Damansara, we saw Peekaboo's children performing dance at the void area ... all clad in cowboy attires. perfect! we asked one parent where he bought they cowboy hat, and he answered, diy shop upstairs. betul ke ni.....topi koboi kat mr diy? kita checkout je lah ... sekali betul you ... ada!! and it was RM6.90! Berbaloi-baloi ... !! The pistol and holster set was bought at a shop in Kg Melayu Subang for RM5.90.

So one sunday, kita pun sinsing lengan baju dan start projek diy Woody costume ni.

We also prepared some goodies for the teachers and his classmates ...

On the party day .... 

Yeehawwww!!

He won the best dressed boy :)

Colmar Tropicale, Bukit Tinggi

27 Oct 2013

We were supposed to let the steam out and relax at Fraser's Hill on a weekend but luckily I made a phone call to the caretaker and found out that there was a problem with water supply at the resort. 

So then, came Plan B. Plan B was daytrip to Colmar Tropicale, Bukit Tinggi.

 We arrived at Colmar around 10.45 am and the weather was just perfect...not too hot and breezy.

Little button was excited and kept pointing his finger to everything :)

When it's time for lunch, we headed to our favourite restaurant that serves the best pais patin we ever tasted....but to our dismay, the eatery was closed. Even Pak Usop also closed. A quick Google search directed us to here:

Go Bang Maju Patin Tempoyak

The service here is slow but the patin tempoyak is tasty. Some of the waitresses do not seem to speak or understand standard malay language ... so that was quite troublesome.