Guess what my kitchen cooked up today? Yeap.. I decided to make prawn noodle. Husband and I love the prawn noodles at Pappa Rich cafe but ever since they raised the price to beyond our acceptable value (after all it's just kangkong right... Ha! Ha!) for food in general, we had stopped going altogether. It's all about value of money... For the amount of money paid, we can cooked up two bowls (I think more than 2 bowls) of delicious prawn noodles at home.
It is indeed satisfactory. I even add in some 'yong tao foo' ingredients making it like how we used to get from auntie stall back in my mom's place in Klang. Actually it wasn't my first time making but this is the first time I made posting.
All the preparation is nothing compare to sitting down and enjoying a bowl of hot noodle each.. Yum!
Yeap! Today rings in the 1 year since I befriended my friend Pally, my buddy the treadmill! Remembering the day that I got very tired of the fat jokes and decided to make a strict determination to lose em weight... Now... 1 year later, 23 pounds lighter, I felt so much better! Thank you Pally... You can keep the fat! I don't want them back EVER!
Before I start rambling, all the wives who cook a full meal around the world every single day join me in taking this insult! Someone just called instant noodle & fried rice cooking, fantastic and great and yummy and all the adjectives reckon for a complete meal!
For me, a woman should ace in cooking and being able to cook a few dishes doesn't make you a Michelin Star holder or front page subject! It is in us to be able to do it if we wanted to! Therefore I felt insulted when I read a post equating 'fried rice' 'most delicious' 'excellent cook' in one sentence!
Now I am a self declared Michelin Star holder! Err nope make that two as everything is exaggerated here. One star for western and another one for eastern cuisine, after all fried rice is great excellent food! Yeap sacarsm runs in my family!
Guess what I ate for lunch? Yeap instant noodle! This is no normal instant noodle from the pack! I prepare the soup from vegetable broth, I put in egg and spinach! Hey one would not expect any less for an international cook like myself right! I never eat maggie for lunch but since for sacarsm sake I cook it anyway! Ha!
Alright I am gonna stop now as I am beginning to hate myself! Have a great day ahead! Love and kisses. Meow!
If you are at the lowest point of your life and needs to break down, DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT do it in front of many people because there certainly will be one or two who do not want you to forget they were there when you clearly had already moved on and am living a new happy life! So be wise, if you need to break down, go back home close the door and do it on your own or in front of one or two closest people you can trust!
Just like any special occasion, we like to do a home dinner. Today I done a very simple and easy to cook meal. Here I had prepared a medium rare steak with garlic rosemary marinate, butter rice and pan seared potato with olives, capsicum & tomatoes for side as main, deviled eggs for appetizer and chowder as soup.
Agree with hubby that if one is diligent we get to eat good delicious food for half or one third of the price. We have a lot of fun and happy anniversary to hubby my love.
Yeah that is what I am feeling now! The weather is just crazy! I am standing here at my counter top and typing this.. If one can see me they will feel yucky yuck! I am perspiring like mad! I wonder when will the weather be cooling again. I felt like I am living in Sahara or some kind of desert! It's hot hot hot during the day and cold and windy at night! Or even better in an oven.
As I can obviously see it is 36 degree C and mostly cloudy now! Ha!
Here is the view from my home, from the kitchen area! Although the picture doesn't show clearly it is indeed very hot and smoky or hazy..
Not an ardent coffee fan.. I am one of those people that go and hangs at Starbucks and order a cup of hot tea! (Ok I rarely hangs at coffee joint or buy any coffee from any coffee franchise! I know it is cool to do it but nope! Not cool enough for me... Although I enjoyed my time with my sis there occasionally)
With that being said! I would like to recommend this wonderful tasting coffee in my coffee breath! It is not very expansive but the taste is just simply luxurious. Love love love! "Costa Rican Freeze Dried Instant Coffee" from Tesco! As it is obvious, I just 'wolf' down the last cup and now I need to go get more! With simple 2:3:1 ratio of coffee, low fat milk and sugar, we get what I call 'Carebucks' coffee... Tasty and affordable! See sharing is caring indeed!
18-Feb-2014, marks the second anniversary of the biggest decision we made in our lives. Hubby and I decided to officially annoy each other for the rest of our lives on earth!
We have weathered ups and downs during this two years of being married. We fought, we took beating & we overcame much obstacles thus far and I know we will be ever stronger with each passing years. Together we will emerge champion as we share laugh, love, fun, 'luck' and bed together ;)
I thank our Father in Heaven and will continue to look to Him for bigger blessing and bonus in our union together.
Dear hubby,
You will always be my king, my love and my man! I got all I want in YOU!
The song from Alicia Keys - Not Even the King captures what my emotion for now precisely!
Money... Some people so poor; all that they've got is money... Oh, and diamonds... Some people waste their life counting their thousands...
I don't care what they're offering... How much gold they bring? They can't afford what we've got, Not even the king... They can't afford what we've got, Not even the king...
Oh, castles... Some people so lonely; what good is a castle Surrounded by people? But ain't got a friend that's not on the payroll...
Oh, and I don't care what they bring; They can have everything... They can't afford what we've got, Not even the king... They can't afford what we've got, Not even the king...
All the king's horses and all the king's men Came charging to get what we got... They offered the crown and the offered the throne; I already got all that I want...
All the king's horses and all the king's men; They came marching through... They offered the world just to have what we got, But I found the world in you... I found the world in you...
So darling, listen: Your arms around me worth more than a kingdom... Yeah, believe that The trust that we feel the kings never felt that...
Yeah, this is the song we sing... We don't need anything... They can't afford this; This is priceless...
Can't afford what we've got, Not even the king... Can't afford what we've got, Not even the king...
Yes! Sucked in that is what I meant! Guess what we got ourselves for V-Day?!
Yes! Its the all new iPad Yet! La! La! La! Thank you hubby for buying me this really nice gift! It may be very common now as everyone that we know holds one (Oopsy! We need to get out more and know more people then! Ha! Ha!) but to me it is a very expansive gift! I don't come from money so every single cents still hurts when we used it although we had indeed come so far from those days! (Praise be to God) The last bookworm post was sent from my iPad! I guess I will be blogging more as everything is at my fingertips now. It was indeed something that I never expect hubby would get! I stop asking many months ago and wasn't thinking about it when iPad arrived! So I guess it is still true when people said "Good things come to you when you least expected it!" So hence it is indeed special! On the night of V-Day, we prefer staying at home, so I cooked as usual! Not really usual actually! I cook extra special stuff for us!
There! Although the picture quality is not really good but I am glad hubby said it was delicious! I made balsamic garlic chicken steak with spinach, white mushroom fettuccine with asparagus and microwave baked potatoes sides as main course. For drinks, I made apple cider with sparkling white wine and lychee plus chocolate coated strawberries for desserts! We had a good time together at home avoiding the crowd and chatting with one another long into the nights! Love you hunz! Guess that is another Valentine's Day for us!
Went for my once a month ritual (yes! I got many of those! Like I said.. Age is catching up and we find comfort in doing the norms) and bought these colorful books from Harris! Thank you Harris for making books more affordable to read! These are really light to read, fun, girly girl kind of books!
Another reason I snatched it up, all three of it is because it is about sisterhood! Love the sisterhood bond with my sis, so therefore any books about sisterhood will always appeal to the inner homely bookworm in me!
But on the 'oh bummer' side of it... I discovered that this series has four books and i only got three of it.. And the one that I don't have is the first book! Geez! Why does this thing happened to me! Now I am launching a crazy search for the first book, if not how am I suppose to start reading! Thank God I still have The Lord of the Rings books to finish before starting these!(Reading for the seven hundred times) So I am hitting Harris again this weekend and nobody gonna stop me... Ha! Ha! Actually nobody is stoping me! Husband always am supportive when it comes to books! So till then! Xoxo... S
