You know I always got problem when I want to cook something I like to eat but Dearie Suki is the opposite side. He hate those food that I love to eat. Being myself a Hokkien, Mee Suah is a must for me. I cook Mee Suah Soup during my kids birthday and my birthday, during CNY and at times when I am too lazy to cook up a storm for the kids, I will choose to have Mee Suah Soup. I hate it when I cook Mee Suah Soup and I have to cook another type of noodle just for him because he doesn’t like Mee Suah. I wonder why he hate it so much as it is such a nice noodles compared to others.He told me it is too soft and the whole thing turned soggy. Ooohhhh… I really missed the Mee Suah Soup my Ah Mah cooked for us when we were young. My Ah Mah will feed us with rice and it is just so lovely. Even now I feed my kids Mee Suah Soup with rice.

Talking about cooking Mee Suah noodles, I came across this blog… HoChiak! Delicious Asian Food. I am a silent reader to this blog and I just love to drop by this site because of all the lovely home cook food. It is just so simple and delicious and it brings back my childhood memory what my Ah Mah used to cook for me. Something really interest me when I came across this recipe named Mee Suah Kueh. Hmmm… interesting and looks pretty simple. I knew it, I must try it on Saturday. I make this on Friday night and kept it till the next Saturday morning before I cut and fried it.

I didn’t tell Dearie Suki this is actually Mee Suah Kueh and all the while he thought he is eating fried Lobak Kueh. Hahaha…. till today I also didn’t tell him it is actually makes from Mee Suah. I think by tomorrow he will taruk me upside down when he read my this post. The kids had this for their breakfast and dipped it with their favourite tomato ketchup and me and Dearie Suki had it for breakfast and tea-time. Thank GOD he didn’t realize it is not Lobak Kueh. Thank you so much for the creative recipe.

Ingredients :
2 packets mee suah , about 8 pieces
50gm to 100gm lean pork / chicken meat , minced
50gm to 100gm prawns, chopped roughly
1 whole bulb garlic, chopped finely
spring onions, chopped
2 tbsp oil
2 soup bowls of hot water

Seasoning Ingredients :
2 tsp of salt
1/4 tsp white pepper powder

Method:
1. Heat oil in wok and fry garlic till beginning to brown. Add meat and continue to stir fry till meat changed colour. Next, add prawns and stir well for 15 seconds.
2. Add water and bring to boil. Add mee suah and stir well to evenly coat with other ingredients. Sprinkle the spring onions at this stage.
3. Add more water to just cover the mee suah so that it cooks in a thick and sticky soup (not runny). Once the mee suah is evenly coated, remove onto a stainless steel plate or pan.
4. Steam it for 3 minutes. Allow to cool overnight.
5. Cut into squares, dip into beaten egg and deep fry till golden brown. Remove and place onto kitchen napkin to absorb excess oil prior to serving.

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I think everyone in this world wanted to live in a debt free environment. But … but… but… if you wanted a better living environment and enjoy your very best in live with that little salary, I doubt the you will have a lot of debt owing to the credit card company. Many of us can’t really afford those life if we have too much installments and commitments to be settled. Me too wanted to go for holidays with the kids every year and preferably to overseas with them. But again with the tight financial we have to put on hold till we really have that kind of money to go. At times, debt really causes stress to us. If you think you are having stress due to the debt, I think it is time to seek for help from NetDebt. This is an online debt settlement company and when you are in need of help, they are there for you and you are in your next step to be a debt free person.

The kids is back to school today. Le-Ann is so eager to go back to school. Last week when she is at home with Dearie Suki, she cried almost everyday and kept asking me “why today no school”. Aiyor… I remembered when I start her in kindergarten, she cried for 3 long months not wanting to go to school. But now she cried she wanted to go back to school and play with her daycare friends.

The rashes on her hand, leg and body is getting better. We use the aqueous cream and  cetaphil cream on her and the rashes is almost 70% gone plus the itch has reduced. Thank GOD for this and I think it is not enczema as mentioned by the skin specialist. She could be allergy to something which I have not found the answer yet. Hopefully she will recover as days goes by.

I think she is getting chubbier and fatter during the holiday… become ‘Fei Mui Chai’

The kids are having great fun in Ah Mah’s house last Sunday. Aunty SH make some Ribena Ice Lollis for the kids and both of them are so happy when Faye took it out from the fridge for both of them. At one moment I was asking the maids at home where is the two kids and why both are so quiet. Then the maid told me ” Maam, kat sini, belakang sini, eating Ribena aiskrim”. OIC… now I know why both are so quiet. Both quietly eating the ice-cream without my knowledge. If I know sure I will stop them cos both are coughing now.

Ee-Thern… started to cough today on the first day of school.

Hmmm… Ribena Ice Lollis… looks good to me. Perhaps I should start to ice it at home too. Hahaha…

I love this picture. Look at both of them. So cute. This is their secret hiding place. Hahaha…

Dearie Suki came back home and told me he is going to be broke this month. Huh? What? Why broke? He told me he had spend RM1000 plus for his 4WD again. In my heart, I was thinking what is wrong with his car again. His 4WD is already 5 years old and I think it is almost time to change to a new car. Reason because on and off I will hear him complaining that he took his car for repair again. But it is the other way round. He upgraded his car to a turbo supercharger. Wah, crazy him, no wonder he is broke. For me I will never ever do that. As long as the car still can move around, why must I change this and that.

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I didn’t realized that I have been baking almost every month until  I compile all my pictures. Hmmm… I was thinking its better I start to pen down all my baking experiences in a new blog instead of rojak here and there with my other blogs. This is how this blog came about.

I have been creating this blog for the past few months and won’t be able to get a nice template to go with it. At first I was thinking to get someone to design for me but then ended up I didn’t do so since this blog haven’t earn any money for me yet. Hahaha… I have been looking around for more than 2000 wordpress template and non of it I like. Finally I ended up with this, which I think a bit childish but then among the 2000, this is the best I could say.

Do drop by my little humble baking blog and your support is very much appreciated. Happy blogging and have a nice weekend.

Toast bread with butter and kaya jam, mongoesteen and duku langsat 

It is another Saturday and my Ee-Thern finally get his Thomas and Train container. Uncle HH and Aunty SH, bought him when they are one a business trip to Singapore. She told me she get it from Robinsons and there are so many of it . She said see also kepala pening. Hahaha…

Toast bread for the kids and cut it with a star cutter. Dearie Suki went to pasar malam last night and bought his favourite mangoesteen and duku langsat. Both my kids love it too and can eat a lot of it. My little KPC, the cry baby over the holiday, wanted to help to spread the bread with butter and kaya and I just let her do it. Lately she has been choosing which bento set she want to use and she is kind of fussy where else the boy only stick to his Thomas and Train bento set. Hahaha…  

For 2 consecutive days, Tuesday and Wednesday, I have been busy with food testing. That is the beauty of my job, I get to try and taste the new recipe created by home economist or from our foodservice outlets’s chef when they create a new dish and wanted me to support them and do publicity on their restaurant.   

On Tuesday, I was at this cafe named Secret Of Louisana, in Plaza Kelana Jaya. The cafe just operated for 3 months and we tie in a promotion with them on promoting pasta. I get two journalists from the magazines to go over to the place and do some publicity to the cafe and also to the new pasta dish they created using the pasta I handled. I didn’t know that there are so many cafe at this plaza and the environment is good too. Cozy and warm with the cafe facing a lake with water fountain. I certainly will bring my kids  and Dearie Suki over there for dinner one day.

The young chef cum owner, I think he is only my age created this two fusion type of pasta for me. We had Tom Yam Seafood Pasta and Fresh Scampi Pasta. Wow…. so delicious especially the scampi he used is fresh and still alive scampi. I wonder where to buy fresh scampi. Anyway, it is a fruitful interview with the journalists and talked a lot about food especially the healty pasta dish. Hopefully this article will publish in September’08 and try to look out in Jelita magazine next month.

On Wednesday, I was in Jalan Pudu at one of the publisher’s office who published Yum Yum Magazine. I didn’t know the home economist who created the recipes for me is actually the famous chef, Agnes Chang. I love to collect all her recipe books and I am glad I met her in person that day to try out 16 recipes created by her team. Agnes is such a nice lady and we tried the food and discuss about the ingredients used in the recipes, whether there is a need to make any changes or not before we proceed for the food shooting next Wednesday.

16 dishes to try out and that is really a lot to me and my colleague, TCH. By the 5th or 6th dish, I am full. Full almost to the top but still got to try to make sure the recipes is correct. Silly me, I forget about my camera again. I have to use my handphone to shoot the food pictures and some didn’t turn out well and it is a bit blur. Next Wednesday when I meet them up again I must remember to bring my camera and take a photograph with her team as rememberance. So you see, this is the beauty of my job and I love to meet all this people especially they who create recipes. I also hope one day I can be a home economist and create recipes for company who needs my service. I wonder whether she needs a home economist or not or maybe I can apply for it. Hahaha…. so here you go these are some of it I tried. Ooopppsss… sorry no name for the dish yet and still thinking what is the right name to use. Hmmmm…..

Can’t wait for next Wednesday and I am going to bring extra cash to purchase the Yum Yum Magazines from there. There are so many of it I have not collected.

My Mom applied for her US Visa last year and got rejected. It is almost a year and now its time for her to try again. This round, Mom and Sis has been pestering me to go with her and apply the US Visa together with her and if in any case if my Mom, can’t answer the officer in the embassy, I can help her to twist and turn the answer. I am still thinking should I apply with her or not. But my Mom is in a desperate stage and hoping her application is successful because she wanted so much to visit her two sisters in Atlanta.

Sis went to Atlanta to meet up with my two Ah Yees, and she told me if Mom wanted to go there, she should go for her own vacation first before she go and look for her sisters. Reasons because her two sisters is so busy with their own restaurant business and both wouldn’t have the time to entertain her and bring her to any sightseeing. So it will a waste for my Mom to go there and did nothing and just waiting for her two sisters to bring her around.

Sis was there and she shared with me her most humurous travelling experiences when she was in Atlanta. She booked her Atlanta tours through this travel company, Trusted Tours and Attractions. She booked all her sightseeing tours at discounted prices through their online travels guide. She went to the Stone Mountain Park with a group of backpackers and most of them are from the European country and she is the only Asian. On the way up to Stone Mountain Park, the tour guide kept doing the head counts and kept telling the the rest of the backpackers that left one person which is not in the group which is my Sis. Actually my Sis is there but just she was blocked by that group of huge and big size people. End up, the tour guide get my Sis to walk in front and at any places she get to go first because she is just too small to be seen. But she certainly had great fun with this group of people. Apart from that she also booked her tours to the Madame Tussauds wax museum when she is in New York.

I am still thinking should I go and apply the visa or not and follow Mom to US if the visa application goes thru. Mom kept asking me to go to US with her and she said if I don’t go now, I wouldn’t know when is the chance I can go since accommodation is free. I just need to fork out money for the air ticket and the sightseeing tours. Still thinking… maybe just go for the visa application first and see how it goes. Anyway I have signed up for the tour newsletter and you will get a chance to win a $150 Magellan’s Gift Certificate by signing up their newsletter. Hahahaha…

I am so busy this week. My two poor kids has been staying at home with Dearie Suki for 5 days and every morning Le-Ann will cry and then called me over the handphone and started to say ….. “Mommy, mommy… please come back now”… then started to cry over the phone.

My poor baby. I am quite frustrated over the week not because I am overloaded with work and deadlines but my little girl gave me problem again. Just this week alone, I have spend RM1,200 for the kids medication. Both had the pneumocco vaccination at RM600, then my little girl had this rashes over her hand and then spread to her leg and body. Poor little girl has been scratching and scratching because of the itch. Bring her to see the skin specialist twice and the bills cost us a bomb. Dearie Suki looks for alternative and went to the pharmacist to get the aqueous cream recommended by Dancing Queen and also others cream that cost few hundreds to us. It seems to work and it gets better now but the last few days it is just like hell to me. When I saw the rashes over her body it makes me so heart sick and I started to cry over it when I drives to work. Why she has to go through all this?

Doctor told me it is enczema which I couldn’t accept the fact it is enczema. If she got it, it could be a long term thing and he even told me to stop her from going out to play under the hot sun. Which means she can’t go for any outdoor activities but as a kids she need to play and I can’t stop her totally right? I am so frustrated. Mom even help me to get some of the green herbs which they called the ‘Snake Leaves’ and asked me to boil and and take bath for her with the water. But I have yet to try cos I scared she could be allergy to it. I started to cut down totally one egg for her and she only eat meat and fish and fruits at home now. Yesterday I’ve seen some improvement on her skin and I hope the rashes will goes off totally. I pray to GOD hoping this stupid rashes will totally goes off.

As days goes by, the number of visitors to my blog getting higher and higher. I am curious who are my readers and where are they from. At times, I would like to get to know them which country are they from. Hmmm… I think it is also a good ways for advertising because once you know who is your readers and roughly you will know your target market to advertise your products.

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