Sunday, July 18, 2010

Mixed Spicy Chicken (Ayam Bumbu Rujak)

Mixed Spicy Chicken (Ayam Bumbu Rujak)

3½ lb. young chicken, cut into frying pieces
¼ cup sliced shallots
3 cloves garlic, sliced
2 tsp. crushed dried red hot chili
5 candlenut, crushed
1/8 tsp. turmeric
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. sugar
2 cups coconut milk
1 Tbs. Vegetable oil
1 thick slice ginger
1 stalk lemon grass

Blend the shallots, garlic, chili, candlenut, salt and sugar with ¼ cup of the coconut milk into a paste.

Heat the oil in a wok and sauté the paste for a minute or two until you can smell the aroma.

Place the chicken, ginger and lemon grass into the wok and stir fry for five minutes or more over medium heat. Then add the rest of the coconut milk, and let it cook for forty five minutes, stir the chicken frequently.

It is ready to be served if the sauce is somewhat thickened and the chicken should be tender.

Mixed Spicy Chicken (Ayam Bumbu Rujak)

Mixed Spicy Chicken (Ayam Bumbu Rujak)

3½ lb. young chicken, cut into frying pieces
¼ cup sliced shallots
3 cloves garlic, sliced
2 tsp. crushed dried red hot chili
5 candlenut, crushed
1/8 tsp. turmeric
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. sugar
2 cups coconut milk
1 Tbs. Vegetable oil
1 thick slice ginger
1 stalk lemon grass

Blend the shallots, garlic, chili, candlenut, salt and sugar with ¼ cup of the coconut milk into a paste.

Heat the oil in a wok and sauté the paste for a minute or two until you can smell the aroma.

Place the chicken, ginger and lemon grass into the wok and stir fry for five minutes or more over medium heat. Then add the rest of the coconut milk, and let it cook for forty five minutes, stir the chicken frequently.

It is ready to be served if the sauce is somewhat thickened and the chicken should be tender.

I had a farm in Africa...


Today at the TV I saw (again) Out of Africa. I really love that film and everything that you can see on it, it's one of the most beautiful love sotries that I've ever seen. I feel a little bit like Karen and Denys; I mean, I want to be a free soul as Denys (I think I am) but I would love to be as strong and brave as Karen, an independent woman as she was.


Meryl Streep and Robert Redford as Karen and Denys in the 1985 film Out of Africa.

After leaving Africa, Karen Blixen became a writer, something difficult for a woman. I really admire women who were writers in the past centuries; it was very strange and complicated for them became a writer, so they used false names.
Since I was a child, I always wanted to be a writer. I wrote one of my very first stories with nine years old. Then, with eleven years, I started to compose poems. I've got at home about eleven different "books" I wrote when I was younger. I've got lots of stories in the computer, but I don't know why, I can't end any of them; and it's not about inspiration, but I can't write.

 Two pictures of Karen Blixen, when she was young and in ther older years.

Maybe is because I feel sad, but I hope I would end some of the things I've got on my mind, and show them to you one of these days. From all the things I've always wanted to do with my life, the top of my personal list was become a writer, since I can remember.



I'm sorry about the last entries; really really sorry, but my mood these days is like this... but I'll try to be strong, as Karen :)
Maybe, one of these days, I'll have a farm in Africa. Or in Sweden, who knows.

planning--next week


assalamualaikum.

sniff sniff. flu. almost 3 days already. suara wa sengau tayah ckp ah. ubat selsema wa dah habis semua bekalan. wa tak pergi clinic lg. wa tak menyempat nak gi clinic. tekak wa tak sakit, tp gatal. sobbb. wa rase nak masuk tgn dlm tekak wa, dan garu!

okay. cuti dah melabuhkan tirainya. *mcm habis cuti plak* baru mulalah! tp, sy masih belum menghantar buku log. tak siap lg woi! oh tidak. tapi, ini plan utk minggu dpn. kita cuma merancang, Allah yg menentukan.


19th - 21st - kuching, sarawak.
22nd - genting highlands / KLCC (or on 24th)
23rd - dating dgn Namin
24th - genting highlands / KLCC (or on 22nd)
25th - cooking lesson -- chocolate!


mudah-mudahan menjadi. amin!

esok ke kuching, sarawak, utk kali terakhir. naik flight seorang diri. oh bosan. maksud sy, naik flight itu bosan. kamu tahu, sy mungkin akan tidur saja sepanjang perjalanan esok.

crazy of TV series

Last few month ago, everyone seems like crazy about the korean series. Now, since Gossip Girl, 90210, and Glee has airing in our ear, depict our curiosity about watch another series. FYI, I found a lot of interesting series. We cant watch it on TV, we have to download it and clearly seems that you should have high-speed-unlimited internet installed at home =P


# GOSSIP GIRL
New York's Upper East side where the wealthy and connected mingle at benefits and try to deal with their always dramatic love lives, not to mention picking colleges. The complicated relationship. The luxury life. Btw im on the way watching this XDD

# 90210

yeep and this is are my favoriteeeee. 90210!! Story about the high school student who stay in beverly hills. I like this one a lot! I watched already till season 2.


# GLEE

A high-school Spanish teacher becomes the director of the school's Glee club, hoping to restore it to its former glory


# THE VAMPIRE DIARIES
About love between a high school girl and two vampires that are sibling. This series may could reminds you of Twilight. Its a romantic story.

# GREY'S ANATOMY
A drama centered on the personal and professional lives of five surgical interns and their supervisors. Medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white. Real life only comes in shades of grey.

# ONE TREE HILL
This series follows the eventful lives of some high-school kids in Tree Hill, a small but not too quiet town in North Carolina, where the greatest source of pride is the high school basketball team, the Ravens, since living memory coached by old Whitey Durham

# THE SECRET LIFE OF AMERICAN TEENAGER
A look at the relationship between teenagers. About how they gonna tackle for the unexpected pregnancy

# HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
Egged on by his best friend's upcoming nuptials, Ted believes he finds the woman of his dreams in Robin -- though destiny might have something different in mind.

# FRINGE
A television drama centered around a female FBI agent who is forced to work with an institutionalized scientist in order to rationalize a brewing storm of unexplained phenomena. FYI I always watch this in tv. But I think im gonna download it.

Matcha Jelly with Chocolate Worm Pudding


Just got back from my Singapore trip catching up with good friends. I just remember that I haven't posted this exhilarating dessert recipe I did couple of weeks ago. I just concocted this based on the emotional truth that I was analyzing recently. I love analogies so this is the food that I think would best embody about my thoughts below:

"Bitter endings.
Sweet beginnings..."



There are a lot of things that is definite about life and one thing I am sure a lot of people have already experienced-- is getting hurt. They say you should experience defeat first so when you experience victory it is really triumphant. And same with the saying that we have to experience pains before the pleasures. It's also good to climb a mountain to get on the top than just riding a helicopter and go there. In short we should know first the bad side of the coin before looking at the good side so we can appreciate life better.

One thing that I am grateful for about my life is having experienced getting hurt tremendously and was able to bounce back in grand fashion. Fate has been good to me and it has shown me the bad side of the coin before lingering to the good side. Sometimes I often look back at my defeats, pains and how I climb my own mountain--it makes me smile and tell myself there's no sweeter beginning without experiencing a bitter ending.

One has to put period on the bitterness life has given you. You may call it misfortune or bad luck or whatever you call it but by closing a chapter and ending a cycle marks the beginning of one's joyful life. It took a while for me to feel this way but I can smile now and feel light and tell myself for the nth times that I am really ready for the world. It gave me a lot of signs already to finally have my own sweet beginning...


"It's about time, as everyone says!"



MATCHA JELLY with
CHOCOLATE WORM
PUDDING

Ingredients:

• Matcha Powder
• Caramel Pudding Cream
• Plain Gelatin
• Milk / Sugar
• Vanilla Syrup
• Lime or Lemon
• Chocolate Chips
• Butter (of course)

Procedure:

Dilute matcha powder on a hot water then add milk, gelatin powder, sugar, lime and vanilla syrup. Stir constantly until smooth. Place it on a ramekin or small plain glass. Let it cool. Prepare the pan and heat it with medium temperature. Melt butter along with the chocolate chips then add milk and Caramel pudding cream. Let everything melt and stir until it thickens. When the matcha jelly is hard and ready you can put the chocolate mixture. Chill and serve cold.

Hope you like this... Have a good week mates! :D

hugs,
joanie xxx