A simple home make piza that you can make too !

Ingredients include :
a. spagetti sauce
b. wrap
c. ham
d. cheese

and ta ta, here is the result :)

Do you like exotic food ?

Well, I am going to introduce you with 2 exotic food here.
1. Rojak.















2. Indonesian Nasi Kuning (Indonesian yellow rice).

Economical healthy fast food

I will be extremely busy the next few days, lots of clinical, papers, exams and travel. I do not want to compromise my family healthy eating habit but I also could not spend much times cooking, so I come up with this economical healthy fast food :)-

These are the ingredients : (amount depend on your potion)
1. spaghati sauce
2. celery
3. mushroom
4. onion
5. Northern great bean
6. Ground turkey meat
7. Macroroni
8. Extra firm tofu
9. A crockpot with timing setting.

In my case, it will be a 6hrs. By the time, mama goes to bed tonight after study, the food should be ready to be transferedr to pyrex ware into the freezer !

I like this kind of food because it has the complete food group recommended by America department of agriculture pyramid food group (USDA), it contains protein, carb and veg.

Human psychology and lunch

I love to cook with local materials and ingredients. I am one who believe strongly in : "In Romes do as the Romans". Having lived outside of my birthplace for many years, I have acquired the philosophy and skill to cook like the locals do.

When I lived in Australia for many years, I hardly go to the Asian stores. I cooked and ate a lot of local products. The area I lived had a lot of immigrants such as Italians, Greeks, and Labonese. There are a lot of stores that sold mediterranean products. As times gone by, I started to acquired the love for mediterranean dishes. I love olive, fetta cheese, and all kind of food that I can find in Sydney market. I remembered I used to cook a lot of lamb chop because lamb was so cheap then in Sydney. I used to grill or bake lamb with mint. It was one of the easiest and cheapest food you could have. I remembered a short stint in K.L, a male friend took me to a very expensive restaurant @ Ampang road in K.L. He probably wanted to impress me , he ordered one of the most expensive dishes, lamb with mint sauce. When I looked at the price of the dish, I did not have the heart to tell me ,' A so-chai, don't be stupid lah, don't spend that kind of $, lets eat something local lah.' However, I have learned not to rub man ego long time ago, so I let him ordered the lamb. I of course lied the biggest lie, told him it's the best lamb I had ever ate in my life. Yes, girls can lie through their teeth.

I am one who don't believe in cooking food that required ingredients from oversea. To me now oversea is Malaysia, so I won't cook as much curry, laksa, sambah Belachan, TomYan etc...than say when I was in Malaysian or Brunei. I found it more practical to cook food that I can find ingredients locally. Of course, I do cook Malaysian food now and then, more so when I have guests over for dinner or for our Indonesian / Malaysian fellowship meals.

I found it ironic that a lot of Asians go to a great length to show off that they are Westernized. They go to a 'high class' Western Restaurant, just to have steak and roti ; or even more ironic to Victorian station to have some Spaghetti and roti. Why eat steaks with knife when you have so many tasty nice delicious Asian food ? And the other ironic thing which I don't understand is when when they live oversea, they will go high and low looking for Yeo Hap Seng soya sauce ? You tell me Why ? I don't understand.

I have an opposite mind set, when I live in US, I eat steak, potatoes and cheese. When I lived in Malaysia, I ate Kuching Laksa, Belachan Bee Hoon and drink Puak :)-. I don't need to show off that I am Westernized lah because I am not. I still pick my nose at public, ha ha ha ha.

Today I cook quiche again. This is one of the easiest dish you could ever cook.

Pie crest , left over pork, frozen spinach, onion, eggs/milk, and today I added pepperroni !















Quiche with a side salad with fetta cheese

Left over

What do you do with left over ?
We went to a restaurant to have dinner last night. I was upset that I forgot to bring my camera because it was a historical quant town.
We have some left over hamburger, French fries and a whole bowl of Chilli.
I fried some onion with tomatto and added some bacon bits and cheese and put it into the microwave for 2 mins ; and added some okra to the chilli and wola, these are the results :

From these to these :)-







































































And we go picnic after church service with mama antics wicker basket :):) [just like when I was young playing 'bok bok' :):)]















The English way :):):















The American way, paper plates and plastic spoons/forks and the buba coke :):)

Friday night & married woman

When I was single, I used to work out the gym with my cousin sister on Friday evening. After the work out, we would go out for dinner and follow with our coffee and cake session in either Hilton, Holiday Inn or Merdeka Palace hotel' restaurant or cafe.

Now after work out I go home and cook :). My husband and I go work out together and we leave JJ in the club play group. It is YMCA club, very family and community oriented club. I personally like it better than Kuching's Sarawak club. I hate Sarawak club because that is where the snobs gather ! I still cannot figure out why people are so proud to be colonials ? So proud of a past colony of British ? Having live in US for a while, I really appreciate the American casual than the rigid Brits. Aiyo, to go into the club restaurant, u have to wear shoe, not slippers, apa ini ? These British people so asy one , Malaysia so hot lah, not England lah. Here in the US, even the government office personnel wear shots/t-shirts to go to work. My professors wear 3 quarter pants when they lecture.

I cannot stand people who have such a stupid colonial mentality ! Only those who are Western educated, who speaks English and work for the government (those colonial times where government servants are mostly British trained etc...) are eligible for membership.

That is why I never like Kuching's Sarawak club, very pretentious atmosphere, u got to speak good English, u got to be someone who is rich and higher in the society level. Me coming from Chinese school, don't like the snob Sarawak club post colonial mentality. White is better, angmo is more clever... Even white people 'pe' also 'sang', stupid. [ U wonder why I married angmo ? Aiya, love lah, u think what ?].

But here, the YMCA cater for middle class family who live around the neighborhood.

Anyway, forget my rant, this is what I cook, alfredo fettucinie.

I used the left over bake chicken that I have :). A packet of baby balle mushroom, brocolli, stuff olive, morzerrella cheese (an important ingredient), milk and heavy cream.

















































Because I cook a lot, I like to have a lot of kitchen helpers such as garlic that has been minced, herbs that are common ingredient in most dishes such as oregano, basil flakes and Italian spice mix (which has lots of rosemary). These are handy kitchen helpers that I can't live out. I don't think I have the energy to chop garlic every time I cook. Remember I cook 6-7 days, 3 meals a day :).














Alfredo sauce needs lots of morzerrella cheese and pamersen cheese. Look at the cheese :)


















Final product !
















The story of a married woman @ Friday nite after work out in the gym !

(I was very inspired by Criz Lai fettucinie, so I tell myself has to make it lah :).

Strawberries and blackberries !

I love them with whipped cream. How do u like them ? Share share...

Kena tipu

Do u consider that as authentic Singaporean food ?
Yes, the owner of the restaurant has the guts to put a sign board, " Authentic Singaporean Food". The chicken looks like starched chicken , to be polite.
Many a times, whenever I drive pass the restaurant, I wished I have the authority to take down the sign.
I could be too critical but I left it to your comments.