My homemade Bread

A successful homemade bread. This morning for the first time, I had my successful Multigrain homemade bread. {Macam kat kedai lah pulak beli roti buku, panas panas potong sendiri. Bestnya. :-) }

Smells so nice. I purposely cut 2 thick slices for my breakfast at Austin today. Yummy..

Time for myself

I have been busy for the past two weeks. I had changed my daily weekdays routine. I woke up as early as you can imagine, cold-shivering early morning try to catch 5.42 am train to Melbourne Central then take 6.05 am to Hurstbridge. The reason why I have to get up and reach Austin early because my first patient coming for the exercise session at 7.30am or earlier. If I get my usual train, I will definitely late for my first patient session and I don't like to make my patient waiting for me, I don't mind the other way round. Despite coming early in the morning, I still finish late and reach home the latest by 7.00pm. By the time I reach home and had dinner, I already became exhausted What a long day and have to do this from Monday till Friday. (FYI here in Melbourne sunrise is about 7.24am).

) felt really nice when someone sent me a message to say hi and wondering why I have not been updating my blog lately, if I was busy. Thanks Jo for your concern, I was really touched.. :-)

I am trying to get use with my new routine. Once I get used to it then I can start back doing my usual thing...{updating my blog, :-) }

Otak - otak

I was inspired by 'Poh' Master chef final two of Australian Master Chef whom has Malaysian Heritage. The show has ended last Sunday which saw Poh as a runner up. The good thing was while her journey to reach the final two, she cooked a lot of Malaysian dishes. 'Nasi Lemak', 'sambal petai', used of belacan and so many more and made Australian public more knowledgable about Malaysian dishes. Thanks to Poh.

One of the dishes she made was otak otak. I was excited about it last weekend and bought a kilo of fish fillet to make Otak - Otak. It was a huge effort to make otak otak, not to bad though as I thought it could be so difficut. Just time consuming. Unfortunately I couldn't find coconut leaves, other wise I could put it in the leaves and 'grill' it. Anyway I accomplished my task well done. :-)
(Lain kali sapa sapa nak order otak otak boleh order lah yerr, tak yah beli otak otak kempas tuu hehe)

Local Fruits

When I was looking at the Manggoesteen (Buah Manggis) in Saigon Market last weekend, suddenly I remembered a nursing rhyme I used to recite when I was in Kinder.

Buah Manggis Buah Manggis
Isinya sedap rasanya manis
Bila masak rupanya hitam
Putih bersih, isi di dalam.

:-)
So so fortunate you can find 'Manggis' here in Melbourne, but really really expensive. A kilo for AUD 10. (nak makan punya pasal, belilah gak. Tapi kan bukan nak makan sangat pun cuma nak buat subjek tangkap gambar jerr).

I am not really sure, from where they import the fruit. Thai? Phillippine? Indonesia? Malaysia? Never thought of asking.

I also bought a kilo of pear. Huge pear and so crunchy. ( Makan sebiji dah kenyang, so kalau yang nak diet tuu datang sini. Buah pear kat sini besar besar. )

Laksa Penang

I found 'Bunga Kantan' from one of the Asian Groceries Shop. First in Laguna Supermarket then at KFL Groceries Shop not far from my place. When I first saw this 'Bunga Kantan' I was thinking of making 'Laksa Penang'. :-)

I made a pot of 'Penang Laksa' fish sauce enough for the whole week yesterday. It means tha I am going to have 'Laksa Penang' for the whole week. ;-) . Crazy

Federer The Legend

It was an epic battle between Federer and Roddick last night. More than 4 hours battle and Federer has won. Congratulation to Federer for breaking another record.

His the Icon and Legend in tennis.

Quick Fact record breaking

1. The longest concluding sets in Men final.
2. 7 Wimbledon final in a row for Federer.
3. Federer 20 Grand Slam final.
4. Federer claimed his 15th Grand Slam title breaking Pete Sampras 14th Grand Slam title.

Cassava / Tapioca / Ubi Kayu / Singkong

You can call it what ever you like, still it referring to the same thing. I have been wanting to have 'Ubi kayu' rebus with sambal tumis for such a long long time. 'Mesti terkejut' you can find tapioca here in Melbourne but freeze tapioca. If you are lucky you might get the fresh tapioca but very rare. Anyway, I bought it from Laguna Groceries shop in the city. I boiled it / steam it then made 'sambal tumis ikan bilis'. Eemmmm sedapnya. I Had 'Ubi Kayu rebus' for morning breakfast with Malaysian Coffee - Aik Cheong. So so sedap.

Saffron Rice

I heard about saffron, but never had a chance to buy saffron and use it in my cooking. I also heard the health benefit of Saffron. Sometime I ate saffron rice in a restaurant. Slightly expensive compare to white rice. While I was doing my groceries few days back I saw small package of saffron. For a small packet, it was really expensive. Anyway I bought it and made saffron rice. Turn out to be really nice. Definitely, would use it everyday, save the remaining saffron for later.

The saffron which I bought from Safeway.