Damagh-e-Kuchulu

Bff always tease me because my nose is small (kuchulu) and no bone. And my shades always slides down my nose. T____T

Hey, I am a Javanese and this is my signature!

p/s: mind my eyebrows. lol! 

Selamat Hari Lahir Abangku

After 28th April 1996, he replaced an empty place for a man called "father". The burden to take care a mom and siblings. Never I saw on his face sorrow or fear. He always did his best in performing his responsibilities. As I am the last child in the row, I received fullest attention from him. Since standard 1 until now. With a lovely wife besides him, he never neglected my needs. He is my brother, and it is more like a father in my heart. 

Happy Birthday Abang Aik..May Allah grant you all the good things in your life.

P/s: Tomorrow is my turn! Yeeeha :P 

Simple Mandi Chicken

Ingredients:

For chicken
~ Half chicken
~ 1 small onion
~ 1 inch ginger
~ 1 tsp coriander powder
~ 1 tsp cumin powder
~ 1 tsp turmeric powder
~ 1 tsp blackpepper
~ Salt
~ 1 tbsp cooking oil
~ Water

For rice
~ 2 cups of rice
~ 1 medium onion
~ 3 garlic cloves
~ Diced carrot

Methods:
1. In a pot, put every ingredients for chicken in a pot, pour water until cover the chicken. Bring to boil. Simmer for 15 minutes.
2. Take out the chicken. Set aside. Brush some oil on the skin.
3. In other pot, heat some oil. Saute onion and garlic, add carrot and pour in the soaked rice and pour some chicken broth from the earlier process. The portion of broth is depends on the rice. Adjust the water amount until the rice become aldante.
4. Place the chicken on top of the rice, lower the heat and let it steaming for 40 minutes or until you get a nice tahdig.

Very easy right? This is what I had for lunch after a bad stomach ache after eating KFC-korean style (the new type) for dinner :(

Me---FOODS---Bff How we deal to our different appetite

Last week I had a dinner at KFC with bff. After arguing about where to eat (as always), we always end up at KFC. And of course that is his choice! I realized that the most unique moment between me and bff is during time to eat. Every time, without fail we argued about where to eat, what to eat. Sometimes I found this as fun and challenging, just like I have to fight for my right. I don't know whether this thing happened to other mix-culture couples or not. But for us, yes! Because we are in "my region", I have many choices to eat. I have my favorite foods, easy to find and cheap. But for him, less choice and most of them expensive. It's not that I am a cheapo but I can't stand to eat middle eastern food regularly. The portion is too large for me, when I can't finish it would be a waste and therefore I'll eat all and results in my weight! It's a different story if I cooked it by myself. Once in a while is ok for me. Then, bff couldnt eat much Malay or fusion foods. The only "Asian" food that he never say no is tomyam and of course less spicy. Our arguments would be like this:

Me: Nahar koja berim? (Where to have lunch?)
Bff: Har koja dustari. (anywhere you like)
Me: Ok. Berim X (malay foods) (ok. lets go x)
Bff: Na...unja dusnadaram, shulughe (No, I dont like there, too crowd)
Me: Pas, to begu koja (Then, you tell me where)
Bff: Berim Y (Persian foods) (Lets go y)
Me: with a bored face..??na..unja dusnadaram, ghaza irani nemikham emruz (no..i dont like there, i dont want iranin food today)
Bff: E! (get angry) khob age injuri berim KFC (if like this lets go KFC)
Me: Have to accept..Ok..

OR

Bff: Sham koja berim? (Where to have dinner?)
Me; Berim Y (persian foods) (lets go y)
Bff: Na..to dusnadari, bekhatere man gofti (No, you dont like, you said that because of me)
Me: Na, vaghan ghaza irani mikham. mirza ghasemi mikhoram (No, seriously i want iranian foods, i'll eat mirza ghasemi) (actually yes, i said because of him, and mirza ghasemi is the simplest food less carbohidrat and fat-coz im on diet :)
Bff: Na, berim X (malay foods) (No, lets go x)
Me: Na..to dusnadari, bekhatere man gofti (No, you dont like, you said that because of me)
Bff: E! (get angry) khob age injuri berim KFC (if like this lets go KFC)
Me: Have to accept..Ok..

See..we always end up at KFC which make me sick! Lately I choose 1 piece chicken only coz I cant take it anymore (mind the calories). Bff realized this. And our arguments gets longer like this recently:

.......

Bff: E! (get angry) khob age injuri berim KFC (if like this lets go KFC)
Me: Have to accept..Ok..
Bff: Na..dusnadari KFC. Berim Z (24hrs mamak restaurant). Man emshab kheili delam KFC mikhad vali bekhatere to nemirim (with pity voice) (No..you dont like KFC. Lets go Z. Actually I really want KFC tonight but because of you, we dont go)
Me: pfttttt............

Like seriously, I dont know when we will have the same taste buds for foods. I think never! Because I am a MALAY and he is a PERSIAN!! FULLSTOP.

Life so far

After some quiet time, again I opened this blog. My mood in writing has been swing for some times due to some circumstances. It might come to the ups and down from life. My study is the biggest factor. I am so tired already, waiting to finish my proposal write up because I am lazy..too lazy. I can say the worries of life lies behind it. there's too much to think, about everything. internet could be the second factor. Everytime i turned on the computer, 80% of my time spent for un-academic sites. it's all my bad i know and i should blame myself for that. Lets move to more interesting topic rather than study.

Till then, bye!

Loobia Polow

For recipe: http://chiliandsaffron.blogspot.com/2011/05/loobia-polow-rice-with-green-beans.html

But this time I substitute meat with mince meat .

Served with salad shirazi

Have a nice food!!

Chicken in Tomato Sauce - Morgh-e-Robbi

Hehe. A funny name that I put in this recipe. I really don't know what the recipe name in Farsi. And I am not sure whether this is Persian dish or no because bff asked me to cook like this, so I consider it as Persian dish. lol. Lets check out the recipe.

Ingredients:
~ Chicken
~ 1 medium onion, finely chopped
~ 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
~ 1 tspn turmeric
~ 2 tbsp rob (tomato paste)
~ Juice of 1lime
~Some water
~ Cooking oil

Methods:
1. Heat some all, fry chicken until brown all sides, set aside.
2. In the same pan, fry the onion and garlic, when translucent add turmeric.
3. Add the tomato paste, fry until you get the dark red color.
4. Add in the chicken, pour some water covering the chicken.
5. Let it boil, then with low heat simmer for 30 minutes until the sauce thicken.
6. 10 minutes before turning off the heat, mix the lime juice, taste with salt. Done!

Serve with your choice of salad and Persian rice. This time my tahdig come from the unfinished burger king french fries :P

Roasted Chicken for Weekend

5 days straight in a week eating lunch outside made me sick! If can I want to avoid eating outside. For me it's better to have simple home cooked meal rather than spending money on restaurants foods. But what to do, that's the convenient way when you have to go work. No choice. I am too lazy to prepare packed lunch before going out home. Sometimes I did but because I prefer not to sacrifice my sleep by wake up earlier, I have to face the reality of outside foods that most of the times not satisfying. So when weekend come, there's lots of recipe I want to cook. My nieces always wait for weekend to come so "maksu" will cook something special. One of my favorite is rasted chicken. After trying several recipes, this recipe gave the most khoshmazeh (delicious) taste. So from now on, I'll stick for this recipe.

STEP 1:

Ingredients:

~ Whole chicken

~ Ginger

~ Salt

~ Water

Methods:

1. Boil water with lots of ginger and some salt. Place the whole chicken in the pot and let it simmer for 15 minutes. 

2. Drain off the chicken. Let it cool down.

STEP 2:

Ingredients:

~ Sweet soya sauce

~ Oyster sauce

~ Pounded garlic

~ Black pepper

Methods:

1. Mix all the ingredients and rub it on the chicken.

2. Marinate for 30 minutes

STEP 3:

1. Roast the chicken in oven for 1 - 1.5 hour 180c

The result: Juicy and tender flesh.