My father passed away

 It took me a while to come back here. 

This time I started it off with the news of my father's passing. He passed away on the 8th June 2020. Got a called from my cousin telling me that, and my brother called me to inform me the same news too. 

May his soul rest in peace. 

Thank you to everyone who offered their helps to our family on that day. 

Thank you for all the kind words.

In loving memory of Jimmy Adit

01/December/1955 - 08/June/2020

This was his last post for the column on New Sarawak Tribune. 

I'm gonna keep it here for a record. 

https://www.newsarawaktribune.com.my/a-day-of-plain-truth/

And these were posts written by his colleagues for him.

Thank you for the remembrances. 

https://www.newsarawaktribune.com.my/my-right-arm-has-been-cut-off/

https://www.newsarawaktribune.com.my/truly-a-painful-loss/

Thank you, everyone.

Friday food on Lent

Happy belated Easter, everyone!

I don't know how to describe my Lent.
I noticed that I was still lacking on certain parts especially when it comes to pray. That's so me.
Gosh, tried to add emoji, but the emojis won't upload because my internet connection is weak.
Life is good. Hopefully it will be good all the way till the end of 2020.
There are flaws too, I just couldn't deny. And I don't want to talk about it.
But, mmm, we'll get thru it. I'll get thru it eventually. I hope it goes the same with you too.
Optimism booster is at the max.

My anak tekak meminta kopi dari tadik. I already have 500ml iced coffee this morning. Am in the midst of trying to reduce my coffee intake, but it doesn't seem to work.
I tried, I failed. Repeat. Now, am giving it a try. Again.

Today, am gonna upload all my Friday menu during Lent. Abstinence and fasting. Except for I didn't take any photos of my food that I had during Ash Wednesday. I didn't eat anything. Just had water all the way.

Let's start!

This time I won't be translating the dish menu. Google if you want to know their names in English. If you need the recipe, email me.

First Friday

Fried bean curd, tempoyak goreng and sayur cangkuk manis goreng telur

Second Friday

Sayur sawi pahit goreng ikan bilis and fried chili fish

Third Friday

Sayur midin goreng belacan, sayur paku uban rebus halia and fried fish

Fourth Friday

Kasam daun ensabi (local kimchi), ikan bilis goreng kicap, sayur timun masak manis, sambal belimbing tunjuk, daun bandung goreng, and fried chicken for the family (since the rest of family members are Muslims, am the only Catholic here. Hehehe)

Fifth Friday

Iced coffee and rice with kari ikan pari

Owh no vegetables since the kari already contain vegetables (eggplants and carrots)

Dinner on fifth Friday

French toast

Sixth Friday

Rice with kicap pedas Mahsuri, fried egg and mixed vegetables

Good Friday!

Yeay!

This time, I didn't cook. These were all ordered foods from my favorite restaurant.

Thank you, After 4 Four Kopitiam!

After Four bean curd special, sayur cangkuk manis goreng telur, sweet and sour fish fillet, and Thai fried chicken fillet for the rest of family members

During Fridays on Lent I normally had one full meal with no meats. It would be lunch or dinner. Then, the rest of the day, I just took lots of water and had something light.
Well, this year Lent was tough. The celebration also was so different than last year.
Covid-19 has changed everything including our lifestyle, our norms. Literally everything.
Hopefully things will get better soon. Pray for everyone safety.

Owh, extra extra. I only managed to make these two during Lent.

Sweet corn castard

Mee pok goreng kerang

Ok. Bye!

Ugh

*Sigh*

Owh. Did I just sigh?

I was flipping pages of the Giacomo catalog but still couldn't decide on what to buy. Set aside. Need to clear the mind before buying. Otherwise I would end up buying unnecessary things.

Am not feeling well today. Since last night. Went back home from work yesterday, I went straight to bed and fell asleep. Couldn't even slept last night. My head ached. Couldn't even got out of bed to go downstairs to take medicine. Felt nausea when I was driving to work this morning. I told myself not to pass out during driving.

Heh.

Just sipped on iced coffee once I reached office to suppress the urge of vomiting.
Coffee. Most of the time it helps me to survive my days. And there are times where it betrays me.

Monday was yesterday. Definitely not one of my good day on weekdays. At least for this semester.
Ugh.

My head.... Am gonna wait for an hour more. If it still painful, ubat ler jawab nyer.
Ugh.

Craving for tempoyak

Today I ada rajin sikit. Got to spend my Saturday in a proper way. Just doing nothing and spent time watching tv. Since I couldn't decide what to have for lunch, I just ate mi sedap and had iced coffee. Then watched VIP. Tonight they gonna play Parasite on tvN Movies channel. And I cooked for dinner. This is a wrapped up for today.

I was craving for tempoyak since the past two days. Only today got to cook it. I don't eat durian but am so in love with tempoyak. 

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Ingredients : Tempoyak, chilli, turmeric powder, anchovies, sugar, oil (for cooking)

Can I not explain anything and just post the photos? Sorry not so sorry, forever in this life, my photo taking skill won't upgrade.

Mix well the tempoyak with chilli, turmeric powder, and sugar. 

Fry the anchovies till slightly brown. 

How do you say it? Is it crispy or crunchy? 

Set aside. Owh by the way, I did this because I want the taste of the anchovies blend well with the tempoyak. And to keep the anchovies crispy when add them into the tempoyak later on. 

😂😂😂

Fry the tempoyak till it turns brown. When it turns brown, it means that the sugar is melting. It starts to caramelised. Then add on the fried anchovies. Fry well. 

The outcome will look like this

😁😁😁

Taaaa-daaaa

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Moving onto the next one. I have no ideas how to call this dish. Ayam masak kicap? Not really. I've decided to call it Any Chicken Dish. 

😅😅😅😅

Ingredients: Chicken meat (any parts ikut suka hati kamu), ginger, garlic, lemongrass (all these 3, just slice them thinly), dried chilli (soak into hot water and cut them into two to three parts, drain them), 2 asam keping (I have no ideas how to say it in English. Kalau engkau rajin, engkau Google kan.), oyster sauce and thick soy sauce (ikut suka hati dirik empun), and oil for cooking.

Now photo time!

Do it like this👇👇👇👇

After you mixed everything, close them like this. To keep the moist

 of the chicken meats lock inside the meat. So that the meat juice doesn't vaporate into the air. Sayang jus ayam ya hilang.. Let the chicken meat cook first, then add oyster sauce and thick soy sauce. Salt and ajinomoto. Hahaha. Ajinomoto. Whatever. 

Mix well

And it will look like this

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Nay nay. Don't add sugar into this dish. I miss out one ingredient. It is a must add on. I wanted to add on but I found out it is already expired. Secret ingredient? Ha-ah.

"SESAME OIL"

This dish is not complete without sesame oil. You should add on a little bit.

Ok ok. Let's move on to the next one. The last dish for dinner tonight. Hi-ih. 

The most easiest dish. Tauge goreng. 😂😂😂

Ingredients : Tauge (bean sprouts), tauhu (bean curds), garlic, chilli (these 2 slice them thinly), salt and ajinomoto. Ajinomoto lagi. Seasoning is the greatest when it comes to cooking. 

🤣🤣🤣

Owh, oil for cooking. 

Photo time

Macam ini👇👇👇👇

Then goreng goreng macam ini. Malas aku mok explain, eh. Hati jak teringin nak upload, nak explain it's a no-no.

And at last!

Taaa-daaaa

Saja jak nak ngasak hati kitak orang. 

😏😏😏😏😏😏

Don't mind on the look of the kuali. It's antic, ok. Kuali itu sangat berharga despite of how it looks. 

😅😅😅😅😅

That were all for dinner tonight. Four minutes passed midnight now. Well spent Saturday. I thought of not going out from home today but in the end I did go out. Just because I need to buy our cats foods. 🐱🐱🐱🐱

Hanya kucing yang bisa mengalahkan aku. 

💁‍♀️💁‍♀️💁‍♀️💁‍♀️💁‍♀️

Goodbye 2019, Hello 2020!

Yup! 2019 is ended, 2020 has begun.

I went back to my hometown for almost two weeks. I spent my semester break there. Far away from electromagnetic wave. 😏😏😏😏

Did lot of things there, Christmas was well, new year was well spent too. Aaaa, I didn't take photos that much this year. We held Christmas prayer in our tiny home for the first time too.
It's the fruit season now there at my village. Sadly, I don't eat durian. So I skipped that, rambutan and langsat too, many many fruits this year. I mean 2019, until today in 2020. Some hasn't ripen yet. Anytime from now. Durian, rambutan, langsat, they are everywhere now.

These were few things I did during break. Let me show you some.

If you have never seen coffee bean before, here you go. This is fresh coffee bean. Is it? or coffee fruit? How do you call it?. Our grandpa planted one tree at the backyard. The fruits are ripen by now. It tastes sweet. I mean, you can just eat it like that and take out the seed inside. Dried it, then roast it, then blend it to get the coffee powder. 

I remember when there was no road to our village where we had to walk for about 3 to 4 hours to our village from the nearest small town. Coffee plants were everywhere. But now, it's rare. And we only have two trees at the backyard. 

And I made these for my nephews and nieces. And everyone had a taste of it. 

old time ice-cream. I wasn't sure how many times I did this. twice? Thrice? We used to make these when we were still kids. I made few flavors which were gula apong (mixed gula apong with coconut milk and warm water), F&N Cordial flavor grenadine (Sun Valley Grenadine cordial is just legend), air bandung (mixed Grenadine cordial and evaporated milk) and also carbonated soft drink Fruitade flavor by F&N too. I think F&N should send me gifts of all these products for Gawai this year. 

😄😄😄😄😄

You may want to check out other products produce by them here.

Click on this link: https://www.fn.com.my/brand/fn-fun-flavours/

And the last photos I have. I cooked ikan sultan masak lemak cili api. What do they call it in English? Searched for it. So I got something like sultan fish, mad bard and hoven's carp. 

So it's basically sultan fish cooked in coconut milk gravy with bird's eye chili. 

Ingredients

Sultan fish ( I used two, cut them into four pieces)

Coconut milk (used one small box or 200ml)

Turmeric powder (half tablespoon or depends on how yellowish you want the gravy to look like. But not too much. Half tablespoon is just enough)

Bird's eye chili (depend on how hot you want the gravy to be)

Lemongrass ( I used two)

Asam jawa @ tamarind (just one spoon to clean the fish and just a little bit to use for cooking the fish)

Salt and Ajinomoto 😋😋😋😋

Ways to cook

1. Clean the fish, take away all the stomach and everything. I told the people at the fish market to clean for me. If you take out the stomach in wrong way, the fish will turn bitter. Seriously bitter. And cut them into four pieces. 

2. Then I just mixed the fish with tamarind and soaked with water for 5 minutes. Just to get rid of the fishy smell. Then rinse off.

3. Grind or crush down the chili and lemongrass. I use mortar and pestle. 

4. Take out whatever you want to use cooking pot or just a kuali pun boleh. 

5. Pour in the 200ml coconut milk and 300ml warm water into the pot. The mixed well with the chili and lemongrass, turmeric powder and a little bit of tamarind. Put in two tea spoon of salt and one tea spoon of Ajinomoto. If you taste it less salt, you can put in later. Mix them well. 

6. After that, put in the fish into the same pot, mix well. Then put the pot on the fire. 

불타오르네? 

Bultaoreune?

Fireeeee fireeeee.. 

Then you can continue sing Fire by BTS while waiting for the fish to cook up. 

Your end product should look like this. Serve with warm or hot rice. 

Daebak!

Done! That's all for now.