Lazy Day - Nasi Lemak

yeah my cucumber is missing..

Today its a very very lazy day for me...so i was only thinking to clear my fridge. when i went thru my fridge Nasi Lemak came across my mind...so i check if i have coconut milk and yes i do have some left...immediately i whipped out the Nasi Lemak very very early in the morning (just after dawn to be exact) in my mind it'll be my breakfast and my lunch *grins* boy am i lazy or what?

anyway when i'm done about 90% then i realised that i'm lacking 1 ingredient...which is the cucumber. being lazy...i didn't even budge to go to the market to buy some heheh...besides my hubby is not remotely a vegetarian...i mean he didn't eat his veges*sigh* yeah i know like a small kid...but thats him! how in the world can you teach your child to eat vege when you yourself don't eat veges??? now thats a million dollar question!

if any of you are wondering what is a Nasi Lemak, direct translation: Fatty Rice but a less harsh meaning is err...creamy Rice..? The name is derived from the cooking process whereby rice is soaked in rich coconut milk and then steamed with Pandan/Screwpine leaves and ginger to make the rice be more fracrance.Traditionally, this comes as a platter with cucumber slices, small dried anchovies, roasted peanuts, stir fry convolvulus (kangkung), hard boil egg or fried egg, and hot and spicy sambal. Nasi lemak can also come with any other accompaniments such as fried chicken, sambal cuttlefish, sambal cockle, beef rendang (beef stewed in coconut milk and spices) or fried beef lungs (paru). yeaa writing this make my mouth waters :D

This Nasi Lemak is a Malaysian most popular dish that is usually serve as breakfast. however nowadays we eat it at anytime we please you can even get it in the middle of the night at the Kopitiam (old school coffee shop, nothing like starbucks) how great is that??

Now the Recipe..

What you need:

• For Rice:-
• 2 c of rice
• 1 c coconut milk and 1c water
  
• 1pc of screwpine leave tie into a knot
• 3 slice of ginger
• a pinch of salt
• For the Sambal (Spicy sauce):-
• 6tbs blended dried chili (you can find this at any oriental store)
  
• 4 clove shallots- blended
• 2 clove garlic -blended
• 1 bombay onion -sliced
• some dried anchovies -wash to prevent it to be too salty(you can find this at any oriental store)
• 1tbs tamarind juice
• salt and sugar to taste
  
• Other ingredients:-
• Fried dried anchovies.
• Hard boil eggs or fried eggs
• cucumber slices
• chicken: marinate it with salt, 1tsp tumeric powder and 1tsp curry powder
  

How you do it:

1. Add all rice ingredients and cook in a rice cooker.
2. For the Sambal:
3. Saute sliced onions til fragrant then add in the all blended ingredients. cook in a medium heat for at least 5 minutes or so
4. Then add in tamarind juice, the dried anchovies.
5. Add in salt and sugar. continue cooking until it thickens.
6. then remove from fire. ready to serve.
7. just a tip...i usually add in a tablespoon of coconut milk in the sambal sauce towards the end of the cooking, but this is optional.
   

Brownie in a cup

What you need:

(A)

125g chocolate chips

125g butter

(B)

2eggs

300g castor sugar

1tsp vanilla essence

(C)

115g flour

This is how you do it:

1. pre heat oven160c. line baking cases in a muffin tin
2. melt ingredient (A) using double boiler. then set a side and let it cool
3. beat ingredient (B) until thick and pale.
4. Add (A) into (B) then fold in ingredient (C) gently until well mix.
5. BAke for 25minutes. let it cool then decorate.

this cupcake brownies is good on its own…you can serve it warm (i personally like it warm and eat it with ice cream)

Hantaran Cake & Wedding Cakes

its been a busy week so far... i've made two 2.5kg fondant cake for Wedding hantaran. one of them is bringing the cake to Perak tomorrow for her Akad Nikah ceremony. At first she wanted buttered cake but its not suitable since she's travelling by car to her home town, she then insist coz she said that fondant cake will be to sweet for her liking. After much consideration and persuasion she then reluctantly agreed to the fondant cake. she wanted a modern design rather then the typical 'malay' degisn that habe ribbons or table cloth etc...(i personally hate that design too)

So i decided to make a cake that inspired by an English Hat...with autumn flowers orange-brown tones. i told her about the idea and she liked it...When its done, she was so suprised to see the cake and she thought that its more beautiful than she imagined...honestly i wasn't really that satisfied but i supposed its ok considering that she ordered last minute (i was given only 2 days)...

and these are other wedding cakes using butter cream...what did i tell you a busy busy week!