Flavoursome Roasted Chicken

If you are in a hurry or not in a mood of cooking, try this chicken recipe. I always arrive at home late after work but yet I still want some comfort and proper food. The easiest way is to use an oven to safe my legs from standing.

Normally I use chicken if I want something roasted. Beef and lamb I prefer to cook on stove. But it all depend again on the recipe it self. Below are the list of ingredients:

1) A whole chicken (if you using chicken legs, might need 7-10 legs depending on size)

2) Salt and sugar

3) 2 table spoons Tumeric Powder

4) 5 table spoons Curry Powder

5) 1 table spoon Dried Chili powder (dont use this if you want less spicy)

6) 2 table spoon Cooking Oil (I prefer olive oil). If chicken skin still intact, don't have to put oil at all.

7) Some lime/lemon juice

8) Some black pepper powder

9) Some black soy sauce/oyster sauce (optional)

10) Some chili oil (optional)

Steps:

1) Pre heat the oven at 150-200 degree Celsius.

2) Wash the chicken. Put it into a large bowl

3) Put all the ingredients on top of chickens and mix it all evenly.

4) Do not afraid to lick your finger to taste the flavour just to make sure its all enough. Put what ever ingredients that you feel is insufficient more to the flavour. I normally make the sweet, salty, and sour flavour evenly and always a little bit more spicy.

5) Apply aluminum wrap on baking tray and arrange the flavour chickens on top of it.

6) This is optional. Sprinkle with 1-2 drops of chili oil on top of each chicken.

7) Roast it in oven for 30-45 minutes. Might need longer depending on type of oven. Just take a look after half an hour to make sure your chickens is not burn yet.

Serve it with rice and vegetable cuisine. Find my older post on Pak Choi with crispy garlic. Thats suit with this roasted chicken. I have another vegetable recipes to share in the next few chapter. And also do you know how to cook rice? I will guide you step by step.....stay tuned till my next post....

Warning: If you suffer from IBS, or a type of person who-do-not-eat-spicy-food you need to be cautious of having this flavoured chicken. You know yourself what you can get/the consequence of eating spicy food!!!!

B Factor

Its a fresh morning to continue life today. I woke up at 7.30 am, prayed to God and as soon as the sun was rising, I went out jogging around outside my apartment. It was minus 3 this morning. No wonder I did not feel warm with jacket during the session. My accompany was my husband so I did not need mp3 player anymore.

It looked like that was the first time I did outdoor since the past 12 months. Normally after work I did routine of sit-up, skipping, steps-using-block, or a quick aerobic at home. But it did not work for everyday.

After exercise, we had a small breakfast. There was some left-over noodle from yesterday night dinner. We made it as breakfast now. As usual after breakfast, we need coffee or tea. So I had my vanilla coffee and my husband liked his local tea to serve as his morning beverage.

So it is 10 am now. Plan to do some shopping on the Saturday morning. I think there is a Saturday market happening at town today. Might just visit and take some pictures. That will be a good idea to share I guess.

Still have to do shopping list before entering the town though coz this will save every single penny from buying unnecessary stuffs.

What is the B factor anyway.....thats just a random title that suddenly came out...might discuss it later....

The Very First Gown

If I am not becoming a doctor, I think I might pursue to become a fashion designer. Believe it or not, this is the very first gown I ever made. There was a few dresses/gowns that I sew before however I was using a cheap materials for training purposes. I had made 2 dresses/gowns before I made this gorgeous pink gown.

Its all started in the middle of last year where I bought my very first sewing machine. I have a hobby which I like to sew and create something such as pencil case, handbag, duvet cover, pillow case or even cloth. When I was 17 my mum send me to the nearest sewing centre so I can learn how to made our traditional malay dress. Back home if you ask a tailor to sew your own dress, it cost you around 10-20 euro per dress/cloth. I have 9 siblings so it was impossible at that time to spend a lot of money for that reason. You could just learn how to sew and made it by your self. It is so much worth it because you know your own body size and you can tailor your own dress. Its fantastic!!!

Anyway, this is a gown that was inspired by most of Malaysian celebrities whom worn classy gowns at their big events. To tell the truth even though I had learnt how to sew in the past now I completely forget how to make my own body pattern. I had been spending all my life studying medicine I suppose. But I don't feel regret at all because I can still get the sewing pattern from fabric shop/website. I bought 2 types of sewing pattern to make this dress.

I have not complete with this dress yet. Still have to decorate with sequins, diamond-like-beads and some glittery stuffs to make it WOW!!! I actually plan to wear this at my big day but I could not make it before the dead line. Well at least I had worn other people's creation.

Its Just A Shopping Bag

I am sure you know what this object right???

Take a closer look

That's right. Its a shopping bag...

Lets see more closer

Wow its a LV Shopping Bag!! There must be something inside!! Who bought this luxury stuff for me?? What type of LV inside???

NOw project my camera lens over this brown bag please...

Laa...its empty ke??? Where is the bag has gone??? Did somebody steal it?? Oh no...

I think I still can't own this luxury handbag cause THIS IS ACTUALLY MY FRIEND'S BAG...hahaha...

Maybe some day under the rainbow, I own it as a gift =)

Pak Choi/Sawi with Crispy Garlic in Black Soy Sauce

I think this blog will turn up to be a recipe blog. Never-mind. In a next few chapter it may be turn up to be fashion/drama/medicine blog =)....

Here I have a very quick vegetable recipe...Its Pak Choi/Sawi (can substitute with Kai Lan or Large Green Crispy Salad. I think its not suitable for spinach, but no harm trying).

Ingredients

1) 2 Small Bunch of Salad (here I am using salad. Most of the time I use Pak Choi)

2) 1 bulb of garlic (use it all, remove the white outer, cut it into multiple thin slice)

3) 3 types of soy sauces- use approximate of 5 table spoons for each (Dark SS, Tamari SS, Kikkoman Salty SS. If you dont have this at home/country, do not worry. Substitute to Dark SS, Salty SS and any Japanese SS)

4) 2-3 table spoons of sugar

5) Some water

6) Cooking Oil


Steps:


1) Remove all the leaves/layer of salad from it bunch. Do not cut it into any pieces

2) Boil it into hot water till it become tender (Do not boil it too long. All the mineral and vitamin component will be distorted

3) Remove the water and drain it till dry

4) Heat cooking oil. Fry the sliced garlic till crispy. Set the heat at medium scale. Otherwise garlic will easily burn

5) Put crispy garlic aside. Now reduce the amount of cooking oil you use for frying the garlic just now. Pour all the 3 SS, sugar and some water. Cook it till it boil. (taste it first before you turn the heat off. make sure you get the taste of salty and some sweet)

6) Pour the sauce on top of boiled salad. Lastly sprinkle it with crispy garlic.


All of these steps will take you no more than 20 minutes, provided that you are a regular cook.

Here is the picture that I promise to upload. Sorry its took forever...

I eat it with fried fish (i think that was seabass), rice, chilli paste and soya sauce...delicious!!!

Spicy Black Soy Sauce (SBSS)

All you need are:

1) Soy sauce (preferably SS made in Malaysia such as Habhal Kipas Udang, Adabi, Jalen etc)

2) Bird's eye Chilies (does not matter whether it is red or green colour)

3) Garlic (1 piece is enough)

4) Salt and sugar


Steps:

1) Blend chili and garlic using dry blender/small blender/ice blender

2) After blend it, put the blended mixture into a small bowl.

3) Put sugar, salt and soy sauce into mixture and stir it very well. Add sugar and salt accordingly (make it sweet and salty. If you use salty SS, reduce the amount of salt, vice verca)

4) This is optional. You can add some hot water to dissolve salt and sugar faster. Remember do not put water too much. Your sauce will be too thin.


This sauce you can keep it in the fridge and lasted for approximately 3-4 weeks. So whenever you have fried banana, grab SS from your fridge and you can enjoy your teatime straight away.


Also you can have SBSS with other meal such as Soto, Fried Tempe, Mango etc.........thinking about it, instantly craving......it looks like I have to find banana, bird's eye chili in the nearest supermarket!!!!

Crispy Fried Banana (Pisang Goreng Rangup)

HOw many days now I haven't create blog? Its been a while. I want to share to everyone today how to make a crispy fried banana. Again this recipe is so simple. I am a type of person who like to make things simple and fast.


Fried banana is suitable to serve during teatime. Some people they like to eat it with spicy-soya-sauce (SSS, I will show how to make this in the next chapter), with sugar or even without anything. I preferably like to have it with SSS. Its actually wonderful to add some spices in your fried banana!!!!


Now, all you need to make this are....



*this is a fully mature banana. I dont have the exact picture not/half mature one


1) 5 pieces bananas (whether it is not mature, half mature or fully mature banana, its all up to you. I normally choose half mature one coz its consistency is not too hard or soft and the taste is not as sweet as the fully mature one)

2) 5 full large spoons of rice floor

3) 1 full large spoon of wheat floor (optional)

4) 1 tea spoon of tumeric powder

5) Half tea spoon of Salt (you can add accordingly)

6) Half tea spoon of kapur (optional)---> I will find out what is this in English

7) Half cup of water (you can adjust the amount of water)

8) Cooking oil for deep fry

*if you dont have the optional ingredients, do not worry. Your fried banana is still crispy.


So now you have all these ingredients in your kitchen table.


Next steps:


1) Put cooking oil into deep fryer/deep pan. Heat it moderately

2) Strip off your banana from its skin. Cut banana into medium-large slice. You can see the shape of banana in the picture below

3) Put rice floor into a small bowl.

4) Put also wheat floor, tumeric, kapur and salt to 2.

5) Add water and mixed all the ingredients till the texture become yogurty-like-texture. Make sure the salt is enough (don't make it too mild or too salty)

6) Put the banana cubes into the mixture that you just made and mix it well till all surface of bananas coated.





7) Now its time to fry the coated banana. Just put it one by one into the deep fryer. Cook it till it turns to golden-brown colour. (this is important to make sure the banana is really cook well till it become crispy. Otherwise, the banana will turn up to become soft and that is not nice. Normally it takes 15-20 minutes to cook till crispy)











8) Take it out from the fryer, hold it there till the oil finish to drop down. Put it into the plate (I like to cover the plate with kitchen tissue paper to absorb more oil)








You can eat it while it is still hot or you can leave it till it get colder a little bit. Serve with hot tea or coffee. I am sure your family/husband/children will like it!!! ENJOY!!!!