My chocolate cake :)

Thanks to K. Azie, the Engineering Operator at my department for willing to share her chocolate cake recipe. I've tried few chocolate cake recipe from internet, but none taste as good as this one. I brought back the cake to my hometown during my cousin's wedding. Alhamdullilah..Habis, and lots of complement from my relatives..yummilicious!!! So I want to share the recipe here.

Chocolate Cake Recipe

Ingredient
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250g butter
2 cups castor sugar
5 eggs
2 cup self rising flour
1 cup cocoa powder
1 cup of cold water ** Mix cocoa powder with cold water, kacau utk elakkan ketul2.
a pinch of salt.

Method
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1. Mixed butter and sugar. Stir the mixture.
2. Add egg to mixture one by one. Then add the salt.
3. Add cocoa powder + cold water mixture
4. Stir all until they are well-mixed.
5. Preheat the oven 160'C and bake the cake for 45 min. (The original recipe is bake for 130'C, but when I use this, my cake is soggy on top, so I changed to this setting. I think it depends on what is the optimize temperature for you oven for baking a cake :))

Topping
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1 cup of castor sugar
3/4 cup cocoa powder
50 gm butter
1 can Evaporated milk

Method
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1) Mix all the ingredient above in the pot. Under moderate fire, stir until the mixture become richer and creamier.

So inilah gambar2 kek coklat ku, memang huduh, tapi sedap. Next time akan ku cuba lagi dan akan ku hiaskan cantik2. Check this out.

Comfy changing room

Check this out! I went to Queensbay Mall last week and did diaper change at the new changing room. It look comfortable and luxurious.

Hubby lost his tonsil..

Argh..... aku cuma dapat mengeluh...Bulan April dan May this year memang disaster. Aku, husband dan Luffy asyik jatuh sakit sahaja. Up to this point husband and me still have flu and cough problem.

Last April, husband and I were having high fever. I got few days MC, same with husband. However hubby condition worse than mine. He was laying on the bed most of the time. Luckily Luffy was OK, but we are quite afraid he will get the germ from us. Besides, taking care an active baby need a lot of work and I dont think I can do it. Thanks to my mum, willing to travel all the way from Pantai Remis to look after Luffy.

Hubby was admitted to Hospital Pantai on Early Wednesday morning around 5.30am. Since his temperature was high, his throat was swollen and in pretty bad shape, doctor advised to get him warded. He was consulted to be under care of Ear, Nose and Throat specialist. Under went through some check-up the specialist found that my husband having some problem with his throat. He recommend hubby to remove his tonsil and hubby agreed since he has lots of issue with his throat. It is true, every time I or himself not feeling well, he said it started from throat and we must cure it first. Even I myself started to have that ideology...

So the surgery and illnesses caused hubby to be warded for 5 days in Hospital Pantai Mutiara, Bayan Lepas. He was granted for 2 weeks sick leave. But his condition was not as what I presumed. He cant eat solid food like normal people. His food need to be mashed and should be in the liquid form. Gheez!! Even my baby food as not as runny as his food. Besides that he will took some time to finish it, which is not him at all. Normally he's the one waited for me to finish my food. Now I know how he feel..hehehe..

Wait up for my next entry of Luffy being admitted which is after a month hubby discharge from hospital..

Lamb Chop

Its Saturday!! Of the seven days in a week, I love Saturday the most. It's because, I'm not working and I can do lots of thing until midnight with not worrying about getting tired, since I still have Sunday to rest. Normally, I would try some new cooking during my off day. For this time, I'm cooking lamb chop.

I got this recipe from a website which mentioned that "This recipe is a courtesy of Rick's How to Cook Lamb site. I was in hurry to avoid the Friday bad traffic that I didn't copy the web address. The recipe is quite simple and I want to give it a shot.

Here is the recipe; I modified some though :)

Chinese-style Black Pepper Lamb Chop

Ingredient
500 gm Lamb chop (I bought nicely chopped lamb from Tesco)
1 clove of Onion (I used Bawang Benggala)
Potato (This is optional)

- To be grind and blend
1 teaspoon of black pepper
3 tablespoon of oyster sauce (You can estimate this, some may prefer more )
5 pcs garlic
daun sup (i'm not sure what they called in english, actually you can use rosemary, but I couldn't find it here)
Salt & Sugar

Procedure
1. Mix the ingredient to be grind and blend.
2. Marinate the lamb chop. Spread the ingredient evenly and leave to marinate about an hour. The longer the better :).
3. Chop the onion into large slices. Chop the potato as well.
4. Heat the oven to 230'c. You can either grill or roast. For me, I used my conventional microwave which come with the short key to roast lamb pieces.
5. Arrange the potato, onion slices and the lamb on the plate/ foil.
6. Roast in the oven for about 8 minutes and flip to otherside and roast again for another 8 minutes.
7. Ready to serve.


This is how my lamb chop being roasted in the oven together with onion sliced and potato.



Ready to serve.. I have salad as my side dishes. :)

Luffy Transformation

Cepat betul masa berlalu, Luffy dah berumur hampir sethn. This entry is to recalled how Luffy transform from a 2.7kg baby to almost 8.5 kg baby. He's still developing. He's a gift from God to me and I pray that god spent little more time on him...Amin!!



June'08 - Just a fews days old. Still fragile and small


July'08 - Masih kecil lagi, tapi dah ader reaction, masih tak pandai senyum, org buat lawak, dia buat tak tau saja.




Aug'08 - Luffy starts to make chooeing sounds, and dah boleh mengagah sikit2.




Sept'08 - Luffy dah pandai meniarap by this time. Dah pandai try suara.



Oct'08 - Sudah pandai gelak bila acah.




Nov'08 - Best nyer main2 time nie. Rambut dia masih pacak lah at this time.



Dec'08 - He started eating solid food. He got his measles, due to mosquito bites I think. Very Active kicking here and there. He likes stammering..... Dia dah start tumbuh gigi lah this time.



Jan'09 - Dia suka banging anything, be it with his hand or anything that he can grab. Dia sudah pandai senyum depan camera. Dia suka menjulur macam askar..



Feb'09 - Tngk masa demam pun boleh senyum ambil gambar..



Mac'09 - Sudah makin buas, rambut dah panjang, so mama dia kerat ler..


April'09 - Sudah ader gigi 6 btg. Sudah dpt merangkak dgn cepatnyer.


May'09 - Sudah pandai berdiri, memanjat, memunggah!! Sudah bikin mama dia pening kepala dan naik angin...

Next month, genaplah setahun usia Luffy!!!! Wah cepat nya masa berlalu...

My Car.

This is second time my car exhaust giving me problem. About 2 yrs ago, the same problem happened where the exhaust broke and playing some music when i'm driving. I cannot check what is happening below my car, so I need to check it out at the work shop. The view from down there is very horrible. Luckily no major "kemek", because I've been driving recklessly few times that I bang bum and dahan pokoklah...Hehehe...

Apparently, the exhaust was detached from the side that holding it. It cost me RM5 to mold it. Alhamdullilah, cheap. At first, i thought I'll have to get a new exhaust and this definitely will cost me more than hundred... At this point of time, money is so critical...Hehehe

Pejam celik pejam celik, this car has been with me almost seven years. This means, loan payment is almost DONE. Yahoo.... means, I'll have extra rm450 in my pocket months to come..

Sungguhlah teruknyer keadaan di bawah keretaku..


Nie lah part yg dah tercabut, kena pattery dah OK.

First time being away from Luffy.

This entry is backdated 6 months ago. Kan dah cakap dah aku malas nak update blog. So aku peram cerita nie for almost 6 months. Aku kena pergi Philiphines atas urusan kerja...memang dah lama tak merasa pergi oversea dgn duit company, so rasa best lak kali nie, walaupun tmpt nyer takder lah Best mcm trip2 aku yg seblm nie. Tapi the worst part is that I have to be separated from my baby boy. He's only 6 months old and his mother need to be away from him. Alhamdullilah, this is only short trip, not even a week, kalau tak nangis tak berlagu ler mama dia everynight.

My mum offered to look for Luffy, but Hubby insist to take care Luffy. According to him, it should not be an issue since its weekdays, so he will left Luffy at daycare and he will be with Luffy only night time; "piece of cake!" said hubby. After fikir punyer fikir, aku pun setuju. Lagipun bukannyer senang nak cari laki yg nak buat kerja2 mcm nie. So biarlah aku latih laki aku, mana tau in the future aku kena tinggalkan Luffy lagi, takder lah aku susah atau risau. Luffy is only 6 months old and he doesn't understand this. Dia tak sedih pun masa hantar aku, cuma aku jer, sob..sob..sob...He even frowning when he look at me teary-eyed.

Pejam celik pejam celik, 4 hari pun berlalu. Dah nak balik dah...I was so happy. Overall comment on the trip, aku sibukkan jer diri aku buat kerja, so takder lah sedih sgt. Tapi ader benda yg menyedihkan aku... luggage aku kena tinggal kat Penang, SCREW UP betullah Malaysia Airlines nie...memang menyumpah gila. Aku pernah naik Singapore Airline, Cathay Pacific, American Airlines dan United Airlines, tak pernah berlaku benda mcm nie. Naik our own flight benda mcm nie happened. Masa aku touch down kat Penang pun ader 2 org facing the same issue and to make thing worse, it was 10 pm and nobody was incharge to settle those thing. Teruk betul...camner lah kita nak support our local industry??

Berbalik kepada cerita Luffy, aku sedih sgt. Once aku balik sini, dia reject aku punyer nyot2. Meronta2 dia tak mau.. Memang sedih.... Memang sblm nie dia tak beminat tapi at least dia akan hisap tapi now, NO Mama..NO!!! tak apalah, at least dia sempat dpt susu mama dia selama 6 bulan.

Trip ke Philiphines was short, takder pergi ke mana pun. Aku touch down Manila, tunggu driver, then driver bawak pergi ke Pampanga about 2 hrs drive from Manila. Tapi aku sempat pergi 1 kedai kat Manila, shopping baju ku..kan luggage dah hilang. Mujur lah driver tu sporting dia bawak aku pergi ke kedai baju2 yg harga dia OK. Maybe area yg aku pergi tak best kot, tapi kebanyakkan tmpt yg aku pergi mcm slum area jer, bila lalu kat tmpt2 dia Manila, aku rasa sungguh bersyukur sebab Malaysia tak mcm tu.. Apapun nice experience... Kan org cakap bnyk berjalan luasa pengalaman.


Happy sungguh bila mama dia kasitau mama dia nak pergi jauh.

Dah lama tak update blog.

Sungguh berabad tak ku update blog ku, hampeh!!!