: : Menu for Hope : :

*white tablecloth as we prepare you the menu. please scroll down further for menu and posting.*

Hi everyone! I’m sure by now those who frequent other sites have discovered that the Food Blogging Community has put up a Menu for Hope for our readers in the hope that they will kindly give a little hope to the tsunami victims. Already, there are still strong waves flowing through Acheh and there was another earthquake but this time on the island of Java.

The theme of the Menu is food from the affected countries hit by the waves. We have a whole range of food from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Malaysia and others too. It is paired with a selection of wine as well for your selection.

I’m so sorry to say that due to my PC woes, I couldn’t put up any pictures for of the dish that Granny cooked up. Not to mention that I’m very very late at posting it up (10 hrs from the specified time!!). Posting it from work you see. The dish is bamboo shoots cooked in coconut milk. It’s a wonderful dish that can be very rich and yet very delicate too. Here is the recipe :

1/2 kilo of bamboo shoots (no kidding, bamboo shoots are just plain heavy)

1 packet of dry coconut milk powder (no need to dump everything.

should be added based on people’s tastes as too much may seem too

rich)

some belachan @ dried prawn paste (cut a small piece 1 cm x 2 cm)

hot water

1-2 chillis

3-5 peppercorn

salt to taste

I hope that you will enjoy it. I will put up the pictures after my PC returns tomorrow night. In the mean time, please do check out the other websites for other delicious meals.

Oh! Nearly forgot! Silly me! For the wine pairings, Lenn and Alder have recommended the following wines (it’s in the menu in case you haven’t notice):

Wild Mushroom Salad

Except for the Sake which was priced at USD28, all the other wines are under USD20.

I hope that you do enjoy this menu and if you have it in your heart to give a little something, please do click on the button below. We are channeling all donations to UNICEF.

Have fun cooking it up. I had fun coming up with menu and so did everyone else. Thanks to Pim for getting everyone together and pulling it off. She did a marvelous job (chasing me and a few others) to remind us of the dateline and getting the pictures ready as well as the map. Thanks to the others too for all the marvelous emails zipping through and fro on how to post up the pictures and edit the HTML.

Cheerio all and see you on Friday! That’s when I’m getting my PC back. Yippee!

: : Menu for Hope : :

*white tablecloth as we prepare you the menu. please scroll down further for menu and posting.*

Hi everyone! I’m sure by now those who frequent other sites have discovered that the Food Blogging Community has put up a Menu for Hope for our readers in the hope that they will kindly give a little hope to the tsunami victims. Already, there are still strong waves flowing through Acheh and there was another earthquake but this time on the island of Java.

The theme of the Menu is food from the affected countries hit by the waves. We have a whole range of food from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Malaysia and others too. It is paired with a selection of wine as well for your selection.

I’m so sorry to say that due to my PC woes, I couldn’t put up any pictures for of the dish that Granny cooked up. Not to mention that I’m very very late at posting it up (10 hrs from the specified time!!). Posting it from work you see. The dish is bamboo shoots cooked in coconut milk. It’s a wonderful dish that can be very rich and yet very delicate too. Here is the recipe :

1/2 kilo of bamboo shoots (no kidding, bamboo shoots are just plain heavy)

1 packet of dry coconut milk powder (no need to dump everything.

should be added based on people’s tastes as too much may seem too

rich)

some belachan @ dried prawn paste (cut a small piece 1 cm x 2 cm)

hot water

1-2 chillis

3-5 peppercorn

salt to taste

I hope that you will enjoy it. I will put up the pictures after my PC returns tomorrow night. In the mean time, please do check out the other websites for other delicious meals.

Oh! Nearly forgot! Silly me! For the wine pairings, Lenn and Alder have recommended the following wines (it’s in the menu in case you haven’t notice):

Wild Mushroom Salad

Except for the Sake which was priced at USD28, all the other wines are under USD20.

I hope that you do enjoy this menu and if you have it in your heart to give a little something, please do click on the button below. We are channeling all donations to UNICEF.

Have fun cooking it up. I had fun coming up with menu and so did everyone else. Thanks to Pim for getting everyone together and pulling it off. She did a marvelous job (chasing me and a few others) to remind us of the dateline and getting the pictures ready as well as the map. Thanks to the others too for all the marvelous emails zipping through and fro on how to post up the pictures and edit the HTML.

Cheerio all and see you on Friday! That’s when I’m getting my PC back. Yippee!

: : The day my PC died (again) : :

This has now become a monthly event for me. It happened last night and so, said PC is now in the workshop. The only components left that is still original are the Graphics Card, Harddisk and Pentium Chip. Eeep! Well, after this round of repairing, my PC is nearly 90% rebuilt. Doh!

Better hope that the harddisk have not died. There are a lot of food pictures in the PC still yet to be posted. Something like 50-100 of them. Gulp!

In the mean time, here’s a place to check out for food pictures : Food Stock Photography Search. Will put this link in the right sidebar laters.

Cheerio all!

: : The day my PC died (again) : :

This has now become a monthly event for me. It happened last night and so, said PC is now in the workshop. The only components left that is still original are the Graphics Card, Harddisk and Pentium Chip. Eeep! Well, after this round of repairing, my PC is nearly 90% rebuilt. Doh!

Better hope that the harddisk have not died. There are a lot of food pictures in the PC still yet to be posted. Something like 50-100 of them. Gulp!

In the mean time, here’s a place to check out for food pictures : Food Stock Photography Search. Will put this link in the right sidebar laters.

Cheerio all!

: : Christmas Dinner ~ Part II : :

Hello everyone. It’s been a hectic week and so, not much postings. But, let’s continue on with the Christmas dinner

A quick note to say that we enjoyed 3 bottles of wine. I’m a lousy shot at explaining about the different tastes of wine. Plus, I had a glass of each wine but problem was, my tastebuds sort of soured when I tried different wines at the same time. Anyway, needless to say everyone had a sip of the bottle on the right since it came all the way from France, courtesy of Kula, my cousin-in-law. However, I did enjoyed the Penfolds as recommended by Sina’. “Nothing can go wrong with Penfolds.”

We had a lot of salads. Upper left is the potato salad mixed with chopped hard-boiled eggs and peas. It was simply mixed with mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste. Bottom right were some boiled French beans served with chopped tomatoes. Fresh tasting.

Yummy yummy roasted potatoes? I love the crispy edges of roasted potatoes. Had a few, I can tell you that.

If you notice the dinneware, most of them were bought from a shop located along the Miri-Airport Road called Twinkle Star. Sina’ saw them being sold in the USA about 2 yrs ago for about USD10-USD30. In Miri, there were going very cheaply for RM10-RM30 (USD2.63 – USD7.89)!! Twinkle Star is a shop specialising in cheap goods from China. For the Kuching folks, I’m sure you’d be able to find something at MJC.

That’s all folks!

: : Christmas Celebration : :

My Christmas Celebration with family was a simple affair on Christmas Eve. However, at the end of it, it was a grand affair for the family. We love to get together during Christmas and get together to show off in our new clothes. We swap news of what has been happening since the last meet up (for me, it was a few weeks ago!!).

Well, we had the roast ham. We also had the traditional Kelabit Nuba’ Laya’ @ soft Bario Rice wrapped in banana leaf. Bario rice is very fragrant and similar to the Siamese Rice found in Thailand. The difference is that it is slightly more sticky although not as sticky as glutinous rice. The Bario rice is cooked until it’s very soft and then wrapped in banana leaf.

Wena : Yzara, want to share one portion?

Wena : …

Well. 🙂 The rice is very delicious and since it’s very soft, it gets digested very fast. One portion may seem a lot but if you eat that only, you’ll get hungry very fast!

We also had some roasted pumpkin (with the burnt sides removed) as well as some buttered vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower and something-like-miniature-cabbage-that-isn’t-brussel-sprouts). In the front, is the fried tapioca leaves, known in Kelabit as Udong Ubi. It is made from wild tapioca leaves that are pounded until it is completely smashed up to get the sticky sap out. The sap is not edible so needs to be removed. It is then boiled to remove the sap from the leaves. After that, the water is drained out and then it’s stir-fried with some garlic. My favourite vegetable dish. It’s a common vegetable dish amongst all the indigenous people of Sarawak. So far, there’s only one shop in Kuching town that I know that serves this. Most shops don’t prepare this dish as it is quite tedious to do it.

And, the Christmas Tree in the house. And I see a little handmade decoration I made a few years ago. Can you spot the little bead Cross? 🙂