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Simple dishes for parties

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

I love cooking for parties and I just need to arrange them nicely and lay on our prettily wrapped up table where we do table tennis.

Although we can easily order just some foods from the caterers, I find that it is more challenging when I get to plan and cook all the dishes ourselves (of course, also with a maid to help out preparing the ingredients, and most importantly, washing up!)

Instant Curry Chicken using the A1 Curry Chicken Paste

With the easily available A1 Curry Paste @ RM3.50, who needs to pound ingredients for curry anymore? I just need to buy the paste, 1 coconut and 1.5 whole chicken to come up with this. It taste just as good as those my Grandma used to cook (mixture of spices in the curry powder from the Indian shop in the olden day).

Fried Mee Hoon

Next we cooked a pack of fried meehoon to go with the curry chicken. Not a very difficult task as we used to cook this sometimes. My maid can cook very well and I just had to leave this to her.

Crispy Nuggets and Cheesy Jumbo Sausages

Another great hit among adults and children, especially, are these Fried Nuggets, and Cheesy Sausages. For nuggets, I always go for the most pricey Ayamas Nuget Crispy (red and purple color packing). They are the best and you will never go wrong with it. To keep them crispy, we fried them last, 30mins just before the arrival of our guests. Cheesy Sausages (we like the Jusco Brand Jumbo Cheese Sausages) is over easy too, as we usually only boiled them.

Another simple dish will be Fresh Salad with a bottle of Thousand Island sauce. All we have to do was just washing up the lettuce, cherry tomatoes, cut and grate the carrots.

Besides all the above, we also cook Nasi Lemak, Fried Ikan Bilis and made a very nice bowl of Sambal with fresh tomatoes. I had Kakak pounded and cooked the sambal a day up front so we don’t have to cook and clean like crazy on the day of the party.

I am indeed looking forward what to prepare for my boys coming up birthday celebration. It is going to be a much simpler one as most of our guests will be little kids in school. Since it falls on a Wednesday, I’ll perhaps hold 2 small parties. One a day ahead at their playgroup on Tuesday and another on the actual day on Wednesday at their Mandarin class :)

table tennis

Sambal Sweet Potato Leaves

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

You know all those cubes are on top of the dish? Can you imagine those are super unhealthy and extremely fattening lards? I tell you, I have not tasted such a good Sambal Sweet Potato leaves before and this really taste sinfully fantastic. Probably it is because of the amount of the lard they used to fry the leaves. Furthermore, the leaves were extremely soft and tender on our first visit.

Wish to visit this restaurant (in my previous post) to try it out? Don’t forget to call me along once you have got your payday loans approved ok!

Crispy Fragrant Fried Meat

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

I found the best Crispy Fragrant Fried Meat. This is a signature dish in Restaurant Fu Gua Thong, Bandar Puteri Puchong. Marinated with five spice powder, not only the outer layer is very crispy, the belly pork is very soft and well cook too. We order a even larger serving on the second time we dined there. Don’t tell me I did not warn, you, as this dish is extremely fattening too. You better go get the best diet pills for women if you are want to try this out and yet continue losing weight.

Disney cruise

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

My girl is a great fan of Mickey Mouse. She has been always wanted to meet Mickey after she learned about the nice fun that I told her about Disneyland. I still remember eating the Mickey Mouse pancake for breakfast when I was in Tokyo Disneyland for the first time. I cannot imagine how interesting the food would be we are able to go on the Disney cruises. Hope the kids grow up soon so we will be able to bring them there one day.

Reunion cancelled

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Today is supposed to be my niece’s birthday and we actually planned to order a cake for her today since she is coming to visit us today. So they left their home early this morning but alas, their car broke down in the middle of the journey. My sister-in-law was supposed to drive down the car to return to my brother-in-law but the temperature went up too high. Instead of continue driving for another 1 and half an hour to reach here, they have to return home instead. If only the car is insured with a better car insurance, the car would have been towed here instead of going all the way back there again.

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