APAKANNIE. PUKUL 12 PAGI BARU BANGUN ANI. BUKAN LAGI PAGI. PATANG.

UNI starts next week for me.. and i have yet to set my body clock right. PUKUL 12 BARU BANGUN?? I’m very mad at myself. I was gonna wake up early today to go to the asian groceries. I didn’t get to make Pandan chicken last night as Laguna ran out of pandan leaves. So i was gonna wake up early make the trip to the other 3 Asian groceries on Bourke Street to find my pandan leaves. If i was back at home it’d be just a matter of asking someone to take it from the back garden. I don’t even have to do it myself.

I have been cooking alot past few days. Been experimenting with spices that i’ve never cooked or seen my mom cooked with before. Just the other day i tried making FRIED FIVE SPICE CALAMARI using FIVE SPICE WITH KEVIN SPACEY (i just had to add in the last bit) and it turned out good. Over the weekend i was craving for Cecconi’s Squid Ink Pasta but instead of spending the $33 on a small portioned dish i popped in to David Jones to find packed squid ink spaghetti so that i could make it at home – but they only had fettucini. Not what i was looking for. So The next day i went down to Victoria Market and made another hunt for this teeth blackening pasta..though to no avail. They only seem to have squid ink fettucini in stock and not spaghetti. ish. So i guess a trip down to Cecconi’s would be due soon. I’ll just have to wait till my cravings get out of hand.. to the point of I HAVE TO HAVE MY SQUID INK PASTA IF NOT I WILL DIE.

* I have yet to master the arts of criss-crossing a squid so that it’d curl up in to pretty shapes. I want to make my Sotong the Heidi Klum of all Sotong.

5 Spice Calamari Recipe:- WITH LOVE
-Squid..cut the way you like..or cut the way you dont like for friends you dont really like.
-Plain Flour, enough to coat your squid..”Squid Pakai COAT” kali ah. Although you can substitute PLAIN FLOUR with Corn Flour. Cornflour would be better i think. I made mine with plainflour and it wasn’t as crispy.So cornflour should do the trick!
-A few pinches of 5 Spice powder.. not too much cause i notice that the taste could be a tad overpowering.
– A teaspoon of chilli powder..or a pinch.
-Salt and Fresh Ground Black Pepper to taste.

DEEP FRY. NYUM!!

*Tip dari NiniGirl: Add a pinch of salt in to your cooking to make whatever you’re frying crispier. it works!

Last nite i made lasagna for Aunty & Kamy . I hope it turns out okay. The white sauce wasn’t the right consistency as i liked it to be. I got over excited with the milk. I might’ve poured too much in. I don’t know what happened there…best guess i was playing princess at that time and i was in Africa trying to feed milk to a tribe of malnutritioned kids.HAH! That’s the thing with cooking for people. You just can’t seem to do it right. Something ALWAYS goes wrong. With me, im comfortable making small portions for two.. or three the most but if i start making dinner for 20 people. everythinggggggg and i mean everrryyythinggg runs amok! There was this one time when my lasgana did not turn out the way i wanted it to be, this was also probably due to the fact that i was baking it a 3 oclock in the morning and i was cooking it because i HAD NO CHOICE as i was expecting people for lunch the next day. My guests thought it was okay.. but at that point of time..it didnt matter all i could ever think about was how horrific and disgusting it was that that i threw up with a spoonful. I am one mental case when it comes to food. MY FOOD exspecially. From experience, i’ve learned that the secret to good food is cooking it.. WITH LOVE. It’s like that book, Like Water for Chocolate and that movie..with Sarah Michelle Gellar; Simply Irresistable – What they feel goes in to their food. I couldn’t agree more!! Yatah kalau masak ani.. inda buleh marah2. mesti happy hapy. mesti seneng seneng nya orang endon. lol.

Oh. Anyway. I just saw Kylie Kwong’s latest cooking series. OMG. BULEH YA KE SHANGHAI BE TRANSLATOR. CINA INDA PANDAI CKP CINA? THATS LIKE MELAYU INDA PANDAI CKP MELAYU?? SOOOOOOOOOOOO BARIMALU. BAHASA MENUNJUKKAN BANGSA!!

kiss me.