Dragon Fruit like Sorbet? | Buah Naga macam Ais Kepal Siam?

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Order, wait, and served | Buat pesanan, tunggu, terhidang

Makan sesudu, pasti menyudu ala ais tak berkacang Siam |   Eat a scoop sure will scoop for more like thai shaved ice

Sorbet is pureed fruited ice,  I had once in a Thai restaurant. When I saw dragon fruit, reminds me of sorbet. We can get inspiration from nature and make slight adjustment to our taste. Yet not even close.

The dragon fruit is full with vitamins. Even better, you can eat it like ice cream or sorbet, scooping a spoonful at a time. I try to have it like the feeling of happiness just like eating scoops of ice cream. Seems it is not simply the same when it came to healthy and natural for adik. 

The color is sweet like some asian shaved ice. Yet, she hesitated to try. How do you promote eating fruit like eating ice cream? This could be a happy moment too. Live life let it yummy like Walls ice cream tag line. Do you like dragon fruit? 

Happy Monday❤️

Sorbet adalah sejenis pencuci mulut dari puri buah buahan beku yang pernah saya rasai di restoran Thai dulu. 

Bila saya nampak buah naga, teringat saya pada sorbet. Berinspirasi dari alam dan sedikit penyelarasan rasa, buah naga yang penuh khasiat dan vitamin boleh dimakan seperti ais krim dengan cedukan sesudu setiap kali. 

Saya cuba menghidupkan kegembiraan dengan makan buah naga ini seperti makan ais krim cedukan demi cedukan. Hakikatnya agak susah untuk nak meyakinkan adik dengan kata kata sihat dan berkhasiat. Warnanya sudah sama seperti ais kepal atau airbatu campur (abc). Tapi adik tetap tak terliur untuk merasainya. 

Macamana nak promosikan makan buah buahan macam makan ais krim? Ini macam momen riang juga kan.. 

Hidup mesti sedap macam tagline ais krim Walls. Kalian suka buah naga? 

Salam Khamis❤️

Baby fox | Anak musang pandan

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We searched for its mother |  Kami cuba cari ibu musang. 

The baby fox was brave without animal instinct yet | 

Anak musang berani datang dekat kerana ia masih mentah. 

We encountered the movement of the plants and noises at the window. Saw a gray colored creature that is small but way furry and long. We look closely, it was a baby fox. He just moved along the trail of window then went down. 

We are human, bigger but afraid of that cute small thing. Scared of it's bites and scratch. Not sure of the outcome. I remembered my mom advice; 

Any scratch from any animal, mom (who worked in ministry of health) would asked us to a clinic to get a jab, even scratches or wound that involved of rusted metals, we must have take a jab of tetanus. If we just ignored, once the body got fever, there's a possibility of the body can get into a fit (kancing gigi). 

I put some photos for viewing the civet cat or pandan fox cub in action. The video  is here as usual too, right. 

Happy Wednesday❤️

Kami terdengar bunyi sesuatu dan pergerakan pokok pokok yang digantung ditingkap dapur. Nampak kelibat mahluk berwarna kelabu kehitaman yang agak kecil tapi berbadan panjang dan berbulu tebal. Bila diselidiki dengan lebih dekat, barulah tahu ia adalah anak musang pandan. Ia bergerak kekiri kanan tingkap seolah olah mencari jalan untuk masuk kerumah.

Kita manusia berbadan besar tapi takut pada binatang yang kecik molek ni. Takut terkena gigitan atau cakaran manja cek musang ni. Emak (yang pencen dari Kementerian Kesihatan) biasa berpesan kalau terkena gigitan dan cakaran binatang, eloklah pergi keklinik untuk disuntik. Malah kalau terkena bahan logam yang berkarat sekalipun, eloklah pergi dapatkan suntikan tetanus. Ditakuti kalau dibiarkan, jika berlaku demam (tubuh lemah baru menyerang) takut melarat jadi kancing gigi. Nauzubillah!

Saya lampirkan gambar buat tontonan semua aksi sikecil ditingkap. Dengan videonya sekali, seperti biasa :) 

Salam Rabu ❤️

Tomato Fish Curry | Kari Ikan Tomato

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Tomato replacing tamarind | tomato ganti asam jawa

Cut pickled added | campur juga potongan asam keping

I picked up recipe bit here and there. First time cooking like this, though. I heard people asked my mom how she cooked, mom said she pressed tomato in her curry replacing tamarind. Orange sunquick cordial in chilli paste.   

Eno in small batch of fritters. She said after she lived in the construction area, not many retail shop, that's the reason she substituted all the items as mentioned. There are more things I put in the list below. For mom in law, she grind anchovies for sauteeing to taste. 

I list out here,  mom or (kids called maktok) tips of cooking:

1. Tomato replaced tamarind

2. Orange sunquick replaced line           or lemon

3.  Eno replacing baking  powder           for small batch fritters

4.  For the beef to get tender, she           cut it first, put in the pan, pour         water. Boil the water almostdry.       Then she would fry. Sautee for         curry or whatevercooking. (ala         stock). 

Since mom in law told me to put grind anchovies as that time kids were young. So I tried put shrimp paste or grind salted fish in some of my cooking. 

So I made tomato fish curry, same like other curry no coconut milk but tomato and cut pickled (asamkeping) abang loved it so much, while for adik, I baked chicken coated with adabi KFC flour. It turned out amazingly similar to the colonel cooked :) I will post about it separately. 

Have a nice day❤️

Saya ambil resepi sana sini dengan dengar dari perbualan. Bila sesiapa bertanya ibu saya letak apa dalam masakannya, beliau cakap dia perah beberapa biji tomato untuk menggantikan asam jawa. 

Dia terus cerita oleh kerana rumah yang kami tinggal masa mula kawasan perumahan belum siap, jadi kedai kedai runcit  berdekatan pun takda. Masa tu dia tahu bawa kereta ke tempat kerja dan balik ja. Dia letak sunquick dalam sambal belacan. Dia juga letak eno dalam cucur pengganti telur dan baking powder.  Saya senaraikan cara alternatif ibu memasak. 

Manakala ibu mertua, pernah berpesan kisar ikan bilis untuk menambah rasa. Jadi saya cuba letak belacan dalam kuah kari kali ini, sebabnya tak da ada apa perasa, ikan bilis pun tak da. Ikan tamban ada,. Ingat nak order, ingat nak keluar beli, kompius kejap bila fasa 2.ni hehe.. 

Saja senaraikan alternatif masakan ibu saya (maktok, anak-anak panggil) :

• Tomato pengganti asam    jawa        dalam gulai.
• Cordial sunquick oren untuk ganti  limau atau limau kasturi buat sambal belacan
• Eno untuk buat cucur, penganti  telur atau baking powder. 
• Untuk melembutkan daging, potong dulu, masuk dalam belanga, tuang air setahap dengan daging, rebus, agak belum kering, masuklah minyak menumis atau apa - apa masakan hari tu.

Jadi, saya masak kari ikan dengan tomato dan sikit potongan asam keping, macam gulai biasa tetapi tanpa santan dan asam jawa je. Perasa belacan ok kan. Abang suka sangat. Untuk adik, saya bakar ayam ala goreng ayam disalut tepung adabi. Ala ala ayam kepci yang kolonel masak tu... Nanti buat asingla mengenainya.

Salam selalu ❤️

Kilim Langkawi Geoforest Park

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By the boat we explored | dengan  bot bermotor kami terokai

Eagles eager making a show | Helang bersungguh membuat persembahan

From the jetty I stepped wobbly into the motor boat for cruising. We cruised to a few stops, fish farm, bat cave, eagle feeding, I only found the video of eagle feeding, not sure where are the rest of the film footages. Fish feeding, mangrove sightseeing. 

I started with eagle feeding, it's a good practice to reminisce the past, make it clear back then of travelling to another place. It was a 400km journey from Kuala Lumpur to Langkawi. We took the road trip to the state of Kedah,  

We decided to take our aunty and uncle from Kedah to join us. I loved this, because I hoped that in the future, my nieces or nephews would do the same kind act to us too.  

By the way, in our trip there was an adventurer too, I call this adventurer the 'sea and land' adventurer :) I loved the way she travelled, very light, she asked me how we gonna swim later or snorkeling, she didn't bring any sea attire at all,  I told her I was going to wear the same clothes that on me that time. She said she would do the same. Feeling awkward, because I saw her attire that she was wearing that day was the traditional dress. So, I thought of lending her my pants that I brought just in case hehe... 

Okay we took longer time at the eagle feeding site, I was at awe and intrigued on how amazing feeding the eagle is, as I was also learning how to feed squirrels and birds back home. 

How the eagles tried to perform well is quite extraordinary to me. Animals are very smart when it comes to feeding. They will try to do a performance in exchange for food. Even I had filmed birds at home before, the bird was asking for food, when I filmed the bird, it flew towards me as I didn't put any food on that day yet. 

To summarize the entry, I strongly recommend to put inyour 'bucket list' for a visit to Kilim Geoforest Park in Langkawi as it is a spectacular place to get close to nature, connecting to the habitats from a safe distance and not disturbing the enviroment. Hope that you enjoy the video, if you can't play it, a few photos are also available as a window to Langkawi, the 'island of legends'. 

'Tacos Tuesday!' said abang❤️

Dari jeti saya terhoyong-hayang menapak masuk kedalam bot laju, pederas ke beberapa hentian jeti yang lain, ladang ternakan ikan, gua kelawar (seram pula lihat yang ni). Bagi makan burung helang, saya hanya terjumpa video masa beri makan burung helang saja.

Saya mula dulu cerita dengan beri makan burung helang, elok juga, ingat balik jalan-jalan di tempat orang ada adabnya. Jauh perjalanan 400km diantara Kuala Lumpur ke Pualau Langkawi.

Kami menaiki kereta ke negeri Kedah lalu singgah ambik makcik dan pakcik, bab ni saya suka bila ingat balik, mesti suka hati jika anak-anak buah kami, jemput kami bawa jalan-jalan pada masa depan kan.. Jadi dalam perjalanan kami bertambah warga-warga pengalaman hehe.. 

Oh ya, dalam pengembaraan kami kali ini ada seorang lagi pengembara juga, saya namakan beliau pengembara 'laut dan darat'. Saya suka caranya mengembara, minimal dalam bagasinya. Extremnya lebih kurang  macam pengembara misteri, tunggu di restauran 24 jam juga walau ada warga - warga pengalaman.  Tapi yang special beliau call suruh bangun tahajjud praktis di rumah sebelum ke tanah suci. Bulan puasa pun ambil hotel dekat dengan masjid, bayang dekat tanah suci.  Anak-anak pun turutlah. 

Ada sekali tu, dia bertanya, ada baju untuk snorkeling nanti, saya cakap saya pakai macam ni je, memang tak kisah basah, jadi dia cakap dia pun akan berbaju yang dipakainya saja. Alamak! dalam hati saya, bajunya tu baju tradisional, jadi saya pinjamkan seluar ala seluar trek kepadanya yang saya bawak spare hehe.. Itulah kita tak boleh judge, mereka ni adventurer professional tau tapi pakai baju tradisional hehe. 

Okay kami luangkan masa lama  di tempat burung helang, sayalah lebih teruja sebab saya baru belajar beri makan tupai, burung di rumah. 

Betapa indahnya burung helang membuat persembahan teringat saya pada burung merbah yang menuju ke lensa telefon saya meminta makanan apabila saya sengaja tak letak makanan lagi pada hari tu. Haiwan memang pandai dalam hal mencari makanan ni. Kadang kadang macam sengaja aje ia buat persembahan sikit, untuk diberi makan. 

Mengulaskan entri ini agar  itinerari ini mesti ada dalam senarai kita untuk melawat ke Kilim Geoforest Park di Langkawi kerana ia adalah  tempat yang menakjubkan untuk berhubung rapat dengan alam, dan mengenal habitat di dalamnya. Harap kalian suka dengan video kalau boleh tomtonla jika tidak ada juga berberapa gambar sebagai jendela ke Langkawi iaitu 'pulau lagenda'.

Bak kata abang 'Selasa makan Salsa!' ❤️

A morning at the kitchen | Sepagi di dapur

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When having breakfast separately / Bila bersarapan asing-asing

When will lunch be prepared, breakfast enjoyed by one after another. / tiada ruang nak mula memasak untuk makan tengahari bila sarapan bergilir-gilir

This morning, I've made a decision not to say anything to kids as long as it's not harmful or dangerous. The worst case scenario that I saw she used metal tongs to tweak & pull out the pancake in the toaster. I told her many times to switch off at the plug or use plastic tongs instead.

Actually its not a big deal as the the toaster not pressed on. It was off, yet back of the mind I worried the tong is wet.  But grateful everything is fine n

My aim to make adik a morning person. Actually we didn't have breakfast together for awhile. Abang had breakie alone after dusk, then get ready to school online at 7:30am. Later, me and my dear hubby had breakfast and adik didn't come in yet. 

While I was sitting, that's when I was looking at adik and saw how adik would think and did her breakfast. Sometime bread with marshmallows, the small marshmallows left a bit for drinks. She took it on her bread. No wonder she is quiet when having her food, because she didn't want us to comment on something, I think. 

I'm not sure how to 'parent' kids, is this right sentence hehe but how my mom did was simple; She would left breakfast stuff under the food cover, and wrote a love note. It's lovely too. 

I used to write in abang dan adik's lunch box, but abang said he ate the fruits in the car and the note he had read and keep. Maybe he felt embarrassed if his friends saw it.  

Adik heated up chilled pancake in the toaster

That's the journey of that particular kid of today :) 

Happy monday❤️ again.. Time flies so fast, may have blessings in each day. 

Pagi ni saya buat keputusan tak nak tegur apa-apa, hanya nak duduk dan lihat saja. Selagi semua baik saja dan tidak merbahayakan diri, biarkan ajalah.

Senario yang paling ketara pun yang nampak, adik guna tong besi untuk kepit dan keluarkan penkek tu dari pembakar roti, kalau boleh nak juga cakap ambil pengepit plastik. Memang risau dengan elektrik, berlogam atau basah walaupun pembakar roti tidak ditekan pasang hehe. Alhamdulillah semuanya ok.

Matlamatnya nak adik bangun pagi dan terus bersarapan, tidak tidur balik.

Saya dah abis sarapan, Itu yang dapat duduk dan lihat, bila adik masuk perhati apa yang adik lakukan.

Sebenarnya dah lama tak bersarapan sekali pun, abang bersarapan sendiri selepas subuh, dan terus ke sekolah atas talian pukul 7:30am. Saya dan suami bersarapan selepas itu. Dan adik yang terakhirlah.

Kadang-kadang dia letak marshmallow atas roti, Marshmallow tu memang dah sikit untuk minuman panas. Dia letak atas roti. Senyap ja makan seorang diri. Sebab tu diam sayang, tak nak la mama komen apa-apa kut. 

Tak pasti la saya nak mendidik anak-anak, macam ibu saya letak makanan bawah tudung dan letak nota cinta yng ditulis ditepi, ibu pegi kerja dan ingatkan saya makan sarapan. Sweetkan. Saya pernah buat dalam lunch box abang adik. Abang kata dia makan buah dalam kereta dan mesej tu dah baca dan simpan. Sebab segan makan buah disekolah berkertas mesej lagi. 

Adik panaskan penkeknya di dalam pembakar roti

Itulah perjalanan hidup seorang kanak-kanak zaman sekarang dari rumah ini lah :) 

Salam Isnin ❤️ cepatnya masa berlalu, moga ada keberkatan dalam setiap hari. 

PS : Adik approved the blog and video. 

Spy on a kid off school activities | Skodeng aktiviti anak masa cuti sekolah

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Scootering in the house | Main skuter dalam rumah

Lepas main scooter nak tahu apa yang dia nak buat | after scootering, what activity will be next, I wonder

Zooming what he is doing, sometime I saw them eating quietly. Certain time they would go out and sit in on a hammock.  Or else go for swimming, the best I would like them go for cycling. 

While resting I saw abang glided on the scooter back and forth, I felt pity coz I don't have any idea or suggestion on what he supposed to do. Actually they already got their gadgets with condition to take a break for awhile before continuing. 

I felt grateful when he sat at thetable not back on screen instead. He didn't go grab his gadget again, yay! Then I saw him like reading or writing. Actually he was sketching, doodling, I walked slowly to check out. Adik once said she wanted privacy when I want to filmed her. Abang was ok after we disscussed. 

Started with  this

Ahh! he was drawing a few characters there, he said he would draw a character with different actions like eating, running, speaking, I was not sure how it would be like, that"s motivated us to watch Pixar documentary about movie writers.

Love greetings ❤️

Saya zoom dekat.Tertanya-tanya apa yang sedang dibuat abang waktu itu.  Nampak duduk nak makan, kadang kadang jika tiada apa nak buat, mereka akan duduk senyap dan makan. Ada masa mereka akan keluar duduk atas buaian hammock. Ataupun berenang. Yang lain tu, saya suka mereka pergi main basikal.

Semasa saya duduk, abang main skuter pi mai pi mai. Rasa kesian pula, tak da idea pula nak ajak main apa yang best-best ni.

Saya rasa bersyukur bila nampak dia duduk di meja tidak terus main gadget walau pun sudah merehatkan mata. Saya nampak dia menunduk, macam membaca ke atau menulis. Bila dah dekat tu barulah tahu dia melukis. Saya mendekati kearah abang untuk lihat lukisannya. 

Adik pernah cakap dia suka privacy tak suka bervideo. Abang ok je. Sebenarnya abang dah dapat gadget untuk cuti sekolah ni sebab dah abiskan kerja sekolah. Itulah terma dan syaratnya nak dapat gadget pun.

Mula dengan ni

Ahh! dia sedang melukis beberapa karakter, abang sedang nak cuba buat beberapa karakter dengan pelbagai aksi. Itulah dia, berminat dengan pelukis dan penulis filem, memberi motivasi untuk kami menonton dokumentari Pixar tentang penulis filem. 

Salam sayang❤️