Sweet Corn

I have another simple recipe to share!

You might already taste this food by buying it from malls. I saw a mini stall near the entrance of Oberon Mall, selling sweet corn in cups and always see people stay in queue to buy it. That's because it's sooooo tasty, I know! I love it too. It's one of my favorite food.

I'm very familiar to this food since I'm in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mama made it many many times. Yes, of course we can make it by ourselves at home. That's why we never buy it from mall.

Well, I don't know whether we can call it a recipe, cause it's actually very simple things to do. All you need is sweet corn (of course!) and butter. Other additional ingredients are depend on your preference. I like it buttery and salty, but Noura like it sweet, just like we normally did in Jakarta. Ok now, here's what you have to do :

Take some sweet corn and boil it until it cooked. You can use the frozen sweet corn, it's easier. But we usually use fresh one. For this, boil it first and then peel off the corn kernels from its cob. When it's still hot, place them in a cup, and add 1 tablespoon of butter and your additional ingredients.

Me : I will add a pinch of salt and black pepper and then mix it well. It's so yummy!

Noura : She loves corn with 1 - 2 tablespoon of sweeten condenced milk (ex: From Amul or Milk Maid), and sometimes with grated cheddar cheese.

Try it, and you're going to LOVE it!

New Home

We moved! Finally now we're on 11th floor of the same building. It's been a week we're here, and we love it. This flat has bigger balcony, my favorite part of the house. This is where I put all my toys. And I will spend my time playing with my little sister there, after school.

Cause this new flat doesn't have attached cupboards like we had in our old flat, last week Uppa bought us a new shelfs to put our dresses. Ít's a pink shelf, my favorite color. Me and Noura put it in our room by ourselves, and then we helped Mama putting all of our dresses in it.

Saturday Project : Donuts. Plus recipe!

Hi All,

Today is a holiday, Mama and I decided to do something. We're making donuts, yaaaay! And this time, Mama let me to make my own donuts. Well of course the hardest part (kneading the dough) is Mama's part. It's a messy part and needing a lot of energy! But I really enjoy the rest of the process : making it into smaller balls, making a hole in every balls, (frying is also Mama's part) and then decorate them into beautiful donuts with sugar and chocolate.

Noura of course made a lot of trouble. But because it's a holiday, we let her to do whatever she like, hahaha... Here's the recipe, if you like to know how we made it.

Potato Donut

500 g all purpose flour
100 g sugar
11 g instant yeast (in Indonesia, instant yeast comes in 11 g packet)
200 g potato, steamed and mashed, cooled
75 g butter, room temperature
1/2 tsp. salt
4 egg yolks
100 ml cold milk



Combine the flour, sugar, and instant yeast in a bowl . Mix well
Add the mashed potato and egg yolks, mix well
Add the cold water in about 2-3 addition. Continue kneading until the dough is smooth but not completely elastic.
Add the butter and salt and continue kneading until elastic and the dough doesn't stick to the side of the bowl or your hand.

Let is rice in a warm place until the dough doubled in volume (time varies depending on the temperature of the room).
Weigh the dough about 50g each (or less if you want smaller donuts), and shape it to the regular donut shape, or any shape you like.
Let it proof the second time until the dough rise again.
Deep fry the dough in hot oil over medium heat. Make sure it's not too hot

And if you like to see more Photos on how I did it, click HERE.

Uppa went to Saudi

Today Uppa left to Saudi. He was not there anymore when I woke up in the morning :(. Remember Uppa, it's only for 2 weeks. You promised!

Cherai Beach

This is my first post in 2011! We had a small trip to Cherai Beach yesterday with our parents, grandparents and cousins. It was the first time for Noura to play with waves on the beach, I guess. Well, we did it before in Veegaland, but that was totally different! We had a great time!

Children's Park

We're still in our holiday, and today is the last day of 2010. We went to Children's Park near the Marine Drive with my cousins and friends. Our favorite part is the ice cream part of course.

Mango Ice Cream

I love Ice Cream. And I just discovered a very delicious ice cream recently. It's Duble Mango-Vanilla from Lazza. It's soooo fresh!

Sunday Project - Skeleton

This is my project this Sunday. A skeleton made with cotton buds. Of course this project made Mama's cotton bud box empty :D.



Does it look great? Hahaha
Meanwhile, take a look at my sister's photo when she seriously drank her mango juice. She's so funny!

Today's Project : Sandals from cardboard

Toothless Smile

I lost one of my teeth.

Yesterday when I played with my sister Noura, I fell down and my tooth broke. There was a lot of blood and of course I cried very loud. Thank God that it wasn't my new tooth.

So, this is how I look now with my toothless smile :D

Recipe : Mie Goreng

Today I'm going to share a recipe of one of my favorite food : Mie Goreng (Fried Nooddles). This is a simple one that my mother usually makes for us. What she does is throwing anything she has in the fridge. If you want to try this, be creative with the ingredients!

Mie Goreng (Fried Noodle)

Ingredients:

1 pack of Chinese egg noodle

1 onion, sliced

3 cloves of garlic, smashed

1/2 - 1 cup of shredded chicken

2 eggs, lightly beaten

1 big carrot, thinly sliced
5 - 10 beans, thinly sliced

or any vegetable you like

1 tbsp sweet soya sauce

salt

pepper

óil for frying

sliced spring onion for garnish

Methods:

Boil water in a pan and soak the noodle until it become soft. Be careful because some are cooked in the shorter time, while others take a little longer. Drain the noodle in a strainer, and then add a little oil to avoid them sticking to each other. Set aside.

Heat some oil in a pan. Add garlic and sliced onion. Fry it until it soft and start to turn golden. Add beaten eggs and scramble it in high flame, then add the vegetables and chicken pieces. When the vegetables slighly cooked, add noddles, soya sauce, pepper and salt. Mix them all together and fry for some time.

Remove from stove, garnish with sliced spring onions. Serve hot.

I love eating it with tomato sauce or even a hot and sweet sauce. Hmmm..... so yummy!

Bed Time = Nightmare for Mama

Bed time always be nightmares for mama. This is us, at 11.00 PM!

It's my birthday today!

All right!

Today I'm 6 years old. And I'm waiting for today to come since last month! First is of course because today I'm no longer 5 years old. I feel a lot bigger at 6, LOL. The second one is because I can't wait to wear my new birthday dress and my new birthday shoes. Uppa bought them for me right before he left to Dubai.

I woke up with a happy mood today. Git ready for school and ate my breakfast a lot faster than usual. Mama bought 2 packages of chocolate candies. I shared them with all my friends in my class and also to my teachers. Everybody was happy.

At home, Mama made me a lot of donuts to share with some of our neighbours. Actually, I want a cake, like what usually mama makes for me. But we don't have an oven yet in our kitchen. So donut is OK for me. Sprinkled with powdered sugar, soooo yummy!

I got a prize!

Today I received a prize from my school. I'm in second place of Best Hand Writing Competition. I got 2 story books as presents :)

No more bad hair days!

OK, so finally I agree to cut my hair. I always wanted to have long hair and the last time I cut my hair was more than 1 year ago. But Mama told me I look better with short hair. I though she just said that cause she hates to comb my hair every morning before I go to school.

After Mama showed me these photos... I knew she was right :). Now I am happy with my short hair.

Powdered!

This is what happened if we let Noura play by herself. Covered with powder!

LOL!

Uppa left to Dubai

Today Uppa left to Dubai for bussines purpose. I am so sad because I will not see Uppa for the next few weeks. But Uppa told me he will bring a lot of chocolates and a new bag for me. So it's OK for me now.

To Jakarta... again...

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

If earlier I only mentioned the last word of every line from the song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star taht my Mama sings for me, starting from this week I can sing it completely from the beginning til the end of the song..!

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are!

Another Year