Recipe: babandrekan

So this is not the real bandrek, that's whg i call it babandrekan.

This is a warm beverage, ideal to drink in a cold snowy or rainy day.

What you need:

Pan

Ingredients:

2 cups of water

2 inches of ginger, peel and slice them

1 tbs of palm sugar

1 pandan leaf, cut 2 cm (usually you'll get 5-6 slices), or replace it with 1 tsp vanilla.

How to cook:

1. Boil water

2. Throw in ginger

3. Throw in grated palm sugar and pandan leaves.

4. Cook until you only have 1.2 cup left.

How to drink:

1. Drink right away, or

2. Mix with milk.

New blocking mats!

Now my FO can be blocked more thoroughly. :)

Recipe: No muss salad

This is for when I really really want to eat a handful of savory food, but hate to eat too much calories from a normal meal.

What you need:
Bowl
knife
fork

Ingredients:
2 medium sized Carrot, slice thin and long, use slicer or peeler if needed.
1 tbs of diced onion
2 tbs of mayonnaise
lemon, make 1 tbs of juice from it

How to make:
1. Slice the carrot, mix with onion
2. add in lemon juice and mayonnaise, stir and let sit well for about 20 mins in fridge
3. eat.

Recipe: steamed macaroni schotel

So, I was thinking to eat macaroni schotel but I don't have an oven to bake. I decided to do the steamed version of it.

what you need:
a small pot to boil the pasta
a bigger pot to steam the bowl of schotel
bowl, I am using my usual 20 cm diameter bowl (8 cm depth)

Ingredients:
1/2 cup of pasta, elbow/fettuccine/spaghetti/any pasta
1/3 cup of milk
2 eggs, battered
2 clove of garlic, crush and mince
1 medium sized onion, dice
50 grams of minced beef
1/4 cup of grated cheese
1 tbs of butter


How to cook it:
1. Boil pasta to cook. Drain and rinse with cold water.
2. melt butter, saute garlic and onion to fragrant.
3. Throw in beef and cook until the beef turned from pink to dark brown/gray
4. throw in a bit of salt, stir. Throw in the pasta. Stir for another 2-3 minutes. Turn off the heat.
5. Mix battered egg and milk. add in salt and pepper.
6. Throw in the sauted pasta into it and mix well.
7. Put the mix into the bowl, and steam it with low heat for about 20 mins. Make sure you don't fill the bowl more than 3/4 of it.

You can change the pasta with sliced potato. You can also add diced tomatoes into the schotel.

Human minion

My human minion is trying to make me a DIY scratching post. That lazy minion stopped middle way and went to cook something. 

Finish it, you human minion! I am waiting...

Another adoption

One of my avocado got adopted! And we are heading that way.... To its new home. Riding a metromini...

knitting my way back

Trying to dig myself out of depression, I started picking up my needles again. I've been avoiding the knitting needles for quite a while now, and I just think that I should do something about it.

I gave away my blue teal trefoil to my aunt, and convince myself that it is now in good hands. It's quite difficult to part with that shawl, as it is just so damn beautiful. I still have my blue teal stash, so ... no better way than to leave it in my stash cupboard.

So I started to knit distant hours. Third time's the charm!