Pastry & Puffs Experiments

We are having fun experimenting with filo pastry and puff pastry. my son seem to enjoy our experiments. first we made corned beef hash puffs. it tasted great! a bit of problems though... some had burnt black tops!! haha hahaaa!! first tie mah!

Next day we made sardine puffs... waah! this time nice to look, good to eat man! my daughter-in-law & i are very happy with our try-outs.

Tonight, we are baking lamb stew pie for dinner... the pie look pretty in the oven.. wait for another 5 minutes and I shall be able to know how good the taste... or maybe yuks? tell you tomorrow.

Now I am searching for recipe for vegetarian pie.. maybe make up own on my own...hmmm..

Landed property for a change

Whooeee!! we will be moving out of the condo very soon. no more parking problems.
we want to go back to staying on a landed property where the kitchen would be bigger, living room bigger and best of all, a small patch of ground for my daughter-in-law's petite vegetable garden.

both of us are now busy sorting out our wants and needs of our old crockery, books, cloths, etc.. have to pack really fast.

all these years we have accumulated a lot of items that we want. well, the truth is, there was never really a need for most of them. so this time, we wanna start afresh. we shall just close one eye and throw away whatever not used for the past year or two. the philosophy of "one day will need this" have to stop. we shall sort out the plastics, metals and paper items and sell them to the recyclers....

whatever it is, this sorting out and packing had kept me so busy today that i had not binged at all!! Hah!

Gather that will power !!

Aiyooh ...!! it is really hard to resist this bad love to binge in between meals la..! i land up feeling lethargic and unhappy. tomorrow, i shall go for a short walk around our condo blocks when i crave for a binge... maybe this will help steer my mind away from the binge crave. must steer away from the mini market too! carrots and cucumber cubes now give me the shudder. too much liquid is not good for my poor kidneys. any suggestions for "safe" snacks anyone??!! please do share with me.

Made a nice breakfast drink this morning - 1 cucumber, 1 carrot, 2 leaves of beijing cabbage, 2 leaves of purple cabbage, 1/2 a grapefruit & 1 teaspoon oats. blend, add ice cubes and enjoy. taste really good.

Grapefruit Helps !

YES!! after a very trying 2 weeks i managed to get rid of 1kg from my obese body. hee hee... very trying coz, each time i wanna grab some snack to binge on, i would take a small cup of water or eat a slice of grapefruit. i take 1 whole grapefruit for breakfast now ... yup with the pulp too. taste terribly sour and a bitter after taste... some how i feel much better day long... bitter gourd juice is now on twice a week routine.

I went to see the doctor at HUKM yesterday morning. was advised that grapefruit is a natural laxative. benefits me though. will continue with it. hope to lose 1kg every week ... must garner that much needed willpower .

Feeling Blue....

Got up this morning with a scare ! I spitted out fresh blood even before I started to brush my teeth !! this is real scary. i am taking a wait and see stand... if this happens again, i shall definitely go to the hospital. oh dear, what else is happening to me?! not now with the economy so bad and finances so stretched.

So, today i am really feeling blue... been surfing the net for information on many topics. even visited lelong.com.my to see what's there for sale online. very interesting. seems to have a lot of watches for sale. even saw LV perfume for sale at RM11.00 !!!! huh??!! saw some more new designs of Luscious Girls Fashion Watches for sale too. prices are cheap. i think these Luscious Girls watches make good presents for girlfriends and young girls for any occasion. i am tempted to get one of the not so trendy design for myself. this old lady need to spice up too eh?! anything to feel pink again.... Publish Post

Gotta tighten our belts !!!

Wah !!, like overnight prices of food and necessities went up so much!

Got a shock of my life this morning... normally i pay 50 sen for a piece of fishball at the chee cheong fun stall.. now i have to pay 90 sen for a piece of fishball and RM1.00 for a piece of chee cheong fun!!! so now breakfast would have to be a cup of nestum at home daily. no more hawker food, even for a light meal like breakfast.... sob sob - this is sad.

I would not dare to find out how much a plate of my favorite roast duck rice would cost now.... gotta say goodbye to this too !!

perhaps on a lighter note - may do me some help in my weight reduction project. Not diet plans, mind you.... i shall be starving towards it !!!

We are all suffering from AIDS !!!

Haih!!!!... Oh dear...... petrol price increase so drastically. say only.. no increase in cost of transportation and subsidy here and there... special discount on petrol for logistics and transportation companies and so so... but in reality ? price of food stuff had increased... go pasar malam also not cheap... price of rice had increased so much... i pity those people who have to stuff themselves with at least 2 bowls of rice each meal.... i suppose all of us will have to eat rice on alternate days now !!!! income never got increased, at least not in ratio with price increase of commodities though. since last week, my cute daughter-in-law had started planting chillies, tomatoes and bayam in pots. now the balcony of our apartment is our little vegetable garden. we will also try planting sawi in pots too. what do so, have to supplement food cost this way lor....

Now you know why I say we are suffering from AIDS? "Acute Income Deficiency Syndrome !!!"

Soon, we will have to learn to travel by bicycle, no visits to cinemas, no shopping at supermarkets and ahh! yes! not to forget we have to plant our own sweet potatoes to supplement rice, coz sweet potatoes sold in the market is expensive too !!!

OBESITY Nightmare !

YUCKS !! I am now referred to the HUKM Dietitian for Obesity Management !! Oh dear.... with my enormous weight gain the last year and half, my weight is now doing a lot of damage to my bones!! my feet especially.... so i have to go for counseling and supervision under a dietitian. hope this time i am able to lose 30kg !!! if only i could take those slimming shake drinks that seem to do something for my friends. but alas, being diabetic and with weak kidneys, these high protein meal plans are not suitable for me. don't wanna any more damage to my kidneys.

So after a most sumptuous Japanese Buffet at Saisaki Restaurant last evening, I have to say good bye to glorious delicious food and take on whatever meal plans the dietitian will dish out for me. cannot expect anything interesting.... i am sure.... i have to keep my bones in order though. so this time i really gonna work on losing that 30kg !!