Sabah Snake Grass

Just recently, my neighbour introduced me a plant called Sabah Snake Grass.  I am very much being out-dated with such informations and yet such info would be a very important and worthier.  

Sabah Snake Grass



 Sabah snake plant was found to be very infective to fight cancer. More info can be found from the internet http://www.sabahsnakegrassfarm.com

My colleague shares some leaves of Sabah Snake Grass for me to try them out.  They said to cure can use up to 100 leaves and just for supplement can use up to 50 leafs.  Not very sure of the amount of leaves so, just to try them out, may be less would be fine.  My neighbour has shown me how to prepare the medicine by blending the leaves with an apple green and half cups of water. 

By the way, Pandan leaf is also good for those with high Cholesterol.  We can make them as drinking water.

Blueberry Cake

I made a Blueberry Cake last Saturday for my kids.  Just a simple sponge cake covered with whipping cream and top up with blueberry filling.  My kids really love the cake and the cream too but, never the filling.  My youngest one will ask me to scrap out the blueberry before enjoying the whole piece of the cake.

The recipe, everyone must already had their own favourite basic sponge cake.  As my recipe for quick and simple sponge cake would be:

1 1/2 cup  self raising flour

3/4 cup butter (soften)

3/4 cup caster sugar

3 eggs(grade A)

1 tsp vanilla extract

Methods:

Prepare 20" round baking tin, heat oven to 170 C.

Mix all ingredients in a medium bowl with a spatula.  Beat ingredients in medium high speed until smooth and glossy.  Pour mixer into prepared tin and bake for 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Let it cool, prepared whipping cream and covers and decorates the cake as you desire....

Happy baking...

Nasi Kuning Tawau for Saturday Meal

Saturday is just like any other day for me. Busy working at home, doing some cleaning work, re-arrange furniture and a must cooking job. My husband shared a memory how he fond the Nasi Kuning Tawau during her young aged. And, he didn’t find such a tasty Nasi Kuning anywhere when he visited Tawau. As for me, I never tasted the genuine Nasi Kuning from Tawau and I just can’t imagine how would it like. I’ve decided to prepare Nasi Kuning Tawau for last Saturday. Do some surfing over the internet and found a blog from someone hidayati, credits to her for her efforts.

Preparing this food in 3 sections, preparing the Rice / Nasi, the fish and the kerabu. I made a little adjustment in preparing the fish according to my taste…so, would love to share you with recipe belows:

First Sections: The Nasi (Rice)

Ingredients:

4 Pots of Rice

Coconut grated
4cm fresh Turmeric (pound)
2 pcs Pandan Leaves
Water
1 pinch salt

Methods:
Mix coconut grated, pound turmeric with enough water, then filter it to get the coconut milk. Preparing rice as usual, cook in a rice cooker add up coconut milk, pandan and salt.

Second Sections: The Fish

Ingredients:
About 6 Slices of Fish (any fish will do)
3cm fresh ginger
1 stalk lemon grass
3 cm fresh turmeric
3 pcs shallot
1 tbls cili paste (cili boh)
1tbls prawn paste (belacan)
1 tbls tamarind paste
Sugar
Salt
3 tbls water
cooking oil

Methods:
Add a pinch of salt over fish and let it sit for a while. After that, fried slices until cook and brown and put aside.

Pound or blend ginger, shallot, turmeric, lemongrass until it become paste. Heat 2 tbls of cooking oil in pan, add in paste of ginger, shallot, turmeric, lemon grass until you can smell the aroma, put in all the other pastes, water, and salt, sugar to your suitable taste. Let it simmer a while until you can see the oil boiling up and add in the slices of fried fish, mix them well and stop the cooking process. The fish is ready to be served.

Third Sections: The Kerabu

Ingredient:
1 Coconut grated
1 stalk Lemon grass (slices to small pieces & pound)
2cm ginger (pounding)
1 pinch tumeric powder
Pinch of salt to taste
Pinch of sugar to taste

Methods:
Mix all the ingredient in a heated pan, dry fried until turning brown.
Top up on your fish....to compliment your dishes...

Chicken wt Bake Bean Sauce



Chicken wt baked bean sauce

Reaching home at around 6pm yesterday.  Being a working mom, sometime puts me in hard time preparing meal for my kids.  Especially when this mom will not have enough time to do shopping for fresh groceries and will cook whatever she have around her small kitchen.

So, I created my own recipe, as I believe you will do the same also.  No measurement to be very particular, just enough for everyone at home to enjoy the food. 

The ingredients, chicken cut into small pieces, a can of baked bean in tomato sauce, 2 tbls tomato sauce, half cup water and a bit of garlic, ginger, salt, sugar and black pepper.  Guess what, my kids really love the food...