Mix-matched Wedding 2

Indeed another full house on the evening of March 30th.... 

This time at the Civic Centre Kuching, witnessing a chinese-style wedding reception.

sign first! sign first!

Peanuts.....

the live band

the deco

the environment

the entrance

the bride and bridegroom together with the parents welcoming the guests

the gorgeous girls

the wedding cakes

So this is how a RM600++ menu looks like??!!

 The Hot and Cold Combi

the POMFRET fish

2 in 1 prawn dishes



Roasted Chicken



Fried noodle with shredded chicken

Braised Abalone with mushroom and brocolli

So who's got the balloon.....

 

Walnut Wholemeal Muffins

In baking mood again tonight. 

Made these cute muffins, and turn out that I could only make nine cups.



Ingredients:

120g brown sugar (I reduced to 70g only)

250ml low fat milk

1 egg

40g melted butter

200g wholemeal flour, sifted with 1bsp baking powder

60g walnuts, toasted and chopped

Some pumpkin seeds for decoration

Method:

1.  Preheat the oven to 200 degree celcius.  Prepare some muffin cups.

2.  Combine brown sugar,  milk, egg and melted butter until well-mixed.  Add in flour mixture, walnuts and stir well together.

3.  Spoon the batter into the muffin cups and sprinkle some pumpkin seeds on top for decoration purposes.

4.  Bake in the preheated oven for 15-18 minutes or until cooked.  Remove and leave to cool before serving.

Jia you, mum!

Another trial to go through.......
Be strong and you can do it!

 

Chocolate Banana Wholemeal Teacakes

Normally I don't eat super ripe bananas. 

I rather leave them on the table until someone throws them away either into the garbage bin or.......

........into his/her mouth.  So this time, I thought, I would just turn them into a cake. ^^

Recipe from Alan Kok's I LOVE TASY & HEALTHY TREATS

Ingredients:

150g butter (I used the non-cholesterol ButterLite, not golden churn/margarine)

150 g brown sugar (this I reduced into around 100g and still taste sweet)

3 (omega) eggs

300g ripe banana, mashed

150g walnuts, coarsely chopped

2tbsp cocoa powder

150g wholemeal flour

100g plain flour

1tsp baking powder, mixed with 1/4 tsp baking soda



The final mixtures ~ ALL IN ~ before baking in the oven



 Method:

1.  Preheated oven to 200 degree celcius.  Grease the cake moulds

2.  Cream butter and brown sugar until well-mixed.

3.  Add in eggs one at time and beating well after each addition.

4.  Add in the remaining ingredients and mix well.  Spoon the batter into the moulds.

5.  Bake in the preheated oven for around 15-18 minutes or until cooked. 



Now leave to cool and ready for serve

Homestay at Kampung Serasot

Started my early morning journey to

Kampung Serasot, which is one of the many bidayuh villages in

Bau District.  Herlina and I drove for almost an hour to reach our destination with heavy mists
along the 44km road from home.
It was indeed a pleasant arrival with such warm welcome that led me to some
bidayuh experiences and cultures.

Upon arrival to the kampung

One of the local tourist attractions along the way

the big hall



A time to recall the relatives and friends





Having serious discussion I see



A RM5 car-wash....anyone??

So how to make tupik bandung......with tapioca?

...need to grate first the tapioca....

.......then grated tapioca is to be mixed with either a little salt or chilli or sugar

huge looking crowd :)

Yum-yum gulug-gulug

punch! ouch! pound!



kuali-frying the tapioca leaves with lemon-grass.............my favourite dish :)



So let this aunty teach you how to wrap the rice into the leaf

....looks nice and neat..

First and foremost, the leaf needs to be flamed first to make the folding and wrapping easier

 

this boy sure enjoyed the food ^^

coconut

This makcik was demonstrating on how to make a roof

nice roof

Steamed wrapped tapioca kueh



Beng putih is clean :)




Being comel is cute



So before going home, food were served at Liana's lovely kitchen :)



Taking portrait shots

......is definitely not easy.  I still need to learn more about the setup of the lightings

and thanks to Mr Haimey, I finally knew about something behind the camera trick.




my behind-the-scene project :)



Thanks to Mr Julis for being a great model.   



....maaaa......

Was finally back home and having to rush to the hospital after landed made my heart pound.

Hoping that the operation went well. 

Yes, indeed mum's fine, with a zillion thank yous to all the friends and families that gave their deepest thoughts and prayers to mum. 



Happy Baha'i New Year II

at Sunny's Fish Head Curry House

thought of wanting to show off these two bottles of yogurt....bought from ConsFood....wish there's one in Kuching though...