Our first day of fasting was ok, even though we had to refrain ourselves from eating and drinking for almost 16 hours. Since I had ample time to myself today, I ended up cooking five dishes including desserts. For today's menu, I cooked "ayam masak pandan", "ayam padang indonesia", pan-fried veggies, caramel pudding and chicken pau. For my first attempt of "ayam masak pandan" and "ayam masak padang", both of them turned out good. I think it was worth a thousand smiles on my face, since I started to roll my sleeves at 3 PM in the evening to marinate the chicken beforehand. It took almost three hours to make the flavour of the spices blend well and followed by wrapping them neatly with screwpine leaves and finishing them off with toothpicks before deep frying them.
Actually, I was having a nervous breakdown when I made today's dishes. Somehow, I had to make sure it turned out good and I cannot bear any mistakes in today's cooking since our stomachs were rumbling like hell and I was in crucial time when I glanced at the clock and it showed, 7pm. another one and half hour to go before breaking fast! You see, I was not too keen on cooking when I was in Malaysia, but since I got married and live in a foreign country, cooking seems like a new addiction to me. I will try everything that I am craving for. I used to throw all the foods that I made if the results were terrible and I will hide the foods in the bottom of the dustbin so that Am will never know that I wasted my so-called "dissappointing" foods. But Am has this habit of checking through the dustbin to ensure that nothing was being chucked out in the bin, and he does this almost everyday in our early stage of marriage and I dare say until now!
For the beverages we just made watermelon drinks and coffee. Actually, I am dying for coconut drink, but where the hell I can get that. Oh God! I can see myself indulging a jar of cold coconut drink on a hot summer day. Oh dear! I wish I can curse anything in this house into coconut, so that I can chop them up and dive in! You guys want to know what I have been up to since breaking fast? Well, I keep thinking what tomorrow's menu is going to be and I am pretty sure I will still be thinking about that until I drift off to sleep tonight. There is another 29 days to go before the Ramadan ends and I will take this opportunity to sharpen on my cooking skills and who knows? Maybe, I will end up opening my own restaurant which will be the new empire in my life! Ciao!
Our first day of fasting was ok, even though we had to refrain ourselves from eating and drinking for almost 16 hours. Since I had ample time to myself today, I ended up cooking five dishes including desserts. For today's menu, I cooked "ayam masak pandan", "ayam padang indonesia", pan-fried veggies, caramel pudding and chicken pau. For my first attempt of "ayam masak pandan" and "ayam masak padang", both of them turned out good. I think it was worth a thousand smiles on my face, since I started to roll my sleeves at 3 PM in the evening to marinate the chicken beforehand. It took almost three hours to make the flavour of the spices blend well and followed by wrapping them neatly with screwpine leaves and finishing them off with toothpicks before deep frying them.
