Roasted Lamb Leg?

i was planning to make roasted lamb leg on aidiladha as a special dish for hubby since dia memang lah fan no. 1 lamb. but since he has already made other plan that is merebus ketupat daun kelapa I decided to prepare the roasted lamb for dinner malam ni je. too many special dishes untuk raya pun nanti rambang mata nak makan walhal bukanlah ramai pun kat rumah kami ni.

maka pagi tadi pergilah aku mencari lamb leg di cold storage kat subang parade. malang sekali lamb leg yang medium size around 1.2-1.5kg dah habis. yang tinggal cuma 2kg above... adehhh sapa nak makan? lainlah kalau aku nak menjamu orang. akhirnya aku beli lah potongan lamb shank jer. takpelah aku roast aja janji boleh dimakan.

sambil sibuk2 decorate doll cake yaya sambil siapkan bahan untuk lamb. hubby siap pesan kalau sibuk sangat tak payah buat roasted lamb for dinner, tangguh je esok. dia risau tengok aku kelam kabut nanti jadi tak sedap. ehh mana boleh aku nak hidangkan yang tak sedap untuk dia ;-)



before hubby naik mandi bersiap2 ke masjid for maghrib prayer, lamb dah masuk dalam oven. by the time dia balik lepas solat isya' lamb dah siap terhidang. sampai menjilat tulang... macam flinstone!

Menjelang Aidiladha

we will be celebrating aidiladha in two days' time. we'll be celebrating it here at our home in subang perdana, just like the previous year. since masjid baru hanyalah sepelaung je dari rumah eloklah kami mengimarahkan solat sunat aidiladha di masjid ni aja. i'm a little excited :-). insyaAllah the kids will join us for solat sunat raya. aku nak biasakan diaorang bersolat raya something that i never experience before masa aku kecil. when i was a kid myself hari raya pada aku cumalah baju baru, kuih raya & duit raya; not that my parents are not religious people tapi sebab kami masa kecil nakal agaknya & surau pun agak jauh lagipun abah pagi raya pun kerja jadi tak pernahlah kami dibawa solat raya berjemaah. so i want my children mendalami erti aidiladha dan merasa solat sunat berjemaah yang aku tak dapat experience sendiri dulu.

beraya di rumah sendiri means i have to come up with my own raya dishes. oh i'm so excited about this coz i can cook to my (our) liking. this time around i think i wont be cooking my signature raya dish; nasi minyak. ada sebabnya kenapa which i will tell later. i'm going to make rendang ayam, lemang segera or pulut kuning, kuah kacang and instant ketupat. pretty simple uh? and i wont be making much, i'll just prepare a small portion each. but maybe for hubby i will make something special for him. harap2lah kat cold storage masih ada stock frozen lamb leg that i saw the other day. i'm going to make roasted lamb leg for him. this is sooo not raya dish... but who cares. ;-)

later after solat raya and makan sama2 barulah aku & anak2 bertolak ke seremban to visit my parents. dapatlah makan nasi minyak, ayam masak merah and kari daging kat rumah my mum ;-). hehe pasal tulah kali ni i won't be cooking nasi minyak ;-)

To all readers & friends, We would like to wish you a Selamat Hari Raya Aidiladha.




Note:
Plan nak rebus ketupat segera terpaksa ditukar kepada ketupat asli which gonna take longer preparation time sebab incik hubby bawa balik daun kelapa muda petang tadi! now, there goes my plan to keep everything simple... and in small portion konon! ;-P

Poor My Bonnie

yaya is down with fever, flu & cough. it started with fahmi sebenarnya; he gets flu which followed by cough sebab satu hari tu dia main basikal dalam hujan renyai. nak salahkan kakak pun tak boleh sebab dia tengah sibuk buat kerja, fahmi pun dah besar dah pandai buka kunci grill sendiri. akibatnya kena selsema lah dia. his cough & flu were not so bad, i thought that it will go away after 2 days the most. tapi rupa2nya yaya pulak gets infected from him. dan sekarang yang paling teruk demam panas badan together with cough & flu is yaya.

i gave her sponging treatment yesterday. she refused to let me sponge her body sebab sejuk katanya, but eventually she relented coz while doing it i told her stories pasal masa mula2 dia kena demam panas when she was only 6 months old. tersenyum dia when i told her how the nurses had to sponge her body with wet towel to get her temperature down while she can't stop screaming and wailing at the same time. yaya ni suara dia memang halus, tapi kalau dia menjerit sampai nak pecah anak tekak coz she had to force her voice out kalau tak memang tak berbunyi sangat suara dia (ni masa dia kecil la, dah besar ni bingit telinga dengar suara nyaring dia). fahmi was amused with my story; he can't stop grinning (his mischievious grins) and mengusik yaya how she looks like a baby curling sebab kesejukan tak berbaju.

she loss her appetite too. padahal aku dah suruh kakak buat sup ayam semalam. she normally makan bertambah2 kalau berlaukkan sup. i dropped by at home during my lunch break semalam, yaya pesan nak makan apam balik, air ribena & bubur mcD! ooo bubur mcD nak pulak tapi sup ayam buat sendiri tak mau... uisyyy memilih betul selera orang sakit ni. kusuruh hubby belikan semua tu coz aku ni balik kerja lewat takut orang jual apam balik pun dah bungkus by that time. sayangnya tak dapat juga cari apam balik semalam.

kesian pulak tengok yaya makin cengkung padahal baru 1 hari takde selera makan. malam tadi aku siapkan sos bolognese untuk dia makan dengan spaghetti. kan selalunya time aku masak sos mesti dia dah menjerit2 suka bila terhidu bau harum tomato & rosemary, malam tadi dia buat dunno je sebab hidung dia tersumbat!


balik kerja tadi frust betul spaghetti dah habis licin dikerjakan yaya & fahmi. mama dapat merasa bolognese sauce sapu atas pan toasted bread with melted mozzarella. yumm yumm... kenyang juga! :-)

Re-Planning

Fahmi's once a week tutorial class at smart reader ended last saturday. that was his final class and he wont be coming back next year as the centre has ceased its operation. :-(

he is sad upon hearing the news as he wont be seeing his friends anymore. he did make friends with a few of his classmates. there were a few names that always pop ups in his conversation at home i.e. Faris, Haziq, Uzair & Nuha. now, he wont be seeing them anymore.

now, i am busy making a list of kindergarten where i can enrol him. initially i wanted to upgrade him to pre-school module at the same centre next year. it will be very convenient sebab dekat dengan rumah. but now, since it wont be operating anymore i had to quickly find him another place. *sigh*

there is another smart reader centre at subang 2. but for some reasons i have to drop it from my list. i have to also consider the fact that we will (insyaAllah) be moving out to our new house at alam budiman sometime in the 1st quarter next year. which means we have to choose diligently as not to incur double charges on the registration fee.me & hubby had earlier on agreed to send our children to little caliph when we moved to alam budiman; they've just started their operation there. but we cant just let him stay at home until we moved out to alam budiman can we? tambahan pulak he'll be 5 awal tahun depan.

which left us with the only alternative that is to enrol him at the little caliph branch di subang 2. it so happens that this centre operator is the same operator yang buka little caliph alam budiman. so nanti when we moved out tak payah bayar registration fee 2 kali, they can just do a transfer. alhamdulillah ... tak lalu aku nak spend dekat 1k for registration aja. muntah darah nanti dahlah dengan nak pindah rumahnya. yang bagusnya little caliph ada ajar menghafaz ayat2 al-Quran, belajar solat... pendek kata bukan setakat english based tapi Islamic juga. tu yang jadi tertarik sangat.

sounds like i've made up my mind kan? but why i haven't made my move? tulah pasal tengah pening dok fikir pasal transport coz subang 2 is like a few km away from my place sekarang ni dengan nak tempuh heavy traffic pagi2 lagi. i need to sort out his transporation arrangement. sayangnya the centre tak provide transport so kenalah sort out sendiri. kalau tak jawabnya fahmi seharian kena stay kat sana which means i have to pay more for daycare and tetap kena berkejar balik ambil anak lepas kerja. which i cant afford to do. hubby bolehlah tapi kalau dia kena outstation tak ke susah? macam mana pun i'd rather fix him a firm arrangement tak suka chaos dan tak suka dia rasa tak stabil.

so now, fahmi sort of dah settle. yaya pulak. mula2 ingat nak masukkan dia ke once a week tutorial class to replace fahmi but now semua dah jadi haywire kena re-arrange balik our plan including hers. sebenarnya for yaya lagi leceh, coz i don't want to enrol her for pre-school, not yet it will be too soon for her as she's going to be 4 next year. masalahnya apart from smart reader yang lain2 dekat sekitar rumahku ni takde offer short classes. hubby nak hantar ke tabika kemas tapi aku tak nak sebab nak yang english based. ni yang lagi double pening jadinya. melainkan kalau aku hantar dia ke tumble tots. yes that would be perfect dari segi jadual kelas dan english based tapi tiap2 sabtu kena ke subang parade... adoiiii shopping sakanlah jawabnya sementara tunggu kelas dia habis! huwaaaa pokai gini.

mommies, how do you sort out such situation?

PC less

at the moment we are PC less at home because the PC is now being service by hubby's friend. hubby sungguh gatal tangan that on sunday he went to install Windows update which was offered on the net. what happen was the update had to be suspended due to some error which rendered us unable to restart the computer. now, we had to re-format the pc and will lose all datas saved. thanks to his itchy hands, all photos taken and saved as a backup will all be gone! :-(

as a result i was not able to update my blog and had to use my pc at the office which i really really hate having doing it.

weekend baru ni i was in seremban. so ambil kesempatan menjenguk jusco. bought myself a pair of new black high heels untuk kerja. my black Bata high heels dah worn out, the toes dah dented teruk malu pulak nak pakai pergi kerja walaupun most of the times kakiku tersembunyi di bawah meja. kebetulan sekarang ni the so called 'Malaysia Savings Sale' baru je bermula sabtu lepas, so dapatlah sepasang Crocodile shoes ni at 20% less. Aku memang selalu beli kasut time sales, murah betul tu yang kekadang grab sampai 2 pasang. kasut2 aku takdelah branded pun, asalkan praktikal & selesa.





saja nak tayang kasut baru ni sebab selalunya aku tak beli kasut yang cutting dia runcing bahagian toes. almaklum jelah tapak kaki aku ni jenis yang kembang kat depan, lemas & sesak jari jemari kakiku. kasut2 aku mesti yang jenis rounded kat bahagian toes. tapi kali ni rasa selesa pulak maybe sebab material dia pun lembut. cuma aku risau sekarang takut muncung kasut ni cepat juga dented. bukan setakat secara semulajadinya aku ni memang kasar tapi sebab kakiku memang sedia panjang, pastu pakai pulak kasut jenis muncung ke depan, sahlah lepas ni naik tangga kena sengetkan tapak kaki takut berlaga kat steps... steps kat office ni size ngam2 tapak kaki aku pulak tuh. tu lah susah kalau dah keturunan tapak kaki 'giant' ni. cari size kasut pun kadang2 takde size, pastu kadang dah jumpa kasut yang cantik tapi cutting pulak tak kena. kasut ni pun first time kubeli size 7 1/2... tak pernah pakai size 7 1/2, kalau nasib baik boleh muat size 7 tapi kebiasaannya aku pakai size 8, kekadang terkena juga size 9! size2 ni pulak jarang ada stok kat kedai... selalu jer gigit jari.

Hectic Weekend

it was a very hectic week which dragged to the weekends; dengan mulanya cuti sekolah maka berderet2lah jemputan wedding. for once aku dah janji dengan shida my best friend from school days yang aku akan sponsor wedding cake dia. her wedding was on saturday the 29th nov. i thought that hari sabtu pagi bolehlah aku deliver kek tu sekali harung masa datang kenduri. but she thought it's gonna be kek hantaran in which case must be handed over to her on friday masa akad nikah. now, aku pun dah lupa apa yang aku cakap and i was so kelam kabut minggu lepas sampai all my plans goes haywire dengan claim insurans kereta hilang tak submit lagi and at the same time nak kena freeze akaun tabung haji aku sebab saving book pun lesap, pastu dengan aku sibuk nak buat cuppies for fahmi's last day at school lagi manalah tak haywire jadinya. tamak aku nih.

alhamdulillah nasib baik bride tak bengang dengan aku. akhirnya the 2 tier fondant cake diguna untuk majlis potong kek sebelah pengantin lelaki. punyalah kelam kabut sampai aku terlupa nak snap pic cake tu.










hubby didn't join us to the wedding. masa kami nak bertolak balik ke subang hari ahad tu hubby dah siap sms suh masak sup tulang rusuk for dinner. wallah... bestnya order :-)


sup tulang rusuk dengan pegedil kentang for me

Spiderweb Cuppies for Farewell

tomorrow will be fahmi's last day at his tutorial class at smart reader. i decided to bake some cuppies for the farewell.