I just realized that last month was the month I didn't have fast food or nasi lemak.

Quite an achievement for me!

I saw an old lady, wearing white shirt, smiling at the people walking into the restaurant....

I wasn't afraid. I wasn't scared.

The time was 12.45PM.

Yes, she is Madam Kwan, the real Madam Kwan - you can see her in Pavilion's branch of Madam Kwan's restaurant.

I only got to know that recently ;)

When Ron shared the photo with me, I was like "OMG, not only Barcelona is a beautiful place - the food looked equally-beautifully delicious!"

Therefore I took some photo to blog about it - a country that I definitely wanna go next time! (with that, I don't know what's the priority of Finland now :P)


Seafood paella @ Taberna del Cobre


Grilled Swordfish


Something that looked like Singaporean Beehoon, which is not :P


Jamon, Asparagus and Scallops + Trout roe (dunno why, when I see this, it was as if I could smell the asparagus)


Ben & Jerry waffle


Cañas de hojaldre, rellenas de nuestra crema catalana....some sort of pastry rolles with crema catalana filling


Lemon sorbet with mojito flavoured jelly

Fig 1a. the "ingredients"

Impressed by the taste of Leffe Brune (at a rather affordable price for Belgian dark ale), I did some research and found that some people use it to marinade meat ball.

I got some recipe and felt lazy (that's the 1st one), so I did research again.

I found that people used it to make the meat sauce for spaghetti.

I got the recipe from Ron and Winne, however, got lazy again.

Btw, this morning when I woke up, I had the urge to try out.

So went to supermarket to buy the ingredients. Fig 1a shows the ingredient I bought.

At the supermarket, I felt the laziness bug, bugging me again.

So instead of buying canned mushroom, I bought the alfredo portobello sauce (with mushroom) and cheese & cream sauce - then mix them.

I didn't feel that scared cos I know at home there are 3 other victims/guinea pig to enjoy or suffer together.

So I cut the chicken breast into pieces, and marinaded with Leffe Radieuse (Jusco only has that, but well, it's 8.2% ABV, so even better?)


Marinaded for 1 hour

Then, stir-fried with olive oil.

After stir-fried it, I mixed all of them with (another mixture of) the spaghetti sauce.

Now the spaghetti part - I forgot the how much time is it needed, so I tasted the noodle 2 times to call off the cooking session.


Here comes the result, did not look so tasty I know, but that's because I only remembered to take photo when my sister ate it half way!

So the objective of this random cookery session is mainly on the marinaded meat.

My verdict:
The taste of the beer is not evident. You can only say it's a chicken with a hint of beer.
Maybe I should use pork next time.

As for my family members, they didn't particularly find it great, but comments from them:

Sister: The spaghetti is just nice (i.e. not too soft nor too hard)
Mum: So what do you plan to cook for dinner? (my reply in my heart: dream on [I know i'm not a good son])

So that's all about my random cookery session.

Sekian.

Appetizer (yummy cos it has pork) & hot green tea

There's this Jap restaurant in The Weld (which is less than 200m from my office) that I had never visited before. So I took a chance to have a first try.

I ordered Katsudon set after I saw some review online.


Some salad, miso soup and mochi were the extra


The egg and pork.. omg, juicy and yummy


Best mixed with this chili powder


The dessert - mochi - another omg, yummy as well!!

For the price of RM25.30 - I thought this set is share-able by two persons - I still feel very full after half an hour.

Another visit will be done, in near future (just fmi, dinner time from 6.30PM - 10.30PM ;) )

Today after lunch I shopped - almost RM100 spent in 20min shopping at Tesco.

But I have reasons behind everything I bought:

Shin Ramyun - it's been a while since I last bought this, I thought RM11.88 is a rare low price nowadays (Jusco is selling at... RM15?)
Tesco Mineral Water, 5.5L - I need to drink more water, Colleen suggested me to buy actually (hahaha, using ppl's name pulak)
Shoyu Black Pepper chips - Colleen like it, so I bought it
Wise Gila Pedas chips - My stomach wants it, my teeth wanna chew it
Myojo Mee Goreng - me and colleen like it, it's time to add some stock
Peel Fresh Mangosteen 1L - my body need detox. Mangosteen juice is the lazy but nutritious solution
Lee Kam Kee XO Sauce - let's make the food TASTIER!
Wrigleys Chewing Gum - running out of gums to chew
Tsingtao Beer - I heard from my uncle that it's very good. Very good cos they used the fountain water to brew this Chinese beer. So, just give it a try (not in office, of course)
Garnier Facial Wash - running out of stock and would like to give it a try on this brand.