KARI->CURRY

i cooked some curry today. quite a healthy version with funghi(button mushrooms)as the main ingredient. The whole receipe is quite home-made (to a certain extent) as in i made the curry paste myself, and formed my own formula of spices to get my 'curry powder'.

It's quite easy. It's basically adding all your ingredients.. blend it to make ur curry paste. The rest... all up to your imagination. For my case, i sweat the the mushrooms abit, add the rest of the ingredients and finally my curry paste.. and Viola~ savoury mushroom curry (with roti prata as the side).

Come to think of it, it's great that i have the time to cook/bake anytime, anyday and anywhere i like NOW. But i guess my way of idling my time for the past 9months would probably take a new turn coming this 16th. I have plans.. but i'm not sure if i can stick to it. I have dreams.. but i'm not sure if i can make it true. I have flour.. but i'm not sure if i have the time and mood to bake. I have milk in my fridge, and it's expired.. bleah~

Power Curry Puff!

Yeah~ It's curry puff day. Was preparing to make curry puffs since adeline and jeannie intended to come my house.. But, it was cancelled.. Anyways, since my relatives from bali are arriving today, i went ahead with the puff plan :) Went shopping this morning alone, since my mum is enjoying herself somewhere else..

I targeted the vege section first, but i couldn't find my POTATOES! (somehow they've changed the layout at GIANT, making it very hard for my to find anything) but, how big can the supermarket be right, i finally found my potatoes and i thought i saw "USA Budget Potato".. why would they want to budget their potatoes??? i thought it's the rice that is depleting?? anyway with a closer look, it turns out to be "Russet" not "Budget" haha~ (can go have a look if u have nothing else to do..) Hmmm.. so I got my potatoes and the rest of the ingredients and headed home-->

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I'm waiting to be fried!!

I was struggling whether to make my own or buy the ready made puff pastry. *Meng Ni looks at her schedule(blank) and decides to make her own!* So.. more kneading and Ta dah! unfried curry puff in no time~ Actually, it took a while lah... cos i was carefully pinching and shaping the sides of the puff CAREFULLY. *Please eyeball up by 3 degrees* looks okay right..

The rest was easy.. heat oil > drop puff > fry puff > drain oil.

Look at my golden skin~

Remember Singapore's government encourage their people to prepare more potato based dishes in place of rice? I think they should get me to be their ambassador.. muahaha~ only that it's a bit unhealthy...

It was easy and fast to make (fast if i can *pinch* the sides faster) so.. good for picnic parties i guess..:) Now i need to pick up my relatives.. Happy puffing!

In favor of Curry Flavour *\(^-^)/*

Weekend! It's the time of the week that I can relax, think of nothing and sink into my newly arrived tilam. BUT some lecturer/"new" prof decided to give us an assignment to do--> a review on some organometallic stuff that i really really really have no interest in doing.. (did i mention it must be AT LEAST 10 pages long?) *rolling my eyes* So why did I take that module in the first place? * think.. think.. think..* Ahhh.... That's because Chris is taking and Meng Ni being a super duper "good" friend can't possibly let her take that mod alone right. (yah right.... more like I don't want to take any other mod alone)

Anyways, i was flipping thru my big box of lecture notes and unexpectedly, i found a cookbook! It's hamlyn all colour cookbook-200 curries by Sunil Vijayar. Flipping thru the pages. i've decided. I'm making curry today. Chicken Kofta Curry to be exact.

Chicken meatballs:) they're a little big though

I always like curries. Jap, Indian and especially my mum's! yumyum. *drooling while stirring in the curry paste* But fear not, the curry was not contaminated.

* Please shift ur eyeballs up by 3 degrees * And my morning's hardwork! (can anyone teach me how to make superscripts?) HAHA~ but this is not the end. Everyone knows that we can't have curry all by it's own. So i made naan to go with my curry - from scratch. Note: they are not the ones that you can buy from cold storage, they're a teeny bit salty to me.

It's a plain naan. I think i should make it flatter. But if anyone want's to try. It's really simple:) I used self raising flour, butter, salt, sugar and milk. Done. But I became all nostalgic when i was rubbing the butter in, i thought of the days in Broadrick home econs class. I think we were making pizza crust or something, that's when i first tried to rub butter into flour, i can still remember caroline, charmaine, lilyana (deb wasn't in our econs group) and we were all happily rubbing the butter in.. Ahhhh.. those days...

Anyways, to make different flavoured naans just add the extra ingredient in the first step. e.g. for garlic flavoured naans, add 1 clove of garlic. For coriander naan, add coriander.. so on and so forth. Maybe i should try chocolate naans.. *idea* :)

The curry was a success only that the chicken balls were a wee too big and the flavour didn't really seep through. Darn! the naans? it's okay... plain.. tasteless but great with the curry. I'll seriously try chocolate naans next time.. muahaha! Back to my ORGANOMETALLIC review...