Yesterday, I able to accomplish these missions:

1) Went to Ceramic World Showroom. Managed to get the code for the tiles of my interest.

2) Went to Kedai Perabot Selayang & Perabot Jatimas. Tak beli apa just cuci mata

3) Nagoya, Wangsa Maju. Aku dah belanja lebih kurang RM300 untuk 3 major items: day curtain RM12.80/metre (for living room), night curtain RM3.80/metre (for upstairs areas) and kitchen curtain (RM7/metre). Night curtain for living room will be bought later using next year budget.

4) Carrefour. Beli household items biasa

Unable to go: Kitchen cabinet shop. Reason: the address’s shop left at home.

Next action plan:

1) Abang to contact the contractor to get quotation

2) We have to go few Kitchen Cabinet shops around Kepong

3) I want to find a ’Sewing curtain’ book just to have more ideas.

4) I need to get ready all documents needed for refinancing of our house to TM loan. Also, to contact the legal co. and fill up all required forms. Any friend who know any good lawyer?

Macam-macam bermain di fikiran. Berapa banyak ongkos diperlukan ek? Kalau budget cukup we all also want to renovate entrance grill & sliding door dan juga tambah awning.

Banana and oat crumble muffin

Ingre:
2 cups self - raising flour
1/2 cup caster sugar
1 cup milk
1 egg
2 teaspoon vanilla essence
75 gm butter, melted and cooled
1 cup mashed banana
3 tablespoons rolled oat (optional)

1. Sift the flour into a bowl and stir in castor sugar. Make a well in the center.
2. Put the milk, egg, and vanilla in a jug, whisk and pour into the center.
3. Add butter and banana. Fold until combined. Pour into muffin hole.
4. Sprinkle the crumble on top of the batter before baking.
5. Bake for 15-2o min - 180 deg.

The crumbles:

5 tablespoons flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup rolled oat
40 gm butter, chopped

Put the flour, sugar and oat in a bowl. Rub the butter in with fingertips.

You may replace the crumble with choc chips- the easiest way. I see the muffin more exciting when I use crumble.
I like to put oat in my muffin or bread recipe to enhance it nutrient.

4 days and 3 nights in Cherating

I was away from the office for 2 days, attending a meeting in Impiana Cherating replacing my boss. As usual, I always brought along the whole family. But this time, the whether was not so good. It's raining all the way to Cherating. As all know, flood happened in few places including Pahang. Holiday for the kids seem so dull, nothing exciting. The 1st day was spent in the resort's room only. It was raining for the whole day. We can only have goo time on the second day. We walked around the resort and along the seaside. Mus'ab did get chance terjun swimming pool but not so long. He felt cold easily maybe sebab lemak kurang. The only things that we could buy for family were keropok lekor, keropok kering & ikan masin only. We even didn't find any shop that sell clothes for kids. Lagipun tak sempat nak cari. We came home on Saturday after the meeting end on the afternoon. Initially, I planned to have one more night stay in any part of Terengganu. But due to the bad whether, we have to cancel the plan. Nonetheless, we managed to get some pics. See more here!!

Tomorrow, I'm not going to office. Just spent one day leave to fulfill few missions. My missions tomorrow:
1) Go to kitchen cabinet shop. To get quotation and proposed design plan.
2) Next to go Ceramic World Showroom, Selayang. To get idea on which colour and tiles to use for our kitchen.
3) Lastly, to go Nagoya KL. To buy day curtains for our house. Raya is still far but I have to buy it early as my plan to sew it myself. I can imagine that it's gonna take very long time to finish it because of these obvious interruptions: kids, housekeeping works and baking activities.

Joy of Baking

Yahoo..we are now connecting to our Broadband installed on last Friday. Finally we got it after waiting for more than 3 years.
For the last 2 consecutives weekends I did tried my home made bread. The result was so satisfactory, so I would like to share the recipe here. Thanks a lot to my Indesit Oven for realizing my dream!! eheh

Making bread was so easy peasy. But to get the output is quite long. Approximate time duration will take around 3-5 hours. This is beacuse we have to knead the dough, then to rest it, then to shape it, rest it and finally bake it.

First bread is Chealsea Bun.
The ingre:
-500 gm high protein flour/bread flour
- 80 gm caster sugar
- 200 gm butter, melted
- 2 eggs
- 1 packet instant yeast ( I always Mauripan)
- 250 ml milk ( I always used water + milk powder that already available)
- 1 tea spoon salt
For the fillling (mix together):
- 50 gm butter, melted
- 200 gm dried mixed fruits/ raisins
- 100 gm brown sugar
- honey for glazing
Steps:
1- Add yeast to milk, allow to dissolve. Add this mixture to all other ingredients.
2- Knead the dough for 10-15 min. I use my hand to knead it. Set aside for 10 min.
3- Then knead again for 10 - 15 min. Set aside again for 10 min.
4- Roll out dough on lightly floured surface into rectangular shape about 5 mm thick.
5- Spread melted butter. I used brush. Then spronklr the brown sugar followed by the fried fruits.
6- Roll up dought to form a long log. Cuto to 1 inch thick slices and place on the greased baking tray. Cover the bun and rest it for 1 hour.
7- Remove the cover and bake for 16 min at 190 deg. Brush lightly with honey before serving.


2nd recipe is DmnFarra's family's favorite bun, my own recipe to cater the kid's appetite. Really thanks to The Fresh Loaf for inspiring the recipe for me. Since today is my first day of working as I have been away from office for 1 week, attending the Lead Auditor Course, so will share the recipe later ok.

We had a lot of ripe banana that Abah took from Kg Perak. Bored of eating Cekodok Pisang so, yesterday, I baked Banana & Oat Crumble Muffin. Will post the recipe later ok.

Post mortem note:-

1- I have to learn how to shape the bun nicely. Will get the info from books or any websites. Emm..

Late update

My late update for this week:

[1]
I turned 26 years old 2 days ago. I was not in the office when the present from Abang arrived. Abang surprised me with the present, a bouquet of roses. Thanks Abang for the lovely gift.

Umur makin bertambah. Aku mengingatkan diriku, amalam perlu ditambah, ilmu masih banyak perlu di cari, hubungan sirraturahim mesti sentiasa perlu dijaga, anak-anak perlu dijaga dan dididik menjadi insan berguna, peranan sebagai isteri juga perlu diperbaiki selalu.

Yesterday, the officemate and my boss surprised me with a small birthday party. And today, I treat my officemates with my Cream O Cheesecake.

[2]
I have started my hobby again. Baking, cooking and eating!! Last weekend I did my first bread, Chelsea Bun. It taste good and the recipe was so simple. I thought I can upload the picture here but actually Abang did not transfer it in my thumb drive. So, will upload the pic later ok.

Then, on Tuesday, I did New York Cheesecake, sold to Abang’s office. Now, I’m trying to get contract of ‘Cake Supplier’ to Abang office. And on Wednesday, I baked the Cream O Cheesecake.

The outstanding output for my self this week was, Chelsea Bun, 2 Cheesecakes and Zero NCR for the audit.

Next week, I will be attending the Lead Auditor Course for 1 week in Residence Hotel. Hope will pass the course successfully.

[3]
Our new book for our knowledge enhancement this month:
1) Halal Haram – very good book for all Muslim. With this book, we can actually know which food that should not be avoided.
2) Pelik Tapi benar Dalam Solat- panduan solat dalam keadaan tertentu seperti Solat sambil dukung anak dsb.
3) Soal Jawab remeh temeh tentang Solat – banyak soalan-soalan remeh yang orang malu nak bertanya tapi dah ada jawapan dalam buku ni.

Last but not least, new book for the kids this month: 100 Words – colorful and attractive.