Tired,... Mom?

I have not been adding new entry for the past few days - I was soo... busy, well, 'tortured' to cook & bake - by my family members plus I wanted to finish reading 3 books which I borrowed from the Library last Saturday.

One of our (my husband & I) passions is food. I remember those days when I'm still working - we will be eating out most weekends satisfying our palatable desires. But, those were the days - And since I'm a full time Mom now, that passion instead of eating out becomes an eating in with me being the Chief Cook and of course, an Amah later (to clean out and makes things proper again).

Some time ago, my husband told me that he entertained his clients at Bangsar Village Seafood and he said he enjoyed the butter crab very much. So, a fortnight ago, on our way to visit my Mom, we dropped by and bought 2 kilos of the butter crabs. And, mmm... it's heavenly.

So, last Sunday, we tried cooking it at home & we managed to somehow created something similar though we still have to get our recipe perfected. Since it is based on trial & error, I couldn't come out with the right amount of ingredient yet. But, if you guys (and gals) want to try it - here goes the ingredients - crabs, butter (quite a lot), coconut milk (not so much), chinese cabbage, lots of curry leaves, a little tumeric powder and of course, salt. Method : Melt a little butter in the pot - put in the curry leaves and stir until fragrant. Then pour in the coconut milk & butter. Once it's nicely blended, put in a little tumeric powder. When it comes to a boil, put in the crab, later the chinese cabbage. Put salt to taste. Sorry - we're to eager to eat it so,... no photo.(The shot attached is just for 'decoration' purpose. Hehehe! To 'accompany' the butter crab, we prepared daging merah, some kerang rebus and spinach. For dinner that night we add egg salad.

On Monday, our lunch is quite easy - just sambal mackerel and fish head soup. Just as I thought I can continue my reading, I my children asked whether I can whip up a cake for them. Well, I wish I can say No but looking at their pleading eyes and that they always help with baking, I just can't. So, there I was, whipping a chocolate cake - I just followed the recipe written on the cooking chocolate cover - it's called Sacher Torte. And the good news is they finished it yesterday (Tuesday) and asked for another.

And since we have run out of cooking chocolate, I sacrificed my bananas to bake banana cake for them. I baked a big one in the hope that it will last longer.

I hope they will let me free today - coz whatever it is, I want to quietly enjoy watching CSI to night!!!And of course my books before I get to sleep!


Sources of images : "Cooking" from www.intimatemomentschefservice.com; Crab from www.shop.legalseafoods.com; Sacher Torte from www.custombasketsandbouquets.com)