My Homecooked Sea Algae - Seaweed Dessert

My Home-cookedSeaweed Dessert

Ingredients:

Sea Algae - soaked in cold water 2-4 hours

Rock / Cane Sugar

Dried Longan

Dried Sweetened Melon 

Red Dates 

It's easy to make. Follow the steps below, as easy as ABC 1-2-3:

1. Bring the Cane / Rock Sugar, Dried Longan, Dried Sweetened  Melon, Red Dates to boil.

2. Left the whole pot of soup and ingredients above to cold, make sure cold completely.

3. Washed, drained and cut the seaweed into small pieces, pour into the cold boiled soup and it's ready!

Seaweed is high in iodine, and the local people in KK called it bird's nest from the sea, perhaps the nutrients in the seaweed is similar to the nutrients from bird's nest (i think so). I've got some recipes from the aunty who sold me the seaweed in the market. I decided to try up and modified a bit on the recipe to suits our own taste. It's my first attempt to cook this dessert, hope it works on well. From the pictures you have seen here, i believe you'll know the taste! Hubby loves it! Me also like it, but Carmen only favor the longan and soup only!

Goods From KK

Raw Seaweed fresh from the sea

Another type of Raw Seaweed, the taste & texture just like Japanese fish roe!

Super XXXL Dried Prawns, as big as a 50 cents coin each!

Dried Cuttlefish, suitable for soups

Fish Maw

Dried Seaweed

Silver Anchovies

Anchovies for Carmen & Jeanne porridge

Another type of dried cuttlefish, suitable for stew food

 Super Dried Seaweed, more costly than normal dried Seaweed

At first, i thought of not buying anything, because i hardly cook. But after seeing everyone buying big pack of goods home, i decided to buy something to take home on the last day last minute shopping. I pass Jeanne to my father in law to take care, while Carmen with Daddy, i free myself a couple of hours to do my last minute shopping at the market. You can see some of the things i bought home here. The total purchasing is about RM500+. Unbelievable!

Seafood at KK ~ Extremely Expensive

The most expensive meal we have had, all fresh live seafood from the tank!

The food shown above are the most expensive meal we have had in KK. The food cost us RM800+ per lunch for our group of people. We pick the live seafood from the tank and straight to the kitchen, ready to cook & serve! Let me list down the menu of the day here; clockwise from the top left corner.

1. Salted XXL Life Mantis Prawn
2. Ginger Scallop
3. Boiled Life Prawn
4. Steam Fish
5. Garlic Vegie
6. Steam Abalone
7. Spanner Crab
8. Sabah Vegie with Belacan

Our KK Trip 14.08.10 ~ 16.08.10

Initially, visiting KK was not in my mind until my sister told me that she have got some free air-tickets from Airasia. Therefore, i also try my luck, so that we can join them for a visit.

We end up going in a big group, 11 adults with 2 of my kids. A total of 13 person went for this trip, inclusive of my family members as well as my hubby family members. Many of my friends and colleagues disbelief that both families can be as close as this! Anyhow, i can say that my parents and hubby's parents are really good friends! They even can go for a vacation without us around!

About 2 1/2 hour flights, we reached. We are staying in one of the hotel next to the biggest shopping mall in KK. Our days were to travel for good seafood, sight seeing, and good bargain for the local favorites to be brought home. Most of our time spent on eat, eat, eat and eat! Our 2 girls enjoy the trip very much, this is also their first time in their life to fly!

New Room Decorations

Carmen likes the simple Pooh Cartoon Characters on the wall!

Lately everyone in my family members are crazy about wall stickers. I am interested in it so, i have seen some very artistic and stylish from the beauty center that i used to visit few years back. The lady boss told me that she bought it from IKEA, but i cant find these item there. I only managed to find some cartoon wall stickers which were not so nice, so i forget about the intention already.

My sister in-law assist me to get some from Ipoh, so i pasted some on Carmen's room with hubby when we were free. Here are some of the pictures in Carmen's room.

Fullmoon Dinner 28.8.2010

 At the dinner Carmen posing with newborn baby!

I went back Ipoh after work with hubby to attend my cousin's son fullmoon dinner. It was quite rush, after half day of working Saturday, we proceed back. Luckily the packing was done a day earlier. Our time is just nice when reaching the restaurant.

The event giving us an opportunity for us to meet our long time no see relatives. My sister who are working in Singapore also will be there with us. I am glad that most of my relatives notice that i am losing weight, but to me not much difference, only drop one size. Carmen & Jeanne were so happy socializing around.

When we were done with the dinner on the way home, Carmen asked me why nobody shouted "YAM SENG"? Hmm...... She expects every dinner there will be people tossing. After the dinner, my in-laws and my parents will go for a holiday trip to Ho Chi Minh together. They are even more hectic than us! We stay overnight before going back to Klang at my parents house.

New Bedroom Design

 

Carmen has got her new bedroom! We intend to let her sleep separately from us, wanting her to be independent. I think at the age of 3, we have to start train her. I make her excited by buying her come new furnitures and do a bit of simple decorations for her to create her excitement, by sleeping on her own.

The way she responded to us is very positive, she want it very much to stay in her new room. But unfortunately, she was sick, so we bring her back to our room to stay with us until she is okay. So, when she is alright, we take her to her room, and she insisted that i sleep with her. So, again, the initial plan was spoils again.  So i suggested to Carmen that i will sleep with her, and telling her the truth, that i will leave the room when she asleep. Now, the second attempt also failed!

Now, she use her room to study only. And whenever visitors come to our house, she will borrow her room the others, asking them to take care of the room and not to dirty the room. She will frequent the room for inspection. I've got some wall stickers decorations for her, which myself like it very much! Hubby, me and Carmen spend a few hours just to paste a few sets of stickers in her room.