Kuala Lumpur sur Seine

The Multifaces of chocolate cake

Same chocolate cake but with different kind of topping. One with warm vanilla sauce and candied kumquat, and other just a simple chocolate sauce and fresh kumquat. Both have their own taste..

And the battle begin

The question is, WHO will get the last bite of this delicious chocolate cake?

Even for Karim, who is not a chocolate cake lover have to admit that this cake are good, and he even said that this is the lightest choc. cake he ever had beside brownies. It is true, most of the chocolate cakes that I've made before or even the shop bought are quite heavy. 

The marriage of the kumquat with the chocolate sauce bring the citrusy twist to this cake. The mixture of dark, intense and fresh at the same time. I've always known that orange and chocolate are a great duo, but never tried it myself until today. Having said that, I never tried eating the kumquat itself or how to eat it.  I have to googled the word kumquat and found few interesting sites how to candied the kumquat of how to eat it..funny, if Louisa didn't insisted to buy it, we will never have this delicious tea break..

Picnicking a la Malaysian...

It's been a nice day for picnicking and we decided that we should go outside and enjoy it while it last. Direction to the Aspire Park. Karim dropped me and the kids there and zoom off to the mosque near by. While waiting for papa to finish his friday prayer, the kids had a jolly good time running, climbing and err fighting for a few broken branches and I'm trying very hard to protect myself from the wind - well it's not that very windy, but when you have running nose and bad sinus, that won't help much

To keep it true to the picnicking a la Malaysian, Nasi Lemak came through my mind and everybody agreed with my choice of food, well they can't really aren't they? Louisa and Rayan keep on asking when is papa coming over cos they starting to get hungry, silly me, shud have bring the cool box with me but since it's too heavy i told Karim that he can bring it later once the he's done in the mosque.

I almost fell asleep when Karim came around, and the kids jumping with joy seeing the...cool box! Yay foods are here..and papa too...LOL

In all, we had a great afternoon, nice nap after the heavy lunch but my sinus getting worse..we can't have it all isn't it?

3 more days...maybe

Countdown for Eid, InsyaAllah in 3 days Muslims people all over the world will celebrate this auspicious day. I'm quite excited myself as this year, i managed to do it compare to last year and the year before due to my health problem. Alhamdulillah, that's all I can say.

When we say Eid, it's rhyme with the delicacies that some of us prepare for that day. Tempted to do so many things but lack of time (or too lazy to do it). I only managed to do some cookies, some are well known from Malaysia and some are from Algeria (and surrounding).

Khataif or Kataifi?

Which ever it is, it's still good and laden of butter that can make your heart clog! Specialty from Mediterannean countries, katafi or khataif  (as known in Northen African) is a very fine vermicelli like dough pastry used to make a sweets patisseries, often with a dried fruits filling like pistachios, almonds or walnuts, brush with melted butter. Baked until golden brown (I've yet to achieve this - and practise make perfect - that I know too) , then dip in honey or syrup..(recipe to follow)

 

Sinfully pleasure...

Blah..blah..blah..

Maybe since I'm doing the fasting, everything seems to halt and even my brain aren't working properly either. The only thing i can imagine now is a lovely soft pillow to put my head on...dream on as the kids running in the living room doing best what they can do..

It's a 2nd day of ramadhan and I've been keeping myself busy too..I was bit scared if i will fell sick like last year, but Alhamdulillah so far I don't have any problem. Louisa did fasting  yesterday but only for a half day, I told her she can start doing it half a day and slowly she can prolonged her fasting. But still, we are proud of her.

Last night Iftar, I prepared Chorba, Briks and Griouche (Algerian/Moroccan patisserie). For today, we will just finish the rest of the soup and some Beghrir (also known as Crepe with 1000 holes).

  

p/s: i told you my brain are not working well..I can't even make a proper sentence...

Ohayo Gozaimas

 What? Yeah..yeah,,it's still the same blog by the same writer..but what with this Japanese greeting? Well actually I'm making some japanese food tonight, so I guess, it's quite normal if i write one or to words in their mother tongue.

I've prepare some miso soup that I did from scratch except for the miso paste that i bought from the supermarket. Normally I bought instant powder but since we're in Qatar, instant miso are quite difficult to find.  I'm very happy with the result and I'm very lucky as I got most of the stuff with me in the fridge.

Later with Louisa, she help me to prepare sushi, but I was quite dissapointed with the vinegar rice, i followed the instructions but the rice turn out to be quite dry and it's not sticky enough, thus the sushi look quite messy, but Louisa told me, the taste are more important than the look..lovely girl, you know how to console you sad mummy...

For next course, it will be prawn, aubergine and mushrooms tempura. For this I have to do it last minutes as I don't want it to be soggy by the time we will have our dinner.

Hadakaimasu (Bon appetite)

 

Louisa helping in the kitchen and preparing herself a sushi with fish roe, strip of omelette and smoked salmon.

               

and this is our lunch few days ago, beef and chicken teppanyaki (Japanese Week?)

Chorba le grec...

Haaaa I'm sure i got your attention with the title itself. It got nothing to do with the Greek people at all. Actually it was our dinner last night, chorba or a soup. Normally eaten during ramadhan. but, hey, why do we have to wait for ramadhan to have this delicious soup isn't it? I make some msemen, a kind of galette or flat bread but also similar to Malaysian pratha or roti canai. Hmm, i will make some curry tomorrow to eat with the rest of the bread.

It's been dusty since few days ago, all the outside activities have been stop for us, means no swimming pool or playing outside. It's quite warm too though the thermometer only shows 44 C. Hopefully this dusty thing will go very soon as the kids start to agitate staying indoor all the time.

I will update my Food Album that I have long forgotten very soon..God help me to find the courage to do it!

 

Pasta...dans tout ses etats.....

 

  

 

Pasar Malam in Doha

 Pasar Malam or literally a night market was organised by the Malaysian Embassy were held last night in the embassy compound. When we reached there, there's so many people, locals (i mean Malaysians) and some other nationalities too. It was a very successful event I could say. Everybody happy with their purchased, like me. The smell of grilled satay, voices of kids screaming (probably got lost among the crowds), people laughing and chatting every where. It's a very jovial atmosphere...how I miss this.

Karim and Rayan didn't stay very long, as he's quite sick last night, vomiting in the car and complaining for the headache and Karim decided to wait for me in the car..poor Rayan