You say Po-tah-to, I say Po-tay-to

I have been at home a lot lately and it does get to me that I end up bored. So I have been trying to learn on my cooking.

I always love potato salad, of course I never get enough of it and always wonder how people make them.

So I decided to try to make my own after surfing for recipes.

Ingredients (this amount serves 1-2 (for a meal) 2-3 (as a meal side dish)):

500gm Red Skin Potatoes

1 cup Mayonaise

1 tbs Djion Mustard

1 tbs Distilled White Vinegar

1 Whole Yellow Onion - finely chopped (more onions if you like)

2 Eggs

Wash the potatoes of its any dirt on the skin. Bring a pot to put in the potatoes and fill in water to cover the potatoes ans bring to boil for about 15-20minutes. Use a fork to test the potatoes for you want the potatoes to be soft but yet still firm. Set the potatoes aside and let it cool. Once it is cool, cut the potatoes in halves or quarters (up to your liking) leaving the skin on.

Another smaller pot, put the eggs in the water, enough to cover the eggs. Cover the pot, let the water come to a boil and remove from heat immediately. With the pot still cover, leave the eggs in the pot for 15-20minutes. Peel and mash / chop / dice the eggs.

In a bowl mix the Mayonaise, Djion Mustard, Distilled White Vinegar, the chopped onions and the eggs together. Test the sauce and see how you want it to taste. I liked it with more onions so I eventually added another half yellow onion.

Once you are satisfied with the sauce taste, pour it over the now cooled potatoes, mix it and refrigerate the whole thing for about 2-3hours.

Then your potato salad is ready to be serve.

So do you say po-tay-to or po-tah-to?

Hope you enjoy this :).

An Observer...

Days when I have to iron the clothes, I would have this feeling that I am being watched and sure enough I was never wrong when I looked for this observer that just stood at a corner observing me.

The observer being all white, with black patches all over it body will just remain there as long as I am ironing the clothes. If I am there for an hour, it will be there for an hour. Scary much?

So one day, when I was ironing the clothes I decided to bring along my digital camera to see if I can capture this observer and show all of  you.

So I did. Here's the white observer each time I iron the clothes.

Hahaha! What were you thinking? :p

MIL's cat.. each time, I mean really each time, if I am ironing the clothes she will stand at that very same corner and observe me from a far.

It is weird honestly, I really wonder why.

Just look at it. Peeking at me... and the best part is, it doesn't do that if hubs is the one ironing. Only when I am ironing.

Curiousity kills the cat? Hehe.

Anyone knows why does the cat do that?

Such Disappointment

Hubs and I went out for some groceries shopping. While we were out, we decided to have lunch.Hubs craving for “Wan Tan” Noodles so we went to The Old Pontian Café that is best known for their “Wan Tan” Noodles.

Hubs ordered the Dry (large) “Wan Tan” Noodles, I had the Soup (Small) “Wan Tan” Noodles.

The cashier actually got hubs order wrong and gave him two dry noodles instead of one soup and when hubs told her it was the wrong order, she had the nerve to actually insist that hubs order dry one small one large and kept trying to argue with hubs. Like what the hell? Unwilling to admit her mistake… duh.

Here’s a picture of her, the red square… to be nice, I will protect her identity and blurred out her face.

Here is a picture of the noodles I had.

Looks presentable but the taste was not as good. It was quite bland and the noodles were slightly overcooked so it ended up a bit soggy like.

I didn’t managed to get a picture of hubs noodles, I totally forgot and by the time I remembered, I already actually mix up all the stuffs haha!

Hubs said the noodles was soggy as well and bland. Looks like they will now be well known for “Soggy, bland noodles”. Guess they no longer as good as hubs used to know it to be.

Totally disappointed, and to worsen the meal the cashier had to be such a day spoiler. Food is paid upon order so we couldn’t of leave. What would you have done if you were in that situation?

My Sick Meal

During the period when I was sick, I ate a lot of bread

picture from the web

and Marie Biscuits with milk.

picture from the web

Got to love the Marie Biscuits when soaked in milk and slightly soft, yet not too soft… I should learn how to make this into a dessert thingy. Anyone got any idea how? Or maybe a good link to lead me to it? I saw a lot of pudding things, but I want something that has no pudding thingy… nor chocolate too haha! Anyone? Anyone?

Anyway, eventually my diet from the time I am sick became just white porridge and an egg dish.

My personal favourite the minced meat fried egg.

Ingredients:
200gsm of minced meat
3 eggs
1 tbs of dark soya sauce
2 tbs of soya sauce
2 tbs of oil

Mix the egg with the soya sauce and dark soya sauce. Don’t have to beat the egg too hard, we do not need it too bubbly :p.

Put in the minced meat, mix.

Put the oil in a non-stick frying pan, heat it up, pour in the egg mixture and start frying. You can try to make it in an omelette shape or even without breaking it. But I can never do that, so I find it way easier to just break into pieces haha.

With this, and a bowl of plain white porridge I am good for a meal.

Do you have a simple meal to share? Anyone can lead me to make dessert with Marie Biscuits?

Another Visit...

Yesterday I went to see the doctor again since my nose started to act up and my cough have worsen every night.

Doctor asked a lot of questions;

Conversation with the doctor :
Doctor : Do you travel by MRT to work?

Me : No I stopped working, haven’t used the MRT since.

Doctor : Why is your body resistance very weak?
Me : *laughed*
(er… shouldn’t you be telling me why, doc? I thought to myself)

Doctor : You have seen the doctor *flips through my card* December, January, March, April, June, July, August and now…
Me : Er… some of those are mostly stomach discomfort
(feeling like some stupid kid... I think the doctor thinks I am refusing to go to work.)

Doctor : Why not try to avoid using the MRT for 2 months and see how it goes?
Me : I have not been taking the MRT since I stopped working…
Doctor : Oh, you are resting now
(Yea duh what I said earlier. Were you listening?)
Me : In between jobs.

Doctor : Avoid going near or touching any dogs or cats.
Me : That is going to be hard… there is a cat that stays in the house 24 hours a day.

Doctor : What? Cats are the most dangerous creature. Especially their saliva; it has a lot of bacteria and viruses. Since you used to be asthmatic, their fur is very critical to you.
(silence….)

Doctor : Ok so you don't need a MC right?
Me : No.
(seriously this doctor wasn't listening -_-;;)

Ok so what should I do? Hubs and I can’t even get it to my MIL’s head that the cat shouldn’t be in the house at all! I told my husband about it, I know it is hard for him… but he got to try. I really don’t want to keep seeing the doctor and relying on medications like this especially since now that I am spending more time at home than I am out of it, I can’t be sick for so long.

Let’s hope MIL will understand but I have this very heavy doubt it will happen. If the cat still stays in the house, I might just have to think of something else…

Any suggestions?

Learning Mom's Recipe...

Hi All,

Sorry for my disappearance; eventually falling sick was definitely a no fun. I am still coughing now, and it somehow seems that my fever would come back anytime which is no good if it does. So I am feeling up to the weather today, so I decided to drop by and see what’s going on in the blogosphere and of course post as well ^_^v.

Today I will be posting of food! Yes you hear me right foooood :p.

Before proceeding to the food, I would like to apologize to any Malay readers of my blog as this will be “non-halal”.

I always loved my mom’s braised pig’s heart but never knew how to cook it. So when I went back to Malaysia I asked my mom and only to find out it was easy peasy! Geeez! Haha. So I tried to cook it (lets hope I don’t poison hubs haha!)

Ingredients: 1 whole Pig’s Heart

100gm Sliced Pork 3-4 Cloves of diced Garlic

4 diced Shallots
4 tbs Soya Sauce
2 tbs Dark Soya Sauce
1 tbs Chinese Cooking Wine.

Marinade the sliced pig’s heart & sliced pork with soya sauce, dark soya sauce and chinese cooking wine. Put it in the refrigerator to let the marinating sit in for about 15minutes.

Then heat up the frying pan with some oil (I used pork lard oil). Put in the garlic and shallots, fry until slightly brown, then put in the marinated pig’s heart and sliced pork. Stir fry for about 15minutes and if you like more sauce just add more water soya sauce to make sure the saltiness remains.

Then your pig’s hearts is ready to be served with rice.

I always love this dish with only rice.
I am a really saucy person for this dish so technically I would definitely have more of it haha!

Hope you enjoy this :).

My Sincere Apologies...

To all my blogosphere friends;

I truly apologize for my lack of presence at your blog. I have been trying to blog surf, but I can’t seem to concentrate much due to my sickness. Hence I gave up and went to rest.

I will be back as soon as I recover. For now, I will absent myself from your blog. With this I thank you for still dropping by my blog. Truly appreciated it.

Thank you all and I truly miss all of you.

Surprise!

I have been busy with job hunting;

and of course attending interviews.

So I didn’t have time to blog even when I am in between jobs now.

Last Sunday I started burning of a 38.5c fever.

Temperature was fluctuating; suddenly it was 38.0c then suddenly I am all right at normal body temperature. But today my temperature is retaining at 38.0c, coughing and feels like pulling my whole throat out.

But today isn’t about my health.

On the 3rd August 2011; hubs was acting extremely weird. Kept going on about something of some surprise which was weird! After some time of waiting for it at home, “the surprise” came. He presented me with “the surprise” and I was like speechless! I actually shrieked and hugged him!

Guess what he gave me?

Samsung Galaxy S II.

*squeeaaaaals*

This mobile phone is like slim, sleek, vivid clear screen. Super amoled plus screen! Look at the screen color.

Don’t mind the picture, my camera was dying -_-;;

Why the surprise gift?

I have been using a HTC Touch HD for 2 years and of course no not because it is an old phone, in fact the phone was really good… but… yes there is a but… I dropped the phone at my office, face down and the screen *craaaaaaack* into pieces. Ah yes, my precious mobile phone screen cracked.

So hubs got me a Samsung Galaxy S II. My first Android mobile phone; making full use of it… downloading every free app I possibly think I need haha!

Thank you hubs for making me awesomely happy. ^_^v

Have you ever got a surprise that makes you awesomely happy?

Wenn

How did I come from?

Ever wonder how the nickname of ladyviral came to me?

The nickname ladyviral came about during the days of mIRC. That was like more than a decade ago!
It all started when my love for Vipers (it was a car! Not the person!)

and decided to called myself “ViperGal”. But during that time, there was this guy named V|pEr (or something) and everyone kept asking me “Are you Viper’s girlfriend?” Er… Who is Viper?

Even at some point of time, Mr. Viper and I actually was like “ok since everyone said we are an item, might as well just say yes to stop them from asking hahaha!”

But eventually then I got bored after. I wanted a name that starts with V. I went from Vain, to Veins, to Vin and was like… eh? Sounds uncool!

So then I went for Virus and to make me known as a female I added Lady in front of Virus.

But it was still uncool. It was too common, too bland. I actually flipped the dictionary back then to see what other meaning was there for Virus and I found Viral. Sounds special, unique and no body would know about it (back then of course)! I got asked a lot “What does Viral means?” I replied “Something that infects you” :p

So that is how the nickname ladyviral came about. Lame right? I know… (-_-);;

How did your nickname come about?

Keep Falling...

Saturday hubs and I decided to go to Chinatown to eat porridge dinner.

Journey there was all good, we had snacks on the way (ah yes… snacks… so much for diet right? >.<) The porridge place is always crowded, so sharing table was always the only option.

Throughout the meal it was normal. Hubs and I had froggies cooked in black sweet sauce. As the meal was about to come to an end, one of the ginger dropped on me and stained my shorts.

Eager to wash it, I pushed the chair I was on to get up;

The leg of the chair instead of moving got stuck; bend and I fell on my bump.

Knock on my head to the table behind me and was like having all crowd eyes on me. What do people do? Watched….

Then I got up, to walk over to the toilet to get my shorts washed. Missed the kerb step, tripped and fell down, scrapping my right knee.

As I was down, all I heard was someone going “Oh My God” right beside me. Er… so where was the help to get me up? Ok... maybe because I am female, people don't want to be like sued for molest haha!

Besides that, it was like catastrophe! One bad thing happened right after another. I wonder why… Could it be a sign of something?

What’s going on?

Friday...

It is Friday!

Tomorrow I am on my off Saturday!

But today is a rainy day.

Tomorrow got to clean the house.

I think I will go jogging today.

I wonder how true that would be haha!

I always end up being lazy.

Oh well, it is today or tomorrow I guess :p.

Have a great weekend all!

A run I never did...

Yesterday (Sunday, 10th July 2011);

In conjunction of the Jurong Lake Run 2011, my company participated in the 5km run hosting the company’s Family Day as well. There is a 10km run as well, of course definitely not for me haha! To find out more of this run visit Jurong Lake Run 2011.

Waking up as early as my usual working day, haha hubs and I prepared to go run!

At about 8:15am; the run would be about to start.

Look at the horde of people!

The start point;

Looks like I am going run ^^

It was a really sunny day!

So going to be burnt

Of course, I am not a runner. Not trained… Jogging, and stopping and taking pictures and jogging again. Blogger got to take pictures of places they go don’t they? Haha! But the view of the place will be blog in later days :P

Took me under 1 hour to complete the 5km stretch.

Finish line! Whoppee!

I managed in the end :p ... with a price to pay. My whole body ended up aching through the day… It is still now; guess I need more training haha!

The amount of people that ran;

Who would of imagined there is so many runners in Singapore gathering of today.

Have you joined any charity run before?