Mange Tout?

Little did CQ realise that mange tout was actually a vegetable... hahaha. At first CQ thought it was a kind of fish because the word 'tout' seemed to 'look' like trout! Maybe it's time for CQ to check on my eyesight.

Mange Tout is often refered to as sugarsnap peas or snow peas. The word 'mangetout' means 'eat all' in French. It is great when blanched and tossed in salad dressings, steamed or stir-fried. Mange Tout is extremely versatile and can be eaten raw too in salads.

For dinner tonight, CQ tried a new recipe Chicken Mushroom Cream Pasta with Mange Tout by Senor Pablo. You can get the recipe here.

Try it! You will definitely ask for more :)

When Syawal ended with cute slurps

Last weekend marked the end of Syawal. So, before curtains were drawn down, CQ invited a special little girl and her family to have the last raya dinner at CQ's humble home.

CQ prepared one of CQ's signature dish in the kitchen hehehe.. Soto Ayam, of course. CQ was elated to see little Safiya slurrpping the soup to her heart's content. She enjoyed it very much and CQ was sure that little Safiya had a couple of helpings to the soup, but her brother, Syafi Irfan seemed not to be in the mood. He had sleepy eyes =)

After dinner, CQ had a big surprise for little Safiya... a birthday cake - 3 chocolate cupcakes - each marked a year. Yes! Little Safiya turned three years old just few days earlier.

Ohhh... don't worry, CQ did not bake the cupcakes hehehe..

Little Safiya Imani and her family at CQ's dinner table =)

Well, if you remember this story, it gives CQ an idea. Maybe next year CQ will organize a 'Raya Kids Open House at CQ's' ..huhu

Partners in crime!

It was drizzling the whole day. You can either hibernate or laze on your couch and watch movies all day long. CQ is enjoying home life lah huhu ...

Cold weather like this always makes CQ feeling hungry hehee ...so for dinner, CQ whipped up Queen Za's heavenly Black Pepper Spaghetti. It is so simple and you can even cook it when you have impromptu guests.

Ingredients:
1 packet of thin spaghetti - boiled and drained well
1 packet of crab meat - wedged or cut into 3's
5 cloves of garlic - minced
5 tbsp of black pepper sauce
4 tbsp of oyster sauce
some shitake mushroom - cleaned and sliced
1 tbsp of chopped spring onion
1 red chilli - sliced

How you cook it:
1. Sautee the minced garlic till fragrant, then add crab meat and stir well.
2. Add the sauces and shitake mushroom. Fry thoroughly and season accordingly.
3. A few minutes later, put in the spaghetti, spring onion and red chili. Stir well.


Partners in crime for the Black Pepper Spaghetti is of course the Black Pepper Buffalo Wings - not that buffaloes have wings =) - but they are large-sized chicken wings huhu.

Marinate the chicken wings in a bowl with pounded 2 cloves garlic and half inch ginger. Add 4 tbsp of black pepper sauce. After 2 hours, you can oven-grill the chicken wings till cooked. hmmm yummmy =) or you can also opt to grill or barbecue a whole chicken in percik sauce.

Dinner dates

This is an overdue post and it's all about food. CQ and family had dinner dates at the following impiana cribs huhuu ...

@ Sams'

Mr. Sam cooked up a simple chicken dish. The ingredients included onions, garlic and red chillies plus grilled chicken!

simply delicious

Mrs. Sam cooked her best ikan asam pedas ...not so pedas tho' hehehe


@ LadyRider's

Woweee Ladyrider prepared a spread of yummy dishes that night (2 weeks ago hehe). There were beef stew, sauteed bean sprouts, fish that was panggang-ed, fried sambal tempe, fried salted terubuk (it's a fish with many bones) and of course not forgetting CQ contributed the infamous fried naked chicken huhuu ..

these were the belanak fish that were panggang-ed =)


@KB with BinAzs'

That night we had dishes prepared by CQ's mommy-inlaw and BinAz =)

freshly sauteed bean sprouts with pea beans?

the show-stopper-dish - BinAz's super-duper grilled chicken

...it was gone within minutes!

Wishes came true ..

.. for Kimchi to have her favorite sushi and pizza on her big 16th buzzday. Yesterday, Bigboss & CQ gave her a surprise tea-time sushi at home huhu ...

A birthday card Kimchi recieved from her SGians cousins - Tengkorak Ash, Nata de Coco & SyarSyar, aunties and uncles. It came 3 days earlier and she ONLY got to open on the actual day! *evil grin* ...

Here are the sushi ..specially flown from the city of Koriyama!

For buzzday dinner, we had pizza at Fratini's.

Bigboss & CQ had Blue Float while Kimchi had Banana Oreo Milkshake for our drinks.

For the main dish, CQ ordered Beef tenderloin. OK! what's wrong with this picture - yeah besides the poor snapshot?? Presentation was so dull BUT taste was awesome! So it's like minus one plus one huhu ..

Errr ...where's the buzzday cake? boo hoo hoo ...

smokeless kitchen

It had been raining since morning...and my kitchen has gone smokeless for the day, so we decided to have grilled lamb chops for dinner at our favorite restaurant in Kampung Eye-Eye.

Look at that! It's simply delicious and finger-licking to the bones ...lols. Bigboss and Kimchi ordered fresh orange juice. I had cool lime juice. Then we headed home lah...