Ramadhan 1432

 Dah setengah bulan kita berpuasa. I'm proud of Alysa. She managed to fast 5 days so far. Mula2 dulu puasa setengah hari. Balik kindy, dia akan berbuka around 2-3pm. Ada 1 day dulu, early ramadhan, dia melalak kelaparan coz Cik Jun tak bagi dia berbuka awal. Nampak macam kebuluran hearing the sound of her wails.:D

 But last week masa kitaorang bawak dia for raya shopping straight away after kindy, dia tak de chance le berbuka awal. Lepas tu pujuk if she could fast until 7.30pm, we would buy her Mc D double cheese burger. Boleh pulak dia puasa sampai iftar. Just nak train her tummy considering dia ni kaki makan . Tapi I pun tak nak le push dia sangat coz dia bersahur dgn sebotol susu 6 oz je. Nampak dehydrated je kalau berpuasa. I allowed her to fast every other day.When she did fast, we rewarded her with her fav food. Dah berapa kali ek dia request double cheese burger..Tapi tak de lah ikut sangat..

 This Ramadhan, I tak rajin nak experiment dengan resepi baru. Baby Airis asyik nak melekat je. Sometimes tu time masak, dia sampai bergayut kat kaki I. So, normally after 6.15pm baru masuk dapur. Kalau orang dukung dia, senyum sampai telinga le. Otherwise, melalak macam nak tercabut anak tekak. So, when Hubby asked me about kuih raya, I said nak kena tengok mood Baby Airis la. Tapi plan tu next week baru nak start buat kuih raya..

 So far, kitaorang dah balik berbuka kat kg dah 2x. Menu as usual la penuh meja. Mak masuk dapur since pagi. Tak kuasa I nak masuk dapur dari pagi to prepare for iftar kalau kat rumah sendiri..

Menu berbuka kat kg..

Masak Anga Ayam - a must have menu during raya

Daging Masak Wira - Another favourite especially for Bang Cik & family

      
Jeruk Maman - Kedahan's old dish

Note: This ramadhan, Alysa managed to fasrt 13 days. I'm proud of her.

Snip, Snip & Beef Eggplant Stew

Alysa loves having long hair but she likes to let it loose. Tapi yang tak laratnye time sikat rambut! Since she has curly hair, I dreaded the time of combing her hair. Rambut dia dah panjang sampai tengah belakang. Her papa forbade me to cut her hair. When we were in Jakarta last year, K.Jun managed to cut her front fringe. Terpendek le pulak. Terus Hubby tak happy muka anak dia toye je..:D. Makin nampak le kebulatan dia.
 The other day on weekends, hubby got to handle their bath time. Time dia sikat rambut Alysa..ha baru dia tau betapa susahnya nak manage her hair! Tu after dah letak Sunsilk Leave On. So, dia pulak yang tanya Alysa nak potong rambut tak. As usual la, Alysa tak bagi. Pujuk ajak pegi hairdresser pun tak mau. So, we gave permission to Cik Jun to cut her hair. Masa tgh mandi petang, masa Cik Jun tgh shampoo rambut dia, terus snip ( as Adik loves to say it.. ) je rambut Alysa. Nasib sama & dia pun tak sedar. But, later after kitaorang puji rambut baru dia cantik, dia ok je la..hehe..

Alysa's new hair-cut

Hari tu I ada wat Beef Eggplat Stew. I first had this dish at Turkish Mum restaurant. Baru nak post photo. Normally, kalau eggplant ni, buat sambal or dalca je. Tapi instead of using minced beef mcm kat restaurant tu, I used sliced beef. Simple but nice.

Beef & Eggplant Stew

Ingredients:
300gm beef , sliced
1 eggplant, cut into small pieces & fried.
1 tomato, cut into 6 pieces
1 capsicum, chopped
1 garlic, thinly sliced
1 shallot, thinly sliced
1 onion, sliced
1 inch ginger, thinly sliced
3 tbs tomato sauce / paste
water
salt / sugar to taste

Directions:
1. Fry the garlic, shallot and ginger until fragrant. Add onion. Then add in the beef until cook.Pour in tomato sauce
2. Add capsicum, tomato, onion and the fried eggplant followed by water.
3. Season with salt and sugar and let the stew simmer until a bit thickened.
4. Serve with rice.