Steam, Cook and Bake
It has been a week since I last typed for this blog. It has been more than two weeks since I started to assume my post as a housewife (without the 'wife' part, the man that I wanted to marry, sat on his 'high and mighty throne' and decided that I am not good enough to be his wife, so here I am, husband-less ;)- heh rephrase that, I am more or less, a cook; a chef (without the white uniform and hat).
I am beginning to enjoy this stay-at-home-to-care-for-the-household role. There seemed to be less stress on the mind but it is the physical exertion that pulled me a few recipe back. I said this before, I am not kidding... it really is tiring and all the time I was thinking about our mom that woke up early morning just to prepare breakfast, lunch and dinner without fail. Yes, we do have maids but our mom preferred to prepare the food herself. Sometimes even when she was not feeling well, she would still come up with food for us on the table. Forget about other responsibilities, cooking for the family... something that we sometimes took for granted... How much have we been appreciating these?
So, my days were filled with other responsibilities as well... and my free time? guess again. I halted on the food business and decided to try my hand at sewing. So I went off to get more thread for my mom's sewing machine. When I tried changing the bobbin (a new term I discovered after searching the Internet to find out how to put the parts to get it to work) I fumbled and was as frustrated again (This was not my first time, I did this with my sis sometimes ago and we really got difficulty getting it in place). And no, I did not get it to work properly. The needle snapped.... again!!! Hey, I am not the person that gave up easily (huh? say what?) but at that moment, I packed everything and stared at the machine, my hands still holding the nightdress that I decided to patch (my favorite deep purple-maroon dress is still in its sorry state). On the bright side, I still wear that dress every time when its not part of the laundry. So that happened to be a one day 'misadventure'.
I tried my hands at making bao (pau). The first time I found the recipe at My Resipi.com. I replaced the vegetable fat with margarine and got an edible yellowish looking bao. For the second time I finally bought the vegetable fat and got a near perfect bao (but I forgot to add the baking powder)... also edible. And just yesterday, I got every single ingredients in... and used 2 kilo of flour. The mixer was halfway to the brim that I got difficulty operating it. It was a challenge to get the ingredients to form a smooth dough... but I finally prepared about 60 pieces of soft bao which I sent to the Surau after Maghrib prayer.
Oh well, I do not want to bore you with all of my exciting kitchen adventure... so I might refrain from updating you with posts that involve any vocabulary directly related to the steam, cook or bake academy!
I am beginning to enjoy this stay-at-home-to-care-for-the-household role. There seemed to be less stress on the mind but it is the physical exertion that pulled me a few recipe back. I said this before, I am not kidding... it really is tiring and all the time I was thinking about our mom that woke up early morning just to prepare breakfast, lunch and dinner without fail. Yes, we do have maids but our mom preferred to prepare the food herself. Sometimes even when she was not feeling well, she would still come up with food for us on the table. Forget about other responsibilities, cooking for the family... something that we sometimes took for granted... How much have we been appreciating these?
So, my days were filled with other responsibilities as well... and my free time? guess again. I halted on the food business and decided to try my hand at sewing. So I went off to get more thread for my mom's sewing machine. When I tried changing the bobbin (a new term I discovered after searching the Internet to find out how to put the parts to get it to work) I fumbled and was as frustrated again (This was not my first time, I did this with my sis sometimes ago and we really got difficulty getting it in place). And no, I did not get it to work properly. The needle snapped.... again!!! Hey, I am not the person that gave up easily (huh? say what?) but at that moment, I packed everything and stared at the machine, my hands still holding the nightdress that I decided to patch (my favorite deep purple-maroon dress is still in its sorry state). On the bright side, I still wear that dress every time when its not part of the laundry. So that happened to be a one day 'misadventure'.
I tried my hands at making bao (pau). The first time I found the recipe at My Resipi.com. I replaced the vegetable fat with margarine and got an edible yellowish looking bao. For the second time I finally bought the vegetable fat and got a near perfect bao (but I forgot to add the baking powder)... also edible. And just yesterday, I got every single ingredients in... and used 2 kilo of flour. The mixer was halfway to the brim that I got difficulty operating it. It was a challenge to get the ingredients to form a smooth dough... but I finally prepared about 60 pieces of soft bao which I sent to the Surau after Maghrib prayer.
Oh well, I do not want to bore you with all of my exciting kitchen adventure... so I might refrain from updating you with posts that involve any vocabulary directly related to the steam, cook or bake academy!
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