Pulau Sayak

I made a very small entry of Pulau Sayak over at my travel journal , but I know I need to make more entries, or add more photos of the place since it is gorgeous. Locals like to go there for it’s quite cheap mee udang, and some even claimed that it is better than mee udang sg. dua. Well, I had been eating the mee udang Sri Penambang at Sg. Dua ever since I was in high school, and I still thinks that it is better .

Yes, I know. I should have made more entries, especially since it is Ramadhan, and I do cook more these days compared to before. It is just that I felt like there is nothing to write about. Day in and out, I do the same thing. Day in and out, we would be breaking fast together (me and Tia, though Tia did not puasa lah ya heh) since the husband would be back quite late.

No complaints there, really. Just that I have nothing to write about.

Yes, I know. I should take photos of the dishes that I cooked and then put it over at my kitchen journal . But I am not sure why, I don’t feel like doing that, either.

Weird. I know. But hopefully this state (watever it is, melancholy might be close) would soon pass. Or else this journal would soon turn into another online movie reviews site. Ha ha

And no, the photo had nothing to do with whatever I am rambling today. And no, it was not taken recently. It was taken last February. And no, I did not snap it, either :p

Play dough

I am not really talking about playdough the kiddie dough stuff, actually. I am referring to fondant. I am not sure what fondant’s are, but I am so enamored with its end result.

I am not a good baker. I could bake some cakes, some breads (if I was lucky enough to knead the dough well), and some cheesecake. OK, so I could bake some delicious cheesecakes, but I was lucky that I found one very fool proof cheesecake recipe.

Again, I am off tangent. I could cook OK, but baking is still a hit and miss thing. I wished that I do more baking, actually. I always wanted to be a better cook, even thought of going to culinary school to learn pastry and baking. I could do that, I supposed, when Tia is older, and when we have that extra moolah stuck here or there.

The idea of going to culinary school had been there for a long time, even when I was still in college back in Memphis. But of course, I had no recourse and no resources of changing my major back then, so I had to stick to what I was doing. I am not sure what I would be doing should there were any options of changing into culinary school then. I am not sure where I would be, what I would be doing. But those are not worth thinking about since I did not go into culinary school. Close the book on that one, and just move on.

Well, move on I did, but the idea of going to culinary school is still at the back of my mind. Baking and pastry school, that is, because I am not interested to go to cooking school. Let me rephrase that. I know that I wanted to culinary school, but my main interest would be in baking and pastry. If I was able to do that, and finish the course, I might want to go into cooking school afterwards. But then, there are gazillion of things that I need to learn in baking school, so maybe I should stick to that, yes?

What’s with all these talk about going back to school, yes? Probably I just wanted to relive the joy of being in school. The joy of almost not having much to be responsible for, I guess :).

But anyway, I know there are culinary school in Malaysia, but I don’t think our financial situation would permits me to apply to one.

But that’s besides that point. Point it, I wanted to learn how to do cakes like the one above. Simple, yes, since I gotta start at the simplest ones, no?

Don’t you just love that little jumping monkey, eh?

08.08.08

I almost forgotten to post this one up, since I had nothing to write for the past week or so.

Had been too lazy to think of something to write, or had been too lazy to write when something just nagged in my head.

Been too lazy to put up more photos, since I was too lazy to take up more photos this time.

Key word is : Lazy.

People do associate being fat as being lazy.

Sometimes I wonder how do people come to that conclusion.

Maybe because fat people like me just said that they are lazy?

Heh.

Something to really ponder at, right?

Bah

This is really not good. We are here, for the time being, at Damansara, at the husband’s apartment. I have most things that I need to cook, but if I wanted to bake, there is no oven here. None.

And when there is no oven around, I have this hankering for some desserts. It could be good ol’ chocolate cake, it could be a pie. It could be anything baked.

Well, actually, I do have something that I wanted to try. I wanted to try baking this meringue. I had never attempted to bake any meringues before. It does look complicated, and I am not sure whether I would be able to do it, but heck, at least I could try, yes?

But then, I would have to wait until we go home to Kedah, or if we get one over here. But then, if we do get one over here, we then would have to buy all those baking products, like the mixer, all the pans and tins etc etc etc. How could I justify getting all those stuffs when all I wanted was to make one measly fruit meringue? You tell me.
Bah.

So now if we wanted to eat any chocolate cakes or any desserts, we would go to the bakery. Or we would go and pick one of those ice cream cakes from Haagen-Dazs. However you spell it. It is exorbitantly priced, so I don’t think that would be one we would get even once a month. We get this one, almost similar like this, I mean, and it costs us bunch. How could people spend that much monthly,

I am not sure. We must have a lot of well-to-do folks about, eh?

Perhaps their grow money on trees. It keeps on growing, eh?

I would like to have a money tree, come to think of it.

Anyways, we don’t really spend that much on desserts anyways. Our favorite would be the one that we get over at McDonald’s. Really.

I have taken some photos of the Haagen-Dazs torte, but I haven’t uploaded it to the photo gallery. So I would put it up here later. Much, much later. Maybe. Perhaps.
So OK I would put it up later on. I am anal like that.

Yum. I definitely would want to have these raspberries on the meringue.