Ramadan dish

Ramadan the best month ever. Fasting ain't easy, the thirst, the hunger, the weaknesses but it always feels peaceful. It is good to cook different kinds of food at the end of the day and eat together with family, it is like you are rewarding yourself for the fast. Prayers are also very important during this month but you also have to eat good food.

Locally made pasta

Locally made pasta is really interesting. Using a manual pasta maker.
It is like washing your clothes and then drying them on the rope, thats how pasta is being dried, and it dries really amazingly.
I found it interesting really, never came across someone making it but now.

Pasta in soup with chicken and sauteed minced beef.

Cooked spinach topped with mayo

This is a plain cooked spinach i made for my dinner. Well i ate it with toast, you can still have it plain it taste really good.

I put the raw spinach in a boiling water and turn it so as to cook.
I then added little salt to make it tasty.
Top it with mayonaise will add taste.

Bon appetit!

spicy spinach, peanut and beef stew with tortilla

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients:

minced beef
ground peanut
spinach
ground cinnamon
curry
crushed garlic
dry ginger powder
dried thyme
lemon grass powder
pepper
salt
stock cubes
tomato paste
onion 
oil

Method:

1. Heat 1tbsp oil in a frying pan and fry beef lightly until golden brown. Remove from oil and set aside.
2. In same pan add a tbsp oil and fry onions to golden brown then add tomato paste and garlic and fry while stirring for 30 secs.
3. Add water to pan and the beef to bring to a boil till meat is tender.
4. Add peanut and spinach.
5. lastly add the remaining spices and taste for salt and pepper.

 I didn't write the measurement of the ingredients cos i forgot to measure when i was cooking, forgive me for that. 

For tortilla recipe scroll down. :)

 

Veggie stew (6)

Ingredients:

Meat cut into cubes (depends on the amount of meat you want)

10 Red pepper

3 Small onions

1 tbs crushed garlic

1 small cabbage

3 large carrots

Salt

Vegetable oil (as desired)

1 tsp low fat butter

3 tbs tomato paste

1/2 of a small cucumber

Method:

1. Blend the red pepper, onions and garlic together.

2. Cook meat in a pot of few cups of water (depending on the amount of meat) with salt and little onion sliced.

3. When meat is cooked and the water is not much, add in the blended ingredient and oil then let boil till it starts to thicken. Add in 3 tbs tomato paste and 1 tsp dry thyme and cook. Taste for salt.

4. Cut the cabbage, carrot and cucumber into slices. Cook for a few minutes, till veggies are cooked.

You can serve with rice and scrambled egg.

Bon appetite!

Fried rice with fried beef (5)

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup rice

1 tbsp curry powder

Salt to taste

1/2 cup beef

1/4 cup onion (i don't like onion much)

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 tbsp crushed garlic

Method:

1. Boil rice in salt water. Rice should be properly cooked. Then add cold water to it and seive, let excess water drain. Leave in the seive.

2. In a pan, pour the oil and fry the onion and garlic lightly. Add in the curry and meat.

3. Pour in the rice and stir until all the rice is fully coated.

4. Remove from fire and serve.

This is a simple fried rice you could also add egg to the fried ingredients.

Whole Wheat flour tortilla (4)

Ingredients:

4 cups flour

2 tbsp baking powder

2 tbsp butter/lard

1 tsp salt

1 1/2 cup water

Method:

1. In a mixing bowl, sift the flour, add the salt, and baking powder and mix. Then you add in the butter or lard, and mix till it is coarse in texture. Mix in the water, little at a time. Dough should not be sticky. Transfer dough to a flat surface and knead well. 

2. Flour your your rolling board and roll the dough. It shouldnt be well rolled out, just little. Then you cut the dough into 24 pieces and make a ball. You roll out each dough one by one on a floured surface. 

3. Heat your pieces in a tortilla maker or you can use a non stick pan. When tortilla starts to bring out bubble you then turn it to the other side. 

4. Put each tortilla in a tortilla warmer. This is the best and simplest tortilla i have ever made. You can make a sauce to eat with or make burrito.

Bon appetite!

Fried rice with fried chicken (3)

Ingredients:
1 cup boiled rice
2 large carrots
3 green beans
1 large onion
1 clove garlic
1 1/2 tbsp curry powder
Salt and pepper
1 whole chicken





1. Heat a pan with vegetable oil, and fry onion and garlic until tender but not brown.
2. Add in the vegetables and fry all together till soft, put the curry, salt and pepper.
3. Add in the rice and stir well till all the rice is coated with the vegetable mixture.
4. For the chicken, heat the oil in a frying pan. Coat the chicken with a mixture of pepper, garlic powder and salt.
5. Fry the chicken till tender and golden brown on the outside.
Bon appeti

Baked cucumbers (2)

Ingredients: 
Servings: 6 People
6 cucumbers about 8 inches
long
2 Tb wine vinegar
1 1/2 Tsp salt
1/8 Tsp sugar
A 2 1/5 quart porcelain or
stainless steel bowl
A baking dish 12 inches in
diameter and I 1/2 inches
deep
3 Tb melted butter
3 to 4 Tb minced green onions (i used normal onions)
1/8 tsp pepper (i used red and kinda alot cos i like pepper)
1/2 tsp dill or basil


Method:

1. Peel the cucumbers. Cut in half lengthwise; scoop
out the seeds with a spoon. Cut into lengthwise strips
about 3/8 inch wide. Cut the strips into 2·inch pieces.
2. Toss the cucumbers in a bowl with the vinegar, salt,
and sugar. Let stand for at least 30 minutes or for
several hours. Drain. Pat dry in a towel.
3. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
4. Toss the cucumbers in the baking dish with the butter,
herbs, onions, and pepper. Set uncovered in middle
level of preheated oven for about I hour, tossing 2
or 3 times, until cucumbers are tender but still have a
suggestion of crispness and texture. They will barely
color during the cooking.
Tip: Set aside uncovered; reheat before serving.

Baked cucumbers go with roast, broiled, or sauteed chicken, roast veal, veal
.chops or scallops, and sauteed brains or sweetbreads.

Chicken pepper soup (1)

This is the chicken pepper soup i made. It's not hard to make, just your normal day to day ingredients.
Ingredients are as follows:
- Whole chicken
- Red chili pepper
- Carrot
- Green bell pepper
- Garlic powder
- Curry powder
- Salt to taste
- Knorr
-Olive oil
Firstly wash your chicken thoroughly and put in a pot to boil. Add your chili pepper, curry powder, garlic powder, salt. knorr and olive oil (about a spoonful)  don't want it to be too oily. Let the chicken cook till tender, then cut your carrot and green bell pepper into slices and add to your soup and let it simmer. When done you remove from pot and serve.

Food

I mean seriously who doesn't love food? Food is life. Food is what unites us together. Food is what we live and die for. :)
Okay i'm a food lover i confess, i love watching cooking shows (my favourite show ever) i watch cooking movies. Okay i love Julie and Julia movie, i mean which food lover won't. It was really inspiring and unforgetful, nearly made me cry though, well it's a true story. My role model is more of Julie than Julia, I mean gosh she is a star, she actually wanted to reach a certain goal and she did. But i'm not saying i'm gonna do what she did, but i'm gonna try and start my own cooking. I got cooking vids and Julia Child's book " Mastering the art of french cooking". I am going to try them.

And another movie i really loved was "Ratatouille"

Like a small little stealing slimy plump rat can cook (even though it's animation) but wth, why can't i? It's like i'm also seeing "Chef Gusteau". He is controlling moi. lol

Okay want to try lots of things, gonna start posting them here since this is my blog or gonna make new blog for my yummy yum yum. Okay guys wish me luck, gonna go to the market, gonna spend my money there and buy the little eenie minnie things i'm gonna need for my dishes. I love you.

Oh btw, food brings you closer to your loved ones, if you cook amazingly then i don't know why people will not love you especially your family, i mean seriously.

Here are some food photo gallerie for you, enjoy.