Puding Jagung

After a week of puasa I tried (again) one of the recipes I did before in Hull.

Ingredients:
a) 1/2 can of sweetcorn
b) 4 cups of coconut milk
c) 3/4 cups of sugar
d) 1/2 cup of custard powder

Methods:
Mix everything in a pot. Put on the stove and stir until it thickens.
Pour into a baking try or container. Smooth it up and put it in the fridge.







into the fridge it goes










Serve:
Cut into any shape you like and ready to serve. Enjoy!






oh no! it was a bit lumpy!

Berbuka Puasa

I cooked a special dish for berbuka puasa today......NOT! It was from my kind neighbour. Thank you very much :)

Ramadhan 1432 H ~ Solat Terawih

My first solat terawih with foreigners! Different culture, different mazhab. The surau was not crowded with jemaah probably because it was Sunday night and most residents were still at kampong.

Both solat terawih and solat witir were led by Imam from the Middle East. Thus the solat were a bit long and the Imam cried during Qunut in witir since he understands Arabic!

Welcome Ramadhan 1432 H !

I am very happy that Ramadhan is coming very soon. I like Ramadhan more than Syawal.




I can still remember how Ramadhan was when I was young back in kampong. I love Opah's cooking for buka puasa. I ate everything except nasi. I love all kuih. I love all sweet drinks. Opah will ask us to send kuih to neighbours. If we were fortunate, we will get something in return :). No matter rain or shine we still had to send kuih to neighbours about an hour before buka puasa. Nowadays I cannot eat anything that I desire. Probably because of old age or other unavoidable factors. Everything is different now. Nevertheless I love Ramadhan with all my heart.

Ahlan Ya Ramadhan 1431 H !

Today, 11 August 2010 is the first day of Ramadhan. Hubby was vey happy that he had a smooth journey to KL this time. We watched The Last Airbender and had buka puasa at Secret Recipe.

After a month in Malaysia I still miss Guernsey Island :(

I like puasa month in Guernsey. I can buka puasa with anything I feel like eating. I can have chocolates, ice creams and cakes. Although there were no solat terawih berjemaah I can still perform on my own. I was more in control of everything during puasa month in Guernsey. How I miss the Island.

When I was little opah used to make kuih for berbuka. Ubi kayu penjan, keladi gula, somsom air gula, anak dara sebilik, ketayap, kuih lapis banyak warna, bengkang ubi kayu, kuih talam santan putih, seri muka sekaya, etc....Many of those are not known by people not living with opah. Nowadays most kuih are very common that you can have them even during non-puasa month. Karipap, roti john, roti bum are normally found at weekly pasar malam.

For the main dish opah made anything other than normal lauk and sayur. I had bihun goreng, kueytiaw goreng, nasi ayam, nasi beriyani, nasi arab, etc....Once I had these I had no appetite for normal nasi and lauk. After solat maghrib I continued with kuih and watched tv.

Makan Makan Ramadhan 1430 H

Ramadhan comes again! I was back on the 4th September flying for 24 hours and finally arrived safely at home. The best thing of celebrating Ramadhan at home is the opportunity to taste local, famous delicacies during iftaar. We had planned to go to several bazaar Ramadhan to search for food that we missed a lot. Let see if I can still remember what we had since we arrived home.

• murtabak (1* ~ bad!)
• nasi lemak (5* for sambal)
• roti john (1* ~ I don't like roti john)
• roti bom (5* ~ my favourite, must be without sauce)
• kuih bongkok (similar to my grandmother's kuih but without bebola tepung pulut berinti kelapa dengan gula melaka, therefore only 2*)
• tepung pelita (3* because I don't think it was the authentic tepung pelita, it was more like takothai)
• kuih gula melaka (I prefer green)
• taufufah (4* ~ I prefer the one in pasar malam)
• putu bambu (it was similar to putu piring but "bamboo" version unlike putu bambu I had with my grandmother, thus 2*)
• tauhu sumbat with peanut sauce (2* ~ I prefer something sweet)
• pulut panggang (5*)
• tepung talam (4*)
• tomyam (tengok je)
• telur bungkus (3*)

Today we had nasi beriyani gam, kuih lapis (merah hijau?) and puteri ayu. My grandmother used to make kuih lapis with many colours: red, green, yellow, brown, white. We freshen ourselves with soya cincau and soya kurma. Yesterday my sister made us ketam bercili and we had air laici and cendol from bazaar Ramadhan and soya ros from Mydin.

NOTE: I am not complaining. My grandmother makes better kuih than anyone else's.

My sisters have been busy making biskut raya especially tart nenas and sarang semut for her beloved ones a.k.a. her sons and my husband. The sisters went to fetch another niece from school and brought back chocolate cake from her house.