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I totally forgot to blog about my last 2 weeks ago on Steak Fajitas and Yogurt Dip recipe! I whipped up a simple meal with tortilla wraps for dinner. It’s relatively healthy and delicious except that I overcooked my lamb a little. Below are some of the photos I shot while cooking… (just in case if you didn’t know what Dill or mint looks like!!)

RECIPE FOR YOGURT DIP!

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 cups Yogurt
• 3 Tbsp. chopped fresh dill
• 2 Tbsp. chopped fresh mint
• 1 Tbsp. lemon juice
• 1 to 2 cloves garlic, minced
• Salt and cracked black pepper
• Fresh dill sprigs
• Assorted vegetables! (e.g. radish, carrots, tomatoes)

Directions:
In bowl, stir together yogurt, dill, mint, chives, juice, garlic, and salt. Let stand 15 minutes or refrigerate up to 12 hours. Season with salt and black pepper. Top with dill sprig. Serve with assorted vegetables. Cover and refrigerate leftovers; stir well before serving.

RECIPE FOR STEAK FAJITAS!

Ingredients:

• 2 12-ounce skirt steaks, each halved
• 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice, divided
• 1 large onion, halved lengthwise, thinly sliced
• 4 large garlic cloves, pressed
• 1 tablespoon ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon finely grated lime peel
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 12 cherry tomatoes
• warm flour or corn tortillas

Preparation:

• Arrange steaks in 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Combine 2 tablespoons lime juice and next 5 ingredients in medium bowl. Pour onion mixture over steaks; turn to coat evenly. Let marinate 10 minutes.
• Heat oil in large nonstick skillet over high heat. Add steaks with onion mixture. Cook steaks 1 minute per side. Add tomatoes and basil. Continue cooking steaks to desired doneness, turning occasionally, about 3 minutes longer for medium-rare. Sprinkle mixture with 1 tablespoon lime juice. Cook 1 minute longer to blend flavors. Transfer steaks to work surface. Cut across grain on slight diagonal into 1/2-inch-thick strips. Transfer fajitas to bowl and serve with tortillas.

 

I would give myself a rating of 6/10 for this recipe cause I under seasoned the beef a little. However, the yogurt dip was surprisingly easy to eat considering it’s a healthy dish. I would definitely cook this again with more seasonings especially with the cumin powder and lemon juice! *yumz*

ENJOY!

HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE SPAM!?

No no.. not the SPAM EMAILS! SPAM!! SPAM MEAT! Otherwise known as Luncheon Meat for porky lovers. Honestly, I don’t remember eating SPAM brands but white folks like to eat it. My mom told me we use to eat SPAM a lot in Australia cause it was cheap. Being the only Chinese family in the neighbourhood during the 80’s, we hardly went out to eat, nobody invited us to eat (but they only invited ang mo to eat in their house) and fish and chips was getting boring. So SPAM came in handy and cheap.

Anyway, to cut the story short! I don’t remember eating SPAM in Aussie cause I was too young to remember anything except for those racist pricks! I wanted to try how SPAM taste like so I bought SPAM with Cheese cause I like Cheese and I like our local Luncheon Meat!

It was not only crazily expensive, RM12 for a tin of porkilicious meat… it looked funny and smelled really porky! Like they just butchered the pig and stuffed him inside the tin with all the blood and guts still dripping *gruesome mate*. Yep… I was quite reluctant to try but cooked it anyway! It’s RM12 okay… that’s 2 days worth of lunch money!

The smell was RIGHT ON FROM THE START! Not only the porky SPAM was fugging salty, may be cause of the CHEESE but it smelled down right butchered pig in a tin! Let me say it again….

SPAM TASTE LIKE BUTCHERED PIG IN A TIN!

Now, I don’t recall smelling our local luncheon meat like that. Our local luncheon meat was porky smellish but it wasn’t like super bad. May be SPAM used high quality meat to make you taste the real porkiness in your mouth!! YUMMMMMMEHHHH………

Now! That’s a fucking good marketing gimmick!

Don’t get me WRONG as they are giving out FREE BEERS! So long you mention the word “FREE” and “BEER”, well any Malaysian would love a FREE BEER! That’s called Kiasu! Get Free Beer (NOTE TO YOURSELF: FREE BEER NOT BEERS!), 1 bottle per person at Asian Cafe on 12th August 2010.

Again… one beer is not enough? Order another one and pay for it! That’s called a fucking good marketing gimmick! So free beer ‘s’ anyone?

The big hype over macarons is definitely overrated but nonetheless they are good to eat! I’ve always wanted to try macarons but never got around it until last week. It’s like soft biscuit with fillings in between! It’s really from an old traditional Chinese recipe… REALLY! REALLY!

If you tried Chinese rice cakes (baked softly) with no fillings of course! Yes, it’s just the outer part of the macaron but thicker and fluffier.. that’s what it reminded me off when I ate the macarons! Weird huh? And they say it derived from the FRENCH!? They should try our Chinese Rice Cakes & compare

By the way, don’t confuse yourself with MACAROONS! The actual name is Macarons – sandwich like biscuit! Babycakes Macarons are located at G-Tower (Jalan Tun Razak) in Kuala Lumpur.

Did I mention I’ll be selling Dolce Decotti Decodens that shaped like a macaron?

Guys, finally I’m selling whip cream clay in Malaysia Otherwise known as Dolce Deco Decotti designs from Japan!! Please read my previous entry on what exactly it is HERE Whip cream clay can’t live without the yummy treats of polymer clay embellishments/cabochons! They are like food made from clay

We sell all of them in www.shoppilicious.com or click here for direct link to design decorations. I don’t have much cabochons in my online shop cause they are selling fast. I’ll be importing more very soon.

1 tube of Whip cream clay can design up to 2-3 phones (depending on mass/size). You can also decorate them on laptops, thumb drives, scrapbooks and more! Use your imagination!! These whip cream clay tubes have instant caps on them so you can unscrew them, use it and put the cap back on.

For Whip Cream Clay Manual Click Here!

=update=
Whip cream clay – only white, yellow and blue colors left. We are selling fast!! The next order will come in soon. Pre-orders are allowed.

Upcoming colours: WHITE, PINK, YELLOW, BLUE, GREEN, BROWN.

Visit www.shoppilicious.com

xoxo…
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THAI SEAFOOD GLASS NOODLE SALAD
I like to cook but I’m very lazy. If only I’m a full time housewife, I’ll whip up every dish in the book!
I made yummy (tasted yummy to me) thai seafood glass noodle salad for lunch! Need to add more lemon juice and coriander next time I want to cook more! SIGHS!

How to prep:
Glass Noodles + Prawns + Squids + Coriander + 1 Lemongrass + 2 Lemons + 1 Garlic + 1 Onion + 2 Tomatoes + Fish Sauce + Soy Sauce + Chilli padi

Boil Glass Noodles. Drain. Let it cool.
Cut lemon grass into thin slices and dump it in hot boiling water together with the prawns and squids (or whatever seafood you want!) Boil 5 minutes. Drain everything and keep seafood and lemon grass aside to cool.
To make dressing. Squeeze 2 lemons in a big bowl. Chop garlic, onions & coriander. Mince chilli padi. Mix these ingredients in the big bowl of squeezed lemons! Add fish sauce and soy sauce in the big bowl. Mix Mix Mix.
Add the seafood, lemon grass and glass noodles in the big bowl.
Mix Mix Mix.
Test, not salty? Add more soy sauce. Not sour? Add more lemons!

Voila! Bon Appetit

I’m so sad my birthday week is over! I wish everyday is my birthday. Huhu… A bunch of photos from the entire week. Also an advertorial.

A lovely CupCakBirthdayCake made by WonderMilk from my manager and colleagues. Love the decor…
 

My new bag.
 

Nici bag 50% off…

Bodyshop Cherry Blossom from Sharon

Silver pendant from Dr May

Watch from sister.

Diamond & Pearly earrings from Aunty Sarine! They are bloody heavy…

La Senza Corset from myself. It cost over RM180…fugging expensive!

Got Mr.Wolf (Jolly Wolf) a mini wolf that looks exactly like him! SO CUTE! All from NICI! (his long lost son! haha)

Adver-Concorde

Mini Jolly Wolf in Corcorde Hotel with us! We stayed in the Concorde Executive room where you get to enjoy Premier Privilege benefits. (which I didn’t know we had free internet usage! argghhh…) Plus you get to enjoy premier lounging area right next to the reception booth. Free Coffee or Tea!?

The whole gang actually came along. My teddy bears have better life than me The bed was really nice and comfy. They also had a ceiling fan installed!

Concorde Hotel recently went through a make over! They repainted the walls and added some extra stuff in the room….

We stayed in the highest floor. 19th floor. The bathroom is super big and spacious! Spent a lot of time in the tub with my Loccitane bubbles

Now every room has a Concorde robe! Previously, there were no robes for Standard rooms too. But now they do!
 

Even though the renovations were still in progress, I didn’t hear a thing! (maybe cos I was high up in the sky!) Request for rooms in higher floors if you wish to stay there within the next couple of months!
 

Mini Wolf waiting for his Jumbo Cumbo..

The only thing I didn’t like about Concorde Hotel is their super expensive food! So we packed Hard Rock Cafe Jumbo Cumbo back to our room! Love the chicken wings…

Concorde Hotel Malaysia Concorde Executive rooms are at RM310++ per night with 2 complimentary breakfasts. I would definitely go back there again!! Luving it

The next day, we had dinner in TEEQ restaurant in Lot10 rooftop with family and close friends. I’ve never been there before so I was a bit jakun there. There was not much food to choose from!

The decor and ambiance was pretty okay… I think the colours were a bit dull though…
 

Totally forgot to take a photo of the jelly cake! Golly…. blew my 24 year old candles! *oldsomeness*

There are not many hours in a day. I’m tired. Will blog more tomorrow guyz ^_^

Bought so much junk japanese food. The pretzel actually taste like ham & asparagus… the things jappy’s come up with.

I wanted to blog more about something but I think I should save it for later on…

I want to share my favourite collection of earrings for sale:

You can buy them at http://www.shoppilicious.com at an affordable price!!

I seriously wish I can keep them all for myself. It is tempting….. oh well, will go back and buy more stock for myself too.

Imaginary Spaces Design Company Account! Finally, I am opening a business account for trading.

Company CHOP made ~

Keep up with me as I update more about setting up my pet project!

Support me at http://www.shoppilicious.com

Finally.

Shoppilicious Currency options are up & running. You can choose from Malaysian Ringgit, Singapore Dollars or New Zealand Dollars. More currencies coming soon.

We are also accepting Singaporean Currencies payments. All Singaporean Dollars can be paid through our Singaporean bank account. No more GIRO. You can pay by cash deposit, money transfer or just write a check but make sure to scan your receipt for verification purpose and email the receipt to eileen@imaginaryspaces.com. How to shop in other currencies? The currency symbols are located on top of the web site. You just have to click the currency symbol of your choice
All conversion rates are more or less the same as MYR after conversion. Probably like 5 cents more? We don’t intentionally increase the prices for overseas customers. So international buyers have a big advantage over this as you know MYR currency is quite low. So most probably you buy it 50% off or more…SO GO CHECK OUT MY ONLINE SHOP NOW >> www.shoppilicious.com <<

HAPPY SHOPPING…

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The Gigantic Yummy Cheesy Hawt Bock (hotdog) So juicy, it’s better than a ****  ^_^ I was eating this while updating my shop currencies. Ahh.. I should add German currency as well…huhuhu…

Creamy Mash Potatoes! Delicious!
 

Mr.Wolf couldn’t help himself!

The food shown above are from Ampang’s German Deli Imbiss. It is HALAL btw so Muslims can eat it too!