Friday's Sphere

I slept at 3 o'clock in the morning last night morning and woke up at 5.30am. Due to the lack of sleep, feeling dizzy and wobbly the whole day. I also found out that everybody SHOULD bring something to the Hari Raya Aidiladha gathering (some sort of potluck) tomorrow.

I wasn't aware of that so I made a quick decision to bring rendang ayam with nasi impit (sticking to the Hari Raya theme). Reaching home, I searched high and low for the recipe (I remembered writing them in an exercise book but I don't know which one). Still feeling wobbly from the lack of sleep, I decided to take a very short nap to recharge myself. Setting my mind for only half an hour nap time so that there would be enough time for me to search for the recipe later and plenty more to drive to CCK to get the chicken and other ingredients needed.

Woke up at 5 o'clock, the recipe wasn't in my 'slumberland' and the chicken was still in the CCK's freezer; behind closed door. LOL.

So I am now going for Plan B. The problem is I wasn't aware what Plan B was. Help!!

Notice the letter s? Yup.. I made two! :p

Below is the Original recipe (Cherry cheesecake):

Ingredients

• 250g plain biscuit (McVities are the best) - unavailable in Kapit

• 125g butter (melted) - seasonal, sometimes they have sometimes they don't.

• 3tsp gelatin - brought lotsa them from Peninsular as they don't have the ones with Halal label here.

• 1/2 cup water - it is Kapit, not a desert LOL

• 250g packet cream cheese (softened)
• 3/4 caster sugar

• 1tbs lemon juice - this time I bought them from a warung serving Ice Lemon Tea, dunno where she got 'em from.
• 300ml carton whipped cream - got it from Cikgu Velu when she went to Kuching
• 425g can pitted black cherries -unavailable.. period

Topping

• 1tbs corn flour

• 1tbs caster sugar

Method

1. Combine crumb & butter in bowl, mix well and press over base of spring form tin.
2. Sprinkle gelatin over water in cup, stand in small pan of simmering water, stir until dissolved; cool.
3. Beat cream cheese , sugar & juice in small bowl with electric mixer until smooth & creamy; transfer to a large bowl.
4. Whipped cream until soft peaks form, fold into cheese mixture; fold in gelatin mixture
5. Drain cherries, reserve 3/4 cup syrup for topping.
6. Spoon 1/3 of mixture into crumb crust, top with 1/2 cherries then continue layering. Refrigerate several hours or until firm.
7. Spread topping over cheese cake, swirl gently over cheese mixture. Refrigerate until set.

Topping

Blend corn flour & sugar with reserved syrup in pan. Stir over heat until mixture boils and thickens. Cools 10 minutes before spreading.

I've called a few developers and agents and making inquiries about houses available and the price they offer. Looking for a house that suits my tastebuds taste and negotiating with the agents are really difficult as I found out.

~at least 3 bedrooms (pantry/utility room excluded)

~at least 3 bathroom.

~a medium sized kitchen.

~a small strip of land at the back for my ego herbs planting.

.....and the rest of the must have rooms i.e. living, dining etc.

Right now I am not rushing to make any decision/booking as I think this is a very HUGE investment and needed careful and cautious planning. So in a meanwhile, I am planning the layouts and appliances in each room.... starting from...

La Cuisine (it s French for The Kitchen)

Browsing around, this layout really catch my attention. I love the modern style look with breakfast shelf.

Looks a lil bit like a bar counter and suitable for a kitchen without wall partition separating the dining as the breakfast shelf itself acts like a partition. Cool huh?

But the colour really.. Urgh!

Wonder how much I have to fork out to get this.. Hmmm

Hopefully my dream kitchen won't turn into this..