Amin's Silver Medal

Amin won his first silver medal yesterday, with his team, the Sports school council competing in the Pesta Sukan 2008. We are really proud of him and glad that at last his tennis practice has earned him a medal! He's now competing in the Open category and so far it looks positive too. Zahra in the picture below did not want to be left out and wanted to show off the medal too!! Who knows in a couple of years time she might win a couple of medals herself for....? which sports.....time can only tell. Well done again Amin!

Chocolatey birthday cakes

Last month my parents went to Switzerland and Suisse Maman very kindly bought me these two giant bars of cooking chocolate. I never got to thank her properly for them until now when I had the chance to use the dark chocolate to make chocolate cakes for my two nephews whose birthdays it was last week- Hariz and Hamdi or Awang as we know him! Thanks again Suisse Maman for these two giant bars as well as the other goodies you sent us..nanti if you come back for holiday we blanja ok!!

Hariz had very early on sat me down and went through my book of children birthday cakes and chose this simple design. Thank God!! The chin was slightly damaged by Jagabar who was carrying it from the car in the mini typhoon that occured prior to the cutting of the cake!!

As for Awang well I just made it simple and decorated using my M nMs. Zahra unfortunately has a great affectons for M n Ms and took two off before we even managed to cut the cake!! After another brief hiatus to Singapore at the end of the month I am hoping to be producing more of these cakes by the summer as well as others which we will put up pictures and prices of very shortly!

Middle Eastern Food Cooking Class

Yesterday was really fun as I was invited by Zaena our Lebanese friend to a lebanese cooking class . It was interesting to meet the expat ladies - some new friends and and some familiar faces. Zaena went through 9 recipes and showed us how simple and healthy middle eastern food was- provided you have your trusted blender!!.

Preparing the Samboulik or minced beef in puff pastry The fried pine nuts were really yummy in this.There were several ways of doing this either in the open style or like a curry puff.

The Tabouleh with curly parsley, chopped tomatoes and fluffed up bulgur wheat. This is one of my favourite dishes as it is really refreshing.

The shish taouk or chicken kebabs were spactacular. Next to that is another dip made of aubergines and Zaena made capsicum cakes as well. Something different was the Hummus topped with the minced beef filling used in the Sambousik.


The bonus dish in the middle spoilt yoghurt- I know this sounds weird but this is just wonderful,and tastes in between yoghurt and cream cheese

The demonstrations all ended with a sumptious lunch ofcourse! Thanks Zaena for a great morning!