Pieces of me in letters

It’s December 31 2008, a little past noon. Year 2009 is coming in less than 12 hours!

I am in a pretty good mood now. The sun shines, clear blue sky… listening to Alicia Keys and thinking I want to just write something light on this posting, about my daily life as a housewife :)

I cook almost everyday and I can proudly say that my husband is the biggest fan of my cooking Having plenty of free time in my hands, I cook many different things, experimenting with new recipes or just trying to use the tips I got from that cooking channel I watch on TV. I baked dinner roll, and cinnamon rolls for breakfast (and no, I didn’t use that store-bought dough or cinnamon-rolls-in the-canister thing. It was all from flour, yeast, milk, butter, etc put together). Cooked different kinds of Indonesian food (my husband loved my springrolls and spicy shredded chicken with kaffir-lime leaf) and I recently invented my own asian-noodle-and-turkey-meatball-soup-with-Italian-twist. Got very good fresh Chinese noodle from Asian supermarket, very flavourful turkey broth and some left-over dinner rolls that I both made, and some ground turkey that just happened to be in the fridge… and voila! My husband had almost never eaten the same thing for dinner two nights in row, but he happily ate noodle-and-turkey-meatball for dinner two nights in a row And last night I made my first Indonesian beef curry ever, from all-fresh ingredients (except for the coconut milk, I used canned ones… made my life ALOT easier :P). The curry is called kalio, which is actually rendang but not as dry. It contains alot more thick sauce like regular curry. I cooked it for a couple of hours on the stove, then continue the cooking process in a slow cooker for about 5 hours. Also added mini potatoes (about quail-egg size) because my husband and I love potatoes. The result was amazing! The beef and potatoes held up their shape surprisingly well against the long cooking process, but were very very very tender. And the sauce was just great with white rice (probably good too with some rustic bread or pita bread too, I think). YUM-O! Both my husband and I had a second of the curry (couldn’t help it… it was just so yummy!). I guess now I have to admit that my husband was right when he said I made him fat (in a good way) :P 

I wish everybody a very happy new year! (^_^)