HAPPY BDAY ROOMIE~!

cooked a spread on tuesday. unfortunately i had promptly forgotten my camera. so no mouth-watering photos to look at.
thanks to verna+bra+jon+nic for lending me the kitchen and helping me. though i have to say jon did a pretty lousy job at wrapping the pulut inti. X)
popped by at their place at 12noon, after putting the glutinous rice to soak, i head over to subiaco to get groceries. came back with bagfuls of meat and what not.
prepared cereal prawn (best form of appreciation towards the chef is to clean out the plate), beef rendang (this time it was the best ever, i reduce the heat by not adding the amount of chilli as recommended by the recipe, and i had it cooking for 4hours, the meat came out to be so tender and melted in the mouth. *awesome-ness*), stewed pork belly and stirfry broccolli+cauliflower (ahtan's fav!!~). prepared pulut inti for dessert. for dessert no.2 we had chocolate lava cake! credits to verna. omg...the sinful pleasures of life. XD she also baked a lemon chiffon , most delightful.
intended to bring the food back home but it probably wouldn't have been a really smart option, having to drive the food back home and risk any spillage. so we "invited" ginny over instead, saying that we were going out for dinner but really, we were just going to have home-cooked food. though i spent nearly 6hours preparing everything, it was so fun!
cooking is love~

makan sutra.

while i have been having a serious craving for pulut udang since forever, i finally got all the ingredients i need. banana leaves were hell expensive. =.= and they came frozen in a pre-packed 1kg pack. so i ended up paying$11 for a kilo of banana leaves which i barely used a fifth of.
anyways...decided to have a go have pulut inti as well since the glutinous rice was done the same and i had this tantalizing recipe. all i had to do was cooked the grated coconut in gula melaka. well ginny cooked the grated coconut while i cut the banana leaves.

little parcels of pulut inti (super nice can!? nearly died of happiness. XD

many many pulut inti(s)

pulut udang!!! =D whee~


our makeshift grill. awesome!

looks awesome yea? we were kinda freaking out at the amount of oil that the were flowing out of the pulut udang while grilling it. nevertheless, taste really yum!