Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and hyee
Sollu alan nabi :)
I'm not so into cooking but that does not mean I can't cook. Although I'm not a pro in kitchen, I do pretty well in cooking or at least my foods are palatable (well... to my tongue haha).
When it comes to preparing meal, I always make it simple and nice. Reasons are...
1) Cooking is time consuming and I don't find cooking worth giving hours to. Haha. When I was a student, I meticulously count the second and spent less time on cooking. At first, I cooked once a day which is dinner and in later months of my studying time, I cooked once for a week long foods (I kept them in freezer so they last longer).
2) I was (yes was) a busy person. Shorten the making food time is a must because you can give more time to meeting😪😴 *joke*
3) I'm not so into cooking. Told ya😝
As I mentioned, I can cook lot of things, try new recipe or even create my own recipe😎 and I have slightly high confidence to present it. However, of all kind of 'lauk' I seriously don't (might as well use didn't) know how to make 'masak merah'. It is my primary weakness in cooking therefore I as much as possible avoid this type of why-you-taste-like-no-others (negative way) all the time I need to cook.
So, to be expected, I haven't cooked 'masak merah' for ages and I don't feel bad at all. Haha. Howeverrr...tadaaa
As of today, I asked my mak what should I do with the sardines that already cleaned by tok (tok perempuan so that no one confuse here). And I was like whattt... when mak asked to fry them and make some 'masak merah'. It was war inside my heart 'ah sudahlaa aku tak reti...' but I still obediently went to kitchen to prepare for the ingredients. Tok was still in the kitchen which increase my wary more.
As I finished 'menumis' the onions, garlics and blended chillies, I pour some tamarind juice to decrease the hotness and spice intensity. Looking at the color and thickness of the sauce, I had instinct that this time it will be good so I prayed (at time like this you should never forget god) for the 'masak merah' to turn well even if this mean first and last time. Suddenly tok said 'patut letak last sekali (tamarind juice) bila dah masak cili tu'. Yeahh, there stoop down all my esteem😔
And tadaa... finalized the 'masak merah' with three fried sardines to give some taste.
We don't eat together (nevertheless we stay together😇. When this trend (trend pun boleh ye) started is a question for me even tok wonder why we didn't eat together anymore. Probably because all the people in the house is working at different times too. However during long holiday we do eat 'berjemaah') and I usually eat at the end of the day so I don't know the fate of my 'masak merah'.
Later on at night, while renovating my blog and felt hungry, I went to kitchen to get some snack but ended up eating a plate of rice😒😪 while mak and tok was watching the television there.
'Sedap kamu punya masak merah. Esok boleh buat lagi naa'.
I was awed kejap with the comment (by tok ok thats mean something because she is senior in masak merah haha) but couldn't hide feeling amazed with myself haha think I can serve the royal (ok overr) and suddenly remembered what I prayed that afternoon then 'menyesal' eh why did I prayed it to be first and last now I got request how mehh😅. Now on, I need to change my prayers. God is forgiven😊
So that is the story of my 'masak merah' after years. I got the hand huh😎
Sollu alan nabi :)
I'm not so into cooking but that does not mean I can't cook. Although I'm not a pro in kitchen, I do pretty well in cooking or at least my foods are palatable (well... to my tongue haha).
When it comes to preparing meal, I always make it simple and nice. Reasons are...
1) Cooking is time consuming and I don't find cooking worth giving hours to. Haha. When I was a student, I meticulously count the second and spent less time on cooking. At first, I cooked once a day which is dinner and in later months of my studying time, I cooked once for a week long foods (I kept them in freezer so they last longer).
2) I was (yes was) a busy person. Shorten the making food time is a must because you can give more time to meeting😪😴 *joke*
3) I'm not so into cooking. Told ya😝
As I mentioned, I can cook lot of things, try new recipe or even create my own recipe😎 and I have slightly high confidence to present it. However, of all kind of 'lauk' I seriously don't (might as well use didn't) know how to make 'masak merah'. It is my primary weakness in cooking therefore I as much as possible avoid this type of why-you-taste-like-no-others (negative way) all the time I need to cook.
So, to be expected, I haven't cooked 'masak merah' for ages and I don't feel bad at all. Haha. Howeverrr...tadaaa
As of today, I asked my mak what should I do with the sardines that already cleaned by tok (tok perempuan so that no one confuse here). And I was like whattt... when mak asked to fry them and make some 'masak merah'. It was war inside my heart 'ah sudahlaa aku tak reti...' but I still obediently went to kitchen to prepare for the ingredients. Tok was still in the kitchen which increase my wary more.
As I finished 'menumis' the onions, garlics and blended chillies, I pour some tamarind juice to decrease the hotness and spice intensity. Looking at the color and thickness of the sauce, I had instinct that this time it will be good so I prayed (at time like this you should never forget god) for the 'masak merah' to turn well even if this mean first and last time. Suddenly tok said 'patut letak last sekali (tamarind juice) bila dah masak cili tu'. Yeahh, there stoop down all my esteem😔
And tadaa... finalized the 'masak merah' with three fried sardines to give some taste.
We don't eat together (nevertheless we stay together😇. When this trend (trend pun boleh ye) started is a question for me even tok wonder why we didn't eat together anymore. Probably because all the people in the house is working at different times too. However during long holiday we do eat 'berjemaah') and I usually eat at the end of the day so I don't know the fate of my 'masak merah'.
Later on at night, while renovating my blog and felt hungry, I went to kitchen to get some snack but ended up eating a plate of rice😒😪 while mak and tok was watching the television there.
'Sedap kamu punya masak merah. Esok boleh buat lagi naa'.
I was awed kejap with the comment (by tok ok thats mean something because she is senior in masak merah haha) but couldn't hide feeling amazed with myself haha think I can serve the royal (ok overr) and suddenly remembered what I prayed that afternoon then 'menyesal' eh why did I prayed it to be first and last now I got request how mehh😅. Now on, I need to change my prayers. God is forgiven😊
So that is the story of my 'masak merah' after years. I got the hand huh😎
