A Break From Blogging

Dear my fellow readers and friends, 

I'm taking a break from blogging. I have saved some recipes to be published on schedule for a month or two. Take care and see you soon!

Regards,

Little Inbox

I'm Back!

Hello friends! Thanks for those who left me messages and send me emails. Finally I'm back to blog. We were so busy welcoming our little girl to our family. I was away for good reasons, don't worry. I'm fine. :)

My baby girl is 2 months old now. With her around, I can hardly spend time to dish up my home cooked food, what's more to photograph it. I don't mean to quit cooking and blogging. My passion in cooking will never die. Just for the time being, I stick to simple food that is cooked in slow cooker. I rely on slow cooker to prepare a pasta sauce, meat sauce, and soups. 

I'll share some simple cooking. Hopefully I'm able to capture some food photos over the weekend. 

5 Recipes To Celebrate Easter

Shirley's Luxury Heaven Tagged me on 5 Recipes to Celebrate Easter. Although I don't celebrate Easter, but it's fun to join the virtual Easter party with the fellow bloggers.

So, here's my pick for the celebration:

Strawberry Smoothies as beverage

Mushroom Soup

Egg Rolls as appetizer

Chicken Schnitzel as main course

Dragon Fruit Jelly as dessert.

Happy Easter and have fun!

Home Grown Vegetables

My parents in law's new domestic helper started her job back in May 2010. Since then, I'm seeing a major make over to the back yard. She plants quite a number of species there. She started with tomato plants. However, it was not a successful start. The plants were damaged by 2 rabbits from a neighbor. The rabbits hopped in from the front gate and enjoyed a nice meal munching on the tomato plants. :P

After the incident, she change her strategy to plant bird's eye chilli, screw pine and lemongrass. Then, new species were added by growing sweet potato leaf, sweet leaf (Pucuk Manis), spring onion, Kaffir lime leaf, pineapple, banana tree and papaya tree. 

The following are the snap shots of her hard work. 

 

Kaffir lime leaves

Sweet potato leave

Bird's eye chilli

Sweet leaf aka pucuk manis

Spring onion

Home Grown Spring Onion

I'm in the progress to achieve my dream to have a little spice garden at home. I have very little knowledge and experience in gardening. First, I started to grow mint and parsley back in August this year. The Parsley didn't last long. Within a week, the plant was dried up. On the other hand, the mint plant grows pretty well. I'm neither a green thumb or black thumb. 50-50, I would say? So far, a few batches of home grown mint leaves were harvested to make mint leave omelet, assam laksa and mint leaves soup. 

About a week ago, I planted a few shallots into a pot. Now, each shallot blossoms into spring onion. It is so easy to plant it at home and it shoots pretty fast. Furthermore, it requires no special care, except sun light and water to survive. Spring onion doesn't last long in fridge. So, it is a good idea to grow on your own and harvest it anytime you need it.Soon, I'll utilise this fresh home grown spring onion in my culinary, either raw or cooked.

"I ♥ Your Blog" Award From Elinluv's Tidbits Corner

Thanks to Elin for the award. She dedicated 2 awards to me since July.

Ok, now is my turn to answer the questions.

1. What is your current obsession?
Home cooking

2. What are you wearing today?
Blouse and slacks

3. What’s for dinner?
Tonight will go for home cooked vegetarian

4. What’s the last thing you bought?
Cooking ingredients from Tesco

5. What are you listening to right now?
Nothing

6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?
Elin is a good mumsie who always prepare yummylisious food for her hubby & 2 piggies. She shares her secret recipes which suits my taste.

7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
It'll be still Malaysia

8. What are your must-have pieces for summer?
Jeans and lady T-shirts

9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
Paris

10. Which language do you want to learn?
I think I should master my Japanese language before I move on to the other.

11. Who do you want to meet right now?
My old classmates

12. What is your favorite color?
Black

13. What is your favorite piece of clothing in your own closet?
Jeans

14. What is your dream job?
Err.......famous beautician, hair dresser?

15. What’s your favorite magazine?
Reader's Digest

16. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
Shopping for clothes

17. What do you consider a fashion faux pas?
No idea

18. Who are your style icons?
No idea

19. Describe your personal style?
Just be myself

21. What are your favorite movies?
Oppss, I can't remember most of the names.

22. Give us three styling tips that always work for you?
Hair blowing, apply gel and form a style

23. Coffee or tea?
Coffee

24. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?
looking for a nice recipe and cook it out

25. What is the meaning of your name?
pretty

26. Which other blogs you love visiting?
food and personal blogs

27. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?
Tiramitsu

28. Favorite Season?
summer

29.Which is your dream destination?
Paris

30: Which is your favorite international cuisine ?
Italian

31.Your favorite kitchen tool?
A good wok

32. Which kitchen tool or equipment, you have wanted for a long time?
Griller

My Question
Have you ever bake your own pizza? What flavor?

The Rules

Respond and rework – answer the questions on your own blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, and add one more question of your own. Then tag eight or ten other people.

I would love to pass this "I ♥ Your Blog" award to:

More Than Words
Duckie's Food Blog
Selby's Food Corner
My Love. My Food
Buzzing With Food
and of course not to forget......
Elinluv's Tidbits Corner

A Short Break

Hi all, I'll take a short break from blogging and blog hopping until next week.

I was just blogged about grandma-in-law's recipe on stir-fried vermicelli in tomato sauce, but now she is no longer with us. She passed away on Wednesday evening. She could eat, story telling and walk just like usual before she suddenly felt weak.

Grandma, don't worry about us. Just rest in peace.

Flying Off to Western Australia!

You must be wondering why there's no updates on this food blog for such a long period. What are we busy at? Thanks to NKOTB's concern for my recent "disappearance".

Life's hectic since end of April. We'll be flying off to Perth this afternoon. Due to the busy schedule to shop for the trip necessities, some arrangements to be made, and also my detoxification program, I missed an invited food review from Criz. Hopefully there will be a gathering session soon. :)

We'll be back on 17th May. Stay tuned for the upcoming Australia food reviews.

Super Duper Chef & Sweet Heart Awards

Thanks to Dora for passing these two awards to me.

The awards are dedicated to all fellow friends who loves cooking. Here, I would like to pass on the awards to foodbin's wife, More than Words, Elinluv's Tidbits Corner, Tigerfish and My Kitchen Snippets.

Happy Chinese New Year!

We would like to wish all of you a happy stomach-filling chinese new year :P



Just try not to over-eat, ok? ^ ^

X'mas present from Foodbuzz ~

Hi, I'm sure everybody's looking forward for X'mas now...so merry X'mas everybody!

Today afternoon I went back home to have lunch with hubby and coincidentally a mail was delivered by postman. It was addressed to me, and seems like foodbuzz sent me a mail! So I hurriedly open up the package and guess what? Foodbuzz just sent me Moo minicards! A tiny little box filled with a range of colorful photos and my name and website printed on the back!

I really love the tiny little cards. They are just gorgeous and I feel reluctant to give them away!

In the end, I sorted out the cards and kept a unique set for myself and the rest...well, I plan to distribute to my friends and family.

Hubby and I plan to go out for dinner tonight. I guess a lot of people will do the same. :)

7 Facts About Little Inbox

Elinluv, Cariso, After Giovani and Food Paradise tagged me on 7 Facts about me and passed me the awards too. I've doing the same tag - 8 Random Facts About Me. However, I realise that I should link the 7 facts to food in this makan blog, rather than the personal facts like the earlier one.

The awards:

7 Facts About Little Inbox:

1. I love cooking, just discover this recently. I seldom stepped into the kitchen before married.

2. I like to eat. I rarely loss my appetite.

3. I'm not a picky eater. I eat almost everything, except those "exotic" food.

4. I restrict myself from taking Maggie/Cintan/Ibumie/Har mee instant noodle and yellow noodle. I go for vermicelli, mee suah, organic wheat noodle, spaghetti and angle hair.

5. I enjoy my breakfast very much when hubby cooks me a not-so- healthy Ramly burger with fried egg and bake bean.

6. On my working days, I used to take my lunch at mom's place. *Wink Wink*

7. I started to prepare dinner at home pretty cosistently on every working day for almost 10 months. :)