Main masak-masak

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It's not easy to stick to a diet - especially so when my officemates decided to have a pot-luck breakfast/lunch eat all you can, all morning long from breakfast until lunch

Kuah Mee bandung

A bowl of mee bandung

Nasi goreng kampung Emma

Nasi goreng CC

Bihun goreng Nori

Roti Gardenia and 'condiments'

Sambal sardin CC

Sambal bilis Ernie

Baked beans

Chicken pepper sausage and scrambled egg Nabilah

Tuna sandwich Anizz

Karipap sedapp Ridha

Kek Lapis (samudera) Emma

Keropok Hairi

Semua sedappp!

CC: "Bila nak main masak-masak lagi lepas ni?"

  

I'd wanted to wake up extra early this morning to prepare mee bandung - but failed to. No thanks to the fact that I didn't sleep well last night (and haven't slept well for the past few weeks actually) what with having 2 sons still feeling very uncomfortable due to their chicken pox. But I carried out the plan to make mee bandung anyway. Good thing I got an extra helper this morning since Mak's helper Mira stays with us while Mak and Ayah are on a trip to Indonesia.  

Ever since I found out that Humaidi is confirmed to be normal "definitely not ASD", I'd wanted to treat my officemates to some homemade mee bandung, sort of sharing my 'kesyukuran" with others. I first learned making mee bandung back when I was an undergraduate in Leeds, back in those days when recipes either were obtained from buku resipi or seeked from others, not yet readily available on the internet. I must admit that I'd gone through many trials and errors before finally coming up with my own recipe which others have said to be 'sedap' ehcheh. It is my signature dish of sort perasan lagi in the family and something I really enjoy cooking for others.

Because one of my colleague in the office is allergic to black meat, I didn't use beef for this morning's mee bandung - cutting the cooking time by half since I usually boil the beef first and use the broth instead of plain water to make the kuah, giving it an extra 'kick'. Still, it was a labor of love  ehcheh! and even if I said so, the end result was satisfactory, alhamdulillah.   

There's going to be another makan-makan session coming up real soon, insya Allah. This time because 4 of us in the office had just gotten confirmation letters for promotion, including the sector's big boss. So, yet another round of kenduri kesyukuran of sort.

With feasts like this - wonder what will happen in the next weigh-in at our Klinik Citra Sihat (there are four from our sector who are participants in the program). And we are due for a weigh-in next Monday... 

Duh!