Hot Tuna + Cheese Popiah

- Zaty.

So. This is a recipe from my cousin Rina, who bakes, cooks, and other wonderful things like crafties. She's awesome. *bows down in her presence* heheh.

It's totally simple. She introduced it to me a few weeks ago, and it takes less than 10 minutes (excluding time to thaw) to make!~

What you need:

• Popiah 'covers' - sold at any super/hypermarket.
• Tuna in tin - preferably the hot/chilli-flavored one
• Cheese - preferably mozarella (y'know, the one on pizzas?) because it tastes gooood

Steps (easy peasy):

1. Defrost & thaw the popiah covers, if frozen.
2. Separate the covers from the stacked layers it comes in the packaging with.
3. Slosh in some (a tablespoon) of the tuna in the middle of the popiah cover. Don't forget to sift away the excess oil from the tuna!
   
4. Shred some mozarella cheese if you're in a nea mood, but you could just put a small chunk of cheese on top of #3
5. Fold the popiah however you like. No, seriously. =D This is what's fun about it. Just make sure it is not loosely (not very tightly tho) wrapped, to prevent the content from seeping out.
6. Fry your masterpieces.
7. Eat & enjoy. =D

Will post pictures of this simply yet wonderful edible food. When I've mastered this, that is. I was too hungry just now to make decent-looking ones (heck, i didn't even wait to get the popiah covers thawed 0_o)

Happy cooking! ^____^

Kerabu Mempelam [P]

- Zaty.

SO! This was made more then a couple of days ago by Ma, her very own recipe! ;P Sorry about the lateness, I couldn't/didn't find the time. Simply put, I was lazy =P

Alritey, onto the pictorial!

Needed:
Grater/slicer, knife (duh), onion, mangoes ('young' ones, which are more sour and not-so-soft), lime (squeezed), lime leaves, sugar, salt, chillies (preferably cili padi or the like).

*optional : anchovies, peanuts (both need to be fried)

The How-to's:

Set A : Mangoes - grate and slice finely

Set B : Peanuts - fry, if they haven't been fried yet.

Set C : Anchovies - fry well.

Set D : Lime - squeeze them and add sugar & salt to the juice. as for the leaves, slice finely.

Set E : Misc stuff - slices the chillies, serai (lemongrass) and onions.

Now combine all sets!
Note : only add more lime squeeze (not water!) if it's too dry - remember to add quite a lot of sugar to de-sour-ise the mangoes & lime.

End result:

Oishi~~~ ^______^ It's slightly hot, sour, sweet, tangy... YUM! It'll surely make food taste better =D

Shepherd's Pie [P]

- Zaty.

So yesterday Ma made her long-awaited Shepherd's pie, a yummy one at that (heheh!). Onto the important stuff:

Ingredients
Beef (minced), potatoes (LOTS), cooking oil, carrots, peas, cauliflower, sweet soysauce, sugar, salt, pepper, ginger, garlic, chillies, onions, spices.

*not in picture : cooking oil
*makes for about 10 people ;P

Steps

Note : Set A needs to be prepared first, while waiting for A to boil, you can prepare the other ingredients

Set A : The topping (mashed potatoes)
1. Boil the peeled potatoes in a big pot, medium fire.
2. Put butter and/or oil and salt in the pot as well.
3. Leave it until it gets soft, work on set B while waiting.

Set B : The filling (meat & veggies base)

Stir well until it looks like thus:

While waiting for the filling to dry (90%), mashed the potatoes of Set A (should be soft by now) . Add butter, salt and some pepper if you like =):

Now, we let two become one ;)

By the powers combined, I give you.. Shepherd's pie!!

Now, baking time! Set the oven or whatever heating mechanism you use to about 175ºC for about 25 minutes or more, depending on the mashiness of the potatoes. When it's done, the color of the topping's surface will look like this:

The end result (drumrolls please) :

Sorry I couldn't resist taking some. :9

Bon apetit~ ^__^