Cooking Experiments

It is indeed true that people will learn to cook or "leech" on people who can cook if you find yourself living in place where eating out is utterly costly or what is worse, you could not even get the food you crave for despite you are willing to pay the ridiculous price.

While London has many eateries that served Malaysian or Singaporean food, there is close to none in Copenhagen. There is one restaurant by the name Nam Nam which is said to serve Malaysian/Singaporean/Indonesian food. We had tried the dishes there. Unfortunately, it lacked of authenticity (though some of my friends said otherwise) and the dishes were at cut-throat price.

Prior moving to Copenhagen, I could cook but I seldom did since mom was the Lady of the Kitchen :p
I never was a good cook but somehow I turned to be a "good" (thank you for the generous compliments to those who had bravely eaten my experimental dishes) cook after staying abroad alone for three and a half years. A special thank you is also extended to my dearest Tina, who I befriended in Copenhagen. She taught me how to cook and frequently invited me to join her for home-made, hearty meals. I miss those days!

My last cooking experiment in a foreign land was none other than "Nasi Lemak", the proud specialty of Malaysia. Well, I took some shortcuts as I didn't get some ingredients from the Asian store - I couldn't find "belacan" for the sambal and I was too lazy to fry the anchovies. Nonetheless, I was satisfied with the result. So were my guests ;)

Now, here I proudly present the evidence of my experiments!

Tauhu isi (stuffed beancurd) - The appetizer. Beancurd that is stuffed with your preferred choice of meat and/or vegetables. Trying to be on the healthy side, I stuffed the beancurd with cabbage and carrots. Yeah, I know. It didn't look that appetizing but oh my, it tasted good. One of the favourites for that day! :)

Nasi lemak à la petitelass - lemongrass chicken, spicy seafood, stir fried cabbage with carrots and finally served with hard-boiled egg and cucumber.

The bowl of red paste located in the middle of the table was the home-made sambal :)