Masakan Makjah: Ayam Masak Lemak Cili Padi (dengan Cendawan Hitam)

 Assalamualaikum wbt semua 

(walaupun taktahu jika masih ada pembaca atau tak sekarang ni)

Salam Ramadan diucapkan; semoga kita semua diberi kemudahan dalam memenuhi tuntutan ibadah berpuasa dan lebih-lebih lagi dalam menjalani Ramadan seluruhnya. 

Harini aku nak kongsikan resipi lauk yang sesuai dimakan dengan nasi putih panas-panas. Aku first time cuba buat pada 1 Ramadan tempoh hari secara kebetulan, diilhamkan dari cadangan seorang kawan. Katan Wafa (kawan tu lah); "serai cili kunyit je" bahannya. Disebabkan tak ada kekangan bahan dan ringkas benor bahan tu, akupun setuju. 

So, here is the recipe Ayam Masak Lemak Cili Padi versi Negeri Sembilan (tanpa tumisan bawang tiga beradik) yang diolah dengan bahan-bahan yang aku ada dan cara masak yang mungkin berbeza. 

Bahan-bahan

• Ayam potongan sederhana (campur bahagian)
• Serai 3 batang (serai yang ada jenis halus-halus. so letak lebih sikit)
• Daun Kunyit 1 lembar
• Serbuk Kunyit approx. 2 sudu besar (digaul pada ayam)
• Cili padi (ikut selera)
• Cili Merah 3-4 batang juga (sebab taknak pedas sangat, so lebihkan cili merah)
• Air (ikut kesesuaian)
• Santan separuh kotak kecil (aku guna KARA kotak je)
• Cendawan/ Kulat hitam
• Garam secukup rasa
• Kentang 1 biji hat beso

                            

Contoh penyediaan hidangan: Tambah telur masin dan salad, memang kena sangat!

Cara-cara penyediaan masakan

1. Kentang dibuang kulit dan dibilas bersih untuk direbus terlebih dahulu. sebab kentang lambat lembut dan aku berkejar waktu berbuka. heheh
2. Cendawan/ kulat hitam yang besar, aku guna dalam dua je gitu, rendam dan rebuskan juga dulu supaya kembang dan lembut. akan digunting untuk kecil-kecilkan sikit.
3. Cili padi dan ciri merah dikisar separa halus. Tambah air sikit supaya senang hancur.
4. Ayam dipotong dan dibilas bersih. Lepastu gaulkan dengan serbuk kunyit. Aku letak agak banyak dari biasa biar berlebih nak bagi kuning kuah dan naik rasa kunyit (sebab aku tak ada stok kunyit hidup)
5. Panaskan kuali, letak air sikit. Aku letak sesenduk gitu (sebab ghiso ayam melekat. kuali kita bukan non-stick). Maukkan ayam yang dah digaul serbuk kunyit. Biarkan ayam tu separa masak; nampak kecut sikit. 
6. Selepas seketika, masukkan serai yang dah diketuk. 
7. Letak campuran cili padi dan cili merah, stir well dan kalini masakkan ayam dengan cili dan serai biar sampai naik bau sikit. 
8. Masukkan air, sukatan aku dalam 3-4 cawan mug. dan lepastu perasakan dengan garam. Gaul sebati. 
9. Masukkan santan dan gaul sebati. Pastikan kuah mula kelihatan kekuning-kuningan. Kena godek-gaul selalu supaya sebati.
10. Masukkan potongan kentang, tunggu sampai menggelegak. 
11. masukkan cendawan/kulat hitam pulak.. 
12. Masukkan daun kunyit yang telah dihiris. 
13. Biar masak sikit lagi. Sampai naik bau dan nampak cantik warna kuningnya. Masani pakai api kecil. biarkan dia mereneh je. 
14. Done and hidangkan. 

p.s. Edit: Untuk part cendawan/kulat hitam tu, sebenarnya tak mencapai betul-betul tekstur yang aku nak. Tak cukup kembang dan kembut rasanya sebab still ada rasa "crunchy" bila mengunyah tu. Kena revised cara penyediaan, sebab aku guna cendawan kering. Ada baca yang perlu rendam dalam air untuk 1-2 jam sebelum penyediaan untuk lembutkan. But anyway, dari segi rasa memang marvelous, suami la bagitahu. Dia suka!

Masakan Makjah: Spaghetti Aglio Olio

 Assalamualaikum wbt. Hai selamat pagi!

Been so long since the last entri on #masakanmakjah. And finally, feel like posting one again. Semenjak jadi isteri orang, memang lagi banyak memasak. Aku ambil gambar tidap-tiap kali menjadi juadahnya. Cumanya bila nak taip balik resipi, aku jadi lupa bila dah berselang hari tu lama sangat. tu lah payahnya bila resipi ikut suka hati main campak-campak kan. 

Ada hari jadi, ada hari terkurang juga itu-ini. The key is (bagi aku lah), sebelum and masa memask tu, bismillah and selawat banyak-banyak. Memasakpun kena dalam keadaan yang gembira, mood tengah okay. In shaa Allah; all combined memang vavavoom rasanya *chefkiss.

Okaylah. Lets - Bahan-bahannya:

• Spaghetti (1/2 bungkus; makan dua orang)
• Daging cincang Ramly (1/2 bungkus)
• Bawang putih: 5-6 ulas (diketuk) 
• Cili padi: 3 biji (sebab taknak pedas sangat)
• Daun kari: 3 tangkai
• Garam
• Serbuk Parsley Mccormick
• Italian Herbs Meriah 
• Tauge hijau/ pea sprout: sengenggam
• Slice cheese (2 slices)

Cara memasak: 

1. Spaghetti nak kena rebus dulu. Masak air dulu dalam pot (aku masak guna rice cooker je). Letak minyak masak sikit siap-siap. Aku letak garam, serbuk parsley dan serbuk campuran Italian herbs juga dalam air tu.  Air dah menggelegak, baru aku masukkan spaghetti, rebus sampai dah rasa lembut. 
2. Sambil tunggu spaghetti lembut, masukkan minyak dalam kuali. Tak banyak sangat, tapi jangan sikit sangat (probably 1 senduk kott memadai). sebelum minyak terlalu panas, masukkan bawang putih. jangan bagi hangit bawang putih ni. 
3. Masukkan daging hancur sampai masak dan sebati dengan bawang putih tadi.
4. Masukkan potongan cili kecil dan daun kari
5. Masukkan garam , gaul semula sebatikan rasa. Garam tu jangan masuk sikit sangat; secubit dua. Agak-agak dalam < 1 sudu teh gitu. (aku tak ukur sangat)
6. Spaghetti yang dah masak, toskan sebelum masukkan dalam kuali. 
7. Masukkan spaghetti, lepastu terus masukkan tauge hijau. Letak sekali serbuk parsley dan italian herbs sebelum gaul balikkan spaghetti yang baru letak tadi dalam minyak bawang putih (dan bahan-bahan lain).
8. Agak-agak spaghetti tengah panas sekata dalam kuali, masukkan cheese slice yang diracik-racik. sebelum digaul balik.
9. Boleh hidang dah. aku tambah lagi serbuk parsley and italian herbs sikit untuk plating.  

Untuk Aglio Olio, key rasa dia dekat bawang putih dan garam. bawang putih kena masak, tapi tak sama macam tumis biasa. kita masukkan bawang putih dari sebelum minyak betul-betul panas lagi sampailah dah minyak dah panas. kedua, garam kena ngam-ngam rasa. Terkurang, memang tak naik rasa. Terlebih, akan masin jadinya. Aku masukkan cheese slice untuk naikkan lemak sikit, and to counter kalau extra masin sangat (aku pernah juga letak santan in another recipe). Kalau nak pedas lagi, letak lebih sikit cili kecil tu. Suami aku kata sedap. Tu yang aku up juga dekat sini as an entri. 

p.s. mini burger tu buat hiasan gambar saja. Aku beli dekat office. Bun, with bijan on top. isi dia, nugget, salad, sos cheese dan mayonaise. 

kbai. ciao.

Tin Kosong; Killing the Time

 Assalamualaikum wbt

Feeling a bit numb as of the moment. Rasa macam tak best, tapi taktahu apa yang tak best yang duk rasa ni. Tak ada puncapun. Sebab biologipun bukan juga; tak kena waktunya. 

Nak menulis, pun taktahu apa nak ditulis. Maka.. sekadar menaip melekakan kepala dari perasaan hambar yang datang mengacau, agaknya.

So many things are happening dalam tempoh berbulan sejak posting sebelum ini. Banyak benda dah ditempuh, banyak isu baru yang turut memberi kesan serta banyak juga perubahan dari macam-macam aspek kehidupan.

Dalam masa yang sama, lama dah juga berangan nak buat satu entri tentang nikah dan walimah yang berlangsung Ogos tahun lalu; tapi tak pernah betul-betul bersedia nak meaip lagi (dek nak diletak gambar banyak bukan main, itulah yang tak pernah ada tu).

Between Work and Weddings

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim...

Assalamualaikum wbt.

(Np Merisik Khabar Akim & Farrah Cover)

Lagi tiga hari yang berbaki. Kesibukan di pejabat dan lebih-lebih lagi kesibukan melakukan persiapan untuk urusan majlis dan kenduri, menjadikan kepala dan hati kedua-duanya tak sempat nak memproses perubahan yang bakal berlaku. Bagusnya, overthinking is being prevented. Kurang bagusnya, aku rasa macam all the thoughts and feels akan dump on me lump-sum bila aku dah terlalu hampir dengan detik-detik bertukar status bujang - berkahwin. 

Macam sekarang, macam dah mula datang segala itu-ini. baru mula nak terfikir dan berfikir semula. New chapter coming orang kata. A co-author is a plus at that. Tak ada siapa menidakkan hakikat, bahawa rumah tangga itu tidak semata-semata smooth sailing sahaja. I am fully aware. Dan tak ada pula orang yang tak mengharapkan keindahan dan kebahagiaan dalam sebuah perkahwinan. Harapan tertinggi tetap untuk sebuah kebahagiaan. Theoretically, I know these two have to merge melalui tawakkul 'alallah. tawakal yang akan merendahkan expectations terhadap kesempurnaan dan yang akan menguatkan ikhtiar ke arah bahagia sampai syurga. 

Hustle and Hassle

Assalamualaikum wbt.

Remember when it was just several months ago, I wrote that it is hard to leave a good company. 

Here some more., an interesting finding.. "it is harder to leave a bad one."

I am feeling anxious and furious rn. Anxious of what else to come next and furious about what is currently happening. Not to mention, the frustration piling up as my trust being broken and shattered to pieces. 

"Huallah, Allahu Rabbi, laa syariikalah"

What happened today is way out of my plan. 6 months ago, I would never know this would have happened. 

I took up the offer to teach in an international school given my passion to teach. Only then to know that it is quite new in the scene for yet than a year . The offer came right after my engagement, sounds much like an opportunity of a great endeavor. As anxious I might have felt leaving the kind bosses, helpful colleagues and my fiance here at my previous job, I ought to break new ground in my career path. henceforth the hard decision. I always believe that there is rezqi in everything and every time, no exception on this one. "chulbal, lets go!!"

Teaching is great! Students are precious and teachers are resourceful. The profession has its own challenges which only make it more attractive to stick to. thus, I pour what I had and adapted. That is, despite the newness of the institution that make it lacking in so many structural form. That being said -  It has no Principal in charge but Deputy Head of the School at that moment, it has (court sorts) cases with its previous terminated-teachers (claiming the teachers are at fault; obviously) The high students turnover (the inability to retain customer), low admission rate with no proper sales and marketing team to take charge of it (but one man-show handled by only 1 personnel - later resigned, then on leveraging the teachers to do marketing and sales), the financial struggle (with some teachers were unpaid up to 4 months) and etc. Way too much of a red flag showing poor business practice by the company/management team. as a result, I got to see colleagues alike resigning from their post along the way because of the inconsistency they felt from the employer. 

Regardless, I still made my way through and through. The students are there to motivate me, so I tolerate and compromise. Ig the dedication was seen and acknowledged for towards the end of my probation period,  I was being awarded The Best Female Teacher for the term, 2022/2023; Alhamdulillah.

But sadly. That is that. when the salary payment (again) was way overdue, I got anxious. and the way management response to the issue, did turned me off big time. No prior notice issued, no meeting held to explain the situation and pointing fingers happened at it best.

I was somewhat did my own digging later on, simply to learnt that the company has not being transparent about 'not paying to my EPF and SOCSO contributions'. They did not pay me full amount, but they also did not contributing. The math is not mathing! No one really response to my inquiries when I revert to them about the issue. Hanky-panky saying that, the contributions will somehow to be made when the financial situation gets better yada-yada. They are toying with me straight on my face, not knowing that I was informed about how the hack things work. I played along, playing dumb. 

I decided to left (too) after so much thinking being done. I considered a lot. but my main drive is that, I did not feel comfortable any longer working. It feels wrong at so many levels, thus I handed my two-weeks notice as per to the contract requirements regarding the resignation procedure. My last date was supposedly to be effective on June 7th, before one sidedly being amended to the end of May (by the school) via whatsapp. To my surprise, I was then verbally and promptly being informed of early released on May 24th (along with guaranteed payment for May).  That was after about 50 minutes of questioning (interrogating?) my decisions and 2 on 1 conversation with the deputy head of school and head of operation personnel. It was quite messed up. Very much unprofessional. 

Fast forward to this day. June 8th 2023 Payment is yet to be paid. Now becoming overdue as the cut date was yesterday (on the 7th of the next salary month). Teachers that are staying had received their shares while it seems that I will have to fight for my rights. My commitments are due. Now after all the hustle, this is a hassle. Upsetting, really. 

p.s. Respectfully, I immediately refer to the HR cum accounting personnel this morning to inquire about my May salary, only to be replied that the matter has to be referred to the Deputy Head of the School (like wht?). Then, when someone (whose in the same shoes as I am) did refer to him as suggested. the deputy head of school said that it is not within his job scope for this so called salary matter (obviously, understood).