Superwoman Visited Aberdeen, Scotland

Superwoman arrived Aberdeen airport

Oh boy…this post is really way long overdue! Blame it on my busyness again…..*sigh*. But, really thanks LOTS for dropping by to read and also leaving your comments. I must say that it’s your comments that always leave me smiling and encouraged and make me want to continue blogging for the rest of my life. Blogging is fun. If you have not started blogging, I would like to encourage you to give a try. After all, it’s free to blog, so why wait. I have never regretted the day I started blogging. 
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Seafood Risotto

Delicious seafood risotto

If you ask, “Who likes rice?”, you bet both my hands will shoot up immediately! I LOVE rice. I was brought up eating rice, 3 times a day. So, I continue to love rice, but not 3 times a day any more. I still eat rice for lunch and dinner most of the time. But I don’t mind skipping a day without rice if I have to, especially when on holiday somewhere.
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Daughter’s Birthday And A Special Friend

Layered chocolate cheesecake and ice cream cake

I’m not sure about you when comes to celebrating birthdays but I thought I had just gone through quite a lot of  stress in the run-up to my daughter’s birthday last week…….lots of unbending requests from her! One of them is the birthday cake…ONLY chocolate cheesecake. I tried to persuade her to go for a different cake with nice icing but then, “NO”, a flat “NO”…ONLY chocolate cheesecake. That’s what happens when our children grow up. They have a strong mind of their own at times……both good and bad.
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King Prawns And Herbs Fried Rice

King prawns and herbs fried rice

Fried rice is such a comfort food. I’m sure everyone likes it. It’s really a meal on a plate. I was very surprised when I came to Scotland and found that restaurants even sell egg fried rice…only with eggs! That shows how popular fried rice is in this part of the world. To me, I don’t think it’s any worth the money paid. Cooked at home, you enjoy all the good quality ingredients, eat your heart’s out and save a lot of money. I think my plate of fried rice will have to cost at least £15 here with so many king prawns, herbs and other good quality ingredients used. I have eaten a very simple country fried rice that cost about £8.20! There were very few ingredients in it. Home cooked food is still the best!

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Butter Cereal Tiger Prawns

Butter cereal prawns

First of all thanks very much for visiting my blog and for all the lovely comments in my previous post, Soba Noodles In Chicken Soup. I’m away at the moment and there’s no internet access! The mobile broadband that I bought was not compatible with my Mac….so sad. Managed to borrow a laptop to use to type this paragraph. There’s no mouse and the letters somehow jump all over the place….arrrgggh! Taking me ages just to type this. My sincere apology for not being able to visit your blog. Will catch up when I get back.

This dish here  is a scheduled post. Happy reading! Hope everyone is having a great day everyday!
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Malaysian Assam Prawns (Tamarind Prawns)

Spicy assam prawns

It seems quite a while that I have not cooked prawns, one of my top favourites. I had some big prawns when on holiday back in Malaysia recently. That was really delicious….mmmm. I can’t get those fresh prawns here but I’m thankful to have nice ready cooked king prawns and raw tiger prawns.

I have been craving for something spicy and sourish and just thought assam prawns would do the trick. It did! I used the ready Assam Fish Paste which makes cooking very easy and quick. I love this brand of paste, Tean’s. I had used its Curry Laksa Paste to cook Malaysian Curry Fish Laksa, Chicken Curry Paste to cook Fast And Easy Malaysian Chicken Curry and Prawn Noodle Paste to cook Malaysian Prawn Soup Noodles. All of them are very delicious and very easy to cook with the pastes. 
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Prawns In Creamy Cheese Sauce

Prawns in creamy cheese sauce

When I am busy, I just want to have something very simple but yet very delicious. The best would be if it is one of my top favourites. Prawns, or shrimps, often came to my mind. A wonderful food blogger and friend, Drick, of http://dricksramblingcafe.blogspot.com has a lot of awesome prawn recipes that look very simple and easy to cook. They are totally different from my usual way of cooking prawns, which are very Asian style. I seldom use cream and cheese in my cooking but thought I should give a try.
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Malaysian Prawn Soup Noodles

Malaysian prawn noodles

Malaysia boasts itself of endless wonderful one-dish meal. I think it’s impossible to try all in a life time because more are created each day. That’s all because of the beauty of a multi racial nation. Prawn soup noodles, locally called ‘Hokkien Mee‘, is just one of the very popular one dish meals. It’s spicy but very delicious.

I was first introduced to this most delicious dish when I was in Penang, also known as ‘Pearl of the Orient’. I fell in love with it immediately. So this dish is always known as Penang Prawn Noodles to me. This is one of my top family favourite, more so for me as I really love prawns. This is one dish that my family would ask for every now and then.
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