LEAH's Kitchen: Fried Crabsticks

This was an impromptu idea. I came across this snack few months back in one of the FB group that I was following, and these crabsticks pictures were floating around during the CNY period. So when I was shopping for the honey cornflakes ingredients and saw the packets of Dodo crabsticks, I thought to myself "Hey, why not we have these for New Year?". Little did I know that making these #friedcrabsticks will suck out all our effort and perseverance.

Again, I use my helper (sweet hubby) to assist me with peeling those crabstick skin. Imagine, in each packet there are 12 sticks, cut into 2 pieces, multiply by 5 packets. We peeled 120 individual crabsticks into approx. 1cm flat pieces. Gawd!

Fried Crabsticks

 

Ingredients:

5 x packets of Dodo crabstick

Cooking Oil

Paper Towel

 

Instructions:

1. Cut all crabsticks into half.

2. Peel crabstick skin into approx. 1cm width and place it on a tray.

3. While at it, deep fry those skins which have already been air-dried till golden brown and crispy.

4. Place fried crabsticks on clean paper towel to absorb the oil.

5. Store in air-tight container after crabsticks have cooled down.

 

 

My Healthy Rating:

These crabsticks are made of flour, which technically means carbohydrate. Definitely not a healthy type of snack for those who are self-conscious.

 

 

LEAH's Kitchen: Honey Cornflakes

I was contemplating if I should bake Hari Raya (HR) #goodies this year because I was so caught up with sewing my HR costume. But when my sister started baking 5 type of goodies and filled the kitchen with fresh bakery smell, I suddenly got into the mood.

Every year, I have been baking honey cornflakes and oat biscuits. Yes, I only choose the simplest recipe as the oven that we have is not really advanced or meant for baking complicated items. I had thought of baking "tapak kuda", a type of nutella roll, but I guess I will put that plan into place for next year once I move into my new house.

Since it's soooo last minute, I had my husband to helped me out in making this #honeycornflakes. So sweet isn't he?

Honey Cornflakes

 

Ingredients:

1 x box of cornflakes - 220gm

100gm butter

6 x tablespoon honey

3 x tablespoon sugar

Papercups

Coloured sugared balls (for decoration)

 

 

Instructions:

1. In a heated pot, melt butter and mix with sugar and honey. Stir till mixture is even.

2. Pour in cornflakes and stir till mixture is evenly spread out to the cornflakes.

3. Placed a good amount of evenly mixed cornflakes into papercups.

4. Sprinkle coloured sugared balls on each cups as décor.

5. Baked the honey cornflakes for 10 minutes at 150 celcius.

 

 

My Healthy Rating:

No such thing. LOL.

 

Suck your thumb and shut up

I can't tolerate my boss any longer. He's the catalyst that drives me to leave this company even sooner than a year. He is so much different from the first time that I met him and to think that I thought he was pretty nice during the first few months into the job was such an understatement.

I know he's stressed by the loads of work which he needs to cover since the previous Director left the company. However, being stressful doesn't gives you the right to be rude to your staff or vent your frustration on us. Imagine your name being called out in a rude manner from your boss' desk and bearing in mind that the office size is as good as a confined space where everybody can hear you speak in a normal tone of voice. And the minor little things that he picks on and find the need to shout at you is so overbearing that I feel like smacking his forehead. Pfft!

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I hope I can wait till end of this year until I make a career change. Leaving now will make me feel guilty since I just came back from my overseas training. And furthermore, there are many things that will be happening from August till end of the year which requires money, money, and more money. Argh, living an adult life is not a joke. I wish I can live and work freely, without worrying about expenses all the time.

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My life. Pfft.

I'm not sure if it's because I'm fasting that I'm feeling quite emotional this month. Work has been a drag, exercising seems like a chore to me and I just don't feel like doing anything. All I want to do is to sleep, wishing that time will pass by fast and hoping that the baby dust will get onto me. Yes, my maternal instinct is raging on fire that I keep hoping my AF won't visit me every month. Haha.

I fell sick with high fever of 39.5deg last week. It was so random. My fever kicked in the night I was chased by a dog. Could that be a possible cause? Well, even till now, I'm still having a little bit of flu and phlegm that just won't go away.

I guess I missed spending time with my hubby too. His schedule is so tight that he hardly have time to spend with me. Believe it or not, I think we only break fast about 5 times together in these 2 weeks plus of Ramadan. How sad isn't it even when we are staying under 1 roof, we only get to see each other for a few hours. I can't wait for August to come and plan for a staycation with him. I do hope he has the time for it. And yesterday was a blessing as he made time to break fast with me at Seoul Garden.

I'm starting to get demotivated at work. Everything that I do is very routine, nothing comparable to my first permanent job in PICO. I recalled my time in PICO, I was motivated to work for almost 2 years until favouritism and politics kicked in along with the newbies. I've only worked for 7 months in this company and feel sucky. This is bad. I'm not sure if I hate my job. I certainly don't love it. I suppose the feeling is mutual, or perhaps, I have something that I'm not truly happy with my boss. The twitter shot perfectly summarise the situation that I'm having.

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I've also been slacking in working out. I can't believe I used to convince lazy people, "hey, it's only 2 hours that you spent within 24 hours for working out" and yet, I have to eat back my words now. But laziness is not the only reason. I'm trying to conceive and so I thought it's good to reduce the number of physical activities and prepare my body for conceiving. This cannot go on. I feel uneasy. I have to get back on track next week before I start expanding sideways.

And life goes on...

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