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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The Unexpected News

The situation at my workplace was pretty bad the past few weeks with rumors spreading that my Director was resigning at the end of the month. It's complicated to explain how the situation of him resigning will affect us but trust me, the morale to work was super low. Because of that, I have been slacking in my job, trying to pass through days and drag myself to work everyday. I was quite depressed considering that I had only been 5 months into the job and this was what I was already feeling.

But something changed. I received an email from my VP Marketing from HQ, #Chiasso.

To cut the story short, I have to go Chiasso for training and it will happen in 2 weeks time!

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Shit. Nervous. And scared.

Imagine, me, alone, on a 12 hours flight, carrying a freaking heavy luggage, with laptop, and my blur eyesight, landing in Milan instead of Swiss Airport since it's nearer to travel to Chiasso and hoping that I would not get lost from country to another country, and not forgetting that these European rarely speaks English and how am I suppose to commute with them??!!

Plus...plus...plus....

I have to make a presentation to the Marketing Team there and I'm having some Asian inferiority syndrome that it's making my stomach do crunches each time I think of it!

2 weeks. DIE.

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Suddenly, with that news, I became super busy. I was scrambling to complete my unfinished task at work because straight after I come back from Chiasso, I have 2 events and the preparation have yet to even start. Serious shit.

My first ever #SOLO Business Trip. Good luck to me man!

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LEAH's Kitchen: Spaghetti Prawn Aglio Olio

Yummeh!

The only pasta that I can make it super spicy to satisfy my tastebuds. I was craving badly for aglio olio from #SPIZE simpang bedok since last Saturday however, my hubby was too tired to bring me to SPIZE since he was working the following day. All night, I kept drooling at videos of #aglioolio and on Monday, we went to #Pastamania to satisfy my cravings.

However, I wasn't satisfied. Period.

You know the feeling when something just doesn't satisfy you? You will keep thinking and thinking about it non-stop. And yes, it happened to me. Hence, I decided to whipped up my own aglio olio with the balance prawns I had in the freezer yesterday. And oh boy, I am glad I did that. I finally got my favourite #pasta down my hungry belly!

Spaghetti Prawn Aglio Olio (4 pax)

 

Ingredients:

15 x Garlic (chopped)

3 x Italian Parsley stalk (chopped)

8 x Chilli padi (sliced)

1 x tablespoon of grounded black pepper

500gm fresh prawns

1 x packet of Spaghetti

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Salt

 

 

Instructions:

1. Cook pasta according to packaging instructions. Drain water and put pasta aside.

2. Pour substantial amount of olive oil into frying pan. Cook garlic until fragrant

3. Pour in Chilli Padi, Black Pepper and Parsley and stir-fry.

4. Add in prawns and cook till prawn turns orange.

5. Add in pasta and stir-fry till the dish is mixed well.

6. Add salt to taste.

7. Using tongs, served pasta and garnish with parsley flakes.

 

My Healthy Rating:

This dish tends to be high with oil content (Aglio Olio simply meant Oil and Garlic). Fret not, I heard that olive oil is good for a human body. Hence, I rate this dish to be 3/5.

 

Sewing, the new Generation :D

May day... or rather, it's May HEAT!

Help, the weather is freaking humid and I perspire almost anytime of the day, including the moment I step out from my shower. How bad is that? This is so human nature, hot weather complain, cold weather also complain, and I'm so guilty of that ;p

The dry spell is causing me dizzy spells, and I'm feeling nauseas for a week already (I didn't really vomit). Wait! I know what you're thinking...

NOPE. I'm not pregnant...Yet.

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Erm, well, it couldn't be right? LOL.

Anyway, I just started my sewing class recently and it's pretty awesome! It was a 3 hour lesson and I had only learnt how to take blouse measurements plus practising to sew straight and curved lines using the sewing machine. I'm amazed at the number of youngsters, including me (teehee), whom actually signed up for this private sewing classes( #sewingclassessingapore ). I had never thought that it would interest this age group.

I'm so geared up for my Saturday weekly as I will be learning how to sew. Those who know me personally may find it weird that I am attending this classes as my mom is a seamstress. So why am I not getting lessons from her? Well, all I can say is that, she is a Busy Woman. LOL. Guess I will learn the basics and approach her when I am more confident in doing patterned designs :D

And for the record, throughout my 26 years of life, my mom had only taught me how to sew a skirt.

Hehe.

I'm so excited! I just bought cloth yesterday at Woodlands Town Centre (had a hard time to find this place, seriously!) for my next lesson and also, for me to recap on how to sew a pencil skirt. Who knows someday, I will own a fashion retail business!

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