Of School Holidays and Glorious Food!

Ahh...dah dua jam mengadap laptop ni! I feel guilty with this pleasure I have. I look around me... mmm...the house is spic and span... so, I shouldn't feel bad at all. (ayat nak menyedapkan hati!!)  But everything is so still here. This house, I mean. It's just so, so unispired...or, is it me...being so listless?  Anyway....

Anyway, my already chaos activity has been chaotic even more. With the school's out, I am still chasing after MyC for breakfast, (and she hated it when I treat her like a six-year old!) and sending her to school...YES, you read it right, folks, she is at school, sitting for her exams during holidays due to this!  Today is her last paper and like yesterday, she is staying back for her club's project that has been approved by the sponsor. I cannot go anywhere lest she will call at any time to pick her up. Also every morning after I have dropped her at school, I go to the market to get my daily fish supply, but alas, it has been three days still there aren't many fish this time around because of this sudden 'ombak besar', the fish-mongers told me... yeah, it has been raining heavily these days.
And, in the evenings, there is her tuition classes to send her to. To sum it all, I've been on the road everyday, at rush hours, for that matter. It really got me all worked up.  If it's not for my constant tasbih and zikirs, while driving, I guess I would have broke down and cried.  But that's me... I mean, to cry over nothing! Geez, I'm scared sometimes...

But there is always one thing that helps motivate me to look forward for a rewarding day. What else, if it is not the food I cook! Hikhik!!!  Yesterday for instance, I craved for laksa. Well, I can always buy one as Penang and laksa are synonymous! Then again, nothing beats the home-made laksa....

 yummy...laksa for lunch and anytime!

Later in the evening, I terlebih rajin.... so I cooked dinner. I invited Umai to join us. She loves rendang pedas kerang so much...

Rendang pedas kerang....

This morning, as I go about my chores and re-heating the rendang to make it a bit drier, I just realised I had been cooking rendang for the past two weeks... 

Rendang Dinding... specially made and packed 

for my little sister who is now in Mekah with her family

performing the Umrah

The other week, I made rendang tok for our kenduri in Ipoh....

Rendang tok... just before drying it up a bit!

Hmm...every time I talk about food, I'm sure I can see myself smiling from ear to ear. Good thing I am a small eater!  

As I'm writing this, I feel funny suddenly. Well, every time the hubby asks me how was my day, I always say the same thing, "never been better, yang!", "good, good, good!" and all the positive responses!

Oh ye, CS... seperti yang you pernah minta, dibawah ni I selitkan gambar pinggan mangkuk Mikasa yang akan ada sale lagi next month...hehe... Tapikan tapi... gambar kat bawah ni cuma terambil bersama our brunch spread some time ago...So, perhatikan yang dalam cabinet tu aje!  And also mangkuk yang I hidangkan rendang kerang dalam gambar atas tu!

 :-)