.p.rae.lu.dium.

如果说考试不是要拿成绩做比较
而是要证明自己已经做到该达到的水平
对父母，对自己都有个交待

那么，为什么
当知道别人比自己考得更好时候
心里总是不好受
好像和他们脱节了，落于人后了

这时就会一直问
为何你比别人付出多
可是换来的
却比别人得到少
而且是少很多很多

还是该是时候
问问自己
是否真的
比别人付出的
“够多”吗？

记得几年前和朋友去戏院看了《门徒》这套戏，看完之后真的有所感慨。同时也很欣赏戏里的两位演员-吴彦祖，张静初

inspired by the thought of not able to have my favourite food of our beloved home country in less than 6 months time, i've decided to try out some of the DIY-possible recipes when i'm in overseas later, provided the availability of ingredients :(

the first thing that comes to mind was - SAMBAL!!!
oh!! how can one feast on nasi lemak without the presence of its main character?

my wild experiment started off by heading to the market to get some fresh ingredients.

1. red chillis (be it dried or fresh) x 20
2. red onions (big) x 5
3. red onions (small) x 5
4. tamarind (asam jawa) x 1 packet
5. garlic x 3-5 cloves
6. serai x 3
7. salt (1 teaspoon)
8. sugar (3 tablespoons)
9. oil (half bowl)

 

STEP 1 - carefully remove chilli seeds and chopped onions. don't slice serai as shown in photo on right because it'll be difficult to remove them later. recommended to just roughly smashed them and put in the serai as whole while cooking. tamarind is made into liquid and its seeds are to be sifted away.

STEP 2 - because the poor me doesn't possess an electrical blender, will have to manually blend them using grandma's method- batu lesung. tangan dah lenguh dah :(

STEP 3 - ingredients blend to a pulp. whole process took me around 30 minutes. reminder: the finer the pulp, the better. 

STEP 4 - heat up the wok with 2 tablespoons of oil, put in onions to fry for about 5-10 minutes.

STEP 5 - next, add in the pulp and simmer for about 30 minutes.

STEP 6 - add in salt, sugar, tamarind liquid and serai then continue to simmer for another 15 minutes until reddish-brown colour and the oil separates from the mixture.

FINAL STEP - turn off the heat and my sambal is ready to be served!!! :O

eh.. wipe off that saliva from your keyboard. hahah!!