Breakfasting menu

Entry for reminding myself how I enjoyed this Ramadhan despite our parents and siblings are away. Gathering all of us is impossible as I am near to my due date. No balik kampung until my delivery day :( Even so, I still want to cook for my dearest and for myself to ensure the healthy and clean meal, This is only breakfasting menu. Sahur tak yah citer lah. It's either the same menu from buka puasa, bread or koko krunch. Kurma adalah wajib every bukak puasa, sahur dan snek kala nak mengunyah.

Day 1 is just me and Hubs at home. Angah takde, so rase xde mood nk masak. Instead we went to bazaar Ramadhan and bought ourselves Nasi Kerabu. Lepas tu, tgh mlm sakit perut. Ha.. ni benci nak beli food kat luar ni.

Day 2 is blessed with makanan syurga dari Umie. Tempoyak ikan patin bakar dengan asam pedas ikan pari. Sounds enough? Nooo sebab takde sayur, makanya menggorenglah sayur kacang campur carrot. Hubs request telur kicap. Nah.. baru hari first, lauk macam nak kenduri tapi alhamdulillah habis. Kami bertiga memang pemakan lauk yang tegar :P

Disebabkan hari Ahad telah membeli barang basah dengan jayanya, maka starting from Day 3 onwards, we cooked ourselves for bukak puasa. Sungguh bersemangat gayanya. Harap-harap maintain sampai habis puasa ;)

Day 3: Masak lemak udang for me and Angah. Kari jenahak for Hubs

The next day, Hubs cakap tak nak makan nasik sebab asek makan banyak je. So instead I just make Sup Ayam and still Hubs makan nasik jugak. Kalah dengan sup katanye :P

Day 5 buat Ikan Cencaru Sumbat Sambal, sayur brokoli campur dengan Ikan Tenggiri Masak Kicap. Sup semalam ade la seketul lagi. Habiskan semua terus.

Lauk hari kelima

Tahun ni, birthday Hubs jatuh on bulan puasa :) Pagi tu ade surat layang atas his helmet. He opened up and it was from my siblings to him. I told him to take picture what's inside tapi malu katanya. Eceh. Angah wasn't around sebab bukak puasa dengan her friend so leaving just the two of us to celebrate. I made Baked Salmon and bought some cake for the birthday boy. 

Hubs turns 26th on the 6th day of Ramadhan :)

Hari ketujuh buat ikan cencaru lagi. Tah kenapa asik nak makan cencaru sambal tu. Sayur kubis air and Angah buat daging blackpepper. Cukup sampai sahur.

Menu hari ke 7

Dan semalam buat Nasi Kerabu sendiri. Kisahnya sebab dah ade kuah dengan sambal ikan from Umie the other day. So topup mana yang patut and wallah~ kenduri besar semalam :P Memang favouritelah! 

Kerabu lauk ayam goreng!

Oh ade lagi! Desert hari smalam ialah Ice Cream goreng requested by Hubs (tapi tak berapa nak menjadi sebab salah teknik), koktel dan puding roti. Banyak bukan? Tapi semua boleh simpan lama. Stock up utk 2 3 hari ni.

Ice cream goreng yang cair loleee~

Hari ke 9 buat lamb grill dengan nasi goreng cina. Angah takde. Hanya kami berdua. Lamb tu Hubs yang marinate, yang grill. Pompan ini hanya goreng nasik. Kuih onde-onde.

Day 9

Hari ke 10, Angah jd chef, buat daging kicap dengan terung goreng cili. Reheat kuah nasi kerabu. Stok barang basah dah habis. Nampak gaya, ada can beli je lepas ni. Tak pun kene rajinkan diri pegi Giant lepas balik kerja. Tuh la. Wiken lepas bermalasan sungguh sampai tak kluar rumah 2 hari. Hehe.

Hari ni dah hari ke 11 yer. Sekejap je dah sampai quater Ramadhan. Alhamdulillah masih berpuasa even ada hari yang dah nak give up. Tricknyer kene amek nap during lunch time on weekdays. Hari ni sardin, telur dadar, dan sayur campur. Minggu ni da start mengusha bazar sebab tekak nk soya manjang. Eheh :P

Siap!!

Beli lompat tikam sebab tak reti buat. Nk beli akok tp kecik ati. 3 biji RM2. I think it's ridiculously overpriced. Ayam rempah seketul RM3.50. Uih.. sakit jiwa. Dari tak semangat nk masak, trus rase nk masak bile pikir harga. Oleh itu, teruskan usaha sebelum baby kluar ni. Chaiyok!

Selamat berbuka!

Onde-onde atau kuih gula melaka

Mak buyung nak makan onde-onde tapi tak nak beli. So buatlah sendiri dengan gigihnya. Tengok pada rupa da lulus tapi sedap tak sedap tak tau lah. Kene cuba time bukak puasa nanti. Nak taruk nota dekat sini sebab minda tak berapa nak kuat kalau buat menda yang setahun tak sekali :P Bahan tak susah:

2 cawan tepung pulut

3 sudu besar tepung gandum

1 cawan air 

1 sudu kecil perasa pandan (ada daun pandan lagi bagus. blend dan amek air die)

setitik pewarna hijau

sedikit air kapur (kapur sebesar kacang tanah)

Gula melaka yang dipotong

Kelapa muda yang diparut

Garam

Buat pun tak susah tapi nak kene gigih menggentel. 

1. Campur semua tepung dalam satu bekas

2. Air campur dengan perasa,pewarna dan air kapur. Umie kata air kapur tu tak nak kasi liat sangat.

3. Masukkan air kedalam tepung sedikit demi sedikit. Kalau taruk semua kang terlebih lembik pulak. I didn't use the whole cup pun. Ade la tinggal dalam 2 sudu rasenyer.

4. Uli sampai sebati.

5. Ambil adunan sebesar ibu jari. Leperkan dan taruk gula melaka kat tgh2. Hubs suka banyak gula melaka, so mine taruk lebih la.

6. Dah siap buat bulat2, didihkan air.

7. Masukkan bebola dalam air. Tunggu sampai ia timbul.

8. Angkat dan golekkan dengan kelapa parut yang dicampur garam secukup rasa.

Dapat la dalam lebih 30 biji. Siap bagi kat Acik lagi.

Kelapa ada lebih lagi. Nampak gaya ada can buat kuih sagu pulak. Nak buat ketayap tapi bile memikirkan banyak kerenah, so lain kali jelah. Hehe. Kita manfaatkan ape yang ada kat dapur tu je. Tak yah bazir. 

Harap-harap jadi la rasa onde-onde ni. Bulan puasa ni, paham-paham la. Kalau masak, sume beragak-agak je. Tolonglah sedap, kalau tak, tak nak buat dah. 

Eh? Cepat give up. Konon! Haha.

Fasting and Pregnancy

It's Ramadhan! The first day wasn't good because the night before:

1) Went out for dinner after maghrib and back home at 10pm. Solat isya' and terawikh, lie down a bit and went out again for movie.

2) Went for Dark Night at 12.30am and reach home almost 4.30am. Watch it at IOI mall which we have to tour from back and forth, looking entrance to our car park because we entered at the old wing and walk out from movie at the new wing. Dah la tak jumpa lift. Imagine I have to go up and down stepping up the escalator. Dugaan betul. Benci IOI.

3) My feet had water retention so bad that I can't fit into my sandals. It was so sore macam kene pam. Not painful but uncomfortable. This is the worst I had so far. Body was so tired that I wake up at 5.45am. There goes our sahur.

4) Wake up around 8am feeling super hungry!! Haha. Force myself back to sleep again and wake up again at 11am. Laundry, cleaning up the kitchen and iron Hubs working cloths. That's it. No folding up the cloths nor sweeping/mopping the floor.

5) Cook? Nay, gonna pass. Will go for Bazaar Ramadhan this evening. Was thinking having Nasi Kerabu. Whoo~

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Baby should be more active when you are fasting. Mine was kicking a lot during daylight. Super active. Me other hand, feels like lying down the whole day. Semput jugak bile time die summersault inside. Adui.. Fasting doesn't mean less trip to the toilet. Mine same as normal days. Subhanallah, such a magical to think what He had done to our body. Tak minum tapi kencing same je macam minum air. Tak makan satu hari tapi baby lagi aktif. Rase amazing dengan kuasaNya.

I am hoping that I can bare this fasting month as this little mujahidah is coming out less than 3 weeks. Probably earlier like most people said. Some advice from Dr Seri for preggers is to have a lot of dates during sahur as it release the sugar that our body needs slowly, which will maintain the energy through out the day. 

Other than that is better to take the supplements (Pramilet, Fish Oil and Calcium) at night, after berbuka. I thought by taking the supplements during Sahur is better because it can gives you the nutrients that you need and supply the energy during daylight but tetttt! wrong! She said the supplements actually makes you crave to eat more and will make you feel hungry faster than usual. Thus, taking it after breaking the fast is better for the side effect to kick in at night. So tak de la rse fighting over your hungry mase puasa kan. Plus, with the dates that you consume during sahur is enough to supply the necessary benefit for you and your baby.

Oh, and she advice to eat a lot during Sahur. Agree sebab the last time I tried, I can't skip my Sahur, nor just eating 2 slice of bread and 3 dates. I need to add either cereal or eating nasi. Ha.. confirm tak rase pape till evening. Walaupun semalam tak sahur tp makan adalah non-stop (Pagi nasik lemak, lunch nasik, petang ade tea time makan satay, dinner pulak lagi, movie makan pop corn. So sumber tenaga tak putus disitu. Haha. Plus, Separuh hari ni spent with sleeping. Memang kurus pahala hari first ni)

What else..hospital bag? Done! Hoo yah! Thanks to Magh advice that PCMC will provide cloths for mommy, thus just need my cloth to go back home. Baby cloth pun dah pack. 

Thanks to this blog for reference :)

I just have some concern on 'What if I don't have my milk as luxurious as other moms?' 'What would my baby have then?' 'Do I need to prepare the powdered milk?' but as Magh said 'Yakin dengan keupayaan kopek sendiri' Haha. Baheklah Magh! I try!!! She said there will be a lactation consultant will come and gives the advice after delivery. Ahh, that would be really helpful. 

Technically, we are good to go! Spiritually? Alhamdulillah, nothing major worries, just all excited to deliver this miracle inside :))

Sneaky

People who knows me, knows that I don't fancy cold drinks. I prefer to have warm water whenever I go, or even bring my own tumbler whenever I go out with my friends.

But, I am not sure, is it the hot weather or this pregnancy that makes me crave for cold drinks with (lots) ice. I even have this bad habit where I munch the ice till my glass is empty. Before pregnant, I hardly make any ice cubes at our house. Hubs the only one who drinks the cold water and he's the only person who responsible for any cold drinks in the house. So when this bad habit starts to kick in, I never fail to have ice cubes inside my freezer.

Hubs started to give that 'Don't' face whenever I wanted to have my ice-time but he's far away to stick with me 24 hours. When no one is looking, I go to the freezer, take up the ice cube and munch. It feels like a kid having candy moment. I am literally like - ahhh... so good.

I hope this is just temporary because I read and have (lots of) advice that it is no good to munch an ice. Kan? Poor my teeth. Talked to my doc but she said probably hormones. I hope she's right :|

5 weeks to go

Ini adalah entry pemalas. Apologies for any spelling/grammatical error ;) Recap for the past weeks:

1) I don't have trouble going to toilet at night during first and second trimester which somehow I assume I won't have the problem till the end but I was completely wrong. I wake up every hour (at least) every night. Worst when I just had a pee and have to go back again after 5 minutes.

2) Baby sways a lot and it becomes so obvious that sometimes my tummy unevenly slanting.

3) Last check up at Week 33 with 2.3kg. We manage to see the face and if you understand/knows the position, can see that the baby most likely looks like Hubs :))

4) Bekung or is it bengkung? Ma already prepared one for me and Umie plans to buy another one from Sendayu Tinggi (?), the one with the set bersalin. Air or is it minyak? selusuh pon been prepared by Ma. Hubs and I have not idea what it's all about and how to use it but basically it's a coconut oil recited with doa. Ma said I have to consume it when I feel the pain for labor. Umie adds that other than air/minyak selusuh, I can take air bunga fatimah which I have no idea how does it looks like. At times like this, I feel super grateful to have mother(s) that take a good care for me. Syukur. Umie even plan to use her leave (I mean lotsSss of leave) during my confinement days. Wehooo!


5) Still haven't decide baby's name. We don't even have our name short listed.

6) Still haven't pack hospital bag (confident due at week 40 eh? :P) Aigoo...

7) Have yet to buy breast pump. We already ordered but haven't get the chance of meeting the person yet. Probably this week or next week to get the pump COD.

8) I love, LOVE baby rocker ever since bachelorette days tapi tak nak beli sebab didn't think it is necessary. Luckily there are some people that is generous enough to buy baby rocker for us!! Wohoooo!

9) Remember how we both didn't want baby cot? Haha. Shove it to our face! sebab Hubs dengan jayanye berjaya mengecek from Along :P tapi tak pasang lagi. Thank you Along! Almari baby pon da penuh dengan baju. Hanger fully occupied! siap kne lipat lagi. Courtesy from Along sayam laaa!! Much love! Nanti post gambar okay?!

10) Eh sudah sepuluh. Enough for now. Toodles!!