A puzzling array...

Whole kernel corn plus creamy evaporated milk...

...equals a childhood treat!

When Girl was even younger than she is now, she attended a school opposite the Museum in her hometown. Despite the beautiful historical building the Museum was housed in, interesting artifacts and displays and a fine collection of aquatic life, the real attraction of the Museum was its Summerhouse...a place where three energetic sisters dispensed icy treats and other foodstuffs to the weary, thirsty and hungry and demanded only a modest sum in recompense...

In addition to the foodstuffs, there was also a little store room that one had to pass to get to the tables and it was rumoured that someone had been murdered and robbed in there...which always caused a shiver to run down Girl's spine...

Twenty odd years later and thousands of miles away from home...Girl felt a sudden craving for the iced corn that she invariably ordered at the Summerhouse to combat the warm weather. Most fellow Malaysians would probably scorn Girl's choice as being the blandest item on the menu** but Girl is staunch in her love of this icy treat...plump kernels of corn, shaved ice, evaporated milk and syrup in a bowl is and will be Girl's choice of sweet on a Summer's day...

**in addition to iced corn, the Sisters also served Ais Kacang or Air Batu Campur (Mixed Ice) and Cendol (which has no translation)

Oak Tree Cottage Lemon Slice

This lemon slice was strongly recommended by a colleague of Girl's...recipe courtesy of Cuisine Magazine.


Ingredients

*base

125g flour
90g sugar
75g cold butter, chopped into small pieces
1 teaspoon lemon zest

*filling

4 eggs
225g sugar
1/2 - 3/4 cup lemon juice
2 tablespoons flour

Method

*base

To make the base, place the flour and sugar in a food processor. Add the butter and zest and mix until the mixture forms a ball. Roll out or press into the base of a 23cm buttered springform baking tin. Bake for 20 minutes at 180ºC until just turning golden.

*filling

Meanwhile, beat together the eggs and sugar until creamy. Fold in the lemon juice and flour. Pour this mixture over the crust and bake at 180ºC for 15 minutes. Lower the heat to 150ºC and bake a further 30 minutes or until the lemon mixture is set. Cool and cut into 6-8 wedges.To serve, dust with icing sugar and spoon whipped cream on the side. Serves 6-8.

Source: Recipe at Cuisine Magazine

Fried Noodles and Yummy Pork Ribs...

Fried Noodles with carrots, mung bean sprouts, garlic shoots and fish balls and Fried Pork Ribs.

You Shameless Hussy!

Girl must admit that she has a fit of the giggles everytime she sees this in the refrigerator of her local Chinese grocer's. Admittedly, the sight of a grown person having an attack of the giggles for no (seemingly) apparent reason in front of an open refrigerator must provide entertainment to the other shoppers around her...however!

The word "Wanton" according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary...

1 a archaic : hard to control : undisciplined, unruly b : playfully mean or cruel : mischievous

2 a : lewd, bawdy b : causing sexual excitement : lustful, sensual

3 a : merciless, inhumane b : having no just foundation or provocation : malicious

4 : being without check or limitation: as a : luxuriantly rank b : unduly lavish : extravagant

So if Girl wanted to overindulge in a substance that would corrupt her decorous self and cause her to abandon her morals and transform into a self-indulgent, dissipated and debauched woman of disrepute, she would have to look no further than her nearest Chinese grocer's....in which case, this seemingly innocent concatenation of flour and water is surely Asia's best kept secret...

오래 간만 입니다...

Hello again after an incredibly long hiatus...

Girl's apologies to her lone reader out there for abruptly halting her updates of her blog. Things have been hectic, to say the least!

But to briefly bring things up to date, Girl has sold her chooks as she found she could not cope with some of the other issues she had going and caring for two chooks...so off they went to another caring home...she does miss the large brown eggs they used to pop out on a regular basis but then again, she does not miss the weekly chook house mucking-out.

However, on the other hand, Girl has found a new hobby...knitting! and recently (with the aid of a friend) produced the following knitted blankie...woot! woot! The plan was to do the cream squares in plain garter stitch and then do the coloured squares in different stitches. Girl used a basket stitch for some of the squares and a couple of other stitches that she cannot remember the names of...

On to the next project then!

은주야, 영주야, 잘가라...

So, Girl having acquired two shaver hens that regularly lay large size seven eggs, Eun Ju and Yeong Ju kinda became superfluous to the whole enterprise. Therefore, they were sold off for a modest sum to an eager buyer and have since gone off to a new home...

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