Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

Rasanya sik salah mun nak wish awal.....Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

Tips of the Day

Our bodies are designed to create fat to protect us. Before our modern days of convenience foods and unhealthy diets, where overeating is the norm and not the exception, that wasn't a problem. People couldn't always get hold of enough to eat as easily and they didn't have as many processed or convenience foods. So, their bodies stored fat as something that they actually might have needed. Today we get too much food, more than our body needs, so we store the excess and end up with too much fat, everywhere including around our hearts. What can we do about it?

So, today we can eat all this not-so-good-for-us stuff and our bodies are able to create a lot more fat as a result. This may simply give you an image problem so you may, for example, want to lose weight around your stomach, butt and thighs. But, it can also lead to medical problems in some cases as well, including problems in the heart area.

Is healthy eating the answer to some of these issues? Yes it is!

So, let's look at three important healthy living tips to see what they can do for you.

• Healthy living tip #1 -- look after your heart...if you are carrying a lot of extra weight then you will simply be putting a lot more pressure on your heart. It is designed to support your body and asking it to support a lot of fat into the bargain can simply add to the strain. People who are significantly obese often end up with heart failure or breathing problems simply because of the excess weight they are asking their body to cope with. They may also be at a higher risk of suffering from high blood pressure and illnesses such as diabetes. Healthy living is a simple solution.

• Healthy living tip #2 -- keep new fat at bay...if you have good eating habits then you can stop your body from producing excess fat. Fat is produced, in basic terms, when you take in more calories than you burn off. Your body needs to deal with the excess and guess what it does? Yep, turns it into fat. If you work out how many calories you should be eating a day and stick to that (or less than that) then you can keep the fat at bay and end up with positive effects all over.

• Healthy living tip #3 -- get rid of the old fat...if you start eating better food then, as we've already seen, your body will find it harder to store new fat. But, what about the old fat you already have? What happens to that? Over time, if you stick with a healthy eating program, where you consume less than you burn each day, then you will make your body use up this excess stored fat. If you add extra exercise to the mix then it may get rid of it even more quickly. The point here is to burn more than you consume so that your body believes that it needs to release the stored fat.

Let's face facts...it makes sense to do this! You'll lose fat, stop new fat from being stored AND you'll look after your health for a long way into the future.

Midin Belacan

Another specialties in Sarawak... Must try when you visit Sarawak

Laksa Oh Laksa

you can have the best laksa in chong choon cafe... you can also have the best butter cheese there...yummy

How to make laksa Sarawak (5 servings from Flavours)

Ingrediants:
350 grams laksa paste2 litres chicken stock250 to 300 ml thick coconut milk
400 grams thick vermicelli noodlesToppings
50 grams beansprouts, blanched100 grams chicken breast fillet, cooked and shredded
5 large prawns, cooked and shelled

Garnish
2 eggs, made into omelette strips
2 stalks coriander, chopped (I used spring onions since I had no coriander)
3 calamansi limes, halved

For the gravy, boil the laksa paste in the chicken stock for 15 minutes. Strain into a pot. Add the coconut milk and stir until well mixed. Season to taste with salt and sugar. Soak the dried vermicelli to soften and blanch with hot water. Place noodles in a bowl and add the toppings in the order listed. Ladle hot laksa gravy over. Garnish withe the shredded omelette, coriander, lime halves and sambal (recipe below).

Sambal
30 grams garlic
50 grams shallots
100 grams onion
50 grams dried chillies, soaked in hot water30 grams dried shrimps, soaked and drained6-8 tablespoons oil50 grams chilli paste such as chilli boh30 grams/1 tablespoon tamarind paste mixed with 3 tablespoons water1 tablespoon sugar to taste1/2 teaspoon salt to taste

To prepare the sambal, place garlic, shallots, onions, dried chillies and dried shrimps in an electric blender and process to a fine paste. Heat the cooking oil and fry the blended ingredients until brown and aromatic. Add the chilli paste, tamarind juice and season to taste with sugar and salt. Cook for 25 minutes over a slow fire

wa lau wei.....

one of my favourite....so nice...must have when you have your dinner at top spot

The day he was born

domiq,dobain,mimeq,tomiq, abang,mikhail.....that are few names we name him at home....he's the sunshine of my family...especially to my in laws...looking at him smile when he wake ups in the morning make you feel easy...nothing burden you....and its good to start a new days..

Now he's 9 months old and gonna celebrate his first eid this year. I've already bought his first baju melayu though the first that he had is the one that he used when we had his doa selamat and majlis bercukur in june. but this baju melayu rather special coz its.................

kek lapis sarawak

It is a tradition in Sarawak, Malaysia to serve Sarawak Layered Cakes on special occasions. In the Malay language they known as Kek Lapis Sarawak, Kek Lapis Moden Sarawak, Kek Sarawak or Kek Lapis. They are often baked for religious or cultural celebrations such as Eid ul-Fitr, Christmas, Deepavali, birthdays and weddings. People in Malaysia practice an open house on festival day. A unique feature of Sarawak's open houses is the modern layered cakes.