Bake, Cook and Facial

Hmmmmm....the title says it all.

I'm in a roll!!!! I have been in the kitchen more then I spend time infront of the computer. I know it's a miracle! I can even see the spotlight beam shining down on me like the intro in a Mr Bean sitcom and the sound of an angelic "Laaaaaaaaa" chorus in the background.

Ok I'm jumping the story...... I , have successfully baked a chocolate cupcake (without it exploding in the microwave. I have to admit there was some false alarms and some burn cupcakes but I had the hang of it ) Phew! it was hard work I tell you. I had to manually turn the cakes around so that the heat would level on all the cakes.(ehmmm waaaa I'm using kitchen jargon now) Our microwave rotater broke down every 5 minutes. It was almost an impossible feat to dash from the stove , where I was melting chocolate bars for the icing to the microwave. Imagine elvin's desk to the registration table. Alas there was some casualtes lke burn chocolate icing but hey.....nobody complained :P or didn't dare to complain......bwahahahaah . I gave everyone at the office a sample and so far I am happily to report that nobody has been hospitalized or mutated after eating the chocolate cupcakes.

Next story......this work I experimented on making roti jala. Yes...... you heard it correctly......roti jala....Where did I get the recipy.....From a reliable source....

.youtube :) It took me nearly 3 hours to do it.What!!!!3 hours !!! your saying? Yup. I had a few touch and go....a few unedible,globby piece of mush which sadly to say I had to throw it away. Even the stray cats won't go near it.

To make roti jala thow there is a special instrument that we have to use. I don't know the name but it looked like a cup with ffive small cones attached to the bottom. Each cones has a hole to it to ease the mixture to flow out and create the net designs on the pan. I wa a real artist the first time round.....I put too much water on the mixture that it couldn't create the strings of net but instead a big glob of dropping, like a pancake which has been runover by a streamroll :P

OOOOh I even cook meat curry for it. Left hand was mixing the curry, the right hand was pouring the mixture on the pan while my mind was rapidly praying that either one of the food would be burned or that somehow the fire from both stove won't combust me !!!!

The roti jala didn't look like much as I put some of it on the plate. It was a sorry sight as it lay flat there with its striking yellow color (yes I accidently poured tooo much tumeric on it :P) BUt hey, my dad ate it anyway and so far he is still at the peak of health. I have decipher the greatest mytery of all time......how to make your parents content...for us women it is to spend a lttle bit of time in the kitchen (oooohhhhh say 1 hour but if you burn the kitchen down, my suggestion is to run like mad :P)

I'm getting pretty sleepy and a bit gibberish as I swallowed a flu pill. tell you about the facial tomorrow.

nite