Nothing too funny this week, but this is as serious as it comes to tide you for the week ahead:
And that the rest of the week after Monday a little loopy to keep things exciting. Let the week begin!
December 10, 2017
Sunday Humour: This Week in Prayer
Category: Entertainment
December 8, 2017
Friday Flavour: Mee Rebus
Category: Entertainment
Here’s one dish I truly missed: Mee Rebus.
It’s a typical Singaporean noodle dish comprising of yellow egg noodles submerged in thick, hearty, savoury and sometimes spicy gravy. It is then garnished with boiled eggs, fried tofu, taugeh (bean sprouts), fresh spring onions and cilantros as well as a handful of sliced up fresh green chillies.
It’s been a while since I made this. The type of egg noodles usually used for Mee Rebus is hard to find here in the Netherlands, hence my reluctance to make it.
Though, not making it does not mean I can’t re-post the recipe. So for this week, that’s exactly what I’m doing for I’m craving nothing more than to feed myself with a luscious bowl of an authentic Singaporean Mee Rebus!
Because. Why not!
A Singaporean’s Rendition of Mee Rebus
2015-07-13 14:24:22
Ingredients
- 150-300g fresh yellow egg or chowmein noodles
- 150g beef, thinly sliced into small pieces and boiled
- 6 cups beef stock used from the boiled beef
- 1 non-MSG beef stock cube
- 3 tbsp Vegetable oil
- 1 Candlenuts
- 2-3 tablespoon of roasted, grounded peanuts
- 1 cup of fermented soya beans (rinsed and blended separately)
- 3-4 tbsp Chili paste (blended from dried chillies)
- 1 tbsp Coriander powder
- 1/2 inch turmeric root
- 1 inch fresh galangal
- 20 Shallots or 4 mid-sized red onions
- 2-4 Small sweet potatoes, peeled, cooked and mashed
- Salt to taste
For Garnishing
- • Fried shallots
- • Pre-fried tofu or soy bean cakes, cut into small cubes
- • Bean sprouts, briefly blanched
- • Hard boiled eggs, cut in wedges
- • 3-4 limau kasturi (lime), cut into halves
- • Fresh green chillies, thinly sliced
Instructions
- Boil beef separately till tender and drain the liquid from the beef to use it as stock. Set aside both boiled beef and broth
- Grind candlenuts and peanuts, chili paste, turmeric root, shallots, galangal and coriander powder into a fine paste.
- Heat pot on medium flame, add vegetable oil.
- Cook paste until quite toasted.
- Add in the rinsed and blended fermented soya beans. Mix them thoroughly
- Add in the boiled beef earlier and mix in thoroughly
- Add some of the beef stock liquid and cube, bring it to a boil.
- Slowly add the mashed sweet potato to the stock, till a gravy-like consistency is reached.
- Add salt to taste , decrease the heat to low, simmer gently 8 to10 minutes
- Add more mashed sweet potato if gravy is too thin or more beef stock if the gravy is too thick
- Keep gravy hot on the low-medium heat, for serving.
Assembling your noodles
- Take another pot and boil some water. This is used for blanching (dipping) bean sprouts and warming up noodles.
- When ready to serve, blanch a handful of bean sprouts with some noodles in a sieve into the hot boiling water
- Place them in a dish and ladle over the piping warm gravy over noodles.
- Top with a little of each garnishing.
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This recipe was first featured in my blog back in 2014 – Taste of Home: A Singaporean’s Rendition of Mee Rebus
December 5, 2017
A Re-blog: How To Tell If You Are A Parent
Category: Blogging
One of my favourite Daddy Blogger, Stomper Dad @ All in A Dad’s Work did a brilliant post on being the guilty one. And I cannot even disagree because each and every sentence (and more) is true:
You might be a parent if…
you’ve argued about socks
you had to explain the reason for washing hands after pooping
you get no sleep
you get sleep, but still wake up tired because you’re eternally sleepy
you’ve been peed, pooped, puked, or bled on
you have to be in three different places all at the same time
you could really use a free maid
you could really use a free cook and masseuse, too
you have answered the question “why” so many times you found a parallel universe
you can answer any question sufficiently enough to satisfy their curiosity without raising more questions
You thought you understood parenthood perfectly before you were a parent but now that you’re a parent you realize you know nothing about parenthood.
You might be a parent if you’ve ever asked…
Where are your pants?
Why are you naked?
Where’s your other sock?
What is all over the bathroom floor?
How did you get water on the ceiling?
Why are you sitting on your brother’s head?
Why did you put three DVDs into the DVD player?
Why did you think eating the whole thing was a good idea?
Who peed on the toilet seat?
What are you doing up at this hour of the morning?
Why are writing on the walls?
Did you ask your father/mother, yet?
Didn’t I answer that question already?
Why are you peeing outside when we have a perfectly good bathroom inside?
How many times do I need to tell you ___(Fill In The Blank)__?
What me? A Parent? Pfffft. OK. Guilty as charged!
Read the rest of his post here. It’s one of the funniest post I have read this week. Go ahead, stalk him on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook