Hot stuff (3)…

When Stella was in town recently, I went looking for Poomba but found Bambi’s mum instead – she’s the one that was shot dead in the movie, right? Very touching scene, I must say… Well, the meat is available at virtually every restaurant in town, and most of the time, they just fry it with ginger and soy sauce or it may be served on a sizzling hot plate at others.

I remember when I was young, my mother used to cook curry with it, so I decided I would do the same. I think I have posted on the procedure before…but anyway, I guess there’s no harm going through it again.

You will need one Bombay onion, two to three stalks of serai (lemon grass) and some curry leaves…and I added a knot of a couple of pandan (screwpine) leaves for additional fragrance.

Chop the Bombay onion till it is really fine like this…

You will need the A1 Mountain Globe instant curry mix for meat and a can of evaporated milk…

Cut the meat into thin bite-size slices…

…and you may wish to add some peeled potatoes, cut into chunks. I did – I added a lot as I simply love potatoes in curry!

…and once you’ve got everything ready, you may begin.

Heat up a bit of oil and fry the onions, lemon grass and some of the curry leaves till fragrant, adding a sprinkling of sugar for it to caramelise. Add the instant curry mix and mix thoroughly, before adding a bit of the evaporated milk. Then, you can put in the meat and keep stirring, blending it with the ingredients. Finally, add water and more evaporated milk (depending on how rich you want your curry to be), the rest of the curry leaves and the screwpine leaves. Add salt and msg, if you wish and leave it to simmer….

…till the gravy thickens, the potatoes are cooked and the meat is tender enough for your liking…

So, there you have it – STP’s meat curry… It’s really so easy to cook, even a child can do it.

Personally, I think I prefer chicken or beef…or even mutton but it was okay – delicious enough to make me want to have two plates of rice, but I was able to restrain myself. LOL!!! They say Poomba is nice for curry too, but I have yet to try that…..

FOOTNOTE:
I’m posting this post tonight instead of tomorrow morning as there is something wrong with the switch on my PC. I will be sending it to the shop first thing tomorrow morning and I don’t know when I’ll be getting it back. So hang on in there, everybody. Rest assured that I will be back as soon as I can…

Sign your name…

When I got married, we had to go up to the altar to sign the family register – my missus and I, my best man and the bridesmaid (Stella)…and my best man whispered to me, “You didn’t bring your own pen?” Gosh! How was I to know? It wasn’t like I got married every day! And nobody told me ahead of time. So we had no choice but to sign using the priest’s cheap white and blue ballpoint pen…

Now, you may have read in my previous post that I was rummaging through my closet and found an old t-shirt that I bought 15 years ago in London. Well, I also found this…

Raymond Weil, no less! I can’t even remember who gave it to me but I guess it must have been my father. He was into those expensive watches at one time and he must have bought himself a Raymond Weil and got the pen as a free gift, and he gave it to me…

Now, that would be a nice pen to use to sign the papers at a wedding, don’t you think?

I also found this one tucked somewhere in my closet…

I remember this one! It was given to me by my publisher around the time when I was quite active writing English Language workbooks for upper secondary classes.

And talking about pens, this one has got a lot of sentimental value. It was given to me by my students in the debating team, the first that I had ever handled in my entire life, when I joined Sacred Heart in 1992 and we went all the way up to the final at national level held at the Dewan Tunku Chancellor Universiti Malaya, and emerged 1st runner-up against the team from the premier Royal Military College.

The boys gave that to me in appreciation of all that I did to help and guide them through the experience that I’m sure neither they nor I would ever forget.

So, if anybody’s getting married and would like to borrow a pen, I have a few… After all, as they say, when you get married, you must have “something old, someting new, something borrowed, something blue”.