"Sushi" Dog Abusers...Are they Barbarians or Psychos?

I was just about to blog about the unpleasant feeling about pets being exhibited in shopping malls and being poked by onlookers and then I came about a video of "Sushi" a brown poodle dog being abused by the owner and they have got the guts to video shoot the whole abuse.What are they? psychos? I am sick to my tummy that I can't watch it further. I just don't understand why people could do such a thing to an animal who doesn't speak, who yelps at being slap and thrown across the room .....this is tragic...I imagined myself in "Sushi" 's predicament and to go through it everyday is excruciatingly painful. I sure hope that something could be done to these folks. Maybe throw them in jail for 2 years or send them to a mental rehabilitation. It seems that the punishment under the Malaysian Animals Act 1953 is too lenient (fine of RM200 or 6 months or both). My whole day is affected by that video. It is horrible!

Just few days ago, I went to Tropicana shopping mall and saw that there is a pet exhibition in the centre court and they exhibited mostly puppies. I regreted ever being there because I feel disgusted by adults prying their fingers into the cages and poke at the puppies. It is terrible. I mean I feel terrible looking at that poor darling curled up in the cage feeling vulnerable and having people poking it is certainly a torture. Can you imagine you are that puppy being poke at the whole day? Obviously, we need some education about how to be gentle to these creatures. I mean they are living creatures too which granted them every right to be treated with gentle and respect.

Sign up a petition to take action against Sushi's abusers: http://www.petitiononline.com/SOSSushi/petition.html

Links to Sushi's news:

http://www.examiner.com/dog-rescue-in-tacoma/15-minute-youtube-video-of-graphic-animal-abuse-instantly-outrages-millions?CID=examiner_alerts_article&cid=parsely#parsely







Tags: Sushi, Brown poodle dog, dog abusers, Malaysia, SPCA

An Affair with Kaya

I have been wanting to make my own kaya for ages. I feel the greatest satisfaction preparing my own kaya especially for my family although I can't call it perfection yet. Cooking is my life. It is through cooking that I bond with memories of my mother, my father, my grandma and my siblings. The experience is always fun.

Whenever I cook, I will go way back into my teenies where I cooked myself lunch after school. You don't know how proud it is for a teenager to cook for herself. It cultivates the character of being independent and able to take care of oneself.

It brought by the memories when my mom went for her holiday overseas and I am given the task of cooking for the family. At that time there is no rice cooker, only a traditional stainless steel pot and it takes a bit of skill for the rice to be cooked. At that time I am on my wits end when my father commented how long more will the rice be cooked. He must be pretty hungry then and the cooking is taking a long time; a result of a young inexperience cook. But the experience is full of excitement.

Again I built up my self esteem when my mother assigned me to cook for the family when she was ill. Such trust she has upon me is unforgettable. It shows love and trust and I would bring this family practice down to my children.


The other memory will be with my siblings. We were young and cooking can be a class of humor when dealing with amateurs. I laugh at my brother for cooking chicken that is half raw and he laughed at me when I have a slice of cooked egg white in between my chocolate brownie ( the egg whites are suppose to fold in between the batter before cooking but I just dump the whole eggs into them..hah!)

Between me and my grandmother, we don't have much in common except for cooking and her telling me about her life in the olden days. We don't talk much, but we do spend a big amount of time talking about delicious food and cooking together.

I am a bit off the topic but excuse me if they sound bragging. I just want my memories documented down in my blog. Who knows if blogger still exists when I am in my 70s, this blog will be very much valuable to me.:).

Ok enough of the memories about cooking. Now, I want to get in to this kaya. I will call it a sweet egg jam that is most love by Malaysians, Singaporeans and Indonesians. We will have this for breakfast and children loveeeees them! I love kaya which has an intense pandan aroma. I prefer to prepare the kaya myself because commercial ones don't have enough pandan flavor and some of them tasted fake.

I got this recipe from this website  and I really have to thank Nazlina because my kaya turn out very well the first time I prepared it. I have to chuckle to myself that gone are the days when we buy recipe books, search high and low (neighbors and friends) for recipes . Here in the internet we can learn from the experienced cook online and it save us from experiments that will go wild and bad.


Tags: Kaya, Malaysians, Sinagporeans, Indonesians, cooking, memories, kaya recipe

Silken Tofu I Am

Happy New Year Everyone!

I have been quite for about 2 weeks. Gosh I feel lazy. I have taken many pictures but have yet to upload them here. Wish I can shake myself up and tell myself to wake up and get to work. *Huh*

It's another year and another older me. My new year resolution is to be as young as my heart feels though my skin doesn't feel that way.

Ok, I want to share this yummy silken tofu dish. I know some people don't like to eat silken tofu by itself because they are tasteless but their silky smooth texture is ok. Try buying organic silken tofu, they have yummilicious soya taste.

Ingredients:

Garlics
Broccoli
carrots
mushroom
silken tofu

Minced the garlic and cut the rest of the veggies into small pieces but leave the silken tofu alone for awhile.
Next, heat the wok / pan then saute the garlic till fragrant. Then, add the veggies. After they are almost cooked, add the silken tofu and mash it then and there.

Add 1/3 bowl of water, together a 1 1/2 tablespoon of oyster/ mushroom sauce, a teaspoon of sesame oil and some soy sauce.
Stir fry for a few minutes and it will be done.

My son loves this dish. Hope you do too :)