KookyCulinary

* Dust Dust* * Dusting cobwebs off the blog! *  Wow, I can’t believe it’s been almost a week since my last entry. I didn’t think that it has been so long but I guess time really flies when you are busy. Actually I have been online but have mostly been busy with work. Time on the blog has been very sporadic. I have also been busy trying to plan Lil’ C’s 4th birthday party. We’ve also been having amazing October weather despite the cold. We are actually seeing blue skies, a rarity this time of the year. Usually it’s rainy and cloudy.So we are spending lots of time outside. We went to the pumpkin patch, the park and even fishing yesterday.  Ok, enough rambling! Back to food!

I really miss the tea-time in Malaysia, especially all the kuih-kuih and fried snacks. I remember there used to be a van by USJ2 that had all sorts of fried stuff like fried bananas, cempedak, sweet potato etc… As heart-clogging as they are, we used to make a lot of snack run to that place during the weekend. Here, we don’t get that luxury. I want my fried cempedak!!!! :( Oh well, I guess fried bananas will have to do for now.

This time instead of making Kuih Kodok, I just cut the banana into bite-size, coat them with this ready-mix flour and fried them. They turned out pretty good. I still prefer the Hup Loong batter flour but I can’t get it here, so this will have to do for now.  

As requested, these are some of the pasta that I most commonly use to prepare macaroni & cheese for Lil’ C.

The 2 pasta in front are pre-packed type while the one at the back is the Lil’ C’s favorite flower pasta. However, even though I use the pre-packed type, I usually do not use the cheese powder that it comes with. Somehow the cheese powder is a little yellow for my liking. So I usually just use a piece of cheddar cheese with a little milk and add it to the cooked pasta to make my macaroni and cheese.

Anyway, back to the pasta, 3lilangels, your hubby should be able to find these pasta at most of the grocery stores in NYC. Hope this helps!