Lamb Stew

Do you fancy lamb? It's the smell that differentiates those who love it & those who dont. The similar smell & after taste to that of pork when you do not wash with hot water before cooking.

Some prefer it and therefore love what it tastes like while others prefer other herbs/spices/ingredients to cover that ghastly taste/smell. I personally...LOVE IT!

So, here's a recipe for lamb enthusiast out there...

Recipe is usually for 4 people(2 guys, 2 girls) if you dont eat anything else. This is the salty version. There's another 1 with greek yoghurt. I'll tell you about it some other time.


Ingredients:
1/5 cup or 75ml vegetable oil.
1/4 cup red or white wine. Not essential but useful.
2 1/2 cups of water.
500g lamb shoulder chops. Bones included.
1 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt OR 3/4 table spoon of table salt.
1/4 cup of flour & 1 Egg. Not essential but useful.
1 1/2 tablespoon of corn flour(starch).
Finely chop fresh parsley.
Bay leaves.
1 teaspoon OR 15-20g of thyme.
1 teaspoon of black peppercorn OR 3/4 teaspoon of ground black pepper.
3 carrots. skinned & chopped.
2 large roasting potatoes. skinned & chopped. Bite size.
5-7 tomatoes. washed & quartered.
3 onions. skinned & quartered.


Cookingware:
1 frying pan(preferably non-stick).
1 2-litre pot.


Instructions:
1. Flour & eggs, put in a bowl. beat the egg until well mixed.
2. Heat non-stick pan with 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, medium heat.
3. When oil is hot, dip lamb chops in batter(flour & egg mixture) & immediately place in frying pan. Do not throw it in as oil will injury you. Fry till golden brown colour & place on a clean plate.

4. Keep repeating step 4 until all lamb chops are fried. Keep adding oil if it runs out.
5. Heat 2-litre pot with 2 tablespoons of oil under medium heat.
6. When pot is hot, reduce to low heat & fry onions. Do not burn onions as the succulent juice will evaporate. Fry for 5 minutes.
7. Wine, put wine in with parsley to fry for 1 minute.

8. Insert 2 1/2 cups of water into pot. Increase to high heat.
9. Stir cornflour into 100ml ambient temperature water then pour into pot. Insert lamb & tomatoes into pot.
10. Insert peppercorn, bay leaf, thyme & salt into the pot.
11. Once water boils, reduce to medium/low heat & cover.
Simmer for 1 hour.
Check after 40 minutes to check water level. If water level is half of lamb, add 1 cup of water. If less, then add more; If more then add less.

12. Put potatoes into pot & simmer for 20 minutes then insert carrots & simmer for another 15 minutes. By now, lamb, potatoes & carrots should be soft.

13. EAT!

Tomatoes...YUM YUM!!!

Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes...
Have you ever eaten an uncooked tomato? Well, I have and I hate it when the juice spurts out all over your palm and, if you're unfortunately, your clothes.

But thankfully, a properly ripen tomato tastes awesome. It's sweet, succulent(which it already is), crunchy on the outer layer of its flesh yet soft on the inner layer, its appealing bright red colour and...you can cook it in nearly any dish, any cuisine. Hear me out if you dont agree with me.


Have you ever thought why do the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines have such high proportions of tomatoes? Tomatoes are very refreshing fruits, vegetables and berries as well! I dont know how this works out but that's what Wikipedia says.

It's amazing how Wikipedia has grown to suppliment humans with additional knowledge.

I've done many things so a tomato...I've cooked lamb stew, soup noodles with pork balls, pork & chicken curry, seafood spaghetti, beef casserole and sandwiches with these amazing vegetables.

It's a really versatile food to have. Healthy & nearly instant if you dont mind having it raw. The better part is that tomatoes are considerably cheap in UK. I'll need to visit the wet market to know if it's cheap here in Malaysia.


I'll bring up a few recipes that I've got but before that, I'll tell you the best reasons to eat more tomatoes. First reason...I used to eat them religiously in UK. 2 a day keeps the doctor away! haha? laughed? This statement isnt without proof!

Tomatoes have several types of antioxidants. Some of which are useful only to men, preventing prostate cancer. I've heard that it keeps you young. I guess this comes under the "skin enhancing" (or whatever crap they wanna name it) section. It improves your skin's ability to protect against UV rays.

Uniqlo - Mixplay

This is the most interesting & creative advert I have ever seen by any boutique. Check this out & tell me what you think!

M-flo's Award Supernova

M-flo is a duo consisting DJ Taku Takahashi and emcee(MC) Verbal. M-flo originally had a female vocalist - Lisa. I believe that because she left, they had to find female vocalist from an exotic list of female vocalist including Boa. They're not as well known to us but in Japan, they're quite big! The above are the 2 tunes that I like the most so hope you all liked it as well...

The first video clip is very cute. Instead of putting the original artiste on the clip, it's filled with cute lil kids. Imagine a more innocent version of a club scene. If you think it's like kid porn, think again. I obviously wouldnt put such a thing on my blog.
First video clip is called Lotta Love by M-flo featuring Minmi





This second video clip would sound familiar...This is a much nicer tune compared to the first clip. Enjoy......
This tune features Emyli and YOSHIKA. Somehow the name has to be in capital...

Techno Glitch...

The other day I came across this really interesting video clip, thought I wanna introduce you to something not many would appreciate - Glitch Music.

Here it is...
Autechre - Gantz Graf

*If you think this is just another normal trance post, you're wrong. It's something very much different...