..3rd day ...

Third day into the fasting and the weather wasnt so bad today not as warm as it was yesterday - there was rain clouds in the sky and it looked pretty .. yeah i find beauty in things dark haha .. not always just love thunderstorms.

For breaking fast today we had some rojak(it has a gravy base made from chillie, tamarind , sugar and\ sprinkled with sesame seeds)and the salad itself comprises of green apples, cucumber, pineapple, sengkuang (no idea what it is in english) ... that i my aunt bought at the Suria hari raya carnival. Its especially good when eaten with fish crackers - its actually fish thats been processed and thinly sliced and dried in the sun. To eat it, we deep fry it and it fluffs up - really crispy and delish.....and the best part there isnt that fish smell to it ..

Speaking of Hari raya carninvals/fairs, I think there are a little too many places like that and they should have just stuck to Geylang - i think thats where the real raya atmosphere is felt. I noticed that during ramadhan there are many little food stalls sprouting all over the place - i wonder if they are making money because there are dozens and dozens of stalls like that and some sell the same things - for the seller its the question of making money for us the buyers we are so spoilt for choice and always the case when we buy from them by the time we break fast we would wont be able to finish it - so its a waste when in actual fact we are suppose to be feeling how it is to be witout food - but anyways, mom made my favorite today - sardines samosas. It prolly sounds revolting to some but its actually really good.The filling is actually canned sardines in tomato sauce and my mom adds red and green chillies and lots of onions and a squeeze of lemon and its all fried together and filled into the pastry... When we have this at my grandmas - its usually snapped up really fast - we are like a bunch of piranas *grins*.. I made some keema (its a minced meat gravy with tomatoes n peas and potatoes cooked in spices n cilantro) to to eat with chappatis(a kind of flat bread made from wheat flour and mine was store bought tho the freshly made ones taste really good just a tad bit time consuming and requires a lot of skills) - the menu is pretty international at my home - we can go from malay to arabic to italian to indian to american to mediterranean to chinese to mexican to thai and etc ..hahaha.. so you really dont get tired - i mean variety is the spice of life and why not start with food ... speaking of food - i feel like planning a menu for the whole month so that i wont have a headache deciding what to cook for the next few weeks but my mom said odds are the menu would be changed - and i she is right too maybe a weekly menu would work better ..

i was just looking at blogs at random and some of the blogs are in other languages other than english and it made me wish i knew more languages so i can read what they write cos it seems so interesting ...... oh well .. back to english blogs and site surfing ......... and i think im going to hunt for recipes i can try - so anyone can recommend me a recipe worth trying? .........