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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Raya Open House 2007

21/10/07~ that day was the day that my mum has decided to do a raya open house this year. This event is now considered our anual event. At first, we want to order food since we don't want to look like a panda during the open house due to tiredness. But, trust my mum on this, she decided that she want to prepare all the dishes. (which piss me off, since I am confirmed to be the maid). This wasn't what I've planned in my mind. Since I am a "good and obedient" daughter, I just accepted her plan. So, she started to plan what to cook. Initially, the plan was this :-

Menu

  1. Laksa
  2. Mee curry
  3. Rendang

Then, I dunno when she has a change in mind from the above to this menu:

  1. Kuzi ayam
  2. Roti Jala (she was sooo adamant to cook this coz she managed to make a nice roti jala during our first day raya)
  3. Chicken and beef rendang
  4. ketupat palas and nasi impit
  5. Nasi minyak/rainbow rice
  6. Carrot cake special
  7. Jelly

I was screaming inside when I heard her confirmed menu. That's it, the weekend will be no weekend to me.

We started all out cooking on Saturday, with the help from my lovely sis in law, Mimie and Kak Halimah. My role and mimie were to prepare roti jala and carrot cake. At first, we were excited doing the roti jala, till we realised that, there were toooo many roti jala to prepare that it started to get on our nerves. hehehe. talking about excitement. By the time we finished making the roti jala, it was already 9 pm. I had also to juggle to bake carrot cake. We actually finished cooking half of the dishes around 12 pm. Then, we had to wake up around 5 am, to continue preparing other dishes. It was so kelam kabut that, we finished cooking just in time when one of our guest arrived. No joke, we were still in Kaftan.. hahahahahaha...

Here are the photos of the our lovely dishes.. You can view it at this link

http://atreyu112.fotopages.com/?entry=1320975&back=http://atreyu112.fotopages.com/?page=0