Lamban

Hi all, hari ini nak share resepi ibu saya membuat lamban. Lamban nih salah satu resepi tradisi masyarakat sabah, di sesetengah tempat di panggil kelupis dan ada beberapa teknik mau bungkus dia nih. Tapi biasanya di kampung saya di papar gini la rupanya.

Ibu saya berasal dari kelantan jadi selalunya hari raya mesti ada ketupat palas dan tapai pulut. Dua makanan wajib yang kena ada la kiranya. Tapi memandangkan buat ketupat palas ni rumit sedikit maka, kami pon dah bertukar membuat lamban. Beza lamban dan ketupat palas nih, lamban lebih lembik dan ketupat palas tuh padat sedikit sebab di tekan2 bila mau buat (itu lah part yg rumitnya). Sampai lebam2 ibu jari tau. Nak salam raya pon dah cramp ibu jari tak rasa apa. Betullll!!!.. Tapi kan dua dua pon sedap, enak dimakan bersama rendang maupon kari, serunding pon ok juga. Sesetengah orang suka makan dengan kuah kacang juga. Bak kata orang sabah, nyaman banar ani..

So cara2 nak buatnya:

1. 2 kilo beras direndam sekejap, dan dicuci bersih. Sukatan untuk santan, 1 kilo beras biasanya guna 2 biji kelapa. Air santan pula sama banyak lah dgn sukatan beras; 1 besen kecil beras untuk 1 besen santan. Guna bekas yg sama senang nak sukat. Masukkan santan dalam kuali. 2 biji kelapa akan gunakan 1 sudu besar garam, so kalau guna 4 biji kelapa untuk 2 kilo beras, garam kena lah letak 2 sudu ya. Kacau santan hingga mendidih, naik minyak dan sedikit hitam.
2. Masukkan beras yg ditos, kacau seperti dalam gambar 2. 
3. Inilah rupa beras yang separuh masak, siap untuk dibungkus dalam daun lamban. Daun lamban nih ada nama dia, tapi saya dah lupa pulak laa...daun larik ka tu??
4. Bungkus lamban dengan meletakkan 2 sudu besar pulut, atau letak lebih bergantung kepada saiz yg nak buat la. Ada orang suka yg comel2 ja saiznya, tapi kalau nak siap cepat bungkusla besar2 ala sepenumbuk (ish betul tau tak tipu, ada yg bungkus besar ni tapi nanti nak hidang kena la potong2 takut pengsan pula yg nak makan tu nanti kan). Lepas letak pulut, padatkan isinya dgn mengepit daun dan gulung2 dan kemudian lipat sisinya. Ikat dgn tali supaya lebih kemas.
5. Bila dah siap bungkus, nih la rupa dia. Kalau 2 kilo tuh, agak2 dalam 80-90 biji boleh dpt bergantung kepada saiz.Tapi opppsss jangan makan dulu, belum boleh makan lagi ni! Kena kukus dulu atau sapa yang suka rebus (lebih lembut pulut tu nanti), boleh la rebus sampai betul2 masak. Tempoh kukus, selalunya 45 mins dah ok, tapi kalau masih x berapa padat, maknanya tak berapa masak lagi. Maka kena kukus lebih lama. Tapi kalau nak derhaka, 45 min pon dah ok kali. Hehe 
6. 

Bah apa tunggu lagi, selamat mencuba ya! :)

Reality b.i.t.e.s!

Hye blog,


I am stucked at question 2. Boss sent an email reminding us the dateline, but it didnt really registered into my head. Never had I realized how difficult it is to complete a task when my mind is somewhere else. Reality bites. Focus is the keyword, but when the brain starts betraying you, nothing works. For real. Somedays I am super charged with ambitious me, somedays it is just plain me staring at the keyboard thinking hard what was the word I was supposed to type in. Lost without boundaries is pretty bad. Good pancake can actually brighten up your day, like it did to mine. Cant u see how fluffy & deliciously sweet it is with mapple syrup & and creamy butter on top? intense yum... 

Anyhoo, silly me. To think that blogging could save me. Heck maybe it will. It rained this morning, the smell of grass and sands after the rain reminded me of childhood memories. Pick a leaf & spot that crystal clear raindrops, soothing. I had a sudden flashback of pleasant, fresh cold morning breeze in kampung with the sounds of river flowing at the back of my house. My math teacher used to tease me in class of whether we had roads in sabah and that river is the only means to the nearest kampung. Maybe its true though, bet if I have a good boat now, I can travel to work from my kampung and landed exactly at ODEC and saves myself from the crazy traffics. Ha-ha! Yeah. But to say sabahan lives on tree, is to ridicule us. We could play monkeys sometimes, but that was intended, truth is, some sabahans had already live a better life 20 yrs ago. Beat that!

Despite the rain, it was such a lovely morning. Quiet with the kids still sleeping. A homey sight to see the kids curled in bed,  a little cold. I tried covering them with the blanket but it was useless as they will just kick it out of the bed, on auto mode. They formed the letter H while sleeping, oh well only god knows how many letters they  created last night. But it was such a sweet picture that I have slight guilt about waking them up for school. I think I am sooooo going to miss this, the kicks, the cries, the cuddling, the wee wee smells on bed, the nursing, the bedtime stories, the kindie stories, the kiss, & the whispers I love u too. Over dramatic as it may sound, I just need to make myself clear that this is happening for real, real soon. So I gotta embrace myself, get the kids well informed about it.

always makes me wanna sleep in between..:)

Last night after waiting for nearly 2 weeks, he finally answered my email. The excitement & anticipation overwhelmed me, I never realized how important it is to have a really good mentor-mentee relationship (silly kan?) until yesterday. The feelings is explosive. I guess this is how my FYP students might have felt each time I responded to them, to which I hope I have been a good supervisor to each of them all this while. Maybe this is why I cant keep my mind on work, the excitement  & worries, they came in bulk. I cant separate them. I cant wait to play the game, but I am worried too, of everything. Maybe this is normal, we wanna be good at something, but we end up being worst at other things. At the end of the day, all we can do is pray for the best, for everyone. 

Random thoughts

I am beginning to put less attention to teaching and deeply in love with research based work. So its true, they cant co-exist. You can either be good at one and sucks at the other. Time, situation, and priority shall determine which one you should be good at.

Hey I'm tweeting too these days, hahaha. Like a lost child I have begun clicking the buttons here and there. Seriously those buttons should come with instructions, easier for an IT virgin like me. I have graduated facebook (aiseh!), so what else did I miss?? I think I miss the boys la..dh outstation la..hehe

Entry pon dah merapu-rapu, maybe too stress doing this survey thingy since last week. Think I should go home early, or I need a retail therapy kali...huhu...Till then.