KERANG SRIMPING BUMBU KECAP

Another one of mommy’s tasty concoctions….

KERANG SRIMPING BUMBU KECAP

Bahan:
1 kg kerang srimping (rendam dlm air perasan jeruk nipis)
Bawang putih
Bawang merah
Lengkuas parut
Jahe parut
Cabe merah iris
Kecap manis
Gula, garam

Cara:
Tumis according to SOP

PAIN PAIN :(

Arrrgh, I hate when these things happen !!!!!!!
It's not that big a wound....but it hurts like the very devil. Fudge ...fudge.....FUDGE!!!!

BANDUNG DAY TRIP

Last sunday (21st february 2010)....mom & dad made a quick trip to bandung. Here are 2 of mommy's must visit places there.

1. SOSIS PASIR KALIKI













2. PRIMARASA (new outlet near BIP)

OSENG TEMPE BUMBU BALI

After the dreaded blood test results, my parents have decided to try and cut back on the daily cooking oil. Surprisingly, it isn't that hard to do. And (thay said) the food basically tastes the same.
So today kakak Lina made this 'tempeh' dish without first refrying the julienned tempe. Mommy found the recipee by googing oh-mighty-google. It's too hot and spicy for my puppy tongue...but the smell, me likey!

OSENG TEMPE BUMBU BALI

Bahan:
400 gram tempe (potong kotak kecil2)
2 batang serai (memarkan)
4 sdm kecap manis
Daun jeruk iris tipis
125 ml air
gula & garam secukupnya

Bumbu halus:
6 butir bawang merah
8 cabe merah
5 cabe rawit
4 butir kemiri
1 sdt jahe cincang
1 sdt asam jawa

Cara:
Tumis bumbu halus & serai
Masukkan kecap manis & air sampai mendidih
Tambahkan gula & garam
Masukkan tempe & masak sampai kuah mengental

SUP TELUR JAGUNG (meatless)

It's kinda dull looking, but kakak Lina & mommy swears it tastes good. After a few licks, I agree....it tastes wonderful, even though it's meatless.

SOTO AYAM KUNING

This is Soto Ayam Kuning, a soup mommy made out of leftover chicken turmeric marinade. She added some lemongrass, keffir leaves & bay leaves to the stock and tadaaa... it's good to go!
Oh, okay mommy...I'll write it down for you.

SOTO AYAM KUNING

Bahan kuah soto:
Bumbu sisa ungkepan ayam goreng kuning
Sereh geprek
Daun jeruk iris tipis
Daun salam
Garam - gula - lada

Isi:
Ayam rebus di suwir kecil kecil
Tauge segar - siangi
Telur rebus, belah dua
soun rebus
Limun

Caranya:
Rebus bahan kuah soto - adjust to taste
Sajikan bersama isi

Trixie's Pluto

When Trixie was adopted, along with her came Pluto...the stuffed dog. You could say Pluto was Trixie's comfort toy. Something familiar she could bite on to when she arrived at her new home.

Trixie loved that smelly stuffed dog. She would wrestle and rough play Pluto all day. After a dew weeks, we noticed Pluto's stuffing scattered around the house, and Trixie happily munching on her beloved comfort toy's innards.

So we seperated them. Pluto was kept safe on our shoe rack.

Yesterday morning, out of the blue ... sweet kakak Lina decided to give Trixie a suprise. She stitched Pluto up all neat as a surgeon....and 're-introduced' him to Trixie. And this is how our baby girl reacted:

TUMIS BABY POK CHOY

Now this dear readers, is my daddy's ultimate favorite veggie: The Baby Pok Choy. Kakak Lina made it the simple way...sauteed with some garlic and salt & sugar to taste.

Born Free

Born Free

Born free, as free as the wind blows
As free as the grass grows
Born free to follow your heart

Live free and beauty surrounds you
The world still astounds you
Each time you look at a star

Stay free, where no walls divide you
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide

Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'cause you're born free

(Stay free, where no walls divide you)
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide

Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'cause you're born free

(Mommy says she always hears this song playing in her head...whenever she looks at this picture of me. This picture was taken by my foster parents from JAAN, a day before mommy & daddy adopted me. I was running in the park, showing everyone that 3 paws running is better than 4 paws limping!)

Test Results

Mommy & Daddy yesterday played truant. They both ditched going to work to play with me all day (I wish).
Naaah, Mommy & Daddy ditched work to take a blood test @ Prodia. The results……tadaa:

Mommy has cholesterol….daddy ain’t doing too good either. Told them to exercise more but would they listen? Nope. Don’t tell her I said so but I know for a fact that she hates exercise. What to do ….. what to do? I don’t want them to get sick when they’re still in their early 30’s. Hey, you both promised to love and take care of me in all my doggy years on earth, remember? So please take better care of your health folks….for my sake at least!
Just remember, exercise more and stay away from those fatty food.
Mommy: stop cooking those delicious porky stuff. You never give in when I beg for a bite …saying that fatty food ain’t good for a pooch, so why are you feeding yourself that stuff? Huh? Huh??!!
Daddy: take mommy for a bike ride around our place every once in a while. And you should quit drinking sweetened hot tea morning-day-and night. Stick to plain water (that’s the only stuff you guys let me drink….so why are you drinking all this sweet stuff anyway? Jeeeez…..)

TAHU SUMEDANG WITH BABY FRENCH BEANS

Here’s a vegetarian recipe that mommy made for daddy. I’m not a veggie-eating-kinda-pooch….but the tofu, me likey!

Tahu Sumedang with Baby French Beans

Bahan:
Tahu sumedang potong kotak2 kecil (goring ½ matang)
Baby buncis, potong2 sepanjang korek api
Bawang putih iris
Bawang merah iris
Cabe rawit iris
Garam, Gula, Lada
Saos Tiram
Sedikit Air

Just fry according to the usual S.O.P okay?

Snuggle Time With Daddy

This is the sofa where I sleep at night. Daddy just happens to have fallen asleep here. So I tippy toed on all three paws so as not to awaken him, crept stealthy into his warm arms, and voila! Snug as a bug in a rug.....

Thought Bubbles (07/01/2010)

(This was me...day 2 of adoption. As you can see from the expression on my face....I hadn't fully assimilated yet)

My Origins

I want to write a little bit about my finding place (but for the original ‘up for adoption’ post…y’all can read it here: http://icarecatsanddogs.multiply.com/photos/album/94/CASE_Trixie_dan_keempat_keluarganya_#)

You see, I was born and spent the first 2 months of my life @ this petrol station around Tebet, Jakarta.
We were happy there, my birth mommy…my birth daddy…my big bro…..and I. We got fed, and were free to roam the premises.



Then one day, these big machines came to our place….started tearing the whole place down. And one by one, the people who used to feed and take care of us, disappeared.
We stuck together, but food was scarce. Water became hard to find…and honestly …. these giant machines, scared us.



One afternoon, a few people (who I later learned were good hearted JAAN volunteers) came and took me away from that place. They left Mommy, Daddy and big bro there, though. I whimpered, I was scared boneless…but was helpless to do anything about it.
Turns out I was brought to a kinda shelter (The JAAN people calls it a ‘foster parents place’) where I could be looked after and taken care of. JAAN thought that I deserved rescuing considering my birth ‘defect’.



Mommy googled around the JAAN adoption sight and found these pictures of me, when I still lived with my foster parents. Mommy later was told that my foster parents loved me very much. They wanted to adopt me but couldn’t…due to certain circumstances.

So mommy, on behalf of both me and daddy, would like to extend our deepest DEEPEST gratitude for all involved in ‘rescuing’ me. The JAAN volunteers and the foster parents. Good people are a plenty, but good people willing to do good for neglected animals, those are hard to come by. Please keep up the good work JAAN!

My Adoption Story (Part 2)

(that's me ...2nd day @ home. On mom & dad's bed, I may add. It's never too early to establish dominance with these 2 legged creatures Tee...hee...hee...)

So where were we? Oh yes, my adoption story. Here’s part 2:

After the house visit with the nice lady from JAAN, Carol……the next day mommy got a call, asking when she could pick me up. Yes yes yes, she got me….she got me. Mommy wanted to pick me up that very same day, but Wulan (another nice poochloverlady from JAAN) suggested the day after would be better. So on the 5 th of January 2010 it was. The day I was to meet my mommy and daddy.

On that special day, mommy took a cab home from work, and went straight to kemang to meet me. Mommy arrived around 5:30…but I was no where to be seen (you see, I was still 'on the way' from my foster parent's place). So Mommy waited, while daddy was 'also' still on his way, held up by Jakarta's traffic.

Around 6:30, Wulan came carrying me in her hands…called out to my Mommy….and when mommy first saw me, she had tears in her eyes. I of course gave the appropriate reaction….I wagged my tail in glee, showed her how agile my tripawd worked, licked her, jumped her….the works.
(Afterwards Mommy admitted that she indeed was holding back tears when she first saw me. It broke her heart to see me 1 leg less but at the same time in awe that I seemed so normal…thus the waterworks !)

A few minutes later mommy finalized the legal works for adopting me. She signed the adoption papers stating that she and daddy would love and take care of me for all my doggy days on this earth (Signed Sealed Delivered…I’m Yours – should be playing in the background).

Daddy came around 19:00 and again I gave him the appropriate pooch greetings. He was also a bit shocked to see me jumping around on all three…ruffing and tumbling it with the other JAAN doggies there. After chatting with the JAAN crew, daddy carried me to their car, and thus…my journey as TRIXIE ISABELLE PAREIRA began.

I kinda slept the whole way to their home. Sorry mommy....sorry daddy....but I was tired, you know. Hey, adoption is a lot to process for a puppy like me.

BAKSO UDANG GORENG

Yesterday, my mommy tried out this recipe called : BAKSO UDANG GORENG. It’s super tasty…..so I’m going to write it down for future reference!

Bahan:
300 gr daging babi giling
500 gr udang kupas (potong kecil2)
200 gr tepung sagu
3 butir telur
2,5 Sdt Garam
2 Sdt Lada
4 Sdt Gula
Air secukupnya

Cara:
• Campurkan semua bahan
• Tambahkan air, aduk rata
• Goreng 1 buah dulu, cicipi rasanya
• Jika sudah pas, lanjutkan

No Fork !!!

Mommy showed me this hilarious banner she found the other day….while shopping at ITC Ambasador.

My take on this: Don’t write if you ain’t got it right, Boneheads!!!!

My Adoption Story (part 1)

My mommy wants to write about my adoption, a subject she holds very dear to her heart. Yes I’m an adopted puppy. I was adopted from JAAN (http://jakartaanimalaid.com/).

You see, my mommy loves to surf the internet and one day …around early December 2009, she stumbled upon that particular website. In it was a section about adoption where she found herself face to face with my mugshot (see my cute pic here). It was love at first sight for her (she says).

She read my story and immediately called my future dad, Mr Pareira. Dad unfortunately, was not too keen on the idea of adopting a ‘special needs’ mutt like myself. He said that t’would be too much of a challenge. But (fortunately for me) mommy persevered. She saved my mugshot and that night, again asked daddy if he would please reconsider. Daddy took a look at my picture and then said that: I am indeed cute (yaaay!!) and that maybe there was a chance they could try and adopt me….but first they had to consider how far my ‘special needs’ extended.

Mommy was ecstatic to say the least. The next day she emailed JAAN asking how severe my handicap. She waited for a week, without getting a reply from JAAN. She tried calling, but the number was unreachable. Dismayed, mommy thought of giving up. Then completely by chance, she suddenly decided to clean out her SPAM email folder. Lo and behold, there it was….an email from JAAN. The reply mommy had desperately been waiting for. In it was a questionnaire mommy had to fill out, and some additional info about me…stating that I was healthy, and able to walk (even run) on my three paws. Mommy immediately filled out the questionnaire, but alas….our meeting to be was again withheld, due to the fact that mommy and daddy had to go on their long planned Phuket trip that very week.

After they got back.... on the 3rd of January 2010, a nice lady named Carol from JAAN finally came for a house visit, interviewed Mommy, Daddy and also Kakak Lina. She took pictures of the house and told mommy that she thinks mommy will soon be contacted with good news regarding me. Mommy and daddy was ecstatic, to say the least.

(2nd and final part of installment coming soon)

SOSIS SEMARANG

I told mommy that this looks like $h!t, but she was real proud of how it came out. Mommy says that this piece of $h!t is an old skool recipe and therefore worth a mention in my blog.
Okay mommy, I’m writing it down for you…because I love you yaaaa !!!

SOSIS SEMARANG

Bahan:
1 Kg babi giling
5 sm bawang merah goreng
2 sm bawang putih goreng
Pala bubuk
2 sm garam
3 sm gula
3 sm kecap asin
6 sm kecap manis
1 btr telur
2 meter usus babi kering
Benang kasur + corong plastik

bumbu kuah:
kecap manis
pala - merica – garam – gula
Air 1,5 ltr

Cara:
• Haluskan bawang merah dan bawang putih goring
• Campurkan semua bahan sampai rata
• Isi ke dalam usus babi
• Ikat per jengkal dengan benag kasur
• Rebus dalam air kuah berbumbu sampai mendidih.

Mommy Post

Trixie: Mooommmmy......why are you posting these pictures???!!!

Mommy: Because you look darn cute in these pictures, my baby girl :)

TUMIS BUNGA PEPAYA

Mommy and daddy are real fond of this dish….but personally, I wouldn’t give it a 2nd lick. It tastes suppeeer bitter.

TUMIS BUNGA PEPAYA

Bahan:
Bunga Pepaya, cuci bersih...rebus dan peras
Wortel iris korek api (bisa juga di ganti buncis atau kangkung)
Bawang merah, bawang putih, cabe merah iris
Garam - gula

Cara:
tumis sesuai SOP

Sulking Face

This is my trademark 'sulking' face. Mommy and Daddy thinks it's hillarious....

My First Bath

First Post

Hi! My name is Trixie. I'm a tripawd pooch. This is my blog where everything important (according to yours trully) is documented. Sometimes my mom 'borrows' this blog to vent her verbal diarrhea...other times to take note of her culinary activity. Enter at your own peril, you've been warned. Rofff Roffff!!!!!!