Boracay - small steps towards outsides!

First checklist!










It's going to be all about Boracay, Boracay, Boracay...
* RM 1500 in pocket, or else you gonna forget your dream to go there.
pakej Trips4u Travel & Tours
- 3 star hotel plus the most comfortable airport transfer I ever had

*from Kalibo Airport 3 star bus ride for 1 hour and 45 mins and then comfortable boat transfer from Caticlan Jetty Port to Cagban Port on Boracay next Island cab straight to our hotel; it's round-trip, all-in includes terminal fee and environmental fee covered! )

= RM 538 for 3 pax, RM 488 for 4 pax )
BUT this rate only works in January, rate changed on February because it's gonna be super high peak.
And also on Amihan season!

* Is it safe? Safe weh, insyaAllah niat baik kita di tempat orang maka baik lah kita disana. Police dia di merata-rata tempat, especially when they having late-night party. No smoking on the beach or else you will get fined! No bring drinks at White Beach, their Beach police always patrolling 24 hours! Police biasa pun ada, kadang kadang kat celah-celah gelap kat D'Talipapa pun ada dia jaga. So, rasa secured so far.

* You need to walk, walk, walk. Refrain yourself from riding tuk-tuk, you might get to pay higher than you should be! Just walk and enjoy your 360 degree view. Tengok gelagat sekeliling anda, mana tahu jumpa jodoh kahkah!

* Before pergi, download Muslim Pro app in Appstore. Android idk.
-Alert to the waktu solat according to waktu in Malay, Aklan.

Subuh     - 4.56 am
Zohor     - 12.01 pm 
Asar        - 3.24 pm
Maghrib - 6.30 pm
Isya'        - 7.45 pm

What did I do in Boracay for second day?

Helmet diving                            PhP 800
ATV to Mount Luho                  PhP 700
Parawsailing                               PhP 400
                                       Total :  PhP 1900

* I bring in hand at that time PhP 6000

First day
KUL-KLO at 10.30 am delayed to 10.45 am, *due to refueling.
- arrived at Kalibo International Airport at 2.45 pm.
- our pickup service waiting outside the airport.
*be careful to those suddenly grabbed your luggage and begging for tips.
                                                    PhP 20-

Last day
KLO-KUL at 3.30 pm but pickup have to do at earliest 8.30 am due to Kalibo is having Ati-Atihan Festival, and causing traffic jammed.
*arrived early at the airport at 1.30 pm but have to wait....
*airport got WIFI but provided only one hour usage only.
-Lapangan terbang dia kecik gila, all arrival is in the same place; departure international is nearby arrival gate. When you arrived, you would see departure for domestic flight.
                                Airport tax :  PhP 700-

*Let's help them to build for better airport 

Second Day, 23 Jan 2016

Breakfast at the hotel - bread + scramble eggs.
*start helmet diving at 9.00 am but local tour guide picked us up at 8.30 am
*we late cause we go for breakfast for 10 mins, Michael picked us up at hotel and we walked straight to Station 3 to get us on a boat to go to Helmet Diving station in the middle of the sea!

                          Waiver liability : PhP 300-

*dive in for 20 mins (jari dah kecut!)

It was the best moment in my entire life, I don't know how deep down to the ocean bed because it was too much pressure in my ear when I slowly diving down..

*instructions given before we dive in by local guide.
-  First, learn gestures to know your current condition under water from time to time.
(obviously, you can't talk under there)
- Second, ayu going to first dive in, diver help us until our feet reaching the ocean bed.
*seriously, the fishes was so beautiful! and there is so many of them. That feeling when they eat bread straight from your hand is something I can't forget. SubhanaAllah, it was beautiful things I ever seen.

9.56 am finished first activity of helmet dive

*going back to hotel, shower and refresh.

-Walking along White Beach's path to D'mall.
*bear in mind, barang-barang kat D'mall sangat sangat lah mahal. cause there's so many boutiques, shades, rare souvenirs and all best restaurants. (Ada yang halal, just choose)
*since we have to be fussy about food, so we decide to eat at Arabic restaurant nearby Budget Mart.

                          Beef Kabsah : PhP 490-
                          Minute Maid : Php 65-

-after that, I would still want to hunt for Jonah's famous milkshakes at Station 1. It was seriously sedap nak mampuih.
                         
                  Tropical milkshake : PhP 120-

-Walking back to hotel, rest.

3.30 pm
- Michael picked us up on tricycle for ATV ride to Mount Luho.
Instructions given; do not overtake, refrain yourself from speeding, obey your instructor.

one thing they don't tell you what to do if any emergency happened, I had ATV accident on the way down from the Mount Luho, brake isn't working. It was scary moment I ever had, I had to make decision fast! Or else I would crash into Ayu therefore I crash myself towards mountain's cliff. Just terbalik je dengan ATV, bangun bangun ara pandang je ATV yang ara naik tu. Marah nak mampuih awat lah hang brake putus tengah tengah turun bukit, cb. Nasib baik bukit landai tak macam bukit securam ara masa test jpj.

*injured then it's the company fault and they brought me to nearby clinic. I was worried more about that we missed parawsailing activity. hahahah! I got an x-ray on my left knee, alhamdulilah Dr said nothing serious just muscle injured, no dislocation, no bone fracture. Slowly, heavy bruises appeared on my right leg, left knee, scratches on left arm, huge impact on my right ribs. Right now, slowly recovering.

Be careful people, when trying extreme sport!

*on Mount Luho, it was priceless view I ever had! I can see the cave that Taylor Swift shooting for her music video's Style and mesmerized look at Bulabog Beach; not to my expectation that there is not so many kitesurfing due to not-so windy weather.

                      Mount Luho's entrance fee      : PhP 120-
                      Photo (not necessary)                         : PhP 120-
                      Mask (yes, please do buy it's dusty) : PhP 20-

6.25 pm
- sempat tengok sunset!

*met Michael's wife, Mai and his three adorable children.
*passing through our hotel, suddenly I request to see sunset and Michael be like, "Okay"
and then suddenly, "Oh my god, I saw my daughter.." hahah! Comei sungguh.

   Tips for Michael : PhP 50 -  ^ half from me, half from Ayu.

Salamat, Michael! Till we meet again, kahkah still waiting for the free sunset parawsailing ride you promised me! Wait until Boracay's airport is done, I'm sure I will be coming to Boracay bringing my mother along.

Around 7.00 pm

-We wanna walking towards Station 1 to buy dinner. Suddenly, we bumped into a lady that introduced us to Kingdom restaurant. I was like "Ya Allah, I've been searching for this restaurant!" I thought I would never find this restaurant.
*memang pun it was hard, jauh nak mampuih from White Beach's path. Boleh sesat kalau takde orang guide.

                      Half-chicken roasted : PhP 300 -               ^ divide by 3 person
                                so PhP 100-
                      Bukhara rice              : PhP 150 -      

-Air, we bought on the way back to the hotel at random grocery shop.
                        Green tea bottle        : PhP 35 -

First dinner, upon arrival on 22 Jan 2016
at D'Talipapa
- I'm searching for #122 stall mak cik Sabah tu tapi tak jumpa! :(
- Last sekali, found a halal cooking service opposite wet market and Sababi, Paluto.
*Sababi & Paluto is not halal cause they cooked pork.

- Ask the guy to choose us cheapest seafoods, tapi still mahal gila nak mampuih!

                   Siakap merah; smallest ok smallest : PhP 1000

                   Sotong : 2 ekor + 2 free                           : PhP 550

I paid for my mango juice                                                   : PhP 100-

Cooking service charged                                                     : PhP 200

Total                                                                                     : PhP 973

Souvenirs

- I shop for souvenirs at D'Talipapa.
*it was Muslim's shop.

                   10 smallest sand bottle         : PhP 100-

                   5 small colourful pouch        : PhP 100-

                   5 medium-sized sand bottle  : PhP 100-

                   3 shirts; Boracay               : PhP 260-

-walking towards D'Talipapa wet market or known as Palengke.
*bargain punya bargain

                 gorgeous flowery bag            : PhP 150-           ^ originally it was PhP 180

                 2 hipstur-gold fridge magnet : PhP 100-

                 *rare okay! not so many design at other shop kahkah!

                 One shirt for Syasya &

                 one shirt for Ummi                 : PhP 150-

                 smallest turqoise ukulele        : PhP 90- 

Hotel
3 star resort nearby White Beach, just 2-3 mins walking passing thru Mc Donald.
- Katil sedap gila nak mampuih
- Bilik air up to my expectation for RM300+ for 2 nights sangat lah berbaloi!
But the things is the WIFI is we have to buy.

Unlimited WIFI, coverage covers our room  : PhP 250- for 3 days usage.

Breakfast ( 6 am until 10 am )

First day, 23 Jan
- Yes, they served bread, toaster to make toast by yourself, butter, juices, scramble eggs.
- We eat scramble eggs + bread (tak berani nak sentuh yang lain-lain)

Second day, 24 Jan
- They served plain rice but not so much lauk can eat. So I go to the kitchen to get them cook scramble eggs just for 3 of us. Kahkah!

Semua pandang weh, "Mana dorang dapat scramble egg eh?" Tulaaa tak bangun pagi woi hahahahahaha 

- Tak berani nak minum juices sebab rasa semacam so minum ayaq putih ja.
- PIC pick us up around 8.40 am naik tricycle to Cagban Port, then boat to Caticlan Jetty Port, and then 5 star bus to Kalibo Airport.

5 star bus weh, serious talk weh! Sedap gila tido dengan jalan jammed on the way to airport dekat 2 jam lebih atas bas. 

- Sampai airport awal, 1.30 pm. Flight pukul 3.30 pm.

                 Rocky Road Frappe              :  PhP 100-

                 Souvenirs; 3 cases I love Boracay : PhP 160-                    ^ originally PhP 180

That's all from me,
Fara Adelina Mohamad Roslan

Reporting for Trips4u Travel & Tours

Those requesting for packages wait ah I'm currently busy. Those request for tour guide, insyaAllah.

       

From my mum's kitchen: Classic Tiramisu.

Okay, I tried to make this recipe simple so that everyone can do this easily. Indeed, it's a bit tricky but cooking do needs a lot of patience.

Ingredients that you may need in making tiramisu:

- Mascarpone cheese 

- Vanilla Pastry Cream

- Whipped Cream

- Zabaglione.

DAY 1:

Firstly, you have to make Mascarpone Cheese 'cause this one rarely available in Malaysia. So, instead of buying one that's probably expensive, you might want to try to do it on your own.

It's easy, believe me.

Ingredients:

If you use this one, one carton is already 250 ml, so just need one more carton.

How to make Mascarpone Cheese:

First you need one carton of whipping cream and 1-2 of lemons.

1. You need a double-boiler, let the water boiling for a while then maintained the heat to medium-low so that the water barely simmering.

2. Pour the whipping cream into medium heat resistant bowl and placed it onto the boiler.

3. Heat the cream, stirring often. Wait until small bubbles appears on the surfaces.

4. It takes about 15 mins. Then, add up lemon juice and continue heating them up.

5. You must stirring gently, until the cream curdles. (kental like mcm liat or custard-like textures!)

6. To know that is done, it will cover a back of your wooden spoon thickly.

7. Remove the bowl from the water and let it cool for 20 mins.

8. Next, you will need dampened cheesecloth (kain kasa) and set it over a bowl. 

9. Then, transfer the mixture just now into the cheesecloth.[Don't squeeze it]
10. Once cooled completely, cover up with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight or to 24 hours. 

The dampened cheesecloth would looks like this one.

After an overnight or even 24 hours period, the mascarpone cheese would looks like this one.

Secondly, in making zabaglione.

You'll need :

- 2 large egg yolks

- 3 tablespoons sugar

- 1/4 cup of coffee

- 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract/ essence

- 1/2 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest (kulit limau)

How to make zabaglione?

1.  Heat water in double-boiler or you can make it on your own style but make sure the pot below is more smaller than the bowl on top of it.

2.  Pour in water abour an inch and let it boiling until it simmering. 

3.  Make sure the bottom of the top bowl don't touch the water.

4.  In a large mixing bowl, mix together the egg yolks, sugar, coffee, vanilla extract/essence, lemon zest.
5.  Whisk together until the yolks are fully blended (sampai dah tak nampak kuning telur, pale yellowish mixture)
6.  Makes sure the mixture looks smooth
7.  Transfer the mixture to the top of a double boiler with simmering water.
8.  Cook the egg mixture over low heat, stirring constantly for about 8 mins (it'll be resemble thick custard)
9.  Bubbles a bit as it reaches that consistency.
10. Let it cool to the room temperature. Transfer into a bowl and let it chill in the refrigerator for an overnight.

This is zabaglione would look alike.

Thirdly, in making vanilla pastry cream.

You'll need:

- 1/4 cup sugar

- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour

- 1/2 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest

- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract/ essence

- 1 large egg yolk

- 3/4 cup whole milk

How to make it?

1.  Mix together the sugar, flour, lemon zest and vanilla extract in a saucepan.

2.  then, add the egg yolk and half the milk.

3.  Whisk until smooth.

4.  Place the saucepan over low heat and cook, stirring constantly to prevent the mixture from curdling.

5.  Add the remaining milk a little at a time, stirring constantly.

6. After about 12 mins, the mixture will be thick, free of lumps and beginning to bubble.

7. Transfer the pastry cream into a bowl and let it cool to the room temperature.

8. Cover with plastic film and refrigerate at least 4 hours or an overnight.

Whipped cream - you can either buy it or make it. I would choose to buy it.

Whipped cream.

Day 2:
Okay, now we have come to the step to assemble the tiramisu.

1.  Get ready the serving dish

2.  Mix together the warm espresso (kopi yang pekat without sugar) along with 1 tablespoon of sugar in a different bowl.

3.  Whisking it to mix well.

4. Set aside to let it cool.

On the other side,

1.  In a large bowl, beat the mascarpone cheese with a spoon/ spatula to break the lump and make it smooth.

2.  Make sure it is easier to fold.

3.  Add in the prepared and chilled zabaglione and vanilla pastry cream, blending until just combined.

4.  Set aside.

---> Start assembling the tiramisu in the serving dish.

(must workings quickly)

1. Dips 12 of ladyfingers in sweetened espresso or any coffee will do. (these ladyfingers or known as savoiardi, you could buy in any mart. Don't worry)

2.  They should be moist.

3.  Placing them side by side in a single row.

4.  Use rubber spatula - spread the mixtures of mascarpone cheese, zabaglione and vanilla pastry cream earlier on top of the dipped ladyfingers that has been placed in the serving dish. (spread the tiramisu cream evenly).

5.  Repeat to create 2 more layers.

6.  Lastly, cover the top with whipped cream evenly, all the way to the edges.

7.  Cover the serving dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate the tiramisu overnight.

---> To serve:

1. Sprinkle the tiramisu with cocoa powder by using fine-mesh strainer.(penapis serbuk koko and dinasihatkan: use a little amount of cocoa powder so that the bitterness of your tiramisu is just nice)

One Classic Tiramisu is done.

All the best trying the recipe of Classic Tiramisu.

and Happy Father's Day, abah.

May Allah bless you 

forever and always.

This recipe has been simplified from Vera's recipe and Anna Olson's recipe a bit.
Teehee ^^

UPCOMING next post on Classic Tiramisu: in the making.

I'm sorry
Maaf,
미안 해요
for delayed request as I was so busy with housechores and I'll be updating the post on recipe of Tiramisu that I did on last May.
The recipe that I followed has been simplified and I hope my readers could do it without any mistakes.
Thanks for all of your support 'cause my blogs had reached 9k nearly to 10k.
감사합니다

Until then,
Fara Adelina

The one that I have been made.

Simple Lasagna - From my Mum's kitchen

   
Wee, semester break for my Semester 2 nearly finish. But today I got the chance to update my blog as a first post for Year 2013. Happy New Year everyone, I hope it's not that late to wish all of you. So, for today's post I'm going to post a recipe - Should I say my secret recipe learnt from my mum :)

Well, I love to modify any recipe that I found. Heh my habits when it comes to cooking xD
Okay people, as I said it before it is easy but needs a lot of patience.

" I'm just someone who loves to cook, not a perfect one like Anna Olson. "

To make a lasagna, you need one or two packets of minced meat. But I would suggest you in order to make a good lasagna, you can buy minced meat in the supermarket on the day you want to cook it. It's like fresh, so it will taste different from the one you have been keeping in the fridge.

Now, after you taking out the minced meat out of its plastic, make sure you washed under running tap, not 100% clean from the blood, just wash it like that. 50-50

Put the meat aside. Be creative when you cook, find something that could combine just nice with the meat, like potatoes? Peel 3-4 potatoes and cut it alike wedges-cut. As thinner as possible.

Back to the minced meat, that is left aside.Set up a frying pan with hot heated-up oil. I would prefer vegetable oil. And then pour inside the minced meat, let it boiled.

So, to be a good cook, you must do two things in one time. *chuckles. Back to the potatoes.

As you can see, I set the potatoes are boiling with herbs. This is one of my Mum's secret recipe. But I would recommend you to plant your own herbs plant like my mum did. She planted Basil, Rosemary and Mints.

So, in my case. I love to use Master Foods product. This product quite popular so don't worry, you could find it in any super market.

 Keeps on waiting for your meat to completely boiled, keeps on stirring it until turns like this one.

How to make sure of it is complete boiled? There, you can see oil on the surface of the minced meat.

And don't forget about the potatoes, make sure it is boiled too as it become soft as if we're going make mashed potatoes.

 Then back to the meat. Once it becomes like the picture above, pour in pasta sauce that you love. For me, I use Prego, Tomato Basil Garlic.

One may asks me: ' How much pasta sauce that you're going to put in? '

Well, to me, quantity of the pasta sauce is ideal blend nicely with the amount of the meat. Just add one-bit-to-one bit until you feels it is perfect enough. And don't forget to taste it, is it enough tasty or should be added more salt or something. Like this one, below. The one already half-way cook.

And need to remind, don't put too much oil. Not good for health though it is the most quality healthy oil you ever had. So this one, already half-way cook. And I did remove excess oils from this one 'cause it can give bad appearance to your lasagna.

Ahah, this minced meat already cook. Nice one isn't it?

 Get-yourself-ready, now we have come to next step, quite significant in making a lasagna. 

This, where we're going to cook the lasagna. Spread any butter or I prefer, margarine. Spread it all over  like this. Don't too much and too less, just nice.

In the meanwhile, prepare a boiling water to boil a lasagna skin. Or known as lasagna's layers.

 For the the lasagna's layers, you may use any product brand, anything will do 'cause I can't recommend which one is the best. As for my mum, she use this one. 

Teehee, don't cook overlapping like this. Just do the boiling of these skin one-by-one.

 Okay, we have come to step of layering the lasagna. To me, every layer has different ingredient inside it. Not like common lasagna you would see that everyone does. It's just for fun though. No offense to anybody. 

The G-level -- Should I say underground level? lol I put the skin as the base then layer by the minced meat.

Okay, these two are important ingredients in layering the lasagna -- Prego, Cheese & Herbs and also Cheese ( don't worry, it is a Halal product and it is not syubhah foods) . I'll tell you later, how I am going to put these into the lasagna.

This is still on the G-Level, it is just I added Prego, Cheese & Herbs sauce on it.

Then, I layer it off with minced meat, make it as packed as possible by pressing it by using spoon.

Okay, this one. I grate some cheese and sprinkle it all over the meat just now.

Then, I overlapping all the cooked-potatoes and sprinkle it back with grated cheese.

Before I cover it with meat, I layer in a lasagna's skin. Then I layer it off with meat (which is the one you see right now). 

There, I layer-in a layer of the lasagna skin.

Last step. Cover up the whole lasagna with the rest amount of Prego, Cheese & Herbs sauce.

 Then, to add the attractiveness to your lasagna, sprinkle these Parsley flakes on top of your lasagna.

Remember this last step: Cover them up with aluminium foil before bake your lasagna in the oven. The most high temperature should be kept is 250 degree Celcius and heat must be from up and down, so that even heating could be achieved. Time needed to cook is accurately just 45 mins. But it depends actually.

 Don't worry much. Keeps on baking your lasagna in the oven until it achieved like this one.
 

A perfect lasagna -- to my eyes.

 All the best trying this recipe of lasagna.

[  p/s: I used the spaghetti pasta to tie lasagna up, it may look a bit creative. All credits to my mum's teaching. ]