Bun with an attitude

Looking at this photo, you would probably think, awww... what an adorable bunny. Well, Lux is our darling there's no doubt on that. She never fails to "entertain" us with her various characters.

Let's start with last Friday night...I noticed there was some mosquitoes outside, and not wanting Lux to be bitten, I took her in to sleep with me for the night. Both of us went to bed around 1+ am, lights off. So far so good... In the middle of the night, I felt kinda cold and decided to lower the speed of the fan. And guess what, once the fan was down, Lux started thumping her foot in protest. Oh no, not again, making noises, I decided to ignore her for a while, but there was still sound of protest from this little fella. So reluctantly, I had to wake up again to increase the speed of the fan. After that, all was well until morning.

It was already 7+ am in the morning, and Lux was making noises in a way to wake me up and waiting for food. Since it was Saturday morning, I tried to ignore her and continued sleeping till 8+. Woke up went to look at her, she was excited to see me, but once I opened the cage door, she showed me her angry face and thumped her foot once. It's like indirectly saying, "Wake up so late??, hungry la". I pat her gently on the head and she was ok. What a moody little fella. Gave her breakfast and she was happy again :)

Dead-Bunny Flop

I just learnt this new term a few weeks back from my friend Mei Leng who is also a bunny lover. I did see this stunt from Lux previously which really gave me a scare as she was not well at that time. After getting the explanation from Mei Leng, I was relief that it means my Lux bun is very relaxed :) Thanks Mei Leng for educating me more on buns.

It was kind of hard to get these snaps as I tried very hard to tip toe out to take these photos. The first few attempts ended up waking up Lux as I was trying to adjust the lens to a suitable angle which resulted in me banging the lens on the cage… how clumsy :)

This is what they call the dead-bunny flop which means that your bunny is very relaxed and comfortable in its own cage.

Third week with Lux

I can still remember, when Lux was much smaller, she had the habit of sitting in the bowl to eat or sleep, and at the same time, poo and pee on her own food. How silly is that :)

Here's a few snap shot (in sequence) of her hungry and searching through her bowl for pellets.

Am so hungry, what took you so long??

Where's the pellet?

Hah, found it, munch munch...

Ahh... that was good :)

Lux Baby

I haven't been blogging for almost a year. That goes to show how lazy I am and am not making any excuses for that. Anyway, I would just like to post some photos of my new found love, introducing Lux my bun, aka Baby!! My sis bought it for me as a gift back in October. Thanks Kim, we love Lux very much.

That's Lux about 2 weeks with us (approximately about 2-3 months old), back in October last year. The bowl is too big for me...

I wanna help make the mosquito net too :)

Am tired now, let me have a rest first...

More pictures and some stories in later postings...

Deep Fried Cuttlefish Rings

As promised the next recipe. After the nice dinner on Good Friday, we decided to try another recipe the following day. This recipe is quite easy to follow, only that you have to be more generous with the corn flour to get a nicer looking end results :) Based on the 1st recipe attempt on the pork ribs where we practically emptied the whole bottle of corn flour, I was more cautious this time on the usage of flour to prevent wastage.

Ingredients
500g fresh cuttlefish, cut into rings (here we got 2 large cuttlefish from Jusco)
500 ml oil for deep-frying
300g corn flour (that's a lot, about 1 box of corn flour, nah, i used much less than that)

To marinade - 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar, 1/2 tsp pepper, 1 egg white, 1 tbsp curry powder, a dahs of 5 spice powder and 1 tbsp plain flour

Steps:
1. Marinade the cuttle fish with the marinade ingredients. Recipe says 3o minutes, but I had it for about 2 hours and left it in the fridge.
2. Coat with corn flour (this is the part you have to be more generous on the corn flour) and deep fry in hot oil until golden brown.
3. Dish up.

End results...

Next 2 recipes

3 weeks of inactivity in the blog. Had been busy meeting up with the contractor - planning on the house renovation, doing some survey on the stuff we will need to get for the new home and also treasure hunting.

CH and I tried out these 2 recipes about 2 weeks back. It was Good Friday, CH had the day off and he decided to try out the Prawn Fritters recipe. I was not at home to see how it was done but was home in time to eat. hahahah...

Prawn Fritters recipe
Ingredients:
500g medium size prawns (actually we only had 4 prawns each, tak cukup makan la, not kenyang)
Marinade it with - 1 egg white, 1/2 tbsp sugar, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp sesame oil and 1 tbsp corn flour

To make the batter:
1 egg, 1 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp oil, 3 tbsp plain flour
1 tbsp corn flour
1/2 tsp salt, 150 ml water

Steps:
1. Shell prawns and keep the tails. Remove vein.
2. Mix prawns with the marinade ingredients
3. Dip prawn in batter and deep fry in hot oil until golden brown.
4. Dish up

End results - Taa Daa...

It was a lovely dinner prepared by CH including the lovely chinese sausage bought by Kim from Penang and stir fried kai lan. And notice the picture, CH even took the trouble to decorate the prawns with cucumbers :) Audrey and I ate in a hurry and rushed off for Good Friday Mass.

Next recipe will be in the next article

Happy Birthday Daddy

We were back last weekend to celebrate Dad's 70th birthday. All of us came home. We had a nice lunch on Sunday as Kim and KZ had to leave for Penang in the afternoon. We had lunch at Man Chong to celebrate dad's birthday and at the same time to try out the food there prior to Kim's wedding lunch in September.

The food was quite good. We had pork leg, mixed vege with dumpling, nestum prawn and steamed silver pomfret. After that, we had cake at home. Specially baked by Kim, nice chocolate cake. Hey Kim, your cake is 1st class quality, yum love it, had some again for breakfast this morning. We'll start looking out for your Kenwood machine. Sorry no photos to show for now as i left my camera back in TI, how forgetful. Will only be able to post some of the photos when I go back again next month. We took quite a number of funny ones, especially posing with the wine God Bro bought for dad's birthday :)

Got myself a new knife from dad, it looks like those knives used by the pork seller in the market. It would be good to remove the fatty parts of the meat. And God Bro, I brought back your knife as well, it's a nice looking knive with a sheath. Would need to meet up with you one of these day. Dad got his new supply of timber from Uncle Wai yesterday night and was again busy at his workshop. All those timber making him excited. hahaha...

We left TI this morning and it's back to work tomorrow...